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  1. Hi folks, just purchased this master piece (I guess) for my trash laptop. I could play original PoE pretty allright using the console command "MSAA 0" and I read online it would work again. Unfortunately it doesn't. Any tips for me? Hate to refund it and wait for the Xbox version
  2. I've started I bad guy playtrough recently and so far I'm a bit worried, too. When killing the guy in the mill I thought it'd be cool to loot the place for corn and sell it for very high, unfair prices to the hungry people. When I freed the cook the guy was like "thanks for freeing me" - why do I have to let him go? I killed the bandits so his fate is in MY hands now. Shouldn't I be able to blackmail him into something? I don't know something like "Tell me where the savings of the Black Hound are hidden or you'll be joining them (bandits) sooner than you think." The mother quest will also have no evil option, as it seems. Only pressing out something more from the mother would be quite ok. After all my bad guy is a merc who just needs to make some money, so running erands is not OOC for him. But I don't know, maybe this one even works. Ferry flotsam is really the worst quest in this game. I mean it even creates a moral dilemma for the bad guy. "Damn, if I kill them I will have helped a merchant but if I trick the merchant I will have helped those hungry people. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO! I JUST WANT TO BE EVIL!!!" Again I want to kill the looters and press every last dime out of the merchant or maybe even take the goods and sell them somewhere else for a higher price. Are there some quests where you can be really, really evil? The most evil thing I can remember would be telling the little boys father from Defiance Bay about his dagger demanding son. Even the sacrofize of the child in Twin Elms doesn't really feel bad, as it is wrapped into the culture of Glanfathians who seem to be ok with that kind of stuff, at least some of them. Can I sacrifize the baby to get stronger myself?
  3. I'd love to be an apprentice or something of the Watcher in PoE2. Someone who is sent on his very first true adventure by his master. The PC from part one could still be a powerful level 16 badass and just be an NPC who arrives at certain times in the game (or who is killed by Sarevok when leaving Caendnuadle Keep ). I like it way more than the average "opsie, I'm level 1 again" plot. But that will never happen I guess
  4. I feel like I'm the minority in this but I actually like none of the standard companions. I love that I'm able to build a custom party. To me, they all lack something deep. Aloth and Eder are ok, but from then on it goes downhill. I hire them untill I have the money to build a complete party by myself. The WM companions were even worse. I liked the Devils story, but she is so quiet and doesn't do anything. I also noticed that there was some lost potential with her hopes of finding something in the Battery. But even worse is the fish guy. I just looked at him and retreated. "Nope, nooooope, not today sir, not today" And Maneha. Why the hell is she just STANDING in the middle of the road? I laughed hard when I read your subjective moniker "Derp" - that's fitting!
  5. There is a Twin Elms ending slide. It is called ORLAN BABY!!!! Also guys complaining about instant villain reveal... You do realize the jesus christ holy lord of all CRPG's you guys worship called BGII opens with the very first NPC you meet in the game being the villain of the game? No, the kidding the very first NPC. So complaining about Eternity revealing the villain after a short intro segment isn't really valid. At least I had to deal with Sparfel and the fat innkeeper first in the other two games. As I said it was clear to me that Sarevok was the characters nemesis and probably some kind of endboss when he killed Gorion, but in no way did I know that he was behind the iron shortage, the rise of the Iron Throne and some other stuff I cant actually recall right now. But when I arrived in Gilded Vale and heard about the curse that steals child souls I was like "hm, I wonder if it had anything to do with what that baddy in a hoddy just did in Cilant Lis ... no option to talk about it? Ok ... " But BG2 you're right. You see Irenicus and you know he is the ultimate bad guy. But nevertheless Irenicus is something different. He's ... well ... Irenicus The shattered One!
  6. I write this for clossure, as after weeks of travelling through the Dyrwood and the White March, I feel the need to put my jorney into words. It was more than two years ago when I first played Pillars of Eternity. After having discovered the great predecessors not that long before, I was deeply anticipating a CRPG experience like this, and when PoE finally came out, it was an instant buy. While having fun with the vanilla game it felt like something was missing. It had minor flaws, some bugs and overall the combat did not feel very satisfying. After beating Thaos I felt like it had been to easy of a journey, without any remarkable fights in it. That's why I struggled a bit when this year the Xbox One version came out. A CRPG on consoles? With controller? How would that even work? Pretty damn good, the reviewers said. So I said to myself: 'What the heck, you had fun the first time around and you havn't played the Add Ons yet. It should be entertaining for one playtrough and even if you're not falling in love with it, you're supporting the developers who make the kind of game you love.' I'm pleased to say that often our expectations arn't met, and sometimes that is a good thing. The fights weren't that hard in vanilla, so I figured this time around I will play it on Path of the Damned. Sounds fun, I thought. Sounds like a challenge, I thought. When I created my character, a Darcozi Paladin named Erec, it took me about half an hour. Reading through builds, thinking about his backstory and other RP issues, which was fun and made me reflect on my first playtrough. But memories really came back when I walked around the encampment near Cilant Lis with Calisca. I already knew how this was going to end, didn't I? I knew she and Heodan would die, after I had a traumatizing interaction with the Glanfathans and bested the small dungeon. I also remember the feeling of shock back then. This cautious curiosity, the feel that everything could happen. And I remembered that as the game progressed, this sensation would slowly vanish. No more surprising events took place, no more sudden deaths of beloved companions, no acts of treachery (other than occasionally an enemy casting 'Wispers of Treason'). Another thing that had me disappointed, and so the first few hours I had some mixed feelings about this. When I entered Gilded Vale I remembered the many side quests in here and also that the best battles were at the beginning of the game, where I didn't feel overpowered. I feel like it took weeks - which it probably did in ingame time - to clear out the Temple of Eothas with an evergrowing party. I knew I was going to go full custom this time around, as the original companions did not really stick with me, but money was scarce in the beginning. Slowly progressing through the temple of Eothas, one step at a time, was great for RP reasons. While my character was learning about the politics of the Dyrwood, the mystery of Waidwens legacy and the threat of Lord Raedric, he did what he was trained to do - clearing out dark dungeons that were swarmed with monsters. My party of six grew stronger and stronger, equipped with the finest loot the shades in Eothas temple had to offer, and we started wandering off a bit. One quest here, another quest there and soon I found myself in front of Raedrics hold. Untill that moment fights weren't really that challenging with a fresh party. Untill I hit that throne room, of course. Raedric kicked my ass. His wizards and paladins and priests and whatnot completely slaughtered me. But no, not completely. It wasn't the type of "Oh, I get it, I need to gain a level or two and come back". I actually landed some hits and maybe if I would just kill of that wizard a tad faster ... so I tried again and again, each time a litle closer, untill finally I laid hands on that shiny sword called 'Justice'. I thought about making my Paladin a shield bearer before, but eh, what the heck - let's make a Carsomyr wielding badass! From now on the game totally had me sucked in! As my party gathered itself and ventured forth, it came across some minor fights, some challenging fights and even some fights that seemed impossible at first. I conquered Caed Nua, set foot into the first levels of Od Nua (only to be chased out by stun-applying Xaurips!) and ended up in Defiance Bay. Ah, I remembered that one. It had a really good feel to it. Nice subquests, many different areas - almost felt like back home in Baldurs Gate! The fights got even better there. I fought the shades and ghosts in the Light Tower, and boy, they always have been a pain in the arse! 'What does the bestiary say about them. Hm, weak to fire? My druid has this nice fire weapon spell - and didn't I get some gloves with the exact same effect from the Crucible Knight quest?' The fight that seemed impossible at first became surprisingly easy, thanks to one single spell applied at the right time. This is what I loved about BG, and finally I had the feeling that PoE managed to finally inherent this himself. Sometime inbetween clearing out Catacombs, battling the Leaden Key cultists and investigating on a sudden undead crisis in Heritage Hill, a messenger approached me, demanding my immediate attendance in Caed Nua. 'Hm, I remember those. Some minor cutscene where I can either save or execute some stranger. Not really engaging, but the next time I'm back home I'll check it out!' When I arrived there I was called into the cort of Defiance Bay, some matters of succesion concering my well earned keep. 'Seems to be a minor quest. Hm, I actually DON'T remember this one ... but I mean the game has a LOT of side quests, so you can't remember them all, amarite?' When I entered The Charren Barrel later on because this Chancellor Warrin needed to see me again I thought: 'Strange place to meet up. I really do not remember this.' How could I remember it? The quest didn't exist back then! So I was pretty surprissed when that elven captain entered the tavern, a look of anticipating violence in her face. 'I mean, come on, I didn't even rest yet!' The fight was close, one of my characters was already near death, the wizard was almost out of spells - sure I could've simply reloaded the autosave from when I entered, but sometimes we have to set ourselves little challenges. My fighter Torus was slain that day, may the gods lead him unto a better life! For RP reasons it was nice to have one of my characters dying, it added some feeling of danger, and from there on I swore to not reload again if a party member dies but the fight is still won. I'm glad I did so and you will soon see why. With Torus dead my party was lacking a damage class and I went for a dwarven barbarian this time. Called him Tjalf and made him look like a tiny viking. Little did I know back then, that in the not so far future this brave warrior would have to wield the mythical weapon of his ancestors in order to avoid a possible global threat ... The quest went on and my whole party was hungry for revenge! Lord Gathbin had messed with the wrong fellas, and we were definitely about to teach him that lesson. The whole narrative had me convinced that a battle was soon to take place, and that I did not have the time for huge preparations. Neither had I hired Korgrak, nor beaten the Iron Flail. I quickly finished the Crucible Knights quests (boy oh boy, those Forged Knights were tough!) and hoped to at least get some help from those guys, hired some mercanaries and then the epic battle of Yenwood unfolded. I did not know what to expect. The sequence at the beginning indicated I was far outnumbered. My mercs were slain by the Bleak Walkers, my Knights didn't do much good. So it was up to my own party! To battle! For Torus! The battle had me alternating hope and despair from the very beginning to the end. They were many, but they lacked qualitiy. My mage dealt a great deal of damage to their back line. 'Ha, are you kidding me Gathbin? Is that all you have to offer?' But his henchmen kept coming and coming, while the fine lord himself stayed out of harms reach. 'Those Bleak Walkers just wont go down. Those bowmen in the back are a minor, but constant threat. And how the hell did I not see that priest over there?' One charactet went down, then another, then my own priest. I thought for sure I was going to lose. My wizard only had a few minor spells left, but remembering BG, they could make a huge difference. I blinded the enemy, cast slicken and with a little help from Lady Luck I was able to beat the remaining foes. Imagine my joy when I send my Paladin Erec after the fleeing Lord Gathbin. I'm sure you all know that joy when he finally goes down! 'We could've been friends, man!' After the battle of Yenwood I felt like the king of the world. Again, it was not so much the hardness of the battle inself, but the self imposed challenge. I did not prepare my party in any way and with the help of potions, meals and scrolls it would have been a lot more decisive - but a lot less fun! Those kind of preparations would soon be needed though, as I progressed deeper into the story and the Endless Paths of Od Nua alike. Chapter 3 had me a little confused. My original plan was to beat the game until the point of no return right before Thaos and than start the White March. You know, like a picky eater. Save the real treats till the end! But upscaled Chapter 3 was not really doable for my party back than, even though I managed to get kinda far into it. Once I even trapped myself in the Frost-Hewn Breach! The final fight was pretty tough for me back then, I was badly wounded with several party members near death - and I idiotaclly overwrote all my recent saves!!! What a thrill it was to sneak out of there. This instance taught me though that I would need to return later with a stronger group, so I ventured north into the White March. The White March started out pretty iritating to me. It was upscaled but I cut through those Ogres like a hot knife through butter. I'm till convinced there is an issue with their level upscaling on Xbox, as the rest of the Add On was not that easy. And again the game confronted me with those lovely interactive sequences that I felt were missing in the main part of the game. Even though some of them seemed to had no bigger effect on the world, they still added immersivenes. How cool was it when my druid cast a spell that protected me from the flames in the burning house? Exploring the White Marches was aweseome. The mystery of Durgans Battery felt like right out of a Tolkien novel, I could hear deep dwarven voices humming in the background as I approached this long forgotten home of Tjalfs kin. Remember Tjalf? The dwarven Barbarian I hired after Torus death? Yeah, turns out his ancestors used to live in this place. To me, fantasy is perfect when it leaves room for your own fantasy. And boy, was it fitting. When he finally returned to the White Forge with a dire look of shattered remembrance on his face, I could hear him whisper the song of Durin (or the song of Durgan, both pretty awesome!) and it sent shivers down my spine. It was astonishing to look back at my jorney even at that point. All those adventures we had, the friends we lost (by that time in the game I lost another dear Ranger and her pet companion and a singer who, to be honest, I never grew fond with). But it all paled in comparision to the threats still ahead! I hadn't slain a single dragon yet. There were some rumors about a strong band of mercanries and an archmage they were after. And another enemy awoke from his slumber when I left the White March with a wrong sense of security. The dragons were eating me up at first. Their breath wiped my party, their friends stunned my party. I had to reload and reload again and again, till I was getting frustrated. I tried each one of them before finally beating one of them, saying to myself, that if not the last one, than this one must be the easiest of them. I can't say if it was the easiest, but the first dragon I managed to defeat was the sky dragon in the temple of Hylea. Scrolls of paralization prooved to be the key, simultaneously cast by both my mage and priest. After that I took on the alpine dragon, but resorted to a different kind of strategy. After he got confused and took care of those annoying ghosts, my party took cover behind the ice blights and unloaded arrow after arrow and bolt after bolt on the ancient beast. The hardest dragon turned out to be the Adra Dragon. His army of Xaurips and Adragan were the least of my problems, as this beast actually turned out to be immune against paralyze. So maybe for the first time I took advantage of the fact myself, that this game offers about a douzen of different stun effects, and using Gaze of the Adragan (ha! fight fire with fire!) and the earthclaw druid spell this beast was slain in no time again. What a feeling it was to have beaten three mighty foes like that on PotD! I know some of you are really superb at this game, but to me, who's in many ways still a newbie to this game, it felt kinda satisfying. I felt like I was getting closer and closer to the end as I beat Concelhaut and progressed through the early quests of White March Part 2. I lost another dear party member at the elevator in Durgans Battery due to my stupid decisions (I told him to hold on! Why didn't I try to save him myself?!) and my Paladin Erec tried to drown his sorrow in drugs, developing a serious Svef addiction. It was nice though that I could at least loot his gear when I returned to the lower floor again ... urm, I mean when I could rescue his body and give him a proper burial. WM2 had some of the best fights in regard to creativity. Suddenly beeing surrounded by foes on the elevator, each party member was on his own until they could regroup. The giant spore in the lumincent cave was a bit of a challenge at first and I had to "think around the corner" hehe. By that time I hit level 16 and I felt this is the right time for endgame content, so I abandend the White March again and went after Llengrath, finished the higher bounties and again felt like a king when none of those gave me any real headache. So when I returned to finish the WM2, again I was having expectations that proofed to be false. I thought if I beat a total of four dragons (I dont count Llengraths drake) and two archmages, what else could the game throw at me? Many say that Llengrath is the hardest fight in the game and I did it on my second try! But this little bugger is only a moth compared to the monks from the Abbey of the Fallen Moon. Yep, to me those guys were the hardest of the hardest. But eventually, with a little help from Mr. Cheese, I managed to reach Ondras altar and talk to the godess behind the reappearance of the eyeless. She told me that in order to destroy them I had to reforge Abydons hammer, and who else was better suited to wear this mighty weapon than the durganbased dwarf namend Tjalf? When we finally beat the kraken and reached the crystal, we all knew that one of us had to sacrifice himself. It was only fitting that Tjalf, wielder of the mighty hammer, kin of the Durganfolk, worshipper of Abyndon would carry this burden. When I selected his name in the interactive sequence, a single tear ran down my cheek. I knew those kind of sequences could end up with one of your party members dying, and the WM2 was especially cruel in that regard. I expected none less of the final interaction. When the walls of the cave collapsed, when rocks the size of a dragons head fell from the ceiling, when the caverns filled with water, when my party escaped using Calacaths Frozen Rake to solidify the ice and finally got out of there I was crying out loud when yet another of my expecations wasn't met ... out of the thin ice broke a sturdy dwarf, heavily wounded but alive. 'You ever seen a duck that couldn't swim? Quack, quack!' The rest of the game was a sheer formality. At least Thaos managed to beat me once, as I didn't quite understand his transforming into the statues of Woedica. When I destroyed them first the second time around he had nowhere to hide, and beeing struck down by Concelhauts Hammer of Awesomeness, my party didn't sweat finishing him off. I sent the souls back to the children they belonged to, as promised to Hylea. The ending sequences rolled and reminded me yet again of all the good deeds I did (and the companions I didn't pay any attention to). My journey, for now, was over. When I bought Pillars of Eternity about a month ago, I was expecting an entertaining roleplay experience but didn't think it would suck me in that much. Every winter I restart the Baldurs Gate saga, it has become kind of a ritual for me. From now on, Pillars of Eternity will definetly be a part of that. Tl;dr: Thanks to everyone involved in this masterpiece, thanks for developing it and thanks for further polishing it after release. Thanks to the community, without your tips I would not have gotten far
  7. Huh? The only bounty I would compare to these was the Berath priest in Searing Falls, and I managed to beat him with level 14 I think? Brynlod. Ha, I remember that one. Yeah it could've been kinda tough but I managed it on my first try. I confused on sight and the mages were busy blasting their spells on their own front row. Wall of colour worked pretty well if I remember correctly. After Brynlod and his front row were down, only the two sorcerers were left. They had the 8th level summoned bow spell avaible and almost managed to kill of my entire party :D I went after them pretty ill prepared as I thought two wizards would go down easily. But I guess I was lucky and also the AI wasn't really well in this one, as the wizards did not move and could not engage me through the ruined walls. I don't know if this was legit strategy, luck or simply cheesing :D
  8. Huh? The only bounty I would compare to these was the Berath priest in Searing Falls, and I managed to beat him with level 14 I think? Also he was ONE encounter in comparision to three moderately sized maps full of those monks. Especially on PotD it is annoying when you can only rest 2 times and than have to travel. Anyways, I beat WM2 (boss was dead before the Eyeless even reached my party) and vanilla both upscaled but apparently those are not worth bragging about. Bragging rights in PoE you earn from beating the monks in Fallen Abey. To me that is by far the hardest area ingame.
  9. I just fought a bunch of those Ondrites at Caryons Scar. Their party consisted of one monk and I think another uniquely named monk. They were no comparision to the ones in the Abbey. I know they have different names and such, but considering that you face them AFTER you're done with the Abbey I'm really getting the conclusion that fighting in the Abbey is only for hardcore players. Just wished they would've told me that earlier
  10. I wonder how you will do it - monks have especially high Fortitude & Will defences (up to 150) when upscaled, and all Will debuffs targets... Will of Fortitude. Seems like lucky roll to me. Am i wrong? Fighter with Disciplined Barrage or Paladin with Sworn Enemy + Zealous Focus, then add a priest with Inspiring Radiance, Crowns and Devotions. Whisper of Treason from Munacra Arret has +10 ACC and gets +1 per char level. At lvl 14 this would result in +20+10+20+6+10+14 = +80 ACC on top of your base ACC. Cipher can do the same with Tactical Meld (+20), then on top Borrowed Instincts (+20) for a total of +100. If you want to go totally crazy you can add a paladin with Coordinated Attacks + Marking for another +20, even +30 if it's a Darcozzi. That would mean +110 for a fighter with Munacra Arret, +111 for a paladin with Munacra Arret or +130 for a cipher with his own WoT. On top of base accuracy at lvl 14. Base accuracy at lvl 14 would be 72 for fighter and 67 for paladin and cipher. PER bonus comes on top. One could add Distant Advantage (Wood Elf) as well. So if you want to charm an enemy you can do it reliably. Wow, you guys seem to know your POE For me the problem with the things you mentioned is: -I have no cipher - thats my own fault admitetly -I never had to really worry about ACC before, so I'm not very familiar with those abilities you mentioned, but it sounds logical to up ACC for WoT -I could've tried upping my Wizards ACC before trying to blind them - without multiple buffs (just the level 4 priest spell) it didn't do much good. Most of the time only grazes and the effect was over rather fast -CC them is impossible because they seldomly build a crowd. One goes here, one there and puff it's over - CC is basically how I played the game before. -my Tanks just go down very, very quickly - the monks just unload on any character. They strike like twice a second. Their base damage isn't high, but it adds up very quickly -I'm not a master of the game, so maybe the problem is with me not optimizing their defenses What's bugging me is that it is such a high rise in difficulty. The whole game on PotD was doable without applying multiple buffs to my party. It adds a whole new strategic problem to the fight: how can I buff my party before they strike me down? One spell at the start of a fight is no prob, but to reach those ACC values you spoke of seems to take some time. Before the Abbey I stormed through the fort of the Iron Flail like I'm a monk of the Fallen Abbey myself! The three eyeless after that were nothing else but another random mob. And when I was told to go to a silent monks retreat I didn't expect much resistance. But they terrorized me like only Irenicus could untill now. Later I will finish WM2 and I bet that neither the boss nor the Eyeless on the way will provide any difficulties whatsoever. Anyways, thanks for your replies, it is deeply appreciated and good to know that it is possible to beat them fair and square. Hopefully on my next run I wont have to cheese
  11. Yeah, but that's exactly what I tried! And I thought "ok this must be it, the monks get stronger when wounded - so I just wont attack them and they should become a lot easier. But this is not true unfortunately. I specifically focused one monk at a time, even had my wizard cast direct spells instead of her explosion splash damage. I let the barb use his crossbow instead of letting him slash away (maybe I should've exchanged him). But the thing is, they still are super powerfull. Especially when buffed (and my debuff, 3rd level wizard spell doesn't do anything). Well, it is over for now (unless the return in the Lair of the Eyeless) and all the monks lie dead. When I walked back trhough the surreal amount of corpses (stopped picking up loot a looong time ago) I thought "Well, maybe, just maybe you are not supposed to fight in this area at all."
  12. Haha, thanks, but if I wanted to play peacefully I wouldn't have picked PotD but I will definetly remember that for my next playtrough. Right now I'm pulling them of one by one. Super exciting, I know, but to me this is just lousy balancing. I mean when I pick of one monk at a time they usually almost manage to kill one of my tanks. ONE OF THEM. I had some good experiences with the frost skeleton hand spell when I entered a new area and was suddenly surrounded by a bunch of them, managed to win this fight. But as they tend to jump around and seldomly are staying together this is not super helpfull. More then two monks at a time is just crazy. And Kaoto doubles himself like 2 seconds into the fight. Yep. Seems logical. Arn't monks supposed to get stronger when they take hits? This should mean if you ignore them they can only do so much. But no, they still kick me around like a goofball. My backline is rather vulnerable, that' true, but so far the game hasn't been very punishing in that regard. Only annoying things were ghosts who could teleport behind my front line, but they are not comparable to the monks. Problem with monks is not just their teleporting, but they are impossible to bind and run around like they did some crazy amount of coke. And as I said it's not just my squishies. I made a fighter just for this occasion, super high defense and she still gets beat up. Maybe I could switch my wizard for a cipher and have the monks charmed more often, as her confuse spell doesn't do much, but I really want to have some "new" classes left for my next playtrough. I'm definetly maining a Monk next time oh did I just kill Kabuto? you're overpowered but not so overpowered that you can beat me on your own. May your soul find a new life where maybe your not put into an impossible fight. Also I don't quite get their abilites. Just looked away from the health bar a sec, than at once my priest was down. She was standing behind the melee fight, no enemy was around her, she had almost full health. The combat log on xbox is useless so I don't even know what hit her. Guess she just fell uncouncios from the awesomeness of these guys lol
  13. Hello again, I'm seriously helpless right now. So far I beaten the game on PotD with some efforts, but ultimately nothing that I couldn't handle. I had my troubles with the dragons - beat them all, including Llengrath on my second try. I'm max level with almost every class. So when I walked into the Abbey of the Fallen Moon I thought "well this will be easy I guess" ... boy was I wrong. I mean it's not that it's close or something. No, they just completly wipe the floor with me. The monks kick me around like I'm level 1, teleport around and break every freaking line I put against them. It's not just that the own my squishies, they also beat up my tanks (of which I have three atm) like they are the Fist of the Northstar or something. I manage to beat some of them, somehow. Bigger groups are a pain in the arse. I'm crying at the thought of some tough boss battle with 10 monks in it or something like that. My biggest problem is that they just run around like they want to (and even my tanks focusing one of them take forever to kill one). I'm really really annoyed right now. This isn't what I signed up for when I wanted a challange, as this is frankly the total opposite of how the whole game played out so far. Do you guys have any tips for a noob like me? I hope so, or else ... I don't know. Maybe I just build myself a party of 6 monks and rape them all.
  14. Tbh I always thought of BG1 story as pretty interessting. Other than Sarevok slaying Gorion you did not really know he was the ultimate bad guy (granted, which is a pretty solid hint). But you had to invest the iron shortage, the bandits and the conspiracy of the Iron Throne to find out that it is all connected. I don't know why but the moment I was told about Waidwens legacy (is it called that in the original version? i mean the sickness which leaves the children without a soul) I thought "that probably was the guy I'm after". I also loved uncovering all the string pulling in it. You went after the guy in the mines only to find out he got his orders from another guy who got his orders from another guy and so on. Also you had the reveal of beeing a Baal child in BG, which is pretty interessting if you were into the lore a bit. All the story connecting me to Thaos ... well I never really dug into that. It seemed kinda random to me - my problem was that I could not really connect the dots between the present time and the time were my former Inquistor self hailed from. IMO they should've made that a little clearer, it seems rushed when it's finally introduced at the middle of Chapter 3. But as you said, I think it was much more about the side quests, exploring etc. There were so many cool scenarios that made me completely forget about the main plot and just enjoy my time.
  15. Yeah, I will have to pillage some battle fields for Grimoires but that should do lol. I know this respecing can be cheesy, I even once considered to give my chars some handpicked talents for certain fights, like the accuracy bonus against Ghosts when I fought the Banshee in the light house, but never did lol
  16. Thanks guys, I found it. Kinda stupid I have to respec my Wizard, I hope I can somehow conserve the speels he's already learned. I'm almost endgame, so I don't know if I will even get it on this playtrough, but it's surely nice for future Wizzies. I just assumed that you could learn all spells through grimoires, but now I know better Thanks again.
  17. I just read about it. Seems pretty good, but I find no info on where to find it.
  18. I would highly recommend to keep your stash on a low number and DESTROY whatever junk you deem unnecessary on Xbox. The loading times are ridicolous right now (endgame) for me. Not lying it's almost five minutes for a RELOAD (switching areas is faster luckily).
  19. I don't know if there are really builds for these characters, as the most important thing to consider is already laid down (attributes). But you might want to have a look in this subforum: https://forums.obsidian.net/forum/91-pillars-of-eternity-characters-builds-strategies-the-unity-engine-spoiler-warning/ Basically the only thing you can distribute are skills and talents. I think fighters are the only ones who are able to max out their accuracy with talents, while others only gain a plus six bonus. I didn't really like those and I get much higher bonuses from buffing characters. So just use the talents which are supportive to their role. I'm playing a similar group, only diffence is I have no cipher and fighter, insteaad wizard and paladin. So far I'm doing alright, the real hard fights started with the highlevel areas from WM1. I am considering changing my druid into a better DPS, which I am lacking a bit atm. I don't really use his AoE spells that often to justify his use, most of the time it's my mage that does the damage.
  20. Sorry, I was a little bit in a hurry when I wrote this :D should've put myself clearer. When I was being told about Stalwart and the ogre attack, at that point in my current playtrough I had not encountered any Ogres. I knew about the Ogre cave in Elmshore from my previou playtrough on the PC about a year ago, so I knew they were quite strong. The first one I met in my present playtrough was the one who stole the piggies from the farmer in Dyrford Village. I had not been to the Ogre Level in Od Nua by that time, no. When I first tried the Xaurips with their stun attacks proved quite difficult for my young party back than, so I came back later (dunno, maybe close to the end of Act 2 or something). Even than I found the ogres quite hard, only being able to beat them as it is a very narrow space down there. Well, it is what it is now. And to be honest, not everything is that simple in WM1 as of now. When I ran through the ogres like that I thought it's going to be like that the entire way trough, but aparently far from that. I just had two moderate fights with the fish guys and the vampires east of Stalwart. Funny enough before them I fought the slavers who again stood no chance what so ever. Right now I'm sneaking up on a bunch of ogres let's see if they have something to offer. It just doesn't seem to be very consistent until now. Strange thing is when the prompt for level scaling comes up, it says "the enemies of the main quest will be scaled up" - which I assumed meant especially things like the ogres from the beginning, and not some loose mobs standing in the middle of nowhere. Still, I'm rather confused :D /e: the different ogre types from WM according to my diary are level 4, 5 and 6. The Lagufeath matron (?) however which gave me a hard time was level 13. So lol yeah, quite the difference. Might this actually be a bug, scaling some things but not everything? Uh, but I'm playing on Xbox so I think this is the wrong forum? BUT all of this aside I'm reall enjoying the story of WM1 so far. The side quest seem to be a good mix of simple killing-quests and ones with more text interactions. Really loved them in the tutorial of the main game and was so disappointed when there were so few text interactions in the later game. The add on seems to be quite full of them.
  21. Wow. Just started WM1 with scaling. Ran through the village without having to do anything besides pressing the A button for attack. Oh no, right, I had to use self heal once in the boss battle. In my diary it states the Ogres are about level 5. I guess that is without scaling? It's really lame. When I heard "Hey, Stalwart is getting attacked by Ogres" I never even encountered an Ogre. I knew that there was a cave full of them in Act 3 which was pretty hard. And when I met the first one in Dyford it was a tough fight. So I never thought I could tackle a whole city that is invaded by Ogres, sound pretty high level to me. Now I gotta chose between slashing away everything in my path and possibly beeing even stronger when I return to Act 3 (which is quite hard, but doable with better preparation) - but at least it's a challenge. I don't know what they thought with this Add On. Just add in some stuff AFTER the main game, not this crap that messes with the already unbalanced main game. I guess I will just hire a bunch of new low level adventurers, equip them with my OP gear and restart the WM1. At least that is doable.
  22. Well, that's my question :D is this true? So there is no area where I should be level 16? Pretty sad imo
  23. So it will be level 8 + 33% which makes it more like 10,5? Is the scaling not taking my level into consideration? Is it just checking if I'm above a certain level and thus adding a certain percentage of exp to every enemey? Or is it raising the enemies based on my actual level? Scaling really sucks is there nowhere I can read what it does exactly? All I have are vague statements from various threads here and on steam ... also, if WM1 is supossed to be level 8 - then why the hell does it raise the level cap to 14? Wouldn't that mean that I'm way to high when I finally return to Act 3? Should I do WM1 and immediately WM2? Confusing as fouck. I like add ons that add ON something, not add in ^^ but whatever
  24. Hey folks, so when the game asked me "You're such an awesome player, man, how'd you like to scale the enemies up to match your level" I thought "sure whatev bring'em on -.-" I didn't know what I was doing It's getting kinda ridioulos. I can't really win a fight, at least not the meaningfull ones (At the mercy of the tribes, into the white void). I was level 9 when entering Act 3 and now I'm level 11 - still no difference really whatsoever. That mercanary captain from the tribe quest was untouchable for me (not a bug, checked that). Strong enemies one or twoshot my characters, even tanks. I mean after besting the game so far without hardly any effort it now seems like the game is telling me to level up some more. Only question is - where and how? I advanced to last level of Od Nua, only the dragon is remaining now. Only thing left in the main game for me is the content of Act 3. And no, I do not want a peacefull solution I really like to know what exactly did the level scaling do? I think I read somewhere that it boosts only major enemies like 33% of their level. Sooo ... which level are the mobs / quest enemies of Act 3? I would also like to know what am I supposed to do as soon as I hit White March? The content is completely new to me (yeah) but I'm really worried that it is either going to be a walk in the park with my level 11 - 12 party or an absolute nightmare if I choose level scaling.
  25. I have to say, that I agree with you Haran. The game is rather easy even on PotD if you know what you are doing. I just did the battle of Yenwood with a level 8 party, without any big preparation whatsoever (during the battle I thought it would've been nice to use some of those potions and scrolls that keep on stacking in my treasure chest - but, oh well ... ) That's not to say it wasn't a really fun battle! Had me from "pfff this is easy" to "wow I don't think I'm gonna make it" over to "maye ... just maybe ..." and finally to "MUHAHAHA, take this Ramsey Bolton, erm I mean Lord Gathbin" Probably took me about half an hour because of all the micro management. But it paid off, none of my characters died and it felt really really satisfying to win this one. So basically the way I harden the game for myself (as I don't like to slim down on my party) is to not make use of potions, meals, scrolls and such all to often. I would however have expected that in order to best PotD you need to make use of EVERY mechanic the game has to offer. So it's kinda strange that I don't even need this. I love it in BG when one single potion of Ice Giant Strength makes the difference of life and death. But anyway, just wanted to tell you about my epic battle lolz.
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