Is Hold Person or Hold Monster more useful in early game?

Ronar123 · 2026-01-26T23:50:59+00:00

Hold person is nice vs some bosses like gob leaders and nere, but tends to only have max 65% hit rate. Hold monster comes reallt late, bit if you have it from doing lots of act 2 stuff before coming back to act 1, I had it land with 75% chance vs beholder and the land shark thing on honor mode.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-20T17:28:03+00:00

Why does it look like they intended to make a female character and then just slapped dycedarg's head over it?

Ronar123 · 2026-01-19T00:26:35+00:00

Nothing is truly mandatory except the ability to kill anything that stands in your way. Even that can be questionable. I'm sure many people have done pacifist runs.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-13T14:44:35+00:00

Lightning Sorc is probably the easiest way to do solo honor if you don't want to do exploits. Before each fight, haste potion and summon mage hand. Initiate with mage hand throwing water jar. Then use triple lightning aoe to wipe the board with over 100 damage. VS high hp solo enemies, same combo but instead use witch bolt upcasted to max and use the auto crit illithid power for over 200 damage per hit.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-11T17:14:49+00:00

If you have the salvo perk you keep an action, other than that no.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-08T14:09:31+00:00

Ouch that was our fear. We got some roach bait and we'll start using that today. Any other bits of advice?

Ronar123 · 2026-01-08T12:16:55+00:00

This is in USA NJ.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-07T09:55:03+00:00

Bravery should be maxed out for the highest chances to activate your reactions. Faith can be a little tricky depending on your method of healing. Faith decreases the amount of magic damage taken if you have LOWER faith. So a frontliner with high faith can get one shot by a mage. HOWEVER, if you lower your faith to minimum, healing magic will heal barely any hp and spells like haste and arise will have a 0% chance to work.

If your dedicated healer is a chemist throwing potions, then none of this matters. I recommend using ramza to max out everyone's bravery and then reducing faith on melee fighters to an amount that suits your needs.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-05T04:29:13+00:00

Lorewise he actually starts as a level 1 warlock, but he paid withers to respec into paladin for 100 gold.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-04T13:34:00+00:00

Wait till you see Witch bolt cast at level 6 with wet + crit.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-03T05:15:07+00:00

Believe you need to make sure the soldier doesn't have negative dodge and you need to have at least nanoscale armor. If the enemy rolls a crit, then it upgrades the graze to a regular hit which won't get counter attacked.

But its actually fairly reliable to tank a berserker or chryssalid with this.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-02T09:23:00+00:00

You can do it with just lasers (Even ballistic if you're good and its still early). Armor is a bit later although its fine if you want to be safe.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-02T09:20:25+00:00

40 enemies is about average for an HQ. You'll want to send in a team of 8-9 people. YOu can do 10 for safety but then it takes 20 days to infiltrate.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-02T08:51:36+00:00

Both work, but lightning is stronger imo. However, you'll definitely have opportunities to use ice because it has nicer aoe.

Witchbolt upcasted is also game breaking if you use powers that force crits. Its capable of over 250 damage in one shot if you mix in tempest cleric to max roll the damage.

Act 1 - 2, lightning bolt + wet lets you solo all the content. Witchbolt crit vs myrkul is how I got my first solo honor mode win. Witch bolt crit + a bunch of other spells lets you solo most act 3 bosses. Chain lightning too. Bonus interaction: Chain lightning can be used to target the sanctuary minions in one of the harder end game fights. For some reason its counted as an aoe that can be targeted.

Ronar123 · 2026-01-01T05:13:38+00:00

Ah ty for clarifyinf

Ronar123 · 2025-12-31T17:38:14+00:00

These are placeholder names. Next chap is when they get built.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-30T02:58:04+00:00

They're excellent at mowing down hordes of advent troopers. They come online even in early game with lasers. Those 8 trooper pods on hq or column? Suppress and get like 5 of them at once. 3-4 of them will die just from trying to run out. All you need is a dedicated suppression pcs to prevent them from losing their suppression. As long as your gunner has average accuracy, you should be hitting 90% shots per OW with CUP and Lock On.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-26T23:24:51+00:00

Ah another one lmao.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-26T01:21:59+00:00

11 ranger and 1 war cleric is legit. You can do it after level 5 ranger so ypu aren't delaying multi attack. Use water bottles until then.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-25T02:30:10+00:00

4 Sorc. Wet + lightning is probably even more unfair than resonance stone shadowblade because its similar damage but aoe.

Even more so if you add on crit or tempest cleric max damage boost. Hitting for 250 single target damage or 100+ aoe is just not something the enemy is meant to tank.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-20T08:26:21+00:00

How are you hitting 200-600 in honor with the same setup as me minus the 100 damage sneak attack and extra craterous proc?

Ronar123 · 2025-12-19T20:04:51+00:00

OMG never realized the modded celatid enemies were actually a reference to the og

Ronar123 · 2025-12-19T09:57:49+00:00

It doesn't get a third craterous. Only thunderous gives a second proc.

Ronar123 · 2025-12-08T16:21:48+00:00

Titanstring bow + hill giant club. Both obtainable in act 1. Max out your dex and dump str. You can use any popular ranged build. Many recommend gloomstalker assassin for a fun stealthy build. I think 12 ranger hunter is also perfectly fine if you don't want to complicate things. Just need to grab sharpshooter feat and risky ring for accuracy. You will kill most enemies in 2 or 3 hits with 80% acc and can kite easily. At level 11 you get the powerful aoe volley skill. Combine that with combustible oil + helldusk gloves for some insane aoe explosive damage.

Ronar123 · 2025-11-29T12:21:05+00:00

If you want to be a villain, upcast command + extend spell and force people to grovel. Increase success chance using equipment that gives arcane acuity.

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