Pathfinder Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Swen]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

These are the people who criticize BG3...

 

[santino27]

New patch up appears to have fixed the NPC vendor issue, and maybe only the NPC vendor issue.

 

[Reinhardt]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

These are the people who criticize BG3...

There is triceratops in BG3?

 

[Swen]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

These are the people who criticize BG3...

There is triceratops in BG3?

Maybe

 

[Reinhardt]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

These are the people who criticize BG3...

There is triceratops in BG3?

Maybe

Tieflings don't count.

 

[Thonius]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

You can ride those if you're gnome or halfling. Oh, wait triceraptors I thought velociraptors. Anyhow they are kinda neat.
Anyhow what's up with Cavalier it looks lackluster compared to a fighter.
Also, can someone explain how AC works for mounted combat. Say I for example Arcane Rider magus, it is supposed to be dex build, but you get a mount that it's not really dex based, so it's a good idea to use heavy branding for it. A bit confused here, is that a good idea to go MC dex based mount dex based too? Or it's not really important?

 

[Thonius]

Thank you for rating my post fake news. But care to elaborate a bit and clear out the confusion?
If I want to 100% use mount should I generally plan dex mc and dex mount or it does not matter?
For example, Arcande Rider is clearly dex oriented build (no armor proof) and the horse is clearly not really a dex oriented ( right?) now does it make this class suck?
Same with Bloodrider STR oriented.

 

[Desiderius]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

You can ride those if you're gnome or halfling. Oh, wait triceraptors I thought velociraptors. Anyhow they are kinda neat.
Anyhow what's up with Cavalier it looks lackluster compared to a fighter.
Also, can someone explain how AC works for mounted combat. Say I for example Arcane Rider magus, it is supposed to be dex build, but you get a mount that it's not really dex based, so it's a good idea to use heavy branding for it. A bit confused here, is that a good idea to go MC dex based mount dex based too? Or it's not really important?

Cavalier isn't lackluster, that's the Fake News. You can't see half the abilities on the initial Character creation screen because your haven't chosen your Order yet. The Halfling has it's own Order so you can see those.



(For the Kang is AoE)



As for Arcane Rider it's a fun conundrum to solve - was just working that out last night. You don’t need to be DEX-based since you're not the one getting attacked and since you have Martial Proficiency you benefit a great deal from not tying yourself down to one weapon as you would need to to get DEX-to-damage. Since your Weapon Enchant gives Keen you don't want Improved Critical either. You've got one companion on Rapier, another on Sword, another on Hooked Hammer, and another on Glaive leaving the rest to you. I did the 14/14/12/17/12/12 I think with Half-elf for Mobility Focus? Can't remember. In any case there's a million ways to boost AB so no sense borking yourself to get a little extra STR.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

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So that's Desiderius' fursona.

 

[Desiderius]

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So that's Desiderius' fursona.

This is purely beta-testing. Only a placeholder.

 

[Grunker]

suuuuuuuuuuuure

 

[Desiderius]

A couple new Spell options as well:



Force damage always good and since this doesn't use the Bull Rush language of Battering Blast shouldn't have to worry about it triggering AoOs for the bad guys, especially paralyzed bad guys.



You can see the Blink there too but no reason mounted.



The new Animal Aspects are pretty good (the first one gives a +4 CMB option) but here you're probably wanting the +4 Mobility. High level book still blows so you can fill that up with big Touchs and Punches or be a Cone Mage who gets some AoOs in as well. Probably works great with the Trickster Mobility stuff? I'm more interested in the other abilities but people are talking about Mounted Trickster.

 

[Desiderius]

If you let go of the DEX-to-Damage that frees up Feats for Caster stuff like Spell Pen and Metamagics. I've gone both ways with Shatter. The stuff you need Shatter against isn't so easy to Shake and sometimes there isn't easy action economy to get stuff Shaken since several Companions will eventually have Frightful to get it for free. Regill wants Dreadful and/or Cornugan for his Thug ability but outside of that?

 

[Dodo1610]

Me every time a fellow Codexer post his Kitsune char

 

[Desiderius]

It's Nipponese.

Just think of Mishima and you'll be fine.

 

[Grunker]

Desiderius did they keep the difficulty scaling identical or are there any changes?

 

[Sharpedge]

So I cleared the Midnight Fane last night and reached the Abyss. Felt like I was stomping fights now, so I tried switching up the difficulty from hard to unfair. Very promptly turned it back down again - unfair has more stat adjustments than kingmaker did so just be aware if you are going to try it, it will take a bit more acclimatizing than kingmaker did before you will be ready. Overall my divine caster is feeling exceedingly strong in the setting as an Aeon Oracle. There are also many more quests specific to the mythic path than I was expecting, which is a really positive improvement over the alignment C&C in kingmaker. I think my old Cleric of Erastil from Kingmaker would work out really well in this setting as an angel, so I might remake that when the game is finished and see how it performs, but as it is a pathfinder game, I would also like to try new builds so there is some conflict there.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I don't care if you think triceratops are bad and I don't care if you can't ride it. They're cool as fuck and I'm picking it

These are the people who criticize BG3...

There is triceratops in BG3?

Maybe

Tieflings don't count.

Of course not, they are duoceratops at the most.

 

[Desiderius]

Desiderius did they keep the difficulty scaling identical or are there any changes?

Unfair is much harder, Story is much easier, and PnP DMs are still shitting their pants over Core. So improvement on all three fronts.

 

[Grunker]

Awesome!

 

[Grunker]

But same scaling technique?

 

[Sharpedge]

But same scaling technique?

Not entirely, no. There are difficulty options which are toggled on some difficulties which change enemy monster pack composition as well as tactics used. These are used as scaling techniques in addition to stat adjustments between story and core. Hard and Unfair as far as I am aware only make numerical adjustments. Unfair gives monsters an extra 8 AC and to hit over hard, in addition to the double damage.

 

[Grunker]

some difficulties which change enemy monster pack composition

yessssssssss. best part of PotD by far

 

[Sunri]

Is character creation (visuals) still super restricted like in cuckmaker?

 

[Desiderius]

It’s ok but not great.