WinterWind

I always play with a beguiler cipher/paladin for support and crowd control. A beguiler is the best crowd control in the game in my opinion. Because a beguiler recovers focus on hits for deception spells you will have more focus then you know what to do with. Just choose a bunch of deception spells especially those with AOE or jumps and you will be spamming crowd control and brilliant the whole game. Select high arcane and use scripts for the beguiler too when you want to do damage.

For a ranged character I would highly recommend the hunting bow Essence Interrupter with the Soul Diplomacy upgrade. It is so OP!! Why? Because killed enemies are recreated as allies of some kind. Most often very useful ones. They are free summons. Lots of them. I would also go with a single class monk maybe xoti or your own higher. Monks are brutal at high level. Nothing beats a monk for group fights - really! You can get this weapon at Port maje and I used it the entire game. Keep upgrading it to legendary asap and you won't be disappointed https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Essence_Interrupter

@KvellenThanks that was useful. I assume there is a graph of object relations between the different gamedatabundles using guids as ids? Is there an easy to way to see this graph across these files? I can see where the current values for a particular ability is calculated at run time so the console would be the best way to view that information. Still looking.

Hi, I want to find which json file(s) the NPC characters list there battle abilities in. For example, if I wanted to find all the abilities of the Scourge NPCs in "The Beast of Winter" where would I look? Also, is there a way at runtime to know what the Current Effects are for an NPC during combat? Similar to how I can look in the character sheet to see the Current Effects of my character. I'm technically savvy and no C# and JSON very well. Thanks!