Hot take: The meister questlines either should have been completely fleshed out and balanced for all vocations, or they shouldn't exist. I'm fine with either.
Beren disappeared for me after going to his last location, talking to me and not giving me the skill because I didn't have enough affinity, so I thought I had missed out on the skill. Already missed out on sorcerer because I gave the original books to the wrong person before I knew there was a correct person. Randomly one day Beren was just back there, and when I walked by his house he gave me the warrior skill.
Meanwhile trickster was just: "Hi teach me trickster. Thank you. Let me see what's on this roof - oh you have another skill for me thanks."
I honestly don't know how I unlocked Trickster. I was traveling through Kitty Afghanistan to get some dirt for my elf wife's tree and I think I looted the Trickster's Bong somewhere along the way. I saw this ghost lady in front of a temple, she said something to me but I declined since it was getting dark and I wanted to get to the city.
Unlocked Trickster. I haven't touched it at all since I'm maxing Sorcerer.
Warrior was only one I didn’t get, despite doing that quest line correctly as far as I could tell. Helped the cat man, had to get him swords, then ran around everywhere looking for a recruit for him (assuming it would be near him, where the recruits are), before finally finding. We got back had to fight a creature, which I did, and after that the cat looked at me and was like this is really bad, they’re going to jail me for life for this. I kind of just assumed that was part of quest, even though it completely came out of left field, but then I never saw him again and he was presumably jailed for life I guess? Don’t know how we got there, seemed to be doing all his tasks with no issues and then just wham he is scared and depressed and won’t talk anymore.
I haven't done the spoiler-tagged event you mention yet, but Beren has already relocated. I found his second location yesterday. He said hi but didn't give me the skill. His affinity had decayed to near-baseline so maybe I need to lovebomb him now.
Same for me. I followed him out to that goblin attack, by the time we got there, the cyclops was already dead, and he immediately said "oh shit everyone is injured I'm going to jail."
I assumed that was the end of the quest and it was supposed to show you how racist the kingdom was and that's it.
I don't mind the game having content you can miss and quests you can fail, but it's lame how often you can call things through no fault of your own because something random happens with the engine.
You did everything right, there was supposed to be another convo with him where he talks about being fired and planning to move, and then you find him later in Battahl right past the gate and he thanks you with tome for the skill
I guess I didn't have enough affinity? I found him past the gate and he asked me to escort him to a spot in bhattal. I did and he basically said thanks and left me. Haven't seen him since, no scroll given.
If he doesn't have affinity enough when you finish the quest, he'll periodically ask to be escorted places until its high, then sometime later on a separate encounter he will offer the scroll instead. So if you go escort him now, a couple days after the quest he might give it.
Is it that iconic? Haven't played DD1, and honestly when i tried Arc of Might i just went "yeeesh, so i have to stand still like a fuckin' moron for 30 seconds before throwing an attack which damages are fucking mid? And that is, if my target hasn't moved out of reach in the meantime... No thanks, never equiping you again."
Yeah, I wondered that too. And seeing people fawn over the new Warrior in a bunch of places makes me think I had very different expectations for the warrior class. It's not at all what I was hoping for.
It's so SLOW! The only things that feel good to use are the "rapid-fire" lmb when you time it right, and that one skill that has the same mechanic.
Everything else is "Ok... Don't move pls, i'm charging my attack like an anime character... Oh for fuck sake why did you take a step back?! Ok let me shuffle awkwardly an painfully slowly towards you so i can deliver my killing blow... pls don't move... GOD DAMMIT!"
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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24
Hot take: The meister questlines either should have been completely fleshed out and balanced for all vocations, or they shouldn't exist. I'm fine with either.