Poll of the Day > anyone have experience in Pathfinder? (i'm WotR rn)

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I've been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (PC game), and it seems like anything that works in normal Pathfinder will work in Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous. WotR adds some OP shit in in the form of Mythic Paths, but has anyone who's played actual Pathfinder shit been partial to any builds? my main so far is a mostly pure class Barbarian (invulnerable rager), going for power attack/cleave attack/rage/beast totem. i can respec my allies

Mythic Paths: https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Mythic+Path

there are some restrictions on default party members' race, starting stat allocations, and first class (and it'd be nice if i could keep them cuz more dialogue), but i can recruit custom guys if its significant enough. was there anything amazing enough to form the rest of my team around? most common rec is taking the level 1 paladin pickpocket (seelah) and making them a bard, so maybe build around having a berserker + dirge/skad bard?

i'm at level 10~ mythic path 3~ and can respec as much as i feel like so throw funny builds at me pls

agesboy posted...

WotR adds some OP shit in in the form of Mythic Paths

They're actually from the original adventure path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Path#Paizo
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Righteous

bro idk i didnt know what pathfinder was before this game ok

i heard it was "4e for fuckin losers" for people who really like 3whatever
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but Wrath of the Righteous is a really REALLY good game

I think the trick is to Find the right Path

agesboy posted...

i heard it was "4e for fuckin losers" for people who really like 3whatever

Pathfinder is basically D&D 3.75e.

Mythic Paths are sort of like Prestige Classes in D&D. You layer them over the base class for extra coolness. In the original WotR adventure path, every PC got one to make them extra-special compared to everyone else.

My favorite and probably the most unique class is an Alchemist,(not the Vivisectionist-sub-type) being able to throw bombs from the backline is very fun and while their spell list is mostly garbage. the bombs are more than enough to make up for that.

Also there are no true plot spoilers here but knowing how this mechanic worked broke the game for me so I'll hide it just incase. Sneak Attacks are broken because unlike in PnP the parameters for a sneak attack are simpler, any entity that is engaged in melee by 3 chararcters will be "Flanked" and vulnerable to sneak attacks by anyone who has Sneak attack dice, and EVERY attack will be sneak attacks. So my go to was to have my PC Rogue melee sneak attack while my Slayer Archer got them from her bow(which they should not get flanking bonuses in PnP either). it was enough to trivialize nearly every encounter in the game although that's not a hard feat to acomplish due to how shitty the game is balanced. It's so bad one of the most popular mods in to fix this, called Proper Flanking

Anyway the game is good but its so bullshit hard I grew to dislike it, if you're not min-maxing all your characters and picking optimal Gear/Abilities you're gonna end up suffering for it at some point. Save often, after Drezen the game difficulty picks up fast and it's not uncommon to stumble into an endgame boss that is unwinnable, I'm not exaggerating either, it's as simple as taking a left turn in a cave when you should have gone right. At one point I also got rule-loopholed by the game in the form of Greater Heroism's fear protection not applying to Dazzling Display(which fears you) fro some reason.

Despite the improvements WotR added, I think it's predecessor Kingmaker was better, the setting was better, it didn't have an invasive shitty mobile game built into it and it felt like a true adventure.

agesboy posted...

bro idk i didnt know what pathfinder was before this game ok
i heard it was "4e for fuckin losers" for people who really like 3whatever
but Wrath of the Righteous is a really REALLY good game

Get with the times old man!
Nowadays people only like 5e and why would you play OLD GAMES, what are you some sort of GATEKEEPER for playing anything other than 5e.

shadowsword87 posted...

Nowadays people only like 5e and why would you play OLD GAMES, what are you some sort of GATEKEEPER for playing anything other than 5e.

I've been seeing a surge of people going back to old editions recently. Well, videos about it have been getting recommended to my YouTube, anyway. "Why you should play AD&D instead!" "Why Greyhawk is the bestest setting evar!" It's kind of funny.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Also there are no true plot spoilers here but knowing how this mechanic worked broke the game for me so I'll hide it just incase

i kinda knew about this but i thought it was an intended mechanic....

Cruddy_horse posted...

Anyway the game is good but its so bullshit hard I grew to dislike it, if you're not min-maxing all your characters and picking optimal Gear/Abilities you're gonna end up suffering for it at some point. Save often, after Drezen the game difficulty picks up fast and it's not uncommon to stumble into an endgame boss that is unwinnable, I'm not exaggerating either, it's as simple as taking a left turn in a cave when you should have gone right. At one point I also got rule-loopholed by the game in the form of Greater Heroism's fear protection not applying to Dazzling Display(which fears you) fro some reason.

I think i'm mid to late act 2, checked out most of the things that don't instantly kill me, and i don't know if i'm supposed to stall for kingdom research progress or sally on to very hard fights

shadowsword87 posted...

Nowadays people only like 5e and why would you play OLD GAMES, what are you some sort of GATEKEEPER for playing anything other than 5e.

do u got a PC game that does all the dice rolls n shit for me as expansive as WotR is using 5e's mechanics with a good enough engine

Damn thought this was about the tabletop