How are everyone’s stories coming along? Have you finished the game? If so how many times?
What tips, remarks or other things of note do you have that you want to discuss here?
As always try to keep things as spoiler free as possible.
Also should I do these posts more regularly (shows up on people’s feeds more and so has more traction) or like this is fine. Definitely don’t want to spam people.
Lucky rolls to you all!
I’m currently level 7 in my Tactician run, and much like Balanced, everything gets a lot easier when you hit level 5. Tav is one of the best starters (Bard) even if the rest of my party was kinda meh at low levels (Champion Fighter, Monk, CotL Druid). The martials are starting to take off now–especially the Monk–though I’m still not thrilled with the Druid. It’s possible it would have been a little too punishing if I had a weaker party.
Now I still have 5k gold and probably still more food than I’ll ever need (even with the 2x food penalty). I think ultimately food is what would have made the difficulty masochist level, but there’s more than enough if you actually loot the scraps you come across. At that point it’s all about whether you can handle a single fight with full resources or not, and I haven’t come across one that’s been too much (although maybe doing the hag at level 4 without Magic Missile was ambitious and I got a bit lucky). Hell, I just breezed through the fight against
Grymforge spoiler
all the Grymforge duergar with Nere tagging along,
and that’s one of the more difficult fights in the game. Smart tactics still matter, though. I just had that fight go spectacularly wrong in my Explorer difficulty multiplayer run with a friend where we decided to just range them from above. I tossed the Runepowder Vial without lighting it, figuring I’d have time, and they threw it right back and hit it with a fire arrow, killing one of my party on the spot and knocking the other into the lava.
Lol that reminds me. 2 of the hardest fights I had in my playthrough happened because I was a bit careless with my positioning and Shadowheart got yeeted off a cliff to her death right at the start of the fight. One was that same grymforge fight, the other was even funnier because it happened during the act 2 fight that’s relevant to her story.
Got shadowheart yeeted into lava in that fight, was hilarious but made it a fair bit harder than most for sure.
hardest fights act3
Nothing yet has compared to telling Gortash where to shove his deal, sorry Wyll. Only fight I’ve had to reload and prep. Helped being rested with all spells (and more lightning spells), but used a lot of consumables to win that one.
I am disappointed that Lorrakane wasn’t harder. It was a cool idea, but I think the AI needs to have him retreat and throw down some big spells not just rely on the rebuke damage as a deterrent.
Is that one in
act 3
the Audience Hall? I’ve never fought him there. Does seem it’d be pretty rough with the Steel Watch up.
That’s actually where I had the hardest time in the game, in that multiplayer run. We were tapped out after fighting him up top, and before I realized what she was doing, she started going downstairs instead of teleporting out. Had a hell of a time trying to find enough distance to escape to camp (Steel Watch was up, too).