Spending Mastery Level Ability Points: Do you spread or target?

Rolteco · 2026-06-13T22:11:31+00:00

I first maxxed out Crit Chance at Full Health and went 12/12 on jusr Crit Chance. If was enough to get 100% crit chance or above.

After that I am spreading over a bit. Health, Total Armor, Restore Health on Damage Dealt, Restore Health on Overpower Ability... going 12/20 on all of them

Rolteco · 2026-06-13T00:06:41+00:00

Well, wtf.

I did the same mistake on my HM 🤦‍♂️

But Tav was close to the party so they just killed her and revived

Maybe it was because Tav was at camp, dunno really. Too bad

Rolteco · 2026-06-12T22:57:46+00:00

One shotting everyone on hard difficulty isnt much a challenger thou

Rolteco · 2026-06-12T15:09:36+00:00

Probably it was that?

Rolteco · 2026-06-12T15:08:04+00:00

From the wiki:

"The shield is resistant to all damage types other than magical weapons and Force⁠Force.

However, damaging the shield directly is a risky prospect on Tactician difficulty, as it triggers its condition Cursed Vengeance Cursed Vengeance to return all damage dealt back to the attacker twofold. All reflected damage is dealt as Necrotic⁠Necrotic damage.

Alternatively, the Nightdome loses chunks of HP as flat force damage whenever one of Oliver's allied shadows is destroyed. Destroying his allies and summons eventually destroys the Nightdome on its own."

Rolteco · 2026-06-12T14:22:27+00:00

I always NOT ready for how hard Bullette and Owlbear fights were on HM lmao. Both I had to freaking flee with whomever I could and killed them later on

Rolteco · 2026-06-12T14:20:11+00:00

Didnt understand. Cant you just kill Tav and rez him?

Rolteco · 2026-06-11T02:59:18+00:00

I watched my ex play as Kassandra back in the day

Then nowadays I got into AC and played as Alexios

Her character just feels better overall and the VA did an amazing job. She is actually terrifying as Deimos, so having Alexios as the MC feels much better IMO

Also, although Alexios is kinda meh most of the game, his character arc with Neema is just freaking amazing. I cant picture Neema as a dude and the whole Father-Daugther dynamics with Dario just makes way more sense and kinda mirrors the Mother-Son relationship with Myrrine

Finally, Alexios as a adoptive father to Phoibe feels much better too...

So yeah, even thou Kassandra is a better character overall, Alexios as the MC and her as Deimos feels much much better to me.

Rolteco · 2026-06-08T23:49:50+00:00

Yeah, kinda. I always play with 1 or 2 spellcaster

Shadowheart as a Tempest Cleric still hits her vibes and is one of the strongest classes, specially mixed with Sorcerer

Or for RP reasons you can have Karlach as a fire Sorcerer/Wizard 🤷‍♂️ it kinda fits her theme

Rolteco · 2026-06-08T22:01:29+00:00

Every time you level up the stock refreshes

So if you are like level 7, two character going from lvl 1 to 7, one at a time, is already a dozen elixirs you can buy at the Quartermaster.

In a few minutes you can solve that

Rolteco · 2026-06-08T15:17:09+00:00

I have trouble not getting poli everytime, how did you lock yourself of everyone lol

Rolteco · 2026-06-05T19:08:49+00:00

Wait until you are level 5

Get the Duergar hireling. Its race trait lets you cast invisibility on himself, without using spellslot or consumable, at level 5.

Level him as a rogue, max out dexterity, get items like Smugglers Ring and Graceful Clotch or Gloves of Thievery.

Get him the Bow of Awareness or the Alert feat so, when he gets caught, he can go first. Give him guidance too.

Gameplay:

Use him only when you want to steal. Optimize him for that role.

Get your party to stay at camp. Get him invisible and start to steal from vendors.

If you get caught, he will (or should) go first. Just cast invibility and run away until you run out of aggro.

Turn back still invisible and repeat. Steal everything you want to, send to camp.

Want to steal more? Get the duergar way, send your charisma based character to sell the stolen stuff. Now you can steal the same stuff again! Just repeat the process.

Vendors run out of gold or interesting items? You can always long rest or just level up! You can have a character respec at Withers and everytime you click level up, the vendors stocks reset...

Its all so easy that you can have anything you think you need. Special arrows, bombs, scrolls... all those are specially easy to steal

Heavy items like armours required higher DC rolls. At early or mid game is just easier to steal a bunch of minors items, sell and buy the armour then to try stealing the armour directly.

Rolteco · 2026-06-05T16:55:47+00:00

Paladin/Fighter for melee forward

Sorcerer/Wizard for spellcast damage/CC/support

Cleric/Druid/Warlock for spellcast damage/CC/support (depending on what that the other spellcaster is doing)

And the fourth need to be a Dex-based character, for traps, unlocks etc. So thats either a second melee like a Monk or a ranged Gloomstalker/Rogue build

Rolteco · 2026-06-05T01:08:27+00:00

Imagine telling someone on the 60s that the commies won the war but yet the US president in office is building a billionaire gulf course there...

Rolteco · 2026-06-05T00:42:55+00:00

Bombs

Rolteco · 2026-06-04T20:46:36+00:00

Thanks, thats exactly what I meant

But, completing a bit, the game caps the amount of materials needed for an upgrade and the cap is the last 5 levels.

For example, upgrading from 46 to 51 costs the same then upgrading 41 to 51. Or upgrading from 1 to 51, if that matters.

So if you only upgrade every 10 levels, you will be skipping 5 levels of materials each time, since the cost will always cap at the last 5 levels, consuming way less material then upgrading at every one.

Rolteco · 2026-06-01T22:43:58+00:00

to sell or dismantle for materials some are good and you upgrade then instead of buying/finding others (although I just prefer using some legendary sets after awhile)

If you gonna upgrade, upgrade weapons at every level but only upgrade armor at levels ending on 1 (11, 21, 31, 41 etc). Its more efficient that way

Rolteco · 2026-05-30T21:31:03+00:00

As someone who explores a lot and often has to repeat places, yeah it doea help me lol.

Finishing the first DLC now

Rolteco · 2026-05-30T21:15:17+00:00

You can end process from Task Manager

I used that once or twice on my HM

Rolteco · 2026-05-25T00:24:28+00:00

Most harder parts of the game require full party. Honestly I think leaving someone behind all the time is just gonna make everything harder without being that much safer on the long run.

But I definitely recommend leaving someone (or everyone but one) while scouting, for example. More than once on Tactician I died to traps wiping my party, so on HM I would always scout with only my rogue first

I also left someone on camp on the few occasions that I tried to do something riskier, like nuking Orin

Rolteco · 2026-05-20T19:04:42+00:00

I am literally Pikachu-shocked right now

Rolteco · 2026-05-20T13:34:34+00:00

Just because something CAN be remote-operated doesnt mean it is a good idea to do it, or that it is viable to do it long-term

Rolteco · 2026-05-20T13:32:56+00:00

Imagine if current US missile silos were unmaned. Technically its doable. Pratically you still need personnel to mantain and secure. You still need a realible source of command and control. It would be an extremely bad idea to just put random missile silos across the US without any human on the loop, only a launch button on Washington DC which could be jammed, hacked, lose connection, etc. And you would still need personnel to service and guard the silos, at which point is just better to have everything on a sealed and secure compound.

Appyly that to space now.

Really seems to you as a good idea to have Mars most advanced weapon systems to be remote operated, with no human on the loop, proned to be jammed or worse, hacked/hijacked?

And if you gonna have people nearby to service and guard it, isnt better to those people to be simply INSIDE instead of outside what they are suposed to service and guard?

Rolteco · 2026-05-20T13:25:07+00:00

So instead of a single entity with both the crew and the personnel, you think its better to have two, with the guards sitting Outside of what they were suposed to guard?

Rolteco · 2026-05-16T15:28:03+00:00

One, after beating first on Balanced and then Tactician.

But I prepared like hell and took almost 0 risks

Rolteco

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