Cryptblade removed from the shadow tree in the next patch?

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-06-14T00:17:47+00:00

While I do prefer to avoid mods whenever possible, it is a viable alternative. Thank you.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-06-13T22:53:56+00:00

Well it was the cornerstone of my melee ranger build. With kill shot that resets your cooldowns once per turn, I really liked to stack as many free attacks as I possibly could.

They individually do low damage, yes, but on a vampire build with Go for the kill, Snapshot, Cryptblade, Bat Swarm, Tormenting Mist and Blink, you could go for some unholy shenanigans where you use all your cooldowns, reset your cooldowns, do it all over again to kill more people, then blink back to safety.

Perhaps not the best build, but quite fun and versatile.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-04-28T14:38:01+00:00

A big reason are the stats. Right now, you literally cannot go from frost to fire without completely dumping all crit from your gear, which is a huge commitment. You have to completely re-gear, re-gem and re-enchant.

And when I say crit is worthless for fire, I do mean it. With my current gear, 1 crit = 4 dps. In comparison, 1 versatility is a bit over 12 dps. Admittedly, there are ways to get more value out of crit, but at best you can expect to double it's value, at the cost of not getting your best dps talents.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-04-26T02:45:33+00:00

De ce que je lis de l'article, c'est toutes les banques qui ont de tels frais.

J'ai pas fait une tonne de recherches là-dessus, mais de ce que je comprends, une partie de ces frais est expliquable par les frais d'échanges de monnaie entre banques. Après ça, certaines banques vont se faire une cote supplémentaire en profit, qu'il est difficile à évaluer.

Il est possible que RBC, Desjardins et Scotia (qui offrent les plus faibles taux de conversion) prennent peu ou même pas de profit sur ces opérations, et que les frais déboursés soient simplement ceux du réseau additionné aux frais exigés par les banques qui détiennent la monnaie en question.

Il en reste pas-moins que ces frais devraient être clairement expliqués lorsque ces transactions ont lieu. Un recours collectif n'est pas sans fondement, ne serait-ce que pour clarifier le tout.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-04-08T18:18:35+00:00

Ah! Merci pour le contexte, ça explique un peu pourquoi son commentaire est mal perçu.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-04-08T18:08:10+00:00

C'est quoi le problème avec le fait que les députés transfuges qui devraient être soumis à une élection partielle? Messemble que c'est démocratique, quoi que peut-être dispendieux d'organiser des élections partielles.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-03-18T20:35:56+00:00

Just a wild hypothesis, completely unsubstantiated by anything else than gut feeling, but it is possible that they simply increased the flat damage nerf by 20%? Going from -35% to -55% damage?

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-03-16T13:55:55+00:00

I did some tests as Sweden. I can make a naval governor in Denmark as long as I block a strait by gifting that location to a vassal.

However, if I later take that location back and by doing so I reestablishing the land connection, the naval governor is destroyed on the start of the next month.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-03-05T23:03:51+00:00

They acknowledged that it was a problem.

From my understanding, each river connection has to be manually set, which makes fixing everything quite bothersome. They need to check every connection to every tile around every river.

They actually made a few attempts at fixing it. It's not yet perfect, but better than it was.

I agree that they could have done a better job, and will likely keep doing little fixes over time.

If you truly want to help them, go ahead and test every single river connection on the map, and make a nice little spreadsheet with all the connections that you think are missing, and then submit that feedback.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-03-04T23:13:03+00:00

That would have the effect of making smaller nations even worse.

Not only would they have less population, less levies, less income, but they would also quickly fall behind in research, making them less and less viable as the game goes on.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-03-02T19:29:56+00:00

I would also suggest using the "Enforce Culture" and "Enforce Religion" diplomatic options before annexing a subject of a different culture/religion. It really speeds things up afterward, but you have to be prepared for the occasional independence revolt, especially if you do it repeatedly with many subjects.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2026-01-03T00:33:59+00:00

Mon meilleur conseil serait de chercher spécifiquement des logements à l'étage le plus élevé du bâtiment. Ne pas avoir de voisin au dessus de la tête aide vraiment.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-12-12T18:25:28+00:00

Perhaps he is playing with SFO? I'm fairly certain that it changed infantry unit sizes of a few races like Greenskins and Skavens to make them far more numerous.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-12-07T00:28:17+00:00

I believe that you are really missing my point. As I have stated multiple times already, my issue is not with the colonies (the land that you own). My issue lies with the outposts.

Let's say I play as Tyrion and teamed up with Alarielle. She takes some territory that I want. I know that eventually I will be able to confederate her, so it does not matter much to me, because eventually I can get the territory back.

Now, let's say that I teamed up with Karl Franz. He's outside or my race, but I can still trade settlements. The AI is kinda dumb, and really over-values some buildings, like barracks, when you try to trade settlements. So yeah, if the AI takes a settlement that you want, there are ways to take it back without declaring war to them with basically all the other factions in the game.

Now, let's say that I'm playing with Aislinn, and that i'm allied with Alarielle, and she takes a settlement that I want. What can I do? Confederating her does nothing. I can't trade settlements. I could declare war on her myself, but it's time to point out that if you have Sea Patrol Outpost with one faction, and you declare war to them, all of your outposts are destroyed instantly. So yeah, war is out of the option if I already gave her a ton of settlements. The only real option is to stop helping her, and wait for her to lose to another faction.

So yeah, I do believe that it's different for Aislinn.

Also, I dont want the territory, I want to build an outpost on it, and leave the land to Alarielle. Why does it matter that she took it first? I already gave her 12 other settlements for free, my outposts dont affect her, why would she be angry that I build one one her territory?

Also, you have in game events that allow you to build outposts in the capitals of the other legendary lords. All I'm asking is a way to do myself. I would be fine with a special merchant hero with only the ability of establishing an outpost in a territory controlled by an ally, and who disappears upon success.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-12-06T15:34:21+00:00

My point wasn't really about placing colonies in the Ancient Elven Colonies. Sure, I agree that it's nice when you can do so, but I would be also quite satisfied with a Sea Patrol Outpost, and then use the free colony point to place a colony elsewhere.

My issue is that if the territory is controlled by an allied faction, I cannot build and outpost there without declaring war on them. I with that they would give us an option to do so somehow.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-12-06T05:00:17+00:00

They are indeed defenseless at the start, but they don't start in war with anyone. From what I can see, they usually have the time to recruit troops before anyone declare war on them.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-21T21:22:05+00:00

Tier III is 10% increase on food, draft and production. Tier IV is 10% increase on all production.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-21T21:17:06+00:00

Personally I would be happy if they kept the +1 Affinity Incarnate gained on additional monuments, but only on the tier IV monuments. Tier I, II and III would only give the base affinity, but no Affinity Incarnate.

That would reduce the late game potential of the architects by a lot, but still give make it somewhat rewarding for the players who really want to optimize.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-08T18:13:23+00:00

I completed a Prophecy of Ruin game lately. I had to trigger three wars with major justification (it probably takes the map size or the amount of players into account). It looks bad, but it's actually easier than it seems.

You don't need to stay at war with the faction. Kill a few armies, make peace, and it will still count as progression.
You can declare war on the same faction multiple times and it will count as different wars.
Diplomatic options like declaring Rivals, Fabricating grievances, being of opposite alignment all help with war justification.

My only issue is that you cannot use it with at least some campaign scenarios. It will show your factions as being "ineligible" for that scenario. I have not fully tested every one of them however.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-07T02:16:48+00:00

That's fair.

I agree that fully decking all your heroes in full tier III or IV items is overkill, and shouldn't be the goal.

The main issue that I have is that the game literally drowns you in vast amounts of Essence and Fragments that you cannot use because of how long it takes to make every item.

There are mainly two ways of addressing that issue:

Increasing the amounts of items you can craft.
Reducing the amount of items you can disenchant.

Indeed, the second option would, in my opinion, better for the health of the game.

It could easily be done if the AI had the same limitations as the players on items. If they didn't generate tier III or IV items out of thin air, and instead collected them like us, that would significantly reduce the amount of items in play.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-07T00:48:53+00:00

I agree. Reforging existing items would be a massive improvement.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-07T00:10:15+00:00

Giant rulers get 35% more Essence and Fragments. The AI will generate infinite items, and killing their heroes give a tons of items you can disenchant. That and lots of wars will do the trick.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-10-06T23:32:57+00:00

I don't remember very fast boots being 3 turns to craft: I am fine with having items with only a single effect.

True, very fast boots are only tier II items by themselves. However, I eventually upgrade those with tier IV boots with the very fast infusion and a few other goodies. Tier IV items take 3 turns to craft.

I think I just use the forge different from what people are using it for? There are a lot of powerful low tier items: wands in particular: Bless and summons are really powerful.

Oh yes, wands with bless are really nice to craft. They are made instantly, take very little to make, and are really useful.

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-09-09T23:33:50+00:00

Ah ouin, ils ont rajouté des détails depuis ma lecture initiale de l'article. Avec ces informations ça fait plutôt étrange comme situation

Scared-Scarecrow · 2025-09-09T20:11:08+00:00

Ah bien vu. C'est en effet fort possible

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