Etheryn Queen Raiment set

[Dr Kodo]

I feel like this set need some adjustment.
- She still have Exscape Artist despite her low Agility.
- Decent Willpower but no offensive power to use it on (Heal and Group Heal is overkill on healing i think)
- Decent Strength but no power to take advantage of it

I think for this set, story wise it would make sense for her to have Presence instead of Strength (considering she a queen now), as well as giving the her back the summon Harick.

What are your opinion on this

 

[The Observer]

Working as intended. Queenly rainment is fully intended to be completely suck-ass at anything but support.

We'll take escape artist under consideration.

 

[Dr Kodo]

A new perk replacing escape artist would be really nice. I love the game btw, thank you for your work.

Working as intended. Queenly rainment is fully intended to be completely suck-ass at anything but support.

We'll take escape artist under consideration.

 

[Salomon]

Working as intended. Queenly rainment is fully intended to be completely suck-ass at anything but support.

then it would be something like; her being the queen and you being her knight in shining armor, fighting on the front line to protect your beloved, while she stands behind you supporting you?

 

[Dr Kodo]

then it would be something like; her being the queen and you being her knight in shining armor, fighting on the front line to protect your beloved, while she stands behind you supporting you?

That is why i think it would make more sense for her to have high Presence instead of Strength or Toughness

 

[MeIsntVeryCreative]

Now it got me thinking, does presence stats from the companion did anything at all, beside affecting summons. (math?)

 

[Dr Kodo]

Presence make your tease attack stronger and give you Leadership, which boost your other companion

 

[WolframL]

Now it got me thinking, does presence stats from the companion did anything at all, beside affecting summons. (math?)

The companions' Presence affects their Tease attacks via the derived Sexiness stat and Presence on its own affects certain powers (Quin and Berry have moves that benefit from this) and the Leadership stat that's derived from Presence affects companion summons, so Ryn (in her default gear) and Berry both benefit from it in that respect.

Presence for Queenly Raiment Ryn wouldn't do much for her since she loses the summon and her healing effectiveness is based on Spellpower. It would make her Tease attacks more accurate (via Sexiness) but... that's not really what she's good at. Now when Cait gets that belly dancer gear set, I expect her Presence will shoot through the roof compared to her White Mage set.

 

[MeIsntVeryCreative]

The companions' Presence affects their Tease attacks and related powers (Quin and Berry have moves that benefit from this) and the Leadership stat that's derived from Presence affects companion summons, so Ryn and Berry both benefit from it in that respect.

Given how tease ability really lacking a presence (haHAA) throughout the game yeah I almost forgot it being a thing, by that I mean simply base presence tease attack for specific encounters is generally enough and for the general encounters, chipping down their health is usually way faster than go manual full teasing. Haha Brint/Kiyoko goes brrrr.

 

[Dr Kodo]

Presence for Queenly Raiment Ryn wouldn't do much for her since she loses the summon and her healing effectiveness is based on Spellpower.

Correct me if i wrong but i think Leadership on a companion should also buff your orther party members ' attack power or is it only aplly for the Champion 's Leadership. I it work like that on companion then it would be pretty good for Queen Raiment since she could be standing there healing your team while still having an offensive precense buffing orthers attack power

 

[WolframL]

I'm pretty sure it's only the Champion's Leadership that provides a stat boost since they're the leader of the group.

 

[Savin]

Correct me if i wrong but i think Leadership on a companion should also buff your orther party members ' attack power or is it only aplly for the Champion 's Leadership.

Only the Champion's leadership applies to the party's stats.

Ditto only enemy leaders to their parties.

 

[Dr Kodo]

Only the Champion's leadership applies to the party's stats.
Ditto only enemy leaders to their parties.

Ok so that is how it work. That make Presence way worse than I though.

On the subject of Presence, why does Cheftain's Bronze Arona have it anyway. She doesn't have any summon or tease power and as i know now it doesn't buff your party either.

Agility would be better for that set. Is this because it would make that set too good or is there some different reason i not seeing.

 

[WolframL]

Ok so that is how it work. That make Presence way worse than I though.

Presence is kind of like Charisma in many editions of D&D; it's a dump stat for a lot of builds but extremely important for a smaller number of them.

Agility would be better for that set. Is this because it would make that set too good or is there some different reason i not seeing.

Eh, maybe it's a flavor thing rather than a gameplay-optimization one? After all, it's a set for a leader and even if Arona doesn't have skills dependent on Presence, given how she likes to fight giving her Tease attacks more accuracy is pretty fitting even if you'll only see those under manual control.

 

[Dr Kodo]

I guest it make sense as favoring, it suit Arona character. I just wish that set is a little bit better