Current Events > ITT: I play Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning (ongoing spoilers)

(+) Yeah! (+)

I've already played the original, though, the spoiler tags are for others' benefits only. In the past, you'd have to play on Hard to get a true challenge, but I dunno if that's required now with rebalancing stuff. Eh well. Hard it is.



---

Alrighty, gonna do a mage build so my chick can live up to her namesake.







---

Damn, already found a glitch. Killed this bandit dude in the forest, then learned a dude had a bounty on him. Went back, can't pick up his daggers because they're unrecoverable near the side of a stream. So much for that!

---

You should start over before it's too late there's an even harder difficulty now

---

I want it to be hard enough that I can have a challenge, but not so hard that enemies can tank my meteors. :P

---

Shotgunnova posted...

I want it to be hard enough that I can have a challenge, but not so hard that enemies can tank my meteors. :P

Finding an enemy that could survive a meteor was like a Saitama "he's still alive after one punch?" Moment for me IMO.

---

I think there are some Niskarus who can eat a meteor on Hard mode. At least, I remember a few from the 360 days. Used to farm one on a beach in the Dead Kel DLC and I think it survived on occasion.

---

Niskarus were the most likely to survive yeah. Certain Trolls could survive it too. You know there weren't really a lot of "single dangerous" type enemies in that game now that I think about it. Almost the whole game is just killing lots of little things until you get to a boss.

---

I started KOA like 2 years ago playing the 360 version with back compat.
I got about 10 or so hours in before falling off it. It just moved kind of slowly and didn't really inspire me tbh.

---

Yeah, there's a lot of boring fetch quests early on. Once you start getting to the plains or that dwarf town down south, things get a little more enjoyable. It's one forest after another after you leave that first tower, haha.

---

You can kind of ignore most of the early quests except for Canneroc. You really only need to do Canneroc + the faction quests & the faction quests aren't even in the starting areas. They just start out that way.

---

Looking at a world map, I think I got past Ysa but I don't remember much after that.

---

Yeah, I'm definitely going to do the faction quests, although I'm really only interested in the mage academy one. I'm not gonna respec later or anything, so I might just ignore some of the others, even if they are kinda fun (like the one with the Hierophant). Come to think of it, I think one of the mage guild quests is near Ysa, in that fae town.






It's cool that they kept the Mass Effect stuff in. I'm not gonna bother claiming it (can't put it back and it's not on my current build), but I wonder if they changed anything about it -- descriptions, look, etc.

---

Did they come out with the expansion yet? I haven't been keeping up.

---

I was an assassin the last time I played
---

Shotgunnova posted...

Yeah, I'm definitely going to do the faction quests, although I'm really only interested in the mage academy one. I'm not gonna respec later or anything, so I might just ignore some of the others, even if they are kinda fun (like the one with the Hierophant). Come to think of it, I think one of the mage guild quests is near Ysa, in that fae town.

I believe the mage guild starts in Ysa


---

Hmm, yeah, it might start there. You have to do some test and some evil force overwhelms n00b mages or something.

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

I was an assassin the last time I played

I don't think I've ever gone through as an assassin. Not big on knives. Sneaking around is good, though, and you can actually occasionally pickpocket NPCs for rare equipment.

---

I forget where Canneroc is, but if it's that town in the spider forest, I should go there. I distinctly remember being able to get my own house there -- maybe I can stash some of this gold-tier equipment there.

---

Shotgunnova posted...

I forget where Canneroc is, but if it's that town in the spider forest, I should go there. I distinctly remember being able to get my own house there -- maybe I can stash some of this gold-tier equipment there.

That's Canneroc.

You can get multiple houses in the game with stashes but Canneroc is the first one and it's doable essentially as soon as you exit the pit of resurrection.

---

Yeah, I made for Canneroc immediately. I forget what quest gives me the house, but eh well, I'll just do a few quests here and there to find out. Don't feel like looking anything up (I wrote an FAQ for this game 8+ years ago!).

EDIT: Actually, I might look up what places sell backpacks. Haven't found any yet. Maybe there's one in Gorhart? I'm curious if anyone else remembers the glitch to buy tens or hundreds of backpacks at the risk of messing up the game. Might've been patched out for the rerelease.

---

Shotgunnova posted...

Yeah, I made for Canneroc immediately. I forget what quest gives me the house, but eh well, I'll just do a few quests here and there to find out. Don't feel like looking anything up (I wrote an FAQ for this game 8+ years ago!).

EDIT: Actually, I might look up what places sell backpacks. Haven't found any yet. Maybe there's one in Gorhart? I'm curious if anyone else remembers the glitch to buy tens or hundreds of backpacks at the risk of messing up the game. Might've been patched out for the rerelease.

The backpack glitch was fixed I think but they made inventory improvements and also fixed a few bugs with unremovable items.

---

The backpack glitch was buying a backpack from Mineroth? Whatever is called in the last town before endgame. You buy it kill him then reload. Then you still have the backpack then you can keep doing it as long as you want.

I may be missing a step

---

I hope they increased backpack size overall.

As for improvements, I think they did something with crafting/weapon components. Don't know if anyone remembers the original, but by the lategame, you'd end up with a ridiculous amount of jank that would take forever to sift through (I don't think things stacked properly). If they fixed that, I'm all for it.

---

Forgot how much I hate crushoks. Threshes are tolerable on their own, but now that I'm doing this House of Ballads stuff, I'm fighting Sir Creth and a random thresh just shows up. Great!!

---

All i remember is chakrams all day, baby! But seriously, thats all i remember....

---

I'm doing magic + chakrams right now. Love those suckers.

---

Chakrams are broken. Actually every weapon is insanely powerful. Except scepters. They're terrible.

---

Lukey_Bug posted...

Chakrams are broken. Actually every weapon is insanely powerful. Except scepters. They're terrible.

Faeblades are kinda meh as well. They're good but compared to dagger and bow they're just meh.

---

The downside to chakrams is the further you throw 'em, the longer you leave yourself open to be flanked. I managed to beat Lady of Windemere, but damn, she did all-out minion summoning, including a thresh. Thankfully, you can just do a fatesplosion and they'll all die with her.







---

Shotgunnova posted...

This was my favorite scene in the game

---

The Three Musketeers are back together! Can't wait 'til I can cross the strait to fight the Balor, man.



---

Start over on Very Hard, the game is piss easy even on hard. Not even a git gud kinda thing, if you do any work building your character, which you will because it's a combat focused RPG, you'll roll over everything. Very Hard at least gives some of the hard enemies enough HP to take you out of autopilot. I actually gave up playing a mage on hard on the 360 because it was too boring, every single combat encounter could be handled in a few button presses and I never even got hit.

The game is glitchy as fuck, which is bad but also extremely faithful to the original. >__>

---

Tyranthraxus posted...

This was my favorite scene in the game

Agarth is a pretty good NPC character, honestly. It's a shame that, outside of him, Alyn Shir and maybe a couple others, they're pretty bland and rarely get good dialogue.

---

I just hope you don't run into the level bug I got. At one point it wouldn't let me level anymore.

Here's a link to my problem:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/292111-kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning/78978975

---

Yeah, that would suck. Should be careful about those levels. Not even sure I can get Meteor by then.

---

NPC: Can you believe the fae don't use money?

*tries pickpocketing fae guard*
*he has 500 gold*

lmao

---

As much as I love meteor nuking, I do kinda miss playing as a blademaster. My mage chick has trouble with crowd control right now, especially teleporting mages, so being able to tank hits (I'm using talismans instead of shields lol) and block damage while slicing up all and sundry'd be nice. Instead, my wimpy character is constantly getting staggered and blasted by homing tornados/fireballs. Sad!

---

Just gonna pic dump now. That icicle attack does some serious work, man. Each little flechette can crit, so you end up staggering something repeatedly and maybe doing way more damage than you thought.







---

Throwing a gnome through a ten-story window until they break every bone in their body and then lose their prestige and all lands and projects and influence... I gotta say it was a good day.







---

Finished the Scholia Arcana questline with some difficulty. Luckily, the final boss battle lets you have giant planters to eat some of those magic projectiles. Send your faer gorta to do some HP-stealing attacks and maybe it'll all work out okay. The rewards weren't as good as I remembered, though. Skyrim at least gave me some Archmage Robes.







---

The Balor fight is one of the quintessential parts of the entire game. Shame it was still pretty easy, even on Hard mode. My trumped-up lightning attack took off half its life, haha.







---

From what I remember, basically the entire game is easy if you have a Reckoning Mode built up. Otherwise a few fights could be difficult, but that was usually due to enemies that scaled in groups. So stuff like the Maid of Windemere fight or some of the Sprite ambushes.

As for playing a spell caster, IIRC you can go pure caster with enough points left over for stealth, which allows Meteor to deal sneak attack damage(though sometimes the pre-crash stones eat up the sneak attack bonus).

Eventually though, through Sagecraft, can have your mana recover faster than you can build up spells. I remember the combat devolving into infinite juggles between Mark of Flame(against 7 targets, maybe 8) and Lightning Storm. That assumes a target is allowed to survive a stealth Meteor. Mages get crazy powerful.

---

Yeah, mage builds are fun. I maxed out sagecrafting and blacksmithing, so I should be able to make some decent swag. Already got a kickass piece of armor with mana/resistance buffs and can go take on Gadflow if I want. Might go through the House of Valor DLC first, though, since it's not too long.

---

---

Yeahhhhhh, who killed a god and gets free drinks for life? This guy! SLAMMING!!







---

Kinda surprising how fast you burned through the whole game.

---

It depends on the sidequests. Without those the areas go by really quickly Also, as a high level caster the combats can be as simple as dropping Meteor on a group of enemies and pressing onward past their corpses.

---

Yeah, I skipped a ton of lame-ass sidequests, and only did the House of Ballads and Scholia Arcania questlines. Things are pretty easy when you trim that much fat off the experience. Also, I beat the House of Valor/Dead Kel DLC last night. Still have some Gravehal Keep stuff to finish up, though.

---

Okay, guess I'll do Teeth of Naros tonight. I do kinda want to dick around a bit more on the Dead Kel DLC for a few trophies, but overall, I did most of what I wanted.

---

But first, a pic dump.







---