Ugh, downloaded the Phantasy mod and am not happy. Had to restart the game 3 times to find out that apparently arm strength affects how much damage magic attacks do >_>, that getting ambushed as a mage is instant death, and that the chances of you winning any tournaments as a strict mage is low.
Now to mention they somehow bugged the combat. I hold a shield up and start taking damage from hits when the enemy is not swinging (confirmed that no one was behind me with range attacks). And time speed up in this mod now lags the game, there is even a slight bit of lag in just normal walking, making avoiding things that will slaughter you that much harder. And finally, I picked up an adept staff but for some reason cannot charge it.
I hope they are updating this heavily and optimizing it, as the idea of magic is cool.
The first thing is a given, as you are a
Squishy Wizard. Investing heavily in Magic Power, Magic Defense and other support skills makes it harder to become a direct combatant, but you will get oodles of skill points from all the Intelligence you're dumping into the character, and if you start mounted, you can easily run circles around most things while pelting them with a few well placed spells.
You can toss some into Strength to raise your Power Throw levels, but I generally consider that a secondary goal due to wanting to max out as many other support skills based on Intelligence as possible. Blasting apart a siege almost single handedly in two casts of a Fireball is a bit more useful to me, but early battles are more affected by your Magic Missile and Missile Storm use.
I haven't experienced any of the bugs you mentioned personally; you may want to make a post on their
TaleWorlds forums board to see if someone else is having similar issues, or if the creator has any known bugs of the sort. I would also see if it's just this mod doing it. If so, try redownloading it from a different location.
Word of warning... touranemts in blood and steel are pretty much DragonBall Z levels of flailing about as 2-3 strong fighters stronger than the rest fight it out by zipping all over the arena while oneshottable cannon fodder skitters around.
THAT. SOUNDS. AWESOME.
Seriously, that's like 80% of my Floris experience, seeing how I tend to edit my character data to 1000 str and agi
I put my agi to 500 once, I swore to never do it again. How do you even manage 1,000!?
I didn't even realize they went that high... I usually cheat by giving myself at maximum 15 in all stats and maxed out Pathfinder skill, and that's about it. Now I don't feel quite as bad, but I have a feeling this is how the Phantasy Calradia mod made the Three Immortals a thing.