Might & Magic X: Legacy

On IDing stuff, you definitely want a mage with expert prime magic, even more so on higher difficulty. The ID spell costs 700 and can be trained from the first village and the expert trainer is just outside the city in the caravan, and once you have it you can ID stuff for only 5mana so it saves a fuckton of money. That's basically the first thing I do on my mage, get him to expert prime right away, I used a Freemage because they can access all magic schools but I think most casters get prime. In terms of equipement most of what I'm wearing s what dropped, didn't buy that much. Only thing you really want to buy is rarer weapons if you find one(like 2H sword, still haven't seen one for my 2H char even though I finished act1 and checked vendors multiple times) and daggers with flat damage if you use a DW dagger char.

And Qhue that fight is retardedly hard for whatever reason. If your damage is low it's basically harder than a boss fight in many cases. What I do is dump as much shit as possible on the elite naga in front of whatever door you opened to try to kill him before the rest. The problem is you basically need a mage spamming heals/absorb the whole time so you run out of mana quickly then you're kinda fucked if it's not dead yet. Having an hybrid who can do healing while you drink pots on your mage is fairly important, in both my parties I had a ranger(can use Regeneration) and in the 2nd one I also had a Crusader(can use the absorb holy thing) so I'd use these while drinking medium mana pots and resume. Need strong melees to kill them quick, or a second mage. If you can't get it no matter what, you can always go get xp outside, make sure to clear everything you can and even some of the bandit lair stuff, levels do make quite a lot of difference, another trick would be to get just enough xp to be close to a level up, then fight them this way first mob you kill in the group gives you full heal.

Yeah same for shield, dodge, medium armor and a few others. Basically if it's not in Sorigal or in the little merchant caravan, it's pretty much in Seahaven so you'll have to wait until then, which takes quite a while.

On mage teams you can definitely run 2mages, more and it's gonna be extremely rough especially on the higher difficulty as caliane pointed out cause you'll need to buy a lot of spells(they're very expensive, especially past novice) and also a lot of mana pots. Technically might not need that many mana pots though, if you're willing to cheese and rest a lot then go back to town to buy supplies mid dungeon and do that non stop. You'll also want to put at least 2 points of spirit every level I'd say, possibly 3 early on and you'll also need 1 in vit so you don't get one rounded, so your magic will stagnate for a while. On the other hand once you have enough mana, you can just pump magic every level and ignore the rest so it's not too bad. Mysticism is great too, if you have multiple mages you don't need to spread them too much in terms of skills so you can afford mysticism, sadly the expert trainer is in seahaven so you'll be stuck at novice for a while(but it does give like 35mana which is pretty solid).

A 4 mage team would probably work out alright, I might do that on my 2nd playthrough, just need to make sure you have 2 different nukes since high resist mobs will fuck you otherwise(like my current mage only attack spells is poison, so undead or earth elems take no damage from it, but it's fine since it's also my healer so I just do buffs and shit).

I'd get one with high nature(at least master) for stoneskin which makes everyone fairly tanky and regeneration which is a great HoT, probably secondary holy and he'd be the healer, one freemage for shadow whispers and also for identifying shit then probably bunch of different schools for wards and some basic healing support, then I don't know, air and fire look very strong at killing shit, water might be better for control though I haven't really seen what are the spells since in seahaven the guy only seems to sell high lvl holy and air spells.

Well I made the party to check it out after posting, on hard mode or whatever. Money is really the big issue, and yeah resting non stop early on, but it's been going alright. Basically in the spider dungeon you only have enough mana to kill 2 spiders, so when there's the boss or the pack with 3spiders, it's very rough. Had to use 2-3pots on the boss and I think one on a group of spiders, but overall that's an ok amount all things considered. I've cleared most of the crap outside and looted as many chests as I could, got sparks on 3 of my mage, regen on 2, identify/dispel magic on the freemage. As long as you have mana shit melts, normal mobs can't even melee me(unless there's 3) due to gust pushing them back constantly and mobs die in 2rounds basically, but have to rest every 2-3 encounters or so.

I made one of each race too figured it would be nice to not have too much overlap. Freemage I put I think 5 vit on creation, everyone else 5spirit, and I've been doing 4spirit per level on everyone since the start. Maxed mysticism on everyone, expert prime on freemage for IDing stuff, unlocked both melee and ranged weapons on everyone(well focus weapons for those that didn't start with a melee weapon proficiency which is everyone but the dwarf which starts with spear for some reason) for when I'm out of mana/when I want to shoot shit if I'm pushing them away with gust but don't want to use mana.

Overall working alright and pretty fun. Haven't cleared the nagas yet but I guess once that's done the massive spirit is going to kick in and I'll start being able to kill many groups without resting. Already have like 150mana on each of the mages at lvl 5 or whatever I'm at. I expect like once you hit master in your damage shit you probably kill most non elite mobs before they even reach you in a single round of aoes. Triple chainlightning+fireball and shit like that.

Well some of the grandmasters being accessible earlier is alright, but yeah it lacks consistency. Like I believe you can get GM axe as soon as you get access to act2 area, cause expert is in the first town iirc, master is in seahaven and grandmaster is right outside seahaven. And yeah for magic, you can only master holy before going to the crag I think. Maybe Air too? Not sure I didn't check since on the char that's there already I don't have air leveled, just earth/holy and now going shadow.

Anyway been progressing with my original group, this game is a fuckton bigger than it looks like when you're fucking around in act1. I remember complaints from early access that it'd be too small and I can totally see why people would say that based on the size of the first area and the world map, but then it's like there's a fuckton of stuff underground and it's not open plains anymore but instead forests and shit so it increases how long it takes to go from point A to point B and there's a tons of dungeons and shit. Also once you get to act2 the game opens up a lot. I probably spent 3-4hours just exploring shit and finding where I could go and where the mobs would rape me instantly(I knew where I had to go though, just follow the main quest). I just finished act2 and overall it wasn't very long, possibly even shorter than act1, but I have like 10 sidequests still to go and a ton of areas I didn't get to explore and got my 2nd elemental shard thingie for the temple(water one too, tons of shit to unlock with it).

Considering the price I didn't expect there to be that much content. Granted a lot of the content is recycled stuff, especially mobs, but it's still very big and there's been a large variety of places and shit. Wasn't too sure about buying this because of the EA feedback being kinda meh but glad I did.

He's just there to come back and kill later and collect your sweet lvl 5 loot. At least there was 2 all resist potions too for me so it wasn't a waste. I went there at lvl 17 cause it was close and I wanted to test dagger damage see if I should replace my dagger of relentlessness(+1 attack per turn). Assumed I'd die but I was apparently around where I should have been to kill him, he dropped a couple of my chars down but not far enough so I could just get them back up with heals and killed him. Also on the dagger, turns out that no, you don't replace a dagger with that mod unless you get another dagger with the mod. Just adds too much damage, even though it's the lowest tier of dagger and it's like 8 base max damage lower than the ones I find now, it's still better.

There's a lot of shit where you come back later, like you'll see often "need blessing of x" shit and that's when you finish a specific sub dungeon to unlock these areas, metroid style. Also in act2 there's a lot of "melting" of the areas, like you'll be doing your shit for a quest and it's just fine, but then you open a door and it's rapefest. Also for example in the act2 end dungeon, there's a part of it that's meant for later, the mobs are full on rape if you go the wrong way but you can come back later, and in some cases you can beat the mobs. I killed one of the groups cause it had the easier mob types for my group and ended up opening a bunch of chests and secret areas with higher level loot until I had to turn back cause everywhere had mobs I couldn't kill.