LurkerPrime
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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See you in 30 hours.
the game starts out as BG1 with lots of random wilderness areas and gradually becomes BG2. I prefer the later half, actually
Snapshot King
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That would only make the game 45 hours long. Hmm. Am I rushing it? Hrmm.
It might have registered you clicking someone else as preparing to target an attack/ability, and waiting on you to select a target. I think I usually click the unit circles so maybe that's why I haven't seen it.
I've heard dexterity is useful so you have a chance to use your wounds before dying.
Windows only, it seems!
I've done basically exactly what you've done except I'm spending more time in
Defiance Bay
As far as your other post, I'm about 20 hours in, so I'd say you are rushing it just a bit.
It's part of this game's charm, that's for sure.
kickstarter backers npcs, completely unrelated to the story and quests
They're Backers that Obsidian wrote past lives for as a little bit of extra lore for you to check out, they have no bearing on the game's plot.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Backer NPCs with stories written by Obsidian. If you dont like them you can safely skip them. Same with tombstones.
edit: beaten badly
Snapshot King
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I bet several hours of that was because
1. This is a restart (I already knew how to beat the tutorial and temple of Eothas) and
2. I managed to skip 95% of
Raedrics Hold
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Do you know what engagement in Pillars of Eternity is?
I'm not all that far into the game myself but my first impressions immediately was that the Map didn't look like it was ever going to have very many locations overall, but I figured areas would individually take a lot of time to explore and flesh out and basically be filled with content that adds up to the 60-70 hour completion times people seem to get.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Iirc i had a party of 5 and we were level 3 or 4 tops. The fight there was much easier for me than fighting ghosts
you can try what I did. Took me a while, but victory was sweet!
My party was level 4 at that point. Dunno if it was underleveled for that particular fight or not
I would say yes that's probably the best move, I've found it pretty decent overall so far, better than the beginning for sure.
Not quite Arcanum level though.
Good times
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Caravan leader was rough i thought the first companion was really well done.
I found her accent a little out of place and unexpected, but overall I liked her just fine.
It's better than Skyrim, so at least there's that.
In all seriousness though some VA's are just alright but there are also some good ones in the mix as well.
Dsyndrome
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Biggest issue I have is clicking on someone's weapon and then clicking on an enemy to attack, causing my people to run screaming at a shade with their bare fists and making them fodder for the onslaught. Need to really break the weapon-clicking mentality, sucks because it's not a bug but my ingrained mechanics.
There's a lot more voice acting in the game than I thought there would be.
Clicking the weapon icon in the lower left will switch between weapon sets, which may not be obvious.
If you want to attack with your current weapon, you might be able to use the attack icon in the bottom middle, or hover over the weapon icon in the lower left and then pick the current weapon slot, or just left click your character and then the enemy.
This doesn't sound very reassuring...
I'm taking a guess I'm just going to die a lot.
Is not being able to wear a helmet as godlike an issue?
Yeah the caravan leader was pretty terrible.
Yeah the caravan leader was pretty terrible.
Terra_Ex
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Godlike can't wear helmets on account of the weird shit going on with their head. Helmets are purely visual from what I've seen anyway.
Godlikes cant wear helmets. It actually tells you that in the beginning during character creation.
Should have been clearer, when I said issue I meant as in did it make a big difference mechanically, not "Was it a bug?", thanks for the clarification on the function of helmets
I haven't played one, but monks charge something called "wounds" by getting hurt. So you have to take damage, and then be able to use your abilities without taking TOO MUCH damage.
I think there are a couple of hats that give stat bonuses like +1 might, but hopefully nothing too major. Most are cosmetic.
Also I kind of wish voice acting lines played less during battle.
*pant pant* MY BLOOD BURNS
*pant pant* MY BLOOD BURNS
*pant pant* MY BLOOD BURNS
Yeah lady I know.
my original post would have helped you then lol.
I think there's only one point in the game where not being able to equip a helmet could cause you an issue (
Temple of Woedica
Outside of that, they're mostly cosmetic.
Monks are a ton of fun, and get a lot of really fun abilities. Supposedly you can build one as either a tank and go full defensive of you can go dps. If you go dps, the idea is to be more of an off-tank, you let your real tank engage and then you go in an engage one guy and get his attention. Then you jump in and do a ton of damage, especially if you get wounded.
If you go full tank, then you kind of are the same, except you wear heavy armor and just kind of deal with doing low damage.
I really like the ability that kicks your target across the room and stuns everything in it's way. 2 Wounds to use.
Damn, run into a pretty major bug in the main quest line. I'm doing The Man Who Waits in Brackenbury and the quest is totally bugged.
If anyone has any tips, or some kind of console magic to let me complete the quest it would be nice to know. I hope this doesn't totally stop my play through.
I started it and got permission from the statue to question the animancers, but none of them have any dialog related to the quest. Then I went back to the statue, and he has new dialog as if I have done a bunch of shit in the quest that hasn't happened. Doing that dialog doesn't progress the quest at all though, and makes the statue uninteractable.
The worst is when the line can't even finish before looping, like when Eder gets poisoned. :/
Really late I think it was level 9 or 10 for first or second level spell for my wizard.
LurkerPrime
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When you run out of spells, it's either autoattacks or scrolls (only for emergencies, I'd say). And remember: pace your spell use unless you know you'll be resting afterwards, in which case go wild.
For Wizards, spells become per-encounter really late in the game. At level 9 I have yet to see 'em.
For sure! Love it though, always nice to explore around many options.
bobnowhere
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At level 9, Level 1 wizard spells become per encounter. At L12 i think L2 wizard spells become per encounter too.
LurkerPrime
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Oh wow. I guess I wasn't paying attention, then.