Assassins Creed Odyssey

Anyway, so far seems my question about the best Deimos seems to be at a tie leaning towards Alexios.

I’d have been fine if that were the mechanism. We’ve been using poison in AC since AC2. It wasn’t, though. The weapons just magically poison anyone hit by them. They were even more powerful in Origins, too, since the “poisoned” status was contagious. Poisoned foes sported a black cloud and would infect anyone who approached them.

It was admittedly fun. You could kill half a city by shooting a single poisoned dart or arrow into a busy intersection. I once was standing in the middle of the road south of Memphis with a horde of soldiers approaching. I had no desire to fight them, even though I could’ve slaughtered them. A cat had followed me all the way out of the city. I lobbed a poison dart into it and ran a few yards off the road. The cat dropped dead immediately, of course, becoming a poisoned trap in the middle of the road. The first rider and his horse got poisoned. His friends dismounted to check on him and were also poisoned. In short order, a pile of dead dudes cluttered the road. I tried that trick again with many other cats, but I never again got it to work quite so beautifully. It was usually easier to just poison one dude and let it spread.

It was pretty fun, but also ridiculous.

Its not just here.  I have watched a series a youtuber is posting called funny moments in Odyssey and the split that I've noticed with Kass is like 80-20.  Not to mention all the other people I've seen playing it or heard playing it in this thread.  I am literally the only person I know who played Alexios first and I am enjoying his performance overall but I think I might like Kass's better, the eveness was a good point, and not like either as much as Tom Taylorson. 

Wait, whe, who, what now? How powerful do you need them to be? Try shooting one in the ground at your feet 😁

The base single damage is not big, true. However, the true power of the Explosive arrow is using it with Multishot at targets close to each other. Preferably from far away. The stacking from all those explosions is certain to shred everyone in the group plus set them on fire. I do it with a Warrior build without the extra Hunter damage and it shreds enemies even on Hard. I do have loads of Fire damage though. Around 250% or so me thinks. Maybe more.

Testing a new "hit and forget" build for giggles. The goal is to set any enemy on fire with just 1 hit and then leave him burn to death with the help of the Agamemnon set (100% burning rate, basically 2 ticks every 1.5 second). With massive fire damage build, 55% crit chance, 250+% crit damage and 30+ seconds extra burn time enemies melt. The biggest challenge so far is reaching the point where you set every enemy type on fire with a single hit. At 300% Elemental buildup there still are enemies that need a second hit - Brutes, Marksmen (surprisingly tough malakas), bears, Elite hoplites and few others high tier enemies. I am close though. My guess is at 350% buildup only the biggest bosses will stand a chance.

I'm all for it the greatest assassins of all time the shinobi's or ninja's and why not in medieval Japan i just love the Samurai and i love medieval Japan and it's history.

And for your other question i'm with dazk and that Alexios should be the Deimos.   

Only on my first playthrough and my protag is Kass. Very much enjoying Alexios as Deimos.

And while I agree that it's unbelievable that at least not ONE person makes mention of being surprised that Kass is a female mercenary... from a very personal standpoint, I appreciate the fuck out of it.

Because I'm a woman. And I heard it SO MUCH growing up because I was a tomboy and liked participating in traditionally "boy" stuff. At first, it was a point of pride to be engaging in manly activities as a girl and hearing the whole "Wow, impressive for a chick" or "Huh, didn't think a chick would be into that/so good at that". But hearing it over and over again... and realizing the backhanded compliments some of those were (because I'm a woman, I should automatically be lesser at that activity than a guy?)... I dunno. It starts to grate. And even when you reach adulthood, if it isn't spoken out loud, you can still hear the undertones of it... at work, for example, as the older males clearly know more/understand more than you, the younger female, do (even though that is not even remotely the case, but we'll table my long rant and rage about that because this isn't the "Does your job suck" thread ).

On a very personal level, it's refreshing to play that badass female protag - and nobody treats her any differently than they would the male protag.

I wish that happened more. A lot more.

I'm wondering the same thing.

Also, is there a way to discover mercenaries who I guess are under your level? For instance, I hit Level 30 yesterday and didn't really start getting bounties/seeing a bunch of mercs until I was around mid-20's. Now, I look at the mercenaries tab and there's all these "undiscovered" below Kass with just a few peppered in that I met randomly on the road or defeated when they came at me.

Or will I basically never run into under-level mercs again (unless I pass by them on the road by chance)?

I am not sure about the actual mechanic but you do get clues as part of the loot you get from some mercenaries. I think its mainly through going to various locations you find them or bump into them and then of course by getting a bounty on your head. 

I have cleared all the mercenaries that appear as icons on the map and have had to resort to running up bounties to attract them, that worked yesterday and ended up moving into the new top tier by beating the woman who was at number one. She actually gave me a good run for my money in combat, I usually respectfully bury the ones that put up a good fight but this one the best I could do was put her in a creek with a Boar I'd watched her kill.   

How far is upgrading the spear for the first time in the game?

So lets see here.

Started off with the same mercenary chasing me and got into another little battle straight outta Arrow. I again tried to get him out of the city in the midst of civillians and sort of engaged him in a rolling bow fight throughout the city, did a pretty good job keeping him at range, the kitty eventually got a little risky.

Afterwards off to Alkibides to help him out with his problem. Firsst off getting a woman out of the city pretending to be a man. We were ambushed and I engaged in my first serious fight from horseback with my bow. The second quest that I had to do with him involved running around and collecting things for his wife to be...Iris. Which was weird since these things were at an 'Altar of Love' which had Spartan Soldiers on it and well she was there so I kind of murdered a bunch of people in front of Alkibide's wife to be. But then she is a really manipulative person, kind of wants to be the power behind the throne because she is convinced that he will 'rule' one day. Honestly think we have a couple of cultists in the making.

Speaking of cultists though (nice segue) off to do another round of cult hunting before I go onto the rest of the story. Thanks to my research I finally found Chrysis and its a quest in Argolis which popped up on my map a while ago but it was in Argolis, and I had no reason to go there. She killed another woman's husband, offered to have me join them, and I killed her.

Got another one which just happened to be another leader of a small island. Killed him good before logging off for the day but got into a bit of a fight with his guards.

So yeah it may be a while still but I have been thinking over the last few days over my mastery levels. It is a bit annoying that I will miss out on a whole bunch of extra ability points, but oh well I guess. My original thought was to put it on health per kill because that's fun but the 2% I have is already pretty good. Just don't know if I should put it in warrior damage because I have zero extra warrior damage, hunter damage because the bow is still my primary thing, or my latest thought was in crit chance/ crit damage because I do like to have high crit damage.

No I meant I just upgraded it so was wondering how far that is.

You can fight them in the city, just hide in a garden or on a roof and use Ghost Arrows. The roof takes care of Kitty as well.