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Drenzoo258 days ago

It's true — magic sucks. It demands way more investment, easily two or three times more, just to get the same results in survivability, damage, or versatility, compared to the other two viable builds in the game.

You're afraid of enemies, you need setups just to make things function properly, and by the time you finally start scaling when say around 30 WIS — surprise, surprise! You're still completely helpless against any boss or mobile enemy. Even a pack of wolves will tear you apart 80 times out of 100. You simply don’t want to play as a mage.

Yes, the sea witch exists, but in my personal experience, even in this case, there's little point in investing in WIS — you’ll be significantly stronger if you go down the right-side tree instead.

Overall, even after cheating myself the best possible wizard setup, I was left disappointed. The entire middle path is just a letdown

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manabug258 days ago

Totally understandable, and its not even just the players that suffer from magic either. 9/10 of the times i hire the fire mage upstairs in the tavern, she will either stunlock me with the enemy with her magic or kill herself with her fireballs trying to take out enemies. it's quite hilarious to watch but i'd like to not hire her a million times because she's that unreliable lol

i think the main problem is magic seems to be designed only for offense, and you (for some reason beyond me) can't take acolyte traits or divine items if you choose magic. it would be so fun to setup fights with a fireball, and then heal your companions with divine items or mend soul ability, and gives you a bit more options in regards to magic. but i imagine this design choice was based off the lore around the saint, and the followers of the saint. 

at the very least I'd like to see some defensive magic options that aren't just abilities that block enemies paths, that'd definitely make it more viable at lower stat levels! (like Cocona's necromancer shield she uses for example)

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Drenzoo257 days ago

Simply adding a few native spells that Lone can use without any equipment would already make this branch much more viable. (Maybe something related to sustenance, healing, or combat magic — potentially even as separate perks.)

There's also a real lack of some kind of utility tool to deal with serious enemies — something that would offer an alternative to endlessly kiting and chipping away at them with minimal damage.

And personally, I dream of magic that would be accessible to Lone even without investing into the magic perk. For example, traps are available to everyone and are insanely useful. There's a 'prostitution' skill that's also accessible and must-have in most playthroughs. But for magic, there's no such option.

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