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Grimoire gameplay and hints thread

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I will be starting Grimoire in short order. I've read the beginners guide on the wiki and will move on to The Manual tomorrow. Anything else I should do to prepare myself mentally?
 

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- Do some lifting at the gym.
- Watch "They Live" three times.
- Buy a Fallout shelter for the end of the world.
- Enjoy the game.
 

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On the other hand, you are barred from wearing pants and shoes. This isn't a huge problem in the beginning, but as you progress further and can get better items, the AC difference gets greater because the items get better. For the majority of the game, it's a liability.

Do we even know that the local AC plays a role and not just the Total AC, which reaches 125 with or without pants and shoes?

And the speed bonus is more important now that multiclassing is a viable and actually desirable thing to do. For many class changes you need to save up the extra points, so that you won't be putting them into Speed until you arrive at your final class. And that can take at least half the game or even more.
 

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On the other hand, you are barred from wearing pants and shoes. This isn't a huge problem in the beginning, but as you progress further and can get better items, the AC difference gets greater because the items get better. For the majority of the game, it's a liability.

Do we even know that the local AC plays a role and not just the Total AC, which reaches 125 with or without pants and shoes?

And the speed bonus is more important now that multiclassing is a viable and actually desirable thing to do. For many class changes you need to save up the extra points, so that you won't be putting them into Speed until you arrive at your final class. And that can take at least half the game or even more.

Why do the individual armor pieces give you so much TAC? I just went to check and I almost hit the cap with just body armor on. I think you're right that the equipment restrictions actually don't matter for Naga. He wouldn't be able to wear Seven Leagues, but it's not like theres a pair for everybody anyway. You're right about his Speed bonus being pretty great also. Too bad about his resistances though.
 
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A Bard is really helpful. I found a Thistle Whistle early and it absolutely destroys every enemy and is GREAT at crowd control. Swaying lute is great, too. Because
Thistle Whistle is alt-hand, you should keep it in the inventory and "use' it whenever necessary
. Using the default party, I had no problems and breezed through everything pretty easily. Had to savescum for Lich and HobKnob (because RIP Aeorb). Lethal Blow'd Samhain Horror, no causalities. I'm entering Lalain and every character is at level 9.

Coffergus didn't even bat an eye when I gave him the Encoded Catechism.

Does the Caliburnus disappear after the charges are spent? Is there a way to recharge it? I have other high-damage items from The Vault of the Exemplar and I'm afraid They'll be wasted on worthless foes if they can not be recharged.
 

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Where do I find Black Pierre after the initial encounter? I ended our conversation prematurely after joining his crew, and now I can't seem to find him (except by doing certain things that piss him off). Locate Person says he's still on the Snark Mistress, but I can't find him anywhere.
 

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Yeah, Recharge works now - I tried it on the Caliburnus. Not sure sure how its charges are spent though. Seems like only particularly evil creatures trigger it or something.
 

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Where do I find Black Pierre after the initial encounter? I ended our conversation prematurely after joining his crew, and now I can't seem to find him (except by doing certain things that piss him off). Locate Person says he's still on the Snark Mistress, but I can't find him anywhere.

After the initial encounter, they keep wandering around the map. Though usually it should be no problem running into them again.
 

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Yeah, Recharge works now - I tried it on the Caliburnus. Not sure sure how its charges are spent though. Seems like only particularly evil creatures trigger it or something.

I always presumed it should be "invoked" like a wand of fireballs (but why would anybody use it for that purpose instead of hitting stuff with it?)
 

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Yeah, Recharge works now - I tried it on the Caliburnus. Not sure sure how its charges are spent though. Seems like only particularly evil creatures trigger it or something.

I always presumed it should be "invoked" like a wand of fireballs (but why would anybody use it for that purpose instead of hitting stuff with it?)

Invoking spends them, as does hitting the enemies it has vs against.

In theory at least, but who knows if they get spent on every kill or whatever, too lazy to test.
 

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Any way to play this in a 1080p fullscreen window? Doesn't seem to want to scale properly on my monitor. Any ideas?

Also, any way to make the text bigger? I can't read the spell descriptions, they are too tiny.
 
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Where do I find Black Pierre after the initial encounter? I ended our conversation prematurely after joining his crew, and now I can't seem to find him (except by doing certain things that piss him off). Locate Person says he's still on the Snark Mistress, but I can't find him anywhere.

After the initial encounter, they keep wandering around the map. Though usually it should be no problem running into them again.
That's what I thought at first, but in Pierre's case he never showed up no matter how much I wandered around the Snark.

Is there any downsides to just releasing Daisy and killing him? Will I miss out on important information or items?
 

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How do I get someone to join if my party is full and it's the first time talking to the person?
 

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Where do I find Black Pierre after the initial encounter? I ended our conversation prematurely after joining his crew, and now I can't seem to find him (except by doing certain things that piss him off). Locate Person says he's still on the Snark Mistress, but I can't find him anywhere.

After the initial encounter, they keep wandering around the map. Though usually it should be no problem running into them again.
That's what I thought at first, but in Pierre's case he never showed up no matter how much I wandered around the Snark.

Is there any downsides to just releasing Daisy and killing him? Will I miss out on important information or items?

There was a similar bug with other NPC's. You should report it in the bugs thread on Steam.

And yeah, I killed him too and probably missed out on some of the pirate content. This time I plan to be friendly.
 

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How do I get someone to join if my party is full and it's the first time talking to the person?

You will be asked whom to dismiss from your party. Some NPC's will only join after you finished their quests. Simply right-click on a character and select the NPC joining option.
 

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So I bumped the difficulty up to Superhero and I'm noticing that enemies are doing more damage, and I think I'm getting more enemies per group. Are there any other details known about the difficulty settings?
 

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You will be asked whom to dismiss from your party. Some NPC's will only join after you finished their quests. Simply right-click on a character and select the NPC joining option.

I didn't notice any quest for Lil' Rosy. And right clicking didnt do anything, the only options were battle, bribe, something else.
 

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When you have an NPC encounter, right-click on the picture of one of your characters and there is an option there to recruit the NPC. Rosy doesn't have a quest and can be recruited right away. Coffergus, Raghilda, Gorlo and some others need to have their quests finished first.
 

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So I bumped the difficulty up to Superhero and I'm noticing that enemies are doing more damage, and I think I'm getting more enemies per group. Are there any other details known about the difficulty settings?

My guess is that the number of enemies per encounter changes. Though I haven't really noticed much of a difference playing on the second-highest difficulty now.
 

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Oh, right click on the picture of your character. Got it. Thank ye!
 
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Does something like an upgraded thistle whistle exist?

Is there a way to inflict more damage with it? My Bard's music is at 100 and she usually deals ~20 damage per enemy.

I also have a suggestion. It would be incredible to have some kind of log with descriptions of every fight, level-up and objective completion throughout your journey. Reading it after completing the game would be incredible. You would be able to see the gradual progress of characters, their weaknesses subside, their professions change, them getting stronger, and more in the same vein. I wouldn't even mind if it was all auto-generated with a few lines and sentence structures repeated over and over.
 

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Does something like an upgraded thistle whistle exist?

The thistle whistle is based on the Shrill Sound spell - there are many other instruments based on other spells.

As to more programming for Cleve, I'm not sure if that's a good idea... ;)
 

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