All bites stack for no good reason. Nothing else from natural attacks does.
There are tons of degenerate builds based on basically getting every bite attack that exists so you have like 15 attacks out there.
Edit: Also respec mod now has an options to keep your alignment, portrait and whatnot iirc.
Yay they fucking fixed it.
I mean, it doesnât say where the bite isâŚ
Not the mythic path, just all those little blips on your alignment that show up when you make a decision.
So my Bloodrager is in Act 2 and I didnât disable the Crusade system for him like I did with my Cavalier (my only other character to get this far into the game), and I have a few questions. I could probably answer these via a few YT videos, but the ones Iâve found are fairly long, which makes me wonder how complex this mechanic is. Anyways, Iâm curious if itâs best to max out your starter armyâs size like a Might & Magic game and run it around the map or should I recruit additional armies to cover the geography? This is early Act 2.
Edit: and should I move the army to keep it fairly close to my party? Curious if there are advantages/disadvantages to doing so. Or negatives if my party passes too closely to a demon army on the map.
Just make a single super-stack and mop up. My trixter got an ability that let generals gain xp passively, so I recruited a second general just so they could level up to hold four armies and escort them to my super-stack.
Nope, but you need your army to clear the map to areas you want your party to explore. Moving your party through an enemy army will trigger a difficult fight, and you canât move your party through enemy forts.
I just found out something which perhaps a few people may already know.
The last two âpitâ spells, acid pit and hungry(maybe devouring?) pit are both awesome and bugged. It can make short work of some of those bullshit enemies and encounters as long as the enemy isnât flying or huge.
The bugged part of the pit is the fact that in turn based mode the pits continue to proc every few seconds. Meaning if an enemy is sitting in its AoE, ever few seconds it will have to roll a reflex save or be sucked into the pit. Also if they are in the pit, they will take damage every few seconds while you just sit on one characterâs turn.
The only other bugged part is if that an enemy dies in the pit, you may not get its loot.
It also highlights some other bullshit in the game. I was fighting a wizard boss who had like 6 dagger attacks around (level 16 wizard at that) who did insane melee damage. Id love to know how that was done. Anyway, she had like a 7 reflex save and the pit had a DC of like 21. She would only go into the pit on a natural 1 roll.
Anyway, I feel a bit cheesy about abusing these spells, but then again, these bullshit npcs encounters piss me off.
This bug works against the player too.
Iâm surprised how much more involved the Crusade system feels than Kingmakerâs town/fief mgmt. And thatâs with just one army, its movements, recruiting new troops into it, leveling up its general, etc. I have a feeling this is going to explode in subsequent acts where you have a dozen armies on the world map running all over the place and Iâm not sure I want to dip that flavor of chocolate into my peanut butter-based party RPG.
Do not do this. Make one main army that is super powerful. You might want to make a secondary army to deal with invading demon armies, but most of your troops should go to a single beat down army. I highly recommend a caster general for your armies.
However I am now playing as a lich so I have two main armies. One is my living troops and the other is undead troops. I sure hope my undead troops get a boost at some point because skelletons and zombies will only go so far, no matter how many you have. I have been avoiding the demon armies with the caster bosses that can one shot stacks each round.
You canât really be a true HoMM-like without the one almighty doom stack being the dominant and most effective strategy, heh. Seems like for the most part itâs the preferable strategy for WotRâs crusade mode stuff too. That leveling up caster generals apparently, because as said above, they can do some serious stack wiping once they get going.
Iâve cleared all the demon armies with my super stacked finger of death army (600+ soldiers, 400+ archers, 50 hellknights, 250 clerics, and about 50 rangers), clearing the way to attack Drezen, and then wiped out the three level 6 demon armies that appeared in the canyon to the west. A text pop-up said this would make the actual retaking of the city easier since the demons canât resupply.
I agree with the stack-of-doom strategy, but if you want to get new troops to your frontline faster, and have the ability that adds extra travel points to every army with a general, I find grabbing up a few more generals helpful (I had four before I went into the Fane). The difference between moving 40 and 55 cuts down on waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
But yeah, also great to have one decent army that can handle the invaders when your main is on the other side of the map. Thatâs also come up a couple times for me.
The problem for undead armies is that every fight spawns units.
So you end up with like 6 armies of 1-3 units wandering the map trying to meet up with your Undead army to reinforce it and then you realize the UI is terrible and this is going to literally take hours before you can advance and download a mod to let you win.
That said, the difficulty adjustments are pretty good. The first âeasierâ Crusade level seems about right. Troops come at a decent pace and so do resources, which means so far on my 2nd playthrough I havenât felt the need to cheat (though to be fair, I cheated the first time because Lich was just broken).
Might change when I hit Act 5 and run out of stuff to do while Level 12-13 armies stare down my level 10 army and Iâm just passing time waiting for troops to walk out to them.
Is there a way to move troops around the map without having your party in adventure mode? IE: exit Dresen and then you can move armies around, but not while in drezen?
Also another piece of advice: When upgrading troops and you have a choice for a low damage with lots of HP vs high damage and few HP, take the high damage option. There might be some cases where you want a medium option between the two, but mostly DPS is king. Id just hire mercs who were tanky if I needed some damage sponge.
I did find a trick to use against the armies with generals that cast high damage spells. I just remove all my units from my main army except for zombies who have tuns of HP and do almost no damage. Then my caster general just nukes everything while the enemy general wastes time nuking the zombies. Once in a while I may have to âhealâ the zombies, but at least this saves all my high damage units from dying. If this tactic can work with any stack of high HP units.
So, I have a build idea.
4 Levels of Hellknight Signifier, 10 levels of Eldritch Knight, and either 6 levels of Wizard, Sorcerer, Witch or Arcanist. That should give me a Caster level of 19, and a BAB of 16 (so barely 4 attacks per turn) and the ability to wear Mythril Full Plate without any Arcane Failure.
As a Human with a Gladiator Background, I can get the Feats I need for both prestige classes without trouble.
I figure I can go 5 levels of Wizard or Witch, 4 Levels of Hellknight Signifier, 10 levels of Eldritch Knight, and then the Final levels of Wizard to get the missing BAB. (if i take 5 levels of Hellknight, I only have a BAB of 15 because that final level doesnât give any).
Or, 6 Levels of Sorcerer or Arcanist, and everything is just behind a single level for a short time.
I think Human is preferred for the ability to take Martial Weapon Proficiency early, but I could swing something else.
The build sounds fun to me. The only caveat is that ultimately naked with mage armor and the mythic provides a much better armor bonus late game. If you choose Sorcerer consider 2 things and that is scaled fist dip for CHA to AC and if you can swing it Oracle dip Nature mystery for CHA as DEX. If you simply wanted the flavor of armored caster and have say a mediocre DEX score then your ideas work great.
Yeah, the mythic armor feat could do a lot of the work instead of the Platemail, and itâs only a level 1 spell slot. But, I can also save that mythic feat for something else. Maybe something boring like the abundant spells. Or, if I took a Sorcerer, I could instantly get the 20th level ability.
I am still a bit torn.
I donât want to dip into too many classes because I want to retains 19 levels of caster (you only lose that one level from the Eldritch Knight).
I think we are still waiting on some of the Orders to come through for the Hellknight Signifier. The Order of the Gate could provide even more Arcane Failure reduction, but it doesnât work yet.
First few days in Act 3, hitting demon armies around Drezen, moved my party south for a new quest in Greenglades (sp?) and got a level 25 dragon dropped on my lvl 9 party. Reloaded twice, dragons appeared both times, so itâs obviously scripted. Game obviously doesnât want me to go that way quite yet.
It does, they just want to drop the dragon on you twice because thatâs fun for them. It doesnât show up randomly again after a second appearance, though.