{"id":11903,"date":"2024-11-08T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2024-12-03T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:10:48","slug":"pathfinder-wotr-through-the-ashes-the-lord-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/pathfinder-wotr-through-the-ashes-the-lord-of-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder: WotR &#8211; THROUGH the ASHES &#038; THE LORD of NOTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire reason I had initially picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/enderal-forgotten-stories\/\" title=\"ENDERAL: FORGOTTEN STORIES\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enderal<\/a> earlier was because I was in the mood to play some sort of magical melee class of some kind. Yet I ended up, as I usually do in those kind of first-person open world games, playing a stealth sniper\/assassin.<\/p>\n<p>Still wanting to play a monk-sorcerer kind of thing after abandoning that playthrough I decided to re-install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-first-impressions\/\" title=\"Pathfinder: WRATH of the RIGHTEOUS \u2013 First Impressions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrath of the Righteous<\/a> rather than try to look for something new. Both because I never did finish my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neoseeker.com\/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous\/guides\/Aeon_and_Devil_choices_guide\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aeon<\/a> run and never tried any of the DLC&#8230; and also since I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> annoyed at missing the <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=2931018658\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sadistic Game Design achievement<\/a> due to ONE ENEMY (Ashberry Hamlet&#8217;s ghost).<\/p>\n<p>But first, because completionism is a disease, I had to run through the two stand-alone campaign DLCs so that I could import them for the rewards.<\/p>\n<p>The first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/pathfinder_wrath_of_the_righteous_through_the_ashes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Through the Ashes<\/a>, is a low-level adventure (level 1-5) that doesn&#8217;t give any XP for killing stuff. Which is a big hint that you&#8217;re supposed to avoid combat wherever possible (your first companion being decent enough at stealth is another), and use environmental factors to help eliminate what you can&#8217;t avoid. It&#8217;s okay. There isn&#8217;t really anything annoying about it, but nor is there anything about it that calls for a replay.<\/p>\n<p>The second, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/game\/pathfinder_wrath_of_the_righteous_through_the_ashes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord of Nothing<\/a> (which brings you from 5-11), takes a more mixed stance. It&#8217;s much closer in style to the main campaign in both good and bad ways. Direct combat is encouraged a bit more here (although there are a couple &#8216;avoid fighting&#8217; areas), but said combat is not always the most balanced (I still completed it on Core with a ridiculously sub-par <a href=\"https:\/\/pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com\/wiki\/Demon_Dancer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demon Dancer<\/a> build though). You get access to a wide variety of items and equipment&#8230; but will only have enough money to buy a few of them.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s worth running through them once with a Paladin or Dexterity-focused Tank build of some kind, but the replayability value is pretty low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire reason I had initially picked up Enderal earlier was because I was in the mood to play some sort of magical melee class of some kind. Yet I ended up, as I usually do in those kind of first-person open world games, playing a stealth sniper\/assassin. Still wanting to play a monk-sorcerer kind of thing after abandoning that playthrough I decided to re-install Wrath of the Righteous rather than try to look for something new. Both because I never did finish my Aeon run and never tried any of the DLC&#8230; and also since I&#8217;m still annoyed at missing the Sadistic Game Design achievement due to ONE ENEMY (Ashberry Hamlet&#8217;s ghost). But first, because completionism is a disease, I had to run through the two stand-alone campaign DLCs so that I could import them for the rewards. The first, Through the Ashes, is a low-level adventure (level 1-5) that doesn&#8217;t give any XP for killing stuff. Which is a big hint that you&#8217;re supposed to avoid combat wherever possible (your first companion being decent enough at stealth is another), and use environmental factors to help eliminate what you can&#8217;t avoid. It&#8217;s okay. There isn&#8217;t really anything annoying about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,33,7],"tags":[28,406,121,120,473],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dlc","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-pathfinder","tag-rpg","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}