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Soul Blade Ability Questions
Topic Started: Oct 1 2016, 06:05 PM (147 Views)
Pellease
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Rolled up a SK and I got some questions for those who have played.

Firstly, Power of my enemies, is that a +4 str total or +4 str bonus, thus 8 str? Does it stack with enchantments, cause if it doesn't and its only +4 it seems really useless.

Secondly, Knife to the Soul. I can't find any proof its working. Nothing registers in the stats dialogue, no one is insta dying from my greatsword robbing them of all intelligence. (We're talking thralls and goblins here.) I have it activated.

Is it bugged?
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Mick64
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It's +4 to your STR, not +4 to your STR modifier. And it's an Enhancement Bonus, meaning it doesn't stack with anything else (Except a few hard-coded exceptions like Rage). Think of it as a Bull's Strength spell.

Most humanoids have at LEAST 8 INT. Knife to the Soul does at MOST (at level 30 with Powerful Strikes) 4 points of mental damage per hit. You will never be insta-killing a humanoid with it. You might be able to 1-shot animals and things with a similar level of INT, but even goblins and thralls are too high of an INT for that.
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Most humanoids have at LEAST 8 INT. Knife to the Soul does at MOST (at level 30 with Powerful Strikes) 4 points of mental damage per hit. You will never be insta-killing a humanoid with it. You might be able to 1-shot animals and things with a similar level of INT, but even goblins and thralls are too high of an INT for that.


I wasn't expecting instant deaths, just a slow leaching. I see that I read the description wrong as it is talking about power, for some reason I thought it was just damage, which would have been WAY higher. I knew it was too good to be true. So its the number of dice. . . gotcha. KK.

So what blade skills would people suggest?
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It's half the number of dice. The other half remains normal psychic strike damage.
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Does not infact have a Greybeard
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In pen n paper yah a sentient being becones helpless after a mental stat hits 0 thus enables coup de gras. But in nwn2 a 0 stat just means -5 to everything that uses Int. Out side of making a wizard unable to cast his spells its faily useless in combat
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By default reducing a stat to 0 does not do anything in NWN2. However Knife to the Soul is specifically scripted to kill something that reaches 0 in their stat.
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