Incline Age of Decadence - Tips, Tricks and Spoilers

[Eyestabber]

Yeah, 3 if you wanna skip carpet store guy (you also need CS to kill the guard). Btw, in case anyone is wondering what "decent dex and STR" means: dex + str equal or greater than 16. Less if you have a climbing hook (tg only).

Lockpick 4 will make you miss carpet store quest (need 5), but you need 6 for hellgate anyway so...

 

[Jaedar]

Yeah, 3 if you wanna skip carpet store guy (you also need CS to kill the guard). Btw, in case anyone is wondering what "decent dex and STR" means: dex + str equal or greater than 16. Less if you have a climbing hook (tg only).

Or you can just loot a climbing hook in the graveyard if you have decent Per.

 

[Irenaeus II]

I thought climbing hooks sold in stores? Or that is only post-Teron?

 

[Eyestabber]

Or you can just loot a climbing hook in the graveyard if you have decent Per.

Thanks a lot!!! I didn't know that.

 

[kryminator]

Yeah, 3 if you wanna skip carpet store guy (you also need CS to kill the guard). Btw, in case anyone is wondering what "decent dex and STR" means: dex + str equal or greater than 16. Less if you have a climbing hook (tg only).

Lockpick 4 will make you miss carpet store quest (need 5), but you need 6 for hellgate anyway so...

IIRC, sneak 3 is also enough to pass sneak check in carpet store quest. Btw. what is behind that closed door? Yellow gem only or something more? Or something totally different? I always do this quest via body count path and after that I am only CSing guard to boost my CS rating.

 

[Eyestabber]

Gem, some ingots and other goodies.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

I thought climbing hooks sold in stores? Or that is only post-Teron?

Can't remember post-Teron but Climbing hook can only be bought in Teron if you're a thief (at Cado's Tavern).

 

[Irenaeus II]

Hmmm... Maybe I'm confused because my latest play-through was Thief and I haven't used the climbing hook much anyway and thought it was p. much useless.

 

[Tigranes]

Climbing hooks are sold in Maadoran, but not in Teron. In Teron, the only sources are the Thieves' fence and the graveyard.

The hook is not entirely throwing-dependent. E.g. in the Teron Palace, I believe throwing the hook - and then failing due to everybody having 1 Throwing - still lowers the dex/str check to climb. (This, I think, is a mistake of the dialogue not reflecting changes in the skill check, or something.) There's also one spot where keep throwing it enough, and it will work because you have all the time in the world.

 

[Tick Tock Crocodile]

Just finished an IG playthrough, and I noticed that my ending mentioned that I had gotten my position through political maneuvering rather than success in battle. However, I went almost full murderhobo during this playthrough. The only real thing I talked my way through was the Outpost/Bandit situation. Is it the Manipulator rep from that quest that leads to this or is it something else?

 

[Saduj]

My IG ending said same thing for character who always took combat path.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Tick Tock Crocodile]

 

[Eyestabber]

Yeah same here. Some ppl reported that it's possible to get the best IG ending even at 4 charisma, but I never did. I'm guessing you have to side with Meru instead of Gaelius? Dunno.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Yeah same here. Some ppl reported that it's possible to get the best IG ending even at 4 charisma, but I never did. I'm guessing you have to side with Meru instead of Gaelius? Dunno.

I think 17 IG reputation is the breaking point, it gets you the best ending and you can reach it even with 4 CHA:

Spoiler

That's as good ending as you're gonna get too (regarding Paullus allying with Gaelius, there are two other options). I got the same one with as high IG reputation as I could manage with a high CHA char:

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Endings are a bit one-dimensional and gamey in that they only check reputation, nothing else matters (stats, bodycount, traits etc.).

 

[Irenaeus II]

Endings should check more stuff imo. I'd pay good $ for a "More endings DLC" lol

 

[Tick Tock Crocodile]

Endings are a bit one-dimensional and gamey in that they only check reputation, nothing else matters (stats, bodycount, traits etc.).

Oh, that ending makes sense, then. I'd only managed to get up to 13 IG rep or something like that. I was under the impression that your traits could affect the ending because during one Chosen One playthrough I brought Paullus to Agathoth and the ending slide mentioned that I was a 'holy woman' or something like that. That might have been the high House Crassus rep, then? Though I haven't played enough to be sure if rep affects the Agathoth endings at all.

 

[hivemind]

I brought Paullus to Agathoth and the ending slide mentioned that I was a 'holy woman' or something like that. That might have been the high House Crassus rep, then

I presume it has more to do with you serving an ancient tentacle god than convincing a preacher that you are Jesus.

 

[Tick Tock Crocodile]

I presume it has more to do with you serving an ancient tentacle god than convincing a preacher that you are Jesus.

That was probably it. I think I was just a bit confused by at as I had done all the Lord-Agathoth endings during a non-Chosen One playthrough, and while I always became the right-hand man or whatever, it never specifically said anything about being a holy person iirc. So when I did Paullus-Agathoth as Chosen One and it did say that, I thought it had something to do with the trait.

 

[Abu Antar]

I think I might be stuck. I'm getting killed in Hellgate and in the river, my crafting isn't high enough to take me to the temple. I can't enter zamedi, and I don't have much luck in the library. Where does one find rock oil? That might help me a little.

 

[Tigranes]

Have you done everything else you can do, e.g. finish the questline in Ganezzar? Are there no additional sources of SP or gold?

How can you be getting killed in Hellgate? The robots are easy for any halfway competent fighter, and if you're not, the dialogue checks to get the amulet off Bennie is very low, which means there's no combat required at Hellgate.

Do you know how to enter Zamedi? You need to go to Inferiae, or get something from Gaelius.

 

[Abu Antar]

Have you done everything else you can do, e.g. finish the questline in Ganezzar? Are there no additional sources of SP or gold?

How can you be getting killed in Hellgate? The robots are easy for any halfway competent fighter, and if you're not, the dialogue checks to get the amulet off Bennie is very low, which means there's no combat required at Hellgate.

Do you know how to enter Zamedi? You need to go to Inferiae, or get something from Gaelius.

Ganezzar is bugged.

Spoiler

I need to talk to Meru but I already did the ritual and he is now Balzaar.

In Hellgate, the first robot easily kills me. I have nothing spent in combat skills. Where is this Bennie guy anyway?

I now understand how to get in to Zamedi, but the problem is that I took the tube from the minaret. If I enter Inferiae, I don't seem to be able to get out.

 

[Urbanolo]

Ganezzar is bugged.

Spoiler

I need to talk to Meru but I already did the ritual and he is now Balzaar.

In Hellgate, the first robot easily kills me. I have nothing spent in combat skills. Where is this Bennie guy anyway?

I now understand how to get in to Zamedi, but the problem is that I took the tube from the minaret. If I enter Inferiae, I don't seem to be able to get out.

Go back to Ganezzar and persuade someone to kill the robot for you. You can also use the bomb found on the body in Hellgate.

 

[Tigranes]

Have you done everything else you can do, e.g. finish the questline in Ganezzar? Are there no additional sources of SP or gold?

How can you be getting killed in Hellgate? The robots are easy for any halfway competent fighter, and if you're not, the dialogue checks to get the amulet off Bennie is very low, which means there's no combat required at Hellgate.

Do you know how to enter Zamedi? You need to go to Inferiae, or get something from Gaelius.

Ganezzar is bugged.

Spoiler

I need to talk to Meru but I already did the ritual and he is now Balzaar.

In Hellgate, the first robot easily kills me. I have nothing spent in combat skills. Where is this Bennie guy anyway?

I now understand how to get in to Zamedi, but the problem is that I took the tube from the minaret. If I enter Inferiae, I don't seem to be able to get out.

Ganezzar: What guild are you, or what questlines did you take to end up where you are? Sometimes the journal display is bugged.

If you spent nothing in combat skills, then:
(1) You can do what Urbanolo said about persuading.
(2) However, Urbanolo is wrong about the bomb in Hellgate. That bomb is used elsewhere. What you use is the nullifier, which is found in Zamedi, so you might want to go to Zamedi first.
(3) Do you mean that you've already finished Inferiae? In any case:

Spoiler

What you need to enter Zamedi is a demon's heart. One is the heart of the demon you kill in Inferiae (by overloading the machine or in combat). Another is in Gaelius' body, or he gives it to you when you serve him. What exactly have you done? Taking the tube from the minaret should be irrelevant, but returning to Inferiae a second time via village may mean fighting.

 

[Urbanolo]

(2) However, Urbanolo is wrong about the bomb in Hellgate. That bomb is used elsewhere. What you use is the nullifier, which is found in Zamedi, so you might want to go to Zamedi first.

I meant the bomb you find right before the robot. You need lore and crafting and it does ~30dmg. Enough to almost finish the robot off.

You probably thought I was talking about the spear.