What am I in for?

get masterworks

This. BBI is fun as shit, even though most of the rooms are cut and pasted from each other with different enemies. BBI will kick your shit in if you don't learn the combat.

Deliverance.
Coils of Light.
Uncle Grigori.
Sequels.

*dabs on you*

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These guys can fuck off for the most part but learn their elemental weakness and they become actually fun to fight. I've forgotten what that weakness was though.

>5 minute windup OHK

i think it's ice

If you're feeling especially ballsy, you can play completely solo with a 70% buff to your stats thanks to a passive skill you get from the Assassin vocation. You get more experience points when you have fewer members in your party.

Always hoard all of the healing items you can get, only worry about combining when you need it to enhance gear or to make better healing items.

If you start out on Hard mode, you WILL get one-shot by fucking goblins throwing rocks. This continues for several dozen levels.

You'll get a bunch of DLC gear shat on you at level 20, but by this point you should have better armor so don't be fooled.

The rogue class is the strongest start as higher ranks of it buff the amount of time you're able to run for. Some of its skills also transfer into Assassin.

Your stat progression IS influenced by your vocation at the time of leveling up, but it's dwarfed by end-game gear. Literally if you went from level 10 to 100 as Assassin, it'd just net you 540, with diminishing returns from 100 to 200.

If you see a pawn with an ∞ symbol, it's level 200. It will absolutely wreck anything's shit in your game single-handedly, and I do not recommend hiring one. When I saw a drake for the first time I'd unwittingly hired a level 200 sorcerer who immediately made meaningless the two bars I was able to knock off of its health legitimately.

You'll be climbing enemies constantly if you want to take advantage of boss' weaknesses, but if you prefer to go with a magic user you can manually aim and you'll always have a higher rate of fire than pawns because you don't give a shit about exhausting your stamina. You can stunlock trolls and it's hilarious.

Remember to save fucking constantly, getting backhanded off of a mountain by a rampaging cyclops is a guaranteed death.

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Yeah but he's got his foot on you and it's the hardest grab to escape in the entire game; you likely won't get out of it unless you have the right passive equipped. You need your pawns to know that and to be able to act on it.

>always hoard healing items
Best bang for your buck/HP recovered to item weight ratio is Potent Greenwarish. So carry a good pile of those.
>DLC gear at level 20
??? That gear is in your storage from the moment you start the game, and it IS better than most armors for a lot more than 20 levels.

One of the comfiest, best adventure games ever made

Maybe I'm just retarded and didn't realize I had any of it until level 20. At any rate, the gear you're able to find in chests by exploring outclasses it pretty rapidly, and money's no object.

Dropped spaghetti for a sec back there, when I said "540" I meant "540" Strength. A single endgame weapon's gonna give you about 1.5k, and that's to say nothing of your ring(s) and shit. It's like a 16% buff.

Frankly, if you care that much about it, I'd recommend just using a trainer later on so you aren't compromising your playstyle or minmaxing and rendering most of the game impotent.

Thankfully there's a precedent set early on with the Saurians being vulnerable to ice. Your pawns are too retarded to exploit that much of the time has been my experience, unfortunately.

Bitterblack Island is legit where I spent almost all my game time on

shit inventory management & bloat.