Arcana is useful for detecting spells hurled at you, so you know whether to waste a counterspell slot or not.
Yeah, and the fact that Shock Arcanist is the most broken subclass they could ever come up with doesn't help either. It really sounds like a crazy homebrew designed by two drunk players:Going to chime in and say I agree with that, now. I wasn't feeling too bad about taking loremaster early on since having advantage on lore checks and arcane checks and shit is a fun little bonus, but I think it's only been used once in the entire game and that was at that lesser gate way back when you very first meet the soraks. HOPEFULLY will have some more checks later, but as of right now there's been one, maybe two checks in the 30 hours I've played which is presumably more than half of the game given I'm nearing level 8. That's a definite disappointment, don't mind Solasta being a combatfag game but it would've been nice to have a large scattering of little skill checks for small goodies like that gate giving you a tablet you can hock back in town..- Choosing loremaster as a wizard kit was a very bad choice. All I get from it is a little of mediocre lore and a small xp bonus
That's Rune Soldier Louie. It takes place in the same world as the anime Record of Lodoss War (Which is based on the creator's D&D campaign).
Which anime is this?
When the Loremaster gives you more spells, the Shock Arcanist makes you proficient in Constitution saving throws. Maybe having more spells could be useful in PnP, where you can suffer from not being prepared due to the existence of non-combat very situational ones, but Solasta has too few spells to make it matters. I never found myself thinking "shoot, what a pity I couldn't prepare more spells", but anyone who has ever rolled a Constitution saving throw has dreamed about being proficient in it (sure, there's the feat, but unless you cheat your ability scores like fanta, you need those increments to boost your Intelligence). But the game is fairly easy, so there's no reason not to use less powerful options.
Please, leave this topic to those who actually want to discuss the game. You repressed cucks already have the other one to talk about your problems.
I like the concept. The rest is the matter of execution. Consider facing randomized encounters. Or dungeons. And I don't mean procedurally generated ones - I mean hand-made stuff that gets rolled from a pool. Of course, it would require a decent selection and it means extra work, but I think it can't hurt and it increases replayability as well (because you won't be able to memorize the encounters after your first run, and it's nice to have more enemy variety). The only real problem I can see is that quest has to be somewhat oblique, but I don't think that's a big problem from dungeon-delving perspective.
Fucking hell, another quest involving Arwin with a cool sword and shit payment. You get the lowlife quest with a +2 longsword super early on, and then there's a quest to bring him a longswird that also does a die of electrical damage. At some point I should stop giving that fucker all these amazing weapons and just keep them for my fighter.
Going to chime in and say I agree with that, now. I wasn't feeling too bad about taking loremaster early on since having advantage on lore checks and arcane checks and shit is a fun little bonus, but I think it's only been used once in the entire game and that was at that lesser gate way back when you very first meet the soraks. HOPEFULLY will have some more checks later, but as of right now there's been one, maybe two checks in the 30 hours I've played which is presumably more than half of the game given I'm nearing level 8. That's a definite disappointment, don't mind Solasta being a combatfag game but it would've been nice to have a large scattering of little skill checks for small goodies like that gate giving you a tablet you can hock back in town.- Choosing loremaster as a wizard kit was a very bad choice. All I get from it is a little of mediocre lore and a small xp bonus
Hold shift, scroll your mousewheel (All of this while holding down shift), then look at your compass in the lower right. There'll be arrows going up and/or down near the center of it now, go there and click those to change Z levels. I assume it's a bug or a glitch that isn't letting shift-mousewheel do it but at least it makes those buttons appear and then you can manually adjust where you fly. Few things to note, that also works for point-targeted AoE spells (Chuck a fireball and blow it up in the air so the sphere AoE gives you finer control) and it's INCREDIBLY easy to misclick when you're flying and send your dude moving back to the ground. I was fighting a vampire like 5-6 levels high, misclicked, then my dude flew down and gave the vampire AOO. Fortunately fly gives you so much movement speed I was able to fly back up and smack him silly.
Edit: Unrelated to anything but BREHS. Remember you can force-attack pillars and shit. There were a few little patches of optional hidden loot that can only be reached by blasting out pillars, can't get around it with teleport/fly/spiderwalk/etc. Makes me think I may have missed some shit earlier on since I had forgotten about that, and I know there were a few locations that probably would've been easier if I knocked pillars over with a ranged attack rather than worming my rogue or fighter over with athletics.
That's what I did and now, after crafting obviously broken greataxe of sharpness I've decided to turn in that quest, especially since that fucker was blocking me from Arcaneum with his cut-scene. So, reward for magnificient +2/1-10 ed longsword turned out to be 200 gold (or was that 50? weirdly showed 4 times in the log) and 0 xp. I'm starting to adopt NJClaw views on French tbqh.
I'm before entering lava forest and hadn't found one either. Moreover, Arcaneum for some reason doesn't offer it as well so unless I'll get lucky somewhere ahead I'll end up without that cool warden sword.
The interesting bit is that Arwin and his sword (and the Copparan woman's request) feature in a couple of late-game quests, both main and side. I wonder how they play out if you never give the sword to him.
