Spectator in honour mode caught me off guard (literall and metaphorically)

[Ababinili]

I had beaten him in previous runs, but going mindless to the area, without preparation, nobody with alert, no lone explorer for facing the ambush. He caught me In a very narrow place. Add the new legendary actions and the combat were BIG HUGHE mess. Luckyly i beaten him, but with 3 casualties and my "Tav" at 1/2 life.


Be cautious. Don't be like me. Now i'm going to have a peacefull heart attac. See ya soon.

[infinity]

Thats why, always, like always get as first feat "Alert". It saved me so many times during my honour mode. Just astarion making his naruto run while being invisible from these ugly ambushing trees.

[Mike Garrison]

Alert is a nice feat, yes. I usually only get it for Lae'Zel, who has four feats to work with as a fighter and really only needs two of them for ASIs,

Spectator with honor legendary was a much tougher fight than without, that is true.

[Ababinili]

Yes, alert is good. But even without it i could have done it much better. Still. I survived, which is the main thing :)

[Cdubbs]

I can never not throw the Flask bound Spectator at the one hiding in the Underdark and watch them kill each other.

[ahsanford]

Originally posted by infinity:

Thats why, always, like always get as first feat "Alert". It saved me so many times during my honour mode. Just astarion making his naruto run while being invisible from these ugly ambushing trees.

Not enough feats to commit to Alert on my part, but I'm only playing tactician. But the thought of robbing a feat-heavy build of one precious feat to manage ambushes is tough to swallow.

Big hitters going the GWM + PAM route = 2 feats
Tanky pally going the Heavy Armor + Savage Attacker (for smites) = 2 feats
DW builds needing Dual Wielder + Savage Attacker (to get base damage up) = 2 feats
Casters need Resilient: CON + War caster = 2 feats

And that's before we get to any ASI!

So Alert is terrific, but is it as important as following through on your build idea? Or do we need to dumb down our build aspirations just to make sure we are first-strike capable?

- A

[Jaeleth]

Originally posted by Ababinili:

I had beaten him in previous runs, but going mindless to the area, without preparation, nobody with alert, no lone explorer for facing the ambush. He caught me In a very narrow place. Add the new legendary actions and the combat were BIG HUGHE mess. Luckyly i beaten him, but with 3 casualties and my "Tav" at 1/2 life.


Be cautious. Don't be like me. Now i'm going to have a peacefull heart attac. See ya soon.

Rule 1 of Honour mode: If ANY battle goes South, you head North :D

Meaning... When the battle starts badly, or when ANTYTHING does not happens according to your plan and it is critical, even if you think that victory is still possible: withdraw, revive, regroup, resupply, counter-attack

[Cinus]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

Casters need Resilient: CON + War caster = 2 feats

What are you talking about? LoL Play Drakon or whatever race and u have a lot of cc to not get one shotted or control minded or interrupted