The cheasiest things is that if you hoard up essences (if you have crafting then you'll swim in gold so not hard), then you can easily reach 100% elemental resist on all your characters. You can also make excellent unique items if you are patient (since their level will be the same as you when you create them).Īlso you can make many non-magic / minor magic items and potions which are excellent way to make so much money that you can buy (then enhance) any items in shop. Most of them can be done without going back to the city, though whetstones are hard to find. You can enhance almost every item in the game (except tenebrium and partially crushing weapons), by using the grindstone (+damage), anvil/oil (+movement for heavy armor, +block for shields), spare parts (+armor, +ranged weapon damage), tortured souls (+strength/defense), essences (elemental damage/resist), poison, tenebrium (damage / resist on shield), or simply nails for your shoes so you don't slip on ice. You can create non-magic weapons and armor in each type (dagger, spear, 1h/2h sword/axe, bow, crossbow, leather, plate, robes, boots, shields) which is levelled with you and has higher damage than you could find. Too bad I spend a good time crafting/blacksmithing, but overall I'm having fun.I think the crafting system is excellent.
Most of combats I'm facing now are challengings, yet they are fun. In my turn, I summoned spiders and undeads near them to act as shield, then I used debuff spells to finally kill them. Let me tell you how I beat Braccus Rex: First time I thought "no way it's impossible with those damn meteors!", then I splittered up my group to avoid his meteors. So since DOS1's "complex" combat systems lead to only one actually optimal way of playing the game, is DOS2 really the worse combat system? I feel it wouldn't be unless it had the same problem, but then, I won't be getting it until I finish this game. I find that to be poor combat design, and while it is neat to get occasional victories due to smart use of the terrain and environmental effects and such, I don't like how you essentially are forced to abuse mass crowd control as your only real option. So far, every hard fight I've won in DOS1 has been due to spamming mass crowd control because there's literally no other way to win fights when every single enemy can cast as much magic as you, and they typically outnumber you as well.īeating Braccus Rex for example, and his three summons, basically required me to keep him spam-stunned for something like 5-10 turns while I took out the rest of the enemies, and that just doesn't seem like fun gameplay to me. Given that the combat in DOS1 seems "extremely" flawed to me by this point, literally being a game of spamming crowd control to win (or else waiting for your enemies to do the same), hearing that this is somehow "superior" to the combat in the second game makes me hesitant to want to play the second one. I've played only about 30 hours of DOS1 so far, and am finally getting through the second "act" as of now.
Originally posted by Dragon:That's a big question. DOS 2 won't ever be on sale that cheap for at least another couple of years. Plus, if you are okay buying from GOG, then DOS 1 EE is on sale there for super cheap right now, 66% off for $13.59 USD. If DOS 1 EE's combat was akin to attending university, then DOS 2's combat would be akin to attending kindergarten.ĭOS 1 EE's combat/core gameplay is orders of magnitude better than DOS 2's.īut for some strange reason, DOS 2 is a super popular game that legions of people love, so YMMV, I guess?Īs for not having a lot of time: both games are huge and will probably take 100+ hours to complete, especially if you do most or all of the side quests and/or explore everything. DOS 2 has vastly dumbed-down & over-simplified its combat and therefore taken all the strategy/tactics and fun right out of it. IMO, DOS 1 EE is way better than DOS 2 overall, and also in many specific ways, but most especially the combat (which comprises core gameplay). I have played 180+ hours on DOS 1 EE and 12+ hours on DOS 2.
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