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Some basic good philosofy here.
Not that I believe the young earth theory, but logically, if an all-powerful god created the universe, then that same all-powerful god created time (it being a function of the universe), which means dating anything accurate is dependent on whether god intervened (ie god could manipulate time), which would - presumably - be impossible to detect without god intervening to say "yeah, I did it". Therefore, the earth could date to 4.5 billion years, and yet also be 6000 years old at the same time, because god intervened. I've never understood people who believe in an all powerful god fear the data of science - it seems to so devalue the ability of god who they claim to be all powerful, really.
I see - it's the "despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument," bit that's the distinction for me.......
Sure, there are beliefs that are impossible to prove one way or the other. Whatever I might think about such a belief, I wouldn't call it a delusion.
There are also beliefs that are clearly wrong but accepted by many people based on faith - such as: people who believe that the earth is 6000 years old, there was a global flood about 4500 years ago and everyone alive today is descended from the eight people who escaped on a boat, etc.
I would put the latter group of beliefs firmly in the delusion category as they are contradicted by reality and rational argument.
One of the interesting things to me about PoE's setup is that yes the pantheon we're introduced to are gods created by man, but while the Engwithans - we're told - could find no proof a real god (or gods) existing, it doesn't remove the idea that there's actually other gods out there that the Engwithans could never see.
Indeed God is Allmighty and any "proof" in a statement that He in any way could ever be wrong is of course false. This is why the scientific theories are replaced all the time. Lies dont stand the test of time. Which is why evolution theory that darwin had holds very little with evolution theory today. And that of today is allready fading and will be replaced by new lies.
Who would know how and when the world started: 10 famous scientists who lived for 50 years with the knowledge and intelligence of 10 men, or God who knows all things (past, present and future) ?
But the basic evidence shows God
: in all of vast space we see there is only life on earth. 1 meter of rainforest has more life than 10 billion x billion miles of stars, planets etc
: all humans can by dna be traced to one mother and one father
: big bang has despite billions of dollars trying to prove it, stayed nothing more than a fantasy
Only those, who in desperate measure want to deny God can come to a conclusion to do so. God is evident in everything.
Not to mention the literal hundreds of prophecies who predates Christ by 4000-500 years all happen. If one reads and understands the bible then one knows that would be impossible to all happen at once without God.
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It is you who are delusional.
I see - it's the "despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument," bit that's the distinction for me.......
Sure, there are beliefs that are impossible to prove one way or the other. Whatever I might think about such a belief, I wouldn't call it a delusion.
There are also beliefs that are clearly wrong but accepted by many people based on faith - such as: people who believe that the earth is 6000 years old, there was a global flood about 4500 years ago and everyone alive today is descended from the eight people who escaped on a boat, etc.
I would put the latter group of beliefs firmly in the delusion category as they are contradicted by reality and rational argument.
1000 years ago the bible said the earth was sphere. You scientists said it was flat. You were wrong.
500 years ago you said trolls existed. The bible said no.
Today you claim evolution and aliens, but when we watch endlessly into space there is nothing there. But 1 squarefoot of rainforest is full of life.
You are, and have always been delusional. For you take any desperate idea to try and hide from Allmighty God. Your weak bubble needs to be constantly repaired and lies never stand the test of time so you constantly change your theories (fantasies) about the world.
Here is what your desperate blind leaders, that lead you to everlasting torment in hell, never can explain away. The first natural thing must come from the supernatural.
Evolution is as big a lie as the earth is flat, aliens or big bang.
If it had been true the all living races would have been living next to next generstion of evolved beings. There would be humans, and humans 2.0. The change does not happen on a day according to your delusional scientists. This would be true for every living thing.
But it gets even more fantastic one day the universe is 3 billion years the next 11 billion years. LoL its funny really.
The bible writes about an animal the has a tail the size of a large tree, a dinosaur. Every last old civ has paintings of these creatures (chinese, egyptian etc). These same civs also all speaks of a flood that was before them. They are all related to Noah which is why they do that.
The truth is there are never new animals, there is no 1% ape 99% man and all the other 99 steps because they never happen. Extinction happens there is evidence for that.
Finally evolution is a race theory. White are less ape than blacks. You dont know what darwin wrote about at all. He also promised that before his death they would find all the missing links between man and ape (99% human 1 ape and the other 100 steps, endless bones)
One has never found anything but 100% human bones, or 100% ape. Genes show this.
Genes also show that every now living human shares one pre father and one pre mother. Every last one. But do you scientists see adam and eve? Of course not
Delusional indeed
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This just in.
One of the simpsons cast was lead designer.
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Any build is fine.
But paladins make great tanks and can heal and some buffs.
Id prefer this if you want to max his stats (orlan)
17 mig
6 con (or more or less from int/dex)
5 dex
20 per
10 int
20 res
Dex, con, int doesnt really matter how you place. If you want more dps go dex 15 for example)
Have him use a drain weapon (superb club is very good or sabre purgatory)
You will deal decent damage and go full tank. Awesome tank.
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Here comes to play what I complained about before:If they really wanted people to not min/max with extreme dumping
I don't think that preventing min/maxing altogether is, or even should be, the design goal of the attribute system.
IIRC, the main design goal was "no dump stats"/"no bad builds", which is a noble goal in itself. If a stat is there, it should be interesting and desirable. If it isn't, as Crucis said, why is it even there? So I can dump it to gain more points at CC? Then just drop the stat and give me the extra points from the get-go instead of having me run around with a character that makes no roleplaying sense for the sake of combat mechanics (how do you even picture a MIG 18 / CON 3 character in your mind?)
I do not think min/maxing is a plague to be eradicated; it is a perfectly viable playing style. What it is not—and should never be—is the norm. Min/maxing should not be the best way to build your characters and play the game, as it is right now in PoE. It should be hazardous. A score of 3 in CON is barely above the threshold for survival; enemies should be able to one-shot you just looking at you sideways. Likewise, if your RES score is 3 your Deflection should be so low that a mild gust of wind could knock you prone. The penalty from dumping a stat should roughly be equal in magnitude to the benefits from maxing another. That would force you to make hard decisions on how to distribute your points at CC, and jack-of-all-trades characters would be rewarded.
Last but not least—min/maxing is a powergaming activity, and powergaming is not the norm or the way a game is meant to be played. There is nothing wrong with it, but the game should not be balanced against it, so it is not surprising that the game's very easy when you min/max and powergame—it is balanced against jack-of-all-trades builds like the joinable NPCs.
As a side note, imho the attribute system should not be tailored to the shortcomings of other systems, such as AI and encounter design. Each system should be optimized on its own. To say that the attribute system should be X because encounter design is such that Y would ensue is poor design (it implies that Y should not or could not be changed even if it's clearly sub par.) If you are willingly and knowingly exploiting AI's poor targeting clauses, you are powergaming. Again, nothing wrong with it but you can't complain that the game is too easy (though complaining that AI should be smarter and encounter design should be better is a perfectly valid argument, and one I support.)
Wth do monsters do standard damage on Potd? And they don't only do the same damage as on hard/normal but also as on easy.
I know raising difficulty solely by damage is bad, but to completely leave damage out of the difficulty is just bad design.
While better AI remains desirable, PoTD would be much better if monsters did more damage than on other difficulties.
Thats one thing I liked about Skyrim, even though it wasn't a tactical game, the damage calculation was good. 4x monster damage on hardest and lower player damage to boot. (Last part is unneccessary but still considerable in my eyes.)
I agree. I did a whole topic about how easy in this game is at most 10% easier than hard. A few thrash mobs more on hard than on easy, that is it.
Terrible balance
Could have just done easy the same as normal and take half damage, and hard take double damage. Much better
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Sabre! Highest single hand dmg
Did you play orlan? If not then you get the deflection bonus from them.
Also paladin with faith and cautious.attack they get higher deflection than fighters (+6) and ofc sworn enemy
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Blood legacy was a good quest.
Eders quest of course.
Hiravias was good to.
The quest from the leader of the staelgar tribe was fun.
Hyleas quest felt epic. Not full of hoops but just a great map leading up to a dragon fight
I love the deal with raedric quest aswell, the whole gilded vale arrival and all that.
Oh and the first quest with the berries and the caravan attack is so good.
Alot of good quests in this game.
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Two story job, the final act as well. Most quests in the game are really good.
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To bad he couldn't see that demanding his paper back would end in his bloody death.
He may be psychic, but he has a bad memory about his precognitions. He's a complex character. It's what makes this sidequest so rich an experience.
Excellent
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Straight to you
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The irony here being that Josh is so far the only developer at Obsidian confirmed to be a cat personi meant that the designers must be crazy cat ladies/men to add cats but not add a basic man and woman romance.
Cant you see the meting?
John says: would it not be cool to flesh out pallegina with a romance? She is sterile because her race and that could make a cool arc with marriage etc
All the other designers: We know you have a woman John, can you talk about anything else beside sex?
John: But i didnt even say....
All the other designers: Lets make a special slot to carry around your cat, kinda like we do here at the office! Awesome!!
That is what they want you to think.
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you may have a point. unlike the fan base, the developers may have gratifying rl encounters that make them unable to empathize with their fans. perhaps the developers see the typical rushed and juvenile crpg romance arc as a kinda creepy autoerotic endeavour. because o' their lives, the developers might have concluded that while they could sympathize with their keyboard fondling fans, they could not genuine empathize enough to makes a crpg romance that would be anything other than embarrassing. is more than a few movie and tv comedic moments wherein a character is caught pleasuring themselves. as a developer, creating a crpg romance would be a morbid embarrassing scenario we can hardly imagine as it would be more akin to being caught while awkwardly aiding literal thousand o' folks to pleasure themselves.No romance in PoE but cats are in it.
Well i wonder what kind of life the designers have and how many of their customers live.
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gross.
yes, one does wonder at what kinda developer would wanna create a crpg romance.
*shudder*
HA! Good Fun!
i meant that the designers must be crazy cat ladies/men to add cats but not add a basic man and woman romance.
Cant you see the meting?
John says: would it not be cool to flesh out pallegina with a romance? She is sterile because her race and that could make a cool arc with marriage etc
All the other designers: We know you have a woman John, can you talk about anything else beside sex?
John: But i didnt even say....
All the other designers: Lets make a special slot to carry around your cat, kinda like we do here at the office! Awesome!!
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This man speaka da truth.If PER governs accuracy in 1.07 it will turn from "tank only" stat to "everyone but tanks" stat. I don't see how that's any better. I would max PER on EVERY character to the point I would pick +1 per as a standard background, especially spellcasters, since accuracy is the most important stat for CC. The standard 2nd line party dps build would have minimal RES and CON with all other points in PER, MIG, DEX and INT, 1 of these stats a few points short of max depending on the class. Tanks would now go for max RES and CON + whatever. Solo builds would be a bit different although max PER spellcasters would become standard issue, probably at the cost of some DEX & RES. Also, PER would become a dumpstat for pure tanks.
Ofc it would be fun with some changes but there would be issues
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A good roleplay idea maybe. But not supported by the text ingame.
She sends forth the dragonslayer with silver sword but might get the silvertongued dragontalker
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To bad he couldn't see that demanding his paper back would end in his bloody death.
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No romance in PoE but cats are in it.
Well i wonder what kind of life the designers have and how many of their customers live.
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I agree. It was poorly done. I always kill him because it makes no sense to hand it over rather than trade
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Well you can convince her that leaving the dragon be is beauty. But she does send you there to kill it so it takes convincing afterwards if you dont do it
No, she doesn't send you there it kill it. She sends you to restore her temple, it is the priests who ask you to kill the dragon (and are rather shifty about it).
I viewed it as a test: Hylea sent the dragon in the first place to see if her priests where wise enough to realise that as a beautiful flying creature, the dragon was inherently sacred to Hylea.
No she sends you there to kill it. She wants it dead and gone so the temple xan be filled with singers, painters birds again.
If you dont kill it, you need to convince her the dragon was beauty and so you did not kill it. She does accept that after you convince her but her first response is asking why didnt you do as i asked?
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Did another playthrough (always path of iron) and last time it was abit close with the ogres so this time i did all side quests except endless paths (not a single level yet) and went in there at level 11.
Capriocous hex from aloth and insect plague from hiravias and heals from hiravias (moonwell etc)
It was absolute cake.
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I was wrong. Didnt check the item properly. Accurate 2 i read as +2 accuracy it is +5. Gear does not seem to change based on level. The list seems to be pretty perfect.
Sticky
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Didnt that change with 1.05? Now its will
It was a bug.
Some attacks with extra effect like sporeling big confuse and fampyr only tested to hit. Now it first hits and tests properly
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Well you can convince her that leaving the dragon be is beauty. But she does send you there to kill it so it takes convincing afterwards if you dont do it
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Yeah and Hylea still wants her dead.
People were.painting singing dancing and birds all around until the dragon said:
Im gonna massmurder all those just because. Then its gonna be my nest.
Update #99: Announcing the Expansion and Update 2.0
in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements & News
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Great idea for constitution.