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[ChairmanPoo]

Soooo pathfinder kingmaker... I´m playing a summoner-sorcerer. I´m finding that I could probably have skipped on the two summoner feats, as necromancy summons are in general better (and dont get affected by said feats), and TBH the spell that is getting the most mileage from conjuration is stinking cloud. Particularily if you use metamagic to heighten it´s DC (which you can do without real limit. Really, you can theoretically turn it into a level 9 spell, which I assume means that you´re able to summon forth a pestilence of such intensity that even GODS can become nauseated by it.

[Iduno]

TBH the spell that is getting the most mileage from conjuration is stinking cloud. Particularily if you use metamagic to heighten it´s DC (which you can do without real limit. Really, you can theoretically turn it into a level 9 spell, which I assume means that you´re able to summon forth a pestilence of such intensity that even GODS can become nauseated by it.

If I remember correctly, in tabletop, if you want to be a mage good at doing damage, you go for conjuration, not evocation. Not that you'd want to, as most enemies have far too many hp for damage to be a reliable way to get rid of them.

Damage is much better in the computer games, because you only gain xp from enemies killed, not avoided or beaten through wits. You can't even KO them then coup-de-grace.

[Biowraith]

Been playing Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem now that it's released.  Or at least, I've been playing it when the servers aren't down - they went from ~2000 players in kickstarter/early access to over 90k players for a period yesterday, so it's going about as well as you'd expect in that regard (there's an offline mode, but characters don't transfer from one to the other).  It's been pretty fun when I have been able to play and it certainly looks shiny.  Though like Inquisitor: Martyr before it, it suffers from costing over 30 quid in a genre that has some very good cheap or free options.

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm actually going to respec again to drop the summoning feats in favor of point blank and precise. I will keep the conjuration and greater conjurstion focuses though.

The reason is that
- stink clouds are my mainstay weapon

- my stink clouds are so powerful they stun my own summoned angels and boogeymen

- my undead resist the stink clouds but get no benefit from said feats. And I have a staff that improves undead anyway

- anything stink cloud resistant is lilekly poisonous or leveldrains so I probably want to throw undead at it


So the new plan is to throw stink clouds, cloudkill and undead at things, support with my polyed pet and strategic usage of hellfire and scortching beams.

[Aoi]

Been playing Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem now that it's released.

Does it pick up later on? I watched somebody play from the start to the first sub-boss (looked kind of like a bulky burning thing that was summoning wyverns) and it looked oh-so-slow. Basically, the only thing that ever really happened was attacking with the default, which looked like a bouncing AoE that killed everything in a few hits, and leisurely dodgerolling out of red circles/rectangles.

...And I could've sworn the reviews for it were like 7.5 a few hours ago, dropping down to 6 now.

[Biowraith]

Been playing Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem now that it's released.

Does it pick up later on? I watched somebody play from the start to the first sub-boss (looked kind of like a bulky burning thing that was summoning wyverns) and it looked oh-so-slow. Basically, the only thing that ever really happened was attacking with the default, which looked like a bouncing AoE that killed everything in a few hits, and leisurely dodgerolling out of red circles/rectangles.

That sounds like the default mage staff attack, which builds up 'willpower' to spend on fancier powers.  You get 1 (maybe it's 2, I forget) of those fancier powers after the 'tutorial' bit (e.g. a rapid fireball for mages), but it doesn't take long before you can find/buy more.  As you gain xp your equipped powers level up, I think they get some straight stat buffs with each level but you can also pick specific upgrades at certain levels, e.g. extra shots on the fireball, or turn a pbaoe heal patch into a targeted heal patch.  I spent my first 10 or so levels running an ice nova, a channeled beam/laser, and the heal patch, but I've since gone full summoner with 4 summon powers and the heal patch upgraded to also do damage to enemies that enter it.  So in terms of having more interesting stuff to use, I'd say it progresses decently.

For difficulty though, it's been pretty easy so far.  I dropped a couple of times on sub-bosses, though you get 3 self-revives if you're playing solo so I've not fully died at all yet (in multiplayer your buddies have to help you back up instead, I think).  I'm still only on Act 1 though and I've been pumping the Toughness stat a lot.  No idea what the endgame looks like.

...And I could've sworn the reviews for it were like 7.5 a few hours ago, dropping down to 6 now.

Yeah, people are really unhappy with the amount of downtime on the online servers and are expressing as much.  It's been down for almost 24 hours now, and is set to be down at least another 12.  Even when servers were up it was kinda unreliable, with people having to make multiple attempts to connect, then getting disconnected during their game and losing progress.  Offline play is still available, but since you can't play online characters offline and vice versa...

[Persus13]

From the sound of it its gotten a lot more of a playerbase in the last couple of days, so its not too surprising that there's server problems.

[Aoi]

After WoW launch, my tolerance for server problems has grown to stellar proportions... Though you'd think the industry would've learned how to cope by now. GW/GW2 manages spectacularly.

[Aoi]

Been playing Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem now that it's released.

Does it pick up later on? I watched somebody play from the start to the first sub-boss (looked kind of like a bulky burning thing that was summoning wyverns) and it looked oh-so-slow. Basically, the only thing that ever really happened was attacking with the default, which looked like a bouncing AoE that killed everything in a few hits, and leisurely dodgerolling out of red circles/rectangles.

That sounds like the default mage staff attack, which builds up 'willpower' to spend on fancier powers.  You get 1 (maybe it's 2, I forget) of those fancier powers after the 'tutorial' bit (e.g. a rapid fireball for mages), but it doesn't take long before you can find/buy more.  As you gain xp your equipped powers level up, I think they get some straight stat buffs with each level but you can also pick specific upgrades at certain levels, e.g. extra shots on the fireball, or turn a pbaoe heal patch into a targeted heal patch.  I spent my first 10 or so levels running an ice nova, a channeled beam/laser, and the heal patch, but I've since gone full summoner with 4 summon powers and the heal patch upgraded to also do damage to enemies that enter it.  So in terms of having more interesting stuff to use, I'd say it progresses decently.

For difficulty though, it's been pretty easy so far.  I dropped a couple of times on sub-bosses, though you get 3 self-revives if you're playing solo so I've not fully died at all yet (in multiplayer your buddies have to help you back up instead, I think).  I'm still only on Act 1 though and I've been pumping the Toughness stat a lot.  No idea what the endgame looks like.

Yeah... I just finished the A1 boss and, outside of that boss, I'm finding it kind of... boringly easy. If you have experience playing ARPG endgames, I suspect you'll be in a similar boat.

Much like the gameplay I've been watching, I'm running that staff since it seems to be a quick way to clear everything without faffing about with resources... I pretty much don't use my skills, and that's with me pumping everything into agility(attack speed). Stack whatever damage-on-attack or mixed damage boosters, and I deal more DPS with my base attack than any spell I have so far. (Embers is a sort of exception since I have a pile of +fire... as soon as I switch that gear though, it looses the advantage.)

...I do rather like the scripted battles though.

Spoiler: "A1 Boss Notes" (click to show/hide)

He's the only guy I died to so far, multiple times, because all his heavy attacks can 1-shot me, and his lesser attacks are, at most, 3-shot. After farming two levels, I dropped a Livor Mortis which allowed it to pull aggro for at least the medium hits. In the end, I only got hit three times (one being carelessness), being able to run away or dodge the remaining attacks. A huge difference.

End of A2, the only skills I use in combat is Bulwark of Dawn for minibosses. Livor Mortis gets popped up as necessary, and Aether Jump is spammed... because I made the godawful decision of picking up Disallowing Vessel, which may as well read "Permanent -50% Movement Speed". -_-

[Biowraith]

Spoiler: "A1 Boss Notes" (click to show/hide)

He's the only guy I died to so far, multiple times, because all his heavy attacks can 1-shot me, and his lesser attacks are, at most, 3-shot. After farming two levels, I dropped a Livor Mortis which allowed it to pull aggro for at least the medium hits. In the end, I only got hit three times (one being carelessness), being able to run away or dodge the remaining attacks. A huge difference.

Spoiler: some boss comments (click to show/hide)

Yeah, Livor Mortis kept his aggro off me pretty much the entire fight (I'm using the default toxic form, with the upgrade that makes him share some of the damage I take).  I got knocked down twice by the third stage's fire wave (after he goes invuln for a bit) as it's enough to one-shot me, until I got the hang of the timings of when it fires and when to dodge-roll to avoid it.  Made it through the fight without using my last revive token though.  I had a bit more trouble with Lambach at the end of Act 2 - fully died (i.e. all revive tokens used) once to the first form, which was my first death all game (the battlefield got a bit too crowded with too many damage patches) and then twice fighting the second form (similar problem really), but again once I got the hang of its pattern I was able to beat it without a problem (pets were a lot less useful there as their AI bugged out and most of them weren't moving/attacking unless something walked on top of them, and my Parasite power (specced with the damage increases) couldn't target it, so I was just whittling away with the basic attack).

I'm somewhere in Act 3 now. I'd say it's a gotten a little bit harder - I've had the odd knockdown and occasionally have to dodge for a breather instead of just facetanking everything. I even suffered one proper death outside of a boss fight - to a cursed chest spawn that included a particularly nasty champion (I forget the name, but the pacified guy that spins his weapon around melted me).  It's largely been plain sailing though.  Feels kinda similar to Diablo 3's pre-endgame difficulty to me (at least what I remember of it, it's been a few years...).  Unsure how much my build is swaying that one way or the other though - I suspect more conventional builds probably breeze through the non-boss stuff faster (most of my passives are dedicated to keeping me and my summons alive), but I've not really watched anyone else play it to compare.

[Enemy post]

I was surprised to find out that Kentucky Route Zero released Act V recently after a four-year wait, so I'll be playing that.

[Haspen]

Oxygen Not Included, currently setting up a natural gas generator scheme with NG geyser. Aww yiss.

[nenjin]

I've basically played 2 new characters through Dark Souls 3 in the last three weeks, and I'm not sure I'm done yet.

[Sanctume]

I have been "playing" Stream Captain, or was it "Captain Stream". 
It's an app with twitch, captained by some twitch streamer. 
Supposedly for just during those down times in between games. 
Well, I end up having it on, while binge watching MCU movies in Disney+. 

[EuchreJack]

Heart of Iron 4's Fallout mod.  They've added a lot of focus trees, and achievements (local to save only).