Murk
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Darth Roxor said:Although whoever designed Risen's magic system should be hung by the balls and fired - runic magic is mostly rather gimmicky, while of the three magic crystals, fireball is the rather clear superior in pretty much every aspect.
I disagree - I experimented with fire and frost and I find frost is amazing, especially when facing multiple enemies. One blast from a mid-to-high level frost spell freezes elite lizard warriors for 5+ seconds (depending on how high level your spell is, at max level its considerably long) giving you PLENTY of time to take one out in melee or to freeze them again and continue to crowd control - something very important given that you lack a shield as a warrior of the order/mage.
here's a good example of a guy using all three kinds of magic crystal, maxed out, on an ashbeast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ilZsdlz8Q
the fireball is the easiest way to kill, no doubt, but I prefer the added utility of the freeze effect for the extra 2 mp.
Note: ashbeasts are especially resistant to freezing, lizard enemies are frozen for a very long time at higher levels of frost.
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On the topic of combining combat styles - I find it kind of redundant to be a bow+magic specialist considering that your magic will require plenty of LP to get up to a strong point, at which point it will outperform your archery (remember, archery is going to require 10LP per level AS WELL as Dexterity. With magic you'll only need to raise the crystal in question and possibly dump points into mana).
I took Staff fighting because i figured it'd be the easiest to build up and also because it was the only weapon I hadn't used - so far I'm at level 8 staff fighting with 1 ring of the staff fighter and it performs roughly the same as a two-handed sword did, minus the shield (which is actually a big deal to me). The attacks and abilities are roughly the same but I can't help but feel as though some of my attacks are a bit slower. Also, staves are pretty underpowered until you get to the end-game. At the point where I have a 58 attack power two-bladed staff I had a two handed obsidian sword that outperformed most of the "forge shit yourself" weapons as well as many you'd find in dungeons.
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Game time - I'd say your first play through will be 30+ hours, your consequent play throughs will be much shorter as you wont' spend time "looking" as much.
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Random gripe about Brother None's comment on the graphics being dated - dude, this is without a doubt the most beautiful 3d RPG I have played. Ever. The graphics are fucking AMAZING and they run smooth as a newborn asian's balls on my 1.8ghz cpu/1.5gb ram PC.