just want to say thanks for informing / inspiring about item randomiser
i uninstalled all my mods (tactics, ease, items . . ) and just added this one (and am playing on insane as you suggested to compensate for no 'tactics')
i'm really enjoying it. i'd never played insane before but it's good. the insanity means that my party gets into trouble often enough that i have a panic-y battle which is fun. a party member taking one hit can completely change the course of a battle which seems very appropiate. anomen got chunky-deathed early on though when he got caught by, presumably, a doubled-damage critical from the den of seven vales berserker. enemy AoE spells are
brutal though - a single pit-fiend fireball just killed all of us outrght!
(these 'insane' revelations won't be news to a lot of you i realise)
i'm not missing tactics. it does make the game quite laborious in parts i've realised now i've re-experienced life without it. and i'm not chasing power with this party at all - what comes, comes. that said, i'm still surprised and slightly disappointed how easy the basic undead are.
playing with the item randomiser has confrmed to me how much my quest choices were geared around item knowledge - this feels much more like going with the flow (plus after deciding my PC would use crossbows i found the heavy crossbow of accuracy on a very early quest
). i'm halfway through the asylum maze now though and and still have neither of the anti-undead weapons i could normally have relied on. it's all good. plus i've just found an, as yet unidentified, longbow that i've never seen the icon for before - strange.
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