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I was an OpenAI fan from the beginning and saw it as the clear frontier.

Recently, I've started losing confidence.

I bought the x20 plan to finish an important project faster, but the experience somehow feels worse than what I had for $20 just a month ago. The limits feel tighter, and since 5.5 I haven't seen meaningful improvements for my actual work.

I also don't understand why I need Luna, Sol, Terra, Astra, each with several effort levels. I don't want 20 gears. I want one model that simply works.

That pushed me to try alternatives. DeepSeek showed me that open models are already surprisingly competitive (at least better than luna max at every way), and now there's Opus 5.5 too.

For

In terms of quality per cost is Astra (Low) still better than Sol (Max) ?

After getting wrecked by Quincey more times than I can count, I finally managed to take him down on Brutal. My approach isn’t some secret exploit — it’s the good old grind-and-gear-up method that works in pretty much every RPG. If you’re stuck on this fight, here’s how I prepared, what gear and abilities helped the most and how to get them before Act II.

This is my map on gear level 41 before I managed to kill Quincey

Since you can’t access the Smithy or Tailoring Bench yet, your gear level is capped at 41, which makes the fight tough — especially on **Bru

Hi! Im an adult with full time job. Almost have no time to play, 1-2 fights in evening. I made it to the end of act 2 already since the game launch.

But I also a minmax player, always have been. So I like to play with best optimized builds. But after a bit of reading, trying and meta buildings I came to the point when I can bit every fight in turn 1 on Tactician.

I don't know should I install difficulty mods or not for the rest of the game? Because I doubt there will be second playthrougth, unfortunately I probably won't find time for this.

Make long rest before visiting Grymforge not right after ship, or you will miss some content.

1. Tawern Brawler Monk. (With returning pike). I found that barbarian berserker is overkill because most fights end at 1-2 round anyway. Frenzy cost 1 bonus action which monk can effectively use. So you can combine Throw and Monk builds without much drawbacks. Monk is great at level 3 with open hand already, and this build come fully online at level 4.

2. Sharpshooter Swords Bard. Great at level 3 already. Expertise and hypnotic pattern are cool additional bard features.

3. Hamarhraft (this weapon is found in act 1 and there's no much problem to get it early on). Thunder Jump build. 2 levels of Monk (build starts working), 6 levels of Tempest Cleric (build starts shine)

4. Druid. Spike