[Indepth look at Party. (Full Builds Inside)]

This isn't for PotD it says hard mode at the top. This is just a fun group.

[Indepth look at Party. (Full Builds Inside)]

Currently I have 5 character builds below and have not decided on a 6th. So tell me your opinion.

 

And tell me what you think about the builds below, and yes the barbarian is a very unique interrupting build which is fun!

 

This is for hard difficulty because PotD is ridiculously difficult and made mainly for min/max groups. And yes I can get 6 chanters to beat PotD easily but that is just not fun.

 

Pillars of Eternity Characters

 

Fighter - Fire Godlike

Mig: 19

Con: 9

Dex: 4

Per: 18

Int: 10

Res: 18

 

Skills:

 

2: Rapid Recovery

3: Defender

4: Way Defender

5: Vigours Defense

6: Hold the Line

7:Unbending

8: Weapon and Shield Style

9: Critical Defense

10: Superior Deflection

11: Unbroken

12: Scion of Flame

 

Notes: Strong Weapon for Fire Godlike Passive (Hybrid Tank/Damage)

 

Paladin - Moon Godlike

Mig: 19

Con: 18

Dex: 4

Per: 10

Int: 17

Res: 10

 

2: Fires of Darcozzi Palace

3: Zealous Endurance

4: Hold the Line

5:Liberating Exhortation

6: Inspiring Liberation

7: Reviving Exhortation

8: Weapon and Shield Style

9: Reinforcing Exhortation

10: Caution Attack

11: Hastening Exhortation

12: Deep Faith

 

Notes - Support Tank/Buffer

 

Rogue - Wood Elf

Mig: 18

Con: 10

Dex: 20

Per: 10

Int: 10

Res: 10

 

2: Gunner

3: Dirty Fighting

4: Weapon Focus Soldier

5: Finishing Blow

6: Devastating Blow

7: Deep Wounds

8: Marksman

9: Escape 

10: Vicous Fighting

11: Death Blows

12: Any

 

Notes - Main single target DPS

 

Priest - Wood Elf (Ranged Accuracy for DPS Spells)

Mig: 18

Con: 8

Dex: 20

Per: 4

Int: 18

Res: 10

 

2: Scion of Flame

3: Spells

4: Heart of the Storm

5: Spells

6: Bonus 2nd Level Spell

7: Spells

8: Bonus 3rd Level Spell

9: Spells

10: Bonus 4th Level Spell

11: Spells

12: Fast Runner

 

Notes: Buffer/Nuker (Spell Spammer)

 

 

Barbarian - Moon Godlike

Mig: 10

Con: 3

Dex: 19

Per: 19

Int: 17

Res: 10

 

2: Weapon Focus Knight

3: Savage Defiance

4: Interrupting Blows

5: One Stand Alone

6: Hold the Line

7: Brute Force

8: Accurate Carnage

9: Threatening Precense

10: Two Weapon Style

11: Barbaric Shout

12: Barbaric Blow

 

Notes: Interrupting Barbarian - Weapon Morning Star

[PoTD... Monk tanks die so fast...]

Might 18

con 15

Dex 19

per 3

int 3

res 19

 

SS + lightning strikes

both are fire godlikes

[PoTD... Monk tanks die so fast...]

In PoTD atm I have 2 monk tanks with heavy armor shields and 1h and they die so damn fast and I've maxed all defensive stats.

 

What can I do to make this easier? I also have 2 ciphers spam debuffing.

[PotD Trial of Run planning]

Run Cyphers, you win...

 

And please do not take a ****ty chanter.

[Four Talents can't decide help pick please.]

Bloody Slaughter All All attacks at enemies with low Endurance convert +20% of Hits to Crits. Crits done this way have +0.5 increased crit damage multiplier.

Two-Handed Style All While wielding a two-handed weapon, deal x1.15 damage.

Barbaric Blow Barbarian The barbarian deals a massive blow that deals 1.25x damage, causing additional critical hits and extra critical hit damage for both the blow and any resulting hits from Carnage (30% Hit-to-Crit). Carnage also hits a bigger area.

Savage Attack All By attacking with unbridled ferocity, attackers are able to sacrifice melee Accuracy (-5) for a significant boost in damage (x1.2).

 

In what order are these the best to pick up?

 

Barbarian

[Confused: Stronghold]

When I go to the 2nd floor I don't see any beds.

[Confused: Stronghold]

I Can't figure out how to actually rest in the stronghold.

[Two person party]

For two man you probably would have the easiest time with two ciphers. You won't have enough damage output to dedicate one of your characters to tank and bosses don't have blanket immunities so you can debuff them to oblivion. Grab some dakkas to generate focus and just paralize/confuse/dominate/daze all your enemies.

 

For 3 I would have a chanter tank and 2 ranged dps. Probably a cipher and maybe a paladin to oneshot casters. Or a wizard if you don't mind resting a lot. Actually that's how I started my current party as I hate micro just as you. Later on I picked up a wizard as 4th member as dps still was just too low. I still don't know if it was worth it or not, most of the time she just spams autoattacks for laughable damage, but she can lay out a world of pain when she starts spell spamming.

How do paladins one shot casters?

[Monks Unarmed or Weapons?]

You can't enchant unarmed. So isn't the best idea to go weapons? And if so which ones would be ideal?

[Random questions to ensure success.]

I've been playing on hard and have noticed it getting a bit difficult at times. I wanted to remake my party as I think it can be min maxed much better.

 

Two tanks seems like the best option.

 

What would be the two best tanks?

 

1. Fight & Paladin

 

2. Paladin & Paladin

 

The paladin auras seems to be insane but I do not know if any part of the aura stack.

 

When is it a good idea to get high perception? would this be something to get on any one who attacks fast for melee/cast interrupts?

 

Would a party build such as:

 

Fight/Paladin or Paladin/Paladin

Barbarian

Wizard

Druid

Priest

 

Be good?

 

The only issue is that the damage very poor since the druid and Barbarian would be the only DPS.

 

Does higher accuracy allows you to crit much easier?

 

And how good is a cipher in a party late game?