Got back into Wrath after completing Baldur’s gate 3 and this absolutely slaps harder than BG3. The Pathfinder system is far superior to DnD 5E and the sheer scale of the story is incredible.
The Evil Lich path is the best Evil Path I’ve ever played. Dark Urge is like loony toons in front of how evil I can be as a Lich which is also the best Undead/Necromancer playthrough I’ve ever had in any game. And you can be even MORE evil in other Mythic Paths like Swarm.
The mythic paths is the best system in a CRPG ever. The game feels wildly different depending on your Mythic Path. I’ve not played all of them yet but the amount itself is very good.
The combat is very good. I still have no idea how it ultimately works and while I like the feeling of uncertainty and freshness, many people might not like it. It’s definitely far more complicated than 5E. The sheer amounts of Classes, Subclasses and abilities is also unparalleled. The easy switch between Turn based and realtime combat is pretty good when fighting hordes of trash mobs. I prefer Turn based myself but Realtime is very useful time to time.
You can definitely make mistakes with character creation and it’s also more ‘difficult’ to respec characters compared to BG3 since they can only be respecced from the level they met you at.
The story is amazing. Imo it’s better than the story of Baldur’s gate 3. The characters are not as developed as Origin Characters in BG3 however which is somewhat of a downside. Also there is no full VA so reading is required and the writing is pretty good imo so it won’t bore you.
The game definitely has pacing problems at multiple points through out the story. Enemy padding also gets really really bad by the end.
If you liked Baldur’s gate 3 or any other CRPG, play this because it’s superior.
Honestly I like the Demon a bit better for evilness, Lich is very good and thematic but that makes it a bit boring since you are locked into caster which again, makes thematic sense but I kind of would’ve liked a Dead Knight version as well, Demon has quite a bit going for it when you reach the abyss.
Swarm just sucks as a path the only one that’s worse is japester (trickster).
As for the game itself I dislike stuff like the whole crusade mechanic that just adds more stuff to do which makes going for different mythic playthroughs painful it didn’t need it and I’d prefer if they cut down on a lot of this stuff since the different mythic paths are excellent.
Owlcat has the worst little subgame things lol. Fortunately, you can turn them off, but you miss out on some items
I also really disliked the crusade mechanic and was happy in Rogue Trader it was just the slightly annoying ship battles as the mini-game of choice. Not nearly as frustrating and a time sink and feels more connected to your character, since it’s your character’s ship, than just sending some troops around while your party does the real shit.
The trickster story might suck but those mythic powers fuckin rule.every caster gets completely normal spell metamagic and every martial gets improved improved improved critical improved. It’s also a great on ramp onto legend path cause you can keep those abilities as long as you don’t reapec.