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The character creator isn't even that vast though. Fallout 4/Skyrim had more detailed ones. Doesn't take much time at all to make a nice character. I might be a weirdo who blasts through it though, lol. It is a bit annoying that I can choose my genitals but not my boob size.

I just find character creators as a giant waste of time

This one is a little more apropos to the actual game. Being that you receive bonuses and a large proportion of the fanbase roleplays in game. It is not overly complex after you understand it though. Unless you min / max and if you do you’re probably toast in game.

I don't think you two understand how to make a dnd character then. It isn't about the looks of the character at all. If you are just playing on story mode then yeah, you can just skip right through all that and just do what ever and it wont matter. But otherwise there is a lot to consider and a lot of choices you can make, which can lead to taking a lot of time to decide on things for how you are going to be playing the game.

Although in this game later on you are able to re-spec in game, which I was unware of at first. Which is not something you are normally able to do in a dnd game. Which is why I spent so much time in the creator the first time around. All other dnd games once the character is created, that its, no changing it. Which means in those other games if you make a warlock and don't like it, tough crap, start over.

I just don't care at all about the look. Obviously class matters, etc.

My half orc is named Bill with a pink Afro and a green goatee. He is sexy AF with no shirt on. No relation to @bill.

I’ll post pics tonight if I can. Get your knickers ready.

Feeb wrote:

Please don’t , but also please do…

Archer wrote:

Warlock still sucks, but I've tweaked things a bit and I don't hate it as much as I did before. It's actually a lot of fun. It's super limited, but it's pretty OP with the Fiend patron once you get to level 5 - at least on normal difficulty. Eldritch Blast + Fireball/Scorching Ray + Hunger of Hadar are all you really need. If anyone makes it out of darkness, I just repel blast their asses back in lol. Add haste to the mix and it's just unfair. I want to go with a pure spellcaster so I'll multiclass with either Wizard or Sorcerer moving forward to see what that's like. Probably Sorcerer for Quickened Spell. I honestly don't remember the last time I had this much fun just experimenting in a game!

Heavyd814life wrote:

Also might be worth considering dipping one level into wizard for the ability to lean a spell permanently from a scroll. You can't use a level 4 spell if you don't have a level 4 slot though. But you can pick and choose what you want more. And get access to spells you might not otherwise get without having to find or buy more of the scrolls.

Get that eldritch blast to repelling and agonizing and level 5 hunger of hadar then blast them into it. It’s insane how you can control the field with that. EB is probably the single best spell in the game all around when it’s repel / agonizing.

Orin is my hardest fight so far. Stayed up way too late getting it done. Nasty mechanics on that one.

Archer wrote:

Umm…that’s a really good idea! I feel like I’ll get a lot of variety from Sorcerer but I’ll definitely keep this in mind. I was also wondering if it was maybe worth dipping two levels into Fighter for Action Surge and Second Wind? Or maybe two levels into Bard for the extra short rest? So many options!

Definitely feels better to pair lock with another ranged class. Surprisingly strong I’ve found is red draconic sorceror paired with pact swords lock. You can use any weapon, have max stats because it uses your cast attribute- and sorcerer has quickened spells, distant spell, twinned spell. Both use charisma. This is the best combo I’ve found so far as I’ve been struggling to get Gale to feel right.

Casting a large aoe such as HoH and then blasting everything back into the HoH with eldritch blast, using the best large weapons in game and being able to manipulate spells to use with action points or bonus points (quickened).

For me this combo edges out the warlock with 3 thief dip / sharpshooter- that one never feels like the ranged crossbow is worth wasting a move on. Using that legendary mace from under the cathedral with a lock has a ton of utility as well. Group rez often saves you.

Heavyd814life wrote:

You only want to dip into fighter if you are also doing a lot of melee with the warlock setup. Action surge would be a waste for pure or mostly caster. As you can just use Haste from the sorc levels. And twined haste to haste yourself and another ally all for the cost of one spell slot. Which is better because its not just you getting the extra actions then. But, if you are also going to be putting yourself into melee and taking damage, then a couple levels in fighter would not be bad. And you would then also have a backup extra action. But for a pure caster its not worth it. You should put those levels into something else to strengthen your spells and support ability. Mainly sorc to get twinned spells and haste.

Feeb wrote:

As far as I am aware, none of the melee is converted from your spell stats expect for monk using its wisdom with a certain piece of gear. It all uses str or dex. Does the draconic sorc have something for melee using casting stat?

Wait, I miss read that. You didn't mean max melee stat for any weapon. You just meant max casting stat since they use the same.

Archer wrote:

It causes your magic weapon to be charisma based. As in 20 charisma instead of strength or Dex. also you can be proficient in any weapon. I usually just max attributes instead of using the perks with casters. Outside of movement none of them are great imo. War caster is ok but very situational

I’m probably going to swords bard on easy mode my next playthrough just to melt stuff and see more story and grab the last 2-3 achieves.

Feeb wrote:

Ah, I completely missed pact blade in all of that. Holy crap. Its been a long morning, lol.

It’s a nice pact. Instant greatsword. Although I always feel like something is going wrong if I’m considering melee with my casters. Can’t get my brain to accept using a turn for it.

Yeah, I have the same problem. Because you don't want your caster taking damage. Especially if they are concentrating on something, like haste.

Having three rangers in your party is ridiculous. But insanely fun.

Archer wrote:

I just finished tactician and I had 2 ranger thieves dual wielding one hand crossbows and SS. They do ridiculous damage and are easy to protect. Load one up with all the tadpoles and the last hit is really nasty.

I honestly hated the end sequence. From the point of no return onward the game really stopped being fun. It felt very fair until this point - then welcome to hell. I’m ready to take this down a notch and playthrough it with a monk I think.

Holy crap the HPs! I did not realize tactician and medium cut it by half at max level compared to easy. The Orin fight is still insane.

Yeah the end stretch is a bit much even on normal. I'm sure on tactician its a real dog. I'm not there yet.

And normal and tact don't cut it in half, that is actually the normal dnd hp numbers for those levels. Story mode just adds a multiplier to make them bigger and make the game way easier.

Archer wrote:

I’ve never played anything but tactician. It’s good I did that because this is making me lazy and impulsive. You can’t multiclass on easy I didn’t know that- but it’s silly cause I just increased the difficulty prior leveling and then switched it back.

Feeb wrote:


Yeah, you can also get away with never ever healing yourself on easy or normal as well because of that same trick. Just change the difficulty and it auto heals everyone, lol. Not sure why you would want or need to do that though. But its there. You can even do it mid fight for some reason, but I guess that also heals the enemy units too. I saw video about this the other day on reddit.

They will also be adding Honor mode to this soon too. I think next month when they release the Xbox version. Which will have perma death and some other options as well like no manual saves. Basically ironman mode. I'm looking forward to giving that a shot.

Oh wow. I didn’t notice that toggling it set your HP back up. I tried honor mode or something similar with divinity. Not much fun at my skill level.

oh my god. I sat down to play for about an hour and 8 hours later I need to get off the chair and make dinner.

sinnie wrote:

So it was a good day is what you are saying.

yeah pretty much. 3rd play through, still finding new stuff. haha

Also Karlach is glitched and naked the entire time. Kind of annoying.

sinnie wrote:

Tell me about it! I got home at around midnight said to myself I'd play for an hour or two and just kept going and going. It's 8 now and I think I'm finally going to drag myself away from my TV so I can take a quick nap before driving to my parents for Thanksgiving.

Someone told me about an exploit and I just had to try it and I can't believe I got it to work...

Re: Minthara and Dark Urge, spoilers for anyone who hasnt completed this sort of run

My current playthrough is a durge but on a redemption arc. No Minthara this time around, I'm gonna try to get Jaheira and Minsc though. I want to see Karlach and Wyll's story line this time around. I still need to finish Gale's too but he died early on (oops.)
I'm probably gonna give tactacian a go after this, or maybe hard mode or something.

I just keep trying to romance Astarion and he really just needs to gtfo of my party because I know everything about him I think. But he's just too fun.

I have another save for a Bard who has Gale but I stopped playing because I FAILED to romance my stabby thirsty boy. He laughed at me. lmao.

sinnie wrote:

Not the experience I'm having.

Well damn that's disappointing. I guess it can go so many ways, lol.

Also it happened again. I played all day. Oh well.

There’s boat just near the grey Barbour docks waypoint in BG guarded by two robots- there are 6 parasite specimens in a crate. I’ve grabbed it on every run through. Nice find.

I may need to bump this up to Tactician because Minthara is wrecking everything with her Divine Smite. I just cast Haste and Sanctuary on her and she’s a one-woman wrecking crew. And she’s got great survivability as well because of heavy armor + shield. Such a fun class! Any of you guys try a Paladin/Sorcerer build? I think that one could be a lot of fun as well. Maybe I’ll mess with that on my next play through.

Sorcerer is definitely my go to hybrid caster class. Sorcadin for sure a good mix. Sauron or something else OP feeling.


PSA. I just got the Leave No one Behind trophy to pop finally. I was afraid I’d missed it because I did not talk to Arabella again after finding her parents. Rolled the credits and no pop. Then I realized I may have gotten the Tieflings killed with the summon in last area. I redid it without summoning Zevlor crew and it popped at credits. This trophy is a bit different for some I guess.

As much as I loved Minthara (I even played her before they fixed a lot of her dialogue) I got real bored with her. I guess I just don't know how to Paladin, lol.

I don’t enjoy the melee classes with buffs etc. way too many spells and actions to manage for me. Shadowheart usually gets benched very quickly after I use command to make Zhalk drop his Uber sword and beat him into submission. I actually lost her during my tactician run because I didn’t bring her to Shar’s place. She was like “I talk about going there nonstop and you left me? Later.”

Total dude move. I didn’t see any issues there.

My favorite is definitely a ranged double hand crossbow class with sneak. It cannot be beat for ease and high damage. Fun too. You can get the gloves of archery from goblin vendor and ring that adds poison damage from myconid colony and very quickly become a solo destroyer. Hide, kill, hide, kill. Lots of fun. I think I solod most of act 1 and 2 with that setup as rogue thief.

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This is Bill. I can’t take credit for the design because he was randomly generated. He is now a mindflayer.

Paladins are strong as crap. Especially when multi-classed with something like fighter or cleric. But I'm not a fan of the limited resource classes that constantly need long rests to keep them powerful. Like Paladin, Cleric and Wizard. On tactician you can blow through their entire days worth of resources in a single fight. Which means you need to long rest constantly. And I just don't like that. I know there isn't anything wrong with it. I just don't like doing it. It clears elixirs and you end up having to spend a fortune replenishing them or going without. It clears buffs. It can kill a lot of quests if you long rest too many times before finishing them. So, I just don't like doing it.

I used mostly short / half rests unless a big fight. That’s probably why I don’t jive with those classes as well. I’d rather have a fighter or monk any day. Once their resources are exhausted they’re still better solid melee. You don’t miss it much and it’s like a bonus if you have it.