You fought adds? Weird. I just did (before engaging her) rain->chill(freeze)->teleport (right in the middle of the party for -20 flanking bonus), beat the hell out of her for two rounds, then when she thawed, knockdown/fist, then finished her off. Even worse is she's facing away from you to start so as long as you start all of this for 12-13 feet you're fine.
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Divinity: Original Sin |OT| Sandbox RPG. Co-Op friendly. Bread.
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Just recently beat the fight late into the Luculla Forest within the
The puzzle prior to that was aggravating though, did not see the tiny switch there and didn't get the order immediately either. I kept following the
I kind of avoided it once I saw what is up there and instead proceeded to the next map which had enemies 2-3 levels higher than me...so I'll probably be heading back. He also talks about
, I still have no clue where you would learn that skill.
Immaculate Church basement against Mangoth. Pretty tough until for the first time I considered really turtling and moved into the middle room to form a chokepoint which led to me not getting stunlocked into oblivion.
compass on my map but apparently there's one in the room that I missed?
So the Zix Zax guy alerts you with
There are 3 paths to go and such, is he talking about 3 areas? And that's one of them?
Tenebrium weapons
Northwest corner is a statue that you may want to take a closer look at. 
The loot table in hinderheim seems to be bugged tho. I got only level 4-ish stuff from his chests (and in other places there as well)
The Tenebrium skill can be learned by solving the quest from the overseer in the town, which requires you to give him some Tenebrium ore. You can either do the Troll King quest, or just get it from the Sacred town in the north east. Solving the quest yields a +1 Tenebrium to ALL characters. In the sacred town is also a Tenebrium book (on a shelf in the workshop of the crazy alchemist), which upon reading, also gives +1 to that skill; only for the character reading it tho.
Tenebrium weapons are an own thing if you enchant a weapon with it, making any points invested into 1h/2h/bows/crossbows pointless. Since I have 2h +7, I don't bother with the enchant. It only does SLIGHTLY more damage than a normal element enchant anyway. If you want to enchant a weapon, just drag a Tenebrium bar onto a weapon to turn it into one.
Tenebrium weapons are an own thing if you enchant a weapon with it, making any points invested into 1h/2h/bows/crossbows pointless. Since I have 2h +7, I don't bother with the enchant. It only does SLIGHTLY more damage than a normal element enchant anyway. If you want to enchant a weapon, just drag a Tenebrium bar onto a weapon to turn it into one.
Dominic_Shade
Member
Ah, great job. I'm actually stuck on this fight right now.
Tried making the middle room a choke point, but I kept messing it up and those demons were still able to toss fireballs right past my front-liners where my mage and archer were set up, making it doubly hard to keep my front-liners supported and healed and basically not being frozen/cursed/burned.
I ended up taking a break from that fight and started messing around with other quests. Hopefully I can find some decent fire resistance gear along the way.
I ended up taking a break from that fight and started messing around with other quests. Hopefully I can find some decent fire resistance gear along the way.
28-hours in.. just cleared out the first area now and somehow managed to beat
on hard using a range of different spells, container placement to block the bosses etc. Really satisfying how there's so many different ways of approaching the combat in this.
Now at the start of the second area now. Can't wait to see what it has in store!
braccus
Now at the start of the second area now. Can't wait to see what it has in store!
Pollux
Member
Man, I've been playing for 90 minutes and I can safely say...I LOVE this game.
This is the first game of it's type that I've ever played, and I'm confused as hell, I have no clue what's happening...and I'm loving every second of it.
The game doesn't really hold your hand, and it requires you to actually think about what you're doing and to explore your surroundings. I'm investigating the first town and the first "main quest" (I think it's the main quest) and I'm just plugging away.
The game is fun as hell - the world is so rich and well thought out. Everyone is doing their own thing, and the towns actually feel alive.
Anyway, that's my first impression, but so far I love it.
This is the first game of it's type that I've ever played, and I'm confused as hell, I have no clue what's happening...and I'm loving every second of it.
The game doesn't really hold your hand, and it requires you to actually think about what you're doing and to explore your surroundings. I'm investigating the first town and the first "main quest" (I think it's the main quest) and I'm just plugging away.
The game is fun as hell - the world is so rich and well thought out. Everyone is doing their own thing, and the towns actually feel alive.
Anyway, that's my first impression, but so far I love it.
Thanks, I did pass up on that quest. I'll do that next. The way the skill works does sound lame though. I guess I'll grab a few items just for these quests and wherever else they end up forcing it again.
I have a 3 melee party so I positioned my tank in the middle of the doorway and the other two right by the door. My wizard would stand in cover away from the doorway. I also summoned a skelly to eat up more space/attract attention although that might be a little tough to sneak in early since you're likely AP starved after the first turn. So I'd get 2-3 guys jumping in and usually attacking my melee (blocking out everyone else) which was more manageable. They would spend more of their movement running around than attacking me.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
You can just keep the items to barter for other items. You don't actually need gold that much in this game.
The Illiterati
Member
Area 1's final boss ended up killing two of his own pals off with his AOE attack and missing me. Great success!
I finally scoured the first map dry of enemies and quests...40 hours. God it's gonna take me another hour to manage my dang inventory and sell this stuff off before I can even continue. I have SO much stuff.
I finally scoured the first map dry of enemies and quests...40 hours. God it's gonna take me another hour to manage my dang inventory and sell this stuff off before I can even continue. I have SO much stuff.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
seriously, it is so bad. Plus it's storyline was bad too. I'm the same level as the content and it was still easy.
I still need to do like 2/3rds of the forest
Nothing dubious about it. Game is different prices in different regions. Some people are from those refions and resell them. These aren't stolen copies or key generators or pirated. They are steam copies purchased from Steam in other regions.
Immunity to Slipping - Any Shoe + Nine Inch Nails
I figured out this way to late too...
OverturePT
Member
Ok, so
I got to the White Witch, she's frozen and I have no idea how to get her out of there. It's 5am here and it might have something to do with my reduced capacity to make sense out of a lot of stuff, but yea. After breaking so much ice on my way there I was expecting it would also break that easily.
Visit other areas first if you haven't. The white witch is one of the last things you do on that map.
More specific:
You have to go to the Forge (Northeast corner) and then get a spell to open the castle and fight the boss there. Then take the item from the boss back to the forge.
Could be the item you needed to use to get into Hiberheim?
You need to beat King Boreas for his staff.
Oh, maybe that is it.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I can't figure out this
Is it even a puzzle? Or something that I have to worry about?
wishing well brothers sentinel puzzle.
Is it even a puzzle? Or something that I have to worry about?
You need an item from
King Boreas' Treasure Room
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Well, finally can start the regular map (troll cave, mines) tomorrow! Now that I have a pretty regular rotation in battle, things are almost a little too easy, time to maybe bump to hard
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Ah, thank you.
Also where am I suppose to find a way to open
Also where am I suppose to find a way to open
the room to boreas' fight?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I seriously have no idea how to get to the
. This seriously pretty frustrating.
king
Go to the upper right area, you'll fight some enemies outside a door. Go in and you'll find the "forge". You'll see a scene with the conduit and fight some cronies. You'll get a spell to undo the castle barrier.
Actually, one last thing I want to do in Hiberheim..
There's a portal left of the Boreas boss fight room behind a lot of fire and lava. I've tried Fire Resistance shield but it doesn't last long enough. Hint?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I did, and unless I missed it I did not get it. I've been there a few times now and can find nothing.
I can confirm that the game works under Linux (via WINE 1.7 on Ubuntu 14.04), without extra tweaking. I had to turn down the graphics settings to medium to get a decent fps, but then again I have a Radeon GPU. :-\
I do hope they will make it SteamOS compatible down the line though.
I do hope they will make it SteamOS compatible down the line though.
Finn of Ooo
Member
What should rogue strat be. I stealth in with Scarlett and get slaughtered immediately.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh, I made it where I want to, disregard..
Huh, I'm not sure then, Antiwhippy
Alright, definitely got a bug.
Reloaded and I got the spell required.
My 5 hours of playtime. ;_;
You sure one of your other characters didn't have it? Stinks to lose 5 hours ;_;
Luckily I haven't crashed at all. Knock on wood.
You have a lot of catching up to do then!
I agree.
40h and just finished all Cyseal, not all-all but almost 90% of that is known to be solved and nothing has been sub-par.
The only things that maybe should be better are the inventory and the item icons with the gear esthetics. For now they are not at the same level as the rest of the game.
Sorry I just woke up...
Stack over 100% resist with items, potions or spells and it'll heal you.
Also,
contrary to what the loading screen tooltip might lead you to believe, you can absolutely get rid of lava.
How:
Try the Tornado spell from the Aeromancy book.
I really wish I could get into the older, iconic cRPGs. I have all the ones that people always say to get but every time I try to play them the controls or UI end up being too much of a frustration/annoyance for me. Even in Original Sin some of the UI stuff annoys me like no hot key for cycling characters (toggle between them not the current prev/next buttons) or hot keys for swapping skill bars or toggle for alt instead of hold, but the majority of the UI and controls are excellent.
Mangoth
Boss Fight
Holy SHIT that was tough when you go in to the Leandra's blood room. I had to split my party back up and leave my tank to trip the dialogue while I pre-buffed Madora and prayed to resist all the knockbacks/stuns/blinds/slows while my main character (Cleric) soaked up Mangoth and a couple of the demons. What an insane fight! Took me probably 30 minutes on the killing attempt. Also took about 3-4 attempts on where to position my party best to get the right set ups and spacing. Brings me back to the Baldur's Gate 1/2 boss fights.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Man, having quest troubles again.
Can't find the scroll for the wishing well quest in boreas treasure room.
Oddly enough, I think the UI is pretty bad in Original Sin, while I enjoyed it much more in most of the older CRPGs. You can actually select characters by pressing F1, F2, F3 and F4, by the way.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Damn, could have sworn that it didn't show up.
Do wish some things are more obvious. I must have missed a lot of tiny things like switches by now.
Moff
Member
so you cant play alone at all? or will you just advance in the world and he will miss out on whatever you will do alone, including xp?
I wonder how many people can finish a 50-80 hour RPG in coop, I sure never would
I doubt we'll finish, but I'd like to atleast finish the first map. If it comes to it I'll see if I can snag the save file we're using and continue on my own.
Thing is I think I'm having a lot more fun co-op than I'd in normal. Having two people try to figure out a quest etc is nice, and the dialogue trees you get between each other is fun.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Manoch casted Blood Rain. Two of my guys have Leech. lol.
Also, where is the Imp that pushed Frederick?
Also, where is the Imp that pushed Frederick?