Hello everyone!
Last played pillars back in 2017 (yeesh! time flies) and now that I finally have time to play pillars2 I decided to run through the first game well... first.
Anyhow I'm about done with act 1 and rolling with a paladin watcher + eder in party. Aloth and Kana are cooling their heels in Caed Nua because I prefer small microlite parties. I have the deadfire cannoneer belt so game plan for midgame is pretty set. Open with FoD using arquebuss (swap for silver spark / scon mica later) and then to town with firebrand. Going to get forgemasters for more firebrands and hyran rath mail for sunbeams. Also planning to pick up Pallegina and Itumaak + his dwarf pet for the core party and then changing composition for companion quests and to determine who's going to get the permanent pool cleaner position based on annoyance during said quests.
Late game though. Would singlewielding Steadfast work? Or is St. Ydwen just flat out better? Or maybe a bashing shield with Steadfast? If you have a bashing shield do full attack abilities like FoD hit with both shield and weapon?
Also regarding powerword "iroll20s": Plain paladin seems somewhat, well plain, I mean it's FoD+Immolation and then pretty much just whack whack whack. Pillars II has multiclasses which I'm looking forward to so I was wondering will I horribly break the game, whilst playing on hard, if I powerword myself say some select fighter abilities like knockdown, armored grace and charge?. And yes I have played through the game with vanilla characters 3 times (chanter, barb and cipher) so those fighter abilities would be more for giggles than anything else.