Vi.king

considering your opening post you´ve not grown up much since then

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- Limiting camp supplies is a game mechanic so you can not rest spam after every fight. - custom companions... just dont use custom companions? - stronghold.. again nobody forces you to use the stronghold. actually the bonuses of the stronghold are so bad every inn buff is way better than any stronghold buff. the gold income from the stronghold is tiny - Enchanting/crafting. Agree, the crafting system seems a bit odd. Either give it more depth (collectable recipes etc) or just drop it.

I´m pretty sure they made the bonuses deliberately weak so that you dont feel "forced" into upgrading your stronghold. That being said, the bonuses should at least be on par with normal inn bonuses.

to be honest, I´d rather have more of those smaller villages like gilded vale instead of big multi-mapped cities.

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I beat her on Hard on the second try. Only lost one companion (all with level 10). Didnt use any strange trick just a straight fight. Whats the problem??

To be honest, if I could get a Game that had the roleplaying and gameplay parts of a PoE/BG/IWD etc and the Graphics of a Dragon Age: Inquisition that would be absolutly awsome. Dragon Age: Origin was pretty close to being that game. To bad they didnt improve DA:O but instead tried to go more and more the console/actionRpg way.

I have PC Cipher Eder Hiravias Sagani Aloth Durance so I kicked Kana, his buffs are nice and all but he didnt do really much.. I wouldnt kick Sagani because her pet can tank a little bit and she´s doing decent dmg I like having a druid and a priest because a) the druid can give healing over time but sometimes you need a big heal immediatly. b) the druid does a lot of dmg/control while the priest can give some really nice buffs. If you only have 1 healer it can be hard to do anything else besides healing Aloth is a heavy dmg dealer I wouldnt want to miss that you cant really kick Eder as he is the only good tank unless your PC can tank.

Problem is that that line of reasoning ONLY justifies the initial stat distribution and first couple of levels. If the level 4 talents (for example) were truly essential to the character's personality, then you wouldn't have a choice over them... not if you got the fellow at level 2, AND not if you let him smoke his pipe at the crossing until you're level 5 from quests. No plausible justification exists for letting you choose their level 4 talents under one set of your personal circumstances and yet not the other. It IS plausible. The companions are affected by YOUR choices you make so they level up the way you skill them. But if you dont meet them, or meet them later they are not affected by your choices thus they go their own way. It is a ROLEPLAYING game. If you want to min/max go play WoW etc. Durances Stats make TOTALLY sense.

Restspamming after every single fight was the worst thing about Baldurs Gate. I´m glad it´s gone.

so now we have a "hard mode is too easy" AND a "easy mode is too hard" thread? well...

My party composotion ATM is Fighter, Cipher, Druid, Priest, Hunter, Mage A fighter with decent items and some defensive talents is more than enough to tank several targets at once. The hunter pet can bind one maybe two targets for quite some time. My cipher can usually tank one or two smaller targets while killing them. Using crowd controls, blinds, debuffs/buffs. I´m on Hard difficulty and there was until now only one dungeon were I had to go back to town one or two times (mostly because I had no camping supplies with me and couldnt find any to buy in that town) But I guess you can just cheat too if you want to...

My main is also a Cipher. Until now (about lvl 6) I´ve played him with a Greatsword but yesterday I got a extremely good flail (very similiar to that awsome BG2 flail) so I guess as soon as I get another goot onehand weapon I´m gonna change to dual wielding. My favourite cipher skill sofar is the mind spikes (or so) massive dmg on lots of enemies :D

sorry to disappoint you but double clicking an item does nothing unexpected for me. Just tested it. I double click a breastarmor to equip it, i get the stats, i double click it again to unequip it i lose the stats. Er. Did you have any passive abilities on your character prior to testing this? Racial ones, say? Not sure, I just made a quick test before going to work. But shouldnt you have racial passives all the time?