{"id":5961,"date":"2018-11-05T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:34:13","slug":"pathfinder-kingmaker-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/pathfinder-kingmaker-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder: Kingmaker &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to the Rushlight Tournament invitation now in Chapter 5 with a playtime of >70 hours (not sure how much of that is loading times though), at 14th level with Kingdom ranks of 7, 6, 6, 10, 9, 5, 6, 8, 6, 4.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 3 turned out to be nowhere near as bullshit as Chapter 2, with most of the enemies being much weaker than the enhanced owlbears. There are still a few unfair encounters scattered about (such a zombie mage with infinite Enervation casts and a class of characters with permanent unavoidable stat-draining auras), but for the most part the chapter&#8217;s a breeze, with Chapter 4 being even easier once you get over the initial shock of having no time for kingdom development (development occurs at the end of the chapter instead).<\/p>\n<p>Some things:<br \/>\n&#8211; Try to focus on Economy first to increase your income; note that after 40 rank-ups a project will appear to cut upgrade times in half.<br \/>\n&#8212; The really game-changing projects start appearing at Kingdom ranks 6+.<br \/>\n&#8211; Do not pick the &#8216;neutral&#8217; adviser in the beginning, else you&#8217;ll eventually get hit by a nasty debuff.<br \/>\n&#8211; When a dwarf pops up demanding recompense for his ancestors&#8217; expenses, give him the money. His request is worded badly and he&#8217;s one of the 10 artisans.<br \/>\n&#8212; That said, the artisan quests currently seem to be broken (they still give you expensive gifts though).<br \/>\n&#8211; Save an Emerald, an Emerald Necklace, the 3 &#8220;On Transmutation&#8221; books, and the Roc Egg; they&#8217;re needed for sidequests.<br \/>\n&#8211; Make sure to explore the Dire Narlmarches sometime after Armag&#8217;s Tomb; the main quest won&#8217;t send you there.<br \/>\n&#8211; Armor class is kind of meaningless with all the attack bonus bloat (reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/game\/neverwinter_nights_enhanced_edition_pack\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the first NWN<\/a>). You&#8217;re better off with damage reduction and miss chance.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Shambling Mound in the Elk-Portal Abandoned Keep area can only be killed by negative energy for some reason.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Bridge-area Linnorm and Owlbear Treant in the Everblooming Flower area on the other hand have to be killed with cold iron.<br \/>\n&#8211; Make sure to bring the Second Execution battleaxe with you when you set off on the Varnhold Vanishing quest.<br \/>\n&#8211; You can find\/get some pretty cool daggers and kukri, a nice Necrotic fauchard, a sai that causes bleeding, a club that casts Vampiric Touch on crit, a Dex-damaging sickle, and a mage-enhancing scythe.<br \/>\n&#8212; The other weapons so far aren&#8217;t as exciting and\/or have annoying drawbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to the Rushlight Tournament invitation now in Chapter 5 with a playtime of >70 hours (not sure how much of that is loading times though), at 14th level with Kingdom ranks of 7, 6, 6, 10, 9, 5, 6, 8, 6, 4. Chapter 3 turned out to be nowhere near as bullshit as Chapter 2, with most of the enemies being much weaker than the enhanced owlbears. There are still a few unfair encounters scattered about (such a zombie mage with infinite Enervation casts and a class of characters with permanent unavoidable stat-draining auras), but for the most part the chapter&#8217;s a breeze, with Chapter 4 being even easier once you get over the initial shock of having no time for kingdom development (development occurs at the end of the chapter instead). Some things: &#8211; Try to focus on Economy first to increase your income; note that after 40 rank-ups a project will appear to cut upgrade times in half. &#8212; The really game-changing projects start appearing at Kingdom ranks 6+. &#8211; Do not pick the &#8216;neutral&#8217; adviser in the beginning, else you&#8217;ll eventually get hit by a nasty debuff. &#8211; When a dwarf pops up demanding recompense for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[28,406,121,473],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-pathfinder","tag-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","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=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}