Bennyandthejets

I removed it, my bad thank you.

First off, I know I have a problem. To those who might say "Just enjoy the game, don't stress over every detail". I wish I could but I have a compulsion to know all things & complete them for the best desired outcome. I've played PoE1 many times. I would like to do so again, but not before I know how my decisions from PoE1 will impact PoE2. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere that outlines every decision/action in PoE1 that impacts PoE2? From what I understand there are MANY actions in PoE1 that play out in PoE2. Some large, some small. I wish to leave no boulder unturned so that when I make decisions in PoE1 I will know what consequences & boons they will have in POE2. For example: In PoE1 during the parable of Wael quest, if you do not follow Wael's instructions Wael will steal your scrolls in PoE2 from what I have read. Please feel free to share what you have learned. If you are aware of a list that exists somewhere that lists this data, please share it for players interested in this data. Thanks for your time

First off, I know I have a problem. To those who might say "Just enjoy the game, don't stress over every detail". I wish I could but I have a compulsion to know all things & complete them for the best desired outcome. I've played PoE1 many times. I would like to do so again, but not before I know how my decisions from PoE1 will impact PoE2. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere that outlines every decision/action in PoE1 that impacts PoE2? From what I understand there are MANY actions in PoE1 that play out in PoE2. Some large, some small. I wish to leave no boulder unturned so that when I make decisions in PoE1 I will know what consequences & boons they will have in POE2. Please feel free to share what you have learned. If you are aware of a list that exists somewhere that lists this data, please share it for players interested in this data. Thanks for your time Edit: Mods please move this thread to deadfire character builds, strategies forum. Thank you

Original backer here. I'm still waiting to see the additional stretch goals before opening my wallet. I'm sure I'll get flak for saying this, but the current stretch goals are not even remotely exciting. Combine that with the fact that our party size is being reduced to 5 when 6 was already restricting in PoE1 and none of our items carry over from PoE1 to PoE2 for "reasons." Yeah the keep was crushed, what about the equipment on the watcher, all the companions, items sold to merchants etc. It ALL disappeared? Yeah.. no. "They would be to powerful" is not a legitimate excuse. Introduce the items in a [broken] state if Obsidian must, so that we can restore them later in the game but if this is truly going to be the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate 2, then we should be able to transfer over some or a few of the items we acquired in the first game.

I'd much rather they take different players decisions into account. I'd rather the choices I make matter--that they effect the story and game world--than just play through some dudes personal "THIS IS HOW THE STORY GOES" power trip. Absolutely. I can't take another Mass Effect 3. I was utterly devastated with how the trilogy ended. It was like "Hey you know those hundreds of hours you put into the previous game? Yeah none of that matters. Red, Green, Blue. Choose." I'm really hoping PoE2 turns out to be the next Baldur's Gate 2. The game that people will be talking about for decades. I believe it has the potential and I am totally willing to crowdfund the project but that also means the events in PoE1 & 2 need to matter. Even if we are not our watcher but have to start as the next reincarnation of the watcher I want our previous decisions to have impacted the world. Like if the player chose to release the Master Below, yeah that is going to have world impacting consequences. Maybe good, likely bad but something with that much power released into the world is definitely going to have an impact. I'd also like to be able to transfer over if not all, a few of the items the watcher acquired in PoE1. Like perhaps Eder/Aloth/Pallengina etc are searching out the watcher to give him/her her equipment so that when they touch it they remember their past life.

This is a very interesting theory I have not heard before. Despite wanting to play "our" watcher, they could go the Mass Effect 2 route and do this. Perhaps Eder and the other companions from PoE1 will be searching for the watcher in his/her next form? I would be totally on board with this if it means we can transfer over some of our items from PoE to PoE2 in this manner via said companions. Like perhaps they are tracking down the new watcher to give him/her a few items from previous life? It would be a cool way to reward PoE1 players and incentivize new players to the universe to pick up PoE1. I liked being able to transfer items from BG1 to BG2.