Torm51

@ alexis, hey I hear you I am in favor of difficulty and wish this game to stay difficult. I only played one non Triple Crown run and that was my first. I have played about 2000 hours in this game and all of those except 80 have been on the hardest mode it has to offer. I too wish the game to continue being a challenge. Lets hope it stays that way.

I don’t agree I find them boring usually, vanilla. You find the ability to tailor a character your playing to suitably match your play style "vanilla." . . .For some reason I get the feeling it's not a problem with classless systems. Ya I get you, maybe its just because most of the classless system I have experience with is with the Elder Scrolls series. When I try to make a Paladin in the game, it just seems like a Fighter who uses healing type magic and yes that is basically what a Paladin is in most settings but for some reason it seems bland. Like the healing spells are not thematic. The healing spells a wizard uses in the game are the same as the healing spells that a dude in heavy armor uses. Maybe its the theme of the classes that I miss *shrug*

They are not scripted to attack Durance, they are scripted to attack low deflection targets. Durance makes a great mini tank with his huge resolve. Give him a shield and the AI never looks at him. Maybe I play defensively but i always give a backline priest a shield and a hatchet. My wizards always take Llengraths displaced image and arcane barrier. Everyone in my group can hold an enemy for a while and when it’s soft targets being attacked I just focus fire and CC the offender. In this fight Durance is ignored and my tanks resolve is useful because he’s getting attacked plus he’s doing what he should be doing and that’s taking hits. POE on path of the damned favors balanced builds or massive CC due to the number of Enemies. Resolve is useful on some of the builds. My frontline especially. I stealth everyone and pop out my Paladin and he’s face taking every spell and direct attack while the back line buffs up and annihilates.

Classless systems are the best systems I don’t agree I find them boring usually, vanilla.

Ya definitely helps

PS Con is hella good in dragon fights as none of them Target deflection with any attack. Auto attacks target Fort and breathes Reflex. On PoTD Fort is much more important than deflection. All the mobs that target deflection don’t hit hard enough against heavy armor and tanks have enough natural deflection to make most hits grazes anyway. Granted you could get be same Fort by pumping Might and Not con but even when you have super Fort you may take a graze from a dragon swipe and a char with 18 Con will be better shape then a 10 Con character. That being said if you CC the dragon 3 Con is fine but in my significant experience even with great CC a dragon will get 1 or 2 hits off which if you are weak or badly positioned could wipe you. Maybe I just play it safe and have balanced CC and good HP chars in case a CC fails. I guess the bottom line is there are lots of ways to play. Maybe this isn’t relevant to the post but I love Con and saw it bashed!!!!!

I am replaying PoE right now in anticipation of PoED and figured I would actually bother to get on the forums and look up updates for it as I haven't followed development closely on this one. I was literally just complaining to my SO last night about some of the arbitraryass cheapness of the POE combat system which was the main thing that kept me from enjoying the game as much as the old Infinity Engine games. I told him that like 60% of the point seemed to be so that certain types could brag about how many character build spreadsheets they had and how many ledgers full of party optimization calculations they had run through. And that I played BG1 as a 12 year old girl and it was my first ever computer game and I still managed it just fine and that I thought that would be impossible for me to do with PoE at that age. Etc. Etc. Then I find out today to my pleasant surprise that apparently most of the arbitrary rubbish is being removed in favor of something that doesn't require a Masters degree to achieve baseline competency at and this comedic ragefest topic is at the top. I got some good laughs as it literally just gives evidence to my point. Thanks especially for this quote "I actually liked sacrificing what obsidian though my primary stat should be (might) to make my own unique char, which 1 man solo'd Path of the damned btw, and not in that ****ty chicken **** rogue way either." I will definitely be showing him that when I get home. Disclaimer: This is not a disparagement of anybody who like challenging gameplay, tactical combat, building optimizations or whatever. I like that stuff a lot too or I wouldn't be here. It's rather a disparagement of people who want these games to be as inaccessible, esoteric, and unfriendly as possible so they can feel superior to everybody else when they beat them. I think that’s why they have story mode, normal and hard. The first game was accessible to everyone. Casual players and hardcore players alike.

On point.

And ya the Steel Garrotte are dedicated to Woedica.

Definitely don’t misunderstand them, I agree they hold tenets sacred and agree with what you are saying. Like I said when you say Holy and Light it takes me back to divine type stuff.

Ya this was my point as soon as you say Holy...anyway while “hands of light” takes me back to the “light” for WoW type Paladins I guess it could mean something else. But the Holy Crusader thing is the biggest offender.

This too, on a pure tank type fighter an extra roll for knock downs is good.

yes, unless its a specific full attack build like a Heart of Fury Barb tank or Riposte Rogue, then it is great.

I really don't see why this should be the case... I am somewhat of a pessimist and to me it seems like the making of the game was really quick. That being said I do not know much about making games so maybe I am just talking out of my ass.

guaranteed its not ready. I am sniffing KOTOR 2 things but i hope not.

I was hoping it was delayed to May 8th 2019. I love Pillars, Obsidian and RPGs but we all know that they come with a multitude of bugs. POE 1 still has them, although for me they are minor but it took a long time AFTER release to get the game to where it is today. I know its not ready and I still bet with the month delay it will be a mess at release. PS This is my favorite game every I am just being honest.

Durance is a man in search of answers, ... Also, Durance cares a lot for the plight of the common folk. I saw nothing in that game that indicates that Durance care one iota for the common folk. He killed Eothas on orders from Magran. Afterwards he was abandoned by Magran and he is searching for only the answer of why he was abandoned. Durance has a void in him left by the abandonment of Magran and he is seeking in vain to fill it. The two endings for him are both appropriate and suitable for him. Durance lost the central reason for his life, the worship of Magran. Suicide is one obvious ending for someone like him. The other is a total rejection of Magran. Generally correct. We seem to differ on how much sympathy we have towards Durance, though. There is a section - I can't tell you where exactly - where he speaks in a levelled and even voice, saying how the land and nation are deceased. He goes on, in a surprisingly poetical way for him, talking about the people and some of the ways they would treat each other. In another section he talks proudly of the progress that Magran brings with her inventions, albeit the narrower meaning here being that mages were brought to an even playing ground with the rest of the folk, and so reducing their arrogance--something Aloth agreed on. He trusted Magran to be making the correct choice when she got them making the bomb to end the war. It was, or so he believed, a way to quickly stop the conflict. We learn differently, of course. I think that he meant well all this time. It's just that he finally realizes(at least in one ending) that being somebody else's plough horse doesn't really bring personal happiness, nor does it necessarily improve the condition of others. I know some men like that irl... and anger at some point is a common trait. I do not think Aloth agrees, I think he is being sarcastic as Durance called Wizards pompous and Aloth thinks Durance is being pompous for gloating about killing mages. Maybe I read that wrong.

you are like three years late.

agreed.

Enlighten us then whats your rig look like and what are things you do? If you can get 5 to 6 second load times at the end of the game I for one would like to know so I can get those results. Mine is about 15 seconds per load by the end of the game.

I have an SSD and it seems to help. At the worst in the late game my load times are about 15 to 20 seconds.

The more you play on a play though the worse it gets. What helps some is keeping your stash clear

I am actually struggling through Act 1 cause I just finished two back to back triple crowns. Do not know if I can do three in a row with POE 2 around the corner a bit burned out lol

Not bad at all!

weird, you searched extol51? what is your steam? Ya maybe its time for a play through like that makes sense for a Bleak Walker. you just lose so much content.