You get 1% bonus damage per point of Strength already. As for doing damage using gems, I tend to hit for well over 5k on turn 3 in the beginning of book 2. Even if you discount the rage into cluster combo, simply triggering the True Flawless Damage gem with strength 100 will do 1200 damage. Use Excalibur and Fia to boost your next attack and...well, you get the point. Plenty of ways to do massive amounts of damage using gems.
I'm not saying it is hard to win with just the normal attacks.
First it's important to consider that the MC's companions support his combat options. There are a number of gem strategies that folks use to maximize potential damage. In virtually all of them maximum effectiveness requires that slots are populated with the strongest gem possible which is consistent with your strategy. Once that's accomplished, the player then needs to determine which companions most effectively maximize total damage. I generally play a damage stack with lightening in the pair and two pair slots, the level 9 damage gem in four of a kind and the level nine rage gem in straight flush. My most effective set of companions at the moment are Chloe, Emily or Matthew, and Fia. With my strength bonus on damage, doubled by Fia, and using Chloe to force higher level hands four of a kind damage approaching 3K is a regular event.
Hm i thought strenght gives only boost to health...i didn't played a strenght build i was going more for balance, i try this the next run.
Was going for balanced as i didn't know str gives atk boost, and didn't use the WT so i clearly wouldn't call it a perfect run as i wasted a lot of time.. the stats were from the first week of book 2 iirc, i didn't do stat grind in book2, execpt for sword to see the changes.
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Yep ur right for Katie, do u get more points if don't fuck her ? I didn't know u can train sword with Emily in book 2, only trained with her former teacher.
Yeah; it was a bug in how I handled Fia and Matthew (both of them disappear forever). It's fixed in the Beta build on Steam and in discord, I'm just finishing up the rest of Act VII+ before I push it public.
I had similar stats 60-70 str, int, chr and that was with save scumming to get lucky with random stat increases. I think your build is not something players are able to achieve on their first playthrough. I relied really heavily on Emily for damage as well.
INT bonus affects the secondary effects (how much fire, ice, lightning, poison, rage, etc is added).
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To the best of my knowledge you can only double your spell damage once. X and Fia do not stack. The game will let you trigger both but you only get one double damage icon. I'm pretty sure I read this somewhere in game as well, possibly when Fia's skill were explained.
This does seem to be the case, good observation! Still, even with only a single double damage active, 2 1/2k damage on turn 1 is nothing to sneeze at.
