KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[Tweed]

The first room of the death snare hits you with fatigue and suppressed sword, the second is full of guys who cast silence, the third has an acid damage floor that disrupts casting and causes a lot of dmg each round. The last one is a poison floor that drains con and acts like a fog cloud and has you up against a much of mind flayers and snakemen using bleed/blinding weapons, but because this is far too easy a demon lord gets summoned in the middle of the room after a few rounds.

 

[Lilliput McHammersmith]

Man, I might just have to wait until I get some patches. It just keeps crashing. Meanwhile I think I might play Might & Magic 3 for the first time. Or Nethergate.

Play Dark Heart of Uukrul if you haven't played that.

I actually have played a little bit of that and I liked it A LOT! But it's hard for me to get past the whole no audio thing. I first played it on mute in a browser, but when I got it all ready to go, I was disappointed in the total lack of sound. I kind of wish that someone could take it and just add simple sound effects and music, it would make it so great!

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Can you put multiple shields on a mantis?

 

[Tweed]

Still haven't cleared that last room in the snare, the way I see it you need to wall off the master mind flayer and hit everyone else with chaos to have a chance, dunno what to do about the devil lord that pops in.

 

[Tweed]

I think I figured out how you can cast spells out of combat, sometimes. Get into a fight then reload and it should let you at least get to the roster to cast a spell, sometimes it will let you and sometimes it crashes.

 

[Rpguy]

What two-handers shall we quadruple wield tonight?

BTW, how did you get 19 strength on your mantis?

The main reason I didn't go with mantis gladiator is that they start with low strength

 

[Jasede]

As you can see the color is blue, so it's buffed by +2 from the gloves of strength sold by the ratmen.

The other points are 1 from leveling and 2 from being a gladiator. Gladiators gain Str as they level up.

 

[NJClaw]

Can anyone confirm that the Shake it Off fighter feats chain is working as intended? I have a fighter with all three of them but I don't see any free saving throw at the beginning of his turn when he has the "held" condition from the hold person spell.

 

[Rpguy]

As you can see the color is blue, so it's buffed by +2 from the gloves of strength sold by the ratmen.

The other points are 1 from leveling and 2 from being a gladiator. Gladiators gain Str as they level up.

Buffed is green not blue and you don't wear the +2 strength bracers, they are green too. The bracers you have equipped improve criticals

Gladiator level 3, increased your strength from 18 to 19. ( unless you are level 12 in that picture )

 

[Rpguy]

Can anyone confirm that the Shake it Off fighter feats chain is working as intended? I have a fighter with all three of them but I don't see any free saving throw at the beginning of his turn when he has the "held" condition from the hold person spell.

Yeah, I never saw it working

 

[NJClaw]

Can anyone confirm that the Shake it Off fighter feats chain is working as intended? I have a fighter with all three of them but I don't see any free saving throw at the beginning of his turn when he has the "held" condition from the hold person spell.

Yeah, I never saw it working

It's a pity, because to me that seems the fighter's best feature.

 

[Jasede]

As you can see the color is blue, so it's buffed by +2 from the gloves of strength sold by the ratmen.

The other points are 1 from leveling and 2 from being a gladiator. Gladiators gain Str as they level up.

Buffed is green not blue and you don't wear the +2 strength bracers, they are green too. The bracers you have equipped improve criticals

Gladiator level 3, increased your strength from 18 to 19. ( unless you are level 12 in that picture )

I'll check when I'm out of the bath. If that picture has the crit bracer then he just be wearing the Str belt you get in the tomb.
Pool of chaos may also have given +1 earlier.

Strange, she isn't wearing the belt either. I'll investigate.

 

[Rpguy]

Well if you got +1 from the pool that would explain it

 

[Jasede]

Rpguy

It's a Painted Mantis and therefore started with 16 STR at level 1. She got 1 STR from a level up, 1 STR from the Pool of Chaos, and 1 STR from Gladiator.

 

[Jasede]

How to kill both goblin armies in the arena:

Step 1: run back across the ice chasm
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!!!

 

[Tweed]

Spent an ungodly amount of gold and xp but now everyone is enjoying the benefits of spell resistance, don't know if that's really going to help for the final room in the death snare, still stuck on it with no end in sight.

 

[Jasede]

Waiting for big goblin battle to resolve, will report if killing both is worth it. Killing one side without help gives twice the gold and each side has unique rewards. (Don't see how you can beat Cloak of Globe of Invulnerability, though)

 

[Rpguy]

How to kill both goblin armies in the arena:

Step 1: run back across the ice chasm
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!!!

But how do you not die? that chasm is deadly

 

[Jasede]

Well, it's only 30 damage. Some people may get knocked unconscious but a healing spell can bring them back on the other side. Then you wait it out in the mimic room and mop up the survivors.

 

[Rpguy]

Btw I figured out how the pool of chaos works, this really changes things for min/maxing as you can count on the +1 str +1 dex +1 con for your builds.

It depends on how you arrange your party when you enter the game - you only have 1 chance at this, you can't arrange them again once the game begins. ( well you can but it won't change the results )

character on:
Position 1 - +1 Fortitude Saves.
Position 2 - +1 Reflex Saves.
Position 3 - +1 Strength.
Position 4 - +1 Dexterity.
Position 5 - +1 Constitution.
Position 6 - +1 Willpower saves.

 

[Jasede]

I suggest trying to reduce his HP to 0 or less!

 

[Jasede]

Mantis now has 8 attacks, 2 with each weapon, 4 weapons. Other melee have 2...
Also 23 STR/DEX

laughs in Mantis

 

[Tweed]

Has anyone else gotten this far yet? Anyone else trying to get the last key in the death snare room?

 

[Jasede]

Still in the Low Sewer using my OP party to test out which Goblin Arena choice is best.

I have tried defeat Grey without help, defeat Green without help, and need to try kill both again, because it crashed.

After that I think I will soon join you; these guys are so strong!

But there's two more in the Upper Sewer with you, Tweed, so you will get reinforcements soon.

 

[Tweed]

Something went wrong in the last room this time and the devil lord didn't show up so I was actually able to struggle to victory, but frankly I'm rather glad though it doesn't exactly rest on my conscience easy, clearly Pierre designed this room to ensure nobody ever got past it.