Gear in through the ashes dlc?

[Jalmari H.]

Can you get any decent grear so that shield and sword fighter would work or is everything total crap so you cannot really use normal characters but go for some minmax cheese setups like monk/kineticist or pets?

[hilburnashua]

There is very little gear other then basic gear. A very few magic items.

[Jalmari H.]

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

There is very little gear other then basic gear. A very few magic items.

Can you even get basic platemail and large shield and sword? I've seen like wood stick this far it's ridiculous. It's not "low magic" it's just way overboard.

[mbradtke]

u can make everything work, just lower the difficulty if there is need,
there is not much gear to be found but the scenario is meant to be played without the need to, i recommand play it on core difficulty max, if u have a gear dependant class, do normal,
i dont think playing this on hard or unfair makes much sense to be honest but classes that dont need gear to be effective will be better in this, yeah

[Shadow of Anthares]

Originally posted by Jalmari H.:

Originally posted by hilburnashua:

There is very little gear other then basic gear. A very few magic items.

Can you even get basic platemail and large shield and sword? I've seen like wood stick this far it's ridiculous. It's not "low magic" it's just way overboard.

Well...This is a story of civilians, not fighters. thief/spy, medic, blacksmith, actor, scholar/illusionist...
It gets better as you level up, though. You can even hire your own handmade characters at some point.

Hexes, animal companions, unarmed attacks, savescam, looking for different ways to do things....Use everything what you can - it's supposed to be a survival run.

[Deo]

Due to high AC on enemies and pretty bad economy (money-wise), Through the Ashes is more optimized towards touch attack builds. Fire Kineticist, to be exact.

[Immortal Reaver]

I think at the end of graveyard you start getting heavy armors and heavy shields.

[forkofspite]

Originally posted by Jalmari H.:

Can you even get basic platemail and large shield and sword? I've seen like wood stick this far it's ridiculous. It's not "low magic" it's just way overboard.

Have you tried exiting the theater through the front door? The game certainly doesn't encourage you to do so, but it's possible and comes with some decent loot (but still no plate - think it was banded or something like that).

[mbradtke]

i tried it and you will usually die, unless you play on low difficulty i guess or some OP class

[Shadow of Anthares]

Originally posted by mbradtke:

i tried it and you will usually die, unless you play on low difficulty i guess or some OP class

That's the point, though.
You can - and SHOULD avoid battles, inless you confident you can chew up and spit out pretty much everything game will throw at you.

Swarms at lvl 1, huge group of enemies, centepede boss and gelatinous cubes soon after...Etc.etc.etc.

[Jalmari H.]

Originally posted by Shadow of Anthares:

Originally posted by Jalmari H.:

Can you even get basic platemail and large shield and sword? I've seen like wood stick this far it's ridiculous. It's not "low magic" it's just way overboard.

Well...This is a story of civilians, not fighters. thief/spy, medic, blacksmith, actor, scholar/illusionist...
It gets better as you level up, though. You can even hire your own handmade characters at some point.

Hexes, animal companions, unarmed attacks, savescam, looking for different ways to do things....Use everything what you can - it's supposed to be a survival run.

I've made almost full party that's not problem. Just that it's fantasy game with fantasy characters with classes. You should find at least basic weapons and armor pretty easily it does not make sense you don't find any. It just very needlessly gimps characters that are supposed to use them in favor of characters that don't need any and do not need to rest i.e. monk and kineticist. Or have pets and other op stuff. I don't really find that challenging I can do it no problem I know all the exploits but I'd rather just use normal characters but that does not seem really even remotely possible idea to start with.

[GunStarX]

Classes that don't really depend on specific gear have a big advantage. First time I played the dlc without doing any research I rolled an aldori defender oooofff

[art_loots]

OP TBH i think you kinda missed the point of the DLC.
you should be weak in the DLC with trash gear, that is why the options tell you (several times) to try and avoid combat, hence combat doesn't even give you exp. other workarounds do. just that there are broken builds that do well in combat doesn't mean the game was designed to play like that. yet you will always have those who love and try break the game like that (power to them).
but again it's not the way it was designed

[pckirk]

remember you are playing simple citizens with no military or adventuring, or even basic weapon training, basic skills and abilities. This is littoral a survival run, with just basic survival knowledge gained through the story.