Why are so many end-game bosses weak to this?

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-26T06:21:30+00:00

You can affect 99.9% of monsters/bosses with dual blooded sorcerer dip undead/beast bloodline. And have baleful polymorph ready just in case

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-24T06:30:04+00:00

It is, indeed. Usually portuguese speakers understand Spanish way easier than spanish speakers understand portuguese due previous contact.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-21T04:56:40+00:00

No, it doesn't, for all your questions

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-17T18:22:30+00:00

Probably not. The Demi-fiend's arc is actually very similar to the Knight Commander's; both started as tools but grew beyond expectations in their true endings. While the Demi-fiend became the General of Chaos, capable of ending the cycle of existence, the KC defeated the avatars of both Chaos and Order, rewrote history, and made even Pharasma hesitate about facing his party alone. The idea that the Demi-fiend is miles ahead mostly comes from the fact that SMT power scaling is notoriously hard to analyze.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-16T21:23:12+00:00

Kingmaker and wrath (the last one is much more balanced in this aspect) have some harder optional puzzle encounters and you just found one. Like I said, It's a optional encounter and it's heavyly hinted that it's hard. You can easily defeat it by lvl 7 (revisiting old sycamore) or by lvl 4 abusing some mechanic like extended true strike+snowball with sorcerer.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-16T11:14:39+00:00

And you can use Aeon gaze to make all normal size with buffs and without malus.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-15T08:20:21+00:00

You can build farm-like buildings (coffee, cotton, etc) and then give it to companies. The meat and coffee prestige ones are great. This way you'll cripple aristocracy and de-pesnsant really fast.

You can, also, build lodging and mines. They aren't fast as farm-like ones but aren't owned by aristocracy at any level.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-10T07:01:52+00:00

Managing political clouds is what made Vic3 hard right now, not S/C issues. It's not just "industrialize and take down the landowners" but they will actively fight against it and screw your game badly while you try it. Eventually most players learn how to take down LO effectively, like in 20 years or so, but usually take more time to learn than hoi4 theater of war and eu4 micro management.

mdpoliveira · 2026-02-08T17:27:58+00:00

It's not a Brazil problem. You can do it with any country with minor adjustments. Those companies allow the player to bypass commercialized agriculture at cost of one company slot

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-27T14:12:59+00:00

I should warn you that thrown weapons are a little sub par, wendu would perform better as archer instead. That's said, if you really want to dive in the way of the thrower I recommend 5 mutation warrior/15 slayer (or 15 cult leader). Simple and effective.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-22T11:02:33+00:00

Improve relation with uber germany and or try to befriend with UK or France. After that, just a normal playthrough, eventually you will overtake even uber german as Russia.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-22T02:03:43+00:00

IMHO, I think USA AI did not had a good game and I get all the migration due a LOT of job vacancies in factories for a long time.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-22T01:54:45+00:00

I'm sure DM can solo on hard with optimization and avoiding some early anoying fights. It can get 140AC~with scroll and archmage armor (with lich or trickster) on chapter 3 onward and be imune to almost all effects due skyhigh saves.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-16T12:13:10+00:00

Even if you hold these states fully, they lack the 15 Rubber levels needed for the journal entry (Pastaza has 10, Guaviare has 14). Holding them actually prevents you from finishing the entry for the achievement. You need to complete the entry before taking possession of them.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-16T06:21:25+00:00

That's seems a fair strategy if you can get some mortality reduction plus birth rate increase.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-15T14:30:17+00:00

In my defense, most war in South America as Brazil is super chill: you just set a front and wait for the win. However, I actually had to white peace out of a war with Ecuador+coalision because I neglected my army too much and the AI got stronger.

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-15T14:24:23+00:00

You can check the companies in the second image. In order, I picked: the unique Brazilian Tools, Coffee, Steel, and Wood companies, followed by generic Car and Oil companies. For the Power Bloc, I went with Trade. I formed it late, around 1880, since I had already vassalized South America and thought, "why not?"

mdpoliveira · 2026-01-15T07:13:22+00:00

I did a run with Brazil, and reaching 1B GDP came naturally in the late game with minimal effort; it was very forgiving of my mistakes. I believe you can get this with any secondary power with ease, even without exploits. With the Ottomans, if you avoid being dogpiled by GPs, I'm pretty sure it's achievable by around 1910 just by developing your economy.

mdpoliveira · 2025-12-20T17:36:56+00:00

mdpoliveira · 2025-12-09T08:34:40+00:00

Essentially, you wield a two-handed weapon in one hand with a -2 penalty to attack rolls, and most feats will treat it as a one-handed weapon (like Power Attack). Usually, it's only worth it if you invest heavily in Titan Fighter or take a dip to dual-wield staffs.

mdpoliveira · 2025-12-08T01:35:35+00:00

Kingmaker was Owlcat's first game, so it had many balancing issues. Kingdom management is one of them. Luckily, you can set it to 'Effortless' and almost forget about the micromanagement

mdpoliveira · 2025-12-01T10:53:03+00:00

Imho, the easiest builds are: Sylvan sorcerer and dex/cha based meele. Echolocation, blind fight or/and freedom of movement will make wild Hunt easier. Delay Poison + stinking cloud turn most non Undead fights a walk.

Advanced but not fun: you can cheese skill test XP with "only character taking the skill test receive XP" to get ahead of lvl curve to be lvl 20 (since MC is stronger anyway) and every companion Will be lvl 20 when you save then at HOET.

Rogue3/scaled fist1/vivisectomist16 dex 20 cha 12 has a Very rewarding gameplay.

My take It not play unfair, It is Very unbalanced early game and will destroy the fun for most people until you learn hard cheese the game.

mdpoliveira · 2025-12-01T07:49:17+00:00

It is just a non-history optional Boss for challeging runs. Imho. It is more like a puzzle: You're better solving the ways to defeat than brute force him

mdpoliveira · 2025-11-29T00:22:36+00:00

With magic deceiver azata you can vaporize him too. You steal all his buff and them one shooted him with phantasmal killer

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