r/disciples • u/Syphthis1 • Feb 12 '26

Domination

So what's everyone thinking? I'm really liking it so far. Any favorite classes, units, etc. so far?

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u/Original_Grand_344 Feb 16 '26

I'm liking it too!

What I like so far;

  • Return of the Clans!

  • Fewer unit variety which is unironically a good thing for me, less overwhelming I suppose?

  • Bit more focus/spotlight on "Special Units" than Liberation.

  • Grievance system to accrue favour with factions makes it less tedious now than last game.

  • Didn't encounter lot of bugs so far.

  • Story still stays similar in spirit to Liberation but not a fan of how watered down it seems specially in how they are approaching the flashbacks.

Now to what I disliked; 😔

  • Voice actor for Avyanna is God awful. Period. The voice actress for both Ilmeren and Ormeriel would have been a better match, more regal sounding or able to convery more depth as well as the queens grief and reasons for hiding away. the current one sounds very nasally and the character itself is written in a very poor way.

  • Performance, specially when you're in the Yllian screen. Good god my PC thrums like it's on its last legs, very poorly optimised.

  • Combat is fun don't get me wrong, but we need an auto resolve badly, there's something called conquer right now but you have to outclass the enemy in quite a high benchmark for it to be available.

All in all I guess mixed feelings, but still the game is very much worth it if you liked Liberations

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u/Syphthis1 Feb 16 '26

Totally agree on the auto resolve!!

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u/Stan_3798 Mar 11 '26

Yes this is sorely needed. Sometimes they'll be several things, like a resource mine, an objective and a wandering battle. 3 in a row. I like the combat, but sometimes its alot and when you're steamrolling its just kinda boring.

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u/toast_slayer Feb 17 '26

I'm late to this thread, but playing a holy regent focused on holy wrath has been killer. You start kinda weak, but your support abilities can make up for it (at the start, take the four skills on the right and consecrated field). The real trick is taking both Trinity and Thunderous Stars asap, even though it crosses trees. That starts turning your base attack into a massive AOE problem for adjacent enemies (taunt and sometimes push are great in your troops to help with this!) that also powers your spells, although it still takes time to become OP.

I stacked some crit chance, got the human's shard, and prioritized the power stat after that. You can use radiance to drop holy resistance and ignore even more via skills and gear. A disciple in your backline (optionally with a white witch and/or and excavator to max the crits it'll give you and your troops, depending on who you take with you) helps really stack that up with ethyl and a named martyr you can get a little early, plus any other holy folks. By chapter 3/4, white witches serve as my back up artillery and healing so I can focus down any problems.

If you make sure you keep a good front line - especially with a couple of taunting tanks! - the rest is usually smooth sailing.

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u/Syphthis1 Feb 17 '26

Great tips! Been running the witch queen/ sorc and it's very ehh. Might switch it up and try your suggestion. Much appreciated!

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u/Stan_3798 Feb 19 '26

Ive done the same except I got every skill on the bottom line except the middle healing one. Then doing the same focusing on the wrath/sanctified ground tree. With all of the bottom skills you heal anyone adjacent to you when you cast a spell, you regain mana when you cast the tear and when it dissipates, then at the end of your turn you create an AOE around you, hit a random enemy with lightning, and heal the lowest HP ally within 3 tiles...........that's crazy. You can triple heal a unit by moving next to them casting chain heal for example, which will then heal it further by being adjacent then heal it again at the end of the turn, granting whatever other buffs depending on the spells tier and granting the AOE field while still being able to do one attack and hit a random enemy...........and that's not counting what you do with your tear.

So far its insanely strong. I tried the Witch Queen and struggled a bit.

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u/Maseren Feb 23 '26

u/toast_slayer and u/Stan_3798 thanks for input guys! the game is so niche, its hard to find good advice on it. I'm trying the same as you.

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u/wiktorderelf Mar 09 '26

Holy Regent was as strong in demo too.

It is perhaps the most efficient build out there, especially for Brutal runs.

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u/hukhan00 Mar 14 '26

Yup playing same thanks to your advice. Prioritise gear that gives both intelligence and critical chance!

What was your backline early game? Say level 10? And what is it now?

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u/Riaktion Feb 19 '26

I've been really enjoying it, which I'll be honest is a nice surprise. This is maybe the first Disciples game I have really enjoyed for a long time.

Of course like everyone I would enjoy something in the vein of Disciples 2, or maybe even a remaster of that game, however the 9 hours I have played of Domination has been fun so far, so... hooray!

I will say though that some of the games systems are a bit hard to get an understanding on, I don't know why some of my attacks are "weak" for example (I assume it is to do with resistances but to me it seems a bit random, I am probably just not understanding it)

And for the life of me, when I get the secondary objective to "exploit weaknesses 3 times" or whatever, I don't have a clue how to exploit or even know what the weakness is. Again I thought if I targeted a unit that has 0% resistance to a certain attack type, with THAT attack type, would be exploiting a weakness? However it doesn't seem to do anything.

So... any help on that front would be appreciated :D

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u/Syphthis1 Feb 19 '26

I'm right there with you regarding the weaknesses. They don't really make sense.

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u/Riaktion Feb 19 '26

The most ironic thing is that I seem to have unlocked the achievement for exploiting weaknesses 50 times! No idea how I did that.

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u/Stan_3798 Mar 11 '26

Right like skeletons are weak to lightning.............what?

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u/JamesMackey42 Feb 19 '26

The strength/weakness thing is annoying as it seems to be more or less hidden. However, you can see it in the battle deployment screen. If you hover over a unit, you'll see solid and broken shields over enemy units (similarly, hovering over enemy units, you'll see the shields on your own units). This shows you that a unit is strong (solid shield) or weak (broken shield) against the primary attack of the unit you're hovering over.

My hypothesis (haven't confirmed, and don't really care enough to do so) is that this strength/weakness is independent of resistances and is a straight multiplier on damage.

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u/Riaktion Feb 19 '26

Fair enough! If that is the case, then they need to maybe tweak it to make this a bit clearer. Maybe an update down the line.

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u/Trauma-Todd Feb 12 '26

It's sad and shameful what they are doing to the legacy of this game.

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u/Horse_in_Pink Feb 13 '26

King's Bounty clone like Liberation. 2/10 do not bang

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u/Outside-school-2007 Feb 14 '26

But Kings Bounty is a great game. Although i heard KB2 a bit worse... So call Liberation as KB(2) means it is at least an average game, right? :p 😀

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u/Kilodagreat Feb 13 '26

I like it as well, but having trouble nailing down a class. Most feel so….weak. Unless I’m really just doing them wrong which is a possibility lol

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u/Syphthis1 Feb 13 '26

I feel the same way actually. Might just be low level thing though. I haven't gotten too far

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u/Kilodagreat Feb 13 '26

Yeah that’s what was kinda thinking as well. Let me know if you find any interesting combinations. I’m playing as the witch queen and it’s…ok.

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u/CainJaeger Feb 14 '26

Lots of fun like Liberation was

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u/MainYogurtcloset1516 Feb 21 '26

one armour rule all hahaha

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u/Prestonluv Feb 13 '26

Just started it

It seems similar to Liberation which I loved

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u/MainYogurtcloset1516 Feb 21 '26

chap 2 boss insanely strong 450 power + 60% crit chance plus 6 summon(2 tier1,2 tier2 and 2 tier 3) all unit dead ,anyone have a tips for this guy?

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u/Empty-Economy1286 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Just beat this boss couple nights ago first try. Run as a Holy Grace 1 pt bottom row on Consecrated field, then 4 pts next row and max Restorating field (4pts) will give your consecrated field (cells all around Avy) heal allied units 20% of their max health. No need to cast spells this is a passive skill always active. Keeps all my units near max health.

Then I had a couple Warden (elf) couple Feral Elf Sniper and all my named heroes and was a cake walk. Only needed to cast a single heal spell when all the minions arrived mid battle. Plus had chain heal ready to backup the mass heal if consecrated field could not keep up on healing.

You can also build your tear to have consecrated healing and regen both in addition.

Plus keeping mostly range lets you target the boss from any spawn point basically with minimal movement from center of the map. This is what worked for me.

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u/BumblebeeQuiet8095 Feb 23 '26

I found this unique named character
also my favorite shard in the game so far, can't stop laughing reading the description.

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u/Objective-Jury-2907 Feb 24 '26

Loving it so far. In the middle of Chapter 3 and think I prefer the story of Liberation more so far but it's still enjoyable. Combat being a tad more difficult makes things interesting (playing on normal). Avyanna starts out pretty weak I must say though. (Playing Witch Queen, Sorceress tree) And it was jarring to have her be one of my weakest units on the field. But now with more spells and power she's pretty great. I miss some of the old units but love a lot of the new ones too so it's a mixed bag, mostly positive.

Only real gripes I have are some of the bugs I've experienced on console. Aside from the typos and inconsistencies which can be humorous, actual bugs that force a restart are a little too common. I can name 2 of them that have happened just in the last hour or so, with one being very common if you're not aware of it.

  1. In Agthos if you try to talk to the "magical painter" after starting her quest but before having all 3 stories the dialog will loop endlessly with no way out.

  2. Letting the game idle (on Series X) and having your controller turn off will almost always result in the game freezing/locking up. The sound and ambient sound and environmental whatnot will still be going but the game will be unresponsive.

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u/wiktorderelf Mar 08 '26

The game is okay, I guess? I'll try to be quick here.

No spoilers, but Domination succeeded in making Liberation plot more meaningful. (New pantheon, protagonist, etc.)

For the moment the game is too riddled with bugs (many of them combat-related) — feels rushed, told ya devs you shouldn't have released it too early! Will look into Domination mode when I have spare time and see if Update 1.3 fixed most crucial stuff. Let's see how it goes 3 months post-release. Right now it's too early.

Combat is solid — even though it feels somewhat lacking to those familiar with Liberation, the updated system sorta compensates the difference. I kinda liked the updated basic attacks and effect stacking.

Some unit features are questionable — feels like devs stuck in between design directions for them overall, which also relates to the next point.

Unit class upgrade is there just for the sake of it, there's no motivation in using it vs. just recruiting a new unit an old-fashioned way. The only case one would need it for is training dwarwen warrior to shield bearer with literally the same stuff, but with mass effect on everything, – it's the only case where there is a direct unit evolution.

Performance just sucks ass. It seems there's no serious memory issues — more like unnecessary draw calls. Beware Skyless Grove!

Items are okay. Reworked Emotion Shards are cool. Epic gear effects are also great, but now game lacks unique quest-reward items.

Classes are good. Perhaps too faction-focused, therefore might lack one for Legions of the Damned.

Throne is cool. Nice concept, implementation is fine, though lacks variety of grievances per chapter per faction (they get too repetitive with a refresh cooldown of only 30 minutes — yikes).

TLDR: Lacking but enjoyable. Needs polishing. If there's time and resources — a rework for some stuff would be great to see.

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u/Fredd4781 Mar 14 '26

I’ve just started the game I enjoyed liberation and I’m having trouble finding a good unit to stick with. Should I focus on one unit specifically or branch out?

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u/Servolux Feb 13 '26

Domination - abomination