u/NahMcGrath

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Pretty new player, so far only played reavers and am trying different ideas for them. I did the usual materium and chaos path and while it was nice, as i started to learn new tomes i thought how i might use them.

Now from what i can find, undead reavers are a fairly unusual build, my startegy is mainly using the Vision Of Ruin - Shadow to get that zombie on kill in every army, every unit, and thus form a frontline as the battle goes if that makes sense. Use death knights for extra summons at battle start. I am still unsure about what usual synergies or good buffs/enchants/spells/summons people usually take, so i am asking you for suggestions of what i should abandon or swap out for.

This sounds like such a silly question but despite being a cradle orthodox, i realize that the act of praying is a bit of a mystery to me. Of course, i know the basic idea, read a prayer from a prayer book or recite one i memorized while trying to earnestly address God. But it all feels so... ritualistic to me.

When i was young i used to kneel by my bed and just recite the Lord's Prayer while clasping my hands with closed eyes, cross myself after, then do some freestyle pleading for help on minor fleeting things like good grades. For a while i also knew the Niceean Creed and said that one. When i was a teen i realized that i should pray for forgiveness of my sins so the freestyle more became about that, almost like a small confession.

When tragedy struck in my life i began using a proper prayer book for a sickness prayer addressed to a saint, and some structured morning or evening prayers. At one point my priest told me to do the Akathis to Jesus Christ mornings and evenings because of some sadly persistent sexual sins. This... sort of took me out of whatever connection i felt in prayer. I am an incredibly lazy person by nature and the Akathist itself took me sometimes half an hour to finish, i didn't have the patience for it and felt like i was just a robot talking with no real intent. My kneeling by the bedside method also became very uncomfortable because of this too.

So over the years i drifted from prayer. It was never a regular thing but now it's truly rare for me to do at night or morning. But i often say the Jesus Prayer in my mind throughout the day, as i try to calm my feelings, have patience in situations, or to abstain from sin.

For those of you who have a proper praying schedule, how do you do it? Do you read written prayers for half an hour? Do you manage to have patience for it, keep your mind focused? Are there any of you who do a freestyle prayer, more from the heart with messy words? Does prayer length/frequency matter, or more the sincerity of it? I realize these are things i should ask my priest about but it feels almost childish in an odd way, like asking someone to tell you how to use a fork as an adult. I also heard some weird talks about how you're not supposed to close your eyes or not, how to hold your hands, etc.

Skellies, higher level undead, summon monsters and elementals. Any way to buff them enough to serve more than just meat shields? Actually hit and do damage for you? Play that summoner fantasy

I really wanna do a full lich playthrough with a necromancy based caster because i ignored all necromancy spells in my first playthrough (opposite schools or i had something else as focus). The actual KC build isn't the issue but the companions are.

I know lich has up to 5 unique undead companions to recruit over the game. But how good are they? How would i fit them into my party over the regular companions? Do they have any interactions or quests or are they basically more stylish mercenaries? Looking at the wiki for them, they're all martials, except Galfrey but she comes ultra late in act 5. I plan to play on hard, so i'd need a fairly balanced party for all the arcane and divine buffs.

I read a lot of complaints about him being very bad in fights and bottom tier both in story and gameplay. Story i agree in part... but i never had issues with him in combat and I feel confused. And I do play on Hard. Just went full Slayer, two weapon fighting stuff, gave him Bismuth to speed him up and let him go around full attacking with enabled sneak attack by himself and mount. Hits just fine for me, at least comparable to my other martials.

Unlike other class feats, the Magus Extra Arcana line of feats that give you metamagic on 3 spells a day work without you needing to have any levels in Magus. They work on any pre-existing spell books too. It's basically like a free rod that stacks with other rods and doesn't take up item slots!

Combo Grandmaster Rod with Quicken Magic and blast away. Or make your own Grandmaster Rod with Maximize and Empower Magic. They're free action to use and stack with themselves and any rod.

I did Through the Ashes and imported it correctly but i didn't want to do Lord of Nothing right after as it's my first playthrough of the game and i wanted to get to high level with my KC first. And i sort of forgot about Lord of Nothing. I am in act 5 right now with basically everything done except for Midnight isles act 5 crawl. Only have that and Threshold left. I'm finding confusing info about when Lord of Nothing should be imported, from end of Act 2 to end of act 4 to before conquering Iz.

Did i fuck up a bit and it's impossible for me to import it now, if i go and do the dlc campaign? I'm expecting the answer to be yes but i'm holding out hope

I mean 6 of the exact same class and subclass, but they can have different feats. I'd like to hear single class ideas but I guess if you multiclass then all 6 people multiclass the exact same way.

6 mutation warriors? 6 plain paladins? 6 scroll wizards? etc. The issue is you are missing a lot of good buffs this way, run into gear limits or lack frontline so which party could beat unfair?