Talk:Assassin/@comment-83.42.1.197-20130825214600/@comment-83.42.1.197-20130826121100

Yeah I'm using those. But you know what I mean. If the best weapon is pure physical and the theoretical level of badass I can reach is full strength build with Framae Blades and either the short bow for sins or the long bow for rangers, it just feels punishing that I simply can't. So I'm stuck with those level 2 perma-enchanted weapons for the rest of my life.

And I can pretty much punch Chimeras and Cyclopes to death now, so it's not like I'm gonna get much joy from two shooting them with BBI 3 weaps and armor.

And yeah Cally, it's a fair point you make, but... Gah, once again. So I want to play solo! Good. That means you only have to carry around enough luggage to overburden any normal human. I guess I could counter that by making my Arisen a 2 meters 200 kg brickhouse, but yes... You know, it kinda snowballs. So you want this, ok, do that. So do that. So do that now. And that. And you're suddenly playing in a way you abhor. Travelling very light around Gransys was more often than possible and rewarding. Going solo was perfectly possible as well.

In BBI you need a mixed party that will last only until Donald "Death" Trump shows up to go "You're fired" on their asses. Then comes the joyfully cheap grab attacks that most bosses have, so that means you're giving up either inventory space for wakestones, or an augment for eggression. Then come the physically immune enemies, which means you're either gonna do a whole lot of door slamming or give up even more inventory space for tomes. And after looting for 3 days you may or may not get a weapon you can even use or want at all!

I think DD was just way tighter, more thought out and overall just simply better designed than DD:DA is.

From now on, I will just not submit myself to the HHHNNNNRRRGHHHHH feeling when you just have to run Living Armors into torches or just run past them. Not on my Assasin build run, at least. I know it's no big deal and it is probably intentional that you can just skip whatever fights you don't like. And the ambush missions have gone out in BBI, so no FISSION MAILED message.

But Gransys never really had a fight you could not win, except for maybe some Phantasms if you rolled solo. And if you happened to have an enchanted weapon, that stuff sorted itself out.