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Post by dazk on Dec 1, 2018 22:44:23 GMT
colfoley did you play Origins? I found the combat in that far more complex and hated it. On PC I really don't find it that hard, the only thing for me is that once you reach a certain level you have 2 separate melee bars and I keep forgetting which one I have active and I hate having to use ~ to change between them. Also and for you too MarilynRobert just an FYI if you didn't realise already killing cultists gets you an Isu token that when you have enough you can upgrade your spear. You really want to do that.  I'm level 11 at the moment and don't have the spear yet...when will I get it? I am glad I mentioned it, you have it from the start, its the spear Kaass/Alexios picks up on the beach and that she/he has when Markos finds her/him. In the Abilities menu it should be a gold square on the left and after Barnabas takes you to the temple of Apollo you'll get a quest about upgrading it from Herodotus I think. |
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Post by saandrig on Dec 1, 2018 22:45:26 GMT
I'm level 11 at the moment and don't have the spear yet...when will I get it? It's the broken spear of Leonidas that you carry with you and use as an offhand weapon. It can be leveled up to 6 levels. At level 3 it unlocks a second melee wheel, at level 5 it unlocks the purchase for Tier 3 for many abilities. The main story will teach you about leveling the spear when you reach a certain point. |
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Post by MarilynRobert on Dec 1, 2018 22:55:32 GMT
As you guys can probably tell, I've never played the AC games and hardly knew ACO existed until last week. I've never gone so blindly into a game before...I love spoilers and usually have myself completely spoiled. It's fun this way but I'll be a lot better when I play the game with a new character.  Glad I've got lots of help here  |
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Post by colfoley on Dec 1, 2018 23:05:55 GMT
Sooooo I started. As Alexios. And I'm impressed so far. Didn't get too far into it but. The good: So far this game just oozes personality and character. Alexios is a proper little wise ass and Markos is quite cool but again its just...everything about this game. The game is also gorgeous. Graphically and the animations look spot on. The bad: The combat is going to take a looooooot to get used to. I am not sure I like that the attack button is a one press one attack deal and I can't hold it down like with DA I. I mean with the dodge and the rolls and the counter attacks much like with Witcher 3 I think it makes a lot of sense why you don't want to have you press it down, but not sure I like it. Speaking of Witcher 3 though I was more then amused in my first few fights I kept on hitting 'square' and 'triangle' instinctively even though its probably been a year since I've played Wild Hunt. Now that I am thinking about it I think the problem is going to be that its a one trick pony since the attack button seems to MOSTLY be one button whereas Witcher varied it up...and DA I you could hold it down. But if I have to press that button all the time it could turn into that button mash fest from DA 2. I suppose I'll get used to it and maybe the abilities will spice it up (or even more hopefully my play style will make it so my fights are short and brutal). And that was a much longer rant then I anticipated... Anyways for my build what I wanna do is focus on Hunter abilities every time I level up at least mosstly unless I am all caught up on them and then any ability points I find out in the world I will put into assassin ailities. That is after I get second wind and the sparta kick. did you play Origins? I found the combat in that far more complex and hated it. On PC I really don't find it that hard, the only thing for me is that once you reach a certain level you have 2 separate melee bars and I keep forgetting which one I have active and I hate having to use ~ to change between them. Also and for you too MarilynRobert just an FYI if you didn't realise already killing cultists gets you an Isu token that when you have enough you can upgrade your spear. You really want to do that. this is my first Creed game. |
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Dec 1, 2018 23:40:08 GMT
I'm level 11 at the moment and don't have the spear yet...when will I get it? I am glad I mentioned it, you have it from the start, its the spear Kaass/Alexios picks up on the beach and that she/he has when Markos finds her/him. In the Abilities menu it should be a gold square on the left and after Barnabas takes you to the temple of Apollo you'll get a quest about upgrading it from Herodotus I think. *cough* The spear has always been with Kass / Alexios since they were a child. The leveling of the spear begins when the protag reaches Phoki. There she meets Herodotus and they discovered the movers behind the Pythia. Herodotus asked the protag to meet them at a certain place after the revelation. During that meeting, he would suggest the protag visit a certain place where the ruins of the first people could be found.
I accidentally discovered that drachmae could be picked up after a conquest battle. Visit the staging camps of both sides after the battle, you will find it deserted and corpses littered the camps. Drachmae can be found on them and a few coin pouches scattered about. I also visit the camps even if there're no CB because these camps are often inhabited by wild animals. Good place to get skins.  |
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Post by MarilynRobert on Dec 2, 2018 0:20:56 GMT
I am glad I mentioned it, you have it from the start, its the spear Kaass/Alexios picks up on the beach and that she/he has when Markos finds her/him. In the Abilities menu it should be a gold square on the left and after Barnabas takes you to the temple of Apollo you'll get a quest about upgrading it from Herodotus I think. * cough* The spear has always been with Kass / Alexios since they were a child. The leveling of the spear begins when the protag reaches Phoki. There she meets Herodotus and they discovered the movers behind the Pythia. Herodotus asked the protag to meet them at a certain place after the revelation. During that meeting, he would suggest the protag visit a certain place where the ruins of the first people could be found.
I accidentally discovered that drachmae could be picked up after a conquest battle. Visit the staging camps of both sides after the battle, you will find it deserted and corpses littered the camps. Drachmae can be found on them and a few coin pouches scattered about. I also visit the camps even if there're no CB because these camps are often inhabited by wild animals. Good place to get skins. Oops, my next game will be better than this one  |
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Post by dazk on Dec 2, 2018 2:00:31 GMT
* cough* The spear has always been with Kass / Alexios since they were a child. The leveling of the spear begins when the protag reaches Phoki. There she meets Herodotus and they discovered the movers behind the Pythia. Herodotus asked the protag to meet them at a certain place after the revelation. During that meeting, he would suggest the protag visit a certain place where the ruins of the first people could be found.
I accidentally discovered that drachmae could be picked up after a conquest battle. Visit the staging camps of both sides after the battle, you will find it deserted and corpses littered the camps. Drachmae can be found on them and a few coin pouches scattered about. I also visit the camps even if there're no CB because these camps are often inhabited by wild animals. Good place to get skins. Oops, my next game will be better than this one  Make sure you search the battlefield afterwards if you don't already.  It says you are away on Uplay so I am not messaging you, please don't think I am ignoring you. |
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Dec 2, 2018 6:47:58 GMT
Went to Chios. Cleared the huge huntress camp there, picked up the gorgon disk. Didn't bother with two ! quests. One is the huntress who's captured by soldiers. I find this quest rather lame. She sent you to rescue the wolves and didn't bother to come along to make sure her precious would not attack their rescuer. If they're killed, she blamed the protag. The other is the would-be-huntress who wanted all the gear handed to her and no huntress must be hurt. Sorry girl, go get them yourself.
I'm not going to pick the Chios bear hide quest on another island. I happened to get all the hides in the last PT before picking up that quest. The game did not register that the hides were already in the inventory and there was no further dialogue option, meaning I had to repeat the killing again? Nope.
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Post by MarilynRobert on Dec 2, 2018 8:02:46 GMT
Oops, my next game will be better than this one Make sure you search the battlefield afterwards if you don't already. It says you are away on Uplay so I am not messaging you, please don't think I am ignoring you. I've searching everything and everyone I guess I have it on away all the time...I need to take that off Almost 15 now...moving up slowly. |
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Post by colfoley on Dec 2, 2018 9:33:54 GMT
So two quick notes from yesterdays gameplay before talking about today's:
I can add Ikaros into the 'love' column. There is always something about the 'semi sentient pet trope' that is just endearing and Ikaros so far seems to be a farily good example (plus that name!)
Also when I was messing around with the settings I noticed that there was a control for how often exploration music would trigger was available, so I set it as high as it could go thanks to my experiences with DAI...
So onto today. I got up to level 4 and introducing myself to Epinos...whatever his name is. And suffice it to say I might be impressively wrong about the combat. The verdict still might be out (more on that in a moment) but I am rather enjoying the short and brutal nature of it so far. The assasinations, well I have not managed to not one shot kill a guy with one yet. There is certainly a wait and see/ tactical approach to the combat to where if you are patient you can pick people off with the bow (which I unlocked oh happy day!) or if you are patient you can go around assasinating people. The dodges seems intuitive but it seems I will really have to stick to and learn how to properly execute parries. I am also enjoying the bow combat so far and am having fairly good luck picking people off, not so good yet at when they are charging at me but then the bow is not the best weapon for that always in the first place...especially with the mechanics. Wish there were more ways to slow down time *cough*.
This game so far seems to be rather...clever...in how it deals with tutorializing and explaining what the player needs to do and giving good justification for some of the stuff that Alexios goes to. Perhaps my favorite example...though maybe this does not apply?...was during the quest 'merciful gods' I had to investigate the area. It was clever because Alexios had to investigate the area to make sure the woman wasn't a quack or just trying to cheat...well Hermes in this case. It was also cute how Alexios handled that whole situation by 'pretending' to be Hermes
It does strike me as interesting, from an RP perspective, that so far Alexios seems to be an out and out 'atheist'. Without any input from the player. Always something I like having an opinion on and I think it could be interesting to play more of a religious mistios...given the circumstances and some of the thrust of the game's plot.
Anyways the characterizations are still good, enjoying Alexios, Markos is fun, and Phoibe...is eager.
Finally last thing I did before quiting for the night and handing it over to my fiancee is I dealt with Talos as a level 4 and he was a 5. Took me two goes. When I got him I was able to put two or three arrows into him which knocked him down quite significantly...and then he got me two or three times putting me on the edge of death. I danced in and out of range of him with my dagger and realized it was doing jack shit for damage (seems that no matter what level you are it also is significant what level your gear is). So I had to leap out and I had to desperaley bow him...but I got him.
So with that it was funny based on comments I read here I was thinking about, for RP reasons, if Alexios was going to be a murderous little b-tard or deal with people non violently. But then I realized I did kill those initial two thugs so already established Alexios as being a murderous bastard...oh well maybe that can be part of his arc. On the other hand I know that I am going to need to do non violent stuff, maybe, to get some nice lieutenants because I could very easily make liberal use of the 'call to arms ability'.
Oh almost forgot in your choices mattering I was doing the quest to get the Cylops's eye and Markos was all 'don't be seen', but it didn't mention that in the objectives and I got into a tussle with the bandits...so one of them showed up at Markos's vineyard harrasing people. I dealt with him easily enoug (almost died) but well done, very subtle.
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Post by dazk on Dec 2, 2018 10:56:14 GMT
So two quick notes from yesterdays gameplay before talking about today's: I can add Ikaros into the 'love' column. There is always something about the 'semi sentient pet trope' that is just endearing and Ikaros so far seems to be a farily good example (plus that name!) Also when I was messing around with the settings I noticed that there was a control for how often exploration music would trigger was available, so I set it as high as it could go thanks to my experiences with DAI... So onto today. I got up to level 4 and introducing myself to Epinos...whatever his name is. And suffice it to say I might be impressively wrong about the combat. The verdict still might be out (more on that in a moment) but I am rather enjoying the short and brutal nature of it so far. The assasinations, well I have not managed to not one shot kill a guy with one yet. There is certainly a wait and see/ tactical approach to the combat to where if you are patient you can pick people off with the bow (which I unlocked oh happy day!) or if you are patient you can go around assasinating people. The dodges seems intuitive but it seems I will really have to stick to and learn how to properly execute parries. I am also enjoying the bow combat so far and am having fairly good luck picking people off, not so good yet at when they are charging at me but then the bow is not the best weapon for that always in the first place...especially with the mechanics. Wish there were more ways to slow down time *cough*. This game so far seems to be rather...clever...in how it deals with tutorializing and explaining what the player needs to do and giving good justification for some of the stuff that Alexios goes to. Perhaps my favorite example...though maybe this does not apply?...was during the quest 'merciful gods' I had to investigate the area. It was clever because Alexios had to investigate the area to make sure the woman wasn't a quack or just trying to cheat...well Hermes in this case. It was also cute how Alexios handled that whole situation by 'pretending' to be Hermes It does strike me as interesting, from an RP perspective, that so far Alexios seems to be an out and out 'atheist'. Without any input from the player. Always something I like having an opinion on and I think it could be interesting to play more of a religious mistios...given the circumstances and some of the thrust of the game's plot. Anyways the characterizations are still good, enjoying Alexios, Markos is fun, and Phoibe...is eager. Finally last thing I did before quiting for the night and handing it over to my fiancee is I dealt with Talos as a level 4 and he was a 5. Took me two goes. When I got him I was able to put two or three arrows into him which knocked him down quite significantly...and then he got me two or three times putting me on the edge of death. I danced in and out of range of him with my dagger and realized it was doing jack shit for damage (seems that no matter what level you are it also is significant what level your gear is). So I had to leap out and I had to desperaley bow him...but I got him. So with that it was funny based on comments I read here I was thinking about, for RP reasons, if Alexios was going to be a murderous little b-tard or deal with people non violently. But then I realized I did kill those initial two thugs so already established Alexios as being a murderous bastard...oh well maybe that can be part of his arc. On the other hand I know that I am going to need to do non violent stuff, maybe, to get some nice lieutenants because I could very easily make liberal use of the 'call to arms ability'. Oh almost forgot in your choices mattering I was doing the quest to get the Cylops's eye and Markos was all 'don't be seen', but it didn't mention that in the objectives and I got into a tussle with the bandits...so one of them showed up at Markos's vineyard harrasing people. I dealt with him easily enoug (almost died) but well done, very subtle. When Ikaros is sitting on your hand if you stand still fir a bit on PC if you hit "E" you can feed or pat her. |
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Dec 2, 2018 11:21:33 GMT
I like to spend some minutes contemplating what these wall murals (they're interesting) in the tomb mean;  This one is directly above the corpse. I suppose it depicts his occupation? A queue before him, waiting to be served / assessed / payment? There's a bull in the background.  A man and a woman feeding / making offerings to snakes. Were they hoping for rebirth? Snakes are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing in ancient Greece. |
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Post by colfoley on Dec 2, 2018 17:22:08 GMT
So two quick notes from yesterdays gameplay before talking about today's: I can add Ikaros into the 'love' column. There is always something about the 'semi sentient pet trope' that is just endearing and Ikaros so far seems to be a farily good example (plus that name!) Also when I was messing around with the settings I noticed that there was a control for how often exploration music would trigger was available, so I set it as high as it could go thanks to my experiences with DAI... So onto today. I got up to level 4 and introducing myself to Epinos...whatever his name is. And suffice it to say I might be impressively wrong about the combat. The verdict still might be out (more on that in a moment) but I am rather enjoying the short and brutal nature of it so far. The assasinations, well I have not managed to not one shot kill a guy with one yet. There is certainly a wait and see/ tactical approach to the combat to where if you are patient you can pick people off with the bow (which I unlocked oh happy day!) or if you are patient you can go around assasinating people. The dodges seems intuitive but it seems I will really have to stick to and learn how to properly execute parries. I am also enjoying the bow combat so far and am having fairly good luck picking people off, not so good yet at when they are charging at me but then the bow is not the best weapon for that always in the first place...especially with the mechanics. Wish there were more ways to slow down time *cough*. This game so far seems to be rather...clever...in how it deals with tutorializing and explaining what the player needs to do and giving good justification for some of the stuff that Alexios goes to. Perhaps my favorite example...though maybe this does not apply?...was during the quest 'merciful gods' I had to investigate the area. It was clever because Alexios had to investigate the area to make sure the woman wasn't a quack or just trying to cheat...well Hermes in this case. It was also cute how Alexios handled that whole situation by 'pretending' to be Hermes It does strike me as interesting, from an RP perspective, that so far Alexios seems to be an out and out 'atheist'. Without any input from the player. Always something I like having an opinion on and I think it could be interesting to play more of a religious mistios...given the circumstances and some of the thrust of the game's plot. Anyways the characterizations are still good, enjoying Alexios, Markos is fun, and Phoibe...is eager. Finally last thing I did before quiting for the night and handing it over to my fiancee is I dealt with Talos as a level 4 and he was a 5. Took me two goes. When I got him I was able to put two or three arrows into him which knocked him down quite significantly...and then he got me two or three times putting me on the edge of death. I danced in and out of range of him with my dagger and realized it was doing jack shit for damage (seems that no matter what level you are it also is significant what level your gear is). So I had to leap out and I had to desperaley bow him...but I got him. So with that it was funny based on comments I read here I was thinking about, for RP reasons, if Alexios was going to be a murderous little b-tard or deal with people non violently. But then I realized I did kill those initial two thugs so already established Alexios as being a murderous bastard...oh well maybe that can be part of his arc. On the other hand I know that I am going to need to do non violent stuff, maybe, to get some nice lieutenants because I could very easily make liberal use of the 'call to arms ability'. Oh almost forgot in your choices mattering I was doing the quest to get the Cylops's eye and Markos was all 'don't be seen', but it didn't mention that in the objectives and I got into a tussle with the bandits...so one of them showed up at Markos's vineyard harrasing people. I dealt with him easily enoug (almost died) but well done, very subtle. When Ikaros is sitting on your hand if you stand still fir a bit on PC if you hit "E" you can feed or pat her. Its a her? Fascinating. |
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Post by saandrig on Dec 2, 2018 19:16:39 GMT
When Ikaros is sitting on your hand if you stand still fir a bit on PC if you hit "E" you can feed or pat her. Its a her? Fascinating. It's a "him". Senu from AC Origins is a "her". |
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Post by dazk on Dec 2, 2018 22:36:18 GMT
When Ikaros is sitting on your hand if you stand still fir a bit on PC if you hit "E" you can feed or pat her. Its a her? Fascinating. Actually, I didn't think when I wrote "her" but remembering now that Kassandra sometimes calls "him" King of the Eagles.  |
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Post by dazk on Dec 3, 2018 1:46:47 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't.
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Post by colfoley on Dec 3, 2018 5:16:07 GMT
So where to begin?
Its funny, it was a bit of a theme today of when I was complaining and or praising the game for something it would then almost immedietly do that thing before I could get the sentence out. The most glaring example ironically is me noting yesterday that the game forced you into being an atheist (again important role playing choice which is frankly odd given the setting), but oh ho today I got a dialogue option which basically led to Alexios saying in some variation of that he was 'indeed sent by the Gods'. Now I picked it at first given I was expecting Alexios to remark on the subject sarcastically...instead he was a borderline arrogant prick. Speaking of paparaphrase not matching with what comes out of the character's mouth I forget what the prompt was but I was expecting Alexios to be a little aggressive, and he ends up jumping down the poor woman's throat and I was like 'easy there buddy'. This is what happens when your 'dialgoeue system' does not have tone icons. Sure its not always perfect but I feel that could help avoid some of these things.
On the bits where I am impressed with the game on the way dealing with a quest I saw a side area so I made my infiltration there killed everyone in there and then got into a fight with the Cyclops. Then I went back to get a new quest, and I wasn't that interested in the quest but on the way home I bumped into the guy who was wanting to be freed anyways. It was a clever and interesting bit of gameplay that those were the guards.
Anyways with that done I was finally able to get out of Kepholina and into the wide wide world. A brief and fun naval tutorial ensued where I finally learned how to recruit people...as an aside I only just picked up the 'shadow Assassin' ability so hopefully I will be able to have more and varied Lieutenant's soon. Then got into a fight with a boat....wait the fight with the boat was first...and then got into a fight with the Athenian naval blockade of Magaris....(I know I am butching the names)...but anyways got to the second little island there and boy it feels like the game just sort of did the equivalent of throwing me out of the nest and expecting me to fly. It has gotten a lot harder and more perlious, kind of my fault I think. Holding my own but A. when I first got there I saw a merc named Homer and went 'oh Homer sounds good for a recruit!' and I ended up starting a massive pitched battle which got my bounty raised to two heads with a level I think like 5 and a level 9 merc joining the frey. Finally I decided discretion was the better part of valor and fell back into some bushes to wait them out. Then it was off to the nearby Athenian Fort where I basically snuck in and got the main objective there. Then I retreated but saw that a few of the other objectives to help the Spartans there were also there so I went around trying to assassinate the guards, burn the supplies, and loot the chests. The problem was I think the boss of the fort came upon me and I tried to assassinate me...it didn't go too well and was my first non one hit one kill assassination. And well then a few more Athenians joined in, then I died. Second attempt tried to do the same thing but this time that level 9 merc hunting me showed up so I decided that discretion was the better part of valor so I picked up sticks.
Left off on the day me and my fiancee had to go out so I was just killing time and trying to kill random soldiers to get my level to 8...well then it was the same area as Homer and it started another massive brawl. Though I won this one and got my level...but then it occured to me I think these peeps I have been killing might be Spartans..so there goes my immersion.
A lot to learn and keep track of in this game I Realllllyy need shield breaker. As much as I am loathe to get it it just seems to be neccessary given when I have to deal with in my fights. Also while I started off doing awesomely with predator shot but now it seems I have entirely been failing to do it. Though maybe I am not entirely sure how archery abilities work at this point either...
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Dec 3, 2018 6:27:57 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't. Saandrig would have a better idea. I never bother to equip the demi-god set because I always stop since by the time it's acquired, I've opened all the zones and done the main story. Nothing to do thereafter. P.S. dazk , I just noticed you have the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear quote under your avatar. Has it always been there?  |
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Post by dazk on Dec 3, 2018 6:53:16 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't. Saandrig would have a better idea. I never bother to equip the demi-god set because I always stop since by the time it's acquired, I've opened all the zones and done the main story. Nothing to do thereafter. P.S. dazk , I just noticed you have the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear quote under your avatar. Has it always been there? Thanks I have heaps to still clear so thought I'd give it go, I am not sure its stacking but I am certainly doing some good damage. No it hasn't, just a lot of shit going on in my life atm so it seemed appropriate. |
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Post by MarilynRobert on Dec 3, 2018 7:53:03 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't. Saandrig would have a better idea. I never bother to equip the demi-god set because I always stop since by the time it's acquired, I've opened all the zones and done the main story. Nothing to do thereafter. P.S. dazk , I just noticed you have the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear quote under your avatar. Has it always been there? The quote he had before this one was the "goat" quote from the game we are playing now. |
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Post by colfoley on Dec 3, 2018 8:00:16 GMT
Oh I did love Alexios sticking the eye up the goat's ass, the look on his face! Plus Cyclops's enraging.
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Post by saandrig on Dec 3, 2018 8:23:22 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't. The stat page is known to be glitchy, so don't trust it much. Now, it needs some trial since I don't use such stacking and prefer my engravings to be mostly focused on stats that increase overall passives and not focused on specific ability. My guess would be that the Demigod set should stack with the 20 % ones, but we shal see. Will run some tests when I can. |
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Post by dazk on Dec 3, 2018 8:37:35 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon saandrig do you know if when you are wearing the demi-god set and you get a 30% bonus to all abilities, does specific ability bonuses like for heroic strike stack or are they cancelled out by the 30% of the armour? I am guessing that they do because they still show up in the detailed stats page whereas other stacked stuff didn't. The stat page is known to be glitchy, so don't trust it much. Now, it needs some trial since I don't use such stacking and prefer my engravings to be mostly focused on stats that increase overall passives and not focused on specific ability. My guess would be that the Demigod set should stack with the 20 % ones, but we shal see. Will run some tests when I can. Thank you, I ditched some defensive passives for ability ones and definitely noticed some significant damage being done to me against a couple of merc's which I hadn't experienced before but couldn't overly see any benefits in attack other than I changed from poison to fire. |
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Post by saandrig on Dec 3, 2018 8:44:02 GMT
The stat page is known to be glitchy, so don't trust it much. Now, it needs some trial since I don't use such stacking and prefer my engravings to be mostly focused on stats that increase overall passives and not focused on specific ability. My guess would be that the Demigod set should stack with the 20 % ones, but we shal see. Will run some tests when I can. Thank you, I ditched some defensive passives for ability ones and definitely noticed some significant damage being done to me against a couple of merc's which I hadn't experienced before but couldn't overly see any benefits in attack other than I changed from poison to fire.
Just did some tests with the Demigod set and a Hero Strike ability on and off. It doesn't seem they stack since the damage per Hero strike hit remains the same within 3k difference both with and without the Hero Strike passive. Would have been nice if they stacked, but they probably modify the same damage value and Ubisoft said while back that the same Legendary engravings don't stack, so I guess it's the same case here.
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Post by dazk on Dec 3, 2018 9:31:57 GMT
Thank you, I ditched some defensive passives for ability ones and definitely noticed some significant damage being done to me against a couple of merc's which I hadn't experienced before but couldn't overly see any benefits in attack other than I changed from poison to fire.
Just did some tests with the Demigod set and a Hero Strike ability on and off. It doesn't seem they stack since the damage per Hero strike hit remains the same within 3k difference both with and without the Hero Strike passive. Would have been nice if they stacked, but they probably modify the same damage value and Ubisoft said while back that the same Legendary engravings don't stack, so I guess it's the same case here.
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