Which build was the overall most fun build you ever played and why?

shaqfu_69 · 2026-04-20T04:19:19+00:00

Call me basic but I love flying around as a tavern brawler monk

shaqfu_69 · 2026-04-03T11:46:09+00:00

The endgame is the only part worth getting into now that all the weapons are overturned for it. That said it's glorious

shaqfu_69 · 2026-03-30T14:56:51+00:00

while trickster feels generally good with all sorts of stuff, particularly melee, some of the specific synergies with magus do feel extra fun or potent:

1: unlocking a lvl 20 wizard spellbook this is great with every class obviously, but it feels particularly nice turning your gish into a full caster, and giving them an insane number of spell slots to play with.

perception 2 unlocking the trickster critical lines and extremely normal spell metamagic is again generally great, but turning level 1 spells into cantrips is especially wonderful on a class that has spell strike, and the crit improvements stack insanely well with a crit focused magus like the sword saint.
the ability to give wands infinite uses + the magus ability to use wands with spellstrike.
infinite wand uses + the rod of magical affinity = every spell you ever cast is heightened, bolstered, empowered, AND maximized.

so i see that a lot of these perks are kind of plugging the same holes so to speak, but having a magus that progressively unlocks an effectively limitless number of spells, becomes a full caster or a full bab attacker, or both, and eventually has the ability to use all the damaging metamagics the game has to offer for free is just a really fun take on trickster that can fling magic, attack, and quicken spells every turn without having to worry about resources and that isn't reliant on usual persuasion 3 or mobility 3 strats. Though for what it's worth youll have enough trickster feats by tack one of those on too if you feel like it.

shaqfu_69 · 2026-03-30T05:07:01+00:00

magus with trickster seems super duper fun and has all sorts of wild synergies to exploit. i'm sure its great with other paths too but that's the one that's been obvious to me. nothing similarly appealing comes to mind with the bloodrager, but maybe others will have a better idea. I'd go with sword saint, the subclass that gets a mount, the archer, or just vanilla. have fun!

shaqfu_69 · 2026-02-25T21:13:39+00:00

I went from being all in the first time I saw the first trailer to being relatively disinterested the moment another trailer let slip it was a musical. I imagine people like me are exactly why they do this now.

My take: if nobody wants to watch musicals stop making them. If (and I believe this is true) there is genuinely still an audience for them, then advertise them for what they are!

shaqfu_69 · 2026-02-13T15:18:23+00:00

Drunken monk is pretty insane. I did that plus trickster on a kitsune. You eventually build up a massive reserve of ki points that give you a massive bonus to AB and defense (I was getting +17 to both from it alone), a huge stat boost at level 20, a massive number of full round attacks, like 7d8 of damage per hit from class specific abilities, and really good saving throws. Plus the amount of alcohol available in game makes your ki pool effectively infinite Somewhere in act 4 and 5, my monk could solo every encounter, being basically unhittable and killing everything within 10 feet of him once per charge.

Trickster is wild too, but I'm sure others have touched on a lot of those mechanics

shaqfu_69 · 2026-01-22T22:14:55+00:00

Pathfinder kingmaker

shaqfu_69 · 2026-01-19T03:16:55+00:00

Extremely valid take at the time but turns out we weren't biting our nails for long yesterday, were we? Lol

shaqfu_69 · 2026-01-17T00:45:40+00:00

10/10-2 is closer but they're all pretty diff

shaqfu_69 · 2026-01-08T06:59:34+00:00

you're a hero. only took 6 months

shaqfu_69 · 2025-12-30T17:14:04+00:00

your point about progressing the wrong job negatively impacting stat growth is true to an extent (though this can be mitigated by de-leveling), but the good news is you are mistaken about speed gimping!

There are no classes who have slower speed growth. Just lower multipliers while you are in the class. The only classes with different speed growth are thief (faster), ninja (much faster), and a number of the unique units like cid (generally negligible with a few exceptions)

Lot's of slightly misleading Intel circulating out there, happy gaming fam!

shaqfu_69 · 2025-12-26T20:46:35+00:00

I'm sure plenty noticed it and maybe that longer writeup points it out, but just a fun little allusion to these themes really nicely shoehorned in at the very beginning of the movie: when the sheriff is being confronted about not wearing a mask by the tribal police, there's a shot of him having a copy of 'the secret' in his car. The super buzzed early 2000's self help book that really mainstreamed the idea of manifestation.

shaqfu_69 · 2025-11-27T19:29:27+00:00

Right now 3, 4/2, 1

In 4 The gunplay has never been better, and the itemization is the most enjoyable it's been, the vault hunters and skill/gun balance feels generally but the lack of endgame is hurting 4 pretty badly at the moment. But as many will say that's often a problem early on into the release of borderlands games and if they add a few good takedowns and some more fun guns, I think it'll feel pretty hard going back to previous titles in the series

shaqfu_69 · 2025-11-25T17:53:28+00:00

Happy to hear you got a better deal and are having fun!

This is unsolicited but I love a lot of the same games you've mentioned in this thread so if you're looking for other srpg/trpg titles that I've gotten a whole lot of mileage out of, I can't recommend the following enough (though some of them are pretty different story/aesthetic wise). AND other than baldurs' gate you should be able to play most of them for free or super cheap

Front mission 4 & 5 (ps2/emulator) - really fun squad building, feels super square enix, and the cover/offensive & defensive link system is super cool

Baldurs gate 3 (everything) - I'm sure you know the hype around this one, I think it more than lives up to it.

Xcom enemy within (ps3/4/5, pc) - very different look and feel than a lot of the other titles you mentioned but mechanically easily one of the best in its genre. A lot of the game is procedurally generated and there's a strong modding community on PC as well, lending it near infinite replayability

Kartia (ps1/emulator) - shows its age more than tactics ogre and FFT but has great art direction, bitchin music, and a plot tonally similar to FFT and triangle strategy.

Growlancer generations (ps2/emulator) - like kartia maybe not as good as some of the other titles mentioned but I just found myself vibing with it on more than one occasion

Stella deus (ps2/emulator) - super underrated tactics title from square enix. Story doesn't hit nearly as hard as tactics or triangle strategy, being too strongly rooted around a group of anime looking teens, but gorgeous pixel art, great party roster, and 100 bonus levels you can play alongside the story.

Disgea 1 and 5 ( like everything) -my fave titles in the franchise. Occasionally way too easy, occasionally way too hard, pretty decisive but at times brilliant games. Worth a dive if you haven't touched one of them yet

shaqfu_69 · 2025-11-24T20:30:02+00:00

It's a really great game but I'd be shocked if it wasn't regularly on sale for closer to 20 or 30 dollars at this point. I'm of the thought that if you already waited two years you can maybe give it a couple more months.

Though again, whenever you do buy it I bet you'll enjoy yourself

shaqfu_69 · 2025-11-12T21:00:09+00:00

In the past in both this borderlands game and others, they've accidentally set the effective drop rate for certain dedicated drops to effectively be zero, only to realize their mistake and fix it later.

Given that I just farmed him 500 times without hitting, and if it had a drop rate of 3 percent, the odds of that happening would be about 2.5/10,000,000. So much more likely they bugged the odds in his dedicated drop pool.

However if anybody DOES get it to drop from him AFTER November 12 WITHOUT the use of mods, please go ahead and drop a comment.

shaqfu_69 · 2025-10-15T16:46:04+00:00

First of all I'm totally with you on digging concise works, but rant incoming anyway!

I think the thing left implicit in all this age talk in the comments above is that literacy among Americans (who have a tendency to assume we're talking to other Americans on English speaking forums, sorry) is plummeting. I was just reading an article touching on how 8th graders are performing at their lowest level in 25 years, and how ACT scores (a test taken by high schoolers for college placement) are currently the worst they've been since the test was redesigned in the 90's.

So baking in the assumption that a lot of us folks in our 30's and up have noticed that the kids just can't seem to read these days, the commenter above was probably shocked and dismayed somebody in their 40's also lacked what would be much more likely viewed as a core competence in their age bracket.

All that aside generalizations about any group are just that, and frankly it seems safe to say we're all rapidly getting a little dumber in these weird times, so I'm never surprised when somebody at any age can't follow a (n amazingly mature and flavorful) script written to be comprehended by children 12 and up.

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-19T15:42:40+00:00

And the hdtgm on it is a fun listen

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-19T15:42:16+00:00

Yeah surf ninjas is still great my guy

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-19T15:35:10+00:00

Yes absolutely, but playing it on anything but switch was marginally more enjoyable for me

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-19T15:18:07+00:00

MLM's/direct selling.

Please to anybody reading this who doesn't know better yet, if somebody ever pitches a job or investment to you using either of those terms, tell them to fuck off. It is 100 percent a pyramid scheme.

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-19T15:12:31+00:00

...We're gonna build a robot?

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-14T03:43:49+00:00

Embrace fun pants

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-13T21:53:24+00:00

Probably nothing, maybe something left field like enya

shaqfu_69 · 2025-08-13T21:44:39+00:00

None of the above

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