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Annoying combat
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:25 am
by GawainBS
During my recent replay, I got annoyed by the stupidity of most combat: either it's hack & slash, or you can virtually perpetually stunlocked by the enemy. Pretty cheap, IMO.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:12 pm
by swcarter
GawainBS wrote:During my recent replay, I got annoyed by the stupidity of most combat: either it's hack & slash, or you can virtually perpetually stunlocked by the enemy. Pretty cheap, IMO.
Shields and potions of air are your friends. If desperate, you can also bring up the escape menu to allow a negative effect to wear off.
SWC
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:23 pm
by Claudius
Do you mean blocking with a shield SWC? It's kind of fun to learn the game as a pioneer, but I get frustrated when I find I allocated points to something 'pointless' (pun intended)
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:22 am
by swcarter
Claudius wrote:Do you mean blocking with a shield SWC?
Yes. When you block with your shield, spells don't affect you, so blocking makes some fights much easier. However, I think shields are like all of the other armor skills, and you don't need to put points into them.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:28 am
by GawainBS
The "Esc until it fades" trick no longer works, nor do Potions of Air vs Cloud Attacks.
My point was rather that it testifies of very uninspired design to make combat a stunlock-fest. The quest for Monk of annoying, as the Ninja had Shurikens of Winter, so I was almost always frozen.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:17 pm
by Claudius
GawainBS wrote:The "Esc until it fades" trick no longer works, nor do Potions of Air vs Cloud Attacks.
My point was rather that it testifies of very uninspired design to make combat a stunlock-fest. The quest for Monk of annoying, as the Ninja had Shurikens of Winter, so I was almost always frozen.
Oh man, that is game breaking unless they adjusted the durations of the status effects. Gamebreaking
The first game you could beat it without allocating any adv points, well somebody did that. This game the fireball of the ancient destroys me because my potion/spell is on cooldown/mana.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:12 pm
by swcarter
GawainBS wrote:The "Esc until it fades" trick no longer works, nor do Potions of Air vs Cloud Attacks.
The "esc until it fades" trick works just fine. It doesn't work with the character screen, but it works with the save screen.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:00 am
by GawainBS
Then I'll have them mixed up. It makes things a bit more bearable.