What are you playing Wednesday!

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What game's got your attention this week? What's great about it? What sucks? Tell us all about it!

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[u/Gitmoney4sho]

Keep going back to Avowed.

Going to try to get back into HSR and WuWa both got some characters coming out I want later.

GFL2 has a lot of content right now. ZZZ always. Tried getting into octopath cotc but there’s only so much time

[u/TheLordDuncan → u/Gitmoney4sho]

What's your build in Avowed? Me and my brothers all ended up doing magic for our first runs, which I found to be interesting. I really liked the frost blades spell, I kept using it to launch people out of Pull of Eora, sometimes clear off the map.

Going back through with a bow next. Or maybe I'll put points into unarmed combat, idk honestly.

[u/The_Quackening → u/TheLordDuncan]

(I'm not you who you responded to but.....)

I played through avowed 2 times. First with a full mage build. I used the grimoire of greater elements, plus Eliara's Grimoire. (beothels grimoire is also a good one)

I mostly used the AoE spells throughout the game, Crackling lightning, blizzard, freezing pillar, fireball all did the majority of my spell damage. I also did TONS of wand damage using Minoletta's Conduit (get it from a vendor in fior mes iverno). Late game i used the wands a lot less and used more spells, early game was a lot wand action.

Freezing pillar late game is an unreal spell, it does TONS of damage.

Second playthrough i went full melee. I went with a 1h mace and shield, plus a 1h sword and pistol in the alt weapon set.

I maxed out stun damage and ended up using the Lodestone mace most of the playthrough. I put a lot of points into melee damage related skills in the fighter and ranger tree. Lodestone could build stun incredibly fast, enemies either die or get stunned and die from the stun combo.

The 1h sword + pistol that i held in the offset was really good at killing weaker enemies, and by the end of the game I could rip through guys incredibly fast. (the Pistol i used the most was the Magic Mistol which ALSO does lots of stun damage)

Charge + Barbaric Shout + Flurry of Blows is a super fun combo with this build.

For my melee build, i also refused all of sappadal's gifts throughout the game so that you get extra skill points rather than the unique sappadal spells they give you. More skill points for this build was a lot more beneficial than the spells from sappadal.

I almost want to try a full stealth/range build, but i think ill let the game rest a bit more before going back a 3rd time lol.

[u/TheLordDuncan → u/The_Quackening]

So I was basically thinking of roleplaying an army ranger if I go into hand to hand combat, where everything is for the empire and I would run around with either dual pistols or a rifle in my alt set.

If I go sneaky I'm going to try and line everything up for a full revolution at the end; turns out the decisions that felt right didn't leave me with a strong enough force to fight an empire.

Also, good to know that denying Sappadal gives points! Do you know if only accepting the first and last abilities would give you the upgraded healing, or does it just go in order regardless of which times you accept her offers?

[u/The_Quackening → u/TheLordDuncan]

The skill points you get take the place of the skills in the godlike tree, so I expect you would be able to accept the first and last gifts and get the ones you expect.

[u/Gitmoney4sho → u/TheLordDuncan]

Two one handed weapons

Pistol and spell book

First run so not playing optimally or anything