Desiderius
Found your egg, Robinett, you sneaky bastard
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>Location: Soviet UnionI embraced both of them in a happy 3-some
I mean you could also not do that, Octavia is fucking horribleOk, I think I may have to replay chapter I to get Octavia
Wait, I recall getting the AB from it when flanking. How is it broken?I'm no longer using Freebooter at all since Bond is broken, as the Codex tried to tell me when I first got here.
Ah, broken as in "too good". Odd that they would bungle that, should be trivial to tie a bonus to a binary flanking variable. Though not entirely surprising considering I've found ranged sneak attacks to be almost completely arbitrary so far, I'm pretty sure I've even had Ekun and Octavia attack on consecutive turns where one got the SA and not the other while attacking the same enemy.You get the AB pretty much all the time, including at range when not flanking. In any case +4 (and growing!) untyped unlimited use stacking bonus for whole team is too good.
Anything's better than Favored Enemy and a non-Hunter Animal Companion.It’s broken in both senses currently. It’s actually better balanced on a ranged character since you miss the Move Action from Bane so much more since it prevents full attacks.
Melee Booter uses Bane + Charge or Bane + Cleave/Vital Strike and AoOs.
If you need to stack that kind of bonuses just to be effective as a physical attacker, there is something wrong with the game because sure as hell the enemy won't be needing those kind of numbers. That is not how 3.x was built.Of course, as I said I really only did this within the first few chapters, and only a few times.
And I only did this a bunch on my first few playthroughs, yes, because I really overestimated the importance of the time limit.
Call me shit if you will, but I think I beat Chapter 1 and 2 resting less than five times in each. And I didn't rush through them, I cleared out most of the optional areas.
Honestly I'm proud of myself for doing that without using the Jaethal trick more! Even though in retrospect there wasn't any reason to save time that much.
Frankly, this idea about Jaethal never came to my mind at all I'm playing without deaths and knock-outs anyway.
The only multiclass I could wholeheartedly recommend is for Linzi Bard 7 -> Freeboter 5 with all the corresponding archery feats (Point Blank, Precise Shot, Rapid, Manyshot, Deadly Aim, Clustered Shots, Hammer the Gap and later Shatter Defences). This simple build is even stronger in the game than on paper and she was the sole reason why I've switched from Hard to Unfair during Varnhold chapter.
You don't need to destroy your Bard to get those Freebooter levels. You're truly robbing Peter to pay Paul since you're just trading one group buff for another (while utterly destroying her casting ability) and you REALLY don't have the spare feats lying around to make her a viable archer either, the class doesn't come with any abilities that boost ranged attax, and there is no way to get DEX to damage at range. She belongs in melee with casting her cones or triggering Outflank crit chains with Moskoni's Rapier. Don't waste Mirror Image at range.
Trying to make Linzi viable at range broke InEffective.
I'm no longer using Freebooter at all since Bond is broken, as the Codex tried to tell me when I first got here.
But you have to have at least one archer and Ekun is too OP, so why not Linzi?
She gains more from Freebooter levels than staying pure Bard (that is of course if you don't have anyone else with Freebooter levels)
+2/+2 form Good Hope
+2/+2 from Inspire Competence
+2/+2 from Bond
+2/+2 from Mark Target
[+4 from Outflank]
is usually the differnce between hitting at 15-20 and hitting at 5-20 (this, again, essentially triples your damage)
And because of Gloves of Archery, Death from Afar and various Quivers she has enough ABs and Damage to kill most enemies in 1 round (just as an example, she just killed Mandragora Swarms in 1 round without a problem).
And Fascinate still works (those poor Hellknights ).
As I've said, it works better in the game than it looks on paper.
It's OP, but very satisfying.
Do you mean the old SCS2/Tactics hell battle? That was memorable, for sure. :DI still have PTSD from Improved Illyich + SCS2That was the Tactics mod, old man.The higher difficulties are a bit cheesy as well, you have enemy fallen deva summons in the starting dungeon.
Default SCS has just improved duergar in the starting dungeon. I'm not sure if improved Illyich is incorporated into SCS, but that was a joke encounter even in Tactics.
The final Irenicus battle was no joke either, I remember I kept dying in the last few rounds because those summoned sword spells were only vulnerable to my magic missile spells and I kept running out
Painful experience but memorable to say the least
Yes this was a long time ago =). For some reason at the time I thought it would be a good idea to use both SCS2 and Tactics together.Do you mean the old SCS2/Tactics hell battle? That was memorable, for sure. :D
would respecing octavia to scroll savant fit her thematically?
Hey Desiderius , you talk so much, why won't you give advice on that one?There is also this alchemist I could take. My character is a magus, so I have some arcane spells, and so does Linzy. Can I get away with using wands and scrolls on those two characters? Is Use Magical Device enough to handle that?
Hey Desiderius , you talk so much, why won't you give advice on that one?There is also this alchemist I could take. My character is a magus, so I have some arcane spells, and so does Linzy. Can I get away with using wands and scrolls on those two characters? Is Use Magical Device enough to handle that?
Can a bard or Magus with high UMG and maybe some feats cast essential arcane spells from scrolls and wands reliably enough to be viable?
I think it's because you don't know the answer. Can you show all the people watching that you do?Because you’re a spoiled idiot
Yes, it is very useful for a Magus on low levels. Later Magus Arcana boosts the attack well enough, so it is better to use damaging spells IMHO.Holy crap how did I not realize the power of True Strike Spell Combat until now.
Automatic CMB win I thinkYes, it is very useful for a Magus on low levels. Later Magus Arcana boosts the attack well enough, so it is better to use damaging spells IMHO.Holy crap how did I not realize the power of True Strike Spell Combat until now.
I think Blade Lash is not in the unmodded Kingmaker, and I do not use mods that change the mechanics.Heck, you can just do a 2 turn spell combo with Blade Lash.