Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
You need to be a priest with that as your deity, I believe.
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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You need to be a priest with that as your deity, I believe.
Irobot82
Member
I don't like this and I don't think it's so simple in a game like this.
Armor 1.
DR 8
Attack rate penalty is 40%
Armor 2
DR 7
Attach rate penalty is 30%
Which one is better?
Not to mention. Armor 1 has defence against Crush and Slash. Armor two is Crush and Pierce.
It's a bit more involved than just, this one has higher number so should be Purple.
GordonHalfman
Member
It's a level 3 phrase now I think, used to be level 1 but got bumped for being too good.
My rogue needs to slap shit faster. Less armor!
I was wondering why I didn't have this either, heh. Might be the harshest change in Expert mode outside of party member permadeath on 0 health.
Like most people it seems I spent awhile making characters and running them to the first town. Eventually settled on a barbarian and started the first dungeon but man is he squishy. So I'm torn now and am considering starting again before I invest too much time on these characters.
I read abit about rangers but not seeing much beyond that. Are rangers like they were in most IE games, sorta terrible unless meleeing?
If that's the case anyone have any insight on how effective they are or are there better options for melee/ranged.
I read abit about rangers but not seeing much beyond that. Are rangers like they were in most IE games, sorta terrible unless meleeing?
If that's the case anyone have any insight on how effective they are or are there better options for melee/ranged.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, equipment is much more contextual in this game, so I don't think they should be flagging one of these as "better" than the other. I guess just reading "DR" doesn't make clear whether a higher or lower number is better, but you can learn what DR is very easily.
LurkerPrime
Member
That reminds me, Aloth's portrait has such an incredible expression. Obsidian did such a good job with the portraits. So many other games put so little effort into them, but not Obsidian...
I was worried for a while there, after Dragon Age: Inquisition hit it big with its annihilation of of character portraits. But no more!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Bwhahahahaha. Okay, look you stupid pack of bandits, you must not know about me. I roll deep and
OH GOD 87 BOARS ARE EATING MY FLESH HALP
OH GOD 87 BOARS ARE EATING MY FLESH HALP
Aloth's voice is perfect, too. Obviously voice acting is minimal in this game as it was in the IE games but in my experience so far they've handled it pretty gracefully, and the casting seems on-point.
I wonder why those tips are not included in manual. They are really, really helpful in such games.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ohh ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
Shake Appeal
Member
I'm probably going to put together a short "How Not to Die in Pillars of Eternity" that bullet points the 10-15 things you should know going into combat.
1. Pause.
2. Always be doing something.
3. Use per encounter spells. ALWAYS.
4. Don't fight the bear solo.
On an SSD the loading screens pass by pretty quickly, too, so stuff there is easy to miss.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Well Baldurs Gate didn't have romances either in the first game
Viconia was the only good one in BG2 anyway.
Irobot82
Member
Yeah and even then like I posted, you'll notice the armor had DR for certain weapon attacks. I love it. This is all so fascinating. So arrows and firearms are pierce damage so I should have my back line wizards decked out in high pierce DR armor. Wow this makes things deeeeeeeeeep.
They actually took that into account and Loading Screen tips are in the Dialogue tab in your log.
Man, you guys aren't making the wait any easier.
I don't have a PC at the moment
Irobot82
Member
Oh. Well. Guess I missed that!
I'm tempted to reroll at this point. I'm not very far in.
Knowing what ya'll know now. What's the optimal rogue race/stat distribution?
I think I'll have to get past my aversion to non-human main characters and maybe go with a halfling for the crit bonuses or just go godlike for the bonus damage to near dead enemies.
For my human rogue I went:
20 might
8 con
18 dex
10 per
13 or 14 int (don't remember. It was my 3rd point dump)
10 resolve
Good/bad?
Are there helmets that do anything later in the game? Magic with good bonuses that would deter me from the godlike?
Knowing what ya'll know now. What's the optimal rogue race/stat distribution?
I think I'll have to get past my aversion to non-human main characters and maybe go with a halfling for the crit bonuses or just go godlike for the bonus damage to near dead enemies.
For my human rogue I went:
20 might
8 con
18 dex
10 per
13 or 14 int (don't remember. It was my 3rd point dump)
10 resolve
Good/bad?
Are there helmets that do anything later in the game? Magic with good bonuses that would deter me from the godlike?
Ha yeah immediately realized that after I edit it, so good job to GAF on that one.
decoyplatypus
Member
I'm wondering whether I should load my main up on mechanics. He started with enough to deal with most of the traps and locks I've encountered so far (currently exploring a dungeon beneath the first village). I had intended to assign most of his skill points to lore and athletics, but I don't want to let his mechanics skill lapse and not find a replacement in short order. Are any of the companions mechanically-inclined?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Gunna cheat your way into GAF-Gold, huh?
UncleSporky
Member
Go with a rogue Island Aumaua with their extra weapon set, take the ability that reduces the penalty for switching weapon sets in combat, go around blasting enemies with multiple blunderbusses in succession.
There are later abilities to give you yet another weapon set and other blunderbuss bonuses.
Boars are fragments of the god of destruction. Avoid them.
Bullet points 1 through 10:
- Despite your instinct to move your squishy characters away when someone walks up and starts punching them. DO. NOT. MOVE. THEM. Disable the foe hitting them first to break engagement, THEN move away.
Not gonna spoil who the bartender is for people that don't already know. I didn't.
I've been playing the German translation because I was curious about it. Whoever did it thought it was a good idea to change Goose and Fox around completely ruining the reference. I got it though once I talked to the bartender.
Chance Hale
Member
Jesus, the
fight seems impossible.
Edit: Playing on hard where he has
with
radric
Edit: Playing on hard where he has
seven
dudes
him
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
PoweredBySoy
Banned
So, as far as dialogue options are concerned (alignment, attribute checks, etc..), the game only takes into account your main character, correct? And not the specific character I happened to be controlling at the time.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
They are translating everything in every language so its normal that the translators translated also gaf's inn name, im sure they didnt know what was payed by backers and what was a normal city inn, if not they would have probably left it with the original name.
It's true, you don't gain EXP through battles.
Going through hard fights for no exp and maybe just good loots... I dislike this also.
But so far, it's the only downside for me (I'm still at the beginning).
Why? There's a limited number of enemies AFAIK, so it doesn't change anything practically.
I feel that it's a step in the right direction.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I wasn't thrilled about it either, but honestly the run of the mill combat XP in the baldur's gate games was always a bare fraction of what you got from quest XP anyway, so it isn't much of a difference. It also means it's impossible for the game to require or promote any sort of grinding, which is nice.
Hey guys I am pretty new to this type of game but I have been enjoying it a lot.I do have a question though that I think is important but have not yet been able to figure out.
I know in the Beastiery you can see the Damage Reduction for creatures you have fought in battle. From this I have learned which type of Damage is best to use (or not use) on certain creatures. For example I now know not to use piercing weapons (eg. my bow) on spiders because it gives DR 10 but something like Fire is good because it is DR 2.
My question is this: is there a way to see the same sort of information for non-beasts? Like if I am fighting a group of Bandits how do I know which type of Damage is best to use against them?
I know in the Beastiery you can see the Damage Reduction for creatures you have fought in battle. From this I have learned which type of Damage is best to use (or not use) on certain creatures. For example I now know not to use piercing weapons (eg. my bow) on spiders because it gives DR 10 but something like Fire is good because it is DR 2.
My question is this: is there a way to see the same sort of information for non-beasts? Like if I am fighting a group of Bandits how do I know which type of Damage is best to use against them?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ask them politely?
CrichtonKicks
Member
Don't know if it shows up in the Bestiary anywhere but you can get the information during the fight itself if you mouse over the enemy.