Thanks @ShivaX ! Much appriciated. I do feel your concern about it being more boring. I think I need to rethink how I play the game. Right now, I just run real time, and let the characters do their thing on their own, and only intervene in the tough fights , like casting heals, and a few specifik spells like Prayer, Bless and Bane.
And that works well - maybe I should up the difficulty a bit, to make a more hands-on approach more needed, and thus bringing out the skills and abilties more often - even shifting to turn-based more than I do know, which is rare.
Yep, definitely some issues. Seems like FPS drops by 15% every fight. Iâm in the end game now so my spell effects are all over the place, so that probably doesnât help.
Turning into a giant Gold Dragon never gets old. :)
Especially a fiddly class like Inquisitor. They have like so many abilities and spells, but in RTWP itâs just: âUh Judgement, I guess, go get em boys!â
Which can be fun in itself, but turn-based is where things get crunchy for me. Positioning yourself just right to cast Wail of the Banshee and seeing 10 dudes explode is something that doesnât happen in real-time because everything is always moving, there is cast time and suddenly your tank is dead and you donât even know what happened.
YMMV of course and turn-based slows the game down. A massive amount. Though given the state of the game, taking longer isnât necessarily a bad thing atm. The longer it takes to get to later Acts the better your chances it might not be broken when you get there. Of course the flipside is that when you get there and it is broken, then you might have wasted even more time.
Edit: And there are a lot of âfighterâ classes that have some options. Stuff like Bloodrager. Mostly itâs a Barbarian, but also have some spells to cast while beating people with a giant hammer. Or Slayer. Basically a fighter, but also a rogue. And fighter feats can make them interesting in some ways, but a lot of that takes a ton of game knowledge.
I wish they would solve the buffing problem. You know, before combat you want to cast like 5 to 10 buff spells, every single time. The buffs do not last long enough either. There is an mythic extend spell power which for some god-awful reason only applies to spells who have a natural duration of over and hour to become 24 hours. I really could use one that would make rounds = minutes and minutes - 10 minutes, etcâŚ
Has anyone solved the army problem with an enemy general that does like 3.5k damage every round with spells? I have no idea how to deal with it. All my stacks die in one hit, except for my hell knights which require two rounds to die. I am wondering if the generals army limit is unit type or total stacks. If its just unit types, then maybe Ill try and make like 10 stacks of every unit type. If not, then I guess Ill just leave said demon general alone until my armies get serious magic protection, if that is even possible.
I agree, it can get pretty repetitive and tedious. Thatâs one area I wouldnât mind deviation from tabletop just for QOL purposes. I saw a mod on Nexus that sounded like it tried to help with this but I havenât tried it. I think you set up a script and then you can push a button and execute your sequence of buffs or something like that.
So you get the first version, and then the second version becomes available as a 2nd pick? The UI didnât list an additional one as it normally does for other abilities.
However, even with 5 minutes to 24 hours, that leaves out a lot of buffs. Most buffs are either 1 round/level or 1 minute / level which would not benefit from such an ability. Although with the meta-magic ability extend spell AND that mythic ability, maybe it would be more useful if that mechanic is supported.
Speaking of mechanics, does anyone know what counts as a domain ability? There is one mythic ability that allows domain abilities to be swift actions. My holy like paladin has a lot special powers like a large AOE aura, divine weapon, angelic weapon, etc⌠This is part of the âbuffingâ stuff before each combat. If these were swift actions, it would not be so bad, but I do not know what they mean by domain abilities.
For Clerics, domain grants them access to a specific spell or two per spell level. In the spellbook they are shown with a different color background to differentiate, and they can only be equipped in the specific Domain slot in the spellbook.
1 minute/level spells would reach 5 minutes at level 5, so those would all benefit fine.
I believe itâs possible very late game to get 1 round/level buffs to also work, but it requires going Angel/Lich to merge spell books and using the extend spell metamagic.
No, that does not work. As an experiment, I had a character at level 10 that could cast heroism, which was 10 min / level. So that is 100 minutes well over an hour. After taking the mythic perk, it was still 100 minutes when cast.
I installed Toy Box to counter the legion of bugs that the game throws at me. Donât plan to do anything silly, mostly QOL stuff and fiddling with respecs. I also will use it for those times when the game throws a never-ending sequence of grindingly hard fights at you leaving your entire party on deathâs door with more fights to comeâŚbye bye deathâs door.
I feel like itâs a necessary utility for me, haha. Otherwise my annoyances with the game would just bog me down. Itâs nice not having to rest so damn often when traveling on the world map (no, my party isnât heavily encumbered). Wading my way through random encounter after random encounter is already bad enough in terms of bogging the game down. I wish they at least gave a bit better XP/loot or something.
Speaking of random encounters, Iâm L12 now and still havenât run into random encounters as hard as I ran into a few as L7-8 and was whining about in this thread. I wasnât trying to bypass demon armies or anything. I can only conclude it was either bugged and pulling from the wrong table or I got some crazy RNG results that should have been out of bounds. I was literally having my party entirely flattened before I could even move. I was encounting packs of creatures I hadnât seen before that later in the story were introduced singularly as elite/champion kind of big nasties. Something was definitely off.
Also, I did realize some of the issue I was having with difficulty spikes early on. On Normal difficulty, one of the options says to have weaker enemies. I think itâs down two notches from the neutral setting. I ended up bumping it up one notch so it was âslightly weakerâ or something because I didnât want babymode or anything. But what I didnât know until recently is that the setting is completely misleading. The âCoreâ baseline theyâre using when talking about relative creature strength has monster stats seriously pumped up over what youâd find in tabletop. So when I was playing with âslightly weakerâ enemies at the start, in fact it was ânot quite as ridiculously 'roided out demonsâ which was not conveyed well in the description.
Iâve never had the unfair/frequency of random encounters that you reported. I would love if I didnât run into this damn skeleton merchant every 6 game hours though. This dude follows me around - just go to my castle already.
That would help immensely if it works like that. Reading the feat, I worried it was talking about base time, not enough levels putting you above the hour threshold.
I gotta go try that mod out as well to help things out. As the game has progressed, I just have more and more buffs I need to cast. This game feels very encounter heavy so I find Iâm having to do it fairly frequently. I like the idea of having to take up the spell slots and everything else to buff, I just wish there was an easier/faster way to apply those buffs from a UX point of view. It gets pretty tedious.
I ran into an issue where after basically every single attack the game would effectively freeze and then recover. Suffice to say, it made playing hell. Thankfully someone found a solution from the devs for it.
Just in case anyone else is having the problem. It was barely playable in turn-based (no idea what it would be like in RTWP).
Now itâs perfectly fine.
This is exactly how it works.
Most of Daeranâs buffs are all day for me at this point. Basically anything with a time measured in minutes lasts 24 hours.
Rounds are a lot tougher, but those buffs are a hell of a lot stronger. Running around with permanent Haste an Righteous Might would be a bit much and those are the low level 1 round/level spells.
