Grimoire gameplay and hints thread

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Holy hell. The bandits in the starting forest make a sound that is fucking obnoxious and enervating. Are the sound effects this bad for the whole game? I'm seriously considering turning the game down just for this. Jesus Christ.

That's the most beautiful song in the world and I never tire of hearing the same refrain over and over again. Where else can you get a game where the opponents entertain you with shanty drinking songs while they beat your ass?

 

[Naharcito]

Holy hell. The bandits in the starting forest make a sound that is fucking obnoxious and enervating. Are the sound effects this bad for the whole game? I'm seriously considering turning the game down just for this. Jesus Christ.

That's the most beautiful song in the world and I never tire of hearing the same refrain over and over again. Where else can you get a game where the opponents entertain you with shanty drinking songs while they beat your ass?

I didn't even knew that screak was a song.

 

[welly321]

Guys what happened to the grimoire wiki? going to http://grimoire.wiki gives a non existent domain.

 

[Bigg Boss]

I bought this for 1 dollar. Does that make me a bad guy or a good guy?

 

[welly321]

Guys what happened to the grimoire wiki? going to http://grimoire.wiki gives a non existent domain.

Found it here if anyone is wondering...
http://grimoire.is-best.net

 

[welly321]

Ok im officially stuck and dont want to read a walkthrough. Can anyone give me a hint on where to find a key for the door in vault of the exemplar after killing the samhain horror?

 

[Dorateen]

Spoiler

You don't find the key, but have to solve a multi-step puzzle in order to acquire the key. It is difficult to give more details without venturing into heavy spoiler territory. This involves having the necessary items, referring to clues in the game and taking the required steps to solve the riddle.

 

[welly321]

Spoiler

You don't find the key, but have to solve a multi-step puzzle in order to acquire the key. It is difficult to give more details without venturing into heavy spoiler territory. This involves having the necessary items, referring to clues in the game and taking the required steps to solve the riddle.

thanks I ended up looking at a walkthrough. I never would of solved that stupid puzzle in the museum of magic without looking it up.

 

[treborSux]

How do you invoke wearable items? I have a ring of polymorph and ring of protection that both have charges that I don't know what they do. I tried USE in every possible situation, in and out of battle. Once an item is equipped, using it doesn't even seem to be an option. The most that happens for me when an item is unequipped is "X invokes Y: Nothing happens". Do you need a high invocation skill for this to work?

 

[Lady Error]

They should have a spell in them and work just the same as the resurrection items. And yeah, the invocation skill probably needs to be high enough for it to work.

 

[welly321]

I've explored everywhere I could in the Snark but im still only at like 70% map completion and I had detect secret up the whole time. I got the tuning fork but Im not sure where to use it. Is there anything else important on this stupid ship?

Also I let Admiral Boondoggle go but now I found out from some mermaid he might have a helmet I need? How do I get that?

 

[Lady Error]

I've explored everywhere I could in the Snark but im still only at like 70% map completion and I had detect secret up the whole time. I got the tuning fork but Im not sure where to use it. Is there anything else important on this stupid ship?

Also I let Admiral Boondoggle go but now I found out from some mermaid he might have a helmet I need? How do I get that?

The tuning fork lets you free the fairy in Pierre's cabin.

Spoiler

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1107532654

As to where Boondoggle shows up if you let him go, I have no idea. Maybe Waterport.

 

[Piotrovitz]

Does SPD affects only the attack queue, or the usage of the items, e.g instruments, as well?

My multiclassed bard is sitting on ~75 unused skill poinits and I have no idea whether to pump it into speed, or rather some other skills (dunno which ones - probably some STR, since she's feyfolk).

If SPD doesn't affect both spellcasting (like in Wiz 8) and invocation/instruments, then I guess it's useless for bard?

 

[Dorateen]

I'm pretty sure speed affects instruments and item usage. I made a feyfolk thief into a bard specifically because his high speed would allow him to use those items first in a round.

 

[Lady Error]

Cleve said that with enough speed, spells can be cast before melee attacks, so it probably applies to instruments too. But if your melee people are fast too, probably not.

 

[Darth Canoli]

melee people

RPG games and now this...

 

[Lady Error]

melee people

RPG games and now this...

I don't see your point.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

melee people

RPG games and now this...

I don't see your point.

Obviously melee fighters are people and casters are not.

 

[Darth Canoli]

"Melee people" just makes me wonder who wears the leather cap, is it the fighter or the thief?

Spoiler

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I bought this for 1 dollar. Does that make me a bad guy or a good guy?

It makes you a guy too broke to afford it when it came out. Only millennials pretend to agonize over their every decision as if somebody, somewhere, somehow cared.

That leaves you with another two dollars for living expenses this month. Spend it wisely.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I bought this for 1 dollar. Does that make me a bad guy or a good guy?

when I feel like I didn't pay enough for a game I just gift keys to friends who might play it but probably wouldn't buy it

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Cleve said that with enough speed, spells can be cast before melee attacks, so it probably applies to instruments too. But if your melee people are fast too, probably not.

Points are initially awarded based on the type of attack and then speed is factored in on top of that score. Spellcasters regularly begin to act first when they get speed up to 80. At least in testing.

I might fudge those values around a little more towards speed in the final Grimoire release.

 

[Piotrovitz]

Right now I have several chars with SPD from 75 to 93 (bard) - so far I see absolutely no coherence in who is acting first, all seems random, or perhaps I'm too dumb to see the pattern.

 

[Diggfinger]

Is the rumour that Joel Hopkins tried to pirate Grimoire using a SNES cartridge and sell it all over Australia true, Cleveland Mark Blakemore ?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Right now I have several chars with SPD from 75 to 93 (bard) - so far I see absolutely no coherence in who is acting first, all seems random, or perhaps I'm too dumb to see the pattern.

There is also a degree of randomness such that sometimes even fast party members only complete their spells late.