Yeah, there are other vendors and there is a furnace behind the abandoned house in Cyseal.
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Yeah, there are other vendors and there is a furnace behind the abandoned house in Cyseal.
Sanctuary
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Total "duh" moment. I actually skipped picking up the stances, because I didn't like how they performed early on, and this was before knowing about Farseer (started over around level 6). In hindsight, yeah. Hyperopia is a bad talent. I do have 8 perception though, +10 for traps, and an additional +2 if I need it from Burn My Eyes. I thought Dexterity was to hit though and Perception was for crit?
I'm actually at the desert section now, and it was easy enough to get past the blockade
without a fight.
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The possibilities during combat in this game are something else. We had to throw a freezing grenade to prevent ourself from getting killed, but unfortunately my mage got frozen aswell because the grenade slightly missed. The two frozen dogs next to me explode and do massive damage when killed. Since we didn't have any spells etc. to warm my mage up, I thought about what else could unfreeze me. Then I remembered the annoying comments of the player characters every time we ran by the campfire in Cyseal and ta-dah... mobile kitchen to the rescue!
Pyros_Eien
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Bunch of those spells are really easy to get if you just unlock the right elemental hall though. Like if you know you're going fire, unlock that first, and you get infectious flame and meteor easily and pretty early. By the time you've done the trial thing, you should have 3 halls open, so you should have most of the masters done, and it doesn't take long to get the last one(or you have it by the trial if you've done hiberheim first).
Sanctuary
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LOL, don't hate me, but after pondering trying to skip to the next town, I decided to enter the
Immaculate Trials Cave
I've only had three bloodstones so far, and I didn't actually know that you had to use them on a room to unlock it. I thought the rooms just opened automatically each time you picked up a new stone. Ending up with an empty stone after visiting the end of time the first time makes sense now. It also means I'm set back a stone since I used one for a quest.
Perception is a major modifier in determining the penalty your get to the hit chances from range. Higher perception = lower range penalties.
This is only true for Star Stones. The Bloodstones are
kind of a corrupted forms of the Star Stone that is purified when it is used and then your chaps absorb the power of the stone right after it is purified.
There are two quests, one very early into the second major area, that requires a Bloodstone. The latter one basically gives you one for a bit of busywork, but for that first one you have to come by it by whatever means. I always kept one in reserve, and used any extras beyond that, so I was set for it. I can't even remember how far it is in the second area before you get one if you don't already have one.
Sanctuary
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So I guess using them already wasn't a problem. I just took a trip back to the end of time and spoke to the previously inactive statue that controls the elements too. They give a lot of experience too, so from a first time perspective, it seems better to use them as you get them.
edit: Behold, the spells I needed in the Air Elemental room!
Pyros_Eien
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You're never set back, the stones you use in quests will still open a room, because
you never actually use star stones, you use the bloodstone part, then they become a star stone, then you absorb them. I assume the quest you mean is the Alfie one and you do get credit.
Thing is the trial has 3 stones in a row, so it increases the counter really quick. If you do all the cyseal stuff+trial, you only need one more stone to have all 4 elemental halls, and that's like at lvl 12-13. It takes longer if you clear all of the forest and hiberheim stuff before you do the trial though.
And this is why I absolutely love the combat, physics and weather etc system in this game. Whatever crackpot idea you come up with has a decent chance of actually working.
There's an option for cooperative dialogues or something in the options. I turned them off when I tried to recruit Madora and got my companion shooting her mouth off with no chance to override and keeping me from recruiting Madora. Just isn't worth it when it's the AI being a psycho player 2 who just wants to be an obstinate jackass.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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It is one of the best games on the PS4.
Ah, Duel Dialogs On/Off. One of the worst, non-descript-but-important options I've seen in my life.
Is there any way to disable the text that appears whenever an NPC talks? It's distracting. The subtitle setting has no effect and disabling banter in the combat log only prevents the text from appearing in the combat log.
Also, does it seem like the NPC chatter frequency is REALLY HIGH? Like, original-release-high? The Cyseal market is ridiculous.
Also, does it seem like the NPC chatter frequency is REALLY HIGH? Like, original-release-high? The Cyseal market is ridiculous.
Ploid 3.0
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For some reason particular NPCs want to kill one of my characters. I came back from exploring and decide to check the vendors for stuff and he Scoundrel/witchcraft floor all seem to hate the character now. I have no clue why other than maybe my warping around town may have triggered some glitch.
Crap I don't want to go deep into my save history having to undo a lot of awesome loot, and long fights I just did. I tried letting the NPC's kill that particular character but they still want to kill him after. Bah!
Edit: I can't even fight them back. :\ (correction, I can fight back. It's just that I wasn't paying attention to the CC and melting down of my HP by a swarm of 4 bees/npcs).
Crap I don't want to go deep into my save history having to undo a lot of awesome loot, and long fights I just did. I tried letting the NPC's kill that particular character but they still want to kill him after. Bah!
Edit: I can't even fight them back. :\ (correction, I can fight back. It's just that I wasn't paying attention to the CC and melting down of my HP by a swarm of 4 bees/npcs).
Lanrutcon
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What did you do to your reputation? Remember that reputation is tracked per character. That's the only thing I can think of that would make them want to kill one specific character.
I think it's kind of fun to try to banter with them, but it really isn't worth it when it actively shuts down recruiting a character as absolutely as it can. Kinda miss the crazy multiple personality angle though where you can RP by yourself the characters arguing.
Ploid 3.0
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I don't know. I'm thinking I may have ported the party to another character with the pyramids while the vendor barter, high chr character was in the buy sell menu. The upstairs bodyguard dude initiates the fight since hid vision hit's me first. The reason I'm thinking it's a port thing it's the only way I could have left them without noticing they were angry with me. I wasn't stealing from them, or pick pocketing.
I guess I'll be making my craft character my barter character now as well. Though he has the stench trait. Thankfully it's only that upper floor.
Edit: Looks like I may have found out why. I killed a NPC that I thought was a enemy (close to starter city near Orcs)
Charla
Protip: you don't need a furnace. A mobile kitchen works just as fine and can be carried in your inventory.
I though so too... and then I invested some points in Dual wield and reached blacksmith 5. Getting 2 daggers with +1 speed makes for a good livin'. And just imagine the monster you get when you dual wield some of the really monstrous end-game crafted weapons. Total of +4 str, dex, speed is nothing to sneeze at.
Ah cool, nice tip. I had no idea you could do that.
Sanctuary
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I never played before EE, but if daggers hit twice per attack before, the dual wield talent just seems like they took a default mechanic, and hid it behind a skill dump. I was wanting to play a Rogue on my next playthrough, but I've read conflicting things about them.
With stealth being stuck at 5AP per use now, you can't really use it in combat to get around. Without Featherfall (which I haven't even found or crafted yet, and I'm level 16) or Cloak and Dagger and Fast Track, they spend all of their AP just to get into position.
Are you supposed to Walk in Shadows before the rest of your group engages, and then have them initiate once you're in position? If so, it sounds tedious.
superseohyun
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no. rouge just walk up to them using 3-4 AP and then proceeds to melt everything. dagger was poormans two-handed in the original, no longer the case in EE.
IMO that's the biggest downside of rogues: they have to be in melee range to do most things, but you have to understand that their debuff is way more potent and frequent (low AP) than warriors. Blind, Knockdown and Stuns combined with dual 100% hit backstabbing a disabled target contributes to greater single damage output than warrior at low to mid level. If you want to play ranged, I guess Rogue can whip out the bow and spam special arrows, but then you'd be a Ranger. Hahah.
I actually like the idea of dual wielding rogue BEFORE the dual wands come into play. Right now, my dual wand Wizard can execute a 17 m Freeze, 17 m Charm, 17 m Stun and 17 m Blind. Yes, Wizards consume more AP in doing so from range, but it'd be silly to dismiss Wizards as 'slow'. If you don't build a slow wizard, his CC potential is way better than rogues at max range very far away from harm.
Let's just say if I take Glass Cannon talent, I rather be 17 m away than be 2 m from the target
~40%. But, that is a hard thing to pinpoint in this game, considering how out of order you can do things.
I literally moved on to the next zone before I found the wizard's secret lair and Hiberheim in my first playthrough, for example.
Crafting/blacksmithing. When you craft a weapon you can get stats on your weapon based on how high your blacksmithing is. Some items combined with your weapons will add a stat or elemental damage to it.
Did you do
Hiberheim
Hiberheim is meaty as hell
Play EE. There is zero reason to play the original. EE is much more optimized and polished.
Hmmm, I think I'm stuck. (early game spoilers)
I've been clearing stuff west of Cyseal, cleared the Lighthouse of the Ghoul and other mobs, killed all the Fire Elementals at the burned ground, killed all zombies at a grave with a trapdoor but when I go inside that there's 4 pillars with the 4 elements on them but nothing happens when I use them in the correct order.
Thought maybe I had to do other stuff first but south of Cyseal (near the secret cave) there's a ''minefield'' which kills me everytime.
What do I need to do now? I can't reach Evelyn's cave I think cause I need to go all the way up north and the trapdoor room with pillars leads to nothing?
Thought maybe I had to do other stuff first but south of Cyseal (near the secret cave) there's a ''minefield'' which kills me everytime.
What do I need to do now? I can't reach Evelyn's cave I think cause I need to go all the way up north and the trapdoor room with pillars leads to nothing?
Thank you.
I was in Hibernheim before, but I have to do a few sidequests in the Second "Chapter". And I still don`t know how to enter the Trollcave and the last time I was in the desert I almost made no damage.
In my spoiler is the way to solve the puzzle
There are to caves with 4 pillars, I think the second is in the west near the entrance you found already. You have to use the mentioned order of the first cave in the second cave, and the order mentioned in the second cave in the first.But iirc this has nothing to do with the mainquest. Do it for exp and loot.
we know what item add combined add stats (INT, STR etc) to weapon/armor/rings?
Go north, you missed a tunnel where you're supposed to go. South is the
black cove
Also, the riddle you are talking about requires you to take a party of two to go to the other entrance close by. The correct order is only for one part of the puzzle.
chaobreaker
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You can't pick up mobile kitchens.
It's worth it though, starts to get intense as things go on. The next 10-15 hours will be quite different
Green Embers
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You can craft one and it will be in your inventory.
cooking pot plus fire pit on the ground.
Pyros_Eien
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There's 2 different systems. I'll put this in spoilers in case people don't want to read about crafting mechanics, note that all this can easily be found on the various crafting lists on the wikis, I'll link one again: http://divinity.wikia.com/wiki/Crafting_(Divinity:_Original_Sin)
First is when you craft an item, it can have stats if your blacksmith/crafting is high enough, however the stats possible are dependant on the item. For example daggers can get 4 results if you have 5 blacksmith: +dex, +speed, +lucky charm or +damage. Meanwhile, swords are only +dmg or +1 max AP, you can never get stats, though 2H swords can roll +str on them. The +dmg roll is also a trap, because you cannot further upgrade the damage with a whetstone on a +dmg roll weapon, but you can on the others. The difference is like 5% less damage, but you get the additional stat which makes them better.
Because of the set stats you can roll, overall daggers are by far the best weapons to craft, melee wise, because the stats they can generate are really good(+2speed is +1turn AP, which is obviously godlike, and since you can dualwield, that's +2AP per turn for "free").
Also at lvl 15+, you get more stats, though I forgot the values.
The second system, is the upgrade system. Once you have an item, you can upgrade it by adding various stuff to it. For example adding an elemental essence to it will add that damage type. Adding a Tenebrium ingot adds Tenebrium damage to it. Adding a tormented soul adds stats(str/dex) to it however iirc it doesn't stack so you can like make a 2H sword with str then add a tormented soul for str, but it's been a while so maybe you can. Note that you can't add everything to a single weapon, there's limitations of like 1 per type of upgrade(so can't have all elements on a weapon), and if I remember correctly using a whetstone will also prevent you from adding Tenebrium to it.
Bows have their own upgrades, where you add a Sextant for perception and a bowstring for +dmg.
I don't think wands have any upgrades possible, though crafting them with 5crafting should probably result in +int like staves, making them better than the stuff you find in general.
Because of the set stats you can roll, overall daggers are by far the best weapons to craft, melee wise, because the stats they can generate are really good(+2speed is +1turn AP, which is obviously godlike, and since you can dualwield, that's +2AP per turn for "free").
Also at lvl 15+, you get more stats, though I forgot the values.
The second system, is the upgrade system. Once you have an item, you can upgrade it by adding various stuff to it. For example adding an elemental essence to it will add that damage type. Adding a Tenebrium ingot adds Tenebrium damage to it. Adding a tormented soul adds stats(str/dex) to it however iirc it doesn't stack so you can like make a 2H sword with str then add a tormented soul for str, but it's been a while so maybe you can. Note that you can't add everything to a single weapon, there's limitations of like 1 per type of upgrade(so can't have all elements on a weapon), and if I remember correctly using a whetstone will also prevent you from adding Tenebrium to it.
Bows have their own upgrades, where you add a Sextant for perception and a bowstring for +dmg.
I don't think wands have any upgrades possible, though crafting them with 5crafting should probably result in +int like staves, making them better than the stuff you find in general.
Thanks for the info, still, there is an item (like torment soul for STR) that add more INT to staves?