ArnoldRimmer

so why do I have to completely remake my character? Why can't it import all that stuff? Or at least show me which options and stats I had in PoE 1! Import my arse... bugger all was imported

One you start creating a new one there is no way to cancel... I don't want to continue as I have no idea what this is for or why it is required. Is there any information about it?

Can't see a way to do this

I never play chanters... what is that fire that flys around all the time? Is that from a chant? Which one?

I don't think necessarily that because a few people can play and beat the game with one player that the game is not balanced. I have seen people on youtube solo llangreth and concealhaut and I still struggle to do the same with a full party after over 700 hours of game play - last 200 on potd which I have completed about 3-4 times now (i don't min max and never will). I think it says more about the player and their play style. But then when I look at what they have to do to beat llangreth with one character - exploit the system: find a place where you can only be attacked by two creatures, constantly hide, eat enough food for week etc, exploit bugs in the system etc. then they aren't really playing the game as far as I'm concerned... I may eventually try soloing myself but it won't be "playing" the game - for me it would be cheating or an exeercise in using a spread sheet to find the best mechnical PC that you can make - and missing almost all content via stealth because it's not doable alone - not really. As fas as YT videos go I really like Immanuel Cans 400 + videos of his PotD roleplay with a party of 6 - now those are entertaining videos. I haven't played deadfire - I'm going to wait half a year for the bugs to be fixed - but from what I have seen on YT it seems to be aimed more at the spread sheet min-maxer - at least on the videos I have seen. I hope I'm wrong about this

NCs videos for poE1 were never great - at least for the way I play - to much min maxing which is unnecessary even for PotD. Unless you want to play exactly like NC advises you're better off not watching them. The game shouldn't been optimised for a small minority... They need to balance it for the majority of players. If someone wants to solo it, that is up to them, but you can't expect the game to be balanced

These I think are old videos. That is how the display used to be. Same with spells too. Not sure if you can reenable that mode

I used it on eder with a shield, I found it great and as clubs are also in the ruffian focus group so you can switch to sabres if you want to keep eder using his normal weapon that he comes with... or against crush resistant enemies. I found eder would trigger lots of effects once the soul bound upgrades were complete... Although I did initially have trouble triggering the effects to upgrade. Maybebif you are a min/maxer you will want a different weapon but as i never min-max I never felt it was a weapon just for rogues

So basically, do't use bash shields?

I keep reading that shields with bash are worse than normal shields so I have started avoiding them. Are they really worse than normal shields?

In BG2 I never used the lightning bolt spell as it normally did more damage to my party than the enemy. For the same reason I avoid it in pillars - anyone have any tips on how to use it without it doing more damage to me than the enemy is managing on its own... Or does everyone else avoid it too?

But I have 5 in my stash. Ho can I fix this?

No never done that. Am attempting to do everything now except some NPC quests. Just seen someone solo Llengrath on YT... bloody hell - I had six people and loads of summons and I nearly died and there are people out there soloing it!

I just killed llengrath for the first time* (phew.... that was tough, especially the big dragon, it was the last thing to go down - compared to Concealhaut I didn't find llengrath herself that hard). I think the toughest fights are the adra dragon, alpine dragon, concealhaut and llengrath. Next time I would prefer to get the bonus to abilities and not fight - just because it takes so long - one of the few fights were my party had used almost all their spells and abilities. Shame I can't level up any more and there is nothing I'm using that I can enchant to legendary as everything is already at max a bit of an anti-climax * PotD

Maybe the creator of that spell was a dual class Lawyer/Priest. I like Armour of Faith and Bless. Never found much use for withdraw... so you can sit there at 10% health for 30 seconds instead of dying - means you die 30s later. It would be good if you could cast healing spells or self-buffs, drink potions etc. Halt seems pointless, by the time it is cast they are right next to you and hit you with melee weapons - means taking a disengagement attack to move away from them

Well I have played nearly 700 hours and real like the game but the first few tries I played I thought it seemed pretty empty and dull compared to BG2... it took me several play throughs to even realise that aloth had something to do with the leaden key. I also remember on my first game after getting through stonewall gorge just what the main quest was or why I was even trying to get to the otherside of the gorge My biggest problem with the game is that lots of the companion quests are pointless and just seem to end. Like the ranger.... go here.... go there... now go over there... find a dead body - never mind that was him - end of quest. What was the point in doing all of that? Eders was one that just seemed to me to end without any conclusion as well.

Anyone ever found a use for delayed blast fireball? This is one spell I never used in over 670 hours of playing.

How does that help? My party won't attack her when she is charmed!

I have GM in my party (PotD - all inbuilt NPCs) am having troube bringing down the Adra dragon. Normally I don't have much problem when using my own parties (I don't min max) but the game NPCs don't seem to be having much luck at bringing her down. I think my main problem is GM - she is like a 5th wheel - basically just there to cast paralysis. How can I better use her and what ways can her powers help against the adra dragon in particular? she is using tidefall and the new arlabest from the deadfire pack. Everyone is level 14

I always take it for my fighters, but in the late game there are some much better cloaks. Is it really worth buying/using? Does it realy help the fighter that much?

How do you get that??? That looks like a useful pet to have... at least until concelhaut is dead! Is there anyway to trigger that quest? I have played about 200 hours and have never seen that, is it new with the deadfire pack?

No they won't.. I started a thread about this: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91683-good-people-need-some-perm-ability-score-bonuses/ and basically half the people thought it was fine and that "...people who are good shouldn't do things for rewards" or asked questions about "what is good anyway?" completely missing the poing that this is a game not an a study into types of ethical theory. Someone even asked in one of the director's Q&A vids mentioning my thread (i was pleased!) - His reply was basicallly he doesn't think they need to be equal and wont be balancing good/evil perm stat bonuses. So lookfoward in deadfire to bad dudes getting loads of perm ability bonuses while "good" guys get an extra 20 copper pieces from the quest giver for doing the "right thing"

That soul-bound mace is useless for priests, by the time you get it you have so many spells that you don't need to hit anyone and so can't level it up - unless you want to stop using priests spells for a while

Does it include twin elms or the white march? How can you view in game which bars you have already drunk in?

I have tried most weapons but have never used morning strars. There are hardly any of note, does anyone actually use them? The only good one is availble right at the end of the game.