Posted March 29, 2016
I've been trying to figure this game out for a few hours each of the last few days and while I've got as far as Beregost I just feel like I'm doing nothing right and just skating by. Maybe I'm not and I'm just not used to this stuff anymore ruined by JRPGs.
I made a mage, love the class, got a full party too +Neera in holding. I find that fights are just odd, it's like one moment I take a hit or 2 and just die, or I can just keep swinging away (and them) and keep missing, or I just mow something down flat, it's weird. Also what's up with the EXP system? I can't seem to see where it's listed anywhere to know when I level up. It's quite grating to me that I'm a mage and all I do is whack things with a quarterstaff because I can learn spells, but I can not use them and only just select 1 I know of at all to use and can only use it 1x until I go take a nap...which is completely stupid and useless in the middle of a fight.
There some site or whatever around with some benchmarks or general tips that might have something useful on this as I'd rather not give up. Last time I bothered with D&D was in grade schoo/jr high years and it was pencil and paper with like a group of 6 on lunch and I know this too uses that 2nd rule set I think I read.
Also what's with the thief, she can't seem to open crap other than maybe 1 in 10 chests and most doors -- fairly useless. It feels like i should be able to tweak stats or try and level up individual abilities but I'm not seeing how/where to do that.
I made a mage, love the class, got a full party too +Neera in holding. I find that fights are just odd, it's like one moment I take a hit or 2 and just die, or I can just keep swinging away (and them) and keep missing, or I just mow something down flat, it's weird. Also what's up with the EXP system? I can't seem to see where it's listed anywhere to know when I level up. It's quite grating to me that I'm a mage and all I do is whack things with a quarterstaff because I can learn spells, but I can not use them and only just select 1 I know of at all to use and can only use it 1x until I go take a nap...which is completely stupid and useless in the middle of a fight.
There some site or whatever around with some benchmarks or general tips that might have something useful on this as I'd rather not give up. Last time I bothered with D&D was in grade schoo/jr high years and it was pencil and paper with like a group of 6 on lunch and I know this too uses that 2nd rule set I think I read.
Also what's with the thief, she can't seem to open crap other than maybe 1 in 10 chests and most doors -- fairly useless. It feels like i should be able to tweak stats or try and level up individual abilities but I'm not seeing how/where to do that.