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I have a chunk of time tomorrow and am thinking of starting a new play thru. What should I do for some contrast? My last play thru had a human tank char with Sebille (morphed to an awesome ranger/Mage), Ifan and Red Prince. Classic mode. Pretty much cleared out the quests.

Try arena?

Is it possible to avoid killing Butter?

Interesting builds?

Try 4 custom builds (there's a way to do that)?

Unbalanced party?

There is a way to create several custum builds, if your computer survives opening the game more than once. There should be a topic about that somewhere.

If you don't fight Griff, you don't have to kill Butter obviously.

Our team is shield warrior, rogue and archer with a mage mostly just doing support stuff and dual wanding, so I guess you could call it unbalanced. In my eyes weapon based skills are stronger than pure magic, magic doesn't seem to deal that much damage, if you don't got explode everything way.

Also since today there is a topic for more special builds.

Depends how many.

Solo is a bit tiresome - it takes a long time and you have to cheese it. 2 or 3 is the best number.

For 2 I would play Inquisitor/Necro focusing on INT and using a staff. Take one point in every skill and get all the close range magic you can. Add 50/50 memory and INT. Back it up with a ranger. Don't mess about with this - put every single point into ranged and FIN. The Inquisitor is more fun but the Archer will do more damage than anything else you can get.

For 3 I'd do the same and then add either add a scoundrel (if you like that) or a STR based character. Scoundrels do more damage but are weak early on. Playing a STR based character with dual wielding swords does a reasonable amount of damage (better than a two hander) and counters the dullness of the archer pretty well.

You don't need a mage or a healer. Their attack isn't strong enough and you don't need healing as there are plenty of potions and you can use Necro or Hunstman skills anyway.

If you want 4 characters you could add anything (and have less cash for equipment) but 3 is the magic number.

You can make a custom party like this https://steamcommunity.com/app/435150/discussions/0/343787283759112190/?ctp=2

Essentially you start one instance of your game and set multi-player. You then open new instances and join it over LAN. Memory will be your issue here. I have only 8GB and can't get more than 2 instances to concurrently save even if I turn graphics to minimum. You may have more luck but the number of custom characters you can make depends on how many instances you can save at the same time and that is memory based.

Once you have saved though you can play them all as one.