I don't understand why I shouldn't fight defensively. I like to micro, and the game clearly shows which character is under attack. I can switch the defensive style on and off on any frontliner depending on the attacks of the enemy. If a character is flanking then fighting defensively is not needed; if a character is being attacked then fighting defensively is kind of a no-brainer.
If you can swallow the -4 AB malus I guess. My game no longer shows the red lines of who's being attacked (maybe because I'm playing TB to manage all the Swifts). I do use it like that strategically (used to use it on Harrim a good bit, but he had Touch of Chaos to target Touch AC), but no longer blow all the feats for a small enhancement to it since aside from Seelah it doesn't come up much and when Nenio's rolling as she is now most of my dudes don't get attacked much at all.
Hellfire comes online pretty late as well. Enchanter Ember doesn't take *that* long since she gets Confusion. She can also do a lot of buffing and hexing in situations where it's not as needed/effective. She eventually makes a good Mind Fog machine but that does take awhile to get going.
I did an Angel run with it and it was great. Ended up mostly just going for Trip since you get Style Strike free one and Enlarge effects give a CM bonus while going well with the growing Dice. It picks up Disarm late that you can use against Trip Immune.Speaking of Crane Style, anybody got any thoughts or experience re. Quarterstaff Master monk? I've found a portrait I really like that would suit the character I have in mind
Duff class or usable with a bit of care and attention? Is it worth leaning into the CM stuff?
Still, Outflank usually works on ranged characters for me. No need for Seize.
Well, if I'm being attacked, then I have to. Surely, all frontliners have at least 3 ranks of Mobility just for such cases.
Well, even that is not quite accurate, as Last Stand exists.
They originally had pretty much all the companions including Greybor DEX-based as well. Looks like they fell hard for the "Armor is bad" meme.
You can afford the move up to Hard before that. It's not true that Unfair will one-shot you if you prepare for it, with the point of the difficulty being to force you to do so. That delays the offensive overload that would otherwise trivialize the game. Playing Tinman (Saves and Rezzes get a lot more valuable when you turn off the reload button) serves a similar purpose.
Well, if you are really interested, I can share my take on it. Which is not even "because frak you and your knights in shining armour".
Not in the Shield Maze, though.
That is not the case. You can also prepare ahead of time so that +3 AC is irrelevant or use a non-Defensive attack to serve the same purpose while also doing more damage (such as with Cornugan). The options are endless.
Usually. When I respecced Reg to redistribute his skill pts I gave him 12 INT so he could get 3 Mobility and 3 Perception (for Back to Back) by lvl 12 (main skills are World and Persuasion w/ the required 2 in Arcana). Since he's my Cornugan guy I haven't used it much. If you have a hard target then you can use tactics to avoid getting attacked much on your other toons (with help from Difficult Terrain and Entangle effects where applicable). Tankard summon is handy to avoid getting overwhelmed.
You'll notice people not nerfing themselves with this much any more. Once you're no longer Fighting Defensively by default it becomes a lot less appealing to play the whole game underleveled.
Another meme. Where they do there's available remedies other than trashing your whole build and wasting item slots.
Crane also requires Dodge. Seelah starts with it, Cam doesn’t. Four Feats is almost half of what Shaman gets *in total*. What are you even talking about?
