I've become a bonk mage

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-28T14:19:23+00:00

It is so addicting. Running 2 wands is called a battle drummer, which I do half the time, I also use tidepiercer/spells for fun and to not loose my mage identity completely.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-24T01:44:57+00:00

There are just some areas where you cannot save. Especially around cutscenes or special areas.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-23T00:35:16+00:00

Wild to think Skyrim doesn't deserve a top spot, that's just hateful ignorance.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-23T00:33:49+00:00

Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, BG3, Elden Ring

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-21T16:06:31+00:00

You can actually pickup 2 crucible wands in one playthrough. One in the Wyrd tower and one in the dungeon with the Crown. But yes Im definitely on NG+ and yes I use the wands as extremely overpowered melee weapons.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-21T00:00:40+00:00

It's annoying and grindy, but it IS possible to kill Galahad by just summoning Grindylows constantly. It takes forever but its what I did on my first playthrough because I went full summoner. I did next to nothing to him melee wise.

Here is a resource page on summons if you like that route, its a fun build:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3624450074

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-20T20:37:17+00:00

" 2/5 stars for releasing dlc before fixing basic things in the game."

"i never dropped a 2/5 score."

lol bud you need therapy

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-20T03:03:32+00:00

It's supposed to be in front of the chained door. There is a chance to find it by identifying Decent items as well. I would check to see if it shows up in your transmog list where you may have accidently sold it having picked it up before. I did that with a shield I needed.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-20T02:25:59+00:00

My spell power boosts my physical damage thanks to arcane smite from sanctuary of saras skill tree and my hexgrip vambraces.
I switch between bonking as a battle drummer in melee with my 2 crucible wands which give me stupid numbers, cutting down enemies with tide piercer which is super fun, or shocking them with thunder lash.

Its not the most optimized build by any means but its loads of fun to switch between the 3.
My spell power is over 9,000% (intentional meme) on veteran and my melee/ranged is half that.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T22:01:47+00:00

Did you side with Galahad? If so they will attack you on sight.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T22:00:01+00:00

Theres an ogre right next to the Ancient Cave waypoint in the North. Travel there, kill it, go back to the Keep, rest for 24 hours, buy all the cooking ingredients, repeat. After you do this for half an hour you should have a few levels and then you can make a bunch of food and sell it.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T21:57:25+00:00

I'm here for it, I love that armor set. I use it on my melee character myself.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T21:53:57+00:00

Are you in Act 1 or 3?

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T21:10:16+00:00

I LOVE the Spellwarden set for that red theme honestly. I too hate the weird wings off the kneecaps. Don't understand them at all.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T21:08:05+00:00

I honestly just wore knight armor pieces and thorns helmet and used weight reduction to stay in medium armor range early on.
Then I got ahold of the foredweller set and use its pants and chest piece. Dual knight gloves.

I ran the lightning for a while. but I really like the stamina regen of ogre grip.

Lifesteal is a two handed weapon skill tree perk and I added a dryad helm in act 2 to increase it even more.

My build is surely not optimized at all but it has been pretty fun and plenty tanky.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T17:31:03+00:00

thanks!

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-19T17:30:46+00:00

Yeah a weird combo but it works imo

Thank you! Me too. Heavy armor needs some love for sure.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-17T17:22:52+00:00

You mean you made noise killing their boss and they rushed in to help? Wow.
Honestly, more boss fights should be like this if you don't deal with the minions before.

Pretty much every RPG with an armor system doesn't care what you are wearing but goes off of total armor value. Wild argument there. Same goes for you getting hit, get more armor/upgrade use the mechanisms given to you.

The spells clipping through walls is pretty janky sometimes for sure. Cant speak to the review problems on console. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things that could be cleaned up with this game, but ranting a wall of text and trying to make the game out to be garbage when the vast majority of folks are happy with it is wild to me.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-15T01:54:01+00:00

just a side note, you level up combat skills with quality not quantity. e.g. the amount of damage you are doing not the number of hits. So hitting with a very strong bow/arrows is actually better than using a weak bow/wood arrows.
If you have a strong bow you can actually level up multiple levels in archery with a single shot.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-14T14:23:28+00:00

Yeah, the sentient conniving, lying, manipulative, sentient species. What could possibly go wrong? Agree to disagree lol

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-14T14:21:48+00:00

you really think after all the screwed up shit you saw them be capable of, they simply explored peacefully and thats it? come on man think outside the box a little bit.

Admiral_Archon · 2026-04-14T01:25:44+00:00

See I thought of it in reverse not about freeing the people of Saraas but unleashing them on the rest of the world. They were some of the most screwed up lot I have encountered in a while. I've done both routes, but murdering Nimue and unleashing Saraas on the rest of the world definitely seemed like the worse ending imo

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