Your tips worked. I finally beat that bastard. Now to pick a second career.

Wonderful. I'll see about uploading the rest of the Mind Reading missions.

Maybe I'll separate them into videos based on the country the guys are from, so all the Sha Lords or all of the Shu lords.

I did an experiment with having the taoist as my only class and it actually provides an excellent boost of 4 points of iron flesh and 3 points of power strike, +2 of the power shot and throw skills.

Also, the taoist gains class EXP from inflict damage with their magic.

So there's some strategy here in picking this as your main class with a class change rather than keeping your old class.

Only reason why I wouldn't want to play Taoist class is that I find that aura to be really distracting. I've taken over Buddha Hwang a couple times after getting KO'd and that glow is super disorienting.

Its been taking me forever to level up Hwang's taoist skill. In normal field battles it seems he's not getting in close enough to people to kill them with his aura. I probably ought to try taking away his throwing weapons so that he gets into the thick of the fighting more, but he probably won't survive long that way. The one situation where he really excels, though, is sieges where everyone's packed in close. In 2 separate sieges he was in the top 3 killers and that's the only times he ever got any taoist xp. I can only imagine how devastating he could be with a stronger aura if only I could get him to level it up.

Originally posted by Lord Irontoe:

I can only imagine how devastating he could be with a stronger aura if only I could get him to level it up.

I invested in his strength stat totally and put my strongest gear on him. The best way to make him level up is to send him to fight groups of looters without a horse.

In my own experiments, I've hit up to 25 people with my taoist aura at the same time while surrounded. It's possible to gain EXP and kill a large number of people IF they all die at the same time and you're under however many kills you need to go "on fire."

The EXP is still slow though and it would take a lot of battles to grind him up. The most annoying part is that his aura will probably kill only 12 people per fight before he ends up going "on fire." And then you have to find another group of people for him to kill.

The other way is putting him in charge at a center building, which is something he'll do by himself if you make him into a general.

It's much easier to level up other classes though.

Well, I had to first level up his INT since he's my main scout and tactician, so his combat skills are still lacking. He's started to get to a point now where he's finally able to get some kills each battle, but the fact that normal kills don't seem to count toward the Taoist career is really holding him back. I've heard that there are a couple of legendary items specifically for Taoists, but I havent found any yet. I feel like if I could just get him to level 2, the aura should start doing some real damage and then he should start levelling much faster. Its just the hard part is getting him to level 2. At least I know that its possible now to level the career. In the old version, he never got any taoist xp at all.

I didn't think Taoist had a center building to train it that way. I put him in charge of a college, but i think that will only level his Academic skill (which is also not a bad career, btw, it makes enemies instantly surrender)

Huh. Is there no taoist center job? A shame if that's true. I guess I've only seen him training his second job.

Man, what a chore this'll be. But I guess it's worth it to grind him into a murder machine, huh?

I turned mine into a combat guy and rely on AI Lords for their party skills. Many of them are maxed out.

I recently found out that Looting actually can be leveled to 15, and I believe the best looter in the game is [Flea on a Drum] at 10 points, so if you want legendary weapons, you should level looting up yourself. You'll get a +4 (or I think actually a +5) bonus at looting 15 which should basically triple the amount of loot you get per battle.

I think this is absolutely mandatory if you play with a lot of heroes, because they each take 3 shares of loot where a regular troop takes 1.

So on my save with my Actor/Beauty who only uses companions in battle, she's never looted a single legendary or stone. I think just once she got one of those jade rings.

Meanwhile I have another character with high looting who can get one of these every 5 battles, depending on how outnumbered she is and if she's fighting lords. It was actually pretty funny. I got 83 cows from raiding a village.

On the first game I leveled up [Street Crossing Rat] to get high agility super high so he can get looting skill. On the second, I leveled looting myself. Also really helps with cash flow issues.

I'm debating on the bare minimum amount of CHA I need to actually reach 10 trade. There's legenaries that boost your trade skill. There's a book that gives you another point. There's probably a mind reading quest that gives trade skill as a reward. And there's a trait that gives you trade.

So I think at 6 points you can get these other boosts and reach 10 points. I did the calculations and at 10 trade on the main character I earn like 42% more money from sales of my goods.

I could be wrong about the Center buildings. There are some inconsistencies between what it says about the careers in the Mod Concepts page and on the Town Center screen, so its hard to be really sure. I assume that the Mod Concepts is the more up to date info, though, and that says there isn't any building for Taoists.

High looting is definitely worthwhile. I've got my character up to 11, so I've been getting plenty of legendaries. I've been getting tons of polearms for some reason. More than I can even use. I'm hoping for some bows or throwing weapons, or armor.

I've got Wang Jiajiao at 10 Trade so I'm getting good prices. She's well suited for that as she has good charisma. Li Shishi also comes with a dagger that gives +5 CHA and I think at least 1 point of trade. Her own CHA is already maxed out, so she doesn't need any more.

I also learned that Yun Ge ( I think that's his name, the travelling merchant who sells the mystery prizes) is definitely worth buying from. You'll get alot of high priced garbage, but eventually if you buy enough from him, he'll compensate you with a really good legendary weapon

Okay, cool. I'll certainly buy from Yun Ge.

I read on this forum that selling slaves to the cannibal will eventually have him reward you with a legendary hammer, but the amount is much greater than 200. I'll tell you how it turns out when I get it.

that's interesting. I haven't dealt with him at all since finishing his mind-reading. It'll be interesting to see if the hammer's worth all the lost profits.

I've only been selling him looters and flowery bandits, which pay out garbage anyways.

to get Yun Ge to spawn if you haven't paid for an item delivery after 5 days, just go in and out of the tavern

keep doing to refresh it and he will spawn

You mean when its time for him to appear, he automatically spawns in the next tavern you go to? That would kind of make sense. He does always seem to appear shortly after getting a delivery.

I really hope that the reward he gives isn't random. I CTD'd just after I got it, and it was pretty sweet, so I very much hope he's still got the same gift for me when I get back in game.

The cannibal's reward is a Stone Breaker Hammer. I don't know how many sold slaves it required but it was above 300. I came back with 100 more and he gave me this reward.

I suspect it's not based on the amount of sold slaves but on the amount of money you'd be missing out on.

So very, very worth it.


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yeah, that looks pretty sweet. I've got a couple companions who that would be perfect for