[This single line made my day]

Aloth and durance talking about women had me rolling

Aloth: Maybe they just don't answer to FIERY WHORE!

 

I loved that line. xD

[Shades = Ankhegs]

is it the enemy with level / stat drain ability? i friggin hate those friggin mobs.

 

in BG 2 restoration spell and scrolls are super common, but in BG 1 there is only minor restoration which doesn't work for those stat drain, so i have to backtrack my way to priests

Ankheg

I'm pretty sure they don't have any drain abilities, but they hit really hard and they are just north of the Friendly Arm, so you can get there at something like lvl 2 no problem.

[What is "Foe"?]

In Danish we have the word "fæ", which I assumed was related to "foe". Problem is, the Danish word means "livestock", so I think you can imagine my confusion.

[Need help, im new.. :)]

Diffrent weapons target diffrent defenses,wich you can see when you check their descriptions. For example, a rapier will say 9-13 Pierce vs Deflection - meaning it targets an enemies deflection. If a particular enemies deflection is really high, your weapon won't do much damage at all and you are better off switching to one that does damage against a diffrent type of defense.

you can see a targets defenses in the top-left of the screen when you mouseover them, but only if the information is available to you - as you kill mobs you fill up your bestiary with their information.

This is misleading.

All weapons target deflection.

What matters is the enemy's damage reduction vs different weapon types (pierce, crush, slash). DR just straight up reduces damage by an integer amount.

If the enemy has 10 DR vs Pierce/Slash and 5 DR vs Crush, then you'll want to use a crushing weapon. E.g. a club.

Here's a nice overview: http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Weapon

 

With spells and abilities it gets a bit more complicated, since they can target different defences. The defences are used in attack resolution and along with your own accuracy determine whether you hit and how hard (miss, graze, hit, crit). As with DR you want to target the lowest defence and for difficult enemies lower their defences further with various debuffs.

[I finally finished the game and here's what I liked and didn't like about it]

I agree. 

 

Hell, Beregost and Nashkel were much more interesting than the whole Defiance Bay for crying out loud.

An argument could maybe be made for Beregost, but Nashkel? Nuh uh. That's your nostalgia talking.

[Floating quest markers]

What Junta said.

 

I would like more named drunks that recite poems though. It does make the world feel more alive.

[my in-game solution to the difficulty problem]

IE Mod has an option to nerf XP.

http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/1

[Too Easy?]

I'm going to wait for 1.05 and use the XP nerf option in IE Mod. Should make it hard enough to keep me interested until the end.

[Need help in getting it (combat related.)]

Unfortunately no spoilers allowed, but lets just say you are doing Raedrics completely wrong.

Uhh... There's not really a wrong way to do it.

One of my friends walked in through the front door and slaughtered everything. On hard.

[Need help in getting it (combat related.)]

You can set it to easy and/or hire additional adventurers at the black hound.

Raedric is completely doable at that point no matter your class.

[Safe to replace custom character portrait in a game in progress?]

yes

[If it isn't allowed to replace enchants, please make players aware of that.]

But it IS possible to override quality... I upgraded my stilettos from normal, to fine, to excellent to superb.

Only on some items.

My quick test seemed to indicate that it's a problem with unique items.

EDIT: And only when you don't have the number of slots left required for the enchantment.

[If it isn't allowed to replace enchants, please make players aware of that.]

Workaround until they fix it:

Open console

iroll20s

FreeRecipesToggle

 

This will make the game ignore all requirements, but it will still consume ingredients that you do have.

Quit to main menu and reload to enable achievements again.

[Enchantement bonus limit]

 

Has anyone pointed this out in the support forum?

 

I'll raise this if someone sends me a saved game where I can repro the issue (I'm at a point in Act II where I can't enchant anything to Exceptional or Superb yet).

 

If you want to send me the saved game—please travel to Caed Nua before saving. I would very much like to avoid spoilers since I'm still relatively early in Act II.

 

Open the console.

 

iroll20s

CraftingDebug

 

and if you don't meet the level requirement:

AddExperience [number]

 

Quit to main menu to enable achievements again.

 

I tested it, but could only reproduce the bug on unique weapons, so be aware that it may be a factor.

[Just downloaded a 592.2meg patch ?]

I think this is my cue to brag about my 100mbit, soon to be 120mbit, connection.

[What skills are most useful for party members?]

 

Mechanics: You can set 1 trap per party member and this skill affects the accuracy.

Survival: Nothing to add.

Lore: There are some pretty awesome scrolls. A decent level on 2-3 peeps makes sense.

Athletics: At least 3 points on everyone for the -90% fatigue gain. Have one char with a higher score for scripted events.

Stealth: This is kinda meh. Maybe 4-5 points on one character for scouting. You can get +2 boots too.

 

Just curious about that bold part. When you say scripted events, you mean those events where I can click a dialogue option using the Athletics skill? Not sure if I am misinterpreting what you said, because if I didnt, then I thought the only dialogue related events involved your Main Character.

 

Or did you mean like, a multiple chain fight encounter or something.

 

The story scroll thingies. You can usually decide which char should perform the task. There's an example where might is used in the first ruins.

[What skills are most useful for party members?]

Mechanics: You can set 1 trap per party member and this skill affects the accuracy.

Survival: Nothing to add.

Lore: There are some pretty awesome scrolls. A decent level on 2-3 peeps makes sense.

Athletics: At least 3 points on everyone for the -90% fatigue gain. Have one char with a higher score for scripted events.

Stealth: This is kinda meh. Maybe 4-5 points on one character for scouting. You can get +2 boots too.

[Loading times! This is becoming the single biggest hindrance to enjoyment of game.]

 

 

I was on level eight of Od Nua but before the master stairs when I ran out of supplies and needed to rest. This entailed 14 loading screens up and down so about 7 minutes straight of staring at loading screens just to rest and buy two supplies.

DUDE...

Master Stairs.

 

'Nuff said.

 

Users/[uSERNAME]/Saved Games/Pillars of Eternity

 

 

Dude, learn to read. Nuff said. I wasn`t able to reach the master stairs and had to get back up to rest and get supplies. Why are forums always crawling with people liek you who have an opinion and just can`t wait to cram it into a conversation whether it`s relevant or not?

 

You can access master stairs about every other level, so why did you have to go through 14 loading screens?

[If it isn't allowed to replace enchants, please make players aware of that.]

Seems to be a bug with uniques.

I run into same problem if I try that upgrade path with Resolution.

I can't upgrade my Forgiveness either.

 

Well, that's slightly annoying. :\

[If it isn't allowed to replace enchants, please make players aware of that.]

That's not as bad as the fact that you can't place an enchantment unless there's the exact room for it (ie if it cost 6, 6 unused slots must be present). 

 

So if it's 10/12 and at Fine quality, there should be room to make it excellent as that would bring it up to 12/12, but you can't cause you need 6 unused slots..

 

That being said, I did "ruin" a few weapons like that. But you always find better ones later anyway, so I just considered it a minor nuisance.

Are you sure?

I just tested it and it worked as expected. I went from fine to excellent to superb ending at 12/12

I'm using the beta patch, but I don't recall seeing anything about this in the notes.

[Loading times! This is becoming the single biggest hindrance to enjoyment of game.]

Well, you can't expect them to just save/load the current area... what if you traveled 5 before you overwrite an older save, do you want the last 4 ignored since it just interacts with the existing area?

 

The game should save changed data. At the moment I suspect that it saves all data, regardless of whether there's actually any difference between what's in memory and what's on disk.

[My main two gripes with this game]

Yes, you are right. But most of the time my roster is full due to predefined characters.

Then dismiss the ones that you are not interested in.

[Should discussion about The Poem be ... censored?]

White people are not subjected to systemic oppression, so when a white person interjects into that conversation with "But a black person was once mean to me!" they are rightfully told to **** off.

I find it extremely hard to believe that someone can make this statement without being ironical. SJWs get to define "systemic oppression", find the group they consider the most oppressed and let only them talk. All the while they advise others to **** off and don't mess in their racism discussion, because they do not belong to the proper race. Truly that's comedy gold, mate. 

 

You are making stuff up.

Give me a coherent definition of systemic oppression and I'll be more than willing to debate that.

Problem is, people like you are usually solely interested in disparaging those who are having constructive conversations about these issues. You don't actually have a definition in mind because you are talking out of your ass.

Prove me wrong.

 

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the bit about only letting the most oppressed talk is an outright lie. In this and other threads about the limerick I have personally told people off for transphobia, homophobia, racism and ableism. I'm willing to listen to all of those groups because they have serious issues worth talking about. I'm not interested in hearing about how affirmative action is really just oppression of white people, because that is utter bull****.

[Should discussion about The Poem be ... censored?]

Oh, nvm. Context fail on my part.

 

I hate you so much right now.  I didn't expect you to actually acknowledge your mistake, so now I feel like I should apologise for being cranky at you.

 

Sorry.

[Should discussion about The Poem be ... censored?]

 

 

First, racism. Saying that white people can't be subjected to racism or will casually dismiss it is racism in itself.

You'd have a point if racism was defined simply as discrimination based on race. Most social justice advocates don't define it that way, so you're either ignorant of what the conversation is actually about or you're arguing in bad faith.

 

He does have a point as racial discrimination is a valid definition of racism. The version you referred to is valid as well.

 

Both carry a powerful stigma (and both should); if social justice advocates don't accept both versions as valid, they are perpetuating injustice.

 

ffs, try to actually comprehend what you read. Luckmann was referring to being told that white people can't be subjected to racism. The only scenario where I have seen anyone make such a claim is when sja's are talking about racism as systemic oppression. White people are not subjected to systemic oppression, so when a white person interjects into that conversation with "But a black person was once mean to me!" they are rightfully told to **** off. If I had only written the first sentence you'd have a point, but I followed it up with two more sentences that made it perfectly clear what I was on about.

I made my response specifically to what he wrote and with the underlying assumptions in mind.