Monday, 11th November 2013, 17:26 by nago
Just trying Fo.
I am really enjoying this species (more than the other new 3), because it brings the biggest newness in the game, tactical wise (stasis) since I dunno, without adding strange and gimmick abilities and properties.
I've played a FoFi, a very strong combo due the starting shield and in the beginning they feel quite strong - I could bring the 2nd one (the first one I suicided for getting a bad mut) to Lair without too much trouble, despite having a particularly bad drop loot. Being able to dig helps in a lot of situation, while being unable to retreat after a fight has beginning make pre-battle positioning and choosing which monsters fight much more relevant - btw, I'm worshipping Makh, so also using Greater Servant needs a bit more consideration than usual.
The only problem I'm seeing in this race is poison vulnerability: the low hp makes mandatory resting each time the char is poisoned, which is terribly annyoing, plus is really easy to get to red poison even with low/mild threatening enemies, which led to even longer resting than usual (I feel like I've spent half of my time pressing 5).
Furthermore, pois- combined with runelock can make acquiring a Lair rune a nightmare: my Fo was incredibly unlucky (e.g. the only ring I've found after Orc and elf:2! is a ctele one) and I had quite problems with pois in Lair - I've ventured to get a rune with only about 5 curing pot . Fortunately, I got a rpois plate in a shop, otherwise my char would have been certainly killed by now.
Still, with so low curing stock, I hadn't the guts to try Spider, so I went inside Swamp: with stasis' movement problem and low hp, the drake tends to confuse almost every time, which makes a lot of situation quite bad, while swamp dragon are a big pain, especially if forced to fight in choke points.
Overall, I'm finding pois- only a terrible nuisance outiside Lair branches, and can be a death sentence, combined with runelock, if a single rpois item can't be acquired, so rework this aspect could be a nice thing to do.
For now, I'm curios to see how is possible to deal with deeper monster who like to haste them selves (I'm quite worried of liches).
screw it I hate this character I'm gonna go melee Gastronok
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