Celan

I had that bug- encountered Concelhaut first and my character said "Arkemyr sent me" even though I hadn't encountered Arkemyr at all. Later I got a message to meet Arkemyr. Found him in his basement and had a strange interaction with a pool then got a quest from him. I had no idea what was going on. This isn't really "bad dialogue," though, it's continuity bugs. I thought the dialogue was good, though often frustrating with companions specifically.

Or poison a dude...

To keep her from being offered as a ritual sacrifice?

Yeah, that 40 raw damage plague of insects with 22 alchemy every 3 seconds is pretty weak lol You think a player having to have 22 points in a skill for a spell to be effective is a legitimate argument?

I found my druid to be pretty weak. It was disappointing, especially because you were pretty effective in PoE1. I ended up acting as support spellcaster most of the time, which I did not sign up for.

I had a few crashes or near misses and it did seem to get worse after the patch.

I mostly stayed away from enchanting this time, because it was so opaque and indeed felt like it was mostly one step forward and two steps back plus a very high cost in materials and gold.

Do they have a fatigue injury? Check the red buttons next to their portraits.

Except their track record is pretty dismal. Anyway, I hated all of them by the end and (cue Sonatra music) did it my way.

Wut. It's a pretty straightforward battle for control of Hoover Dam. And yes, it's a very well implemented story, especially taken together with DLC. PoE2, I felt the pacing was awkward. Maybe they shouldn't have had Eothas reveal his next destination and you had to search all the luminous adra pillars in the region.

Which is? Persuade Zamar to take the Principi deal and work on their ships alone.

Was it? I can't say really. I think there's plenty of evidence in Eder's story that he's not so good with relationships, so in that vein it's not entirely out of character. I don't think I'm judging him, exactly. Weaknesses make a character interesting. I don't really buy impulse as an excuse. How it doesn't register to him "I'm kissing Aloth right now and he's not aware of it," I couldn't say.

Why is it creepy to him to like her? An actual relationship between the two would be creepy and unfair to Aloth, but in the files all we get is him liking her. She is a person after all. All the points against it would make sense if it was an actual relationship. But it isn’t, it’s a spur of the moment thing. Edér’s character is being judged for something we don’ t know if he’d actually do. I don't agree that she's a person. Personhood= a body and soul integrated. For her to come forward, Aloth's consciousness is overridden. It's the kind of crush someone would have if they weren't so good at actual human relationships.

Okay stop, you clearly don't understand the mechanics/realities of Eora. Iselmyr is not "someone else". Iselmyr IS ALOTH. He awakened to one of his past lives, this happened because in his current life he was not standing up for himself so his soul proactively did what it had to do to protect itself. If people get Aloth to come to terms with Iselmyr and face up to the reality of why she happened, shocker, he starts standing up for himself, and actually can be a bit of a "meanie" (really Obsidian, that isn't even a curse word). There are scenes in my Deadfire game where he outright insults Pallegina/Eder calling them names and or stupid. In fact, he is far ruder and condescending to them than they are him. So again, he is the same person as Iselmyr, if you teach him to stand up for himself anyway. The body is not separate from the mind, though Eora tries hard to make it seem that way. Aloth =/ Iselmyr because there has to be a unified sense of self in any healthy personality. As I see it, Iselmyr is a disordered fragment of essence that is lodged in his mind and conceptualizing it as a parasite is appropriate IMO. Granted, the theory of human consciousness is extremely complex even without the body jumping in Eora. As already pointed out, Aloth starts to stand up for himself and gains a sense of purpose regardless of outcome on Iselmyr. But this is an Eder thread, and I'm just as perturbed at what the whole thing says about his personality. It makes him seem even more immature and kind of lost. Assuming the whole thing wasn't just some sort of gag on the part of the writers.

I swear that Aloth was eyerolling over things NPCs were saying, not me. Like I would ask a question, the NPC would answer, and I'd get a nose sigh out of it if the NPC was too snarky in replying. Not companions, regular NPCs- so it could only be directed at me, right? Diva.

Eder makes a move on Aloth's body because he's got some strange fascination with his skin rider. It's extremely creepy. I'm glad I unburdened Aloth of both the Leaden Key and his split personality, for both his and Eder's sake.

Apathy is the correct response IMO. So you'd respond by committing an even worse atrocity? Good to know there's a way to wipe the floor with the hazanui and circumvent all that.

Subjectively I would say the hardest fight was in Splintered Reef. Took me a couple tries to get it, had to go back to the ship and trade Serafen out for Aloth. I became Nemnok's minion, so not sure about that one.

Fair enough, I tend to take the view that adults should sort out their own disagreements. I didn't hear that banter, Aloth actually stuck up for Xoti? Interesting. Especially considering the fact that Xoti was kind of an ass to everyone who didn't love her Gaun. I listened to it on YouTube to see what people were talking about- eeeechhh, that's creepy in the extreme. Eder is far more screwed up than I imagined.

Because they're the indigenous people. The others were going to have to make a strong case to get me to side with them. I was prepared to support the VTC, who seem to offer something to the Huana besides conquest- up to the point they wanted me to commit at best mass murder and at worst mass murder and suicide. Nothing they had done had earned such fanatic loyalty. I'm not sure I could do that quest even if I rp'ed a Vailian. Meanwhile the Rautaians didn't make a good case for what they could offer the Deadfire, and after I opened Ukaizo without sacrificing any of their ships or men- they respond by attacking me. The Principi really offer the best moral choice, and I would have gone with them after forsaking the VTC, if I could have gotten Furrante to step down. At least they can be bargained with. Fanatics cannot. By default, I picked "screw all y'all." Even with a bad ending, it was the only real choice. It's not that I dislike factions, it's how they were executed in this one that left me cold. Fallout New Vegas remains the gold standard, even with the Legion being so shortchanged.

You can boot him after your ship wrecks. At least, I recall an option to tell him you're going your own way. And as I said, Aloth can defend himself very well. He's not that sympathetic to anyone else's plights.

But... they still do suck up. And without the protagonist, they can't solve their own problems and never get a leg up on the others. So we're back to square one.

is that true ? after I got the ghost ship...I got the Principal saying they will take the 'Spoiler Island' and without them , a normal ship (the Junk) kept sinking . So had to use the ghost ship and they helped in the end . And the slider counted them as me siding with them . and no , I didn't have a chance to say NO . I got there with the junk upgraded with dragonwing sails and blackwood hull. We had one or two skill checks along the way, also- so you need an experienced crew.

Okay. Still gives me no reason to involve myself in any one of them. More realistic would be to broker an alliance between two of them to cut the others out.

Aloth gives as good as he gets. He really doesn't need a white knight. I do understand wanting to confront Eder about orlans, though. I wanted to ask the crew what the hell they were thinking playing a "knife the orlan" game on my ship- the ship where my orlan foster daughter was running around. My favorite burn of Eder came from Pallegina, when she said "Eder, I know you don't like to think, but maybe it's time you start." That was about his wanting kids but not getting around to having them.