Current Events > DrizztLink stumbles through Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Ongoing spoilers.

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Daggers or faeblade primary, chakram secondary.

Mostly Finesse and Sorcery, but I'm trying to catch Might up a bit.

Chain lightning, the "throw dirt and knives" thing, quake, and the rushing behind the guy Finesse thing for spells with Envenomed active. Probably gonna change that rush one.

Wayfarer for destiny.

Most of my points are in Detect Hidden (I like it).

Probably gonna respec to make sure I didn't put any in lockpicking because it's stupidly easy. Then focus on blacksmith, dispelling, persuade. Don't really care about Alchemy thusfar.

Pretty much just run in, stab people and throw my frisbees around, cast spells when I remember.
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It's been years, but that's kinda what I did, accept with a arrows for my ranged, instead of chackrams. That scatter shot is sick. Envenomed is really powerful. Blacksmithing is nice to repair your eq in the field. I found detect hidden to be very rewarding to. I found many of the side quest lines to be really interesting. Man, I wanna play this game again. Maybe go sorcerer for a different experience.
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LordRazziel posted...

Maybe go sorcerer for a different experience.

It's fun. Like most people, once I got some chakrams, I pretty much used nothing else.
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I don't trust the Summer King.
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Hit up a Fateweaver.

Changed my ability distribution a bit, maxed out Blacksmithing and Detect Hidden.

Might need to sink some bits back into dispelling.
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Made some pretty nice faeblades and chakram.

Also a new pair of pants.
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I'm fairly sure I know how it works, but:

If I buy training in a skill, said point is permanent? So if I fateweave after buying persuade training, it resets to 1 rather than 0?

And the same with racial boosts?
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DrizztLink posted...

I'm fairly sure I know how it works, but:

If I buy training in a skill, said point is permanent? So if I fateweave after buying persuade training, it resets to 1 rather than 0?

And the same with racial boosts?

Yes. It's also possible to miss trainer points if you use them in wrong order and there's at least 1 missable trainer. Just a heads up.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

sylverlolol posted...

Amazing game. Go warrior/melee unless you enjoy taking forever to kill stuff. :)

wat

you can kill everything on screen with one Meteor as a Mage

Sure...by the end of the game.
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as a battlemage every fight was down to attrition since I had so much health
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Dropping meteors to kill hordes of those red mages on Hard...that's when you're enlightened by your euphoria. Too bad about its downtime, though.
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K-driver posted...

DrizztLink posted...

I'm fairly sure I know how it works, but:

If I buy training in a skill, said point is permanent? So if I fateweave after buying persuade training, it resets to 1 rather than 0?

And the same with racial boosts?

Yes. It's also possible to miss trainer points if you use them in wrong order and there's at least 1 missable trainer. Just a heads up.

How so?
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Shotgunnova posted...

Dropping meteors to kill hordes of those red mages on Hard...that's when you're enlightened by your euphoria. Too bad about its downtime, though.

the enemies are generally so far spaced apart that if you only use it on the large groups you'll always have it ready. Typically it's not worth it to kill 2 wolves with it or something similar.
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Sometimes you meet two wolves who just need to be taught a lesson, though.

I think my main use for it was (when writing my FAQ) farming a niskaru that appeared on the beach of the Dead Kel DLC. You could just kill it, reload, then try again to get rare equipment and accessories. I'm sure you can do similar things with other niskaru, but that's the only surefire respawning one to my recollection.
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I'm starting to have trouble with getting the extra xp during the button tapping segments.

It's one of the quickest QTEs I've seen.
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I fucking love this bounty for Freeman armbands.

Just by wandering around, I got 17 of them.

23 thousand gold for doing what I would have done anyway.

Call me The Combine.
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DrizztLink posted...

I fucking love this bounty for Freeman armbands.

Just by wandering around, I got 17 of them.

23 thousand gold for doing what I would have done anyway.

Call me The Combine.

I believe that's also repeatable, or they always let you turn in more. So, easy money. Of course, money is extra easy to get in the game anyways.
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DrizztLink posted...

K-driver posted...

DrizztLink posted...

I'm fairly sure I know how it works, but:

If I buy training in a skill, said point is permanent? So if I fateweave after buying persuade training, it resets to 1 rather than 0?

And the same with racial boosts?

Yes. It's also possible to miss trainer points if you use them in wrong order and there's at least 1 missable trainer. Just a heads up.

How so?

Each trainer will only train you in a skill if you are at or below a certain level in that skill. So, a Novice Blacksmith trainer will only train you if you have 3 or less skill points in BS. However, an Expert BS trainer doesn't care what level you are, since as long as you aren't maxed out, you can train with him. So, it's possible to find a higher level trainer before a low one, use that high level training because you don't know about the lower one, and therefor possibly be outside of the low level trainers training range, therefor missing potential permanent point in that skill.
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superstud69x posted...

I believe that's also repeatable, or they always let you turn in more. So, easy money. Of course, money is extra easy to get in the game anyways.

Yeah, done it twice now to the tune of about 45 thousand gold.

superstud69x posted...

DrizztLink posted...

K-driver posted...

DrizztLink posted...

I'm fairly sure I know how it works, but:

If I buy training in a skill, said point is permanent? So if I fateweave after buying persuade training, it resets to 1 rather than 0?

And the same with racial boosts?

Yes. It's also possible to miss trainer points if you use them in wrong order and there's at least 1 missable trainer. Just a heads up.

How so?

Each trainer will only train you in a skill if you are at or below a certain level in that skill. So, a Novice Blacksmith trainer will only train you if you have 3 or less skill points in BS. However, an Expert BS trainer doesn't care what level you are, since as long as you aren't maxed out, you can train with him. So, it's possible to find a higher level trainer before a low one, use that high level training because you don't know about the lower one, and therefor possibly be outside of the low level trainers training range, therefor missing potential permanent point in that skill.

Couldn't I technically hit a Fateweaver and hold off on reallocating points until training?
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DrizztLink posted...

Couldn't I technically hit a Fateweaver and hold off on reallocating points until training?

Yeah, thats what I did. But its still possible, say with base racials, or a skill book, to accidentally go over the limiting level. So just be careful, and if you see an intermediate or advanced trainer before you find a basic, just ignore it until you find the lower one.
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http://amalur.wikia.com/wiki/Skills

That has a list of where the skill books are and what level trainers for each skill are located, if you feel like using it. Don't have to, but some people like these things.
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Got the dlc.

Took a gamble on the item pack.
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I liked the DLCs, they had some interesting stories
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Ok. People.

STOP GIVING ME PURPLE GREATSWORDS AS A REWARD I HAVE LITERALLY NEVER EVEN TOUCHED ONE

You might as well just straight up hand me the gold.
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I'm in the Dokkalfar city now.

Holy shit prices went up.
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Got the start for the Dead Kel dlc.
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Whoops.

Hit up a Fateweaver because I found a detect hidden book, accidentally forgot to put points back into my dagger and faeblades special moves.
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Did the Derfel labors quest.

Really nice loot, but nothing I use.
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Every time I break down an item I don't care about, I get good shit.

But try to get a decent set of faeblade components? Trim and rivets, every time.
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Wandering around aimlessly from quest to quest as they pop up.

I should probably do more story ones, these teists of fate seem useful.
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I think they patched the backpack glitch.

At least, I can't get it to work.
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Running through the Arcana questline.

I'm waiting for the Archsage's sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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The sudden but inevitable betrayal happened, but from the other guy who I guess I recognize.

It's a little hard to distinguish characters.

Also, I think I have my Pillars of Eternity team finalized.

Moon Godlike Cipher
Edr
The barbarian chick from WM who I keep thinking is an orc
Hiravius
Aloth
Devil of Canneroc
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About to meet the Archsage.
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I'm beating up an ancient bitch in an old dude's mind.
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I guess now I need to beat up an ancient bitch in the courtyard now.
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Well, that was straightforward.

Fucked her right in the face. Got like 25 thousand xp for it too.
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My new quarters have a button to... summon birds to get eaten by Brownies.

Outstanding.
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Been awhile since I did the magic college questline. Doesn't its final boss appear in the courtyard or something?
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Yeah. She also imprisoned the last Archsage in her place, but apparently we don't care about that.
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After looking at the wiki, the part that stands out the most is when the mage dude tries jumping off the cliff, after you haul ass all the way to the summit, lmao.
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I changed some stuff around and am now a Warlock.

I can switch back to Prodigy for crafting. Left 3 points empty in smithing, have a ring to Max it on top of that +2.
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So the Lower Tunnels are Rathir's ghetto, but I found piles of gold lying around everywhere.
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I should probably do the DLC at some point.

The rest of my faction quests are way far away at the moment.
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DrizztLink posted...

I should probably do the DLC at some point.

The rest of my faction quests are way far away at the moment.

The gladiator Colosseum is honestly my favorite chunk of the game. Its one of the first things I do every play through.
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meestermj posted...

DrizztLink posted...

I should probably do the DLC at some point.

The rest of my faction quests are way far away at the moment.

The gladiator Colosseum is honestly my favorite chunk of the game. Its one of the first things I do every play through.

Where is that, anyway?

I honestly have no idea.
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DrizztLink posted...

meestermj posted...

DrizztLink posted...

I should probably do the DLC at some point.

The rest of my faction quests are way far away at the moment.

The gladiator Colosseum is honestly my favorite chunk of the game. Its one of the first things I do every play through.

Where is that, anyway?

I honestly have no idea.

There should be a map marker for it iirc.

"The House of Valor is located in Alserund, Detyre, at the far right side, close to the Circle of Engard."

Love those quests man.
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