Are you not? Is this game 100% intuitive? Have you refactored your questions so it can be answered appropriately?
ah yes, forgive me for not seeing the inherent wisdom contained in a post consisting of "Blatantly untrue". next time i'll consider myself lucky that i've been graced by such genius contribution
You're the one who is using a wand/shield and coming to me with the claim that you're competent when I am saying it's blatantly false on both accounts that you need a wand/shield and that staves are useless.
i didn't come to you with anything, you quoted my post about staves paling in comparison to wand + shield, vocalized your disagreement and did not elaborate at all. i asked you why you even made the post to begin with if you were just going to be contrarian rather than actually address what it is about my post that is wrong. i'm not sure what's hard to understand about this
Have you ever asked the question, "Things are hitting me, how do I ensure that they don't hit me?" Have you looked at your own game plan and wondered why you have deviated so far? Have you looked through the Wiki and poured through the skill lists to see your options? Have you embraced the fact that health is a resource? Have you ever wondered how stupid and frustrating your statement is to someone who rolled up a glass cannon character(s)?
quite a lot of assumptions to make about someone whose play you know absolutely nothing about (aside from mage weapon wielding). it's really impressive you think highly enough of yourself that people who have experiences that differ from yours must not consider "health a resource"(lol) or have thought about "killing their enemies"
I really don't know your answers to these things so elaborating on specific points is not exactly a requirement. But what I do know is that you use a wand/shield and I don't and I play on tactician.
So, tell me, have you been using invis pots, do you have chameleon? Are you willing to use resurrection scrolls as your game plan? Have you put a premium on movement to manipulate Line-of-Sight? Have you been positioning properly? Have you been using other alternatives to invisibility and movement such as smoke? In a matter of fact, what is your game plan?
oh, wow, forty erroneous claims later you actually bothered to ask me how i play? that's weird, i thought everything i typed before was universally wrong regardless of how i play? why show this type of curiosity now?
for the record, yes, i do use chameleon, i do not use resurrection scrolls as a part of my strategy because dying is not a strategic decision without investing in morning person, which is unnecessary when i could just not die to begin with
once more, you're asking questions that are completely worthless to anyone who plays above classic mode. "do you play with line of sight?" really? why not just assume everyone is five years of age?
You have people on the forums claiming how easy tactician is, or how much nothing matters beyond the first round, or whatever else. You also have the fact that Rangers, 2H fighters, and Rogues don't have shields... yet they all seem to get along fine. But here you are... claiming that you absolutely need a wand/shield and that staves are useless (you must really hate having guaranteed +12 int weapon before Arx on a single item or 20% crit).
rangers, 2h fighters and rogues all get armor that makes a shield unnecessary, while mages do not without investing in points in str or finesse, so that's an awful comparison, and shows how little thought you've actually put into your criticism
i'm here claiming that using a staff over wand + shield is inefficient because while staves tend to have better stats, shields provide a lot of armor/blocking that saves you especially when fights automatically place you into poor positions. honestly, your post kind of makes the argument for me. look at the number of things you suggested so as to not die immediately at the beginning of the fight when holding a shield works just as well
i'm sure you meant well with your condescending two-word response but unfortunately you came across as dismissive and unhelpful, and this post did not change that perception. i'm sure using staves can be viable as i'm not an expert on this game. you, being the original sin 2 mage aficionado, could surely bring us plebeians out of the depths of our video game ignorance with a little more finesse
