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I definitely agree that, although there are a few areas that could benefit from some changes, this is an excellent game overall. I’ve completed the game as each of the three classes, and the problem you described with the terrain blocking arrows was what stuck out to me as the most aggravating part of playing as an archer (second is how long you have to wait between shots when starting out, before upgrading the one ability that decreases draw time and getting a slightly faster bow). I think a simple, but imperfect, fix for this problem would be to change the game so that the only platforms/terrain types that can stop arrows are ones that the player cannot drop through by holding down and jump. I wasted quite a few arrows trying to shoot alligators in the swamp, various titans near the stairs in the ancient room, orcs in the watchtower, dark golems in the damned cave, and I’m fairly certain that I killed a few watchtowers and tents during “To The Orcs Camp!”. That last example in particular irked me, because there are so many of those towers and tents around, along with the standard land platforms, that it was almost impossible to get a shot to actually hit the enemy unless they were right by the character, at which point a sword would work just as well. I actually kept a pair of sabres on my archer for most of the game so that when I was fighting enemies in locations with lots of platforms I could just dual wield swords and jump around attacking the enemies like a slightly slower assassin.
The one problem I could see with changing the game so that arrows can travel through most platforms is that it might make kiting enemies too easy, but I think that would be a reasonable tradeoff for the extremely slow draw time, especially in the earlier sections of the game.

(Sorry for the double-post, the character limit is higher than the maximum length for one comment.)
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Regarding your observation about the wolves, I assumed something similar to your “crazy-protector” idea based upon the dialog from the quest-giver when you get the quest to kill Agramor, but I didn’t assume he was protecting the people deliberately. When given the quest, I believe the NPC describes Agramor as a giant who “tears apart all who come near.” I assumed that his violent tendencies were not restricted only to humans who ventured into his lands, but included pretty much anything he thought he could kill. If such was the case, then it stands to reason that he was “protecting” the people to the west from the wolves inadvertently, by killing the wolves before they could get through. After his threat (and axe) were gone, there was no longer a powerful force barring the wolves from the land, thus creating the need for the player to go forth and take over where Agramor left off. It probably would have been good if a story explicitly connecting the events had been included however, rather than leaving much of the reasoning to be decided by the player.
As you said before though, I would really like to see this game succeed, because it is still very fun the way it is right now, but it shows a considerable amount of potential to be even better.

It’s quite obvious, really.
“avoidability” is your chance to avoid an attack. That is: Enemy will MISS their attacks. While “defense” will reduce the amount of health lost when hit.

“accuracy” is the chance that YOU wont get a “MISS” when u attack a target; and “pierce” is how much armor you ignore when hitting it. Basically “armor penetration”, increasing the amount of damage dealt.

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While I think the names do convey what they do in a general sense, I believe it would be nice if there were some sort of guide that provided formulas showing the extent to which each trait influences the character or combat. For example, if choosing between a piece of armor with a high defense rating and one with lower defense but a boost to maximum health, such as the chest piece from the Lava armor set vs. the chest piece from the Samurai/Swift/Hunter sets (I realize the stats on enemy-dropped armor are semi-random, but for the sake of illustration assume this is the case), it would be useful to know how much additional damage is mitigated by the higher defense of the Lava armor, to get a rough idea of how much additional health it would be equivalent to in deciding which piece to wear. A similar example would the the tradeoff between higher average damage and a higher pierce rating on a weapon.

Also, while I assume that “Pierce” has something to do with armor penetration, I thought it affected how much damage is done to enemies if they are struck while blocking. I suppose it could be both, if the game processes blocking as a temporary boost to a character’s defense based whatever bonuses are granted by their armor, abilities, and anything else (so that, if an enemy normally has a defense of X, while blocking it just goes up to something like 3X or 4X).

I’m also interested in how the Critical Hit Damage and Critical Hit Rate stats affect the player’s attacks. Since they’re both given in percentages, and I’ve made a high-luck build warrior that has about 114 Critical Hit Rate when outfitted with the right combination of gear, does that mean that every time he attacks an enemy he critically hits it 1.14 times?

I’m probably just doing way too much number crunching and analyzing, but it would probably be useful to provide such information for those players interested in it.

Get the quests to gather herbs and kill boars, first go to Reine. On the top of the hill, between “Razed House B” and “Razed House C”, is a larger (apparently undamaged) structure that is labeled “Farmer’s House”. You should see the name appear over the character’s head when you’re in front of the door. The person closest to you when you enter will give you the two quests.

If you then continue to the right through the room, past one of the magic regeneration stones, you will see a doorway that leads to the “Farm”. If you go there you will encounter four periodically respawning boar you can kill, some pumpkins you can break open (and which may contain gold, potions, or other items), and little bush/tree type things which, when destroyed, will leave the pickups for the herb quest.

Once you kill enough boar you can return to the person who gave you that quest to complete it; to complete the herb collecting quest you need to go to the “Underground” and talk to the potion shop salesman, on the upper right platform (he’s also the one who gives the “Medicine Delivery” and “Swampfruit” quests).