Stone Call performs so much better than Boneshaker. There's no save, a massive AOE, and a damage type that is useful against Undead. Even Blindness can have a more profound impact on combat, since it denies dexterity, imposes a -2 AC penalty on top of that, and a 50% miss chance. So, there are better options for damage OR disable.
Stone Call always 2d6, good in ch1, but Boneshaker scales with level (+1d6/2).
Unfortunately, Scorching Ray scales faster if you are in a hurry, and Sense Vitals scales much higher if you’ve got some time or multiple battles to run out the duration. So Boneshaker loses in the short term and the long term, except in extremely niche circumstances.
Both SR and Sense Vitals need you to have two feats if you hope to hit anything. Also both are very vulnerable to enemy concealment, high AC or mirror image. Also fire resistance.
In the early game where feats are rare, Stone Call requires no feats and outperforms Boneshaker. Later in the game, you should definitely have those two feats because they apply to important spells like Enervate and Energy Drain. But let's assume you don't for whatever reason. Wild Hunt Scouts have 37 Touch AC on Unfair Difficulty. My buffs put my necromancer at +38 To Hit without even counting enemy debuffs, which means a -4 from not having Precise Shot is still hitting 90% of the time.
Yeah, that's the one I was talking about.Does not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
2d6 is really pathetic damage, even with no save. In some cases I might be useful to spam where you run into big mass of weak enemies (like zombies before Stag Lord) but in most cases you can kill those groups without it. Boneshaker is 4d6 when you get it and 5d6 at lvl 4.
That one was introduced with last hotfix but you will have to try hard to find more bugs until much much later into the gameDoes not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
That one was introduced with last hotfix but you will have to try hard to find more bugs until much much later into the gameDoes not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
Default AI only uses basic attack or skill/spell you set to autocast. There is an option in Game options that lets you tell them to use or not use daily limited abilities.That one was introduced with last hotfix but you will have to try hard to find more bugs until much much later into the gameDoes not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
Good to know! Is there a way to make sure characters auto-attack nearest enemy unless I've made them do something else - but without having general party AI on meaning they'll do all sorts of shit?
Default AI only uses basic attack or skill/spell you set to autocast. There is an option in Game options that lets you tell them to use or not use daily limited abilities.That one was introduced with last hotfix but you will have to try hard to find more bugs until much much later into the gameDoes not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
Good to know! Is there a way to make sure characters auto-attack nearest enemy unless I've made them do something else - but without having general party AI on meaning they'll do all sorts of shit?
That is only Octavia. I guess they forced her AI to use attack that has better chance to hit. She does more damage with sneak attack + cantrip than shortbow that rarely hits. If you tell her to attack someone manually she will use her bow. Also a trick is to put charge on autocast. Then she uses only bow.Default AI only uses basic attack or skill/spell you set to autocast. There is an option in Game options that lets you tell them to use or not use daily limited abilities.That one was introduced with last hotfix but you will have to try hard to find more bugs until much much later into the gameDoes not bode well as far as the people who said buggyness was diminished that I'm at character creation and True Strike is bugged as [unknown key: #longseriesofnumbers#]
Good to know! Is there a way to make sure characters auto-attack nearest enemy unless I've made them do something else - but without having general party AI on meaning they'll do all sorts of shit?
Thanks, but at least my AI likes to use Cantrips over ranged weapons when it isn't really profitable in my opinion.
Charge also gives +2 to attack.
If you're already in combat, ability usage is determined by your initiative. That's why you're seeing the 4 second delay in that case. (It's actually a variable delay depending on initiative roll.) As he said, it's better to charge the target from outside their awareness circle (and thus before combat has started) as it can be done instantaneously in that case. Basically, creep closer to the mob, pause, have all of your melee types charge, unpause, and they will rush the mob (which will cover a lot more ground faster than just walking there) and trigger combat... and then the delay to their next action will be determined by initiative roll.
I think you have to go at night, but I might be confusing that with a different quest.
