I've kept an eye on it, and there is enough interest to keep these going for now. Though, if someone else prefers to do them, feel free.
Questions:
- What are you playing and on what platform(s)? Reviews?
- Did you pick up anything based on the last thread?
- Do you want recommendations? Genre(s)? Past enjoyed games?
I greatly appreciated the reveal in the original... original. But in that original original, the characters involved in the reveal play much bigger roles than they do in Untold, IIRC, so there's a double-impact loss to have Gladsheim there AND the role switches. They strongly moved away from that reveal, which is a bit sad, but I guess while the "big" reveal is still hidden, the medium-reveal would have been spoiled by the fact all the EO games occur in the same universe and that middle-spoiler "theme" is repeated in one or two of them.
EOU3's carryback class would likely have been Imperial, just due to how iconic they've become in the series, featuring heavily in 4, 5, and Nexus. And one unique new class. The only "problem" with EOU3 would be unlike all the other EOs, it has story path exclusive classes: You can't unlock every class (in one playthrough, at least). While canonically (because Nexus exists and ties all the games together) you pick the one class, I really liked the other one. Keeping it vague for spoiler-avoiding purposes, but in a "story mode" version of it like they try to do with the Untolds, that branching aspect will feel like it has a lot less meaning, what with the stakes of "which class you unlock" no longer being on the line since they're story characters. They may remove the choice entirely, much like how Gladsheim diminished the story in EO1.
And yeah, skip the equipment-forges for poison. Other status effects like paralyze or sleep? Yeah, solid gold, but if you want to rock poison you really need a "dedicated" poisoner like a Venomfly-spec'd tamer or a Nightseeker, not just a Forge.
It'll probably be a whle before I replay 4 again, but if so, feel free to toss me your QR-code for the 3-star treasure location. FWIW I already have Sharp Lands, but I think the others are all new to me. This one should be new to you, EO4 QR code for Cliff Surface: https://imgur.com/a/eOIU9iT
Your Runemaster is too underleveled, straight-up. The others should be okay, if their gear is fine. I guess Runemaster dies a lot and thus lose out on big exp? When you do some quests, "store" all your units except the runemaster before turning them in, in most EOs (and I think 4 applies, but make sure first), exp is split, not shared, so that should help rocket forward their level in line with the rest of the group.
And you're right, I mis-remembered because of Nexus' sheer length compared to other EO games and I was playing them in tandem, 5 doesn't have Imperial.