Yeah, I've searched and I don't think that those questions have been ever asked. Unless I am retarded... Anyway. I installed Arcanum after few years again and I am curious about few things. 1) How does magick collage mastery works in conjuction with Temporal school? Does it halve the upkeep costs too? 2) What are all possible blessings in the game? There are ancient gods, Alberah (spelling?) and Madam Toussaude (spelling again?). Are there any others? 3) I got the dog. However for some unknown reason his attitude dropped to 30. Any idea why? And is there any way to bring it up again? 4) Is there any way (including some 3rd party programs or mods) to make followers AI a bit less dumb (that's it - attacking given target, not using dumb spells, using the foking EQ I want them to use)? I often want to cut my veins when I watch my NPCs... I am using Arcanum with latest Sierra patch without UAP. Thanks in advance. Oh, yeah btw 1st post.
Welcome aboard, Blizzy. It halves the cost of casting spells (lowered down) and doubles the time it takes before fatigue is used up on maintenance. With Stasis as an example, with mastery casting cost drops from 25 FP to 12 FP and maintenance cost drops from 4 FP every 10 seconds to 4 FP every 20 seconds. What you wrote plus Priestess Brigitte's blessing. Also, Jewel of Hebe's blessing, if you count a blessing which requires an item to be worn in order to work. Sounds like you have a reaction lowering background or reputation. Is that correct? Attacking given targets is possible without any mods - keys from F1 to F6 are commands addressed to all followers at once. You can point a target and use the commands. You can also right-click a follower's portrait to address a command particularly to him. There is also a program around which allows you to change the levelling schemes of followers or distribute the CPs they earn with each level manually, if you'd be interested in that sort of thing.
Thanks for answers Muro. However... What's that? I mean, where can I find it? And what bonus it gives? What's "reaction lowering background"? And my reputation is pretty much fine I guess. The only ones that are negative are the ones you get for slaughtering those "clans" in the Boil. And I thought that dog doesn't care about things like reputation/beauty/charisma/whatever? So there are some mods? Could you tell me what should I look for? Also, the "F" thingy is quite handy, thanks. Well, why not. If I see raven casting this Body of Water again I swear I will throw my comp through the window... --- Considering the fact that it hits for over 9000, I guess he would eat my whole party alive if I tried something like that.
It's a necklace found in a locked chest in the Panarii Temple in Tarant. The bonus it gives is +2 Beauty and +1 Charisma. A background you choose during character creation which comes with a decrease in reaction, for example Sold Your Soul or Escaped Lunatic. Logically it shouldn't, but some modifiers are set to affect all NPCs. For example chickens are suspicious towards you if you have a global negative reputations and hostile wolves only dislike you instead of hating you if you're a gnome. Another guess: are you wearing Dread Armor or any other kind of barbarian armor? Also, does the reaction decrease only affect Dog or all other followers as well? What I meant here was just to express that follower control is something that is already in the game. As for mods, I do not recall any. Rewriting follower AI would take more work than anyone wanted to invest so far, it would seem. Here's the thread. The correct link is in rroyo's post near the end of the first page.
Oh, I am dumb. No, I pretty much always pick the thingy with +1 PE. Nope. Well, I think it did. However I buffed my charisma/beauty/persuasion in the mean time and it went up again. However dog's attitude is still at 30. And I don't really know why. Ohhh. Thank you very much.
These are the blessings that you requested: BE +1 Stillwater Return the statue of her goddess to Brigitte, the priestess. BE +1 Stillwater Place a Passion Root on the altar of Geshtianna. CH +1 Tarant Give Madame Toussaude's crystal ball to Delores Beston as she requests. CN +1 Torg's Altar Place a ruby item on the altar. +Picklocks Bolo's Altar Place a ring of the altar. Reaction Modifier +5 Arbalah's house by Shrouded Hills Return Arbalah's Sacred Artifact to him. ST +1 Wheel Clan Place a Lava Rock on Alberich's alter in the palace of the Wheel Clan.
There was a bug in the unpatched version, causing the reaction of followers to drop in some cases during combat with enemy archers such as Kite Bowmen or Tattered Bowmen. Now, I know this was still present in 1.0.7.0, but I'm not sure whether it was fixed in 1.0.7.4 or was it still present there, with Drog's UAP being the patch which eventually fixed it. If it's the latter, perhaps it was the thing that caused the decrease of Dog's reaction. What is the reaction of farm animals in different villages towards your character, Blizzy?
