This build started a few hours after my 24 hour stream. I was still learning about the update. I hope you enjoy this playthrough as I learn more about the update as we progress to the end game. Ty for watching!
@tripvic7629 lol I glad to hear that. Truth be told I'm already ready to start another playthrough. But this build will probably last quite a few episodes since I'm playing extra safe
Don't underestimate cooking. The new system rewards foraging for leaks and lentils (right-click on lentils to harvest). Immunity is still an important stat to maintain and 125 can easily be obtained by spamming fruit salad (2 berries + 2 fruit). Also, try using salves when not in pain -- they go much farther as pain reduces healing efficiency.
@connorgaskill7653 what do you mean right click lentils to harvest? So like the lentil we find out n about can be harvested into the lentil I find in crates?
@okmallgaming Yup. Right-click it while it's in your inventory and select "harvest." It will turn the herb into the one space ingredient used for lentil soup!
@@okmallgaming To add to this, the lentil item from harvesting is a vegetable, while the plant as a whole is an herb, so when cooking the herb doesn't count for lentil soup!
smoking Mix from herbalist is one of the best early purchases you can make. Stick and hemp to reduce it down to a one tile item that is more effective at pain reduction.
If you don't just click through to accept but explore dialogue, you can set the amount of time for quest to one day for a massive increase in reward (420 to 550); the soldier turnin is an additional 150 gold, so not something to sneeze at, either.
@KainYusanagi i have since learned this. As an added bonus, a 1 day contract doesn't decrease rep. Keep in mind negotiations can be a hit to rep if it is still 3 days.
@@okmallgaming Still worth it, frankly. There's also a Visiting Magistrate option, who goes between the Woodsman Inn and the Mill depending on time of day, that drastically increases Brynn reputation gain.
@KainYusanagi yup my new thing is to save scum to 1 day and turn into magistrate. Best of both worlds. Extra money and get brynn rep. On my archer run I focus led on 1 day contracts and extra gold from osbrook to give enough gold to grab up 2 caravan followers as soon as I arrive in brynn. Then I switched focus to 1 day contact but going only for brynn rep.
Best place to steal as soon as you start is the drunken woodsmen inn back room, the innkeeper buys everything back immediately for like 400g. Pretty cheesy actually.
I played this game for the first time 3 Days ago, really wanted to make dual wield build happen. really bingeing the game. died alot. Doing shield and sword build on Arne felt easy after. After watching this i have to realise: to make dual wield work, dont start dual wielding. Im now playing derwin archer with dagger, who will eventually drop his shield for a sacond dagger. so tyvm man, i was pulling a 16h session on maxxed out speed grinding this game not getting it to play the way i want. this video actually safed me from insanity.
@schwarzegeometrie4034 NICE! Glad this helped. FYI I died at level 10 on this run... I'm planning a new run that I think will air next Saturday. Keep an eye on it.
@@okmallgaming wow okay, i dont play permadeath, but around lvl 10 was where i felt i hit the border for most of my builds. i feel like building around dodge is just too hard. but i also havnt tried the athletics tree as much yet.
@@okmallgamingCrazy, I got the game years ago and decided to finally play it with this update, im doing the same as you guys but swords 👌 I'm only level 5 on my second attempt (permadeath only for me) after dying to a boar at lvl 3 first run... I'm loving the combo of deflect with duel wield and "keep distance" from the sword tree, I'm sure it's the only reason I've not died yet. How do you unlock more trees? Other than finding those spell treatises? Oh yeah, almost forgot to say, seems like a great series, I'm sure I'll learn a bunch from you here 👍 cheers
@EnglishInfidel happy to hear you having fun. It is such a great game. Unlocking more trees is mostly just finding the books or buying them. A few npcs can teach you the skills too
2h sword Arna was my first character and I went all the way to 30 with her. I went 30 Vit heavy armor instead of Str focus because the heavy armor buffs in RtR swung things too far with heavy armor going from pretty bad to being top tier, make the game easy mode levels of strong. With Arna's passive giving 3% CDR and 3% damage reduction per enemy on screen I could wade into whole screens worth of enemies and just spam parry + brace for impact non-stop keeping Setup and Battle Forge passives rolling at all times and letting counter attacks handle most of the damage dealing with the occasional press of arc cleave to aoe murder multiple enemies at a time after they've been whittled down with counter attacks. Intimidation passive was a big factor in scaling up my damage output late in the run since every counter attack that hit would apply negative crit avoidance penalties to the enemies which translated into higher crit chance for me when I finally pressed Arc Cleave/Hewing Strike. I imagine Arna's passive trait is going to require a nerf at some point because it scales you too hard with volume of enemies on screen, especially if you position well to limit how many can actually attack you at the same time, while the ones waiting in line to die are buffing you into an unstoppable monster. I've cleared t5 dungeons where I've fought 3-4 Robber Barons in bandit and Kingsguard in undead at the same time with multiple lower tier enemies backing them up and never got lower than half hp at which point I'd hit the First Aid button from Survival tree and instantly regen a quarter of my max hp.
@xenthalus wow that sounds amazing! I still have a long way to go before I get to the end game, unfortunately. Streaming and making this playthrough slow my progress vs. just playing the game. I'll have to try that build out some day though.
@@sebastiangomez6587 Troll is always easy as Troll is a skill check on doing the dance. I didn't do Manticore on my lvl 30 guy yet but they would be able to just face tank fight it.
@@okmallgaming i died 2/3 times in dungoen.. still wondering about light armor vs medium armor for dw.. or maybe use heavy.? stamina is not an issue since i get 15 vit first
@lonelyfa8913 yeah the light armor has me wandering if I'm choosing the right way. I feel the devs want us in medium to heavy gear as melee fighters, and light/magic related gear for rangers and mages.
@@okmallgaming atm still running with 2 medium armor with 2 light (helm and boots).. i gotta say doing tier 2 dungeon i get a lot of damage and need a lot of medicine...
@lonelyfa8913 yeah I feel the same way. Even full medium gear feels lacking in terms of defense. I hope they re balance the gear, especially the light armor.
@allengarcia3319 hmm. I've made a RoT dagger build work in the past with little issue. I'm assuming you building into seal of power and electro or pyro to deal more damage. Just run it. I'm sure it will be fine.
@@okmallgaming thank you! yeah planing on the doing an seal of power+electro. Though got this idea of role playing as a ranger that uses geomancy being one with earth ranger. 😅
@allengarcia3319 let me elaborate on my previous response (was running late for work 🙃). What it sounds like to me is mage/melee hybrid. These types of build can be very strong. Whether you choose pyro or electro, you get added magic damage to your weapon. Seal of power and the passive skill directly under are great skills to get to amplify this damage. Mis this with the benefits of RoT and you should begin to see good damage numbers.
@@okmallgaming thank you! That is really helpful. This is what I love about Stoneshard, the creativity for the build. Just makes me think of the different builds once character creator is implemented. Again thank you! 🫡
Currently played as jongrim with dual axe build and I got lucky because the jester carravan visited osborg Got some tier 3 weapon, got 2 rings (-3 fumble each) and some book to help with tier 2 skills Well, Im still noob to this game, I still think stoneshard as skyrim look a like. Finished all the request in mannshire and took a garison quest, and i got i shot by the troll I still figuring out this game actual progressing
@MashKyrielight-u9q sounds to me like you are learning the game well enough. As for the troll, my guess is you took a Boulder to the face 😆. It happens. FYI my dw build died today lv 10, so unfortunately I'll be running a new build next week some time.
Nice work okmall, sorry ive missed your streams Christmas is busy. I am building a jorgrim myself but i cant find the trainers anymore. Do you know where the 2hand swords and athletics trainer are?
@montezuma17900 you talking about the brewery? There is a specific way to do it. I have an old guide in my stoneshard Guides playlist that covers it. That guide is pretty much the same.
@montezuma17900 check this. The biggest difference is where the carpenters plane is located. It's now south of the woodsman inn th-cam.com/video/TWrMJxaLZKI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xY6HMR0vFIv-QRB1
@onwww4989 i get that. I prefer a repair guy personally. Especially when you find broken rings. The normal metal repair dudes can't fix them. Of course, at the time I recorded this, i didn't know any of this, lol
I seriously hate this game. I spent 330 hours mastering it, now I can't even do a level 1 dungeon. Crypts have immortal zombies that take 15 hits to kill and revive every 40 turns, so you can't rest. Chapels have runes that spawn blood golems constantly, so a 1v2 room becomes a 1v6. I'm tired of games doing this. Where I learn how to play it, then they turn the difficulty up by an order of 20. There is no reason a level 1 GREEN skull crypt should have 30 zombies with infinitely respawning mechanics.
@IShallCallHimTaders dang. I'm sorry to hear your experience has been bad. I personally haven't seen a dungeon infinity respawn enemies. Nor the blood golem one. The biggest issue i have with level 1 dungeons and the new open style dungeon is enemy groupings. Taking on 2 is usually fine, but 3+ things get dicey.
@okmallgaming it's all good, I found out crafting a single bedroll gives you 250 exp, so I got the boost I desperately needed to actually have a few skills.
This build started a few hours after my 24 hour stream. I was still learning about the update. I hope you enjoy this playthrough as I learn more about the update as we progress to the end game. Ty for watching!
So hype for a Jorgrim dual wield build! Can't wait!
Hopefully i do it justice 😆
Great video as always! 🥰
@tripvic7629 ty i appreciate that very much!
@@okmallgaming i had been anticipating for this episode for some reason 🤫
@tripvic7629 lol I glad to hear that. Truth be told I'm already ready to start another playthrough. But this build will probably last quite a few episodes since I'm playing extra safe
@@okmallgaming ur the best 🥰
@tripvic7629 bad news it's time for a new run lol
Don't underestimate cooking. The new system rewards foraging for leaks and lentils (right-click on lentils to harvest). Immunity is still an important stat to maintain and 125 can easily be obtained by spamming fruit salad (2 berries + 2 fruit).
Also, try using salves when not in pain -- they go much farther as pain reduces healing efficiency.
@connorgaskill7653 what do you mean right click lentils to harvest? So like the lentil we find out n about can be harvested into the lentil I find in crates?
@okmallgaming Yup. Right-click it while it's in your inventory and select "harvest." It will turn the herb into the one space ingredient used for lentil soup!
@connorgaskill7653 omg! Ain't no said a dang thing to me about this!!! God tier info tytyy. 😆😆😆
@@okmallgaming To add to this, the lentil item from harvesting is a vegetable, while the plant as a whole is an herb, so when cooking the herb doesn't count for lentil soup!
smoking Mix from herbalist is one of the best early purchases you can make. Stick and hemp to reduce it down to a one tile item that is more effective at pain reduction.
@KainYusanagi it's a good mix with leeches too.
If you don't just click through to accept but explore dialogue, you can set the amount of time for quest to one day for a massive increase in reward (420 to 550); the soldier turnin is an additional 150 gold, so not something to sneeze at, either.
@KainYusanagi i have since learned this. As an added bonus, a 1 day contract doesn't decrease rep. Keep in mind negotiations can be a hit to rep if it is still 3 days.
@@okmallgaming Still worth it, frankly. There's also a Visiting Magistrate option, who goes between the Woodsman Inn and the Mill depending on time of day, that drastically increases Brynn reputation gain.
@KainYusanagi yup my new thing is to save scum to 1 day and turn into magistrate. Best of both worlds. Extra money and get brynn rep. On my archer run I focus led on 1 day contracts and extra gold from osbrook to give enough gold to grab up 2 caravan followers as soon as I arrive in brynn. Then I switched focus to 1 day contact but going only for brynn rep.
I hope the next update wont take too long. Would love to create my own character with skills to select. 😊
@eunseonglee2986 yeah that would make for a smooth start.
More interested in alchemy finally being available!
@KainYusanagi 😆
Best place to steal as soon as you start is the drunken woodsmen inn back room, the innkeeper buys everything back immediately for like 400g. Pretty cheesy actually.
@rotm4447 i heard that from a viewer yesterday. Very good info!
I played this game for the first time 3 Days ago, really wanted to make dual wield build happen. really bingeing the game. died alot.
Doing shield and sword build on Arne felt easy after. After watching this i have to realise: to make dual wield work, dont start dual wielding.
Im now playing derwin archer with dagger, who will eventually drop his shield for a sacond dagger.
so tyvm man, i was pulling a 16h session on maxxed out speed grinding this game not getting it to play the way i want.
this video actually safed me from insanity.
@schwarzegeometrie4034 NICE! Glad this helped. FYI I died at level 10 on this run... I'm planning a new run that I think will air next Saturday. Keep an eye on it.
@@okmallgaming wow okay, i dont play permadeath, but around lvl 10 was where i felt i hit the border for most of my builds. i feel like building around dodge is just too hard. but i also havnt tried the athletics tree as much yet.
@schwarzegeometrie4034 yeah I used to love dodge builds, but now I feel it's not as viable
Thanks for the video.
@@Yacovo yw!
I loved ur videos bro, im actually play Jogrim with DW Dagguer and is insane 😁
@aliampichelmilan3345 I hear daggers have been 🔥. I'm hoping axes are just as good.
@@okmallgamingCrazy, I got the game years ago and decided to finally play it with this update, im doing the same as you guys but swords 👌 I'm only level 5 on my second attempt (permadeath only for me) after dying to a boar at lvl 3 first run... I'm loving the combo of deflect with duel wield and "keep distance" from the sword tree, I'm sure it's the only reason I've not died yet. How do you unlock more trees? Other than finding those spell treatises?
Oh yeah, almost forgot to say, seems like a great series, I'm sure I'll learn a bunch from you here 👍 cheers
@EnglishInfidel happy to hear you having fun. It is such a great game. Unlocking more trees is mostly just finding the books or buying them. A few npcs can teach you the skills too
2h sword Arna was my first character and I went all the way to 30 with her. I went 30 Vit heavy armor instead of Str focus because the heavy armor buffs in RtR swung things too far with heavy armor going from pretty bad to being top tier, make the game easy mode levels of strong.
With Arna's passive giving 3% CDR and 3% damage reduction per enemy on screen I could wade into whole screens worth of enemies and just spam parry + brace for impact non-stop keeping Setup and Battle Forge passives rolling at all times and letting counter attacks handle most of the damage dealing with the occasional press of arc cleave to aoe murder multiple enemies at a time after they've been whittled down with counter attacks. Intimidation passive was a big factor in scaling up my damage output late in the run since every counter attack that hit would apply negative crit avoidance penalties to the enemies which translated into higher crit chance for me when I finally pressed Arc Cleave/Hewing Strike.
I imagine Arna's passive trait is going to require a nerf at some point because it scales you too hard with volume of enemies on screen, especially if you position well to limit how many can actually attack you at the same time, while the ones waiting in line to die are buffing you into an unstoppable monster. I've cleared t5 dungeons where I've fought 3-4 Robber Barons in bandit and Kingsguard in undead at the same time with multiple lower tier enemies backing them up and never got lower than half hp at which point I'd hit the First Aid button from Survival tree and instantly regen a quarter of my max hp.
@xenthalus wow that sounds amazing! I still have a long way to go before I get to the end game, unfortunately. Streaming and making this playthrough slow my progress vs. just playing the game. I'll have to try that build out some day though.
Cool build, I think I'll try it myself.
@sirkana their build does sound awesome lol
How does the build go against bosses (ancient troll and manticore)
@@sebastiangomez6587 Troll is always easy as Troll is a skill check on doing the dance. I didn't do Manticore on my lvl 30 guy yet but they would be able to just face tank fight it.
I remember buying this and waiting for a character creation. Did they implement that yet?
@@mateuscruz4867 not yet. I'm not sure when they are planning to add it.
Playing the same build dual axe build. Nicee
@lonelyfa8913 ooh nice. I hope your run goes well!
@@okmallgaming i died 2/3 times in dungoen.. still wondering about light armor vs medium armor for dw.. or maybe use heavy.? stamina is not an issue since i get 15 vit first
@lonelyfa8913 yeah the light armor has me wandering if I'm choosing the right way. I feel the devs want us in medium to heavy gear as melee fighters, and light/magic related gear for rangers and mages.
@@okmallgaming atm still running with 2 medium armor with 2 light (helm and boots).. i gotta say doing tier 2 dungeon i get a lot of damage and need a lot of medicine...
@lonelyfa8913 yeah I feel the same way. Even full medium gear feels lacking in terms of defense. I hope they re balance the gear, especially the light armor.
I need more!
@@CuLLlaLlBax 😆
Love your content! Especially Stoneshard, been playing non-stop. If it’s okay to ask, is a Dirwin dagger(rot)- mage build viable?
@allengarcia3319 hmm. I've made a RoT dagger build work in the past with little issue. I'm assuming you building into seal of power and electro or pyro to deal more damage. Just run it. I'm sure it will be fine.
@@okmallgaming thank you! yeah planing on the doing an seal of power+electro. Though got this idea of role playing as a ranger that uses geomancy being one with earth ranger. 😅
@allengarcia3319 let me elaborate on my previous response (was running late for work 🙃). What it sounds like to me is mage/melee hybrid. These types of build can be very strong. Whether you choose pyro or electro, you get added magic damage to your weapon. Seal of power and the passive skill directly under are great skills to get to amplify this damage. Mis this with the benefits of RoT and you should begin to see good damage numbers.
@@okmallgaming thank you! That is really helpful. This is what I love about Stoneshard, the creativity for the build. Just makes me think of the different builds once character creator is implemented. Again thank you! 🫡
@allengarcia3319 earth ranger 😆 love it
Currently played as jongrim with dual axe build and I got lucky because the jester carravan visited osborg
Got some tier 3 weapon, got 2 rings (-3 fumble each) and some book to help with tier 2 skills
Well, Im still noob to this game, I still think stoneshard as skyrim look a like.
Finished all the request in mannshire and took a garison quest, and i got i shot by the troll
I still figuring out this game actual progressing
@MashKyrielight-u9q sounds to me like you are learning the game well enough. As for the troll, my guess is you took a Boulder to the face 😆. It happens. FYI my dw build died today lv 10, so unfortunately I'll be running a new build next week some time.
Nice work okmall, sorry ive missed your streams Christmas is busy. I am building a jorgrim myself but i cant find the trainers anymore. Do you know where the 2hand swords and athletics trainer are?
@jimmyjigz i hear they don't exist. You need to buy the books I guess. I'm not 100% sure though since I haven't checked it myself.
@okmallgaming the drunk still teaches shields
I think brann teaches athletics
@@enricomeirelles2304 he used to but not since the update
@jimmyjigz i talked to another merchant today, and he still offered his training. Can't remember the skill, but it was mannshire General Merchant
i didnt get the first option on any of my characters to talk with them... only to fight or say im leaving
@montezuma17900 you talking about the brewery? There is a specific way to do it. I have an old guide in my stoneshard Guides playlist that covers it. That guide is pretty much the same.
@montezuma17900 check this. The biggest difference is where the carpenters plane is located. It's now south of the woodsman inn
th-cam.com/video/TWrMJxaLZKI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xY6HMR0vFIv-QRB1
where is the second video? a tip focus on showing what skill you are leveling, you go through the skills you level very quickly
@@shsantos ah you right. I tend to do that often. I'll try to slow down while I level up. Ty for feedback
I thought you will go for that crossbow build. Alas new character playthrough. 😅😅
Also around 44:01 you missed a ring. And you hand one ring slot empty.
@@malasardar3147 i started this build before I made the beginners guide lol.
@malasardar3147 Oh yeah, I did that on purpose, so I don't walk around with stolen goods. It would be my luck. I get stopped by a guard, lol
Diggy diggy hole!
@@pendantblade6361 doggy doggy bowl.... 😅
IS THAT SO
@@delco2035 aye, it is so!
best follower is ranger beacause he can generate free money you should have her first always
@onwww4989 i get that. I prefer a repair guy personally. Especially when you find broken rings. The normal metal repair dudes can't fix them. Of course, at the time I recorded this, i didn't know any of this, lol
I seriously hate this game.
I spent 330 hours mastering it, now I can't even do a level 1 dungeon. Crypts have immortal zombies that take 15 hits to kill and revive every 40 turns, so you can't rest.
Chapels have runes that spawn blood golems constantly, so a 1v2 room becomes a 1v6.
I'm tired of games doing this. Where I learn how to play it, then they turn the difficulty up by an order of 20. There is no reason a level 1 GREEN skull crypt should have 30 zombies with infinitely respawning mechanics.
@IShallCallHimTaders dang. I'm sorry to hear your experience has been bad. I personally haven't seen a dungeon infinity respawn enemies. Nor the blood golem one. The biggest issue i have with level 1 dungeons and the new open style dungeon is enemy groupings. Taking on 2 is usually fine, but 3+ things get dicey.
@okmallgaming it's all good, I found out crafting a single bedroll gives you 250 exp, so I got the boost I desperately needed to actually have a few skills.
@IShallCallHimTaders yup I was informed about this a couple days ago as well. Pretty 🔥 and easy to do.