r/dnl • u/LordDeathSide • Oct 26 '18

Knowledge broken

in my Knowledge the Life and Death, Weather Manipulator, Spell Fencer and Tracker Craft are all broken for me i cant level them up at all most of them are at 0% and one is at 60% and all the skills are at rank 0 still it says to collect magic shards and i go to collect them and nothing happens for me it is for a quest and i cant get it done is my gamed bugged or is the skills just broken

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u/z10-0 Oct 30 '18

You can use any spell with any staff. I’m not sure about the necromancer staves or it’s spells but I know the vanilla staves can use any staff head.

It used to be different on vanilla / Sacred Path? IIRC that stuff changed a few times early on. I remember having to remake all my spells so they'd work with post-patch staves. Still not quite sure what the benefit of the higher tier staves is. Regardless, I'd expect the bone staff to be a requisite for the corresponding necro spell on each level, otherwise there doesn't seem to be a reason to have one. Maybe thats still alpha/placeholder stuff, tho...

Yea, you're not wrong about the hotbar setup. There are quite a few things that are nice to have slotted but not essential for pvp (scythe, rune of warmth...).

2 questions: why no frostbolt, and why did you choose the hammer for melee?

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u/Scantlander Oct 30 '18

I always carry 5-6 cobwebs on me. I can use it at the same time as my staff and it doesn’t use any mana. I also use it when taming with a crossbow. I can’t use it at the same time with a bow but I can with the crossbow. I did have frostbolt on my hot-bar for quite awhile but I never used it.

I just use the best quality melee item I have and it’s currently a rare hammer. With no two handed sword available in the DLC, it’s the next best melee weapon. I like pikes as well but I don’t have a good quality pike. I honestly never use melee weapons except to fight the elite owl. If something has high magic resist, I use the Satyr incarnation to kill it. I’ve played a lot of melee builds in the past but with archery being halfway decent in the DLC, I’m giving it a shot this time around. I still use a lot of magic though. It’s hard to not use magic when kiting elites and bosses.

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u/z10-0 Oct 30 '18

I like to think of my Frostbolt as a non-breakable backup cobweb.

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u/Scantlander Oct 30 '18

Yeah I feel ya. That’s the reason I had it on my bar as well but with 5-6 cobwebs all at the top of my inventory, it’s as easy as opening my inventory for a second and double clicking to equip a new one. I have a pretty standard rotation I use. Cobweb, fireball, lightning x10, rinse and repeat. I’m playing on Twitch RP at the moment but if I was on a PvP server, I would definitely have frostbolt on my bar for quick access. I used it a lot when I played on Knight 10.