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

[Aarwolf]

Occasionally you can turn people into furniture or other random silly things. And the final trickster quest you sneak into a very powerful and important npcs house and play pranks.

I think that

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Nocticula

in her new outfit looked cute. And hot.

 

[NJClaw]

Has anyone tried to heighten a spell to 9th level? I'm trying to write a 9th level Archon's Aura, but this arrow won't let me go over 8th level:

Am I missing something here?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Am I missing something here?

Yeah your success roll.

 

[Sharpedge]

Has anyone tried to heighten a spell to 9th level? I'm trying to write a 9th level Archon's Aura, but this arrow won't let me go over 8th level:

Am I missing something here?

I have heightened spells to 9th level before, I am not sure why its giving you issues.

 

[Rieser]

Ok finished the game

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Areelu hardest fight of the game. She fully heals her 1300 HP 3/4 times while casting quickend polar midnight/clashing rocks/prismatic sprays and shieeeeeeet. She is also immune to critical hits, cold, and a shitload of things.
I reloaed several times until I finally finished to bruteforce her with only 1 companion dead. I guess there must be another and easier way but no idea what.
Life would have probably been easier if I did the recipe that gives plus 3 to saving throws also.

2nd hardest fight in the game was the Threeshold camp invasion. Because its fucking bugged and instead of controlling 6 companions I had 4 companions plus my merc that was with me in threeshold (so no control) and his animal companion that instead somehow was ALSO in the camp.
So basically I had Lann, Aru, Greybor and Sosiel plus animal companion wtf.

Did they buff her? Because I steamrolled her, and I was having more trouble than I should've with a lot of encounters due to my meme builds.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Ok finished the game

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Areelu hardest fight of the game. She fully heals her 1300 HP 3/4 times while casting quickend polar midnight/clashing rocks/prismatic sprays and shieeeeeeet. She is also immune to critical hits, cold, and a shitload of things.
I reloaed several times until I finally finished to bruteforce her with only 1 companion dead. I guess there must be another and easier way but no idea what.
Life would have probably been easier if I did the recipe that gives plus 3 to saving throws also.

2nd hardest fight in the game was the Threeshold camp invasion. Because its fucking bugged and instead of controlling 6 companions I had 4 companions plus my merc that was with me in threeshold (so no control) and his animal companion that instead somehow was ALSO in the camp.
So basically I had Lann, Aru, Greybor and Sosiel plus animal companion wtf.

Did they buff her? Because I steamrolled her, and I was having more trouble than I should've with a lot of encounters due to my meme builds.

Pretty sure they introduced a weird bug where she full heals every few turns at some point lol.

When I fought Areelu on release she was totally different from now. She had Khorramzadeh in the room with her, which was an interesting bug. Khorramzadeh is still there if I reload the save right before the fight with her actually...

 

[Sunri]

Ok finished the game

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Areelu hardest fight of the game. She fully heals her 1300 HP 3/4 times while casting quickend polar midnight/clashing rocks/prismatic sprays and shieeeeeeet. She is also immune to critical hits, cold, and a shitload of things.
I reloaed several times until I finally finished to bruteforce her with only 1 companion dead. I guess there must be another and easier way but no idea what.
Life would have probably been easier if I did the recipe that gives plus 3 to saving throws also.

2nd hardest fight in the game was the Threeshold camp invasion. Because its fucking bugged and instead of controlling 6 companions I had 4 companions plus my merc that was with me in threeshold (so no control) and his animal companion that instead somehow was ALSO in the camp.
So basically I had Lann, Aru, Greybor and Sosiel plus animal companion wtf.

Did they buff her? Because I steamrolled her, and I was having more trouble than I should've with a lot of encounters due to my meme builds.

She heals like crazy right now

 

[Sunri]

If u romance Darean you can challenge other earlier I thought that if you defeat him Darean will survive, but he gets obliterated anyway waste of time at least I got funny bug when he's standing on his corpse

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[perfectslumbers]

If u romance Darean you can challenge other earlier I thought that if you defeat him Darean will survive, but he gets obliterated anyway waste of time at least I got funny bug when he's standing on his corpse

You can do it immediately after you do his first quest if you want. He always dies if you don't wait until his act 5 quest though.

 

[Yosharian]

Has anyone tried to heighten a spell to 9th level? I'm trying to write a 9th level Archon's Aura, but this arrow won't let me go over 8th level:

Am I missing something here?

I have the same issue, can't heighten anything past 8. There's a bug report on their forum about it, but it's from september so guess it's no rush to fix it. Maybe spam them with some more reports?

There are multiple bugs with specific spells in combination with metamagics, so this is probably just one of these bugs. They seem to be fixing them one or two spells at a time, so make sure you report it and it will probably get fixed in a later patch.

 

[ga♥]

Ok finished the game

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Areelu hardest fight of the game. She fully heals her 1300 HP 3/4 times while casting quickend polar midnight/clashing rocks/prismatic sprays and shieeeeeeet. She is also immune to critical hits, cold, and a shitload of things.
I reloaed several times until I finally finished to bruteforce her with only 1 companion dead. I guess there must be another and easier way but no idea what.
Life would have probably been easier if I did the recipe that gives plus 3 to saving throws also.

2nd hardest fight in the game was the Threeshold camp invasion. Because its fucking bugged and instead of controlling 6 companions I had 4 companions plus my merc that was with me in threeshold (so no control) and his animal companion that instead somehow was ALSO in the camp.
So basically I had Lann, Aru, Greybor and Sosiel plus animal companion wtf.

Here is a top secret cheat code for that fight, at least on Core:

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What's the DC, but yeah maybe dispelling her was the "easy way". Depending on the DC and if she recast stuff on her. I had half my spells remaining and no dispel.

 

[ga♥]

ga♥, in act 4 you get showered with coupled unique +5 daggers, between the ones you get from the assassin's guild quest and the ones you can buy at the brothel. As with Kingmaker, betting on the weapons in which your companions are specialized is a guaranteed win.

Problem is you have to save money before going in the abyss, could be problematic at higher diffitculties. Also tricksters identified weapons get +1 which is a strong incentive to not buy and wait for loot.

 

[volklore]

Ok finished the game

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Areelu hardest fight of the game. She fully heals her 1300 HP 3/4 times while casting quickend polar midnight/clashing rocks/prismatic sprays and shieeeeeeet. She is also immune to critical hits, cold, and a shitload of things.
I reloaed several times until I finally finished to bruteforce her with only 1 companion dead. I guess there must be another and easier way but no idea what.
Life would have probably been easier if I did the recipe that gives plus 3 to saving throws also.

2nd hardest fight in the game was the Threeshold camp invasion. Because its fucking bugged and instead of controlling 6 companions I had 4 companions plus my merc that was with me in threeshold (so no control) and his animal companion that instead somehow was ALSO in the camp.
So basically I had Lann, Aru, Greybor and Sosiel plus animal companion wtf.

Here is a top secret cheat code for that fight, at least on Core:

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What's the DC, but yeah maybe dispelling her was the "easy way". Depending on the DC and if she recast stuff on her. I had half my spells remaining and no dispel.

Aivu's caster level is very very high (equal to her HD so I think over 30 at the end of the game). But any late game dispeller should be able to dispell a lot of her even on hard (Lich, aeon, and trickster trickery all three have high caster level dispel abilities). Could dispell her pretty reliably with 18 lvls of sorc and spell specialization in greater dispel on hard. Dispelling, in general, is a very good boss killing strategy although DCs can be pretty high in early-midgame. That makes good argument for certain mythic paths though, who have access to better dispelling tools earlier. Trickster Tricktery r2 most notably shits all over playful darkness. That boss is a lot less scary when you strip him of every buff in round 1.

 

[ga♥]

For trickster trickery do you need rank in it or companions ranks count? Also what CL is trickery 2? Ranks - 10 or full trickery value -10?

 

[volklore]

No, you need to have high trickery skill for that to work. It gives you greater dispell spell like ability that use trickery skill - 20 to do the caster level check. But it's very easy to boost trickery to much higher levels (even with -20 penalty) than you would ever get with CLs by the time you get access to this ability (between gear, dex buffs, other classes buffs like touch of good/Vision of madness/bard song etc...). The sad part about this, and the crux of my frustration with trickster is that to get access to it at a time where it gives you a significant tempo advantage compared to other mythic (as far as dispelling abilities are concerned), you need to give up perception 2 and the trickster feats until end of act 4 which is very sad.

 

[ga♥]

Well I was a trickster but 0 point in trickery so the point is moot. I had my cleric with greater dispell, with no spell focus abjuration, so who knows if it would have worked (doubt it as it was on hard). Only thing is her immunity to critical given by Ice body or its a undispellable status? That could have made a yyyyyyuge difference in difficulty if it could be dispelled.

When they fix lore nature 3 and you start accessing kingmaker items, including belts of perfection +8, I believe you could steamroll her without much hassle even with all the buffs on.

 

[NJClaw]

Angel's Overwhelming Flames is hilarious with Great Cleave:

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Sure, those enemies were weak, but seeing this combat log for a single cleave attack is Something Else:

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[Infinitron]

And so it ends:

Only the strongest survive, only the bravest make it to the end.

24 streamers competed from 20th of September until 1st of November to beat Wrath of the Righteous in The Last Azlanti mode on Normal difficulty.

Only 4 made it to the end, and only one was worthy to become The Last Azlanti!

 

[ga♥]

Infinitron did you come up with the codex quest?

 

[LannTheStupid]

Judging by how they are struggling one might think they are playing on Hard or at least on Core. However, it's just Normal. With Death Door enabled.

Freaking... streamers.

 

[Delterius]

Has anyone tried to heighten a spell to 9th level? I'm trying to write a 9th level Archon's Aura, but this arrow won't let me go over 8th level:

Am I missing something here?

Been bugged since they fixed having to actually Heighten the spell in order to increase its DC. Used to be you could quicken everything and that would increase DCs. That's how it was in Kingmaker too.

 

[ga♥]

Anyway super game. I didn't like kingmaker DLCs a lot so I am not expecting much here, but if they polish the base game, bugs, performance (not sure about loading times, I guess that's impossible to fix as Kingmaker has still the problem), itemization and XP gaining (I finished the game with 8 milion XP) its a classic.

Definetly codex GOTY of the year.

 

[NJClaw]

I need someone to help me understand the Mythic Carnivorous Crystal's Entrap ability, because I can't wrap my head around its behavior and the in-game description leaves something to be desired:

This is what confuses me:

I mean... what is this supposed to be? An attack that kills you when you... DON'T fail your saving throw two times in a row? Is it bugged or is there a plausible explanation for this? A standard Entrap special ability should do nothing on a successful save...

 

[Tsubutai]

The logs don't always have their entries in any apparent chronological or logical order - is it possible that you have a missed save message somewhere after the "you died" entry?

 

[NJClaw]

The logs don't always have their entries in any apparent chronological or logical order - is it possible that you have a missed save message somewhere after the "you died" entry?

I'm 99% sure I didn't miss anything. I play in TB mode and nothing happened before or after these two attacks. After that death, the Crystal just targeted another character with his remaining attacks. The only explanation I can think of is that for some reason its Entrap ability still affects the character even on a successful save. It's either a bug or the result of a mythic ability that I haven't found yet. Not that I'm complaining (it's kinda fair on a creature that dies with two Maximized Polar Ray), but I just can't understand.

An important thing to note is that my character immediately becomes helpless after the Crystal's first attack, regardless of the outcome of his saving throw. Not only that, but he can still act in his round even while helpless.