A street vendor in Copperlane sells em. They're relatively expensive compared to other base weapons but at least they're available. I couldn't find a blunderbuss through all of Act 1!
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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A street vendor in Copperlane sells em. They're relatively expensive compared to other base weapons but at least they're available. I couldn't find a blunderbuss through all of Act 1!
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
There are also a pair of rather good pistols in the exclusive store inside the brothel.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Ok I'm seeing talk about cipher with a soul whip and using the soul whip and that confusing me. Isn't the soul whip just a passive ability that basically makes you gain focus as you do normal attacks with any weapon? Doesn't every cipher start with that?
Yeaah that's a good point. My friend was watching me like 25 hours in and he was getting super excited while I was showing him the stronghold stuff and my party set up and the open world/questing. He went out and bought it and couldn't make it through the first section. I enjoyed it because I love these types of games, but I can see how it doesn't grab any newcomers.
kobe(beast)
Member
Does anyone know how long the inn buff stay on?
CrichtonKicks
Member
This is exactly how I play him and it works great- he's parked right behind my tank and Kanu so he can melee with extended reach but is protected from harm himself.
You can manipulate the engagement system pretty effectively. With the right skills your tank should be pulling 3 or 4 enemies himself. If you select an enemy then the cursor will highlight who they are targeting. So if at the beginning of a fight if any of them are bee-lining toward Durance, have your tank or someone else with good defense take a couple of shots at an enemy targeting Durance and they will take the aggro from him.
You can also use the Cipher's push back ability (forgot the name) to break engagement on an enemy engaged in melee with Durance.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
About two rests.
For 1 or 2 rests, but you can't have more then 1 bonus at a time.
kobe(beast)
Member
U mean lay on hands because I thought that only heal endurance.
kobe(beast)
Member
Do you guys think the stronghold is such a money sink without any real benefit? I mean the bonus is worst than other inn, and I don't even know why i store prisoners....
texhnolyze
Banned
Lay on hands is limited to 1 use per encounter, not rest.
Seems like it.
Doesn't generate anywhere near enough money to justify the investment.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Once fully upgraded the inn will be a free spot to rest with bonuses that are better than any other inn i've seen in the game so far.
And its free.
I just started trying triple crown solo on a second character, when my main character hasn't even gotten past (early location)
Gilded Vale
Steady income, lots of crafting components generated, missions for inactive party members to give them experience and loot, etc. etc. It's not really about the resting bonuses at all. And you'll see why you store prisoners eventually.
kobe(beast)
Member
Thanks. Then it must have been a different skill. Sorry I am still in the early game. This game is so good... I pick it up yesterday and have already logged 12 hrs....
Well my general strategy for combat is to run through a door and block the door with my fighters while my spellcasters ruin everyone through the doorway.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
It probably takes a strategy similar to speed runs, doing all sort of quest out or order based on whether their require combat.
Rerolled tonight as a cipher, decided to just start potd. Really enjoying it. I get a feeling that this would be much easier if Aloth wasn't such a deadweight, though - never came across this Slicken spell everyone talks about so he's reduced to using Fetid Caress or Chill Fog, which isn't bad, but nothing compared to the contributions from Durance or my Cipher PC. Got a Fine Arbalest while doing Ranga's chores, so it should smooth things out a bit.
kobe(beast)
Member
One more question: The chanter ability to quickly reload ranger weapon. Is this only apply to the bow and crossbow? Does this also apply to paladin's gun?
Ila Nocked works on guns, yeah.
All reloads as far as I know.
The wiki has not been very useful most times I try to look anything up. Does anyone know what affect it has on a ranger when the pet dies? It seemed to revive with no ill effects at the end of the fight. The only clue I found was something in the wiki saying that the ranger and pet share health and endurance pools.
A debuff pops up next to the rangers portrait with the penalty iirc. I'll see if I can snag a quick screenshot
Expose Vulnerabilites you guys. I took this on a whim from a level up. It's a godsend. It turned some of the High DR monsters I'd been fighting from struggles into cakewalks. The debuff power is really amazing if you have a party that can deal a lot of damage from other characters than the Wizard. Double especially if they are dual wielding. It's really an amazing spell in some setups. Highly worth the cost over the big names like Fireball, etc.
Thanks, I didn't catch it.
Also, for both speedrunning and path of iron attempts, it would REALLY be nice if there were some sort of way to skip cutscenes. There are unskippable sections with that jittery camera pan that are rather annoying when you are just trying to move on.
The quest where you need to get
the animancer's journal from the inner sanctum, however that cam be solved by murdering them all
The last few hours I have been wondering how the hell Durance never misses an attack. So now I cleared this one whole area of enemies and kept checking the stat window and yes, he didn't miss a single attack. He has the worst accuracy in my team and the other guys miss quite regularly but Durance just hits every time. I think he is bugged but I love him for it.
Yep, all DR lowering stuff are pretty much a must if you have any weaker attacking weapons. For example if you have a dude dual wielding fast weapons, take vulnerable attack asap or he won't be making almost any damage later in the game.
Yep, all DR lowering stuff are pretty much a must if you have any weaker attacking weapons. For example if you have a dude dual wielding fast weapons, take vulnerable attack asap or he won't be making almost any damage later in the game.
Well, once you power through to level 8 or 9, he and one other caster are pretty much enough to relegate everyone else to meatshield or worthless, so... balance?
No long term effects. I think it's -20 accuracy and -10 will in combat, maybe -10 to another defense or two, but that's it. The wiki seems to be loaded up with stuff from much earlier builds, so I'm assuming that shared pool thing is outdated.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Is he using a wand? It could be the enemies in that area have much lower magic resistance than physical resistance.
I've watched Kana reload while it's active. It's like watching the Flash reload.
No. Mostly guns but in the test I made him use other weapons as well and he hit 100% with all of them.
texhnolyze
Banned
No sweat.
I'm still fairly early in the game as well, but my PC is a paladin so I know a thing about Lay on Hands. I have no clue about that paladin healing spell either.
Intheflorsh
Banned
In the combat window, put your cursor over one of his attacks and see what the accuracy minus defense stats are.
I have a Double Chanter team,
Kana and the watcher
or build to be pretty ok at being able to hit things and take a hit. They are good midline fighters.
Chanter actually has pretty good stats for melee, compared to all other casters.
Any stat is pretty good on a chanter, I would choose the ones you want to use for RP
Chanters are not dependent on Might if you are going summon buff/debuff chanter.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Here you go:
This is why rogues make better rangers.
Played for about 2 hours.. got the mage and the blonde fighter in my team. I am a ranger with a wolf companion (up to level 3 now). Disappointed with the combat in this though.. your teammates really aren't very smart. My ranger should be hanging back more and he kind of rushes in more often than not. It's not uncommon for only part of my party (one person for instance) to go and attack as well. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it, but there's room for improvement to be sure.
CrichtonKicks
Member
There is literally no AI for companions. You need to micromanage them. The only thing they will do on there own is close distance to initiate whatever attack you direct.
Intheflorsh
Banned
You should not be relying on companion AI at all. This isn't like Dragon Age where companions automatically employ tactics, you need to be in control of both the positions and the actions of your party at all times.
Basileus777
Member
There's no real AI beyond auto attacking. It's a shame because some sort of programmable tactics setting would be great to have for less difficult fights.
CrichtonKicks
Member
I believe someone posted a fix a couple of pages back.