Pathfinder Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[fantadomat]

this bitch is completely insane I advise each and every single one of you to kill her the first opportunity you get

I just told her to chill out and she tried to eat me,so i made her in to french cheese. The companions are really shit,they make zero sense to the setting. For me this is one of the worst RPGs ever made because it squandered a very good setting and fill it with garbage sjw shit and nonsensical writing just to push an agenda. 90% of companions have no place in an actual crusader setting,and they fucked the other 10% too.

 

[GrainWetski]

How do you get through the Leper's Smile swarms on Core? They are resistant to fire damage for some reason, and when my acid flasks run out, there is little chance of killing them with regular attacks without sustaining much damage.

Flame Strike + Volcanic Storm just deleted them for me.

You should be able to just tank and hit them, though. Try turn-based as it might be easier.

 

[fantadomat]

How do you get through the Leper's Smile swarms on Core? They are resistant to fire damage for some reason, and when my acid flasks run out, there is little chance of killing them with regular attacks without sustaining much damage.

hit ESC-setting-difficulty-set enemy to moderately bellow normal attributes-press apply-press accept-hit ESC again.

 

[AwesomeButton]

How do you get through the Leper's Smile swarms on Core? They are resistant to fire damage for some reason, and when my acid flasks run out, there is little chance of killing them with regular attacks without sustaining much damage.

Blunt damage, or divine damage. And you just tank.

That's interesting. The game tells you piercing and slashing is halved, but never tells you blunt works normally.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

sure feels great being the only lich with a con score that is able to get put down by a wail of the banshee. thanks for the opportunity to beta test this for 50.

 

[Parabalus]

Fun Bug:

If you Vital Strike and trigger Cleaving Finish, it Cleaves the Vital strike instead of a regular attack.

With an enlarged reach weapon you do 1k a pop to everyone around.

 

[panda]

Yeah, Haplo posted screens of his magus doing that in Kingmaker.
I wonder if it also works with lvl 19 2H fighter ability.

 

[Saark]

I just told her to chill out and she tried to eat me,so i made her in to french cheese. The companions are really shit,they make zero sense to the setting. For me this is one of the worst RPGs ever made because it squandered a very good setting and fill it with garbage sjw shit and nonsensical writing just to push an agenda. 90% of companions have no place in an actual crusader setting,and they fucked the other 10% too.

What is nonsensical about a few characters that just want Power to do what they do best - killing? Wenduag and Camellia in particular seem to just be along for the ride, and would betray you at a moments notice. Wenduag actually softens up later into the game, to the point where she's starting to see the error of her ways. Camellia stays the sociopathic murder chick sidekick, and honestly, it's not like you're not leaving behind hundreds of corpses in your wake, or killing people just because they might have good loot. She fits perfectly into a setting where theres lots of pointless bloodshed and violence, because that's what demons do.

sure feels great being the only lich with a con score that is able to get put down by a wail of the banshee. thanks for the opportunity to beta test this for 50.

Just because you pick the Lich path, doesn't make you a lich. The actual transformation doesn't happen until later in the game, at which point you lose your con-score and get HP based on CHA, just like any other of your undead companions.


While most of your companions leave when you turn into a swarm that walks, based on your previous Mythic Path choice one of your companions will not escape your clutches.

Spoiler

Aivu's little face is a picture of sadness, her tail trembles a little, probably because of her anxiousness. "Look what happened! I've become little again! And there's almost no magic left in me... That's because all of it was coming from you!"

Aivu shuffles her paws nervously, the tip of her tail trembles, and her eyes are filled with tears. "You are not my friend anymore! You've changed so much! Aranka and the other friends of yours don't want to know you anymore, too. And I am going to fly home, to Elysium! And don't you even try to ask me to stay — I feel so sad because of you, I'll cry for another month, or maybe even a year!""

Eat her.

With a startled shriek, the little dragon tries to flee, but it's too late — the swarm is all around her like an ever-hungry living cloud. An instant later, nothing remains of a little Elysium's messenger, except for the fleeting sense of fullness.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I have no access to Flame Strike, but switching to blunt weapons worked. It's actually easier in RTWP.

 

[fantadomat]

Imagine playing with tutorials on....sad.

Looks like it's sad you didn't.

The sad part is that i played the game after chapter 4.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

Just because you pick the Lich path, doesn't make you a lich. The actual transformation doesn't happen until later in the game, at which point you lose your con-score and get HP based on CHA, just like any other of your undead companions.

no, you don't smartass, that is the point. i completed the ritual, got immediately in a fight, and got killed by a wail of the banshee from my own undead silver dragon.

 

[Parabalus]

While most of your companions leave when you turn into a swarm that walks, based on your previous Mythic Path choice one of your companions will not escape your clutches.

After you devour the queen, can you still chose not to become a swarm? Asking so I know how late I can have a save.

 

[Saark]

no, you don't smartass, that is the point. i completed the ritual, got immediately in a fight, and got killed by a wail of the banshee from my own undead silver dragon.

Thats insanely dumb then, considering that the Grave Guards do get the Con->Cha change applied to them, despite some of them having non-undead versions like Staunton.

Guess you could fix it by giving yourself the undead creature special ability with toybox. String for it is 8a75eb16bfff86949a4ddcb3dd2f83ae, just add it as a Fact for your Main Character . It won't give the Cha to HP benefits, but it'll apply all the undead immunities.

While most of your companions leave when you turn into a swarm that walks, based on your previous Mythic Path choice one of your companions will not escape your clutches.

After you devour the queen, can you still chose not to become a swarm? Asking so I know how late I can have a save.

Yes, it is a choice you have to make later in the game. Theres a few steps to unlock it, one of them requires a 14day research into the swarm after you deal with Xanthir Vang, and you can simply choose to not pick that path once you get to switch to the "late-game" paths during the end-game.

 

[smaug]

Playing more of the crusading system. Yea, so you get magic vendor trash only to sell so you can buy points for troops, just like how artisans and vendor trash worked in KM for build points.. Just the same boring gimmick twice

 

[Parabalus]

Yes, it is a choice you have to make later in the game. Theres a few steps to unlock it, one of them requires a 14day research into the swarm after you deal with Xanthir Vang, and you can simply choose to not pick that path once you get to switch to the "late-game" paths during the end-game.

Yeah I did that, just started A5 and ate the Vescavor queen. So I can keep going, good to know.

Ah it's just a few minutes later, still worth it.

Playing more of the crusading system. Yea, so you get magic vendor trash only to sell so you can buy points for troops, just like how artisans and vendor trash worked in KM for build points.. Just the same boring gimmick twice

There's a lot of items to spend gold on in A4 and A5. And the beginning of A5 Wolfij sells something great for 300k etc.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I can place my MC literally at the other side of the map, and swarms will ignore my fighters to go and chase him. Even CDPR couldn't come up with an AI as bad as this.

 

[Saark]

I can place my MC literally at the other side of the map, and swarms will ignore my fighters to go and chase him. Even CDPR couldn't come up with an AI as bad as this.

I think that's actually designed that way, specifically. There's a reason they have a hard-on for the MC during Lepers Smile.

 

[Desiderius]

Spoiler

Bring non-Good characters. Main challenge is SR (you can use high DC Slow scrolls or just Rainbow Pattern if you can get through that). Make sure you’ve got Relic and robe from Wolj.

Or just buff and slay. They can’t hit much without Smite. Bookworm Headband on Wolj is good.

Glitterdust bypasses SR. Does Cloud?

If SR is Spell Resistance then yes. But it's too little too late. I get swarmed by the final two waves.

If they're Blind then what is the issue?

 

[AwesomeButton]

I wish it was, but I've seen it in other fights.

What kind of an attack do the swarms make? It's never shown in the console, just the damage.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Spoiler

Bring non-Good characters. Main challenge is SR (you can use high DC Slow scrolls or just Rainbow Pattern if you can get through that). Make sure you’ve got Relic and robe from Wolj.

Or just buff and slay. They can’t hit much without Smite. Bookworm Headband on Wolj is good.

Glitterdust bypasses SR. Does Cloud?

If SR is Spell Resistance then yes. But it's too little too late. I get swarmed by the final two waves.

If they're Blind then what is the issue?

That they are on two sides of the cave and I can't blind all of them.

 

[Desiderius]

How do you get through the Leper's Smile swarms on Core? They are resistant to fire damage for some reason, and when my acid flasks run out, there is little chance of killing them with regular attacks without sustaining much damage.

Lol Acid Flasks are awful. Did you listen to that P:K addict or something? It's only half damage not no damage. Tank them with Skellies.

 

[NJClaw]

I wish it was, but I've seen it in other fights.

What kind of an attack do the swarms make? It's never shown in the console, just the damage.

Swarms don't make attacks. They just deal their swarm damage (which depends on their type and size) to everyone in the squares they occupy.

Unless you're playing in TB, in that case they do absolutely nothing.

 

[Saark]

Yeah I did that, just started A5 and ate the Vescavor queen. So I can keep going, good to know.

I'd make a save in any case, as stuff can bug out or fuck up before major choices like these.

Keep in mind that I haven't gotten that far yet myself, so I cant 100% say if you get to choose after consuming the queen, it just seems weird if they railroaded the last part of the game like that because of choices you made earlier. I'm keeping a few Mythic Paths for later as I heard they're either eintirely buggy or parts of them aren't working properly, i.e. Trickster seems to have a lot of Epic Tricks not working as intended. I'm not gonna play Azata cause it has a shitty scaley companion, and Lich forces you to sacrifice a companion. Too bad you cant romance Galfrey as a lich, or I wouldve gladly sacrificed her, but I actually need the romanceable companions in my party as they all serve a specific purpose.

At least Demon gets to bone Nocticula, but the powers are just too sucky. Not even sure if some of them are working, just testing Kalavaku Aspect and it didn't seem to add the 2 damage per die to spells like advertised at all. It's probably the most interesting path from a RP PoV due to what Act 4 plays like, but when everyone else gets fancy shit, playing something that has essentially no bonuses whatsoever until Mythic Rank 7 feels really damn disappointing.

 

[smaug]

I got through the swarms without anything, just used melee, my guy was a paladin though so I saved against everything..

 

[AwesomeButton]

How do you get through the Leper's Smile swarms on Core? They are resistant to fire damage for some reason, and when my acid flasks run out, there is little chance of killing them with regular attacks without sustaining much damage.

Lol Acid Flasks are awful. Did you listen to that P:K addict or something? It's only half damage not no damage. Tank them with Skellies.

Nigga they have 10 DR vs Fire and Electricity. Alchemists' fire does "0 damage (reduced)". Acid does between 3 and 10 as far as I've seen it.

I thought about trying with Animate Dead.

BTW snowball does good damage vs the swarms.