"if you just throw roleplaying out the window and respec your characters anytime you fail at banging your head against the wall, you can beat the game no problem!"
Yes, I'm the retard for not wanting to abuse respeccing. You got me.
"The game encourages a mixed party"
"No it quite literally punishes you for having one, here's why"
"M-munchkin!"
Lmao, fuck off, retard.
How hard is it to attack the target with low physical armor using the guy that does physical damage?
How is being able to respond to diverse enemy setups "being punished"? There's only a handful of encounters in the entire game that don't have a mixture of unit types.
"mixed damage parties are bad because all physical damage parties are bad"
Or you could give a low-damage (or CC) magic skill to your physical-based characters and a low-damage (or CC) physical skill to your magic-based ones. Medusa Head and Chloroform work wonders on a physical guy, while Summoning and Necromancy have plenty of physical damage skills.
Sure, once the Round robin reaches that guy
Are you talking about dos2 ?? If so,then you could win the game pretty easy with a balanced party.
Almost every fight in the game has some enemies with low magic armor and some enemies with low physical armor. I've played with 2 and 2, and I've never found myself saying "oh no, now this character can't do anything because he has the wrong damage type".
It's not worth the effort, they're actually retarded.
It happens to me constantly and I have 2 physical, 1 summoner and 1 magic. This is exacerbated by the fact physical characters have to move more, so managing to get past the frontline in order to get to the archers in the back becomes a trap maneuver. You have almost killed the archer with your rogue, but now it's the magical people's turn unable to finish the job. What you are left with is half-dead mobs that continue to wail on you. The AI is shit though.
But that's what you literally could do and it was the easiest way to go.
You sound like a fucking authist. Nobody care if you will get +5 more damage if your whole party is pyromancers or some such shit. Dos2 is extremely easy game and all that garbage is irrelevant. Fuck i am "replaying" it on the hard and it is rare to see a fight that manages to get past the armour.
Actually the game allows you to build mixed damage party quite well thanks on how some of their skills work. For example, a Mage can invest 1 to 2 points on necromancy to obtain powerful spells that deal physical damage and scale with INT, while also infliciting very useful status effect to enemies without physical armor. Warriors can use Medusa's Head from Polymorphy to deal Magic Damage that scales with STR, with the addition of granting great CC. Furthermore, there are numerous Mixed Spells (the ones that you get by combining Magic Spells with Physical Skills) that allow you to do magical damage with physical attacks, like Venom Coating. Archers can use elemental arrows plus other skills to deal high elemental damage that scales with DEX. The flexibility and utility of a mixed party I think is greatly understated, you can cc every type of enemy easily while still removing any kind with armor
What about design? It is generic TB combat lol. You waste 10 minutes on a meaningless battle with slow animations and move on to experience the rest of the game. Who the fuck cares if you could min-max it by having party of single type of magic users lol?!
