My brother, oh but thou art a simp.
But in seriousness, that was a huge mistake, because the aura from that item makes your life so much easier during the early-ish to mid-game. It allows you to bypass pretty much all DR on all Demons you'll encounter at that point. Later on when you start getting +3 weapons and such it's no longer as impressive, but it's stupid good in CH2.
Amulet of Mighty Fists +3 should solve this issue, and first one for sale only appears at the beginning of Chapter 3. But holy shit, giving away an item that is vital for your MC's build for the... fucking romance points!
He is actually right. He is playing blind, and yes, exactly such weird decisions can open hidden paths. In this case it is not that valuable, but we know it by experience and / or spoilers, and he does not.
Until you get another Relic in ch3 Natural Attacks on player are sadly undersupported (Crusader's Edge works on pets but not for players for instance). For some reason Magic Fang was stacking with Fists Amulet in DLC so that could help.
Honestly I'd recommend ditching the mage entirely. Levels matter quite a lot on generals, and the ranger won't be fun unless its leveled. But yeah, not having a mage just takes it from "lololo beat every fight without even moving a stack" to "beat every fight without any permanent losses, but at least a modicum of strategy was involved". At the same time, trying to fight stuff like gargoyles "fair" is an exercise in tedium.
Gargs have DR. If you can't bypass DR what are you even doing? Cleric Smite for starters but if you get the +2 damage ability on any general you can also power through it pretty fast. Ranger General gets a DR bypass spell.
I just checked and yea you cannot turn off XP sharing
Design for minimal reloads. That opens up the other half (or 90%) of the abilities savescummers neglect and delays the ones that give you the stat boosts you claim to deplore.I just checked and yea you cannot turn off XP sharing
There goes my idea for solo play unless I just plan to run Invisible and just fight bosses. Maybe I try something like 2, 3 or 4 man parties instead for additional challenge.
I rather play with less characters on Core than go upper difficulty. Just plain stat bonuses for all enemies puts all balance between our and their stats out of whack and goes against how classes are designed.
Martial demon is pretty straightforward, just pick the aspects that either boost attacks or saves, and physical attributes or wisdom (attribute and skill buffs are always on outside demonic rage).
