Corruption ruins the game the way I like to play it -

[Archebald]

As it turns out, Corruption ends up rushing you through the game because you at some point you don't have any safe "HQ" spots to rest in. For instance, I have no safe place to rest to avoid corruption and now have to rush through the primary questline so I can get to another HQ location to rest.

Why did the devs think that this was a good mechanic? I like to do all the side quests, which, it appears, is an impossibility due to this mechanic.

[StevenXu]

Corruption or ration is good balance setup, otherwise with s/l rest castes will be god like. That’s already been provided by baldur’s gate more than 20 years ago.

[Midnight]

Yeah once I saw that by lvl 6 you could have 8-10 casts on your 1-3 lvl spells and 24 hour durations on major buffs I figured it's probably good that resting is a bit limited. That and the game showers you with items.

[Planeforger]

Like with the pen and paper game (or even D&D), spellcasters need to ration out their spell slots per encounter.

As a general rule, spellcasters don't need to cast spells every battle. Use cantrips or crossbows, and save your spells for the hard encounters, which really only happen a few times per day.

Once you get into that rhythm, you'll not need to rely on resting too much, and the corruption won't be an issue for you.

[Memnarch]

stop using firebaIIs and Haste when 3 Babau is charging at you

[Soldarc]

Cant you just turn off Coruption or put crusade thing on auto to not bother with it? I have not yet come that far.. just became the commander of the 5th myself.. but just wondering.

[Valky]

Originally posted by Soldarc:

Cant you just turn off Coruption or put crusade thing on auto to not bother with it? I have not yet come that far.. just became the commander of the 5th myself.. but just wondering.

You can turn the crusade on auto, that break some sidequest unfortunatly (meaning they will either never progress, or very slowly and i think the Swarm-that-walk mythical path require you to play throu the crusade minigame and stuff to unlock it as you have to order your advisors to do thing with the swarm path and they will not do it other wise) but corruption is part of the main gameplay, you have to find a balance between resting and casting spells, and you can usually reste 3-4 time with a good roll on your protection spell camp thing without worring about the first lvl of corruption, which is basicaly a fatigue debuff on stats so it's managable at this point lvl 2 make some fight way more hard than they actually his. Lvl 3 i think is death of your party.

To be fairly honest i almost never had to worry about corruption except during the Drezen siege i taked the "let's backdoor them" with the hellknight apparently the frontal assault is less forgiving, with less option to rest and recover from corruption.

[Mithrals]

You can build Shelters at your outposts once they reach rank 2 that makes it so you don't get corruption when you rest there on the world map, also you can build teleportation circles at the same time allowing you to teleport quickly on the map, alleviating the need to rest in the first place.

Having one core character specialise in Lore Religion also helps a lot.

On the big maps where you need to sleep multiple time there are usually holy sites that can remove accumulated corruption and let you rest an additional time.
Like in the siege of Drezen there are at least 3 i can think of on top of my head.

[elarus]

I have only been at level 2 corruption like one time for less than 30 minutes and I am just wrapping up the sige of drezen, i dont think its very impactfull at all. even level 1 corruption permanently on is not really a big hinderence other than the spell fail chance.

[wyndhambarnhill]

Here's a question regarding Teleportation Circles: HOW DO I USE THEM? I have them built, but can't for the life of me find the Teleport option anywhere in the UI.

[VidyaGamez]

if you wanna remove it the combat relief mod has an option that keeps it from growing. Tailor the game to what suits you.

[Pwncakeroflsauce]

regarding how to use the teleportation circle, when you are in the world map you have a action bar in the bottom middle with 2 actions, one of them is the teleportation spells, click it then selection which city you want to teleport to (the city/fort need a teleportation circle in it)

[Bard]

Maybe spoiler, but when do you not have an HQ to rest at? Just got into Act 3, and have had an HQ at every time I can remember. Considering I already have the primary HQ, I don't see that changing? Or does it get taken over?

[wyndhambarnhill]

Originally posted by Pwncakeroflsauce:

regarding how to use the teleportation circle, when you are in the world map you have a action bar in the bottom middle with 2 actions, one of them is the teleportation spells, click it then selection which city you want to teleport to (the city/fort need a teleportation circle in it)

You're the best! Man...Right there in front of me the WHOLE TIME. YEEEEESH!

[T.W. Hamill]

I rested at a fort that had the Shelter...

And i still gained a buttload of Corruption.

So.. building might not be working. However, with the telport circles, its not hard to get anywhere you need to be without corruption being remotely an issue.

There's also a food dish you can make that makes it take several hours longer to get tired and then exhausted, so you can go further, and on top of that, remember that you can push through fatigued if you have Seelah because one of her LoH buffs is removing fatigued, so you can wipe it off the moment you enter a map.

[Frostbeast]

Get the mod Toybox. You can fully rest with just a click without corruption.