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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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Shake Appeal
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Kinda disappointed with Chanters, now that I have
Kana. Most battles are just too short to use their invocations, so they're just kind of a passive buff that sits there sniping.
That cipher ability where you link to a teammate and create a crushing field between the two is so amazing. It's pretty much crushed (hehe) everything I've used it on in seconds. And the positioning required to set it up is a fun challenge. I'm always hiding my cipher around corners and such before the battle starts.
It's not random. I've found some BG2 tier stuff, don't worry. I'd tell you about it but I don't want to spoil them.
main character: barbarian
Edér - cool guy, great tank but I think I might replace him with the paladin companion if I like her character
Aloth - don't like him all that much even after his quest at the Sanatorium and he's under-performing in combat
Durance - interesting personality, lots of dialogue, pretty crazy as expected. Also, I pretty much need a priest in the group
Kana Rua - also speaks up a lot, I ended up liking him so much that I decided to re-roll my first chanter char
Sagani - I like her, but she barely misses the cut for my planned party
Pallegina, Hiravias, Grieving Mother - haven't met them yet but I expect them all to make it into my party, checked their locations online so I can pick them all up before I really start with act 2 this time
final party: Orlan barbarian main character, Durance, Kana Rua, Pallegina, Hiravias, Grieving Mother
my companion ranking so far, early act 2: Durance = Kana Rua > Sagani > Edér > Aloth
Aloth - don't like him all that much even after his quest at the Sanatorium and he's under-performing in combat
Durance - interesting personality, lots of dialogue, pretty crazy as expected. Also, I pretty much need a priest in the group
Kana Rua - also speaks up a lot, I ended up liking him so much that I decided to re-roll my first chanter char
Sagani - I like her, but she barely misses the cut for my planned party
Pallegina, Hiravias, Grieving Mother - haven't met them yet but I expect them all to make it into my party, checked their locations online so I can pick them all up before I really start with act 2 this time
final party: Orlan barbarian main character, Durance, Kana Rua, Pallegina, Hiravias, Grieving Mother
my companion ranking so far, early act 2: Durance = Kana Rua > Sagani > Edér > Aloth
why are all the companions I want the last ones you can pick up
I also only use full-fledged companions, need no xp leeches in my early game thanks!
Don't double-click items to equip them on your character. Drag-and-drop instead. Double-clicking can cause your character to lose passive skills forever.
Great. All I wanted to hear. Many thanks.
I think everyone gets the same experience regardless of whether they're in your party or not.
GasProblem
Member
I'm buying the game in two weeks, when my classes are over, but can't decide on a main character. Probably a Cipher or a Rogue. I feel I need to go Rogue though. Can't justify giving companions who aren't Rogues points in Mechanics and stealth
well, I'm not too sure about this, every time I get xp from completing a quest it *seems* like it is split up among the party. If I'm wrong, please disregard my previous statement!
PoE should've been more Weird, like Planescape. All the typical high fantasy stuff just pulls it down. And honestly, the writing isn't good enough to overcome it. It's competent at best. But to be fair I have been re-reading ASOIAF so yeah, obviously it's going to feel lightweight next to that.
I don't see anything "typical" about PoE's world. It's not weird, but I never understood why weirdness for weirdness' sake is good.
Also, this is not exactly "high fantasy", it's pretty down to earth and grim.
Obviously the setting is quite different, more grounded and less out there. But it's a very interesting setting, and truly believable world. Everything from items to spell names to the bestiary reeks of lore. Everytime I encounter a new creature I read about it, even if it's something more mundane like a troll, because this world has its own take on almost anything.The writing is pretty amazing, though can get a bit inconsistent.
People give PS:T a lot of credit as far as settings go, but I like what PoE has done much more. It's more grounded, the characters more human, the issues easier to understand and identify with.
Ah that's too bad. I find it hard to continue and finish a CRPG based on much else aside from story and writing these days, honestly. I don't have any particular nostalgia for the mechanics so the feeling of adventure and discovery has to win me over. Still I'm interested though
Hmm, not fan of "rare vendors with rare item" system of Keep if they don't stick around for few days. I traveled to location X and got notification that there was person interested in selling rare item to me. I decided to check it out and traveled to my keep and it took 1+ days.
I went grounds through from top to bottom and no said vendor anywhere to be found.
What is the point with these special event vendors if they stick around for hour or two?
I went grounds through from top to bottom and no said vendor anywhere to be found.
What is the point with these special event vendors if they stick around for hour or two?
I'm buying the game in two weeks, when my classes are over, but can't decide on a main character. Probably a Cipher or a Rogue. I feel I need to go Rogue though. Can't justify giving companions who aren't Rogues points in Mechanics and stealth
Stealth doesn't bring anyhing special beside be able to scout ahead and lay traps. I just use it (level 1) with mechanics to detect hidden object and desarm traps.
Also rogue class can't hide solo in the shadow since the stealth mode is being applied for all the party.
I'm not even sure if there is a bonus damage for backstabbing an ennemy or flanking them.
Very common, I'm sure it'll be fixed in the first patch.
Luckily I had an older save. I was surprised she didn't attack me. So I stole her stuff and wiped the floor with them
Shake Appeal
Member
Wow, Durance has a lot of dialogue.
Basileus777
Member
It is most certainly high fantasy. It's a highly magical D&D inspired secondary world. The setting is deliberately constructed to be high fantasy.
I seem to be taking my sweet time but after 12 hours just recruited Kana and finally seems to be rounding out my party quite nicely. Which is dead handy as I've not a decent means of pulling enemy's with the added bonus of Kana's Arquebus is ridiculously powerful. That and I had chuckle at what he says when you scout with him.
BrokenFiction
Member
And my favorite part about him is that he'll get frustrated with talking to you after a while and give up, so you have to talk to him later. I'm using this to stretch the story out, revealing a little at a time.
Maybe it's an issue of semantics. I can accept that it's highly magical, but PS:T is also highly magical (hell, it's more magical than PoE.) Since the poster implied he did not consider PS:T high fantasy, I assumed we're talking about high fantasy in the more limited specific sense. This is not exactly a run of the mill D&D fair. It really makes anything it uses its own. Rather than fill the world with goblins, you have the creepy wichts, rather than a simple tale of magic and good vs. evil you have a moral ambiguous grim world with horrifying soul magic.
Sure, it's a more familiar fantasy world than say PS:T, but I truly believe in the saying - A good design is 80% familiar and 20% crazy. This world follows this formula exactly and the result is amazing.
Right, Josh Sawyer himself calls it high fantasy in the style of Forgotten Realms. It's no secret. Just because the characters aren't shouting about magical rings and a great evil doesn't make it low and gritty.
I wonder what would happen if a game like this were made and it didn't have dwarves and elves? Would people riot? Could they handle it? Because I'm so so tired of goddamn dwarves and elves.
I'm with you on dwarves and elves - But I feel like they made them work here. Race feels like much less of a big deal than it normally is because they treat them like people rather than stereotypes. Dwarves are actually believable here rather than irish stereotypes.
I think they are probably better off at range using a blunderbuss or something because it gives them great focus gain to get off a bunch of spells. could probably work up front too but don't think I would use them as a tank, More like a rogue going after already engaged enemies.
What's your problem with them ?
So far the recent western rpgs gave them hard time by being the minority who suffer discrimation and I REALLY dislike this.
I prefer so much instead the Lord of rings version or them or Warcraft version.
Humans ruling the world as supreme race whatever the story genre (sci-fi or fantasy) is so tiring in rpgs.
I like to feel there are different factions like dwarves and elves to balance the power of the world (and not just some evil beings faction because you need a villain) in the realms or dragons, etc. I want to feel the fantasy through them and not just to have to go bash some random stupid dragons. Do you feel that right that you can bash like 11 dragons in Dragon age inquistion ?! Yes, 11!! (the new one is the DLC). That race is instinct and like "pouf" by magic they re-appear and are rampaging the zones... /ok
Where dragons like Smaug gone ?
Only Blizzard seems to want to keep them magical, intelligent, cunning and fearsome.
I'm talking here about video games and NOT books or other mediums.
My point is, don't remove what make heroic fantasy what is. Lord of the rings and the Hobbit show that these races with their stories and lore bring so much to the settings. It's like removing magic spells to a magician.
uh, first controversy regarding the game (outside the bugs):
What do I think? That they should've asked the backer to send a different text. Considering trans people a punchline isn't funny.
kinda psyched for a mod that removes all epitaphs and backer soul types.
I agree. Hope they remove it in a patch :\
I mean, with all due respect to backers, hate should not be allowed.
Stuck, perhaps locked out of a non-confrontational method: Catacombs in Defiance Bay
So, I'm assuming I can't sneak into the meeting of the Woedica Wierdos because I'm a death godlike which means even though I can answer their questions, they attack on sight since I can't wear the mask.
Those guys are tough
I didn't even consider that this could happen, lol. Seems like playing a godlike unlocks the extra hard mode
His Majesty
Banned
Hate? It's a joke, lighten up. Although I do agree that the tombstones with all the backer inscriptions are rather annoying.
We've seen them over and over and over and over, and over again. You can try and approach them in a "fresh," less stereotypical way but then the question is why not just create a new race instead of re-using dwarves?
For me, fantasy is about escapism. Imagination. Mystery. Going to another place. The pervasiveness of dwarves and elves, and other fantasy fixtures, means you are no longer being transported anywhere by their inclusion. They're as familiar as anything else.
JoeyJungle
Banned
Is there any way to auto-sort the stash?
Yeah this bugs me to no end.
JoeyJungle
Banned
I've found this game to be a lot less demanding than D:OS, you should be fine.
The thing is there aren't a lot of graphics options. Luckily you can turn down aa by using a console command.
uh, first controversy regarding the game (outside the bugs):
What do I think? That they should've asked the backer to send a different text. Considering trans people a punchline isn't funny.
I'd say people are too touchy and need to lighten up. I'd hardly call that stupid lyric hateful, maybe distasteful at best.
Yep that's my main issue with chanters. They are amazing in like 5% of battles (bosses and some other harder enemies) but the other 95% of fights are over before they even get their first invocations.
He has surprised me. I think he might actually be the best written companion. I was planning on ditching him but decided to keep him because of his dialogue (and some cleric spells are better than I thought they would be (all the trap like spells are amazing to name a few)).
I at least wish their summons stuck around after battle...