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[Kiritsugu]

I'm having trouble deciding on a class. I was set on Paladin for role-playing reasons, but gameplay-wise they seem boring, just tanks with aura buffs.

Ciphers are more interesting, a damage class with lots of abilities that paralyze, blind, charm, etc, but I don't like that their AOE abilities have to be used on a target.

Rogues seem cool, but completely focused on single-target damage and debuffs.

Arrrghhhh!!!

 

[Altazor]

-TOO MUCH READING
-TOO MANY WORDS
-OLD ART STYLE
-NOT ENOUGH A FOR AWESOME
-WHERE ARE THE IMMERSIVE CUTSCENES OBSIDIAN YOU CHEAPO BASTARDS
-VOICE ACTING CUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF

4/10 WOULD NOT PLAY AGAIN

 

[Randy42]

So I started with Barb and starting to wonder if its a bit boring since its basically just go hit things proc it hitting other things and thats the sum total of the class

but anyway does anyone have sick wizard pocket strats they'd be willing to share? I feel like Aloth should be the carry in my party if I knew how to control him right (Currently in the early

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lords castle

dungeon)

 

[vocab]

-TOO MUCH READING
-TOO MANY WORDS
-OLD ART STYLE
-NOT ENOUGH A FOR AWESOME
-WHERE ARE THE IMMERSIVE CUTSCENES OBSIDIAN YOU CHEAPO BASTARDS
-VOICE ACTING CUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF

4/10 WOULD NOT PLAY AGAIN

No romance

 

[injurai]

-TOO MUCH READING
-TOO MANY WORDS
-OLD ART STYLE
-NOT ENOUGH A FOR AWESOME
-WHERE ARE THE IMMERSIVE CUTSCENES OBSIDIAN YOU CHEAPO BASTARDS
-VOICE ACTING CUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF

4/10 WOULD NOT PLAY AGAIN

 

[Rad-]

I made my moon godlike monk crappy on perception (6) and resolve (7) and he gets fully hit with like every attack. I have the lightest armor on him as well to keep speed as good as possible. But with 20 constitution he still doesn't die and his wounds are almost always usable.

Also Force of Anguish is the best ability I have seen so far. God damn it makes me feel like a badass when I use it. People get knocked down like 20 meters lmao.

 

[Altazor]

No romance

OH YEAH THAT TOO.

WHERE ARE MY WAIFUS OBSIDIAN.

I WANT TO TIP MY VAILIAN HAT TO M'LADY COMPANIONS.

 

[Shengar]

-TOO MUCH READING
-TOO MANY WORDS
-OLD ART STYLE
-NOT ENOUGH A FOR AWESOME
-WHERE ARE THE IMMERSIVE CUTSCENES OBSIDIAN YOU CHEAPO BASTARDS
-VOICE ACTING CUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF

4/10 WOULD NOT PLAY AGAIN

If it's not because of the all caps, I wOuld fall for it.

 

[Haly]

My Lion seems to be bugged. It takes literally no HP damage at all.

Not that i mind.

 

[afreaknamedpete]

I really don't want to drop the difficulty level but for the life of me I cannot beat the ghostbusters level. Why can't we start off by fighting dumb goblins and orcs, instead of paralyzing, teleporting, charming ghosts that dodge everything?

Also, does a pet do anything except occupy space?

 

[Altazor]

If it's not because of the all caps, I wOuld fall for it.

worst thing is, I've read some stuff containing (some) of that. It boggles the mind.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Enjoying this so much more than DA:I

 

[JimPanzer]

anyone tried running this on the integrated GPU of an 3570k?

 

[Tanis]

I'm torn on whether to start on normal or hard. I've always played the infinity engine games on normal/core rules and found them to be decent challenges. But the norm for games these days is for normal to be fairly easy and hard to be like the normal of old. This was reinforced recently for me with Wasteland 2.

Is there anyone here playing on normal or hard that could compare it to a recent playthrough of an infinity engine game?

 

[Pilgrimzero]

can someone tell me with the bells

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I have the parchement and it say ring the bigger bell first, but I tried all the possibility and nothing happen

I found a key that unlocked the door, never had to mess with the bells

 

[Emitan]

what the hell is the point of talking to people i cant screw what is this

 

[Volodja]

Every level up with Talents has me pondering over what I wanna do for 10 minutes...


...for each character leveling up.


Everything looks so SHINY.

 

[injurai]

what the hell is the point of talking to people i cant screw what is this

Expansion pack.

 

[vocab]

Enjoying this so much more than DA:I

shocking

 

[Alastor3]

GOD DAMMIT IT'S HARD ON HARD MODE!! with 2 casters and a warrior, now i wonder if I should make an adventurer at the inn

 

[conman]

The title of this thread just single-handedly convinced me to pick up this game.

 

[Dmax3901]

For people getting wrecked like me, this actually helped.

http://www.incgamers.com/2015/03/pillars-of-eternity-beginners-guide-tips

Especially the part about how your tank needs to engage the enemies to stop them rollicking your other dudes.

 

[MasterOfPastures]

HM. I never had much interest in the old CRPGs, but I'll pick it up at the next sale. GAF tavern should be a ncie surprise.
This success story make me hopeful that a real, true successor to Deus Ex could be crowdfunded.

 

[esai]

I'll be picking this up tomorrow morning after work and play for the next 2 days

 

[Kvik]

Aww yeah almost 5pm.

Goodbye work, Eternity here I come.

 

[senahorse]

I don't think an SSD is the intended install location for this game, I never have time to read the tips haha

 

[eyeball_kid]

Is there any in-game option, or any chance of being moddable, to enable true turn-based combat, instead of pause-and-pray? Pillars has my interest piqued, but I'm not a fan of the real-time-but-you-can-pause combat idiom.

 

[Haly]

Ready to roll my fourth toon!

 

[publicpwnerer]

I've restarted multiple times, struggling to decide what class to play.

I think it's definitely between rogue or barbarian. Barbarian's have a "cleave" passive, in which their attacks naturally cleave to nearby foes. I'm wondering if that cleave passive benefits from Intelligence (Increased AoE). I'm assume the Intel AoE bonus would only apply to activated skills, but I'm curious nonetheless.

I normally play a spellcaster in literally every RPG, but I think it's time to break the mold and shy away from my usual tendencies. Despite Josh Sawyer claiming otherwise, I have a feeling melee classes will be auto-attack bots, 3.5E style.

 

[Beepos]

So only have time to play one. This or DA:I? For people who have played both, do you enjoy Pillars more and if so, why?

 

[Almighty]

Well hiring that adventurer sure seems like it has helped. He filled a gap I had in my party pretty well. Still need to work on my tactics, but I am having a blast with this game so far. This game so far is exactly what i was hoping for when I first backed it.

 

[Soyongdori]

Hard difficulty is hard. I got one shot by a fucking bear in this game. And I'm trying a dungeon in the town but spiders are kicking my ass.

I'm about to lvl up my character. Is utility talent more necessary than any other talent in the beginning lvl?

 

[The Technomancer]

On the off chance that anyone else runs into the freezing at one of the early game cutscenes, turn off MSAA by bringing up the console with ` and entering MSAA 0

Fixed the problem for me

 

[fanboi]

So my review of the game, which is from a long time BG2 player (BEST GAMER EVER):

• No depth, feels to shallow
• The art style in the game is horrendus and dont appeal to me at all, biggest dissapointment in history
• The music... bloody hell they didn't even nail this part I mean it gives no feeling of the game at all.
• No attachment to the world either, it feels... barren.

Now take everything above and read it opposite.

 

[Sou Da]

Jesus Christ I just realized it's 2. It keeps happening.

 

[The Illiterati]

So only have time to play one. This or DA:I? For people who have played both, do you enjoy Pillars more and if so, why?

Thus far Pillars is by far the better, deeper game. I enjoyed DA:I but it is as shallow as it gets with some enjoyable characters and brainless exploration. THen again, there's a time and place for that. 6 hrs in Pillars is a constant role playing feast with millions of options.

 

[Cerity]

Every level up with Talents has me pondering over what I wanna do for 10 minutes...


...for each character leveling up.


Everything looks so SHINY.

I don't even read them all, I just tick whatever first grabs my attention.

I figure I can fix it up later if my choices are bad or restart entirely. Rather enjoy the game than spend ages trying to figure out what to do with my characters.

 

[injurai]

Jesus Christ I just realized it's 2. It keeps happening.

Shh. Back into the game with you.

 

[water_wendi]

i thought someone on the Codex was joking when they said there was an achievement for Triple Crown Solo. Was looking on the Steam page and its real. Holy shit lol Best of luck getting that 100% achievement hunters!

 

[Ivory Samoan]

I don't think an SSD is the intended install location for this game, I never have time to read the tips haha

This is partly the reason I install RPGs onto my HDD now.. lol.

Never thought I would be complaining about too faster load times

10/10.

 

[Burt]

Hard difficulty is hard. I got one shot by a fucking bear in this game. And I'm trying a dungeon in the town but spiders are kicking my ass.

I'm about to lvl up my character. Is utility talent more necessary than any other talent in the beginning lvl?

lol

That bear

That bear is going to be a meme within a week. Don't worry about getting one shot by it, just come back and murderize it later. And I think talents all depend on your class/build/goals. For my ranger, for instance, first thing I did was pick up the extra tanky pet talent out of class talents to keep my bear alive, then I got two-handed damage out of offensive talents for a straight DPS increase. For my off-tank, on the other hand, I got the heal self and heal other utility talents. So it's a character to character thing.

Just finished up R

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aedric's Keep

, super satisfied with the whole thing.

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Climbed up the vines on the west ramparts, put on the priest disguises to get past the guards, talked to the old priest dude for help, went down to the dungeon, saved the dude the priest wanted me to save, declined the animancer's offer and gibbed her like she deserved, came back up and told Raedric he was nutso, declined his and killed him on his throne after starting the fight surrounded by him and like 6 guards.

That was a crazy fight. And, after it was all over, I went back and looted everything I missed on my stealth route. Now I've formally refreshed everyone's equipment, and it's definitely time for bed. The thought of what would've happened if I made different choices is gonna keep me up though.

The game's s'alright.

 

[Jaevlar]

How viable are Druids when it comes down to fighting? Thinking of making one with the bear shape shifting ability. Yay or nay?

 

[robin2]

I'm having trouble deciding on a class. I was set on Paladin for role-playing reasons, but gameplay-wise they seem boring, just tanks with aura buffs.

Ciphers are more interesting, a damage class with lots of abilities that paralyze, blind, charm, etc, but I don't like that their AOE abilities have to be used on a target.

Rogues seem cool, but completely focused on single-target damage and debuffs.

Arrrghhhh!!!

Same. Paladin class of PoE is really meh. Here explains a damage dealer paladin, which obviously won't compete with more suited classes (barbarian, rogues and I guess monks) but that sounds, on paper, way less boring that the tank paladin (zzzZZZzzzzZZZZzzz). Also since there's a paladin a companion, that you could develop him/her as standard paladin if you want to have both.

I don't now though about its viability, especially on the long run/harder difficulties. Since I'm going to play hard+expert, I'm a bit wary at going for it.

 

[goblin]

I really don't want to drop the difficulty level but for the life of me I cannot beat the ghostbusters level. Why can't we start off by fighting dumb goblins and orcs, instead of paralyzing, teleporting, charming ghosts that dodge everything?

How many characters are in your party? If you've just got the two NPCs from Gilded Vale, I recommend looking around other areas first to bolster your group before tackling the temple.

A couple early NPC locations:

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There's an incredibly useful Priest available in Magran's Fork, just south of Gilded Vale.

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There's a Chanter hanging out in front of Caed Nua, which is east of Magran's Fork and then past the Black Meadow.

Also, does a pet do anything except occupy space?

If you mean the cosmetic backer pets then it doesn't seem like they do anything, nope!

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I decided change back my portrait to one of the default ones. It was too distracting to see my own drawing there in the game.

 

[Corpekata]

Sounds to me like a lot of people are being stubborn and trying to take on some early dungeons too early. There's other quests early on that are much easier. The one that sends you to the Something Compass, for instance.

 

[Skeletron]

Game is so good. SO GOOOD

 

[kevm3]

I've been playing this all day.

 

[Soyongdori]

Is it even worth having any utility talents in this game?

 

[Kyuur]

Bought and downloading! My fiancee was already playing earlier today. Super excited!