left1000: Oh hmm, you're sounding pretty positive on bards in that post. Your list of builds features a level 4 bard and a level 6 bard https://www.gog.com/forum/pathfinder_kingmaker/ineffects_guide_v2/page1 which to me meant.... you weren't a fan of "a real bard".

Dirge only unlocks at level 8. So there is no ineffect dirge bard build anywhere that I currently know of.

Is this just because thundercall19/1anything builds itself so easily? I've seen you frequently comment in that thread that a thundercaller is great, and wants to be pure or at least 19 levels for full effect. I guess maybe that just means, the build is too easy for you to bother writing it up? But it's still very good?

You also don't have an actual build for an erastil cleric that I can see in your list of builds, but at least in your unfair guide you spell the build out. I guess your build guide, isn't for totally simple builds like that build themselves like, just pick communal animal cleric, or just pick thundercaller, or just pick sylvan sorcerer, I guess you feel like no one can mess though options up too badly.

left1000: Why do some of your builds recommend 11 int? You can't gain additional skillpoints from equipped magical items of +3 int can you?

left1000: Just a minor clarifying question, when recruiting the sylvan sorcerer at oleg's in your guide. Do you level up first and pay 2000 or recruit him for 500gold and then level up? I know you don't likely actually have 2000 gold, so it's probably the level 1 sorcerer you get, since you mention only wanting grease anyways. This does put this mercenary in a position to always be 4500 or so experience behind the MC. I guess after a few levels though that stops mattering?

left1000: Okay so I benched amiri, only now I've just read online, she has to kill tuskgutter herself in order to resolve her personal quest. Thankfully I learned this right before the trip I've planned to go kill tuskgutter on. Do you take a level 2 amiri (mine is actually level 3 because I didn't fire her as fast as you) with you and your level 4 party to go kill tuskgutter on unfair runs? Or do you just fail companion quests? Or is there something I'm missing?

left1000: Or is it just implied in your guide that whenever you need to, you re-add a companion into the party, do whatever they want, then bench them again later?

left1000: This is another silly question, but, well, I'm nearly done now with chapter 1. I still have no idea whatsoever what naga island is. I tried googling and couldn't figure out. What's the actual name on the map of the place you call naga island in your guide? I assume "naga island" is slang because there's a buncha naga's there, but well, I haven't ran into any nagas yet.

I don't want to move into chapter2 leaving something unfinished that might vanish forever.

InEffect: It's bottom-left part of the map. To the left of stag lord. map is an island with two fords and some dead dude with a boat.
Only things missable are quests, including companion quests. The rest you can do later.

left1000: besides recruitment isn't amiri the only companion with a quest in chapter 1?

left1000: In chapter 1 is beating ratnook hill worth using my signed scroll of raise dead on? I've tried this fight a couple of times and it seems like no matter what I do someone random will die, simply because the alchemist doesn't actually stop attacking unconscious characters.

Or should I just move onto the stag lord beat chapter 1 and I'll have plenty of chance to return to ratnook hill in chapter 2? I don't really need the equipment until I get maybe ekun and jubi to put the magical armors on, and the way things are going I basically have no kurki users until noknok.