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You should give him the sword of edros Jade, it's perfect for him.
Having another offhand weapon will slow him down do to the extra weight, it's just not really worth it anyway from what I've seen, but honestly I don't even know how that works in this game, it could even be causing your damage problem.

Your saying that your theif's melee power is low though right? I mean, all you really need to do is raise his STR, it starts out pretty low as compared to a warrior...
I've noticed that things tend to hit their stride around 15 of each skill, give or take a point, so for instance, 15 int means your mage won't miss much any more, 15 wil means they'll be doing good enough damage to two hit almost everything, 15 agi means that you'll always get your turn unless you get slowed, and you start dodging a fare amount if you've got the right skills, 15 dex means you'll parry consistently ETC.
That said though, I've also found that 12 STR is pretty much the minimum you can get away with for decent strikes, any lower and your under powered, so at least shoot for that at first.

Also, obviously the warrior gets stuff like warrior's strike and brute force pretty quick, where as it takes a bit to get sneak attack for the thief, so he's stuck with base weapon damage until then.
From what I've seen, the warrior also tends to get more critical strikes and counter attacks too, maybe some kind of background class perk? but it could just be a fluke...
But yeah, even the priestess can do some pretty serious damage if she gets enough strength, so really that's what you should be going for.

As for Wilhelm, you just need to find Frita, who's in the house, though, you may need to visit the mines first, I don't know as I wandered into them from the sewers.

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Regarding updates: Updating should not cause a problem with saved games. In theory you should be able to run the updater and then fire the game up as if nothing has changed. The only problems some people are encountering have to do with Windows restricting permissions to certain files, based on where you have installed your game. We're still trying to figure out if there's anything we can do on our end to prevent this from happening.

@IronCross #433: the blindgamers.com address is Ian's and is the right place to send crashing errors as those are his domain. If he gets script errors, he'll forward them over to the outofsightgames.com address, and if crashing errors are sent to that address they get sent over to Ian usually anyway. So it all comes out in the wash, no worries.

@Austin #435: That's not a bug—those are two separate quest lines. I do need to double check that the quest you're describing isn't bugged but I suspect you just aren't quite going where you need to in order to trigger it.

@Aaron #446: Right-stick free look is definitely a feature we plan to implement. We had some trouble getting that one implemented but it's on the list. Hope we can resolve your crashes soon.

@Jayde #447-8: Freida wouldn't talk to you? That sounds buggy to me...could you send an email to that effect to support [at] outofsightgames.com if you haven't already?

Regarding your attack power question, anyone dual-wielding Dolphin Blades is gonna do a lot of damage. I'm curious to know what those units' strength is. I don't know the relevant algorithms offhand but weapon power is definitely a major deciding factor.

Regarding difficulty, no penalty at all. Just a self-imposed decision.

@mojsior #449: You can't automatically read the last message but you can open a log of all recent speech with control + shift + L.

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@assault_freak #450: Reunited is one quest where your actions have a direct impact on how it plays out. Sounds like you did not find a way to distract the guards.

two questions.
1. do the bannitds respon? I can't find any since I started the quest. I'm on the laying down the law quest.
2. when I beet the game and start over will my custom beacons stay?

how do i start the bandit quest?

IronCross, regarding your question about accuracy:

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Ordinarily I wouldn't give away info like that if there was a hint in-game for discovering it such as a book or character dialogue but since I can't remember if we put anything like that in there: equipment weight and dual-wielding both negatively impact accuracy. Assuming Matthias is using a bow, he's obviously not dual-wielding; is his equipment weight particularly high compared to his sex, versus say your main's weight compared to whatever stat governs their accuracy?

I got the game! Now if only I wasn't so tired that trying to play makes my head all swirly...

Also, twice the game has frozen, and the same half-second of sound plays over and over and over until Windows shuts the program down. I don't know what could be causing that to happen but it's definitely taught me to save as often as possible!

Also, the navigation is so much harder than Liam made it look...

Hi, nice game.
Are you able to romans your party members?
Are there different endings and please make an option in the menu to deleet your saves?

Who are you, people?
I need urgent help.
Next, I started playing the game a short time ago, and I'm in the cemetery and on that part of the magic barrier. alexia is already in my group. What do I have to do now? in the diary of my mind says that Alexia will help me in some way with the 3 stones.
big hug to all

I don't know about romance but you can get a sort of semi-flirtatious moment if you talk to Victoria with one of the ladies in your party.

@The Imaginatrix #462: Can you tell what sound is being played over and over before the game crashes? Where were you/what were you doing when it crashed? These are the sorts of details we need to try and track these bugs down. Also, bear in mind that Liam has spent more time with the game than you, both learning the maps and getting accustomed to the navigation system. I suspect that the longer you play, the more comfortable you'll become with it, as well.

@BryanP #463: Yep, can't remember how much offhand but it's a fair bit.

@Defender #467: You capped out a warrior and never learned Finesse or Flurry? I'm honestly not sure how that could happen unless there's a bug in the skill learning logic. What skills does your warrior know? Maybe send this info to the support[at]outofsightgames.com to avoid spoilers and whatnot...I'd like to ensure this isn't bugged.

EDIT: Also, we may have figured out a fix for the updater and Windows permissions. Hopefully we are not far from a future where updates to the game do not come with a risk of the game not wanting to launch afterward.

Ah, he was weighed down a little more than the rest, and that did seem to get him back. I gave him a piece of armor that had a better armor rating, and was lighter than whatever he had in that slot, and I took that big bow away and gave him back his bow. The different in weapon rating wasn't that much higher, and he's plenty powerful with it when he uses his own bow, so I'd rather like to see him get more shots landing on target than to say, get 1/5 but that 1 is a very powerful hit. I can sacrifice power for damage over time, which will be greater because he's hitting more accurately.

Simeon, the Godslayer.

Simeon uses Sneak Attack on Grebbik bra-Nolag
13433 damage dealt.
Grebbik bra-Nolag has been defeated.