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Hello everybody,

I've only played QFG 1 and 5 before, and remember nothing of the latter. I'm therefore unfamiliar with the two new stats: communication and honor. I understand that communication effects bargaining ability - does it do anything else? Does greeting and saying goodbye and overall politeness raise it, or just the standard question options (or neither)? Also, could someone please explain how to accumulate honor? Is it by killing monsters?

On an aside, I keep getting pounded in combat. My multiclass fighter was imported with straight 100's from QFG1. I've only managed to take down two brigands, barely surviving myself with about one pixel width of health. Is it that I just suck at the QFG2 combat system?

twitch wrote:Hello everybody,

I've only played QFG 1 and 5 before, and remember nothing of the latter. I'm therefore unfamiliar with the two new stats: communication and honor. I understand that communication effects bargaining ability - does it do anything else? Does greeting and saying goodbye and overall politeness raise it, or just the standard question options (or neither)? Also, could someone please explain how to accumulate honor? Is it by killing monsters?

On an aside, I keep getting pounded in combat. My multiclass fighter was imported with straight 100's from QFG1. I've only managed to take down two brigands, barely surviving myself with about one pixel width of health. Is it that I just suck at the QFG2 combat system?

1. Honor is mostly a paladin thing -- it determines (in QFG2 or QFG3) if you can change to a paladin, and in QFG4 it determines what skills your paladin can have. You get honor by politeness, by gifts (e.g. coins to the beggar, flowers to women, and even just greeting/saying goodbye). Communication rises through dialog and also through some of the honorable actions like giving flowers.

2. Practice with Uhura. The system's great once you get used to it, but you need to get some practice. It'll get better quickly once you get some combos. But in general, in this game defense is more important than offense -- defend and then attack when you have an opening (eventually you'll learn a counterattack on a successful parry which is great).

There is at least one other combat thread around which you can check for suggestions but the other two things you can do are to lower the difficulty slider and up the assist (or whatever it's called).