The hand-placed encounters are basically in the same league as the world map encounters. It's the same battles over and over again, it gets ridiculous in the dark castle. I'm honestly shocked how they managed to botch this so badly.
early encounters are great, here devs were showing you how good is shield spell reaction.
I was seething when I fired a scorching ray at the mage and his shield made it harmless(?!). It's supposed to be magic missile-only.
Depends what you consider on-par. Sure 1d8 1 + 3d6 is about the same as 4d6 + 2. But is another +5 damage from ability modifier being applied again on par (16 vs 21 damage)? What about if feats are involved and now those melee dice get rerolled on 1 & 2 (16 vs 23.6)
It made you miss via +5 AC.I was seething when I fired a scorching ray at the mage and his shield made it harmless(?!). It's supposed to be magic missile-only.
Because warlock regain spells on a short rest, and being able to cast 9th level spells four times per short rest would be busted. So warlocks get their weird short rest spellcasting up to spell level 5, and everything higher than that is Mystic Arcanum - meaning, one spell slot that recovers on a long rest.
No, I get they don't get more slots and higher level spells, but why cap casts at lvl 5 instead of letting them scale to 6,7,8?
Any weapon with the tag 'monk weapon' will use your martial arts die. Not just gauntlets. So there are several monk weapons that are legendary.
They've leaned into long resting it seems. Heavily disincentivizes short-rest classes, like warlocks.
It's important to consider that the shadowcaster rogue can now sneak attack with spells at level 13 (so pretty much as soon as you start this new DLC). As a high elf you can take fire bolt which will scale up to 4d10+7d6 at that point, which is a Pretty Fucking Good use of your rogue's turn. I have no idea how the other rogue archetypes are supposed to compete with that.
thief can cast fireball from scroll for free... Its what I wanted to do since beginning but items to use for free were just never there
This isn't happening for me - main hand strikes normally with dagger 2x, but flurry of blows doesn't benefit. If you swap to gauntlets it gets it's bonus.
What do you mean "for free"? He can use his turn to cast the spell, sure, but the scroll is still consumed and it takes his action. If spamming fireball scrolls is the most interesting thing you can imagine for your rogue to do, why isn't he a sorcerer?
Oh - I see what you're saying. Unarmed strikes (the bonus attacks) using anything but your naked fists is straight up Solasta home-brew vs. how it's RAW.
thief kit can use items as cunning action. Problem is that scrolls are not permitted to him until dlc when they can use anything
So monks are even worse in tabletop?
PoI shits out legendaries, including crossbows, that's how they'll compete.
People are more often sitting on stuff during conversations.
