It'll make Sudden Death a real option on bosses, and that build is how you end up hitting that Dragon once and then watch the goat head swipe across it's face over and over until it's dead. See, Confuse does just what it advertises, and your afflicted target will attack a random friend or foe. It's astoundingly powerful, and this then makes it 50% more astounding. It's just a weaker version of Guiding Strike (212% weapon damage at best) and it doesn't even do group damage. You can bring the Paladin or Warrior if you want, but they're all going to be competing for agro attention which is less efficient than letting the Knight do his thing. Once you level up, maybe a few times, you'll notice you're not getting much from them anymore, so move on to the next stop on the main quest fun train. opinion) attached. You will, in effect, feel twice as powerful as they struggle to make a dent in your armor. So, depending on the situation, this can be pretty devastating. All Reviews: And here especially, as once the battle's over you're going to need that phoenix feather anyway. A history of Savannah and South Georgia : volume II Trick is, seeing as this is passive, you require another active skill for this one to kick in. In no gaming universe ever created does the Paladin not have this skill. Thing is, both Fireball and Lightning are perfectly serviceable even against single targets, so if you're looking to be hyper efficient you'll likely invest in one of those and your boosting skill. Escort: Go to Orienting Village to continue quest. Since this build does not have a paladin or cleric I decided to go for carapace after maxing out vines. Here Be Dragons; Back To the Source (free update) Epic Mount; Art Book; Exclusive Grinding Farm Location ; Soundtrack- 14 Songs I mean that is true, the damage is about as good as any group attack you'll find in the game. I like the Goth/elf/ninja because it has free revives and i always have trouble with running out of money. Perhaps this is a curse shared with the Exchange Student, because both that player and this class require nothing more from you to unlock than a paltry sum of gold. Other casters in this game will outshine him in both individual and group damage, but his passive skill is as deadly as passivity gets. Lesser because it's a short list of monsters that drop items either consistently or that are worth harvesting. But let's say 750 each turn. About half the time before that, and by committing to this you're not as strong or tough as, well, you aught to be. But, to stay on point, this adds up to 136 Threat at level 24, which is just a hilariously huge number compared to what anyone else is capable of. While it's always good to inflict a condition, it can be pretty inconsequential too. "Restore 50 per level Health for each Critical you land" - up to 250. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies, and lots of pure customer love. It is, however, the most fun solution to that issue, which is why it's great for me. So you might think: "Ooooo, yay! So Technically it's possible to Sudden Death with Ninja Alone. Yes, you can bring him up to 10 or 12 body or whatever, but he's still gonna feel paper thin compared to any of the Fighters and what they can handle because the body boost doesn't actually add HP and there's no synergy skill like the Barbarian has to take care of that. One is with weapons (or weapon-based skills) and the other with spells. However you use this, with his single damage skill, protection skill, or shuffle-the-enemy-like-a-deck-of-cards skill, it's worthwhile, effective, a good combo, and the animation is about as cool as it gets. Although it wouldn't be that dark, because Paladins have a tendency to wear shiny things, have shiny skills, and just be shiny in general. Likewise level 6 will carry you through to level 25 or so, allowing you to focus on leveling Radiance throughout. The hand that kills can also heal, sayeth Aragorn, and all that. So at the start, you can use those mushrooms if you want to, but you'll get just as much XP out of taking it slow and slaughtering plenty of low level monsters when your team is low level as well - filling out the bestiary, for example. As long as the Druid has the MP to keep it up, there's no appreciable difference though. I am editing this article to fix the gross, badly thought out, changing of someone elses work, as someone who owns and actively maintains a (different) wiki, i know. One final note has to do with the sometimes invaluable quality of Criticals, as they are often the only way to inflict Conditions (like the hammer's Stun) on enemies that almost always resist the affliction when they have the chance. And that weapon is the only 2 handed weapon in the game that adds no damage (and, I'll tell you right now, you're better off with the shuriken and anything else in his other hand). But largely you'll be maxing out Na Palm for it's excellent damage and burning-itude. I mean, ivy! Unless it's a Dragon, in which case, thankfully, you'll have Touch of Blight handy. The Knight has a kind of ancillary healing effect to one of his skills, but it's pretty weak. In practice, just good. Meaning there are better skills to invest in, or items to buy, or players to bring to deal with the whole back row/front row situation. Why is the Hunter's half that? In practice, either a little superfluous or kind of a waste of a turn. In theory, great. In this here world, most of that is true. 2 random enemies to start with, then one more every 3 levels. I did do one playthrough without him, just once, and at the end I felt hollow inside, like the magic was missing from my life. At higher levels it's just too little (as any other static values). As now this section of the guide is nigh unusable by those playing the PC version, for whom it is designed. Very crucially, his next skill (True Strike), allows him to convert Threat Percentage into a bonus to his Critical Percentage. "Threat -1 per level" - up to -5 Not sure what they were thinking with this one. You should be at a high enough level after the main quests and all that slaying that monster XP is going to be negligible no matter what, with the notable exception of the White Dragon and maybe some others. Turn into a bear! If you follow the quests, gain quest XP (which is different and I'll explain how later), and then come back to do these things, you will fill out the entries and get your ingredients, but you just won't get any XP (worth mentioning) for them. Well, almost, we'll get in to that. "Shield action restores 50 Health & Energy per table level" - The Thief could benefit from this, with her automatic blocking, even a bit later in to the game. The body point gives you another point of damage, another point in Threat (which you're only going to want with a fighter anyway), and a boost to HP. So you bring this little dude up from the netherworld, and he (again, at max level) attacks for 80 damage and only gets dispelled if you get hit for 56 or more damage at once. So the upshot is: mushrooms are a shortcut to level up quick at the beginning, in particular - or rather, only - if you don't want to hang around slaying extra cave bats. That's it for the basics. Nevertheless, the damage starts off pretty weak and only gets up to 128%. But that's what your potions are for. But it's worth it, for me at least, as you get to see what the OP version of every class is like. This is all true if what you're hoping to get out of this skill is some healing. I've tried, with Barrage of Knives, and it's never been enough. Or, I suppose more accurately, dodge all the attacks. If you use it on your big scary fighter, they should already have high Threat and decent to great Damage Reduction. Just to say though that the natural compliment to this is Backstab. The obvious choice for any of your casters (Cleric, Mage, Warlock, Psion) with the 3 in Mind, which ensures they'll have enough MP to blanket the world of Paperos in spells. Really, most of the fun of replaying the game is mixing and matching and having fun with it and experimenting. Not that good, but being the cheapest one is the most cost-efficient for new games. Now, there is a very important distinction here between Threat and Threat Percentage, which is another concept that may have been around since before the latest magazine, but I had no idea. Except, you know, it like totally obviously isn't because this skill is only good. Which is why Confuse seemed like a good idea be able to inflict regularly, because it's dangerous for your team when they get confused by the enemy. Three +9 fists! Pathfinder (Rollenspiel) - Wikipedia Or, at least he thinks he is. This is all great, but starts looking even better combined with the Thief's Barrage of Knives, or a group that lays on the conditions so you're getting a Sudden Death once every battle or two. Once again, kind of like the Warlock, if there were twice as many skill points to go around you could take advantage of this "I can do it all" attitude, but there aren't, so you can't. Max out frenzied strike, pot a point into Rampage and the rest into Anger Management. Fully maxed out (level 24, for a skill, is the max, by the way), he gets +32 Body and +16 Senses. Therefore the best damage (136 maxed) magic is going to do to a single target in this game. Don't let the 20 extra MP fool you, this is your specialist class. Pen and paper. So if you complete a particular side quest at level 10, you will gain half a level's worth of XP, which is (and I'm just making this number up for the example) 1'000XP. The problem here is that the battles you can win in one round are, generally, full of lower level enemies and so your XP and gold reaping is very low. He's got like 4 extra skills your barbarian doesn't have and he gets 2 attacks each turn, for some reason. Kind of sucks. But you might have noticed those zeros. I've found the scrolls in consumables, and the weapons are easy . Almost the only time I ever escape a battle is when I get stuck with a lvl 1 monster battle while I'm traveling when I'm lvl 20 or something, just because it's annoying. Conditions and Criticals are not the primary focus here, nor is tweaking the whole thing to get maximum possible carnage; just good solid steady damage and regenerating, ensuring you'll get through everything even if it takes a few more turns than other more offensive teams: Your classic basic fighter, with a skill for bosses, and a skill for groups. I haven't figured out the exact formula for what each point of Body contributes, and it does change slightly depending on which class you are, but it roughly translates to a level's worth of HP per Body point per level. So this one is pretty original in that, along with the Druid, it adds only the second proper warding spell in the game (I don't think the Hunter's hat counts, because he can't use it on anyone else). Knights of Pen and Paper 2. Just putting one point in this skill already makes your Knight a damage absorbing beast, the extra health and energy points are just gravy. Even so, it's only 1 wasted turn getting Vanish back up, and considering the payoff - being the best single target damage dealer in the game - it's worth the occasional frustration. With the L size, 20% of the time useless. The Hulk, essentially. What makes this decent is that you regain up to 24 energy when this does happen. Which is pretty close to that 136 from Frostbite, all things considered, except it's going to hit up to 4 creepies at once. So only invest in some mushrooms if you just want to skip the noob-level stuff at the beginning. Boring, but clutch. And a host of other combinations. Take Heed of the . 1. Including Stun, so 1 time out of 7 this is, in fact, the Frostbite skill (although better, 'cause the Stun can't be resisted). And while you could protect your Monk from time to time, largely this is best used on your 4 weaklings this team is made up of, often actually getting the healing in every turn that goes by without them getting a hit. (Note: This skill does not regenerate the Cleric's MP, which is why you're going to have to rely on MP regenerating Trinkets (preferably), or potions, or good old fashioned rest from time to time.). But really you only need to get this skill up to mid-level to take advantage of this magical healing loophole. Pair this with Ambush though and you'll have 126 damage per hit with that 28 stacking condition. While a Mage who levels Lightning first and then pours the rest into Arcane Flow will indeed end up having single target damage identical to Frostbite (minus the Stun of course), this is a more balanced Mage for this team, leveling both skills equally, in particular because there's a Warrior in the pack doing the exact same thing, and so you'll be superior to that other Mage for the duration of the game, not just be really cool right at the end. Without the Bookworm it takes 28 kills to learn all there is to know about a beast. So if you're going for the giant-silverback-gorilla-stomping-through-the-jungle look, pair with Power Lunge and enjoy the agro. Threat is relative, so if everyone gets Threat -X, yes, okay your Mage at 10 Threat will go to 9-5 and your Warrior with (in battle) 50 Threat will go down to 49-45, so it's a bigger difference for the Mage. The following is the party set-up I have used up to level 25. He kinda likes to be the only bad boy (read: fighter type) on the team though, which is fine, but it does mean he's dictating who you're bringing along with you to slay those dragons. Later on, with Dragons and Jesters and conditions flying at you all the time, you'll probably need all those 9 conditions removed from your whole team with this skill maxed. And that's the Knight, in all his defensive glory. I don't think so, but I'm not playing your game. Thing is there's always five of you (well, almost always - doesn't have to be that way and I'll get in to that, but for the sake of argument), and not always five (or seven) of them. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 - Walkthrough, Tips, Review - Jay is games But this can work really well if you combine it with Touch of Blight. So what this means is that you are literally going to torch all the weaklings facing you to ash.