Did anyone here attend Pax East. The heroes of shadow preview is aparently exclusive to it so I figure it must be different from ddxp. Any new details such as what do gloom pact warlock have for patrons? Anymore details on the Blackguard's Servant of vice such as abilities besides granting ca? What other undead\shadow monsters does the Necro\Nethermancer summon?
did anyone try the heroes of shadow preview at PAX?
- Thread starter gyor
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A body of mine was there and played the blackguard. It seems mostly the same from DDXP but I didn't grill him for every little detail. I'll be able to tomorrow. It is a very cool class.
Generates THP to burn up on other powers. Deals ongoing damage as a power strike mechanic. Has a Sneak Attack like secondary damage bonus mechanic. Really fun stuff from what he's told me.
Generates THP to burn up on other powers. Deals ongoing damage as a power strike mechanic. Has a Sneak Attack like secondary damage bonus mechanic. Really fun stuff from what he's told me.
RangerWickett
Legend
Just that snippet there -- temporary hit points to burn on powers -- opens a whole world of possibilities. You could design a whole game around just that concept. "Every power you use does damage to you, but you get X temporary hit points per round. Do you want to hit with huge powers and take real damage, content yourself with safe powers that don't go through your buffer, or even just rely on basic attacks so you've got a 'shield' to protect you in combat?"
Ooh. Interesting.
Incenjucar
Legend
In general, I think shadow classes are going to absolutely adore the party's leader.
Seriously though looking forward to the Blackguard.While I know that you can burn thp to do extra damage but it sounds like your saying you can burn them to do something else?
If you can please get the info on the servant of vice imp. Thank you.
filthgrinder
First Post
I played it. I played as the Shade Wizard. My girlfriend played the Drow Assassin. i didn't get to check out everyone else's characters though. That was actually part of the adventure set-up. The characters didn't know each other previously (except for two of them), and each character had their own background information, and own motives (which, as you can guess, turned out to be conflicting). Our group had a lot of fun with it, and kinda treated it like a "Clue" type adventure, trying to figure out what everyone's goal was.
So, as per the material previewed: I thought the assassin was pretty under powered compared to the non-Essentialized version currently in the game. However, I thought that the adventure itself was really well put together, and a lot of fun.
So, as per the material previewed: I thought the assassin was pretty under powered compared to the non-Essentialized version currently in the game. However, I thought that the adventure itself was really well put together, and a lot of fun.
Are you refering to the executioner being less powerful then the Ossassin? Did it get a nerf? Did you get to summon any undead? Any cool necro or nether features? Thanks for the info.
Considering the non-Essentialized Assassin is utterly terrible, this doesn't sound promising at all. Was it a new build or have they whacked the hell out of the - extremely awesome btw - dragon released essential build?
filthgrinder
First Post
I had some cool new powers, I'll try and get a scan up for the character sheets in a little bit. I'm not sure how good the pregens were made, my wizard had Improved Initiative and Durable as feats. So... Ugh.
The Drow Assassin didn't really seem to have ability to do much damage. It looked like doing the garrote attack, and sustaining it was doing the most damage.
