If you've just acquired the kingdom part, and started doing the management minigame, be wary that there are fail states that might end up in a game over, which isn't really intuitive. You can turn that off in the options menu if you wish.
No worries. Its really not that bad. Only thing you need to be keenly aware of is the series of "Ancient Curse" quests. When they trigger, you should be at your capital 14 days before the deadline and explore the cursed hilltop. Otherwise you'll be hit with some nasty effects...
Thank you!
There is one event that will SINK your kingdom and you won't be able to do anything about it. That's the one where thieves stole 500BP off you. You will only realise something is wrong when the event to try to recover the 500BP turns up, by which time, you're likely to already be running at a deficit for a while, so your kingdom's happiness had tanked. And unless you have enough gold to buy back that 500BP instantly, the happiness will continue to go down because even if you wait out the time for the event to complete, you don't get all of the 500BP back.
Just wait until you get to endgame and you have to click through endless stacks of the same event cards over and over for hours
Ancient Curse tells you when it will happen. This one you wouldn't know until it had already happened. That is the whole problem with that stupid event.
The advantages of kineticist are: damage automatically scales with level, if you take the right attacks they'll target touch AC, they can choose various effects to try and apply to anything hit, and later they get AoEs to hit multiple things. They get really OP with the good AoEs but before then they are kind of meh (though great against things that are hard to hit due to targeting touch). They also need to be built in a specific way to acquire the good AoEs since they depend on specific element combinations.
Works fine. Linzi would probably be better though. When you find the gnome consider him. You've got a lot of melee focused characters and could use a bit of buffing support, Bard and Alchemist can both add some stuff.
Skipping wererats for a chapter is fine. There will be a number of optional encounters like this in the future that are generally best left till you can come back a few levels stronger. Boggars should be doable. I've managed it in the prologue with a level 4ish party I think, while you should be around level 7 after the prologue?
Actually, at the end of the prologue I was level 5 and I'm still level 5. In the meantime, I did some events and thing for the kingdom, yes. And Octavia failed one. Now I got the notification for the Ancient Curse quest and I headed there.
Yeah, like the fucking nymph and the Doomspider dor the Ancient Curse quest. I hate them, for god's sake.
Yes, that's true. For now, I'm counting on the buffs Tristian can give to the group, but it's true that is not enough. The thing is that he is very useful. And Regongar can be powerful with his TrueStrike + touch attack. So I don't know who to give "away" to insert Linzi.
Linzi carries the early game, both her spells such as Hideous Laughter and Cacophonous Call, and her song buffs, are very useful. Too bad her CHA is shit.
Octavia has Hideous Laughter too but, yes, I was thinking about giving Linzi a second chance. It is also true that, at least, Octavia sometimes can be useful with the crossbow and Web spell. For the rest, she is quite "meh".
Wait till she gets to level 10 Arcane Trickster, when she will be doing her sneak attack damage to every spell that does damage.
Linzi or Octavia?
Octavia
He's talking about Octavia.
That shows how poor strategical knowledge I have. I would never think of such combinations.
They’re not that great. By the time you can ignore the effects yourself you’ve got better things to do than cast first level spells. Stinking Cloud (though keeping Delay Poison up at all times is a good idea) still requires beating a Fort Save.
Yeah, in the end I come back with a formation without Octavia but with Linzi. Honestly, her "Fascinate"+Cacophonus Call are godsend against the groups of Troll (I'm dealing with the attack at Bartholomew Delgado's house.
