Silvaren

So I have this issue with framerate. It's so frequent that it turns this awesome game into unenjoyable experience. Any crowded area, like some part of Port Maje, Neketaka, Fort Deadlight make my fps drop to 10-15 or even below 10. It even worse during nights, when the torches and other lights source pop up. It occures both in outdoors and indoors, like Berath's Temple in Neketaka, The Kraken's Eye inn. It's strange because I have smooth 60 fps in dungeons, starting beach, caves, digsite near Port Maje. Even dungeon with Oswald runs smooth until the encounter with Woedica's cultist. It's hard to issue command with 5 fps slideshow. It so strange that I have 60 fps near the water "sculpture" beautifuly animated at the roof of the palance i Neketaka, while few steps further closer to the throne, the queen and her tigers it drops instantly to 10. I tried different graphical options, different GPU drivers, I turned off steam overlay, nvidia ansel. I tried OC GPU with MSI afterburner but it didn't affect the performance. My spec: I5 7600k OC to 4,5 GHz, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB of RAM Win 10. I play on 1080p res. Steam forum has few similar topics, there are people with gtx 1060, 1070, 1080 even 1080TI with framedrops below 15.I know that Deadfire may not be demanding in terms of GPU, but CPU isn't old to make such terrible performance. Turning game off and start up again makes little improvement to performance but for very short time. I still have similar issue in Tyranny in areas like Scarler Chorus Camp in Act 1 or Disfavoured Camp in Act 2.

It happened to me too. No input from mouse. Quick save, quit game, launch again solve the problem. For 18 hours only 2 times, but I remember this issue from the beta. Also often I can't extend dialog history during the conversation. Button at the upper center of the windows doesn't seem to work most of the time.

I gathered the ones I could on the beach, then in Port Maje flooded district and after my ship was repaired I went back to the beach and collect 2 spirits which stayed there before (women's spirit up the road, who was saying that death is borring and the one man's spirit near the water where player woke after ship crushed). Be sure to swim through caves for another spirit which can be convice to follow you. But those two I mentioned are just standing/sitting and talking outside of conversation if you click on them, but with Xoti in your party she will pull them to the lantern.

In game encyclopedia says that power level affect all spells and abilities, but I know that some things scale with character level instead.

It's like a torch.

Probably my pale elf paladin/beckoner or death godlike monk/wizard or fighter/wizard. I would go with Evoker and try endgame spells but I don't have save of mage with merciless hand. I'm not even sure if those bonus talents will be exported to Deadfire.

Magran's Faithful were easy for me while Brynlod and his crew were one of the harderst fight.

Scion of Flame doesn't work with DoT so no effect on Dragon Thrashed. Slayer talents doesn't work with DoT too. MaxQuest explained DoT mechanics here: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91903-question-about-dots-and-hots/?p=1893595

Eyless in WM 2 were the toughest fights for me. It was like - figurine at the start or death from their fire ray. Fights were really long. If I summoned ancient weapons, then I sent one to lure another eyless before current combat ends.

When I get Black Sanctuary, I had only Adra Dragon, Llengrath and Thaos left. I managed to get through Endless Paths without the shield. Vithracks are squishy, die fast but only if you aren't paralyzed. I used figurines at the start of every fight with vithracks or adragans, then my own summons. Summoned creatures are like agro decoys. AI just can't resist to attack them. Lagufaeths are the easiest of CC enemies. Aila Braccia reflects nearly all of their attacks - paralyze too. It's quite funny.

@Raven Darkholme Your fight with Alpine Dragon looked riski near the end but now you have Black Sanctuary. I didn't though aboout withdraw + dragon trashed before Boeroer mentioned that it works. Now things should be easier for your chanter. Probably not so easy like your cipher with psychic backlash vs Llengrath's dragons but still :D

Thanks again! I even accidentally upscaled act IV and the fight with Thaos had few danger moments. I'm uploading videos. Alpine dragon and Llengrath are probably the only two fights that worked out without doing too much dumb mistakes. The only battles I'm proud of: Alpine dragon: Llengrath fight:

I managed to win this fight thanks to Boeroer's advice! :D Black Sanctuary for withdraw, then switch for Steadfast for single weapon + constant fear immunity. And I get the Ultimate Challenge achievement.

I use Munacra Arret and Ring of Changing Heart. Maybe it's bad luck, but charm/domination are mostly missing. It usualy hits once or twice during fight (with resting bonuses accuracy II vs beast and beast slying chant + Steadfast for immunity fear). To be honest I didn't try the tanky way before. I did only kiting strategy, so maybe the tanky way will work with Black Sanctuary. I'm not even sure if With All Your Strenght Slay The Beast stacks with acc bonus from survival skill. I killed Alpine and Adra dragons without The Dragon Trashed, The Dragon Wailed. It seemed not very effective against dragons. At least vs Adra because of immunity to fire portion of damage. Thank you for your advice. I'll try with The Dragon Trashed... and Withdraw tactics.

I'm struggling so far with alternative save (no trial of iron) and I can't figure out this fight. I saw 2 videos on youtube but I'm not confident it would work out for me in the same way. Any advice, ideas? There is no current build, I'm constantly reseting my char to try different ways.

I'm playing similar build in my Ultimate run right now - without Scion of Flame. I'm using Drawn in Spring + Aila Braccia or Steadfast + Old Garun's Wall, Ryona's Breastplace, both Ring of Deflection and Protection, Gloves of Accuracy. Shimmering Cloak (probably bad choice), Belt of the Royal Deadfire Cannoneer and Munacra Arret. I did all of the bounties and get to the final area of WM 2 (inside Ionni Brathr). Only Kraken, dragons and Concelhaut & Llengrath left and ofcourse Thaos. I have a really hard time with eyless but I managed so far. Any advice about switching gear for something more useful? I use original Drake's Ambassador attributes but I should probably respec for dragon fights at least for more Constitution. I tried Alpine Dragon with my second save (wihtout ToI) and nothing works out (maybe I should try to chant beast slaying phrases along with fear or some defensive bonuses, tank adds and try to shoot the dragon with Persistence bow). Any hints for the dragons? Without any buffs I have (with Drawn in Spring and Aila Braccia): 951 health 250 Endurance 115 Deflection 122 Fortitude 113 Reflex 101 Will I still have few Eyless to kill. Is it worth to use St. Ydwen's Redeemer or Abydon's Hammer with this build? Just for the eyless? EDIT Ok, I killed the kraken. Now I will go for Concelhaut, then Sky Dragon, Adra and Alpine.

Brynlod and Magran's Faithful scares me the most. I use mirror save without trial of iron for try and error some fights. I didn't use cheesy tactics so far. Combining figurines with Munacra Arret worked so far with all bounties, but as chanter it's good to keep oppnonents busy

Thank you for clarification. Last month I replayed the game on PotD and all dragons seem to be nerfed. At least in comparison to state of the game in 2015 and 2016. WIth Deadfire just around the corner it's finaly time to get Ultimate Achievement.

Just like Aerosmith sang. I aim at Ultimate Achievement right now and I don't want to miss a thing. Iirc I can skip Radiant Spore but what about the weakest dragon - the one in the cave in Searing Falls area? It still counts as one of the dragons for Ultimate?

Abilities' points progression (the table below) is outdated for single-class characters atm. Single-class char get additional +1 point with new power level (just like multiclass char but single class advance in PL faster). I wonder how useful high PL abilities will be.

My evoker was killed by her own Rey of Fire casted on the enemy. It occures after I moved evoker a little closer to the target and few steps to the side. Then the spell started affecting the caster.

Do you think that the final game can be delayed once again? Another beta=new feedback.

Story companions work well on PotD. Monks can use weapons instead of fists and they are very powerful. I finished PotD run few days ago with Pallegina, Eder, Kana, Sagani, Durance. Adra dragon and Alpine dragon were dead before they even touched my party.

If the date changes simply while time passes, without travel to another area via world map or rest in current area, random loot isn't updated I guess but it will change to proper items after save and reload - it seems to work then. Or just be sure to arrive on the specific day for specific loot.

The item order is either random, or changed from what they had listed before. None of the items are in the order they have on the wiki. And the fact that I managed to get an item three times in a row three days in a row speaks for itself. Check this post: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/80015-all-poe-random-item-day-checklist/?p=1836413