Any tips on increasing Shadowhearts accuracy?

[Worse]

Maybe I am overlooking something but with Shadowheart in my group I feel like she very often misses "good shots".

Even attacks with a 70% chance are often a miss or even a critical miss, especially the spell where she shoots the light at enemies (I dint know what its called in English, hence my dumb description. I hope its still understandable).

Any tips on how I can increase the success rate? I feel like its way worse with her than with my other 3 guys in the group (Gale, Astarion and me).

[Joe Kaze]

If you want to increase her spells' hit chance you need to raise her Wisdom stat.

[Electroneer]

You're referring to her starting cantrip right? Can't remember the name right off the top of my head (might be Sacred Flame), but the percentage you see is the chance to land the attack. However, the cantrip only does damage if the enemy fails their DEX saving throw. Which is pretty rare to fail unless they have abysmally low DEX.

[Worse]

Originally posted by Electroneer:

You're referring to her starting cantrip right? Can't remember the name right off the top of my head (might be Sacred Flame), but the percentage you see is the chance to land the attack. However, the cantrip only does damage if the enemy fails their DEX saving throw. Which is pretty rare to fail unless they have abysmally low DEX.

I researched and if I am not mistaken, I am speaking about Guiding Bolt.
Thanks for the explanation of Sacred Flame anyway, I didnt know that.

[Worse]

Originally posted by Joe Kaze:

If you want to increase her spells' hit chance you need to raise her Wisdom stat.

Thanks, I will try to work on that. Are there other ways to increase that further, except for leveling up? Like, some items?

[The1Kobra]

Sacred flame's DC is based on the caster's WIS.
If you want more success with weapon attacks, you'll need to increase her STR or DEX, since those both start at a mediocre 13, which leaves her weapon options not as great.
But some enemies have high AC and low DEX save, which leaves sacred flame a better option. Other enemies have a high DEX save, which makes sacred flame comparitively weaker against them.
Guiding bolt is an attack vs AC. Uses WIS to scale accuracy.
So whether sacred flame or guiding bolt is better against a foe depends on your target's defenses.

[Legolose]

Originally posted by Worse:

Maybe I am overlooking something but with Shadowheart in my group I feel like she very often misses "good shots".

Even attacks with a 70% chance are often a miss or even a critical miss, especially the spell where she shoots the light at enemies (I dint know what its called in English, hence my dumb description. I hope its still understandable).

Any tips on how I can increase the success rate? I feel like its way worse with her than with my other 3 guys in the group (Gale, Astarion and me).

Yeah just dont use her that works for me..

[chartley3]

You can respec her stats in camp once you find a certain NPC

[TheShadowHatter]

Originally posted by Joe Kaze:

If you want to increase her spells' hit chance you need to raise her Wisdom stat.

Is there a way to target a specific stat to level? is this a feature in tactician mode or something? because I'm playing in balanced mode and I don't think I've ever seen an option to level individual stats.

[Nanami]

I'm missing 70-90% hit chances regularly, its getting annoying. I feel like I'm playing X-Com again....

[TheShadowHatter]

Originally posted by ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰:

theyre rolled in creation. you can re do them in the camp

Originally posted by TheShadowHatter:

Is there a way to target a specific stat to level? is this a feature in tactician mode or something? because I'm playing in balanced mode and I don't think I've ever seen an option to level individual stats.

Ah ok thanks for that. I assume I haven't found whoever is responsible for that, unless it's the guy who lets you change classes and hire npcs?

[Worse]

Originally posted by TheShadowHatter:

Originally posted by ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰:

theyre rolled in creation. you can re do them in the camp

Ah ok thanks for that. I assume I haven't found whoever is responsible for that, unless it's the guy who lets you change classes and hire npcs?

Yes, he is the one. But I still think I am somehow missing something about that because it seems like i can only change the bonuses on the attributes, not the attributes themselves...

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by TheShadowHatter:

Originally posted by ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰:

theyre rolled in creation. you can re do them in the camp

Ah ok thanks for that. I assume I haven't found whoever is responsible for that, unless it's the guy who lets you change classes and hire npcs?

yes, it's him. When you respec their class, you also can change their starting abilities. It's the final thing on the list on the left when you respec. You can respec them to the same class that they already were, and just change their ability stats if you want.

No one else mentioned this, but you also can increase abilities 3 times through leveling. At levels 4, 8 and 12, when you are offered a feat, the top option gives you 2 ability points to spend to increase stats. Additionally, several of the other feats give you 1 ability point to spend on specific stats.

[TheShadowHatter]

Originally posted by Worse:

Originally posted by TheShadowHatter:

Ah ok thanks for that. I assume I haven't found whoever is responsible for that, unless it's the guy who lets you change classes and hire npcs?

Yes, he is the one. But I still think I am somehow missing something about that because it seems like i can only change the bonuses on the attributes, not the attributes themselves...

Hmmm now I'm curious. Maybe I'll have to ♥♥♥♥ around with his options and see what comes up.

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by TheShadowHatter:

Ah ok thanks for that. I assume I haven't found whoever is responsible for that, unless it's the guy who lets you change classes and hire npcs?

yes, it's him. When you respec their class, you also can change their starting abilities. It's the final thing on the list on the left when you respec. You can respec them to the same class that they already were, and just change their ability stats if you want.

No one else mentioned this, but you also can increase abilities 3 times through leveling. At levels 4, 8 and 12, when you are offered a feat, the top option gives you 2 ability points to spend to increase stats. Additionally, several of the other feats give you 1 ability point to spend on specific stats.

OOOOH ♥♥♥♥ yeah you're right I ignored those because I liked the feats but that's true that would be how you'd increase the attribute points. Thanks for reminding me dude!

[DeuceBane]

You cant do anything to affect the natural rolls. When you see 70 percent chance to hit, all the mechanics increasing the chance to hit are already in effect. when you miss a "good chance" its just luck. I yolo'd a bow shot at a boss with low hp, 25 chance to hit and I killed him. Thats d20 gameplay baby

[Worse]

When respeccing, sometimes increasing an attribute by one, seems to take 2 ability points, sometimes it only takes one ability point... I am lost regarding this...