So I spent ~110+ hours on my first playthrough with a really, really bad crossbow/traps build spamming bear traps, abusing LoS and reloading areas to heal/recharge shields.
For some unholy reason I managed to get past everything, past junkyard, past Arena, and managed to sneak through most of mushroom forest and through wiki magic I also got to be friends with the tchortists and the faceless.
But I can't kill tchort "normally".
I had managed to craft corrosive acid bolts before running out of resources and the only way I can kill tchort is to get 3+ corroded debuffs, then nuke it with grenade + 8 mkV frag mines and 3 mkIII frag mines to finish the beast.
My question is how do players get so much damage at level 20?
I restarted and wanted to try a pistol/talking build with max persuasion and intimidation. After that I'll do a psi or melee build.
My usual damage is ~200 per turn, but I don't see other builds getting higher damage. Keep in mind I also haven't played with psi or other builds yet.
Googling around leads me to see damage numbers well into ~300-800 damage per turnfrom other players (and possibly old builds of the game).
I would like to play the way I want to and kill tchort using the same tactic but I need corrosive bolts or a similar debuff otherwise tchort only goes down to ~700 hp with the same amount of frag mines. I tried toxic gas grenades but tchort doesn't get the contaminated debuff unless there's a spot to throw at besides the eye.
Need help since I don't want to start a build with this plan in mind then get all the way through Deep Caverns to tchort and not have enough dps to kill it.
Edit* removed spoiler from title
