[A question about gear]

I am drawing blank on Durgan enhancement. I looked up the gambeson. Not sure I understand what's good about it.

[A question about gear]

I never had a rogue, but I assume two Drawn in Spring would be good?

 

Also I use a Pally tank and Chanter off-tank. What are the good one-hand/shield combinations. Should I put off-tank into heavy armor?

What are best armors for tanking?

[A question about gear]

I finished the main game long ago. I just got the expansions and noted that the fights are significantly harder. This brings me to my questions. I got oodles of items. My characters are wearing pretty much whatever, since the original game was not very hard. I just looked to avoid too much suppression.

My group is Paladin, Monk (those Blood gloves do they even do anything?), Priest, Druid, Chanter, Cipher.

Also I got an item that duplicates other items. Is there any particular item I should use it on?

[PotD Adra Dragon Strategy]

Oh my god! I am open to all hints and suggestion.

I know that you can talk your way out of fighting it, but I want to fight it.

 

The main issue seems the insane defense, I can't land any CC on her.

[Please redeem implements in White Marsh]

Why is an implement worse than bow?

[[Un]dead Raedric and his 6 vampires strategy]

So I ran into this bunch of somber characters while doing the PotD run. I was at level 10 and fairly confident I could handle it. I did not even get to kill one of them before they wiped my party out. So what should I do the next time? I prefer to do it with Barbarian, Fighter, Druid, Chanter, Ranger and Cipher.

[Endless paths of Od Nua Level 3 (and 1) hidden rooms]

You need to have resolution in your inventory, then use it on the statue on level 3 through the dialog option you see when you click on it.

Thanks, it finally worked.

 

A curious thing about the master staircase on Level 1. Once you get there from level 3, you do not need to push the brick for the wall to open in order to use the staircase from the outside the wall.

[Barbarian - How does it deal damage?]

May be I am doing something wrong but  I have a PotD barbarian main and have found no reasons to not like it. I am also running without a priest b/c Durance is just too annoying to keep around.

[Endless paths of Od Nua Level 3 (and 1) hidden rooms]

For the secret rooms, you need the sabre "Resolution" which is dropped by some enemy on level 4.

 

For the main staircase, you need to open it from below first. Go to the main staircase on level 3 and go upwards to level 1.

Had Resolution equipped. Did not help.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

So I got my Resolve/Intellect/Perception to 16/14/16. Nothing. Do you know which prostitute (if any) gives +2 Int?

 

Update

 

Soooooo. The requirement (for my character, in case it's different for some others, Orlan Barbarian with High Cruelty, Deception and Aggressive) is 17 Perception to notice the accent and 17 Resolver to be able to address it. The prostitute that give +2 Int, +2 Perception and +1 Lore, is a human guy upstairs, near the club entrance. I had to buy a dragon egg to get to 17, but luckily it was enough with an Inn buff.

 

But more interestingly, once Eder found out where he needed to go, I told him to take a hike, and he left the party, taking a whole lot of loot with him. I went there myself right after it, and found the item. But did not find Eder. I wonder if he would reappear later on, but I am not losing my main tank so I had to restore an earlier game.

 

And by the way, I think that I got this curse (not being able to get rep up)  by killing Cerel's guards.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

I had no idea prostitutes gave buffs. Whoops.

[Endless paths of Od Nua Level 3 (and 1) hidden rooms]

On the map in the guide there're 3 hidden rooms in the N corner of the third level of the Endless Paths. But I see no triggers to open it except may be the statue near them, but there's no appropriate dialogue.

Also on Level 1 in the west there's a closed arch, also without a visible way to open. On he guide map there's a staircase there.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

If I recall correctly, convincing the record's Keeper without Defiance Bay rep is actually a multi-stat deal and it's made trickier by the fact that one of the checks is made in secret on the NPC's side rather than one of your conversation options so if you don't meet the criteria, you won't know that the check is there. I am not 100% on the specific stats, but I want to say the requirements are either 15 or 16 Resolve to try to reason with the record's keeper and 16+ Perception to notice a detail in his reaction to your request that opens up the "It's okay, I am a foreigner too" dialogue option, which is what convinces him to do it. Resolve alone doesn't cut it, and the Might option is a red herring since he'll point out that you can't make good on your threats in the middle of a guarded government building. I pulled this off with a character dedicated to digging up dialogue options (14 Per/14 Int/14 Rest) with Lilith's Shawl and a +2 Resolve item equipped, so I'm fairly confident thant 16 res and 16-17 perception together should do the trick. That option itself might require Int on top of the perception, but if so the requirement *shouldn't* be more than 14 since I don't recall having had any Int buffs at the time.

 

So uh...hope you didn't dumpstat Perception?

My un-buffed stats Resolve 11, Perception 12, Intellect 14. I am not sue what combination of gear and buffs can get me to 16/16/14. I tried with 15/16/14, did not work.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

Well depending on how much you've done in Defiance Bay and how many you killed, you might be boned doing it the Reputation way. Generally speaking, killing the locals isn't a good way to ingratiate yourself, whether they're annoying or not.

 

There's some alternate way(s), but I don't remember the specifics myself. Could've been Might, could've been Intellect, could've been Resolve, not sure.

 

Since you're seemingly not adverse to some wanton murder, have you tried repeatedly beating the records keeper with a sharp object?

Killing records keeper fails the quest.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

Completing quests is no guarantee that you'll come out with a good reputation. The fact that you're pegged as a Merciful Brute suggests that you've got a less-than-stellar reputation and may not have been entirely nice in your dealings with the local populace.

 

There are other way to finish the quest or get through the conversation I am assuming you're at, should you fail to gain the favour of the mud-covered peasantry of Defiance Bay.

I killed quite a few locals where I though nobody would notice, especially those gold-named ones, they drop good loot. I suspected there's a hidden rep loss to that. When there was a choice in ending a quest I chose the ones that gave me max rep with D.B I think I got at least one Extraordinary.

 

As far as the conversation with the librarian goes, there are only two options except Leave, one is to threaten, which he scoffs at and the other is to beg, which he refuses to accept.

[A problem with Eder's quest]

So I am doing the Path of the Damned run and I can't get my reputation with the capital to get into the positive territory although I completed ALL quests there. The rep is stuck at Merciful Brute. Am I missing something?

[The Blade that was Broken]

I have a more basic problem. I can't find the switch on the level 9. I got perception of one of the characters to 18. And it did not help. What gives?

[Trials of Durance]

I am past that quest and still can't get Durance to close the quest.

[Can't find Foemyna.]

I followed the quest hints but can't find her. Is she bugged? When I get to the Woodend I met the animancer I crossed earlier and killed her. But that was all that was in that zone.