I actualy was not even curious about %, as about amount of people supporting either option ...
When people say here that "majority demand" and i keep seeing the same five nicks over and over, i wondered if that "majority" counts at least hundert people, or more like twenty.
Asuming 1,2k would be "enough" it may seem that you are right ...
On the other hand, Larian have statistic from hunderts of thousand players (google sais that "over a million coppies was sold" so even if only 1/10 of players would allow Larian to gather the data, it would still be much better sample) ... and they see how much they are using their modified rules.
Can you honestly blame them to ignore 514 voters, when they see that (for example) 514 000 people seem to be quite fine with it?
Dunno ...
Encounter with Duegar is totally avoidable. O_o
How ? If you're lucky and/or if you choose the good answers ? Does that could be summarized by "totally avoidable" ?
Well ...
Yes, its one of possibilities.
You can talk to them (also i would not call picking the good answers the matter of luck, that would be RNG ... picking the corect answers is more like matter of knowing what you do), you can sneak past them, if you are cheesy enough you can sneak close to them and then kill them all (maybe except one or two?) by pushing them into the abyss (i tryed this one, it was fun).
Also you can approach them from the other side, so they dont even have high ground if you feel that combat is unavoidable.
And when another parts of Act 1 will be added, you will not even meet them at all. I know this one is
curently impossible, but you get the idea.
So, if you have at least one option except fight, yes i would dare to say that fight is avoidable.
And here you have more than one.
even tho its not allways just about them.
DnD combats are supposed to be playable/enjoyable without having an advantage on every rolls isn't it ?
Sure, that is why i say its "not" allways just about them ...
My point is that if you are running head first against every encounter and keep loosing, you probably do something wrong.
Have you ever heard in DnD session Ranger or Rogue say something like "i shall go scout ahead" ?
Take that Minotaur encounter for example ...
Yes i know im using my knowledge from previous playthrough, but when your rogue go "scout ahead" preferably with blessing from Shadowheart, to maximize your chances that your will not be spotet ... you can easily lure Bulette to fight Minotaurs ... true, it may seem kinda pointless since Minotaurs heal once fight is done, after last patch, so now you need to time your entering the fight properly ...
No "advantage on every roll" used.
That is what im talking about.
Never used either in this game. And the battles were challenging, but not crazy so at least in my playthroughs.
+1 ... im not so dedicated to "never" use them tho ... but i seek high ground and backstab more like rarely.
Barells are boring to prepare for me, so i use them usualy only to kill that Cambion general in tutorial ... but i never had the patience as that guy who blow up whole goblin camp.
