

Characters are more down to earth, and there is no special powers there. Kingmaker provides more genuine D&D experience in my book. My main would remain as an alchemist while I added more arcane / divine casters with Hellfire ray / Battering blast spells.īasically, I chose to completely bypass AC because trying to overwhelm it didn't seem like a wise choice. I didn't have a divine caster since an alchemist can work as a semi-healer / buffer.īut this trend of frequent high AC / SR monsters made me change my party layout to just a single frontliner with a long reach weapon with combat relaxes / last stand for AoO. Normally, I'd have only one arcane caster (Nenio) in my party. I needed more characters that would do touch AC or Ray attacks. I mean they worked but a single bomber wasn't enough. The only visible tanking was with a mythic ability: Last stand. Only rolling close to 20 would hit, and monsters themselves were hitting easily over 50 a swing and they had at least 4 attacks. In my experience, martial classes no matter how much they were buffed started to fade away too early. I won't include Playful darkness here since it is a skippable mob. This remains true in WoTR except that monsters with absurdly high AC / SR tend to appear way too fast. Generally, in the beginning martial classes do better than casters.

I've found the game quite different in a somewhat bad way. I didn't change it with an exception of toggling skill exp share off. I played on whatever the default difficulty was. Now, onto Pathfinder Wrath of The Righteous. Good for hording exp once skill exp sharing is turned off. A beautiful thing about the bombers is that they need no buff.Īnother bonus for alchemist class is high int which translates to more skill points. No boss lasted 3 rounds that way in Kingmaker. My main would do virtually nothing other than throwing axes until a boss with high AC appears. Basically, an alchemist is a boss killer. The reason for that specific subclass is bombs which ignores SR and does touch AC. I am quite familiar with D&D elements, and my main back in Kingmaker was a Grenadier (Alchemist subclass). Although the first finish, I've actually done three restarts due to the game being quite different from the original Kingmaker.
