Yep. I don't know how that escaped me when I posted my "cheat". I did it probably 3 times and never noticed until later.

Speaking of slow - we had a brief discussion earlier in the thread about great swords and I said something about "yeah, but if I get in 1 hit, it's game over".

I found an azurite great sword last night. I'm also getting into the sweet spot with finesse that allows me to wear some decent gear with critical hit bonuses.

I gulped when I saw my first Thresh in Haxhi - then I hit it once and took 3/4 of its hit points. :)

This. I'm actually disappointed that I haven't found more magical creatures that are resistant to flame. Might make me change it up a bit.

One other note on flame - make sure you have SOME, even if it's a beginner weapon with +3 flame. There will be areas with spider webs that you can't access if you can't burn the webs away.

That's what I'm saying. I'm like level 15 with about 400 hit points - if I get down to 25%, a SINGLE MINOR heals me all the way to full. As long as I have about 10 on me or so, I can charge into any battle without worries.

Same here. I have quite a few points in Mercantile so I'm constantly hovering around 100K gold now, even though I buy 4K weapons just to see if I can break them down at the blacksmith bench and get some good components.

well apparently there are a lot of old people playing Amalur then because there's a 25-page thread about it in the Amalur forum.

I guess the devs have had so many people bring it up that they are working on a fix.


http://forums.reckoning.amalur.com/s...and-Headaches&

steam forum too

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...php?p=29073709

A fix for what? Is it exclusive to the PC version?

That's just weird.

Anyone completed the Shine and Shadow quest yet?

Was watching a Conan from last week that I dvr'd last night, turns out Curt Schilling is part of the company that made this game. He was on promoted, and gaming was so much of a hobby of his during his baseball career that he is now in the business end post baseball. Thought it was interesting.

He played World of Warcraft for years. Wasn't this game intended to be the toe into the pond, so to speak, for an MMO?

This game started out as an MMO but I believe it was taking to long. I think it's still going to be an MMO....but they wanted to release the SP game to get everyone involved in the storyline first.

so I guess my comparison to an MMO was spot on

It plays just like an MMO...quest hubs, static world, etc.

btw - if anyone else has eye strain or headache problems from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning it helps a lot if you tweak a few settings.

1. disable 'post processing'
seems to get rid of much of the graphic 'blur' you get from the tight camera movement that causes the seasickness type effect.

2. turn down/off shadow effect
helps reduce the strobe light flashing you get from close FOV

3a. increase your resolution up as high as your computer can handle to 'shrink' the FOV and give you some artificial distance to help tight FOV.

3b. turn down visuals as needed to increase resolution for game

4. turn down camera speed all the way so the view doesn't 'spin' and 'jump' around as much.

5. plenty of light around PC monitor to reduce glare and brightness from game.

FYI ... dispelling can kiss my ass


do skill points in dispelling help much at all?

I find it difficult even on easy, that disco ball spins extra fast.

i think everyone of them has blown up on me so far.

dam curses

I usually just hit the auto dispel twice and take my medicine.

I always say **** it because the curses I do get really don't bother me to much and they're cheap to get rid of.

This.

I have dispelling maxed, so most wards I have 3 shots at auto attempting and most of them are 85% chance and up to succeed. I rarely dispel manually anymore.

If I did though, I wouldnt have any dark sigils and the glyphs take twice as long to run out.

You could always cheat though and save right before the ward auto attempt and if you fail, just reload.

I just got the dispell 50 wards achievement, so I won't be wasting any more time with that. Plenty of other ways to get my loot.

Also, I'm pretty far into the Travelers and holy crap, that shit is the most boring faction quests ever. It has nothing on the Thieves Guild in Oblivion.

I enjoy all the quest because I love the combat.

better way to make money?

1. merchant skill for buying and selling at better profit
2. blacksmith skill to make good crap to sell

another way?

I bought this game yesterday, and holy shit, it's sidequest-a-palooza. In completing my first side quest, I came across another 5 or 6 sidequests. Since I am an OCD completionist, the main quest is going to wait for about eleventy billion hours.

I'm doing a little bit of both. I'm not going very high on mercantile because it has diminishing returns. As the loot gets better, the amount of money you have on hand goes up GREATLY.

Therefore more than 4 or 5 points in mercantile really becomes a waste.

I have OCD too. I have spent hours on this game and have only completed the 2nd step of the main quest. :)

I accept all side quests I come across, then if I happen to come across it while I'm doing faction or main quests, then I'll do it, otherwise I won't go out of my way to do them. There's no achievement for it, so who cares?

but my character is unstoppable now, meteor is the shit!

This.

I only ever spent enough points in mercantile to get a little something out of the white items I destroy in the junk menu. I believe its three. Just selling off the arms and armor I came across that didnt suit my sorcery character got me more than enough gold to do what I needed, throwing in selling of Mastercrafted Smithed Weapons, and various Gemstones from sagecrafting im over 1.2 million gold at this point with really nothing to buy.

Literally the only things I buy are like the high end items in a shop, just so I can break it down for a high quality component so I can make my own stuff out of it.

Sometimes I discover merchants that have some really good crafting components, but they are few and far between. So my gold total just goes up and up, with really nothing to spend it on.

I figure my next trip to the fateweaver, Ill probably get rid of mercantile altogether because I just dont need money anymore and put the points into something I might actually get use out of like stealth or lockpicking.

I don't even feel like making your own armor is needed in this game, honestly.

I haven't had a chance to play all week, i'm only a couple of levels from meteor /jealous

i like to make my own because you can get specific features you want.

for instance, if you have just a little bit of health regen on a armor piece somewhere it is so convenience. You don't have to pop a health pop because of several random fights that have worn you down.

I also like to pick a specific method of damage and emphasize it everywhere i can. I'm building a hybrid so i'm going to do major poison bonuses for damage and duration on any piece i can.

some elemental resistance is good for balance too

:thumb:

btw ... to hell with stealth when you can just charge in and use flare to destroy the whole mob instead of just one guy. :D

I'm actually REALLY disappointed in the shops in this game. After restarting a few times, I came to realize that the shop inventories are STATIC.

If you've only played through once, you know that the items for sale at the shops don't change but they're not randomly generated at the start of the game or anything like that - the items they have available is the same in every game, no matter how many times you restart.

This.

I forge armor to get a bit of health regen and elemental resistance bonuses and then forge weapons and other items to get fire plusses.

at least the main story line got more exciting

I haven't played Skyrim since I bought this game. It's THAT good.

I wont say its better than Skyrim. I logged HUNDREDS of hours on Skyrim over a plethora of different characters. Skyrim is as badass an RPG as they come.

This one for me is very very solid, but it doesnt compel me to keep playing exclusively like Skyrim did. I kinda stalled out at the 30 hour mark when looting became more like garbage digging because crafting the weapons/armor is the way to elite gear.

The story is fair, and the sidequest list is a mile long so theres always a ton of stuff to do. Its a game I can play and know that this thing is going to take me a long time to complete. Its one of those games that is great to play, but doesnt get me addicted to where I blaze through the game in constant 12-15 hour play sessions and quickly get sucked into replay mode like with Skyrim.

The first 20 hours or so were like that, but once the looting got a bit more dull, it sorta became "do the quest because its there" instead of actually getting a good reward out of it.


Normally with an RPG, I play that game until I just have to have a break from it. With Reckoning, Ive bounced around with several games since I hit the 30 hour mark. I recently spent about 3 days just playing Alan Wake's American Nightmare, downloaded the Marvel Vengeance and Virtue tables from Pinball FX2, put all that overpriced Avatar Gear to use in Full House Poker, and got strangely addicted to Fruit Ninja Kinect.

If I had to tell someone to pick between the two, for whatever reason they could only have one, Id tell them to go with Skyrim.

Hundreds of hours in Skyrim and I just never got tired of chopping heads and melting faces. 30 hours into Reckoning and im bouncing around to other games. It just doesnt have that "IT" factor that compels me to commit my gaming time to that game over any of the others.

I do love this game but the loot system just suck. I'm not really even 30 hours in and it's pretty stagnant.

For a game like this, they need to overwhelm you with loot like Diablo 2. Make the player decide what he's gonna keep because there's not enough room for it all.

I initially started with a thief character but then abandoned it - I assume bows get better, but intially they suck as a primary weapon. Restarted as a mage/fighter and I'm digging it. Up to level 9 or 10. I love the round boomerang things - makes a great 1-2 combo with the lightning bolt. Building up smithing so I can make my own stuff.

Interesting game. It feels like somebody threw Skyrim, Fable and Diablo in a blender. I like it.

That's a pretty good analogy and i'm starting to see the stagnant loot crap. I'm using weapons that are 10 levels below me and can't find/craft anything better.

i think you have to make decent weapons after awhile.

i went to the fateweaver and redid my skills just enough on certain skills to get by like 3 on hidden so i can see secret stashes etc and dumped the rest into Blacksmithing and sagecraft

At higher levels you can actually use gems to give bonuses to smithing items.

It sucks that you can only use utility gems for chakrams and sceptres but it still helps.

All my equipment have like 10 bonuses for each weapon/armor piece. LMAO

It really helps when you can start salvaging higher level weapons

don't forget to combine the gems to get the higher ones to use.

FWIW....I never compared it to Skyrim. I just said that since I started playing this game.....I haven't gone back and played Skyrim.

How far advanced are you in the main quest? Have you gone further east on the map?

I've been doing all of that, I'm currently lvl 22 and my highest lvl item is 14 and not usuable by my class.

Same here.

Does Piercing damage work on Chakrams?

Like the finesse destiny that gives you piece damage bonus or gems that add pierce?

I haven't gone further east than Lorca-Rane in the north and Hahxi in the south. Haven't left Dalentarth yet.

Good question.

I think the game purposefully does that. I've got a half-dozen good unique bows, 3 good unique chakrams, and a couple of hammers.

But since I'm using daggers and great swords, of course I've gotten a total of ONE of those.

:(

What's your current damage for your daggers and long sword?

Base damage in the 60-70 range I think. I have a high percentage to crit, so I've seen individual hits as high as 300...

I've got a longsword that does base damage (nothing else added on) of over 100.

I actually bought that longsword.

Have you done the Shine and Shadow quest yet? You get a bad ass set of daggers for doing it.

I had an idea......let me know if this wouldn't work.

What's to stop someone from visiting the fateweaver and resetting their character.....then turning around and pumping all of their points into something like Blacksmithing so that it's maxed out.....and creating a bad ass set of armor. Then visiting the fateweaver again, reset and create your character how you want.

Anything think this would work?

I'm using Great Swords rather than long swords. I actually forged one using the Hilt that was given for the Haxhi contract and Rhyderk's blade. It has a base damage of 74 I believe but that includes fire damage.

That happens to be the next quest on my list. Right now I'm using Spinning Tom's Daggers.

IIRC.....the Shine and Shadow daggers (purple) have a base damage of around 79. During the daytime they have extra fire damage....during nighttime they have ice damage.

I've done something to that effect already.

So how is this game? I'm honestly really burnt out on the "elves, dwarves, LOTR, WOW" themed games. But I might get bored and give this a shot.

Piercing works with any weapon, even staffs. Piercing probably wasnt the best thing to call it, since you probably would have a rough time piercing something with a blunt object.

Just think of the Piercing stat as Ignoring Armor. Whatever protection their armor rating gives, the piercing bonus will lower it, letting you do more damage.

Boy, I'll say one thing about this game - you wander into the wrong region and the difficulty ramps up dramatically.

The two headed troll things with their pet wolves are stomping my ass right now.

yep ... pierce is other games is different

seems like they screwed up stun a little bit too ... you can find stuff all over to increase stun duration but actually finding the "stun" itself is pretty dam hard.

the finesse ability paralytic poison gives you only like 10% chance to stun even maxed out. You can get a stun attack by doing a special attack and getting a hit on the final combo or something.

that's about it as far as i can see ... so that cool +20% stun duration gem isn't really worth it if you can't stun in the first place.

chakrams seem to stun if you do a full power up but that +20% duration didn't seem to do anything with i tried it so maybe it's not really a stun effect.

True and this is one of the points that separates this from Skyrim, I've always preferred that approach.

You have to use a special attack to stun I think. I stun all the time by using the Great Sword special charge attacks (far bottom left Might abilities). The first "level" attack is a whirlwind attack. If I charge it up fully and then continue to tap the X button during the whirlwind, he'll do a "juggle" at the end (if you're familiar with fighting games) - the upswing sends my foe into the air and the subsequent downswing, if it hits, has a chance to stun.

So I did pretty much all of Ettinmere last night and didn't get a single piece of loot that was worth keeping (the Daggers were nice but the daggers I'm using grant +4% EXP even when using the Great Sword).

Is maxing Blacksmithing the way to go? Are masterwork items blue or purple in quality?

Honestly.....I'm finding the drops to be reminiscent of Diablo. 75% of the time I would find crap that wasn't better than any of the weapons/armor that I was rolling with currently. I wouldn't find better stuff until I moved up another "stage" in the story.

I guess the one thing that I don't like about this game is that the shops merchandise doesn't randomize. If you go back to the first shop....they still have the same shit they had in the beginning of the game.

yep, you would think the devs would realize that the shops should have a christmas morning aspect to them. It adds to the fun of the game when you can run across a random shop guy hidden in some small town and find some unique item.

i'm going max blacksmith, max sagecraft

i'm not high enough level to get to blacksmith unique items yet but i will.

Figuring out the blacksmith stuff is adding to the game for me. I don't buy or sell anything much anymore.

I salvage and build everything.

My poison attack level is getting pretty awesome

I need to start salvaging all of the white items that I find. I keep throwing them in my junk pile and then selling them when it gets full.

Another thing that I wish they had was "backpack upgrades". FFS.....70 items is killing me. I don't carry any potions other than health and mana potions.

I have found two bad ass items so far though. I have a necklace that gives me +1 to all finesse abilities and I have a pair of boots that does the same.

Apparently there are backpack upgrades. This is from Youtube....

I think now that I'm at over 200,000 gold.....I'm going to reset my character tonight and not put any points in alchemy. That will at least save me time from chasing every stupid plant that is out there.

I don't any points in alchemy at all


What do you use it for?

I started out using it to create health potions because I thought it was going to be like every other RPG and have it be cheaper/easier to create your own potions instead of buying them. After a couple of hours in.....I figured out that it wasn't worth shit. I'm well over 200k and nothing to spend it on. Shit...I just bought 10 prismere lockpicks just to have them.

I think I'm just going to reset my character and max out blacksmithing and sage craft first. I'll just make sure that every piece of my armor has health regen on it. Then I shouldn't have to worry about keeping around health potions.

This is an interesting video.....if you can get past his lisp and stuttering problem.

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Last night I finally got my smithing and sagecraft up to the point where I could create stuff with pristine gems. Created a sword that more than doubled the damage output of my old one. That's pretty badass.

It took me a bit to get into this game, but I'm really hooked now.

I've maxed my smithing and sagecraft and can't create jack !#(@$#@ at lvl 23. My highest lvl item is like 14. I'm coming back to this game, after I finish Syndicate. ;)

This.

There's a backpack upgrade in the very first town silly!

So with max blacksmith, can you make purple items?

I must not have had the money for it back then. Looks like I'm going back there tonight.

almost finished with this game, just in time to send it back to gamefly and hope for Mass Effect 3, I never played the first 2, but oh well.

backpack upgrade is only 10 iirc


can you buy more than one?

yeah, they are scattered around random merchants, you should google their locations. I think I have 120 inventory and I'm pretty sure I bought almost all of them.

Gotta be feckin kidding me.

Fail.

Those are some damn good games, and all story choices made carry over from game to game. ME3 is supposed to be the culmination of all of your previous story choices wrapped up into one big epic ending.

Sure, youll be able to answer a quick pop quiz about what you would have done in those situations presented in the first two games, but that isnt going to fill you in on the huge amount of backstory you will have missed not having played those.

I honestly dont see how you could enjoy ME3's story not knowing anything about the first two games.

Multiplayer is going to be the only aspect of this game you will get 100% out of.

I know right? I haven't played ME1 or ME2 but I'm not going to buy ME3 because I don't know any story for the whole series. Does that make me awful?