Holy Boon/Affinity absent?

[Stormy Kami]

Has anyone figured out if holy affinity is obtainable anywhere? It doesn't seem to be learned from vocation levels anyway. Hoping maybe it's a skill learned by vocation masters?

[Cuddle_Rat]

I've maxed mage and sorc, so yeah unless it's a master scroll thing it's no longer in game.

[EvolutionKills]

The weird thing is, the Pawns have voice lines when you're fighting the Undead where they will tell you they are weak to Holy magic and complain that they have nothing that gives them an advantage over them (e.g. nobody has any Holy elemental attacks).

Not sure what's going on. Could be they intended for them to return, but they were never added. Or maybe they even added then cut the spells as development progressed, but nobody cleaned up the Pawn dialogue scripting or otherwise removed the voice lines they had already recorded. The Sorcerer still has Earth elemental attacks, so I'm not sure why Holy and Dark got the axe. It does make balancing the reduced skill slots a bit easier with less elements though.

[Ranko]

Originally posted by EvolutionKills:

The weird thing is, the Pawns have voice lines when you're fighting the Undead where they will tell you they are weak to Holy magic and complain that they have nothing that gives them an advantage over them (e.g. nobody has any Holy elemental attacks).

Not sure what's going on. Could be they intended for them to return, but they were never added. Or maybe they even added then cut the spells as development progressed, but nobody cleaned up the Pawn dialogue scripting or otherwise removed the voice lines they had already recorded. The Sorcerer still has Earth elemental attacks, so I'm not sure why Holy and Dark got the axe. It does make balancing the reduced skill slots a bit easier with less elements though.

I noticed the healing ability for mage seems to damage undead. Could be what its referring to

[XoiXio]

mage have empyrean spell which a holy light based skill , mage pawn usually even cast it in night time or in the dark. altough so far i only found that one only holy based skill. might need to check if the meister have that kind of skill but never meet the meister yet. not sure on dark tou.

[SuperMrSkully]

Games really coming off as unfinished/missing content

[Boosted Pickle]

There is a sorc staff in one of the hidden villages that has a permeant holy boon but I can agree. Compared to the first one, stuff feels missing. I haven’t seen anything about grand skills like in the original.

[Faith]

I've found like, 4-5 holy element weapons for various classes. Might be one for each.

[Ryan Fenton]

The other big comment that happens in several ways is commenting on how they hope they have enough food or curatives to make it through a fight/scenario.

And that would make sense if food or curatives actually restored max HP like in DD1/Dark Arisen... but that makes almost no sense now.

I think most of these crappy 'difficult' design decisions were made very late in design, after all the voice work was recorded.

Which makes it especially dissappointing.

Kind of like Mass Effect 3 - where the design decision kind of came at as a surprise to the rest of the team, and that crappy ending was just kind of shoehorned in - then defended by weird fanboys. Same logic here with post-justification for a horrible gaming experience.

[Wally]

I was hoping they'd actually make a complete game this time around.
looks like another dogma with most of its meat cut out again

[Kingshade]

Originally posted by Boosted Pickle:

There is a sorc staff in one of the hidden villages that has a permeant holy boon but I can agree. Compared to the first one, stuff feels missing. I haven’t seen anything about grand skills like in the original.

Well Grand Skills didn’t come into play until the DLC dark arisen. So we can complain about that.