| Tonight I tried the Twisted Rune for the first time, (the Improved
Twisted Rune from the Tactics Mod, that is).
What?
The Twisted Rune, for the first time?
Yeah.
It's like this, eh?
While I'm not an SoA/ToB neophyte, I'm no expert either.
Meaning there's still much about the game I know little about or
haven't tried.
Until recently, the Twisted Rune was in fact one part of the game I
knew virtually nothing about.
Matter of fact, if I hadn't read a few posts about it on this board, I
I'd likely still be totally unaware of it.
So as you might appreciate, I was very pleased to educate myself about
it and try it out fresh, so to speak.
[Great board, here, by the way. Thank you, all you contributors, for
sharing your game information. You've increased my enjoyment of the
game astronomically.]
But anyway, about the Improved Twisted Rune.
I enjoyed the fight.
In fact it was a damn good fight.
Not by-geezly hard, but challenging, to be sure.
So saying, though, I also have to mention that I'm playing this
current game with a level 25 mage in my party (imported from a prior
game), which provides some serious spellcasting grunt in the early
chapters.
I'm doing this because as I say, I'm no expert player, and the
juiced-up mage helps make the Tactics Battles more balanced at core
difficulty (at least for me, anyway, at this stage of my playing development).
For example, in the Twisted Rune, my mage was able to take out Shangalar right away with a 3X blast of horrid writing in a chain contingency, after which I still found the remaining battle a really good test.
Which is fine with me.
Each to his own, hey?
Just one question, however, about something I noticed.
Shagalar expired in the middle of his round table/dais, after which
none of my party could reach him to frisk his corpse because the game
wouldn't allow anyone to cross the table surface.
Kind of irritating, actually, because I couldn't find out what he had on him.
For anyone who's done the Improved Twisted Rune before and killed
Shangalar in the middle of the table, is this result normal?
Or might it be a possible bug?  |