Anomen or Viconia?
shevy123456
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This is an old discussion but I wanted to gather some feedback and input of this again.
I should preface that I like Viconia a lot more, for many reasons; I think the NPC is better written and designed than Anomen. I am not saying Viconia fits the role for a drow as such, but the game in general is a bit different in some ways to the official lore, also even more so with the add-on mods (Region of Terror, for instance). I am also playing with many mods and most mod authors seem to have written more content for Viconia than for Anomen. Most seem to not like Anomen, hence there is more content for Viconia.
With that said, I was looking to have play-throughs that are based on "efficiency", without necessarily min-maxing to the maximum either. Just ... easier play-throughs.
Viconia is rather weak in the late game in that whenever she is in melee, she really gets nuked. I am aware how to buff her and she is mega-buffed, but even then she still takes a lot of damage, whereas e. g. Korgan just sits there and whacks everyone as if he is the god of destruction himself.
Now I was hoping that Anomen does better than Viconia, and indeed, he is better in melee IMO. He is nowhere near as powerful as Korgan (or Dusk; not even as strong as Drizzt either), but he causes less issues than Viconia does. Even then, though, as I am completing my run with Anomen, I wonder whether I should take him. While there is an increase in power with Anomen, I can not help but feel that Viconia is still a better choice, not only storyline wise but simply because she is not that much worse than Anomen is. But I am not sure, so ... does anyone have arguments in favour of Anomen? That is, specific examples where Anomen did perform much better than Viconia? Normally I actually keep Viconia in the backrow, since that is less of a hassle, whereas Anomen I can also send in the front row. But I am not entirely certain whether that is really a trade-off worth retaining over Viconia.
Edit: Forgot to add ... I don't actually refer to vanilla games, per se, as I no longer play vanilla games; I always play with a lot of mods, so the comparison is with, say, all possible mods, which NPC is "better", performance-wise (even though, as stated, I like the story of Viconia a lot more than Anomen's story, also nobody wants to do mods based on Anomen it seems).
I should preface that I like Viconia a lot more, for many reasons; I think the NPC is better written and designed than Anomen. I am not saying Viconia fits the role for a drow as such, but the game in general is a bit different in some ways to the official lore, also even more so with the add-on mods (Region of Terror, for instance). I am also playing with many mods and most mod authors seem to have written more content for Viconia than for Anomen. Most seem to not like Anomen, hence there is more content for Viconia.
With that said, I was looking to have play-throughs that are based on "efficiency", without necessarily min-maxing to the maximum either. Just ... easier play-throughs.
Viconia is rather weak in the late game in that whenever she is in melee, she really gets nuked. I am aware how to buff her and she is mega-buffed, but even then she still takes a lot of damage, whereas e. g. Korgan just sits there and whacks everyone as if he is the god of destruction himself.
Now I was hoping that Anomen does better than Viconia, and indeed, he is better in melee IMO. He is nowhere near as powerful as Korgan (or Dusk; not even as strong as Drizzt either), but he causes less issues than Viconia does. Even then, though, as I am completing my run with Anomen, I wonder whether I should take him. While there is an increase in power with Anomen, I can not help but feel that Viconia is still a better choice, not only storyline wise but simply because she is not that much worse than Anomen is. But I am not sure, so ... does anyone have arguments in favour of Anomen? That is, specific examples where Anomen did perform much better than Viconia? Normally I actually keep Viconia in the backrow, since that is less of a hassle, whereas Anomen I can also send in the front row. But I am not entirely certain whether that is really a trade-off worth retaining over Viconia.
Edit: Forgot to add ... I don't actually refer to vanilla games, per se, as I no longer play vanilla games; I always play with a lot of mods, so the comparison is with, say, all possible mods, which NPC is "better", performance-wise (even though, as stated, I like the story of Viconia a lot more than Anomen's story, also nobody wants to do mods based on Anomen it seems).
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