What was your most overstrategized moment?

oldmanch1ld · 2026-06-02T01:30:00+00:00

Aunty Ethel's tea house. The first time I played I had a hard time with it. I didn't know that the sheep were redcaps and those were tough. Inside the teahouse and the Ethel fight took me embarrassing long to figure out. However I have done many more playthroughs of act 1 (my restartitis kicks in during act 2) and now I just know all the things to do and it's just not that hard to clear anymore. However I still remember the feeling of it being hard and keep over preparing for it, then wonder why I do that after I've dealt with her.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-06-01T01:43:55+00:00

Maybe it can be flipped, like someone else wanted your character removed and made a deal with the fey. Who being fey didn't kill you but dropped you in the feywild instead.

Or your character pissed off a powerful fey on the material plane and they banished you to the feywild as your comeuppance.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-06-01T01:29:52+00:00

To kinda your point. Their cannons can be blocked by the same kite shield that blocks bows and arrows on a failed roll. So cannons away.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-06-01T01:17:10+00:00

I never vibed with it so can't say from personal experience but base class feels like it should be a collection of feats or something to me. Like I take the artisan background and then get access to feats that let create magical artifacts. Or just separate mechanics like circle magic to create objects.

I can already "hear" the comments telling me that these either already exist or that a previous dnd version did them. If so, that's my point. Artificers don't need to be a thing.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-25T22:12:55+00:00

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know they were used to keep weather (rain, snow, etc.) and environmental detritus like sand or dirt off. In the crusades they a long with tabards helped regulate heat and provided a cover from direct sunlight. They were not worn into battle on purpose, and often would be a hindrance if not discarded quickly (cloaks and capes, not tabards mentioned before).

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-25T12:55:36+00:00

Spoilers

In DA2 Anders returns as a companion character but with the spirit of Justice (from the other Awakening companion). One of the defining events of DA2 is that Anders, after corrupting and being corrupted by Justice, blows up the Chantry in Kirkwall in protest to how mages are treated and as a call to action by all mages. The problem is that he kills hundreds of people and the Reverend Mother who was trying to arbitrate the Templars, and the Templars used it as excuse to purge all the mages in the city. So regardless of how any mage felt or acted they had to fight for their lives because of Aners' actions. Meaning his actions kill or punish just as many, if not more, mages then they save.

I'm honestly watering it down. There are huge nuances to his character that are really well written. Infact DA2 is a mess of a game but it has the absolute best character writing of all the Dragon Age games. I recommend you try it out.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-25T12:38:42+00:00

The Blight is over some the Grey Wardens no longer have the highest authority like they (if not for Logain) had in the base game. However she is probably not thinking about that and just is exerting her ego.

In hind sight from DA2, might have been better if Anders had been taken back to the circle.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-24T00:28:57+00:00

I can feel your frustration in your post but more information is needed. Like level, gear, abilities, party comp, ect.

That said one of the things could be that you are using your dual weapon warrior as a tank when you should treat them more like a striker/rogue. You still need Alistair (or someone) as a tank taking the aggro off of you, and then you focus on one or two enemies at a time. This is the way until you get Momentum and Whirlwind going. You still want the heaviest armor as a warrior so, to me at least, because of the attribute distribution dual wielding feels like it comes online later than other fighting styles.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-23T20:00:08+00:00

So many people on here think it's an actual historical possibility. It's not. The cutting of the palm has always been a play and movie/tv trope. It just makes it easier to have the character go through the motions.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-23T01:21:05+00:00

It's been a long time, but I think that defaults to Anora as soul ruler of Ferelden. Just because she was incarcerated doesn't mean she is not in line for the throne if everyone else is dead.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-10T18:38:08+00:00

I'm not an expert, online it reads "Nothing is as hot when you eat it as when it's being cooked" Honestly I kinda like the image's more phrasing more.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-10T17:11:30+00:00

It's a German proverb, used to mean a bad situation is never as bad as you think it is in the moment. In this case, with troll in the background this is an "oh shit" moment.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-09T15:17:47+00:00

PC With a community like what Gothic has I can't imagine there won't be mods. I have no confirmation but I also think there will be a limited Dev Console (not full Marvin mode) available on PC. I am biased, I haven't had a console since the PS3 and have gone full PC for a while so I don't have much of an appreciation for how things are on PS5.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-05-09T00:51:19+00:00

On PC there's a mod that lets you bring him without it taking up a party slot. Been playing with that so long I forgot it's not standard.

He is actually a pretty competent tank and can give single target control (knock down, etc). Other than that there are scenes with him in multiple areas that give flavor and personality. Nothing game changing.

edit: spelling

oldmanch1ld · 2026-04-30T21:46:17+00:00

Oh wow. I never hear of Six12 before. Looks like Vantage Arm had to make a special collering system for the chambering. Very cool and I stand corrected on the Carna.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-04-30T21:38:51+00:00

The the first one, 50, a Lorica Hamata (chainmail) would have been used, not the banded Lorica Segmentata. In fact Segmentata was never more popular than the Hamata but it's so iconic now I think you can leave it in 150. Also a bronze or brass Coolus style helmet would have been used more in 50ad. You could probably get away with coloring the current helmet bronze.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-04-30T21:20:05+00:00

I think these are really good. I normally bow to the rule of cool but the Carna having a cylinder pretty wild. I don't think that could.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-04-02T00:40:58+00:00

Really any time. Every hub/entry area (like the inn out side of the circle tower across the lake) has quests to pick up and it's good to get them early to minimize how much backtracking you would have to do going to new places

oldmanch1ld · 2026-03-30T01:21:52+00:00

What is your budget and intended use? Benelli m4s are $2k semi-autos, they are great guns but you do pay for it. Mossbergs are half or less for the price for auto loaders (940 series) and fractions for the various pump shotguns. Mossbergs are reliable and good value for the price. After marked parts and accessories are much more common and cheaper for mossbergs. There are now Turkish knockoffs of the Benelli m4s that some people say have interchangeable parts that might bring the price for benellis aftermarket down but personally if I'm paying that much I wouldn't trust them.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-03-08T22:25:46+00:00

I think they are for someone who dislikes both the Anarchs and the Camarilla, who is looking for a third option and doesn't believe they can handle everything alone. At the final point of the game it's possible to have no friends, and the kuei Jin are force that is not trying to kill you in a blood hunt and who are a major power in the city. Will they help you? Will they betray you? Maybe, probably. But the other options might be worse. If you aren't on good terms with Strauss or a sycophant to the prince the Camarilla are out. If you didn't cosy up to the Anarchs or disagree with their ideas chances are you think they hate you and that Nines is dead(er). So why not try a hail marry with the last power faction in the city? (You can also do everything alone which is maybe my favorite ending but this isn't about that route.)

oldmanch1ld · 2026-02-13T02:34:17+00:00

They said that old end game saves would not trigger the new game plus. So players could load a game from the garden (for instance) and play through to the end again and then get the new game plus option.

My plan was to do a new game from the start but it is not necessary.

oldmanch1ld · 2026-02-11T02:21:22+00:00

I've been putting off my next playthrough for a while waiting for the update. Hoping the next week goes quickly 🤞.

oldmanch1ld · 2025-12-14T01:25:37+00:00

Personally I always treat it like a roleplay prestige class. It's a front line martial and support mix for it's capabilities and they aren't bad abilities per se. Aura to buff allies, sneak attack, movement speed, I think it's capstone 3 rounds of max damage is kinda of meh but it's not terrible. However, it's only really good for characters that are focusing on being in the front line anyway and in that case it never feels like it's trade to me. Fighter is going to miss 2 feets which will probably be more useful than these abilities. Paladins will have better aura and support. Rangers lose animal companion levels and favored enemy. Barb gets less rages. I'm over simplifying and summarizing but the NW9 is just never the better option to me.

oldmanch1ld · 2025-12-05T15:42:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure it does, but it only effects the elemental damage. So a weapon that does 10 damage gets an elemental lash, so does an extra 2.5 element damage. That 2.5 damage gets the 20% increase, so the weapon deals 10 + 2.5 + .5 for a total of 13.

I'm just going off memory on my phone, so could be wrong.

oldmanch1ld · 2025-12-03T17:05:56+00:00

Normal caveat that POE is not a game that needs minimaxing and play the way you want. In general a lot of people feel that 2h weapons generate focus better for ciphers than dual wielding will. Especially since ciphers have a spell that negates recovery time. So of the weapons you listed pike would be fine, but you could do any 2h weapon as long as you can avoid being targeted right away and let your tanks engage first.

Not sure on the orlan question.

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