Paul the sparky wrote:

Your inventory is sorted into sections but it's not really clear. Crafting items seem to be scattered throughout, but it goes in order of healing items, consumables like spell books, weapons and armour, upgrade materials. I'm going off memory so this is probably a bit wonky and I'll have missed stuff, but if you have a scroll through you'll see what I mean and start to get a feel for it. To keep weight limits under control, craft everything you can and sell the excess. If you have a mage with you healing potions aren't really worth carrying around, so I sell those too. Dump the rest into the stash at the inn, their inventories link up and are accessable from shops when enhancing gear so you don't need to carry upgrade materials around. Target lock is for the weak, it's not needed in Monster Hunter and it's not needed here. What are you playing as by the way? I found the fighter to be gash and switched from it as soon as I'd unlocked the decent passive abilities. It's a great pick for your pawn though as they can attract all the aggro and let you fight one on one most of the time

Thank you kindly. I'm rocking the thief at the moment as I like the flame buffs I'm getting from the mage. Magic users seem to be a must have in the party, so i'm running with a fighter, archer and mage which seems to be working out well. I'm willing to give this one some time, as it looks decent enough and the chat from the pawns is novel and fun.

I went for an archer and maybe it's because of that but I really don't like the combat. It just seems to be hitting the shoot button and occasionally holding a shoulder button at the same time and seeing what gets hit. Maybe it's coming from the Souls games but I expected more precision but it just seems a scrum and hoping you hit something.

To me, it also seems very ugly and jerky and generally aesthetically unpleasant. I'll keep at it though.

Lemsip.

Kow wrote:

I went for an archer and maybe it's because of that but I really don't like the combat. It just seems to be hitting the shoot button and occasionally holding a shoulder button at the same time and seeing what gets hit. Maybe it's coming from the Souls games but I expected more precision but it just seems a scrum and hoping you hit something. To me, it also seems very ugly and jerky and generally aesthetically unpleasant. I'll keep at it though.

I felt the same about archer. Not fun at all.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Farkinell, my main pawn has the lurgi now. What do I do?

You have to yeet them into the brine, then get them back at a rift stone, where they will be cured

Went back to Mystic Spearhand, having tried out Fighter and Warrior to get a feel for them and nab some passive skills. Don't like either to be honest.

Fighter is a bit slow and doesn't hit as hard as I'd like. It's also not as safe as you think despite the shield because the animations take a while and leave you open. It lacks movement options too. The daft spinny block is fun though.

Warrior brings the power but it's harder to use than the Greatsword in MH. I whiff more here and just can't get into a flow with it. Especially against smaller mobs. You're protected while winding up, but the fights move so quickly and the enemies are so fast that I'm often swinging at sweet fuck all.

Both of them are piss poor against anything airborne too, and considering how many sirens, Griffins and drakes there are it's a bit of a bummer.

I'll try out the thief once Cass has maxed it out as I don't want to have to share gear with the lad. I think I'll make him a permanent warrior with a huge hammer for the knock downs.

Got the trickster vocation but still no clue how to get the one I really want, magic archer. People in here knocking the regular archer must not be playing with the movement options enough, I fucking love jump kicking things in the face then shooting an arrow into their mush

I'm playing as a Warrior and having a great old time. Its just timing your swings and, with the smaller mobs, my pawns generally clear em for me. In the big fights I'm pure tanking and its a blast

You don't have to do any, but there are some passive skills that would be handy for a warrior which are unlocked by other classes. Thief has the strength buff for example. I think mage has a stamina regen buff which I want but I can't be fucked playing healer and waiting for the pawns to do the killing

I didn’t change class once. Only thing I want to do is find the bloody magic archer.

There's a thief skill you can unlock that makes you invulnerable with a very mild stamina drain. Once I had that, combined with the very vertical spinny slashing jump move which is essential for taking down flying foes, and attacking dragon weakspots, it became pointless playing the other classes. I also had the dual blades that flashed/beeped when treasure was nearby, which you get as a reward for collecting seekers tokens, so that reinforced not changing from thief because I didn't want to miss out on any treasure.

Ploughed many a hour into it as a Thief, but I'm finding it to be too button-mashy now. Was tempted to go Archer (not rogue!) but although I've got plenty of Discipline in the bank to spend on skills, I'm level 25+ now, so I' assume switching classes and having to level up to unlock the ability to purchase Archer skills would be a bit of a ball-ache.

Sent this back to Boomerang today. Played a lot last night and it's just not getting it's hooks into me. I'll probably revisit again in the future. But not today..

Latest patch: Reducing the infection frequency of dragonsplague and adjusting the signs of Pawns infected with dragonsplague to be more noticeable.

I read up on it. It’s potentially a huge pain in the arse if it happens.

Spoiler explains it.

Ha ha. That’s a good point about everyone calling you Arisen even from towns you’d not been in before.

Don’t know about your spoiler question. I’d killed three dragons at the point I’d got a suspected plague infected pawn (red eyes) but ditched her quickly and nothing happened to my posse.