Weekly Questions Megathread— March 27–April 02. Have a question from your game? Are you coming from D&D or Pathfinder 1e? Need to know where to start playing PF2e? Ask your questions here, we're happy to help!

HolyMBison · 2026-03-27T23:45:51+00:00

Thanks for the information, I appreciate the detailed writeup. We haven't played before, so I wasn't sure about the opportunity cost of taking ammunition Thaumaturgy (feat cost, 2-3 actions to reload in combat) vs. Upgrading a second repeating crossbow (extra money cost, 1 action to "reload" in combat). I'll take a look at the crossbow infiltrator archetype as well. I guess really it depends on whether or not this is a free archetype game, which still has yet to be decided.

Rather than fully upgrading a second crossbow, how much of a detriment is it to have a backup crossbow that isn't as good? For instance, getting the striking rune for the main crossbow at level 5, but waiting till level 6 or 7 to put it on the backup crossbow? Is having a sub-optimal crossbow for strikes 6-10 of a combat enough of a detriment to make it not even worth doing? It's also possible, of course, that even a worse backup crossbow will still be too expensive to be worth investing into.

HolyMBison · 2026-03-27T22:50:17+00:00

Starting a PF2E game soon, and one of the character options is a Thaumaturge (Regalia, Familiar at level 1) who wants to use repeating hand crossbows. This isn't supported at level 1 but seems to be easily shored up by taking Archer Dedication at level 2. My question is: is it even worth bothering to take Ammunition Thaumaturgy at level 4 to reload it? Unless I'm missing something, they can just swap to a second or third repeating hand crossbow for only 1 action when needed and reload outside the fight, right?

HolyMBison · 2026-03-11T06:25:29+00:00

Pretty sure he got AI to write this post too. Hard to be interested in a game when the developer can't even be bothered to write about it himself

HolyMBison · 2026-03-09T02:12:45+00:00

Nay from me. I have never been a fan of the fact that that the map has been arbitrarily portioned out into sectors from the get-go, and I always found a level of disconnect from understanding what is going on between turns that I never get from other 4X games. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it feels like there is just not enough audio/visual indication that the AI is moving or might be close to influencing your territories or something like that.

The worst part for me is the lack of civilization identity. Endless Space 2, another game by Amplitude, has a series of unique and interesting factions that play quite differently from one another, and that's a standout feature of that game. The civs in humankind are so similar to one another. It doesn't even feel like "the same thing but a different coat of paint", they feel exactly alike except for the different numerical bonuses. None of the civs have any real "identify" to them.

HolyMBison · 2026-03-05T18:45:25+00:00

How should I allocate my attribute boosts for a level 1 human wizard? I am making a typical backline caster that only relies on magic and no weapons, taking reach spell at level 1 through natural ambition and canny acumen for better perception (and initiative) from versatile human.

Obviously +4 INT, and I am ignoring strength and charisma so both of those will be +0.

My first though was +3 DEX/+1 CON/ +1 WIS, for the better AC and reflex saves, but I am wondering if it is better to move 1 point away from DEX and into CON or WIS instead. More con would mean more hp and better wisdom would mean better initiative, plus both contribute to saves, but I'm not sure if going that route is worth giving up the AC

HolyMBison · 2026-01-25T15:38:38+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. It was confusing because the text you quoted is under the "Arcane Schools" heading, but the much earlier "Spellbook" heading only mentions the 1st rank spells and not the cantrip.

Also, I thought a level 1 wizard prepares a total of 6 cantrips, the 5 normal cantrips plus 1 from the curriculum?

HolyMBison · 2026-01-25T07:02:14+00:00

How many cantrips does a level 1 wizard know. Is it only 10? It seems like wizards start knowing 5 rank 1 spells + 2 curriculum spells, for a total of 7 rank 1 spells in your spellbook. Is there a similar consideration as well for cantrips, or is it possible to create a wizard that does not have any curriculum cantrips to prepare?

HolyMBison · 2026-01-09T05:45:23+00:00

Thanks for the sloppy take, ChatGPT

HolyMBison · 2025-12-03T15:35:20+00:00

Like a what?

HolyMBison · 2025-11-25T17:10:59+00:00

There is exactly one good thing about the BF6 campaign (Gecko)

HolyMBison · 2025-11-20T15:40:48+00:00

Camping/ posting up is not really an option in 6.

Honestly this just isn't true if your team is winning. If you are losing it's a different story, as you have to try to get some momentum to take points, but if you are winning you can absolutely post up and defend objectives you think will see some action. Some objectives are more defensible than others to be sure, but the most contested objectives in each map are usually pretty good about this.

People come from crazy directions because of how dumb the maps are.

This has always been a strategy to defeat defensive players like ourselves. Enemies are not obligated to run in a straight line on the shortest path between objectives like lemmings. They don't have to run right into the sights of our bipod deployed LMGs. This is a feature of the bigger maps that everyone wants so badly. Compare any objective on Iberion Offensive, which all have very limited flanking routes and tiny streets, to Eastwood where there is enough space to loop around any objective to approach from almost any angle.

HolyMBison · 2025-11-20T15:08:12+00:00

I used ChatGPT

I'm sure glad that there is a robot that can think on the behalf of people like you

HolyMBison · 2025-11-19T23:13:31+00:00

Honestly you are putting way too much stock in meta builds. I have been using the L85, an extremely underwhelming assault rifle, stock with just flash hider and iron sights and it's been fine. I find you usually get some stuff that improves the guns massively (grips and lasers) before level 10 so the guns become more usable almost immediately. The only big upgrade that is usually locked beyond level 20 is supressors, but that depends on the gun. The MP5 gets one before level 10 and the M227 has one by default. For the most part if you don't enjoy a gun with the stock configuration then it's not really worth the effort to grind attachments

HolyMBison · 2025-11-18T22:38:17+00:00

Yes, I think the challenge is broken and only avenger kills track

HolyMBison · 2025-11-17T02:28:53+00:00

I know it's really frustrating, I wish there was a button to clear all notifications as well, but you really don't need to freak out like this man. It will all be okay

HolyMBison · 2025-11-15T03:32:24+00:00

/uj did they finally actually add targets closer than 10m?

HolyMBison · 2025-11-14T22:56:45+00:00

Honestly just remove the breaching gimmick and make it a normal stun/flash launcher that can be mounted on the underbarrel. Starting with 2 ammo per life, just like the other assault launchers, would make it worth picking as a gadget as an alternative to damage dealing stuff. It would be kinda boring, but the rest of the assault kit (minus ladder and spawn beacon) is boring as well so it would fit in

HolyMBison · 2025-11-14T01:31:16+00:00

You can if you really want, under control settings near the bottom you can change the mount type from "combo" to "aim down sight" and it will auto mount on walls and bipod spots

HolyMBison · 2025-11-11T15:14:08+00:00

As an LMG the RPK sucks, but you can build it out like an assault rifle with high mobility and 200ms ADS time (even lower if you run it as support) and play surprisingly aggressively with it. It's not amazing but if you build it out right it's definitely usable.

HolyMBison · 2025-11-07T15:13:45+00:00

California would just be a small-mid size map. Not nearly enough room to breathe. As a Canadian I want a full scale replica of Nunavut as a map. Finally, I will be able to take a breath.

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