127) Wolgraff's Escapist Talent is unfortunate.Wolgraff starts out with Backstabber and Light Stepper, which is good. He also starts out with Escapist, which is... unfortunate. That is because Rogues have a lot of very useful potential Talents that they could take. I think that they only have one spare Talent point that they can throw away, and Wolgraff's is used up with Escapist.
Escapist is really not that useful, because if you play well, it'll never be used. Escapist is also only really useful if you are at low health and cannot move to a safe distance to escape without risking an attack of opportunity.
At BEST, I can see it being useful to run away, then run all the way back to the combat area, but only in the early game before you have invisibility or max sneak or Featherfall on a mage.
I'd rather have him start out with Speedcreeper in place of Escapist.
But only the main characters can make a deal with the demon.
True, but they are still kinda lousy for the main characters. My point is MORE TALENTS PLEASE, I am not interested in niggling little technialities "on Sundays where it's a full moon, this is useful because..."
I would pick this talent on a single character if I had a party without a STR-based character. I don't know in a party with 2 non-STR lone wolves. It's a matter of inventory management and I hate going to homestead to access the chests. I only send ores to homestead.
My main picker-upper was my Shadowblade, and she had 5 STR. Frequent inventory management was required for me. It was an obnoxious pain, but it STILL was not worth spending a precious Talent point to fix. You only get 7, and Rogues need 6.
Charisma gives a bonus to attitude, so it gives a minor benefit while batering with companions. Not that valuable, but I think it justifies the talent being available to companions.
That may be a justification, but even you have to admit that it's very weak. Even if you do a LOT of trading, a LOT with your Companions, and even with a lot of underwhelming Talents, you'd still be hard-pressed to think of a time when your thought process would go "I think Politician is the best Talent my Companion can get right now."
(MORE TALENTS PLEASE.)
I would like if bowstrings become available in vendors and as loot.
I agree.
