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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
- Thread starter EviLore
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Yup. Doing the exact same thing. Though I usually open with arbalest shot. Then just run around stunning fools.
I'm really glad skills are not so class dependent anymore. I always liked my main handling most of the tinkering but that left me with Rogue most of the time. Not that I don't enjoy backstabbing... but this is a good change of pace.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Where the hell is
Maerwald? I've got the key and I've scoured the first level of the dungeon for anywhere to use it, there's just this damn magical barrier and a door in the southwest I can't even interact with
Top left room next to the stair you came from. You have to lockpick the door.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So, in my new run, I've decided to have my Chanter pull double duty as a Rogue (for RP purposes, she's a punk rock activist). Is this wise?
I've spent this latest session (which is probably upwards of five hours), just wandering around Defiance Bay, checking out all the different factions and doing any quests that come up.
I loved DA:I, but it's fascinating how I'm just not getting burned out with PoE. It's like reading a really good book.
I loved DA:I, but it's fascinating how I'm just not getting burned out with PoE. It's like reading a really good book.
Yes! That's such a good way to describe it. I spent like 6 hours just exploring defiance bay, there's so much to do! And then I found out the stronghold is like ass creed bro level of addictive!
Hiring adventurers just to put them on stronghold missions. Good bye life.
That was it. Thanks
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
gaf gold.
Soyongdori
Member
Is there any way to play this game with dual monitor set up? The in-game mouse doesn't recognize that the second monitor is on and drags mouse off the game when I scroll.
edit: nm, fixed it
edit: nm, fixed it
Still having terrible issues with the loading leaving my saves here in case someone comes up with something
http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/GbDB7OQ9/file.html
http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/GbDB7OQ9/file.html
Tawney Bomb
Member
Thus far I've spent the majority of this game getting my ass kicked. I'm thinking of just hopping down to easy, because no one in my party can stand to get hit and it's frustrating. Maybe a ranger was a bad choice? Who knows, not enjoying my time thus far though..
Who do you have with you?
Mitch
Banned
A hired adventurer (made a Monk), and Aloth.
I'm honestly not sure if I should tell you where to go and get other companions but at that point I believe I had 3 or 4 other party members.
Highly recommend grabbing Eder, Durance, and Kana Rua ASAP. It's not hard to miss all three of them. You should really get them before doing any dungeons.
Not at all in fact I remember a pretty hard encounter with a party of heavily armored priests.
Mitch
Banned
I figured more party members would be my best bet. Thanks for the help.
That's what I made. So far it's going alright.
Soyongdori
Member
Kana Rua and his gun does SO much damage. It's ridiculous. He practically one shots few enemies early on. But that horrible loading time and accuracy makes up for that op damage.
MrTeachwell
Member
Perhaps it is expensive to purchase the correct inks and pens/brushes to do the copying. In my imagination spell books are colourfully illustrated and those inks wouldn't be cheap. Or you may be paying someone more trained in copy-writing to do it for you
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Six hours in and I'm in love. The density of content is incredible. The RPGs of the last few years, wonderful though they've been, have just been tiding me over until this arrived. Its beautiful and I'm so happy I could help make it happen
Perhaps it is expensive to purchase the correct inks and pens/brushes to do the copying. In my imagination spell books are colourfully illustrated and those inks wouldn't be cheap. Or you may be paying someone more trained in copy-writing to do it for you
These are great ideas and they would serve the lore well... if you couldn't enhance out in the middle no nowhere.
Pretty much everyone in my party save two bow users have a gun. An opening volley before a fight can eradicate a frontline.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
If you wait long enough in scouting mode one of them will path towards that bend nw of the entrance. You can then pull the one without the others.
BrokenFiction
Member
So the thing that I love the best about this game is figuring out tactics. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of RTwP, but I decided to embrace it with this game. It wasn't until after the Temple below Gilded Vale that I also figured out that I could slow down combat as well. Oh the tables turned at that point, my friends.
Now I've got my PC with a Fine pistol, Eder with a Fine War bow, and both Aloth and Durance with Fine arbalests and I am wrecking fools. Most times I drop them before they get close. When they do get close, I love using corridors and doorways to my advantage with PC and Eder cutting them down while D buffs and A drops fan of flames.
So. Good.
Now I've got my PC with a Fine pistol, Eder with a Fine War bow, and both Aloth and Durance with Fine arbalests and I am wrecking fools. Most times I drop them before they get close. When they do get close, I love using corridors and doorways to my advantage with PC and Eder cutting them down while D buffs and A drops fan of flames.
So. Good.
Intheflorsh
Banned
I've encountered a few annoying Stronghold bugs where hirelings don't automatically get paid and taxes don't get collected.
This means I have to dismiss and rehire the same guards each day if I don't want them to turn hostile. Fix it please.
This means I have to dismiss and rehire the same guards each day if I don't want them to turn hostile. Fix it please.
No, you can build a priest to be an effective front liner without much difficulty.
Whoa, just beat R
- what a tough fight. I only have 5 party members, and still relatively early in the game, don't even have my stronghold yet.
Strategy was to
Toughest fight I had so far, took probably 20 tries or so til I used that strategy. Fun though. Playing on normal difficulty though, don't think I would've had a chance on hard.
eadric
Strategy was to
position my 4 party members behind the door to the left, lay down a fireball trap right in front of the door. Then send my tank to Readric and start the fight. Then run back to the door where my group was waiting, have my tank + another melee block the doorway with my mage firing off all his AEs while my priest heals everybody up.
Toughest fight I had so far, took probably 20 tries or so til I used that strategy. Fun though. Playing on normal difficulty though, don't think I would've had a chance on hard.
Mitch
Banned
Good to know.
I just added Eder to my party. Enjoyed the conversation beforehand, and now I'm off to Caed Nua.
I don't know which class to main! I've waited for so long, yet I can't choose a class ;-;
This is so difficult.
Torn between Barbarian, Paladin and Rogue (it would be my first Rogue ever). I always went for Paladin in games, but I don't want to be well mannered, etc all the time.
This is so difficult.
Torn between Barbarian, Paladin and Rogue (it would be my first Rogue ever). I always went for Paladin in games, but I don't want to be well mannered, etc all the time.
Soyongdori
Member
Just killed
in the most traditional cheap crpg way.
Raedric
Chance Hale
Member
Are there places where you can easily stock up on rope, hooks, and the like or do you need to find them? Inns don't seem to stock them.
Blacksmith did have hammer and chisel.
Blacksmith did have hammer and chisel.
He did good. They all did good.
Many thanks, friend!
My party right now is just decimating everything I'm coming across.
My Level 3 Wizard with wand for standard auto attacks
A level 3 Rogue Adventurer with an Arbalest
Any time there's only one or two enemies, they just get decimated. A full group doesn't fair much better now that I'm getting better at positioning and situational awareness.
My Level 3 Wizard with wand for standard auto attacks
Level 3 Durance with a pistol
I've built a Level 3 Eder up as my front line tank
Level 3 Kana with his Arquebus
Level 3 Aloth also with a wand
Any time there's only one or two enemies, they just get decimated. A full group doesn't fair much better now that I'm getting better at positioning and situational awareness.