Zeitzbach
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Accuracy - defense symbol is how you calculate the bonus or penalty you will have on attack roll
Then you roll a d100 and add that bonus to the roll.
A total of 1 to 25 is a mis
26-50 is a graze (reduced damage)
51-100 is a hit (normal damage)
101 and over is a crit (higher damage, higher pen)
The % shows the chance to roll between 51-100 for a hit.
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More classes need a dampener like effect, it's too useful to lock it behind wizards only.
Priest can erase with Magran though that takes ages and RAnger just flat out remove 30 secs off every buff in one shot for only 1 bond. Paladins can also stop it and arcane dampener can be found on items too.
Like, it's really the game AI fault that level scaling and bloated stat does not fix. I was fighting the Principi at the end of the game that although intended to be a very easy fight, it was sad watching a level 20 mage using..
Minelotta MINOR missile.
AT LEVEL 20.
THat thing couldn't even penetrate my squishies armor and did like 30 damage.
How can paladin dispel spells?
I made a mistake with Liberating skill thinking it was anti-beneficial and didn't go back to fix that post.
Just give anyone the broom then. That thing takes like 10 sec off buffs per hit.
I also read that you can skip almost all the fights in the game (even some "end game bosses") with Invisibility. I think most problems with Invisibility could be solved if: 1) being invisible within the enemies' vision range would not cease the combat; 2) enemies would move towards the invisible character to some degree unless they have other priorities. 3) make more combat encounters unskippable/inescapable.
Use the new stealth detection on the invisible char, just without the cone of vision. When you stay in the detection area, your detection goes up and once it goes fully red, you are revealed. This goes up slower with talents, items and points into stealth.
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I would just straight up not buy this game, if Durance were in it.
I'd just sacrifice him and get a cool effigy. As it is Maia's gonna have to be it.
Wow. Rood. Maia is one of the best girl if you take her along for mission and avoiding siding with anyone. You get 2 chances to say she's important to you. The prince won't even hate you for rejecting the queen mission because of Maia. She also won't flip side if you attack RDF because they revealed their mission and you say no.
And her sass is almost on par with Pallegina.
"You only work for coin so you cannot see it" - Pallegina
"And you buy bread with your pride, I see." - Maia
And so many missions that are like "We can't let the foreigner know about this" and Maia be like "Yeah, if it seems like I am taking notes, it's because I am, go ahead."
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I can forgive Pallegina for her attitude toward the gods. Mostly because my Watcher knows her, but also I know her and I know her story and her pain and I get her.
That's the thing, really - you know her. To an average Eoran, she comes off as completely insane. Case in point: Tekehu's reaction to her meltdown during the whole figurine thing.
It's reasonable to agree with Pallegina's views, yes, but it's not the views that are problematic. It's the fact that despite her full knowledge of the status quo, Pallegina consistently chooses horrible and tone-deaf ways of communicating them to people.
Based on her pasts, she kinda has it the harshest. Her mom womb was damaged because of her so her family hated her. People wanted to make use of her for her godlike-feature to the point she wanted to commit suicide. Afterward, people still treat her terribly in the brotherhood for being female (IIRC).
It takes all the way to her good ending before she starts to smile more often. You even see this image when you grab her hand at Ukaizo after she thanks you and inside your head, you get to feel all her emotion and that she truly sees you as her champion, the first she truly respect from the bottom of her heart. That is probably the only route the writer can ever take to say that Pallegina is finally opening up to people.
Devs didn't choose returning companions for their iconic status but by who had the most sense to be in Deadfire. Eder because of Eothas, Aloth because of his unfinished business with the Leaden Key, Pallegina because of VRC.
In that case Durance had as at least as much reason to return as Eder, after suffering faith crisis and learning that the god he blowed up is alive and kicking.
Uh, I don't think many people would be willing to suffer Durance again. But he sure had an unfinished business as well, maybe he will cameo in a DLC?
Fire and island don't really mix. He has no business anymore since Eothas is just a walking statue and there's no more Godhammer. Magran also lost her volcano. The only thing he can really do is go on a mission to kill all fire godlike or something but that will just make him a crazy villain.
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Now you know and now, you will see why Sera-chan is the #1 husbando.
I don't suppose you have some screenshots to share? Purely for research reasons, of course :D
And something about him saying he has it big where it counts.
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In PE2, wizards are still good but spells should not be treated like skills. That is silly. Also, it is still annoying you can't use 'buff' spells prior to combat. That was lame in PE1. It is lame in PE2.
They're kinda not which is why you can swap them around and there's no upgrade version of the spell and has tier cost. You pick whatever at what Tier and use more from the grimoire. It's a magic-only thing compared to skills.
And pre-buff is broken in all rpg. You either have it and overbloat the crap out of enemies because players will prebuff or you don't and keep everyone on the fair playing ground. If you want pre-buffing, there's food resting.
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Well Eder is iconic so he has a high chance of reappearing.
Devs didn't choose returning companions for their iconic status but by who had the most sense to be in Deadfire. Eder because of Eothas, Aloth because of his unfinished business with the Leaden Key, Pallegina because of VRC.
Aloth one actually feels super random. Out of all the places to investigate the leaden key, it just has to be Deadfire. It feels so forced and he has nothing to really add to any of the quests. He's just... there. The leaden key isn't even that important in Deadfire. It's just "Oh the Koiki tribe talked with Thaos" and that's kinda it.
That's why Serafen is the best. You can sleep with him as much as you want until he's no longer in the mood because of a potential bug.
Also, he knows at least 4 ways to use his tongue and mastered all of them.
I didn't know this was even a thing, lol.
Now you know and now, you will see why Sera-chan is the #1 husbando.
And I got Takehu to reconcile with both Maia and PAllegina. One is to get -2 on Pal-Take and another is Maia-Take. Then a few dialogues while they talk like how Takehu tentacle hair are actually concious.
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I find it funny no one is talking about Arcana scrolls. Extremely cheap. Some of the T9 mats can be bought and 15 arcana isn't hard to get.
Also they only take like 1.5 seconds to cast a meteor storm or a maelstorm.
I dropped one Maelstorm for the lol with a level 15 takehu and he killed 90% of concelhaut torn banner merc before they even walk through the bridge.
Any spells with long cast time but op effect you want to break? Just toss the scroll.
Leave my op scrolls alone. Plus hardly anyone uses consumables anyway.
Besides arcana is useless otherwise.
You're fortunate there's no Salvo scroll. At least Maelstorm can't kill bosses. Salvo can. Salvo is the major reason why I never got to see Ukaizo as a 3-headed machine dragon. You have to drag the fight out to make sure he gets all 3 heads.
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Honestly, I'm not really a fan of any of them. They are all either way to short, or just somewhat awkward. I also can't see how they could continue any of them into PoE3, apart from Aloth potentially. I feel like to it might just be a better idea to kill them off at the beginning of the next game.
Well Eder is iconic so he has a high chance of reappearing. If you fail to convince Bearn to not face the light, he will board your boat back with you when Bearn disappear. If they want him to pop up again, Bearn will probably go join a group or something and travel or the danger of PoE 3 will indirectly affect Bearn so he tags along to keep Bearn safe.
I say Serafen stays or bring back Hiravias. They both fill the "Extremely direct, quirky, happy and nice guy" quota and I rather have that over some kind of female Orlan trying to roleplay as Modywn. Like the only reason that personality works is because Modwyn is a sword. It will be more annoying that fun.
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I'm not sure if the romance is bugged for me. I had a lot of conversations with Xoti, then we kissed after I finished her quest. I have her at +2 reputation but since then I there was nothing. Does the romance simply end there...?
Pretty much. It's not BW game with unlimited resources for romances.
That's why Serafen is the best. You can sleep with him as much as you want until he's no longer in the mood because of a potential bug.
Also, he knows at least 4 ways to use his tongue and mastered all of them.
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It's harder to recruit the sidekicks than the companions. I already met them all, but I couldn't recruit Fassina so far. True I keep creating new characters, so at this pace I will never get the sidekicks achievement. :D
You can recruit Fassina after you meet with Arkemyr. She will tell you she her current life and join you.
Here's a tip how to quickly get an achievement for negative rep with a companion:
- grab Pallegina and some other companion with high Religion and go to the shrine northwest of Neketaka,
- identify and pray there numerous times until Pallegina's rep with you goes to -2.
Anyone would be mad if you drag them along to pray at a shrine for 120 hours straight, tbh.
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The two at port Maje aren't much better.
The Huana chieftain won't admit her people ever commit fault (engaging in robbery, for example) and holds the humans in open contempt.
The Valian is a weak bureaucrat who's just trying to curry favor with his superiors.
Rauitai has questionable methods, but gets results.
If you return to the place later, everything was actually doing way better. Supply were returning and both side were back on great term and trading well again.
The Rauitai ends up breaking that just to make sure these people are fighting again.
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I picked the [Lie] Cut my hand.
I'm SO gonna rat you out now!
My Bluff roll too high with husbando Serafen to assist me.
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I got a really crappy ending in the one game I played , since I sided with furrante Princip by mistake...
And some of the slider were bugged .
So will report back when it's fixed...
I thought principi was going to be an okay choice because Serafen = pirate. Then it says Pallegina died because I sided with Aelys.
Nopenopenopenopenope. You are all on your own, pal. I'm sailing to Ukaizo without any of your permission and saying Maia is precious to me everytime they tell me to kick her off the team. Even outright gave the sword to the undead pirate so she can never be summoned again.
waitasecond...
doesn't that get you killed though ? if you give the sword to the Undead lady? I swore an oath..so though..I go insta-dead if I didn't bring it back...
I picked the [Lie] Cut my hand.
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You will probably have to side with something like Vailian for trading to really prosper to get the Pim ending.
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I got a really crappy ending in the one game I played , since I sided with furrante Princip by mistake...
And some of the slider were bugged .
So will report back when it's fixed...
I thought principi was going to be an okay choice because Serafen = pirate. Then it says Pallegina died because I sided with Aelys.
Nopenopenopenopenope. You are all on your own, pal. I'm sailing to Ukaizo without any of your permission and saying Maia is precious to me everytime they tell me to kick her off the team. Even outright gave the sword to the undead pirate so she can never be summoned again.
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Apparently you can flop her mission at Port Maje and Tikawara.
At Port Maje, just give her the note without taking care of the stalker.
At Tikawara, get into a fight and get the dude killed.
TBH, it's best if the guy at Tikawara dies as he's a horrible leader, completely banking everything on the vailian giving his people money so none of them can starve despite the villagers already trying to find solution.
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So I finally finished my 2nd playthrough and compared to the 1st one, the ending is so much better. What's your "happy" ending so far for this game?
Discussion with Eothas
Choose to just be a witness and didn't ask Eothas to do anything. Last time I asked him to give people to accelerate the growth, people gets into terrible fight.
Faction-based
Choose no one and just set on my own. I failed ALL of their quests.All of my companions are happy about this choice.
Watershifter guild
trapped a portion of the dragon soul so the art of water shifting is still going strong.
Gullet
Because I asked the prince to help with the food, Gullet became a haven for the roparu.
Dawnstar guild
I told Laertharn to question his faith in Eothas and that the community is why they survive this long. They decide to band together and pick up the lantern to help sheperd the soul to the adra while waiting for the community to find a solution to the destruction of the wheel.
Eder
He gets to be a good uncle for Bearn.
Aloth
He decide that it's best to just let Leaden Key dissolve on their own instead of trying too hard to interfere.
Xoti
She has a crush with Eder and because I told Eder that Xoti has more than he glance at her for, he decide to give her a chance and they have a solid and long-lasting friendship together. She left her scythe by my door with a note for me to remember her by because she's commited to helping the soul and the living.
Pallegina
Because I sided with no one, Pallegina wasn't punished nor rewarded. She gets to meet Giacolo once or twice a year and it is says that the brotherhood get to see her smiling faintly once in a while.
Serafen
Best char is contented with my letting Remaro go. He sits down to have a toast with me and set sail to become a pirate that deals with foreign influence and slaves.
Maia
She voices how much she dislike about the underhanded methods the Ruatai were using and the top agrees that Ruatai should be about superior tactic. She is happy about it and want to see her brother again.
Tekehu
Tekehu decide to be independent so the Huana decide to band together and discover the way forward together. He later set sail and a new majest art piece could be seen on the ocean, praised by all from gullet to the palace of neketaka.
Sure the Huana and Ruatai are still fighting over Ukaizo but it's better to have them be at the deadlock instead of completely dominating the other, imo. Not to mention this seems like the happiest possible ending combination for all party member, depending on how you view Aloth's Ending. Sad ending for me because I still don't know how to get Serafen back in the mood for some bed times again after you trigger Crookspur related quests.
The only way to improve this ending is probably to flop Maia mission at Port Maje so the director and the storm speaker aren't assassinated.
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Apparently if you got rid of Furrante and then kill Aeldys at Ukaizo, there's really no talking about Principi.
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More classes need a dampener like effect, it's too useful to lock it behind wizards only.
Priest can erase with Magran though that takes ages and RAnger just flat out remove 30 secs off every buff in one shot for only 1 bond. Paladins can also stop it and arcane dampener can be found on items too.
Like, it's really the game AI fault that level scaling and bloated stat does not fix. I was fighting the Principi at the end of the game that although intended to be a very easy fight, it was sad watching a level 20 mage using..
Minelotta MINOR missile.
AT LEVEL 20.
THat thing couldn't even penetrate my squishies armor and did like 30 damage.
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Pirates will always be pirates. Furrante is the only one really dealing in slavery because Principi bans slavery but anyone can lie and go back on their words if they think it's fun for them.
So having killed Hazanui by rejecting RDF quest, it's good that Aeldys popped up as my enemy in my "Screw everyone" choice so that means One-eye Prim will get to be the leader.
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The thing about PvE game is that because we can't smack each other like PvP game to prove a point. Many people just put their own experience above everyone else which leads to the constant toxicity of "If I'm not enjoying this game, you aren't supposed to either."
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You know, on the other hand it finally makes sense to even have the possibility of swapping Grimoires - something I never ever did in PoE.
And this justifies the damage done to wizards' class design?
That's like amputating a person's leg...and then telling them, "Hey, you may be a cripple now, but on the other hand it you finally have a reason to use a cane! At last, canes are relevant to you! (Something they never were before we chopped off your leg!)"
The old design had no character and school system. IT was just "Lol you have everything" which is what people are used to.
The school system should have been around since PoE 1. It's world breaking that even the circle of greatest wizard know less at EVERYTHING than some random guy going around fighting monsters while using spells made by other people.
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I managed to get the somewhat happy ending for this outcome.
I played the game with Pallegina - Serafen - Tekehu - Maia from the moment I reach Naketaka and kept everyone in the positive by doing quest chain properly. I only swap them out for Eder, Xoti and Aloth quick personal quest. I always convince Maia that I don't agree with RDF direction and that it's dirty and underhanded and will leave a bad image.
I first went to the Pirate and got rid of Furrante because SLAVERS. Didn't do the pirate ship.
Then I went to Vailian and got Alvari the seat (Screw the dude for being slaver) and when she tried to kick Maia out of the team, I say Maia is too important and I rather pick her over the mission.
THen I went to the Brass Citadel and talked with Hazanui. Tekehu voiced his concern about the assassination of the queen and I agree with him. Hazanui got very mad and told everyone to kill my party. Maia stayed by my side (Unlike Pallegina who would instantly switch if you attack anyone in the VTC).
Then I Went to the queen and agreed to help her. Because Hazanui was killed, there was no need for me to plan bombs. She just go "Thank you for helping us" without telling you to ditch Maia and Pallegina.
No one left.
Almost everyone happy.
RDF can suck it and even Maia is happy. Though you have to avoid the special dialogue with Maia as it might cause her to leave even though her people tried to kill her. IF you're going to do this, make sure you exhaust everything you want with her. It does affect her ending in a good way though and you can choose between Huana or just do it yourself with minimal penalty.
I prefer the "Screw everyone" choice though as they all diss you for not helping after all the effort.
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The lost Grimoire - Lich Well Hidden Library
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
Posted · Edited by Zeitzbach
No it's called brawler's Grimoire something like that. You got bugged then. Just kill Nemnok. the quest just give the chest. The important part require you to fight Nemnok.