That's awesome! I haven't really looked into any ranged weapon builds before. I'm guessing those rings required some farming?
Thanks for sharing!
That's awesome! I haven't really looked into any ranged weapon builds before. I'm guessing those rings required some farming?After some more tweaking and going back and fourth on the forums with a few other people, this build is damn near unstoppable:
So far I've cleared all the way through Ultimate, completed all of the rogue dungeons, killed every nemesis boss, and killed several of the secret bosses without dying (Although John Burbon and Lokarr made me retreat to heal multiple times and Rashalga almost one-shot me several times). I still have all of the super bosses to kill, but I'll get there eventually.
Oddly enough, I already had five of those rings. The Rimetongue mask took me the longest to find and since I got tired of running the Crucible, I went back to farming totems, Nemesis Troves, and rogue dungeons for the missing gear. I use GrimStash to help store all my legendary gear I find since I ran out of space in the transfer stash a long time ago.That's awesome! I haven't really looked into any ranged weapon builds before. I'm guessing those rings required some farming?
Thanks for sharing!
just finished wasteland 2. solid turn-based RPG! the mechanics take a little getting used to. the only downside is early on you're really hurting for skill points, so things like lock picking, safe cracking, hacking, etc. can be tough if you don't have the right characters.
i really liked the number of party members available. they were all very different in terms of class, backstory, and they all had good voice acting. the number of voice lines in the game has to be astronomical. lastly, there seems to be a good amount of meaningful choice in terms of how things play out.
I'll fire it up and beat it some day. Wasteland 3 looks like it upped the polish considerably with way less early Kickstarter jank.
are you playing regular or remastered?OMG I need to take a break from Kingdoms of Amalur, this game is friggin massive and not really in a good way.
50+ hours in and I'm close to finishing up the first continent and heading over to Klurikon (which I figure will set the game on a generally more linear path without faction quests etc).
Completed the House of Ballads, Warsworn, and Scholia Arcana storylines where were all fairly solid. Have the Travellers remaining.
However, the game is kinda well past the point of showing me anything new. I have my build more or less figured out (universalist) and the skills I want and my weapons and play style.
I'm at a point where I'm trying to do the worthwhile story content/main quest and beeline toward the ending.
So while I pause from KOA, I fired up Wolfenstein 2 for a radical change of pace and tone. Game is definitely a bit flawed compared to it's predicesor, but seems like a solid short round of high addrenalin action, which I am all for.
are you playing regular or remastered?
i thought the game was ok. the story was actually really interesting, but only for the last... 1/3 of the game maybe where it actually kinda clicked.
I seem to recall having a discussion about KoA and the scale of the game being the reason I stopped playing. There is such a thing as too many side quests and this game just doesn't know when to stop with them.OMG I need to take a break from Kingdoms of Amalur, this game is friggin massive and not really in a good way.
maybe i will do another run of DS3 and focus on arcane instead. i basically did the bare minimum in HP to not get blown up, and then put everything else in attack to do the most DPS.January - Hades + Darksiders
February - Darksiders 2
March - Dawn of War Soulstorm + Unification Mod
April - Warhammer 2 Total War, Company of Heroes 2, Trine 4 (not going to play Trine 3 since it's just a flaming pile of garbage)
May - Just Cause 3
June - Shadow of War + DLCs
July - Dishonored, Noita, Darksiders 3 (cont.)
August - Darksiders 3
Noita is incredibly confusing, but rather fun simply for the chaos that can ensue. While it is fun, it's also excruciatingly difficult and I believe most of that is due in large to the fact that nothing is explained in-game. It is very similar to games like Binding of Isaac in that dying is just part of the learning process. I saw a lot of what the game had to offer but I was unable to see most of the secret stuff and when I was getting burnt out I downloaded a wand-maker mod just to see some different spell combinations. This particular mod gives you the ability to create any kind of wand you want with any kind of spells on it and it wasn't until I downloaded that mod that I truly saw the complexity of the spell system in this game. Not only are there around 40 or 50 base spells in the game, there are hundreds of modifiers that can be used in countless combinations which can drastically change how the spells act. Definitely check out the Steam trailer to get a better idea of how unique this game actually is.
Darksiders 3 got a lot of hate and I didn't know why until I played the game. I'm going to say it right now that I do understand the hate, but I absolutely do not agree with the hate because the game is outstanding. The hate comes from people complaining about the combat system going from a traditional action game (like the first two games) to a Souls-like system. First off, normal enemies can wreck you if you don't pay attention. I quickly realized the combat was a lot more brutal than in previous games and instead of jumping in and slashing enemies to ribbons (like one of the Four Horsemen should be able to), I had to take encounters a lot slower. Learning an enemy's attack pattern is only part of the battle because Darksiders 3 features a pretty interesting counter mechanic that most players feel like you must rely on to win simply because the counter damage is so high. It sounds weird and seeing it written on paper makes the game sound horrible - that you're now better off waiting for an attack so you can counter it, but that's not the case. The combat is a great mix of knowing when and how to strike - whether its just DPSing them with normal attacks, waiting for a counter, or even deciding which weapon is best suited for the enemy you're facing.
The combat wasn't the only thing changed to be more like Demons/Dark Souls. The souls you collect from defeating enemies or the soul clusters you find hidden around the map are your currency and you spend that currency on either buying items or leveling up your character. In true Souls fashion; if you die, you leave a spirit where you died and you must collect it to get your souls back. If that wasn't enough Dark Souls for you, you're also given a healing item that can be replenished in various ways (mostly by killing enemies) as well as upgraded to contain more free heals so you're not stuck using all of your healing shards you find. The developers also did away with giant maps that take forever to traverse and instead went with one map that intermingles with every area. It's not so small that you feel confined and the areas are built so well that it never feels like you're just running with nothing else to do (like most of Darksiders 2). The music is great, the combat is outstanding, and the graphics (especially the underwater areas) are phenomenal. This little summary is a lot longer than I wanted it to be, but I can't let the negative reviews be the loudest voices for a game that you can definitely tell was made by people who not only listened to the fans, but also took a lot of care into creating the game.
I finished the game at level 88 and I allocated roughly 85% of my stats into Arcane Counter Damage. To give a better idea of how strong counters are, my normal attacks from a completely maxed out weapon were doing about 230 damage per hit and my counter did a little over 3,100.
An arcane run was definitely a lot more fun than previous iterations of Darksiders simply because it gave me something else to focus on instead of just running up and mashing X. At the end, I had 10 in health, 12 in physical damage, and 66 in arcane. I was one-shotting most enemies and taking down the biggest champion enemies in two or three counters.maybe i will do another run of DS3 and focus on arcane instead. i basically did the bare minimum in HP to not get blown up, and then put everything else in attack to do the most DPS.
i really love the DLC weapons even though they are more or less reskins of the OG weapons. using frost + fury power + fury generation on hit gives lets you sustain your invulnerability, and it's quite awesome
lastly, getting the abyssal armor (DLC) makes life so, so much easier. you can actually take like...6 hits instead of 2