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Simple quesiton:Wizard,warrior or wizard is better?

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Well with the mage you can cast more spells, because you have more mana, but the warrior has a powerful special move. I never played the survivor


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I have never really taken to using a wizard as my main character due to the fact i dont have the patience(maybe) to work with spells all the time. A warrior has the ability early on to take punishment and dish it out . The wizards do do somepretty impressive stuff as they grow in power but i like getting in there and bashing heads lol

I will have to give a wizard a go just to see how i go with them.

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It depends on your playing style. See; differences between classes

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I went for the Warrior. Passive skills are easier to handle then active ones. But I found a Spellbook of Meteor Strike and that's become my ranged weapon. I've put only 1 point in Intelligence (to compensate for the vampire), but I've got about 300 mana points due to item bonuses.

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I found wizard much easier than fighter. Trying survivor now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />


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I have never really taken to using a wizard as my main character due to the fact i dont have the patience(maybe) to work with spells all the time. A warrior has the ability early on to take punishment and dish it out . The wizards do do somepretty impressive stuff as they grow in power but i like getting in there and bashing heads lol


amen to head bashing and skull cracking!

actually i am a survivour right now. i shoot the enemy full of arrows until they get too close and then i whip out an axe and hack them to pieces =)

and i found meteorstrike to be extremely lame and not worth wasting a skill point for...

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if you use a warrior and build him up well and then use good charms you can have dexterity so high that noone can touch you...and strength so high almost everything dies in one hit...add that to a frost sword and the early pain is worth the butt kicking you can do later

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Very true about the warrior class.

I just finished the game and was nearly unkillable by the end hehe

A sword i found was awesome.

Even though it made the ending a bit too easy it was still fun.

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My first game. Im a level 8 Survivor. I am enjoying the special skill that lets me sneak. I like being able to run away then hide, as that strategy can be used to split up groups of monsters that would be too tough for me to handle all at once. Of course, I bet a blast-um wizard or weapon-trained & spinning, warrior would have a much easier time than my survivor.

I was able to kill things around my level, or a bit higher, if I had enough foods to heal me up after 3 or 4 monsters. Early on, monsters like ghouls and orcs were nearly impossible to kill unless I used <pause> a lot to eat food and drink a couple potions in mid-battle.

The backstab skill does not seem very useful because double damage on a dagger that does around 15 points still isnt very impressive, and the stab only happens rarely. I trained it to level 2, but probably will not train it again.

I found a bow that can do over 50 points per hit as a level 6 character. I discovered it's very useful to stay out of harm's way, and kill from a distance. Monsters are slow enough (except orc chief) than I can fire twice, run away, then fire again. Elven Sight 1, ring of sight +1 and Bow of sight +2 probably helps a lot here. I am thinking the bow-related skills would be helpful, but my reluctance is I would be getting away from dagger + shield combo skills. I guess I am wrestling between a ranged-rogue and backstab-rogue strategy, and have not decided yet. It seems that bow is a lot more powerful though.

I am relucant to make the game too easy for me. I am experienced in games, and tend to powergame things too much unless I restrain myself. I was getting hurt bad early on, so I got the Freeze skill as soon as I could (recalling freeze effects in Diablo 2). YIKES! This skill seems too good. At level 5 I was freeze-killing level 10 orcs without much danger. Freezing, then chipping away with a dagger is fun, if a bit slow at 8 to 20 per swing. At level 7, I had zero chance of killing the Orc Drummers. When I stepped into weapon range, I would die too fast, having only 75 Vitality (or so). Using a bow, I could half kill the Drummer but then he would complete heal himself -- I killed him using Freeze 1 every few seconds plus bow, and it felt like cheating. Drummer was level 25 !? Heh.
The "boss" type monsters, like orc chief, have so many hit points, I cant imagine trying to melee them with a little dagger, especially since I miss more than half the time even with Dex 25. If I can freeze them, it becomes easy, but I've already ran into one big monster that wouldnt freeze (but at 11th level I bet I could).
I am thinking the Lifesteal spell (10% drain) would be very mana-efficient on these monsters with 300+ vitality. Against super-vitality monsters it might make the game too easy if I could drain away 20% of their life per click -- Anyone remember the Static Field area percent-damage of Diablo 2 ? It was almost required to kill bosses but also risked trivializing the challenge. That is what I am afraid of in Divine Divinity. I enjoy waxing monsters as much as the next guy, but I don't want to have it too easy just because some skills are more "broken" than others... Im guessing survivor is the hardest class to play though, so Im already challenging myself. It would seem too easy if I could swing-around-hit all monsters at once and warriors can learn magic too, so whats the restriction? But, I wouldn't have to pause the game much, and that real-time play does have its own arcade-style apeal. WArrior + mana items = a wizard with a lot more Vitality and killer melee ? Why be a wizard if you can rest, or drink a potion that restores 50% or 100% of your mana? Just be a warrior with spells. hehe

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I don't really see any point in playing a Survivor, but I've completed the game with two Warriors and a Sorceress.

Both classes are good fun to play, although the styles are obviously very different.

I'd recommend either, to be honest...



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I cant understand why people ask what is better. You can be a warrior, a mage, or a stealthy thief type (can anyone tell I dont know much about the Survivor yet?) Choose which one you want to play, there is no "best". I made a warrior as my first character because I like swords, heavy armor and killing everything that moves with demon-like speed and strength. If this game was extremely technical and there were tons of options that made a difference then I could understand people asking what is the best combination ect. So far it seems like you just need to choose what type of character you feel like playing.

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I began as a warrior, because I liked his special move. Then I sort of multied into a warrior mage. Very powerful by the end of the game. I liked the fact that you can spread your abilities across all types as it makes for much more versatility. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />


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If you want to become a warrior do not use the Axe, Hammer, Spear, Crossbow or Shield Edpertise sence they are broken (They do not give the extra damage). So if you want to fully develop a class and have fun go for survivor or wizard or wait for the patch and become a warrior


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You say that WArriors axe\sword and so on skills are not working? And ois the patch released or when will be ?

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We are actualy waiting for cdv to release the patch. But sword expertise works as it should. It the only one of the expertise.


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the warrior: axe and bow skills work with me


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the warrior: axe and bow skills work with me


Check again and you will notice that you do not gain any extra damage when you increase your skill level. Skills that have damage increased with a percent are working. All other aspect of the skills, recuperation time decreased, chance of doing deathblow, ect are working correctly. And sence bow skill only decrease recuperation time its not bugged, crossbow expertise on the other hand are bugged.


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ah, haven't noticed that yet. thanks


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Played the game once with the male survivor, went fine
Now playing it with the male wizard, MUCH BETTER, he's very good at fighting too


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