Armanz

Well the title pretty much says everything. I'm aware of the fact that PotD is supposed to be tough but I sponged out every bit of exp I could get and the only thing I could do is the Goricci street battle which is nigh impossible right now. I turned off level scaling for the fight and added a wizard adventurer to my party so now I'm Barbarian/Fighter, Fighter/Rogue, Cleric & Wizard. Do I really need to hire a second adventurer or is there some key thing I'm not seeing? I had all my guys eat +2 CON stuff during resting and chose the aoe blind for my wizard on lvl 2. What I tried so far is to sneak up on the group from below. I stand on the footprint of Eothas in the mud, throw distracting crackles and then engage. In the ideal fight Edér gets off a backstab and then the fight starts. I've tried to either focus down the Drake first with emporewed barbaric blow/knock down, empowered blinding strike, emporewed pillar of faith and empowered aoe blind. during the fight i always manage to very barely keep everybody alive with chugging lots of healing potions, using xotis lvl 1 aoe heals and gauns share but everytime i get the drake to almost dead the rest of the enemies kills me. More succesful was my approach to kill everything else first. My closest fight so far has been everything except for 1 wyrm & panther dead and the young drake to bloodied but fan of flames just wrecks my hopes. I've also used stun bombs to rather good effect but I just can't seem to win, even in the fights where I hit all my abilities. Pls help me, don't make me hire a second adventurer. I already feel deep shame because I turned off level scaling for this fight.

Althought Fantastic Beasts overall felt a bit lackluster in some parts, I'm really looking forward to the second part simply because of Eddie Redmaynes character. He plays a hero that is sensitive and hates violence and that is a rare thing to see in blockbuster cinema from a male lead.

Poe took me about 35 hours double it with WM (doing pretty much everything). Deadfire took me about 65 hours pretty much doing everything except any of the factions last quest. So gameplaywise they are similar but I'd give the edge to PoE1 + White March due to more depth in quests and areas. Deadfire is too fractured for my tastes. Calling Deadfire smaller than vanilla PoE1 is borderline trolling though.

Bring 50 kegs of rum to the ship and tell the crew it's all for you. Then rename your ship to Snickers or Mars or one of those candy bars.

He's actually a Ranger/Barbarian, but ty I started on Standard and switched to Veteran, both were a joke and I'm a mediocre player. You can't change to PotD midgame unfortunately and level scaling was broken. I'll just give it a bit of time for them to crank up the difficulty and introduce the difficulty achievements. Once they have done that the game will have plenty of ways to make it hard and I will to quote myself again have the time of my life because I already enjoyed the hell out of it despite it being so damn easy. The Grimoire changes are a mixed bag, not a big fan here but it's fine for me. As long as they keep wizards, druids & priests be useful per encounter and not per rest. My issues are more on an unpatchable level (except for the bugs, combat & ship combat). I'm not a big fan of the writing, pacing, characters (no Durance/Grieving Mother style chars) & story in the sequel.

Let's be honest here. You just wanted to do pirate stuff. Saving the world was just an excuse. I can relate, I told my girlfriend months in advance that she would be dead to me for 1-2 weeks depending on how much time I will have to waste on university stuff and other unimportant, unpillarish garbage that would keep me away from the Deadfire. The atmosphere of that game is just so good and the look and feel and sound are all phenomenal. Once they get the major bugs out and ramp up the difficulty from borefest to Pillars 1 lvl I will replay it and have the time of my life. I do hope though, that certain stuff will not be repeated in Pillars 3 if there will be one. In certain regards part 1 had a clear edge over part 2 and that pains me a bit.

If you don't neglect your life and wife it's not a good game.

I just drank a cocoa.

Well, you can't recruit someone who "becomes" undead. I recruited one guy who I worried might turn my crew into necrophages xD Well, undead don't need to eat flesh in this setting, they need "essence" which is souls basically. Undead start off as fampyrs (with a very few exceptions like liches and death guards) and slowly degrade mentally and physically into other forms of undead (like ghuls and revenants) if they don't get enough essence. Or become a Barbarian subclass, you know.

He isn't, it's a Barbarian Subclass that let's you do all the fun things such as eating your enemies without all the disadvantages such as weird glances & crime charges because you can just say that it's your culture. Belkar would agree with the ways of the Corpse Eaters, I'm sure of that much.

You're right it's exactly that issue. I was too dumb to search for Fruitfull Alliance, I only searched for Queen Onekaza & Shadows over Neketaka, otherwise I would've noticed that thread.

Kith meat is delicious...or so I heard.

Serafen is my bro, a very pleasant character and will take him more often. Edér is the same as in PoE1 aka awesome. Aloth is mostly the same as well, not a big fan of him but he's a wizard. Maia is horrible and boring and that soldier/captain stuff is annoying me. Horrible romance as well, never taking her again.

My bad. Nungata is in Serpents Crown on the top platform on the left side of the Palace. It's the old lady on the bench next to the pet salesman.

Nungata in Serpent's Crown Palace (second floor).

Just finished Deadfire so right now I'm having the obligatory existensial crisis. The soothing sounds of Weens The Mollusk are somewhat calm to my senses but they cannot possibly overwhelm the dread in my soul.

Urgh, I meant the Captain of the Gloating Hangman. I defeated her, took her ship and just didn't return to the Principi to fulfill the quest and sailed alone into the light (right after bringing back the sword, I'm a Paladin/Druid after all!).

You can do the ghost ship quest and take the ship and just not return to the principi, thats what i did.

I just took the ghost ship quest, defeated the death guard and went for Ukaizo instead of going back to finish the alliance x)

Thread title says it all. Who did you side with (if at all) and why? I decided to side with nobody, but my personal likability ranking would have to be RDC, followed by Huana, Vailians & Principi (morally that is, if I ranked them by entertaining quests then it would be Huana, Principi, Vailians & RDC). I didn't particulrly like the RDC the most per se, but their quests where the morally best ones imho. If I hadn't taken Maia as a companion I'd have sided with them but then they gave Maia that assasination order and that's a no no for me. Huana come second because overall I prefered their quests to the latter two factions despite me defying most of their quests. I sided with the smugglers because they fed the Roparu & lied to the Prince about it and freed the dragon, which both pissed of the Queen big time. I didn't appreciate her tone after all that x) Third would be the Vailians, I hate them ever since game 1 and they were too profit oriented and also nearly killed me with their animancing stuff. I should've let Captain Stinkfeathers destroy them all for that insolence. Principi come a definitive last because Furrante supports slavery (also a big no no) and Aeldys, while entertaining, is insane. What were your guys choices and why? Edit: urgh, just realized I posted this in the wrong section. If any mod happens to stumble upon my rambling, please move this to Stories, pretty please

After I went to Ori O Koiki at the queens request to become allies with the Wahanga and was unable to get said alliance Queen Onekaza reset her quest dialogue for Shadows over Neketaka. Instead of getting the resolution to the Fruitfull Alliance she gave me the Shadows over Neketaka quest again. Since I had already finished that I spoke with her again and she had some weird dialogue choices, probably from earlier stages of the game, I don't recall exactly. The dialogue options I had previously chosen when I actually did the Shadows quest were greyed out and when I went to the watershapers guild everything was as I had left it after finishing the quest except for the dead watershapers bodies. They were highlighted blue as if I hadnd't looted them (they didn't contain any loot though). Due to this circumstance I now cannot finish the Fruitfull Alliance quest. One thing I also noticed, was that when I adressed her again multiple times, one of her greeting lines was: The Saviour of Dragons. Not sure if I should display my previous quest choices but I'll do it anyway: I lied to the Prince about Delver's row and convinced him they didn't exist. I went to Motare o Kozu and purified the place again (2/3 trees), then got the old directions to Ukaizo and gave them to the prince (not destroying the golden disc thingy). I freed the dragon in the watershapers guild and got the queen very mad. I went to ori o koiki and failed to get the queens alliance (which i was about to report to her).

The secret storage room in drowned barrows is accessible without destroying the oil barrels and using the lever. if you hover the mouse over the secret door you get the stairs icon and can actually use it. Opening the door with the secret lever works normally after I had taken the stairs already.

The exact same outcome for me except that I was following the RTC storyline as well. I was hoping to get a chance to be mad at the RTC guy but no real dialogue option and don't know how to advance this quest now either. No reaction to planting the bomb & the fruit :/ Maybe one has to go to the island that Aparo spoke of when he said that he already said too much.

I think you are trying to say the game is unbalanced. And if difficult combat is your sole motivator for playing this game, I understand that you are very disappointed. However, the game is not unplayable or "broken" in a general sense. well lets have a respectful debate, can you please explain to me in your opinion how people are completing all the bounties on POTD and two shotting dragons is not considered a broken game. Its like saying im going to play the monopoly board game but i am guaranteed of owning every street eg mayfair everything for free the game is broken dude, people can prance around and look at the pretty graphics thats about it it has nothing to do with class balance it has everything to do with POTD balance. They need more enemies in every encounter and they need to be stronger You are talking about an unbalanced/too easy game, not about a broken game. You seem to have those words mixed up.

I'm sorry, but if you haven't seen any bugs in 45 hours then you just haven't noticed. The import/history bugs are 100% reproducible and affect everyone, whether or not you had a Pillars 1 save. Not to mention the giant and growing list on the technical support forum as well as the subreddit. I'm at 25 hours and I've had countless bugs. Although the vast majority have been minor, there have been more than a few broken quests and main features not working (companion relationships, retraining, etc.). I didn't mean 'so many negative reviews' as in there being an overwhelming amount in general but as in most of the negative reviews are mainly or even solely focused on bugs. I'm sorry, but if you haven't seen any bugs in 45 hours then you just haven't noticed. The import/history bugs are 100% reproducible and affect everyone, whether or not you had a Pillars 1 save. Not to mention the giant and growing list on the technical support forum as well as the subreddit. I'm at 25 hours and I've had countless bugs. Although the vast majority have been minor, there have been more than a few broken quests and main features not working (companion relationships, retraining, etc.). Well I imported my poe1 save and didn't notice any flaws so far. Mayhaps I overlooked some parts of it are missing, again I'm not saying the game is bugfree in general. Just that I haven't noticed anything major. Combat seems to be fine, no crashes, no unsolvable/buggy quests, retraining working fine for me.