The cost of the Devotions ramps up pretty quickly, costing 30 tributes a pop. It’s based on how many Devotions your character has (from any source).
For my tastes, I like to pick up about 10 devotions or so via the Crucible, because I find getting the last shrines in the Ultimate stage kind of annoying, without resorting to looking up what shrines are still present, etc.
I find after the first constellation or two of Devotions, Tributes are much better spent elsewhere.
Ok I have this, thought i’d played it Steam says 14 hours but logging in and no saved games found so not sure what happened there.
Any suggestions for a 1st play through, normally prefer sword and board or swords. What is a nightblade like or ??
Welcome Reemul!
I’d recommend either a Soldier or a Nightblade for dual weilding swords. Both are really fun characters. With a Soldier you can go 2 handed or Sword and board.
I’d recommend playing around with
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/
to see which class appeals to you as a second class as well. It seems like a ways away right now, but you’ll be at level 10 before you know it, and able to choose a second class.
I’d also recommend trying out all the skills with at least one point on your first playthrough, whichever classes you pick. Sometimes something doesn’t sound good on paper but is really fun to use and surprisingly effective. Other times something sounds great on paper, but it isn’t as fun to use. Since there’s so many ways to build fun characters, I’d recommend dumping any ability that doesn’t bring you joy. :)
I’m hooking up my 360 controller today. Suggestions for builds that would be especially fun with it?
So far, everything I’ve tried is fun using the controller. I’ve tried dual guns for a long time, which is a blast, but recently switched to melee, and that’s great fun too.
I haven’t tried magic builds yet with the controller. Maybe tonight I can try out my Arcanist.
Just remember you have to assign abilities using the controller itself, otherwise when you’re using the mouse you can assign mouse stuff. So using the controller, hit Back, and then RB to get to skills, and then look along the bottom of the screen, it tells you press Y to assign skills. Then pressing Y takes you to a new screen where you can assign which skill goes with which button.
I guess I’m expecting a build with a lower # of active skills and less need for pinpoint targeting to be a little more fun. I would be happy to be wrong.
Yeah, you want a build with only 6 active skills, (Y,A,X,B,RT,LT) and 2 sometimes active skills (L, R buttons). That’s true.
Just remember, any non-active skills (auras, etc) you can activate using the mouse while in town.
As for the targetting, that’s really well done. It auto-targets enemies in the direction you’re facing, and their choice for the enemy to target is very good. I never felt they did it poorly.
My lowest-active-skill builds have been my Cabalist, who basically just stands there while her pets do all the work, and my Blademaster, who mostly default-attacks letting passive effects do their thing. (She does have a legendary weapon which triggers vampirism, which is key to the build, but you can attain a fair amount of damage>health attacks in other ways.)
Speaking of vampirism, my Purifier’s best survivability trait came from converting damage to health that happened to be one of the properties on equipment that I wasn’t even looking for. Thanks to life stealing, even when I was having a hell of a time trying to stay away from enemies in Malmouth, where they charge at you so fast, I was still able to maintain health thanks to stealing health back as I shot at the enemies at point blank range.
Now I’m going to be looking for health stealing for all my characters.
My Nightblade is extremely durable thanks to health stealing/regen, and I’m planning on making her godly soon. :) So much fun.
In fact, I was able to defeat the boss behind a certain strange key in the Burrwitch Outskirts thanks to that… I was level 18 or 19 and the boss was level 26 and I somehow managed to win the fight, and I can’t imagine that happening with any of my other characters. It was awesome. ;)
I tried using my Logitech F310 controller. But the R3 Right Stick Press does not bring up any cursor and I unable to assign skills to the action bar.
Anyone had any luck with the F310 controller? I looked up all the forums and tried all the suggested fixes and still could not get it working. Frustrating.
You guys ever play together? I’m curious how a group outing would feel compared to solo play.
Anyone getting crashes lately? I hate when I finally get near that rift after a long slog through whatever. BAM. CTD.
I got one last weekend. First time in a long time. (Outside of it crashing right as it loads my character portrait on the title screen, which has been happening for awhile.)
My crashes are loading the game. Once I’m in the main menu, I’m fine, but getting past the splash screen has about a 1/3 chance of a CTD.
My only crash was about a month ago, and it caused me to lose my Windows 10 start menu.
Luckily, my fellow Qt3 denizens were able to guide me through how to make another Windows 10 profile on my machine with admin access and a weak password that still exists on my machine, ready to bite me in the ass one day.
Holy shit. I wonder why this never occurred to me before. So all those auras I have on various characters that help only me, they could be extended to other players! Wow. With the right synergies between characters, I can imagine pairs or more than pairs being unstoppable together.
I’ve gotten a few crashes lately. One night I seemed to keep crashing as I tried to clear the same zone with the same toon. Pretty annoying, and yeah, especially so when that rift gate or Devotion temple is just out of reach.
It hasn’t happened often enough to sour me on the game, but it’s a drag.
Mob difficulty scales up though, at least it did in Titan Quest (one of my last LAN get togethers at my house centered on TQ).
I’d love to give it a whirl though.
No crashes yet. At all.
So, as promised, I tried out my Sorceress with the controller just now. I played for about an hour. It was rough going at first. Unlike the Dual Guns and the Melee, there’s no obvious control scheme for the Sorceress.
Let’s see, I walk into the middle of some enemies and freeze them using Flash Freeze, and then use Frozen Meteor, Devestation (bunch of meteors), Fireballs, And Calidor’s Tempest (basically an electric Nova spell) to kill stuff.
So I tried assigning Flash Freeze to the A button. I tried Devestation on RT. I tried the Frozen meteor on LT. Fireball on B, Tempest at X, and the Defensive move Mirror of Ecteblahblahblah on Y.
The only one of those that felt ok was Mirror of Ecteblah on Y. None of the rest of that felt good at all.
But after swapping different moves, I finally got a combination that feels great.
The most common spells, Fireball and Meteor on A and RT.
Next most common spells, Flash Freeze and Tempest on B and LT.
And Devestation on X.
Finally it feels intuitive and right.
It’s interesting playing this Sorceress again. Compared to the Purifier, she’s sooooo much more vulnerable. If something touches her, she loses half her health right away. But then again, she kills stuff so fast. Things die left and right almost instantly. But man, if they touch me, they can kill me. When Blast Shield activates, that helps. When Turtle Shell activates that helps. When a couple of other things that activate when I get hit come on, they all help a little. But I still die really fast. I just have to concentrate on killing stuff faster, and I do okay.
It will be interesting playing my Battlemage later. Since a Soldier is such a badass at staying alive, combined with an Arcanist being a badass at actually killing things. I’d think a Battlemage could potentially be the best of both worlds.