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Divinity: Original Sin 2 |OT| Dragons & Dungeon Mastering
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CrichtonKicks
Member
Which quests?
Thanks! I'm gonna go for it tonight when we build characters.
RenegadeXV8
Banned
A bit into Act 2 on Tactician, the difficulty jump is pretty massive. Enemies hit like trucks and have insane amounts of armor and health, and there's not nearly enough gold to keep up with armor upgrades at this point.
I'm forced to meta-game or 'cheese' certain fights since otherwise they destroy my party in the first turn before I have a chance to do anything... but honestly I'm fine with that since the odds are heavily stacked against you in the first place.
I'm forced to meta-game or 'cheese' certain fights since otherwise they destroy my party in the first turn before I have a chance to do anything... but honestly I'm fine with that since the odds are heavily stacked against you in the first place.
Twinsen343
Member
I kept my summoner up the back, like right up near the camp with Resurrection spells, sent everyone else down who were all obliterated almost instantly.
The worm did a good job cleaning up the magisters - but they ended up killing the worm, with the worm gone, I snuck in and resurrected everyone then it's all about positioning and having a cold beer while you get through the rest.
The worm did a good job cleaning up the magisters - but they ended up killing the worm, with the worm gone, I snuck in and resurrected everyone then it's all about positioning and having a cold beer while you get through the rest.
Lanrutcon
Member
You have to cheese on Tactician. If anyone can show me a Let's Play or a stream or whatever of someone playing on Tactician that isn't cheesing, then I'll totally admit I'm wrong. Everyone abuses teleports, ooc rezes, dialogue popups, AI pathing & tethering, infinite respecs, etc.
In other news, my Ranger now does 1.8k damage on normal shots with a height advantage. He absolutely destroys things, and Enrage/Arrow Storm results in the region of 45k damage to a group. It's an endgame setup, but I'm just ending encounters in 1 round now.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Hum I think
in Act 4 is bugged. He muttered stuff about Origin characters I didn't have in my party.
the Doctor
What's teleport abuse? I do none of the others for sure.
As for cheese, the only cheesy thing I do is break up the party and set positions while sneaking before engaging, and I'm reticent calling that cheese.
CecilRousso
Member
Tried most available things now with my loading crashes - reinstall, free memory, close all other possible programs, recreate save folder, etc. But nothing works, so right my game just won't me continue after 12h of playtime. :\
Have submitted crash reports and a support ticket, so I hope they can fix it, otherwise I will have to give up on this game. Not replaying all of that, if there's a risk that this happens again.
Have submitted crash reports and a support ticket, so I hope they can fix it, otherwise I will have to give up on this game. Not replaying all of that, if there's a risk that this happens again.
Moff
Member
the one with the three altars
the one with the trolls
the one with the prostitue in the inn
the one with the polymorphed cows
I looked up all of those in message boards and on the wiki, others have the same issues
then a few smaller ones from ghosts where I killed related npcs or ate related body parts, those arent a big deal I guess
I had the same problems save with the troll one. What happened to you?
Did you kill one of them?
Lanrutcon
Member
Oh, teleport can break the game in several ways. Here's my favourite: take any fight where the enemy will engage you in dialogue before commencing the fight. While the dialogue box is open, switch to another character with teleport. Now teleport the character that's doing the talking as well as the character being talked to out of the area where the fight takes place. Ensure the destination is out of the sight radius of the other combatants, and they won't prematurely start the fight. Keep teleporting those people to a completely different area, and then use the dialogue to start the fight. Now you're alone with the single target you teleported along with you. The rest are back in the old area, and won't come get you.
You can do this because when in a dialogue action, those involved are immune to damage. Teleport can't do damage to the target if he's in dialogue. So you can teleport them without repercussions
You can also teleport targets without dialogue abuse as long as you are super far away. For example, in Driftwood you can climb up super high at the town gates, and teleport the Magistrate from the docks to the outside of the town without anyone being the wiser (including him) because you so far outside his sight radius.
Then there's teleporting people onto islands, into scenery, into prisons built with furniture, into lava (there's a patch of lava in Chapter 2 which is abusable), etc.
Moff
Member
I killed the big one and the other one simply does not react, others have the same problem.
When you build, try to build characters that complement your partners.
MAKE SURE TO GET PET PAL. It's easily one of the most useful skills in the game.
texhnolyze
Banned
Hmm.. where's the main hub in Act 3?
I could finish it just fine. But yeah, it seems that some quests are bugged for some, but not for others.
I could finish it just fine. But yeah, it seems that some quests are bugged for some, but not for others.
Lanrutcon
Member
Ok, there are 2. And you can piss them off if you aren't careful, so by god don't start doing risky quests until you're sure you don't need traders any more:
- There's an elf camp to the north west, IF you're friendly with elves.
- There's a Black Ring camp south of the middle of the map, IF you lie well.
- There's a Black Ring camp south of the middle of the map, IF you lie well.
texhnolyze
Banned
Are you sure it's not north east? I've been in the northwest and the northeast is not yet uncovered.
Apparently, I took the wrong turn from the center. Thanks, I'll check them out.
Personally I cheesed the fuck out of it, keep your distance at the gate then flee combat when
the worm shows up, it then aggros all the seekers and they join the fight. Of course one or two may die tho...
Lanrutcon
Member
You are right. North east. There are multiple ways to turn that camp hostile through dialogue. Just tread carefully. I had to murder my way out of there.
CrichtonKicks
Member
That one completed for me. I did the 3 altars quest and it seems to be left hanging. so I don't think it will close. Haven't finished the others yet.
Are you done with the quests and just didn't get a journal update ?
Moff
Member
with the three altars I found all three and nothing happened
with the cows I can give the second potion to the second cow but the potion does not disappear from my inventory and the quest does not proceed, the cow says thank you but it doesnt turn back or anything
the prostitue quest I did with the red prince which is a special case, but I can't continue further
and the trolls, as I said, I killed one but the other one does not react to it
AnathemicOne
Banned
Any tips on
fight in Act 4? The fight starts off with a bunch of demons that outnumber my party to hell.
The Doctor
camequipped
Member
I really need to make a habit of saving. Had 2 hard crashes last night and lost quite a bit of progress.
You can attack his
elf nurses
I really need to quit restarting. I am never going to finish this freaking game. I am on my third set of characters already...
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I was wondering what happened if you actually ended up killing them in Act 2. Because, this being a Larian game, I knew they would have accounted for that.
I cheesed the hell out of the prostitute fight.
I gave my companions the room keys.
So my cat just walked on the keyboard and I got a prompt saying that I just re-assigned one of my characters and could miss out on their story points if I don't add them back to my party. I've got no clue what keys he hit, but it looks like everyone is in my party and I can't tell what has changed, if anything. If all characters are showing as in my party in the Party Management tab am I good?
AnathemicOne
Banned
He shapeshifts into
demon form
Jahan
Jahan is his prisoner in the prison underneath his house. He drops the key to get there. If you shout his name you have some turns to act before he changes but in my game when the Doctor reached 0 hp he turned into the demon anyway. Did you do Lohse quest to weaken his stats by 50%? I fought the demon on classic he had like 17k/22k armor or among those lines it's definitely doable with the 50% debuff.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Fuck, I knew I should've saved people on the island. I just killed all of 'em.
I don't have her in my party.
It's basically her quest :/ SPOILERS FOR ACT IV
It's the demon possessing her.
If Malady is still alive you get into the demon's plane to weaken him with Lohse. It puts a permanent debuff on him where all his stats are halved
If Malady is still alive you get into the demon's plane to weaken him with Lohse. It puts a permanent debuff on him where all his stats are halved
If it's unwinnable either lower the difficulty or simply ignore this one. It's not required to get in to the final area of the game and the rewards are like a bunch of not so great set items that greatly boost a stat while greatly lowering another and lowering your max AP count.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Already beat the game and quite frankly forgot I even had that.
I would assume you use it to
one shot one of the final enemies
texhnolyze
Banned
Enemy leaders with special aura.
That Black Ring fight in the forest was quite interesting. The leader got this deflecting aura for everyone so I had to improvise a little to overcome that. After meeting Alexander and his Faith aura, I think I'll come across more enemies with different kinds of aura in the upcoming fights.
Finished the game yesterday, one hell of a wild ride. Act 4 had some BS though, for sure.
I have no idea how you're supposed to tackle
because even after we
also, final boss spoilers:
Already started on PT2 using a handful of mods to make things easier, I don't care much about the remaining achievements, I just want to try different party comps and see other characters stories now, and try different paths in quests I took. Bit of a bummer that the epilogue ended the way it did because so many of my quests bugged out, but I think that bugged too because
Absolutely adore this game and it is such a stark improvement over OS1 in so many ways, I really hope they do expansions for this, or a OS2: EE or something, quite possibly one of the best RPG's period I've played in a long, long time
I have no idea how you're supposed to tackle
Adrahmalik
weakened him in his pocket dimension, he still had 11k phys armor and like 12k magic armor, on top of the 6 adds who joined in and shredded our armor. I ended up cheesing the fight by sneaking in through the back of the place, luring him into a the small doorway, and summoning an champion incarnate infront of him so he couldn't leave and then just chipped away after clearing all the adds
also, final boss spoilers:
Fuck Lucian. The first time I got to phase 2 of the fight I had accidentally killed Dallis, and we started with no magic/phys armor, and hurt badly. Then Lucian decided to just mop up what was left before charging after Braccus. Once I learned the trick, I just 1 shot Dallis using my OP ranger's source skills, then couldn't seem to finish the final fight because Kemm/Sallow man would melt my squishes, or if they focused on the magisters, Lucian would go 1 shot my ranger/dps mage then march forward. Seriously, fuck that guy. Ended up looking it up and found out you only have to kill Braccus, so I teleported Kemm/Sallow man onto the platform behind us where they couldn't move because they don't have any jumps or teleports, then abused the AI so Braccus would always charge towards the leftmost platform away from Isbeil, meaning we only had to burst down Braccus. I still had my tank and my DPS mage alive by this point, because Lucian the jerk decided to 1 shot my ranger and healer this time, so I waited until Braccus was dead, (thanks Lucian, you're pretty okay when you aren't murdering my team outright) and then used ressurection scrolls to bring my ranger back, got my healer back and had her summon a champion incarnate doing phys damage, and we just melted Lucian.
Already started on PT2 using a handful of mods to make things easier, I don't care much about the remaining achievements, I just want to try different party comps and see other characters stories now, and try different paths in quests I took. Bit of a bummer that the epilogue ended the way it did because so many of my quests bugged out, but I think that bugged too because
It said that the voidwoken killed everyone in driftwood, despite the owl lady at Kemm's manor saying the Voidwoken attacks had decreased significantly
Absolutely adore this game and it is such a stark improvement over OS1 in so many ways, I really hope they do expansions for this, or a OS2: EE or something, quite possibly one of the best RPG's period I've played in a long, long time
Ryzaki009
Member
JimmyMarrow
Neo Member
So I started with Fane on my first "attempt". Was completely lost as to what I was doing and how I was proceeding. Deleted him and started another Fane and spent ages on the ship just cruising through the interface and stuff.
Got to the island and saved it. Can't wait to get in some quality gaming tomorrow morning before work. Great game so far. I feel a bit overwhelmed but... Meh!
Got to the island and saved it. Can't wait to get in some quality gaming tomorrow morning before work. Great game so far. I feel a bit overwhelmed but... Meh!
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
That's odd.
After I weakened him in his realm the demon adds didn't spawn at all. I also reloaded the fight and unknowing exploited it, causing his HP to revert to human values. Then I just used the rangers Arrow Rain (hit for 10k+) and called it a day lol.
That's beautiful, tbh lol
I think it might just have bugged out, which was odd though because
he had the debuff from being weakened, except his stats didn't seem to reflect that? Unless that was him weakened
I'm so thankful I gave Lohse a shield, because at the end of the fight she was the only one left alive, and just kept using consume on the incarnate a turn before it despawned, and then resummoned the same turn to keep him locked in.. it became a war of attrition, except any time Lohse came close to losing her armors I'd just shield up or consume my incarnate and resummon it
also, I was heavily confused why all the
items and gear were only level 18, if he's level 20.. especialy given the difficulty of the fight, I was wondering "how do they expect you to do this 2 levels lower? jeeze
AnathemicOne
Banned
Okay this is getting ridiculous, I'm suspecting a Steam problem here as none of my other games have this issue. I'm getting hard CTDs by running out of SSD space in playing this game which I had 20 GBs free of last I checked. I now only have 8 GBs left after this last CTD and I've no idea where the other 12 went. Why the hell is Steam/this game eating up by SSD space in the first place?
My 2 friends and I don't really cheese anything apart from taking positions while someone is talking to whoever we needs to fight. Heck, we have not used a 4th party member for the entire act 2 so far (which we are probably 75% through by now).
We just play it smart, keep the hardest enemies stun locked as much as possible while dealing with the other stuff. One person wrecks phys armor, one person wrecks magic armor and I am extremely tanky with a lot of CC. As long as we don't fight stuff above our level we beat everything, even if we die 1-3 times but then we just learn what we must do differently.
Heck, on top of not using the 4th member, 2 of us are undead and the only one with poison skills is me and those skills are almost useless now because I don't have int.
bobnowhere
Member
Rupture Tendons is also great to use on rangde characters(Bow/Crossbows) as the AI always chooses to run away first when someone is in melee range. You also get an attack of opportunity as they run as well.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Man, the jump in enemy difficulty after wandering outside of the main town in act 2 is legit.
I need to start getting some better gear, my team is getting chunked by level 12s with 150+ magic damage per hit, and such while I'm only 10 and doing~50-100 per hit.
I need to start getting some better gear, my team is getting chunked by level 12s with 150+ magic damage per hit, and such while I'm only 10 and doing~50-100 per hit.
texhnolyze
Banned
You most probably took the wrong turn somewhere. I started wandering to the east from Driftwood.
Also, there are some quests that you can finish with no or minimal combat around the town, which could give you a level or two.
As mentioned, just go somewhere else. You are not supposed to fight lvl 12 guys yet and there's plenty of other easier stuff to do.