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- Sniper rifles are *more* accurate the farther away from the target you are. | - Sniper rifles are *more* accurate the farther away from the target you are. | ||
- Elementals will always turn on you in the end, you need to balance risk and reward. A good way to use them is to send them far into the enemy lines since when they snap they turn aggressive to everyone. I find it's advantageous to use them as high risk/high reward - always going for maximum AP. | |||
- Your summoning is still pretty low so it's to be expected, keep at it. High level elementals get pretty damn powerful. | |||
- Shaman spells aren't meant for offense, they're buffs and debuffs. You've correctly inferred that Haste is broken as fuck; I don't remember what spells were in Returns as opposed to added in Dragonfall and HK but the evasion buffs and wall spells are all pretty great. You should also be able to get some poison clouds and disables - anything that hits AP is powerful. | |||
- That being said, you probably won't be able to play a pure casting shaman too effectively, consider spending some points in a gun skill. The cool thing about the system is that it doesn't cost much karma to be slightly less bad as something, the prices start adding up as you specialize. You can also grab a couple points in mage spells, that'll give you access to healing and some low-end direct damage. | |||
- If you have the other games and are trying to play them in order, I'd suggest skipping Returns and starting with Dragonfall. The campaign in Returns is pretty bad and the combat system got improved a lot between games. If you really want to play through Dead Man's Switch, you can import it into Dragonfall or HK and play it with updated mechanics. | |||
- Cyberware on a magic class: don't, the cooldown penalties can be crippling. If you want to branch out, guns are probably a better way of doing it. Then again, I don't recall DMS being particularly hard so if you really want some shiny chrome, why not. As for why to stick to high-end shaman magic, two words: Haste. Two. | |||
= Dragonfall = | = Dragonfall = | ||