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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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That depends if you enjoy crafting.
It's definitely worth it if you do. I use it constantly for my ranger's arrows, to make potions, scrolls, etc...
Sentenza
Member
Nope, that wasn't the question.
I already have enough points to do all these things.
I was more specifically asking if it's worth invest MORE points in those skills for the "high level" recipes and crafts.
Wat. I've been without invisibility on my rogue for 12 levels. Now I have it she straights up SHANKS fools. Crits for almost 140 damage a pop, murders mages in a turn. YEAH!
Crafting only goes as high as 5, just keep items with crafting boosts on them and swap out as you need them. I'm only level 3 in crafting but can make augmented gear which adds a damage bonus of 50 to my sword. The item which gives the augment you'll find out about in the forest.
Crafting only goes as high as 5, just keep items with crafting boosts on them and swap out as you need them. I'm only level 3 in crafting but can make augmented gear which adds a damage bonus of 50 to my sword. The item which gives the augment you'll find out about in the forest.
And I answered that question.
Yes, it is, as to continue doing the things I listed you need to continue investing.
Certain arrows cost more crafting points, for example, it you want to use crafting as your resource for obtaining your items then you will need to continuously invest in it.
As you continue to craft the game will tell you when you need to onset more points. It's up to you how far you go.
Blood Stones work, iirc.
TatteredHat
Member
Is there any way to turn off the tutorial popups? For some reason they reset when I started playing today and it's a bit annoying.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
This area at the starting half of Act 2 is kind of dragging..I feel like I've been here forever. Fighting fighting fighting.
It's okay, still fun, just less detailed and interesting without making frequent trips to a city to figure things out. It just feels like exploring the map and killing what's there.
Well anyway, about to enter the
. I've explored the rest except for the
and a very evil looking area to the upper right.
It's okay, still fun, just less detailed and interesting without making frequent trips to a city to figure things out. It just feels like exploring the map and killing what's there.
Well anyway, about to enter the
prison
castle front gates
I did too, but
I didn't do the quest to choose which guy Evelyn heals as she was already gone by the time i went to the clinic the first time, and Evelyn drops a blood stone in that case
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's the quest you're given to
Join the cult, you go north in to the sand storm area, upon completing the trials you see a star stone and it clears up the rot for you.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm still doing the
white witch stuff. Don't think that I'm strong enough for the desert yet from what I've seen.
Callibretto
Member
Goddamnit, I'm tempted to just lower the difficulty and play on easy. I've been stuck for hours with this battle trying to get into
someone please help me get through battle in general. I almost never finish an encounter without dying. I think I did something wrong. I had level 5 rogue, warrior with companion madora and jahan.
at the start of the match I generally tried to use haste and invisible for my rogue and go straight in, trying to position her behind enemy for backstab while crouching for double damage. jahan use rain and cold bite trying to freeze 1 guy (which always only go up to chilled in this battle), then both warrior and madora stand their ground trying to build ap and letting enemy melee to come to me.
at the first enemy turn, one of the archer using exploding arrow to my invisible rogue, other will use various skill to made my party either stunned, trip/down, burned or poisoned.
I don't have any skill to remove most of these ailment so I just had to endure hoping I'm not dead, which is not the case. I'm running low on resurrection scroll too.
evelyn's lair
at the start of the match I generally tried to use haste and invisible for my rogue and go straight in, trying to position her behind enemy for backstab while crouching for double damage. jahan use rain and cold bite trying to freeze 1 guy (which always only go up to chilled in this battle), then both warrior and madora stand their ground trying to build ap and letting enemy melee to come to me.
at the first enemy turn, one of the archer using exploding arrow to my invisible rogue, other will use various skill to made my party either stunned, trip/down, burned or poisoned.
I don't have any skill to remove most of these ailment so I just had to endure hoping I'm not dead, which is not the case. I'm running low on resurrection scroll too.
Weird, I did not encounter the rot statut while doing this quest in the
snow kingdom where the witch is captured
I didn't had any problem with this encounter.Goddamnit, I'm tempted to just lower the difficulty and play on easy. I've been stuck for hours with this battle trying to get intosomeone please help me get through battle in general. I almost never finish an encounter without dying. I think I did something wrong. I had level 5 rogue, warrior with companion madora and jahan.evelyn's lair
at the start of the match I generally tried to use haste and invisible for my rogue and go straight in, trying to position her behind enemy for backstab while crouching for double damage. jahan use rain and cold bite trying to freeze 1 guy (which always only go up to chilled in this battle), then both warrior and madora stand their ground trying to build ap and letting enemy melee to come to me.
at the first enemy turn, one of the archer using exploding arrow to my invisible rogue, other will use various skill to made my party either stunned, trip/down, burned or poisoned.
I don't have any skill to remove most of these ailment so I just had to endure hoping I'm not dead, which is not the case. I'm running low on resurrection scroll too.
Maybe it's because I've two mages and both of them can heal and do combo spells too.
I know Medora is strong but I ditched her, that game just have too much awesome combo spells. with AoE/CC effects.
So let's say I'm not in a particular hurry to play the game. It is my kind of game though, so obviously I'd like to play it sooner rather than later. I haven't been following the development that closely, so ... Are there any significant improvements on the way? Say, in the next month or two?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I got it when I picked up a staff dropped by
Hilda, the person with the big golem thing.
Goddamnit, I'm tempted to just lower the difficulty and play on easy. I've been stuck for hours with this battle trying to get intosomeone please help me get through battle in general. I almost never finish an encounter without dying. I think I did something wrong. I had level 5 rogue, warrior with companion madora and jahan.evelyn's lair
at the start of the match I generally tried to use haste and invisible for my rogue and go straight in, trying to position her behind enemy for backstab while crouching for double damage. jahan use rain and cold bite trying to freeze 1 guy (which always only go up to chilled in this battle), then both warrior and madora stand their ground trying to build ap and letting enemy melee to come to me.
at the first enemy turn, one of the archer using exploding arrow to my invisible rogue, other will use various skill to made my party either stunned, trip/down, burned or poisoned.
I don't have any skill to remove most of these ailment so I just had to endure hoping I'm not dead, which is not the case. I'm running low on resurrection scroll too.
Which battle are you stuck in? If it is
the large group of cultists in Evelyn's lair there's a trick for it. Just have your party stand beside the door and have Jahan attack one of them. This will pull a smaller group of them and the fight will be a lot easier
Oh, I see. It's probably made with tenebrium.
She didn't droped it for me.
You're unlucky.
All you can do is either heal yourself of do the imasculed initiation quest (which is short compared to the
snow kingdom
Or have you tried to drop the staff ?
Goddamnit, I'm tempted to just lower the difficulty and play on easy. I've been stuck for hours with this battle trying to get intosomeone please help me get through battle in general. I almost never finish an encounter without dying. I think I did something wrong. I had level 5 rogue, warrior with companion madora and jahan.evelyn's lair
at the start of the match I generally tried to use haste and invisible for my rogue and go straight in, trying to position her behind enemy for backstab while crouching for double damage. jahan use rain and cold bite trying to freeze 1 guy (which always only go up to chilled in this battle), then both warrior and madora stand their ground trying to build ap and letting enemy melee to come to me.
at the first enemy turn, one of the archer using exploding arrow to my invisible rogue, other will use various skill to made my party either stunned, trip/down, burned or poisoned.
I don't have any skill to remove most of these ailment so I just had to endure hoping I'm not dead, which is not the case. I'm running low on resurrection scroll too.
General battle plan for me with 2x mages 1x melee and 1x archer is to cast rain pre-battle so everyone is wet when battle begins which opens them up to blitz bolt stuns while the melee gets in the middle and archer snipes/uses special arrows.
Teleporting un-stunned enemies into electrified water is also good for fun times.
Callibretto
Member
I think my biggest problem (other than being peck to death by archer and mages from far) is I don't have any aoe option, jahan only had rain and thunder, that rely on enemy all stand on top of the water and they're only stunned not taking damage, and only for 1 turn too. I previously pick pyromancy so now I do have a couple fire spell like firefly, basic fireball, and fire touch I think. all my aoe attack come from scroll and I ran out of them some battle ago.
I haven't even got into the lair, still at the beach
I think your level is a bit too low. Maybe you should try questing a bit more in Cyseal and return to the beach once you're level 7. Iirc the recommended level for the Evelyn fight is 7
Callibretto
Member
yeah I guess this is true. I'll try to do other quest for now. man I felt I'm screwing myself a lot with 3 melee and 1 mage team
Since your rogue has some dext... have you tried to equip a bow ?
Arrows can replace scrolls easely (with the talent to retrieve arrows too). I'm not suggesting you not play roque anymore.
I'm suggesting you to switch weapon for 2 AP during a battle just to inflict some CC or AoE to help out Jahan from time to time.
Callibretto
Member
yeah I had some bow and a couple of arrow although didn't use it much. I just manage to kill 5 of the enemies leaving just 1 when he bring in reinforcement surrounging me. oh joy
edit: btw, does enemy can still know where you are even when you're under invisible skill?
Have you tried to teleport near you some mobs with Jahan ?
I know how annoying is running after a mob with a melee.
Callibretto
Member
haven't tried this one
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Decided just to reload. Too much trouble.
Do tenebrium weapons always have this drawback?
Quests. Mobs don't respawn so grinding is not an option
1. Seek mobs of your level, the progression is prettion linear in the first map unless you want to struggle with higher lvl mobs but that's not your case.
Lvl 3 > west gate > undead arc
Lvl 6 > south gate > orc/beach arc
Lvl 6 > south gate > orc/beach arc
2. Yes, they're. Try to talk to only named NPC and animals.
It's pretty rare that non named NPC help you advance in quests but just in case talk at least to just once to one of them.
3. Depend of people but I would've disliked if Ceasel NPC were moving around.
It's already such a pain to spend 10 hours in the city with non moving NPC.
I'm not sure because I didn't craft any yet for
the demon lair in the north, only Tenebrium can harm them said an NPC
Cool, thanks.
also from the little I played, doing events like the burning ship also, although that might count as a quest?
Panzerkrei
Banned
If it's the zombie group get the fireball spell for Jahan, it wrecks the boars and prevents the pools of poison from healing them.
If it's the group of cultists in the hall use a ranged character or Jahan to draw them out one by one and take on 2-3 small groups instead of one large one.
Prime crotch
Banned
I don't get why have a rock paper scissors for NPC's discussions, for coop makes sense but outside of it? It's an inconvenience, all the more reason to quick load a lot.
I'm playing on hard with the exact same team. Melee figher, rogue, Jahan and Madora.
Don't go immediately for damage with your rogue. Use your charm/stun/blind skills to disable at least one enemy. Madora and your fighter can cause knockdown with Crushing Fist or Battering Ram and Jahan has a lot of abilities that inflict various status effects. Headvice can blind, Ice Shard can freeze, lightning based spells can stun individual enemies or electrocute entire groups of mobs, if they're standing in a puddle of water or blood.
Battles become a lot easier, if you don't have to worry about every single enemy.
It's not on level up but it's also not on save loading like most are saying. My guess is it's timer based somehow. The reason is obvious. When you sell something to a vendor, if you want it back that would suck if buy back only lasted til the next load.
As for randomized loot and vendors, I know there are some of you who feel that way, but the vast majority of us want randomized loot/vendors. It's old school all the way (like pre-crpg pnp old school even) and this is an old school game after all. I mean if they weren't going to randomize it they should have just done away with the trade system completely and given us shop menus
.By npc do you mean party members or NPCs in the game? The system was put into place for co-op persuasion, and they just extended it to AI and NPC to give the player more than just a skill check. You CAN still do the skill check but remember it IS a skill check and if your skill,is low you will still often lose.
Yeah, I agree with this one. It also seems like the PC is unusually good at predicting my choices. I pretty much have to reload 4 or 5 times to win an argument, even though my skill is higher.
TheContact
Member
Just bought this after staring at my games list for an hour and being completely bored with everything. I really needed a good single player game, hope this is worth it
Prime crotch
Banned
quest npc's, it's a poor replacement for a simple skill check, bad idea to keep it for not coop scenarios