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Ondath
Hero
The only place where Friends became a problem was in Last Light Inn where the Harpers got into the "you just broke the law" dialogue with me, but I've been casting Friends left and right and never had that interaction elsewhere. Maybe I was just lucky in that my spell's effect always ended outside the guards' range?
fluffybunbunkittens
Hero
It's not a real issue, but... if you're a melee warrior, there is now so much more use for your bonus action, that two-weapon fighting just feels even worse.
That said, you can get the special bonuses of two weapons at once, and you can still get the bonus action attack off even if your main action is spent doing something else (like a ranged attack with a bow!), and you can get extra bonus actions, so... I don't know where it ends up sitting. It just feels bad because the main function (attack with both weapons) is worse off (unless you pick up 3 Thief levels, but then that restricts your weapon choice).
That said, you can get the special bonuses of two weapons at once, and you can still get the bonus action attack off even if your main action is spent doing something else (like a ranged attack with a bow!), and you can get extra bonus actions, so... I don't know where it ends up sitting. It just feels bad because the main function (attack with both weapons) is worse off (unless you pick up 3 Thief levels, but then that restricts your weapon choice).
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I think this kind of true and kind of not, really, at level 12.
Two-weapon fighting is a very reliable way to use a bonus action to do an extra attack with a magical weapon. Towards the end of the game, that becomes increasingly important.
When you're in the process of getting to targets, sure, Jumping and Misty Step and so on are tremendous uses of your bonus action. When you're at your target, you might get one use out of a bonus action weapon-ability like Pommel Strike, but that's 1/short rest.
Berserkers can get an extra attack from a bonus action, or throw something and prone the target. But this causes a debuff to build up - minus 1 to hit for each time you use it during a combat, which can add up very fast.
Monks can use Unarmed Attack or Flurry of Blows, but unless you're at least level 6 in Monk (a big investment) you do less damage because in the late game a lot of creatures are resistant to non-magical damage.
It doesn't really restrict it though.
Pretty much no-one who picks up three levels of Thief for a bonus action cares much about the Sneak Attack damage, which is 1/turn and only 2d6 damage anyway. That's chump change compared to say, an extra Frenzied Strike with a 2H weapon from a Berserker barbarian.
The real issue with Two-weapon fighting is the same as in tabletop and has nothing to do with bonus actions - it's that you can't get Great Weapon Master, which increases your DPR so much (so long as you can get Advantage, and you probably can - I run around with Lae'zel wearing some early game gloves that give Advantage if 2 enemies are near her, and the near is fairly generous and very often effects on the enemies give it anyway) that it makes dual-wield kind of a joke. Tavern Brawler on a STR Monk is about even with that. On a throwing-centric character though? It's even more powerful. And Sharpshooter is straight-up broken, because you have the main benefit of GWM, except with ANY ranged weapon, including Hand Crossbows, which can be fired as a bonus action with TWF, and further, due to a bug, the -5 to hit penalty isn't applied to the offhand (PAM is not similarly bugged, in fact it applies the penalty but not the bonus of GWM).
GWM is also bugged in that it's applying to non-heavy weapons - anything wielded in two hands is counting (including Versatile weapons). I'd say this was an intentional change except that the in-game description does say it needs to be heavy.
But all of that looks like a pile of junk next to stuff involving Sorcerers and Warlocks, where you can both stack the same CHA mod repeatedly, over and over, and bugs with the way damage is applied means you get bonuses applying separately on the main damage, Hex damage, and stuff like Lightning Charge damage. Throwing is also bugged in a similar way, but I need to test to see if it's Tavern Brawler that does this, or throwing in general. My suspicion is that it's actually throwing in general. Tavern brawler's damage I think only applies once but is also bugged in that it bypasses absolutely all resistances and immunities, which allows you to do some silly things early on.
I suspect most of these bugs will get fixed, and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, because Eldritch Blast was similarly bugged in EA and got fixed (Agonizing Blast's CHA mod damage was firing off Hex).
Leatherhead
Possibly a Idiot.
The real reason Gale is the most common origin, by a significant margin, is due to Speedrunning. His percentage of usage is going to be jacked up forever because he can end the game in act two instead of act three.
Here is an example:
And because they are speedrunners, who intend to start the game over and over in order to get a perfect run, Gale's usage will be orders of magnitude more than what it currently is in just a few weeks.
Here is an example:
And because they are speedrunners, who intend to start the game over and over in order to get a perfect run, Gale's usage will be orders of magnitude more than what it currently is in just a few weeks.
I watched that and I is a kind of sad way to play a game. Flavourless
DarkCrisis
Let her cook.
Got the the Hag, got ass kicked by minions. Found her lair. Looked at it. Realized I can't do this yet and loaded a save from an hour ago. Feels bad man.
Still trying to find the Barbarian. She's like the secret prize character or somethin jeez.
Still trying to find the Barbarian. She's like the secret prize character or somethin jeez.
I do so much less fighting than it seems everyone else does. I didn't have to fight her. I got a new look!
Scribe
Legend
I just started Act 2, but I'm really tempted to go back and waste a few nights trying to kill the Hag. I got down into her lair, and was frustrated so bailed.
MarkB
Legend
I struggled with navigating her lair, until I realised the thing that made it easy.
Feather fall
The actual fight wasn't too tough, but I had just hit fifth level at the time.
