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I'd say it's the tempo factor. With Mythic progression being slow, and so many other Mythic feats having a priority (even looking at your list, the Arsenal comes 4th, so it's chapter 3, and depending on the Mythic choice, it can take a while (for other paths than Azata) to even unlock it. I got...

Yeah, in a way, a "vanilla" party can get things easier than my current custom one. Camellia is my Stinking Cloud girl in the Trickster playthrough (with Corruptor) to target Fortitude, Ember spams Hideous Laughter with the Best Jokes feat to target Will, and both of them use Winter's Grasp when...

I think I had to take about 10-12 battles in the Gargoyle Cave, half of them were RtwP, another half TB, with maybe a couple where I mixed the modes, to be able to figure out how not to get defeated, and what eventually worked for me was full RtwP. I can say with certainty that the way AI...

So, the Shield Maze with a standard setting can get you at a ~1k XP distance from lvl 3. So you fight Hosilla while still lv 2. Then you fight the Water Elemental (and most likely use the glaive you found on Hosilla) while still lvl 2. Then you go through the Gray Garrison with allies and wake...

So, for @Serg_BlackStrider: my party reached lvl 7 after the suspicious drow ambush area. All I did was Sosiel's and Seelah's quests (appropriate areas), didn't even get a chance to get to the crusade camp (as it was moved), and got that ambush on the way there. And once I arrived at the camp...

I did it, I completed what I had considered to be extremely difficult: beat Act 1 on Unfair for the first time. And surprisingly, the Gray Garrison wasn't as hard as I had feared. Probably the party balance and my own play have caught up. Even for my first time, I denied Jeslyn's insects. I had...

I used your advice and purchased protective spells while in the Tavern. Should be prepared for brimoraks and other specific stuff. For the Nabassu fight, I more or less used my approach from the previous difficulty, which is: send one character (tank) to the place the demon spawns at (make sure...

Fair enough, it's not realistic or immersive, yes. It's just that I always preferred to distance combat from story in these games. In first-person or third-person games where the camera is closer, sure, but for cRPGs, I usually look at combat as a collection of tools and a chessboard (yes, even...

I tried enabling TB mode a few times. For me, it has pros and cons. One of the cons is that I can't take off items from quick slots when it's not the character's turn. It might be minor, but sometimes I keep tossing a wand around. But more than anything, I've got used to the RtwP nature of this...

I lack your knowledge about what to expect, and how to prepare, as I only went through those fights a few times before, and this is my first Unfair run. You're right, of course. But I also now read that players prefer to wait for lvl 5 in order to get access to Haste (and in my party, I don't...

I could only do basic stuff before the attack: get Woljif, complete his quest, get Ember, start the Azata quest, free the tieflings (only the minimum stuff at the market), beeline to the library (that's when the party members get fatigue), teleport to the tavern, rest. Then face the necromancer...

While I don't like some parts of Unfair (mostly, the Prologue with too much RNG dependency), some parts I'm growing to appreciate. Fights vs more difficult opponents turn into puzzles, rather than being copies of themselves (maybe this will change later, I don't know). I can only compare what...

Huh, I had to check this. Looks like only Cleric, Inquisitor, Hellknight (only with Pentamic Faith Discipline at level 3, 6, or 9), and Hunter (Divine Hunter archetype) can get those. I didn't use Sosiel much (preferring Daeran to him), and didn't look at those classes, so I totally missed the...

Thanks a lot for sharing your story. As others have said, it's indeed a difficult question. Not everyone is a Nobel Prize winner. So "a failure" is a vague term. Have you ever had a pet and cared for it, helping it live longer than it would have without your help? Then you're a savior in this...

Congrats, and that's definitely well-executed! I'll be watching over Grim Face's progress closely. And just to support your effort, I'll share my own party for the fellow Last Azlanti Unfair run. I had to add money to be able to create 5 customized characters, as for some reason each cost 4.5k...

That was insightful, thanks. The map is kinda cool, did you create it yourself? As for the (ab)using the XP setting, I'm not sure I would do that. Feels a bit off, similar to solo(ing) BG1 and SoA and exploiting early leveling up. I can see how it might break the game easily, yes, the Unfair...

Funnily enough, this was one of the classes I tried (and exactly Living Deity with a Wolf). But I just couldn't kill those small earth elementals (in the first area, before the mongrel camp) in 30 attempts. This fight comes before you get a chance to level up. They hit no matter what, and there...

I got curious about what the Unfair feels like, and after a few unsuccessful attempts, created a Sylvan Sorcerer with a Leopard pet, just as @Serg_BlackStrider mentioned. I tried other characters, but it seems there is no way to complete the Prologue without Grease and pets. The Leopard...

HoMM 3 is still the game I play semi-regularly. The HD modding community keeps working on supporing the MP lobby, and the HotA mod is like a huge expansion for the game, now with 2 additional towns. This game still has ranked competitive play, this factor alone can prove the game is alive. I...

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