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

[Dishonoredbr]

Morveg is down and took him at level 10, really hard fight but Eldritch Scion deals big damage. BUT I CAN'T FIND THOSE DAMMED UNIQUE THROWING AXES

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Also it's pure nonsense.

Yes, Pathfinder is a powerbuilding nonsense.

Yes, but faults that were already present in the original became exaggerated in the games.

 

[Shadenuat]

Yes, but faults that were already present in the original became exaggerated in the games.

Which is close to inevitable, unless you heavily reduce players options to very strict, giving them not experience they could build themselves, but one which fits your personal designer's vision.

 

[Mortmal]

Most often you dont read, and when you do you dont understand , but its my fault i'll make it easier.

ME <-- thats me , FINISHED GAME , FINISHED EVERY GAMES, NOTHING TOO HARD FOR ME
ME THINK ITS POPAMOLE SHIT , NOT LIKE TRUE RPG.

Shh, take it easy brother. Recovering from grease addiction is hard, we know. We're here for you.

Well grease is one of my favorite spells , stinking cloud too, it was far too easy with that in kingmaker. However in wotr that's simple, in the end no control spells at all, spam the same few damage spells. Except one ! The kineticist deadly earth, a broken spell applying more damage than it should in kingmaker still works in wotr.

 

[Volourn]

"it's possible you lost it as it's getting upgraded int he crusade management event like the many many relics."

*barf*


HAHAHAHAHAA.


Between all this talk about how 'buggy' this game, and how kingdom management is so 'click it fast so you actually play the game' it makes one so paranoid, I completely shitfaced out of noticing I chose to study the sword.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


People claim this game makes you think, but I disagree, it clearly makes one dumber if possible since HOW THE FUKK DID I NOT REALIZE THIS SOONER.


HAHAHAHAHA.



Thanks.



Gotta wait 5 in game days to make sure, but I'm 99.9% sure this is what happened.

Another thing that makes one nervous nelly is I *just* realized you can't simply remove equipment by dragging it on the world map screen. You have to right click to equip/unequip stuff. LMAO

Now, that I made myself look like a normal idiot Codexer....




On to grease. Grease is way too powerful as a 1st level spell and should be nerved since it should not be making otherwise powerful enemies easy.

My suggestion that will never be used: 1. You only suffer a normal ST vs it when you are moving, -5ST if charging. If you are just standing there you should still have to save but at a +2 or even +5 since you are less likely to flop like a fish when standing still. LMAO This doesn't completely nerf it but it makes it less likely characters who are just standing there don't spaz out like old geezers.

 

[Sharpedge]

It's not up to debate, of course it is not true.

If you could use same choice through whole game, it's PoE1 unpatched where you grease flying dragons.

A challenging game should force you to change and rotate choices, so whats was good early game should eventually not be so good. Abilities could have different uses at different stages of the game. Something can make game easier for you early game, but be bad at endgame. It is up to you to balance these things out in a party of 6 characters.

[Narrator]: Sharpedge attempts to bait others into engaging in this argument.
[Narrator]: *Rolls Dice* 20.
[Narrator]: It was super effective.

 

[Shadenuat]

My suggestion

Identical spells simply shouldn't stack in any way, if there are multiple, the highest level version should take effect. Casting identical spell on other existing could increase its area and length etc.
If you have problems with turdomancers in your game, introduce more FOM and various levitating enemies into monstruary, or make it counterable by some other level 1 spell (magic missile/shield). Even if you have AI which is dumb as bricks and runs right into party and can't dispel enemy area spells, slapping such spell on them as prebuff/item/natural ability wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Mortmal]

However in wotr that's simple, in the end no control spells at all,

Lord forgive me, Desuman literally spelled it out, Putrefaction then Phantasmal Web, works great with Nenio, is even well supported by items. No need to spam Grease brother, there are other spells.
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yes but .. Nenio... and that combo isn't nearly as good tbh.

 

[Shadenuat]

Sharpedge attempts to bait others

I am always hungry for some bait, and am omnivorous.

gib food for my belly.

 

[The_Mask]

Some help needed. I'm in my second run, and I solved Woljif's stuff, Library, visited the Tower of Estrod without fighting, Feud of the Faithful, found Ramien's disciples, and did Gwerm's Mansion in one rest. Now can you remind me which parts of the Market and locations in the town are worth clearing out?

Keep to the middle.

But, you should be able to rest twice before your tavern defense kicks in.

 

[NJClaw]

NJClaw what Mortmal is arguing is that a choice is not a choice if you cannot finish the game with it (its a false choice, since choosing it bars you completion). Whether or not this is true is up for debate, but regardless of whether or not its true, the burden of proof is still on him to show that most choices are negated.

My "what are you even talking about?" wasn't a "your thoughts are so deep that I can't understand them" but a "it doesn't make sense to complain about a certain difficulty level making subpar builds not playable, because there are more difficulty settings in this game than in the last ten I played put together". He wants to play on a difficulty level explicitly not recommended if you don't want to optimize your party and, at the same time, he doesn't want to optimize his party to match that difficulty. It doesn't make sense. Normal, Casual, and Story mode are there to be used exactly in these cases.

Most often you dont read, and when you do you dont understand , but its my fault i'll make it easier.

Sick burn.

ME <-- thats me , FINISHED GAME , FINISHED EVERY GAMES, NOTHING TOO HARD FOR ME

Mortmal, I don't want to be mean to you, but right now you seem unable to understand what I'm saying.

I'm not suggesting that you're bad at the game or that the game is too hard for you. I know you have enough knowledge about the Pathfinder system to breeze through a CRPG based on it. What I'm saying is that complaining about the high numbers making it not an RPG because non-optimal builds aren't viable doesn't make sense, because the difficulty settings have a big impact on those numbers and no one is forcing anyone to play on Core. If someone wants to play a non optimal build in a non optimal party, he can just play on Casual or Story mode. What's the big deal?

 

[Cryomancer]

owlcat waifu, 150 classes, 10000 spells, play lich, 1 shot things with mythic spells many damage
sawyerinna, no inflation, quite balanced, dagger +1 armed

Obviously I would take OwlCat. But I'm pretty sure that if this game had :

• better writing
• Better AI for enemies in combat
• Less inflation

Would be extremely better. I also believe that there are better APs to be adapted. There are 24 adventure paths. Legacy of Fire allows PC's to play a bit in city of brass which would be amazing and unique. Rise of the Runelords, explore the ruins of a ancient magocracy. Second Darkness, focus on "underdark". Serpent's Skull is "seeking Eldorado" . Jade Regent, high fantasy ancient China. Skull & Shackles, high fantasy pirates with firearms and you can own a island. Reign of Winter is about curse of the winter expanding. Mummy's Mask is high fantasy ancient egypt. Iron Gods is high tech, high magic ancient tech artifact exploration. Giantslayer is about a warmonger giant with a artifact. So many cool unique ideas.

I liked WoTR but I would like way more to play other modules. Only because I wrote some critiques towards WoTR, doesn't mean that I din't liked or that I prefer Sawyer pillars over it.

 

[smaug]

Or, they could just adapt a lower level module like one that goes up to level 10 with a 20 point buy so we could have less inflation??

Goddamn munchkins

 

[Sharpedge]

NJClaw what Mortmal is arguing is that a choice is not a choice if you cannot finish the game with it (its a false choice, since choosing it bars you completion). Whether or not this is true is up for debate, but regardless of whether or not its true, the burden of proof is still on him to show that most choices are negated.

My "what are you even talking about?" wasn't a "your thoughts are so deep that I can't understand them" but a "it doesn't make sense to complain about a certain difficulty level making subpar builds not playable, because there are more difficulty settings in this game than in the last ten I played put together". He wants to play on a difficulty level explicitly not recommended if you don't want to optimize your party and, at the same time, he doesn't want to optimize his party to match that difficulty. It doesn't make sense. Normal, Casual, and Story mode are there to be used exactly in these cases.

I am just making sure everyone is on the same page.

 

[Fedora Master]

I beat Kingmaker on Core twice with less of a hassle.
Now what?

 

[Lagole Gon]

Horse, you drink too much.

Horse?

 

[Shaki]

Would you prefer inverse, requiring low stats to hit endgame enemies?

No but something more similar to the ruleset and AP. Of course you need to tune it for rtwp, but not that bad. ANyway , they will undoubtly change it sooner and later .

"I understand that enemies need to be tuned to account for rtwp combat, overabundance of magic items, one player controlling full party, being able to make insane munchkin builds that no sane DM would allow, and dumb and exploitable AI controlling the enemies instead of DM doing it. But I want them to tune it only to the point, where I can still play on high difficulty settings and pretend to be a hardcore gamer, while actually sucking at the game"

 

[AwesomeButton]

Some help needed. I'm in my second run, and I solved Woljif's stuff, Library, visited the Tower of Estrod without fighting, Feud of the Faithful, found Ramien's disciples, and did Gwerm's Mansion in one rest. Now can you remind me which parts of the Market and locations in the town are worth clearing out?

Keep to the middle.

But, you should be able to rest twice before your tavern defense kicks in.

I can't remember if there was good loot in the side sections - the undead one and the one with the brimorack house. Either that or good XP. Since it's a second run I just try to reach Chapter 2 asap, not that I worry about the Inn attack that much.

Of the other locations, outside of the Market as far as I remember there was good loot only in the Tirabade residence - a cloak that improves sneak. The other two locations didn't have anything interesting. Oh, and the shadow demon, I should do that too.

 

[Fedora Master]

Rename thread to Wrath of the Cope since that's what most of the people in here are doing.

 

[NJClaw]

Rename thread to Wrath of the Cope since that's what most of the people in here are doing.

Cope of the Righteous sounds way better to me.

 

[Saark]

Mythic Rank 10 is only attained right before the final fight in the game. If you are going to plan a character, I would plan for mythic rank 7 or 8 at most, more realistically mythic rank 5. The items you have there can be obtained though, albeit very late in the game.

Depends on the Path. I got Mythic 10 immediately after getting to Chapter 5 as a Demon, siding with Nocticula and asking her for more power. Seems she grants either 1 or 2 full Mythic Power levels that way. Means I'll be running around with Mythic 10 for the entirety of Chapter 5.

 

[Parabalus]

NJClaw what Mortmal is arguing is that a choice is not a choice if you cannot finish the game with it (its a false choice, since choosing it bars you completion). Whether or not this is true is up for debate, but regardless of whether or not its true, the burden of proof is still on him to show that most choices are negated.

I linked end game demons stats much earlier, basic primary school math is evidence enough . you need extremely high stats to hit them and not get hit, what else do you need ?

You can get hit by them just fine, take Last Stand and you don't need to worry about defense at all.

 

[gurugeorge]

Lord forgive me, Desuman literally spelled it out, Putrefaction then Phantasmal Web, works great with Nenio, is even well supported by items. No need to spam Grease brother, there are other spells.

Yeah enemy resistances and saves are a bit too strong on Core for these to be an I-Win button quite like Grease is in the early levels, but it's definitely the best "faff-free thinning-out of incoming damage when faced with epic-level mobs" option in the game so far as I can see. It's complete pwnage on Normal because it more or less puts minions and lts on hold while you deal with a boss.

Makes me even tolerate Nenio's chatter. "Yes Nenio, Fine Nenio, come along on our adventure Nenio it's gonna be great!"

 

[Saark]

in the end no control spells at all

Weird how I'm playing a control winter witch that just freezes and enchants everything on the screen in her first turn, to the point where even Demon Lords and their strongest henchmen can't save against it anymore. DC 51 Will saves with disadvantage, with the option to lower the will saves with other abilities too that cannot be resisted.

This is without my Demon Rage bonuses, and not heightened to level 8/9 either.

 

[Mortmal]

in the end no control spells at all

Weird how I'm playing a control winter witch that just freezes and enchants everything on the screen in her first turn, to the point where even Demon Lords and their strongest henchmen can't save against it anymore. DC 51 Will saves with disadvantage, with the option to lower the will saves with

Not into witch cosplaying, but good tip.