I guess I just don't have the particular kind of autism that thinks this is interesting exploration
What's happening to people's avatar pics?
Oh, Finnish art. It makes sense now. I thought it was some kind of punishment from DU and you can't change it back any more.
Just like with the first game, DLCs added some sweet incline content to the second.Reminder that Temple of Decline is quite the incline
They both suck and should have been cut.
I've started a playthrough on PotD, and I was very annoyed to find when I checked the combat logs against Benweth, he had 10 penetration with a fine saber. The detailed breakdown was 7 saber + 1 fine + 2 PotD.
So PotD gives +15 to accuracy, +15 to deflection, and +2 to penetration.
I feel like it would be easy to put this in the tooltip when you select the difficulty at the start of the game.
The reason this troubles me is it makes me question even more the point of light and medium armor without AR bonuses.
Even with base penetration, you have 7 penetration with most one handers against 7 on medium armors base AR. So that actually makes base AR for most weapons like spears, sabers, etc actually 9 on PotD, making even the base AR on heavy armor equal to the penetration of a base saber, meaning they get penetration, e.g. 100% damage. Would you not be better off just ditching armor rating above 5 in PotD unless you can somehow get at least +1 AR and heavy armor on a tank? The recovery penalties are not inconsequential, and penetration above = doesn't really matter until it doubles out.
Luckily I built my crusader-faggot to have an AR aura and unbroken, so that trying to get some underpenetration is not completely pointless on him, at least.
I am not a huge fan of how the armor rating system works...
Other than the heaviest armor that can noticeably reduce damage coming from weaker enemies, but very rarely against the heavy-hitters, on PotD I pretty much didn't even bother with the actual Armor Ratings and looked at only the enchantments. Maia and Aloth finished the game in their starting armors and my Watcher finished the game with armor I found during the first 10% of the game or so. There are probably ways to stack a much higher armor rating on a character through abilities (Robust Inspiration gives +2 IIRC), other pieces of equipment, pets etc. but meh, in my party Eder face-tanks everything with his sky-high Deflection, those regenerative abilities and heals from the rest of the party. It's probably best to have everyone other than Eder and Pallegina in Light Armor or Robes for lower Recovery Time penalties. Medium Armor scales horribly, enemy Penetration will outscale any amount of armor you get from even a Legendary piece fairly early in the game and the Recovery Time penalty is hefty.
Armor Ratings against elements are the only ones I payed attention to and made sure they're high because I wanted Aloth to be able to blast indiscriminately and not kill Eder in the process. Other than that, it's not really useful.
