Reneledarker
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I am going for a death or nature rogue.
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I am going for a death or nature rogue.
Shake Appeal
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Because according to minmaxers who have crunched the numbers, boosting Interrupt/Concentration right now is fairly pointless versus boosting anything else. Which leaves those attributes as a way to build up Deflection on tanks and little else.
That's in pure combat terms, though. If you want to RP properly, those attributes also govern some dialogue options.
Snapshot King
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So if I roll wizard there's absolutely no reason to put in any perception whatsoever?
Shake Appeal
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Unless you have an unusual frontline wizard in mind, or your RP concept includes the wizard being particularly perceptive, no, you can dump it.
(By dump it, I don't necessarily mean knock it down to 3, but you certainly don't need more than 10.)
ThoseDeafMutes
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Do you stat up as you level, or are they relatively fixed?
I've tried to keep my info to a minimum, but I think my party will be: Rogue Main (maybe monk), Cipher Companion, Chanter Companion, Druid Companion/Wizard Companion/Wizard of my own creation (I've never really liked druids before and I haven't cared about what I've read of the wizard companion) or maybe the paladin companion, priest companion, and fighter companion.
I just looked at the wiki, the character descriptions and portraits to choose the party... I have no idea about their skills or how useful they are. Don't really care about that for the first run either. I've played the BG series numerous times and always used the same party (like Imoen, Minsc, Viconia, Keldorn, and the spoiler one from TOB because I liked their dialogue and interactions the best. Hopefully, I can find a group I like just as much here...
I just looked at the wiki, the character descriptions and portraits to choose the party... I have no idea about their skills or how useful they are. Don't really care about that for the first run either. I've played the BG series numerous times and always used the same party (like Imoen, Minsc, Viconia, Keldorn, and the spoiler one from TOB because I liked their dialogue and interactions the best. Hopefully, I can find a group I like just as much here...
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
OT is maybe 25%.
I've not seen where your attributes ever change through levels, but I'm almost certain that your defenses and accuracy increase every level. Maybe 3?
25% done?!
Get a job at squeenix
Success rate?
Probably needs to take a weapon focus to buff that accuracy then.
Fixed, but there are bunch of means to temporarily or semi-permanently buff them. Armor can be enchanted to buff attributes a couple points, there are consumables that will buff them for a couple minutes or less, you can get resting bonuses that will buff a few attributes in varying degrees depending on how much you pay for your room and those last until you rest again. Plus abilities can temporarily buff them.
Yes they increase every level.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
So how many cloaks are there in game? Im a sucker for a cool cloak.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah alright, the wound system sounds cool, I'm going to go Monk. Now I need to figure out what race...
Use the portraits to decide.
Depends on if you want to use a bunch of active abilities since Int will increase their duration, otherwise it isn't very useful. Might and Dex will be the best ones regardless then really whatever you want for RPing purposes.
Use the gray haired lady. Get those whippersnappers off your goddamn lawn.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Ooooh dwarven monk. Trained in the high mountains, calm of mind and sturdy of body...I could make that work
Shake Appeal
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There are some good synergies with Godlike racial bonuses, especially Fire and Moon Godlike. There are also two portraits that very obviously look like human monks.
GordonHalfman
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There was one place in the beta where a Cipher could use his mind stuff in dialogue, it lead to a new quest solution which was pretty cool. I assume there'll be more like that.
I remember there was some concept art of an Orlan Cipher who was like scrying a murder weapon for clues or something, so I wonder if that comes up in a quest.
LurkerPrime
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Why does it unlock at 12 PM tomorrow according to steam and not tonight at midhnight?
Tweet Paradox. Make this right.
I want to believe that Twitter can be a force of good.
Shake Appeal
Member
This guy was meant to be a companion, but he got cut. He was a "cipher detective" for Dunryd Row, which is a secretive police organization in Defiance Bay.
I have an orlan gentleman detective cipher character sketched out, but I'm not sure I'm going to use him over my rogue.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Sensuke did a video showing a fire godlike monk with a retaliation build. The monk wrecked fools hard with enemies killing themselves when they hit her. Looks hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7oUREjniY
Mazdaspeed
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I think I'm going to go coastal areola so I can get stacking movement speed bonuses. At least I hope they stack. Then I can rp like the micro machines guy
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
I would go for Godlike, except they're all hideous.
texhnolyze
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TrueMenace
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I highly, highly, highly, highly, highly recommend you include Sensuki's YouTube videos he made for this game in the OT. They have gotten much praise from all over the internet.
Sensuki's Pillars of Eternity Beginner's Guide - Character Creation
[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaCeUrG7Bc0"]Sensuki's Pillars of Eternity Beginner's Guide - UI, Controls and Mechanics
[/URL]Sensuki's Pillars of Eternity Beginner's Guide - Basic Gameplay and Combat
He'll also be making class-specific videos focusing on what attributes to pick, why, and showcasing the typical playstyles of the classes.
That was crazy lol.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
He was really over leveled for it tho
Madrugador
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Steam Pre-load is ready. OMG, can't believe it coming out tomorrow.
I backed this in 2012, time flies.
I backed this in 2012, time flies.
Steam IS a form of DRM, so the only DRM-free version you can get is from GOG.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Seconded. His stuff mandatory watching as far as im concerned. Sensukis does an excellent job explaining the games mechanics.. the best ive seen so far. Guy is a PoE legend imo.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Why the hell is the interior of the manual in black and white?
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/291650/manuals/pe-game-manual.pdf
There are no printing costs!
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/291650/manuals/pe-game-manual.pdf
There are no printing costs!
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[Asmodean]
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Let me play it already! ;p
Sucks it's not a midnight(eu) release imo.
Some games on Steam basically just use it as a downloader. For example, in Transistor you can copy the downloaded files to another computer without steam installed and it will run just fine AFAIK.
Yeah I think he said he was 6 levels higher? the concept of that build is really cool.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Sensuki addresses this in the comments. He believes it wont be much of a decrease. Well find out soon though. i have a feeling PoE is going to offer all sorts of crazy build/party build ideas.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
I just know Im going to have the most boring and standard party. I'm really bad at experimenting with builds and traits.
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TrueMenace
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That Fire Godlike Monk was my go-to build for every backer beta release as my favorite to play. Now I feel like a Hipster now that everyone knows its insane potential hehe.
Sounds pretty good.
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TrueMenace
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I PM'd the dude who is making the OT for this and made a proper request to include Sensuki's videos. Hopefully he pulls through. I browsed the Bloodborne OT and it has beginner guides so I thought our OT should have those as well and no better than to have Sensuki's right?
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