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Use Ember and just do fire damage, and get the mythic feat Ascendant Element - Fire, and she'll ignore all fire resistance and immunities. And watch the world burn while she giggles.

Also, set your spells BEFORE you go to sleep. I played hundreds of hours of Kingmaker, and I still forget this one.

Little Hint to coincide with Tip number 3. If you find that your caster is in close proximity to an enemy and is going to take an attack of opportunity when casting, move first. Even though you're still going to take an attack of an opportunity for moving you won't be forced into having to make a concentration check and your spell won't have a chance of failure.

One thing to note: a 5ft step does not take up your entire turn. It's done in place of your movement, so you could still perform a full attack, cast a spell, drink a potion, etc, you just can't move any further that turn.

I always get Daeran to hurl insults rather than crossbow bolts. He has great persuasion and shaken is a great debuff in the early game. A shame the ranged section didn't suggest this alternative option when Dearan is built towards it. It is also a good variable alternative for any other charisma based caster in the early game such as a main character Bard/Sorcerer/Oracle.

I’m a total noob at this game, but Wenduag with a magic longbow, archers bracers and archers glasses Actually hard carries my party and just dumpsters everything from way back in Narnia.

Yips, one mistake : the 5-Foot Step does not burn the Full-Round Action, on the contrary. The confusion comes from the fact it does burn your Movement. So you can do Full-Round Action +5-Foot Step or 5-Foot Step +Full-Round Action. EDIT: I modified my guide to make that part much clearer.

Although you are right in general about using dex for attack bonus, Lann is in a weird spot here. At 3rd level zen archer he gets the "zen archery" feat. This allows him to use wisdom instead of dex as his attack bonus with bows. However if you take a point in dex (as you did on your showcased Lann) his dex will be higher then his wisdom and he will use dex for attack rolls. However, putting a point in wisdom at level 4 is still a bit better then putting it in dex. Both will add +1 to AC and AB, however the AC bonus from wisdom will apply to touch and flatfooted AC aswell, whereas the AC bonus from dex will only apply to touch AC. Therefore, if you plan on taking Lann to level 3+ zen archer and have him use bow exclusively, you should put points into wisdom instead of dex.

After watching the vid, all i can think of is: "Attack of opportunity".

Only because you said it more than a few times, it's "attacks of opportunity". Only the "attacks" are plural. Solid video!

the way he pluralizes both attacks and opportunities 😂😂😂 bless his heart

Important correction: a 5 foot step only prevents you from using your other actions to move during that turn. You can still take full round actions and use your move action on something else, like the witch's Cackle hex that costs a move action.

Very informative and helpful. I'm playing Kingmaker now and have learned a few things from your WotR streams and the tips videos. Will probably watch the tips videos few more times. Thanks to Baraz for his work as well.

Oh man, I saw a unit fighting on horseback. This is great because now I can play my childhood dream, a classic knight / paladin.

The only thing i can add - mythril armor have smaller arcan casting mistake chances and with feats you can have full plate mage

Thank you, this was very helpful. Didn't know how this all worked. I'm keen on more Guides :D

Something I found out the hard way. Some missions are time-sensitive, I missed out on some reinforcements for the Gray Garrison siege because I was resting for more spells or otherwise dicking around and doing things in other locations.

I've found that the Mage Armor spell is going to do more to protect your casters than wearing armor does, the downside being that it's vulnerable to being dispelled. The fact that it stacks well with most other sources of AC is also nice.

This actually helped me a TON, haha. It's gonna be one of my first forays into these games and I needed a hand into understanding these systems. Thank you so much, Wolfheart! Aaaaand subbed! :D

When you're trying to pluralize "Attack of Opportunity", I think it would just be "Attacks of Opportunity", not "Opportunities". Having said that, thank you for reminding me about turning on Acrobatics. I've just been trying to rely on a character's move score to avoid them.

One important bit you missed was Medium & Heavy armour reducing your movement. Medium & Heavy armour users have much harder time getting up to opponents in order to melee if they are far away, tho charge helps a bit.

So here's something that isn't super obvious and I didn't even realize until my third playthrough, some books give your main character permanent buffs when read. The earliest one is the tome of the minotaur book in the intro that gives you +1 on all glaives you use. You have to click the book, hit info, and scroll to the bottom of the book to count it as read and it'll then show up in abilities. Some books are going to be useless, like that book if you don't use glaives at all but others are very useful like +10 hp or +1 ac against dragons. This only works for your character though, not party members.

One i might add is remembering to utilize stealth. While it certainly benefits rogues the most, it also can leave your enemies flat-footed on the first round of combat, and, since you are ambushing them, you are going to have a lower chance of your characters being flat footed.

If you're an arcane spellcaster consider giving those classes Mithral armor. These type of armors are exceptional. They are considered one weight category lighter than normal armors. Meaning a heavy Mithral armor is now medium armor and medium armors are now light armors. Plus they get 10% less arcane spell failure, meaning 20% is now 10%. This is huge. Plus they give you less armor penalty.

Great video, I finally understand composite bows lol.

I would add to point 4. Take a good look at what does stack vs what doesn't. Certain ACs WILL stack, others won't. For example, Mage Armor won't stack with physical armors (light, medium, heavy) but WILL stack with those items that give magical bonuses (bracers of armor, amulets, rings of protection). This also applies, to a lesser extent, with weapons.

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Also some classes like bards can ignore spell casting failure to a point and there is some feats and class features that give increase tolerance to heavier armor. So you can be a full plate wizard but you have to work for it.

Great video, as a gamer who has played both pathfinder kingmaker and pillars of eternity, this information really helped as I play on normal mode usually which I didn't need to optimize but started on core difficulty for this game

Thanks Wolf .. these are all very helpful and important. I had always wondered about bows vs crossbows, so now I know. Your content is always super helpful!!

I would also say: don't stack up on consumables and use them instead, especially in the early game when you have limited spells per day. They are not worth keeping most of the time, unless they are very specific defense buffs, but pretty much worth using and they scale with character lvl to a degree.

Found the guide helpful. I didn't know about about the composite bow mechanics, and strength penalties applied to bows.

My only mistake is restarting the game every time I theorycraft a new op build x)

Needed this thanks

As a beginner, I learnt a great deal from this video. Thank you. A little advice of my own: You say "Chances of failure." not "Chances of failures". As such, you should say "Attacks of opportunity", not "Attacks of opportunities".

Great tutorial!!!!! If I'm understanding things correctly, look at a list of Mage spells for example to see if there are saving throw comments vs. a "-" If there is a "-" consider it going against the AC, which would trigger the need for the feat abilities. Seems to me you can plan around this with a little planning and thought.

Ive played both divinity games but this one seems more complicated. Great video thanks for clearing a few things up.

I tried to play Pathfinder: Kingmaker and lost interest. The ridiculous number of choices overwhelmed me and I never have any interest in building/maintaining a hold (I turned on the auto for that). Having watched this video makes me unlikely to play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous even though I purchased it long ago. I wonder if these tips also apply if you play on one of the easier modes, as that may be what I try out. I just want to have fun, and all of these convoluted, complicated, and complex mechanics only serve to push me away from playing. I 've been playing CRPGs since the early 90s and it wasn't until these Pathfinder games that the complexity made me not want to play. These types of games always had complexity...and often a high level of difficulty...but I suppose most of the mechanics and choices were either hidden or streamlined. I guess some people enjoy the minutiae Pathfinder CRPG games provide but for me they just create confusion and stress. To each their own.

this game sounds more complicated than computer engineering in university

Great video as always! Super informative for a noob like me :)

Very useful, didn’t know about strength on bows

Thank you for the tips. I just got this game and it’s my first game in this genre and was really overwhelmed with all the options. I would have definitely missed you’re tips

TL;DW of this video: Learn Pathfinder 1e/D&D 3.5e. But seriously, to sum up, +Bows don't do damage like they do in 5e, get a Composite Longbow if your STR is 12+. (Composite Bows come in Short and Long variety, btw. Your keep merchants sell a +3 Holy Composite Shortbow, so Wolfheart is incorrect at 2:13) +PF1e and 3.5e take logic into account, you take a -4 to hit shooting into melee combat, and you will get smacked if you try to shoot while you have an enemy trying to stab you. Feats negate this. Point Blank Shot for the -4, and Point Blank Master for the Attack of Opportunity ++ (Gonna get in-depth for this one, as it requires explaining) All spells that are Rays make what is called a "Ranged Touch Attack", and is countered by Touch AC. Touch AC is usually much, much, much lower, than normal AC, so even with the -4 to hit, you should be reliably hitting AC. What you need to worry about is Energy Resistance, and Spell Resistance. Spell Resistance is AC vs Spells, essentially. If a target has a SR of 15, you have to roll 1d20+Caster Lever and meet or exceed a 15 for your spell to affect the target, regardless of you hitting. Take Scorching Ray. You make your attack, hit, but don't overcome spell resistance, so no damage. Energy Resistance is a flat number that is subtracted from the damage an element does to a target *_per attack._* Again, Scorching Ray. You hit, you overcame SR, but the enemy has Energy Resistance (Fire) of 5 points. Each ray that hits does 4d6, or 4-24 damage. However, the target has Energy Resistance (Fire) 5, so you're actually doing 0-19 damage. Per Ray. So, level 11+, when you're firing 3 rays (Spells don't upcast in PF1e/3.5e they scale as you level up) doing (assuming all hit) 12d6 damage, or 12-42, you're actually doing 0-27 damage. You can overcome this Energy Resistance by taking the Mythic Path Feat "Ascendant Element" bypassing any and all Energy Resistance/Immunity that a foe has toward that specific element. The elements are Fire, Cold, Lightning, Acid, and Sonic. No poison elemental damage, poisons are different in Pathfinder and D&D 3.5e. +All creatures get Opportunity Attacks when you move out of a threatened square before taking a 5ft adjustment, or Disengaging. You also will get smacked if you try to cast a spell in a threatened square, period, unless it is Quickened, and if you try to shoot a bow/crossbow/slingstaff in melee without the Point Blank Mastery feat. +Again, PF1e and 3.5e use logic with armor. Heavier armor is more protective, but is heavier, reducing your movement speed. All incurs failure chances for arcane spells, and most give an Armor Check Penalty for certain skills (namely Athletics and Stealth). These can be mitigated by playing a class that can cast spells in armor, taking the Arcane Armor Feats, being a Dwarf (in case of movement penalty), or being a Divine Caster like a Paladin or Cleric. +Weapons and Damage Resistance. In 3.5e and Pathfinder 1e, there exists yet another defense creatures can have. Damage Reduction, or DR. Some DR cannot be bypassed. You will know it as DR (number)/-. Some DR will be able to be overcome by a specific damage type, like Slashing from a Longsword. DR (Number)/Slashing. Even more DR can be overcome by weapon material DR X/Mithrial or DR X/Adamantine or Cold Iron. And some even have DR X/Specific Alignment. DR 5/- knocks off 5 points of damage from every individual attack. So even if you could, somehow, attack 10,000 times in a round, if you never do 6 or more damage in a single hit, you do exactly 0 damage to the target. You need to use the proper weapon/material/alignment weapon to bypass this. Or be a Paladin and Smite them, as virtually all enemies you fight are Evil. The good news is that if a creature has DR 10/Slashing, Good, Cold Iron, you only need 1 of those types to bypass the DR. Either a Slashing Weapon like a Longsword, or Battleaxe, a Good weapon like a Holy Warhammer, or a Cold Iron weapon like a Cold Iron Spear. EDIT: Addendum: There is a Wizard class that lets you focus an element, even getting to turn, say, Fireballs, into Cold damage. Normally this would be a very, very bad idea, but we have Mythic Paths in play, so you can get the Ascendant Element Feat to bypass Energy Resistance as I mentioned.

Also, potions absolutely trigger Opportunity Attacks! It’s how my Seelah kept getting downed is enemies would swipe at her as she was taking a healing potion. Killed a lot of melee characters that way

Man, this is a really handy video for beginners. I wish this video was around when I first started Kingmaker. Would have saved me many, many hours of trial and error and reading the SRD website.

Penalties don't mean shit when you're constantly rolling below eight

Perfect for people who aren't familiar with dnd style rules of play and people, like myself, who usually have technical questions about how they work.

After level 3, Zen Archers like Lann actually use Wisdom on attack rolls, not Dexterity.

Very helpful, thank you. Loving Wrath of the Righteous, great game.

I didn't know/think about auto-turning on the mobility skill. Thanks for the tip!

For advice when it come to weapons. Reading the quality is importent depending on the character As some may be a better option depending on the player play style and regular party composition. As something like the keen enchantment , agile or etc are as equally useful when . As these may be useful for some party member's with out them needing to take a feat or multi-class to get a familair resault. As needing to sink 1 to 2 feat's could be use else where if they use X weapon that have certain enchantments on it. Such as a cleric who have good DEX score could use a +1 agile shortsword and be as effective as a fighter who use a +1 shortsword with the same STR score not including combat feat modifyer to the roll .

I really like that turned based combat is an option.

Honestly, a lot of the systems in this game seem to be complicating just for the sake of being complicating. They don't really introduce anything fun and stuff like having to brebuff is outright cancerous.

If your gonna be heavy ranged build into rogue for free sneak atk dmg which GREATLY helps and get a caster that can Trap, Vine, Web or slow large groups of enemies and you will have A LOT more success. Great vid man.

Thank you so much for all these tips! This game can be a bit overwhelming so I'm trying to get it little by little and all these tips were perfect.

4 things I wish I know before I start playing the game. I will chronological order them. Spoiler alert: 1. In prologue (before you wake up in tavern) you can get 3 companions. Seelah Paladin (Lawful Good) - tank, Camellia shaman (Undetectable) - only healer (can also be dps with two rapiers) and Lann (Lawful Neutral) monk or Wenduag fighter (Neutral Evil) - range archer dps depending of your actions and choices. 2. After prologue you can get mercenaries for 500 gold if you: don’t level up your main character, remove all party members from active party and set “Only active companions receive experience” to ON. Name of NPS is Hilor. 4. After prologue I got round 6000 gold after selling items. 3. You can respect for free first few times. Companions form level you get them but mercenaries from beginning. You can even change their class and stats. NPS is Hilor. 4. After prologue you will be close to level 4. So you can just travel to Market Square and back. You will get random encounter where you can get Nenio Wizard (True Neutral). Bay helping her you will get level 4. Now game really starts. Bonus advice: Make your main character charisma based with high Persuasion because only with him you will get dialogs and dialogs options. And build rest of the party around him.

Perfect video for my beginner ass. Will see if csn conquer to restartistis and finish this beast, its so fun

[spoilers, don't read if you don't want spoilers] On the topic of selling weapons: There is a dungeon in Act 3 [spoilers] in which most of the enemies have regeneration that can only be shut down with electrical damage or by hitting them with an adamantine weapon. I was damn lucky I held on to the one adamantine weapon I had found (a glaive from one of the story bosses) so I was able to finish that dungeon. If not, I would have really struggled to get through it.

Oh yeah I remember fighting this hydra type monster in the last game and I couldn’t kill it because my weapon wasn’t cold iron lmao

Anyone that you want to be able to shoot something, or for a caster that you want to focus on rays, it's worth it to take PBS, Precise Shot and maybe even Improved Point Blank. Reason being that, though the debuff from shooting in combat is bad, having point blank mode enabled and operable makes it so even if there's someone in melee range to your ranged character, they can still fire. It's also handy for enclosed spaces or one of the numerous encounters where you get ambushed or flanked by additional mobs. If you're playing a ranged class, chances are you won't have to worry too much about getting these bceause you'll proabably get them as bonus feats or as an extra feat for ranged feats from that class, it's still worth mentioning because it's easy to forget how useful point blank feats are. I didn't really use point blank sholt that much in Kingmaker, I get to Wrath and undervalued it's importance and found myself having my ranged character missing shots at close range often.

6:15 - A 5 foot step does not cost you a full action.

Another great one Bro! Much luv Wolf!

Great video, thanks. I’m actually playing through Kingmaker right now for the first time and all these tips still apply. Really helpful!

Very good tips! It has been so long since I played PF or dnd 3.5 I forgot some of these things.

The game it self should explain this.

I felt like I didn't understand how Camilla was supposed to be played. She felt really bad.

I knew alot of this but felt kinda silly about the ranged weapons tips. I always slapped crossbows on my casters but my main character (Sorc/Dragon Disc)has a pretty sizable strength modifier. Time to get a composite weapon or throwing axes i guess lmao.

Cold iron is pretty essencial in my opinion since dealing with demons

I’m here after baldur’s gate 3! Not gonna I’m addicted to this style of game now.

I started this game on core, never having played it, and it seems going sorcerer was a mistake, the cantrips deal 1d3 damage, which is nothing, and because of the -4 penalty they never even hit anyway... And like in general, everything has such a high armor class, sometimes many turns pass with no damage done.

Making Ember's ears burn again with that nothing but fire damage quip.

My character does only cold damage, but has the mythic feat to ignore resistance/immunity. :) So I focus on that - Cold Specialisation, extra cold damage, as well as things like Penetration and Ray Focus. Crossblooded Sorcerer with Water Elemental (Primary) and Silver Dragon. Gonna mythic with Azata.

Elemental specialist elven fire wizard recommends all fire, all the time. Cone of fire, chain fire, pit of fire, fire bolt, fire missile, fire arrow, fireball, fire snake, wall of fire, fire cloud, and many more.

This was super helpful. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Awesome. I didn’t know many of these!

You know, I watched this video looking for tips on the game, and that's exactly what I got. I somehow forgot I'm not a noob. I played 3.5/pathfinder for years and know how this all works already. So take my like, take my comment and watch, and I hope your channel continues to grow!

the 5 foot step doesnt use your action or your movement its just stops you from using movement, you can use a 5 foot step and still do full round actions

Not sure if this was covered in another video, but I came mostly from d&d games and its works different there but the buffs Magic Vestment and Weapon stacks with the current enhancement bonus. So +3 armor with magic vestment becomes +4 or higher depending on caster level.

I could not get into Divinity Sin 2 but I’m in love with this game. Thanks Wolf for the pro tips. I’ve been playing for hours and did not realize some of these tips.

Thanks wolfheart, very cool.

I’ve had to restart so many times lol. Learned the hard way to keep auto crusade turned off

Great stuff - thanks!. Now I know Nenio misses every time. Ha Ha. I've put different weapons into each characters weapon slots, just so they are ready.

Correction about the 5ft step. It does not cost you a full round action. You can do a 5ft step AND full round action in one turn. What the 5ft step does is use up all of your movement for the turn, so if you take a 5ft step you can no longer move at all until the next round.

Thanks for the tips! No such thing as too many for this game lol

a small correction 5 foot step doesn't prevent you from taking a full round action. its if you move anymore that five feet or you dont hold shift when take a five foot step.

Thanks for the video Wolf!

Wotr, unlike Kingmaker, does a good job to explain all this when it occurs. However, this video does it even better.

For spell casters you can easily focus on fire damage if you want to. There is a mythic ability that lets you select one energy type that ignore enemies energy resistance and/or immunities.

6: Keeping Camellia in your party instead of say, throwing her off the nearest cliff

After 2.5 full playthroughs of Kingmaker I never enter an area without about 25 buffs on my whole party :D

also a hot tip for new pathfinder folks don't do your first playthrough on Core difficulty XD. Had a friend try it when he'd never done pathfinder in his life it was unpleasant to say the least.

I wanna point out, Lann uses his Windom to ranged attacks.

Good list, helpful for many people no doubt!

Didn't used mobility skill even once in whole Kingmaker :D 5-step tactic was fine enough for me. But I don't remember it used all movement & action. I remember it used all movement and still I had action.

Bought the game and all DLC after learning it has a turn based mode , it seems like a very deep game for now

the minus 4 penalty with bows is a common known rule though, they have used logic, a bow in close quarters wont do as much as a crossbow, as they shoot/wire differently. But I love all the other tips , its good for new players keep up the good work. A video you could do? what subclasses you think is best for most classes. Like I want to try paladin but I cant decide lol

Dang, i didn't know you could trigger the acrobat feat to avoid attacks of opportunity and i play on core.. good advice..

This is some high quality stuff wolf. I watched this just to hammer home some ogf the tips I already picked up watching you play. Just to reinforce the rules, so to speak. Looking forward to playing on the new patch today. I think I finall have some of the basics down pact, like the acrobatics skill to avoid AoOs, how to use point blank shot and precise shot effectiveley to not get the penalty, and importantly to always remeber to buff your party BEFORE even starting a battle encounter, so as not to waste precious turns buffing the party. Something new I learned from this video are the different bows and how the strength stat is added only to composite bows - that was something new for me. All in all, very solid tips. i encourage all new players and people considering trying this game to watch this before playing.

Pretty good informative video, only reason I didn't watch it before is the clickbait title