DYLUCK'S PROFILE

Oldra's altar is in the Halflings village where Roke and Korwin started from.

I've also update the character page with the new facesets, and uploaded a few screenshots of the facesets, the passive skills, and the fluffy sidequest.

They do level up outside of the party, so you can always switch up anytime without grinding. The useful party member is almost always the newest ones, and the dungeon contains better equipment for them to provide incentive to use these members. Admittedly, they are not always compelling enough in their story role or characterization for the player to be personally interested in them.

Your experiences with leveling up have shown me that players expect more dramatic stat gain per level and even fewer rounds for regular enemies. I will try to solve these issues in future releases.

Thanks for playing through the entire game and thanks for you feedback! For the most part, I agree with what you have written, especially about the story and character development. In the end, I was not too satisfied with these 2 aspects myself either, and there were probably too many playable characters and not enough time to develop them all. In retrospect, I should have focused on fewer characters and a character-driven story instead.

As for the individual characters, in general my intention was for each new character to be more useful than the older ones so that the new ones would be used. I'm surprised at some of the characters you consider "weak" though, because Elara and Cherga's area magic deal the most damage to multiple enemies, and Nargun does the most melee damage even if only 2 hits land, plus later enemies are weak to his holy/dark/distance attacks. Btw, Irmorom can tank using the Attention Band dropped by the Behemoth boss. You're right about your combo being good for most bosses, especially near the end and with the dragons.

For the skill system, I understand what you're saying and I'll admit it's not the most elegant system. I don't think one weapon style was always vastly superior to the other one though. There are lots of different skills/character combos/enemies types that was intended to motivate switching weapons at various times, but perhaps the clues weren't clear enough sometimes? I was hoping that players would see it as a multitude of options, but instead I guess I didn't anticipate that all the other options the player didn't choose would appear kind of as useless options instead.

You're right about the crafting progression if you make more than 1 copy of an item. That was a problem I couldn't find a way around. Also, I think the low amount of items in each category made the system seem small and less significant overall.

Anyways, thanks again for all your feedback, and I will definitely take it all into consideration for any future games. Although I'm pretty sure I won't be making any more Illarion related games. Maybe I'll do something new instead =)

author=Rine
The problem here was not that I didn't have a staff, it was that an entire tier of the characters development required that I either lose all the old stuff in order to use it, or just not use it at all. I liked the old spells more than the new ones, so I didn't switch weapons, meaning I would have had to sit through an entire tier learning nothing I could use. In my opinion, it was rather frustrating to know I wouldn't be learning any new useful skills for another 12 levels.

You can keep both the book and the staff. Then you would be able to switch between both sets of skills as you like.

I get that you want to have the option to maybe focus on one skill path completely and ignore the other path, but realistically that would be unbalanced. If you blew all your SP on one path and then realized later that you needed the other skills to win, then you would be completely stuck. In fact, the new skills are usually always better and help you deal with the next challenges, and so they encourage you to choose your next weapon accordingly to utilize the new available skills.