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I'm pretty sure that at some point in PoE1's life cycle, Obsidian just started following Boeroer around and nerfed whatever he came up with. ^^

Is Berserker+Soulblade any good? I'm pretty sure I'll have to play as a Berserker again, I just love sending my character into the middle of the action with a flaming two handed sword.

Playing Pillars again for the ultimate savegame for Pillars 2.

Tyranny needs more playthroughs for the story though, while character builds are not really worth it at all. Magic always has to be your main profession, because it nets you ridiculously more exp than anything else. I played it 5 times nevertheless, one time to get to know it, then four times to get the maximum out of every different path.

This is obviously KotOR III! Ok, no matter what it is, the name sounds awesome.

Just redeemed my Deadfire key at GOG

Lucky bastard. I saw screenshots some people posted, with skeletons deal 4k damage I saw those as well, ridiculous stuff That definitely never happened to me. ^^ Higher defenses might have gone unnoticed, since I never touched PotD and play on hard only... yet, some of those Cräghold Bluffs fights against Torn Bannermen did seem ridiculously tough - could still have been due to the swarms of enemy Warpriests. Odious little bastards.

I think I never encountered the defense stacking bug, neither friend- nor foe-related. Or maybe... I'll have to check that Concelhaut encounter again, where I get mercilessly obliterated within moments this time around.

That's what I like about PoE - to one question, there are 25 posts with >100 answers, and there's validity to more or less every one of them. ^^

I'd like to play Thaos, in his original time/first life, whatever one could call it. Or through the millenia. Both seem appealing.

I used my main character, who, obviously, did not die or vanish permanently. Seems it does not work. After that, the ending screen appears and i will brought back to the main menu. When i reload my last save, i have to destroy the crystal again. Interesting. So you need Iverra's Diving Helmet to survive. http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Iverra's_Diving_Helmet Edit: too slow

I used my main character, who, obviously, did not die or vanish permanently.

I actually find Fighters a bit boring as main character. In the lower levels he doesn't have more than one or two active abilities, so you mostly just send him into the fray and watch him slowly wear down the opposition by not being hit as hard and as often as he hits them. I'm all for a Fighter in you group, but there's a fighter companion in the starting village, so you don't have to make your main character a fighter as well. To me, Barbarian is the more fun variant as very low maintenance characters go (i.e. he doesn't really have more active abilities, but he just deals a lot more damage than the fighter). He's not totally as durable as the fighter, since his defense stats are not as high (though he gets the largest health pool), but his survivability is still very high. The fun thing about Barbarians is that all their melee attacks are AoE due to the class skill Carnage, i.e. you simply hit everything around you instead of just one enemy. Sending the Barbarian with a great sword into a crowd of Wichts and seeing them explode into bits with one or two swings - my black soul takes delight in that. Also there was no barbarian companion until The White March part II, so you had to make one yourself.

I like opening tougher encounters with confusion. Let them decimate themselves.

In fact, it does the same for me. But sooner or later it's always back, so i hardly notice.

It houses the character of an eons-old super-evil archwizard who you slew; not following you around is mild compared to what he'd like to do to you!

I think there are several traps and one scripted event with difficulty 15 in WM pt2. Not sure if any of those traps are on containers... it's possible.

But, but, I haven't beaten that one boss yet; It's not yet time for my second run

Wow, this is huge. The Cipher starting at 1/4 instead of 1/2 Focus is quite a nerf. Anything but blunderbusses seem now out of the question for ciphering. Also the enchantment changes of many of the unique armors make me cry a bit. This will be interesting for a new run, looking forward to it.

The Temple of Skaen in Dyrford Village? Strange, none of my companions showed this behavior. Did you try to repeat the fight and see if it happens always?

Same here. Looks kind of funny.

Damn, intelligent Barbarians - perfect! It's just that I like my main character intelligent, but i also like melee fighting. So I made a rather intelligent Fighter, had I only known about the coolness of genius Barbarians... ^^

I'll definitely keep that in mind. When I come across some guy with especially hideous memories next time, who knows... ^^

I seem to have been young at the same time as you and I know at least one game which surely inspired this post ^^ (yep, it's KotOR2)