I figured I’d be using bows throughout the game, especially in the beginning chapters, and doing more damage has got to be worth 10 LPs. Know of a good NotR walkthrough? I’m 2nd level and put 10 LPs into bow and 10 into DEX so far. Ramp up Dex (and Str if necessary) before you get the mage penalty. The first 2 are way more efficient than comparable Str based weapons, but they end somewhere in the middle. Str is only needed to survive the “Test of Fire” (because you´ll hardly have a good Dex weapon yet).ĭex based weapons are master epee, staffs and bows. Concentrate on magic, mana, dex and lockpick - nothing else unless it´s inevitable. Now character development is increasingly expensive, so think twice if you want to use freebies at the beginning. It would come as a surprise if the NotR novelties were mentioned in it. John, this walkthrough is for G2 vanilla. Which is fair enough, except it won’t let me get halfway down the road without drawing the ire of something more powerful than I am.Īnd I don’t buy the ‘in real life if you follow a stranger into a cave you get what you deserve’ line of reasoning. With the system in place, all it teaches me is to not explore while I’m trying to learn their fucking opaque interface and combat system.

If you want me to explore then give me a way to do it that allows me to escape if I get in over my head or to explore safely. Ok, so I learned not to follow the bandit into the cave, and not to go into the goblin cave, but I had to die to learn it, which is pretty poor game design imo. All that and I’m still maybe 200 yards from the tower I started in. I was attacked by 3 mosquitos, and killed. I wandered into a cave and was set upon by 3-4 goblins, and killed. I followed a guy into a cave and was set upon by 3-4 bandits, and killed. If you’re going to make me weak then give me a way to avoid combat until I’m stronger, or limit the enemies. I have no problem with difficulty, or with being weak, but dying every 100 yards is not fun spending more time staring at the load screen than playing is not fun.

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