r/taintedgrail

Okay so I am in my first playthrough and I already finished Act 1. When I met captain I thought "oh no he is a traitor, but okay we have to kill this evil maniac Galahad". Then I met Galahad and he wasn't crazy at all, cruel but smart and effective. He convinced me to join him. I was thinking about fighting him for his weapon, but I decided to trust immersion.

I just got the game today and saw that they added a challenge mode last week.

Is it worth playing the challenge mode, when I've not touched the game before? (I've played the free tutorial over 1 year ago on steam)

That being said, I don't mind dying a lot, I don't mind min/maxing and grinding a lot. I've been

What I don't like are rpgs that tend to become extremely easy in the later chapters, when the character gets overpowered, so in theory I don't mind negative modifiers. I could also go for veteran, if the difficulty is well enough balanced in the late game.

I've played for about 3 hours so far and just got off of the tutorial island. It seems like you can definitely carry a fair bit of stuff, but im a real loot goblin so I like to take *everything.* I found a cave shortly after shipwrecking and carry weight is already starting to piss me off. There is a mod that can drastically increase your carry weight and I'm considering using it.

My only concern is that, as someone who likes a challenge and is playing on the hardest difficulty, would it be too cheesy? I'm just worried it might make the game too easy by making me super rich, or maybe it doesn't really matter.

So, i discovered that there is a parry mechanism 20 levels into the game. So, I decided to train, and what’s better than an melee enemy that is a damage sponge?

I just died the 25th time to this guy, but when I went to fight him for the first time, I could not parry a single attack. Now, I managed to get him to 40% HP.

I won’t be satisfied until I can drop him 100% on Melee

I'm level 35, in the second map, haven't yet completed the quest to get the Palamedes Shield. Mainly I am just finding radiant armor from enemies.

Can anyone here point me in the direction of some neat looking armor?

I genuinely canvass every single one I get my hands on, it's becoming an actual problem, anyone else do this?

Hello Hello
I have a question, dagger proficiency icreases the crit chance of sneak attacks with daggers by 33% per skill point, but if put your attribute points into perception, you quickly reach 30% of critchance by default, so why would you spent all 3 points into dagger proficiency?

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Hey everyone, I recently got this game last week and have been having a blast with it so far, having just finished the main quest for act 2. But for some reason, I've been really struggling with the combat thus far. I started out as a battlemage, then respec halfway through Act 1 to a Two Handed build because I wasn't able to find any decent spells. I've been using whatever I can find, and only recently I was able to get the stats required by Sir Lancelot's armor and Arondight, with the rest splitting equally between Perception and Practicality (at 4 each right now)

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But even with the boost from Sir Lancelot set, the current dmg on my Arondight at full health is only at 248-278 when I'm at full HP.

From a lot of the comments I've seen like above, people have been saying it's too easy to get overpowered from just playing normally, and I'm just feeling so dumbfounded by this. There are occasional enemies I can one-shot, but they are just some random wolves and undead. I'm at Tomb of Sir Gawain now, and the boss here would instantly one-shot my character if I miss a single parry. Meanwhile, the random marrowghast I fought on the way would hit me for 3/4 of my entire HP bar. I would be fine with that if it means I can actually hit them back just as hard, but I only deal like 10-15% of their HP with each swing (maybe 30% if I get lucky with the crit). So I'm always at the risk of getting mopped in just one or two hits while also having to fight a whole horde of enemies that take dozens of hits to kill.

I feel like I'm missing something so incredibly obvious here, but I have no idea what it is. Hoping I can get some pointers without being too spoiler-y if possible. Thank you!

Edit: Thank you everyone for the advice. I just went through another repec to focus on crit chance and got it to around 70%, now everything dies relatively quickly. With a bit more min-maxxing I can see how people can easily one-shot most enemies in the game.

Since I am an indecisive little shit I`ve decided that I can just let you all choose what I play for my next playthrough:

• Two handed heavy armor tank
• Swoard an board knight
• Dual Wielding Longswords
• Full mage
• Battlemage
• Unarmed