[Why cant I tell Xoti/Teheku that the gods are fake?]

Yeah, looks like I misunderstood the order of events then.

[Why cant I tell Xoti/Teheku that the gods are fake?]

 

No they couldn't - Iovara's crusade occurred before the gods existed.  Iovara and the Watcher were both non-Engwithian converts from the time that the Engwithians were still alive, and were part of the effort to force convert the world to the religion the Engwithians created.  Iovara created her crusade after she learned about the Engwithian plans to create the gods.  The ritual to create the gods didn't occur until after Thaos had stamped out all of the non-believers and "stabilized" the world.

 

Where is this stated? I could see things happening this way, but it there any information in the game supporting this version of events? Iovara certainly doesn't say that she learned about "the plans", and it seems the gods were already there at the time of her death as her soul got stuck at the Court of the Penitents. 

 

Everything from the flashbacks indicated that the Engwithians were still a functional, thriving civilization during the Iovara parts.  And as far as I know, Thaos was the only survivor of the Engwithians.

[Why cant I tell Xoti/Teheku that the gods are fake?]

2.) Even then I don't really feel like it makes sense that it happened the way it did & became as big of a deal as it was. I'll bring it up again, the gods seem to be perfectly able to have caused Iovara to spontaneously combust at any moment. If they were that worried about her message, why didn't they? I also kinda bring up my original point that IDK why the masses would believe her when they can see the direct influence of the gods in the world, or pray to them & apparently get a response in some cases.

 

 

 

No they couldn't - Iovara's crusade occurred before the gods existed.  Iovara and the Watcher were both non-Engwithian converts from the time that the Engwithians were still alive, and were part of the effort to force convert the world to the religion the Engwithians created.  Iovara created her crusade after she learned about the Engwithian plans to create the gods.  The ritual to create the gods didn't occur until after Thaos had stamped out all of the non-believers and "stabilized" the world.

[Pondering the Godlike]

The general theory is because the four we got match more or less to the DnD plane-touched: Fire to Genasi, Moon to Aasimar, Death to Tiefling, and Nature to ... yeah I got nothing.

[Is there any point to naval combat?]

If both naval combat and onboarding has same amount of rewards I will choose naval combat. Now? 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 and kill everyone on enemy ship.

It's not quite the same amount of rewards.  You only get ship stuff like cannons or I think ship resources if you board.

[Is there any point to naval combat?]

Any point? Some extra loot, that's about it.

 

Ship combat is extremely simple once you understand it. There are two ideal ways to go about it - max speed forward and board, and 5x Double Bronzer guns for 80-120 damage per volley. If the enemy ship is in ideal cannon range and you have stopped, good cannoneers should have 100% hit chance.

 

The idea behind sinking is that it gives you much more exp, so you can get a maxed out crew at level 5 or something, and go sink those level 15+ ships for superior and legendary loot or that unique item you really want early, when your combat level is still very low.

I don't see the point to double bronzers.  Every time I tried to use them it failed.  Enemies always know what cannons you have (just like you know theirs), and so automatically know the narrow range of the DBs.  If you stay just out of max range then turn, the enemy never comes closer and you get accuracy penalties.  If you get within the range band then turn the enemy rushes you, and you're lucky if you can get even a single shot off, with accuracy penalties.

 

Royal bronzers or wormtongues are the way to go IMO.

[favorite and least favorite god(s) in deadfire?]

 

Skaen, Hylea and Abydon didn't appear outside of the divine council on my playthrough, so not much to say on them. Hylea at least had her appearance

in Ishiza's soul

, which weirded me out enough to immediately cut it short.

 

Hylea turns up in another appearance in a similar manner:

 

 

She also watches you from a book in either the VTC boss' office or Ezzalia's office, I forget which.  I think the VTC.  If you have a high enough perception you'll see an eye surrounded by feathers, like Pallegina's, staring at you from the cover of a book on the desk, and it's clearly a living eye.  No one else notices and if you try to point it out the person you're talking to you thinks you're crazy.

 

[Beta patch 1.1 important changes]

There's a thread on reddit detailing changes as people find them:  https://www.reddit.com/r/projecteternity/comments/8nvyvl/pillars_of_eternity_ii_deadfire_beta_patch_110_is/

 

Some of my own contributions is that the Devil of Caroc Breastplate has been nerfed extensively - Articulated got dropped from 20% to 10%, Mechanical Mind only applies to Intellect now (and I'd assume a similar thing happened to the physical version of the upgrade), and Devil's Due changed from +4 health per tic to +2.  Also, apparently most if not all weapons that applied some form of +25% bonus damage got nerfed to 20%, such as The Watcher's Blade and Whispers of Yenwood.