Tobimaru127

Which pertains to me since I'm playing Normal. When I go into Deadfire I may try a harder mode, depending on how well I grasp RTWP or if I even enjoy it (May end up TB but we'll see). So far in the early game I'm kind of enjoying it but have a lot of auto pause settings setup. If I recruit a companion and decide that the class they are isn't what I want how hard is it to switch out companions later? This way I could test Cipher/Ranger/Paladin/Rogue to see what is more enjoyable. I'll research the classes a bit more as I pick them up. I can kind of figure it out on my own at least for some of the classes, The Wizard may be a bit harder to figure out what to use given the sheer amount of spells though. I'm loosely going by your suggestions and mixing This build with it to figure it out. I don't know if I mentioned this but my ONLY experience with CRPG is BG3 and DOS 2 and have 0 experience with D&D so pretty much everything is new to me. However what made me fall in love with the genre is character building, I have always enjoyed playing RPG's of all forms and love executing intricate builds and watching characters grow, I avoided this genre until a few years ago because they were daunting, and had a few bad experiences way in the past with RTWP (I was significantly younger then) but then BG3 came out and a bunch of friends not into D&D/CRPGs started playing it so I tried it out and now I'm hooked. I can easily do my own builds for soulslikes, JRPG's, ARPG's (Diablo 2 being my favorite), but here I'm still learning so all the help you've given so far has been fantastic, thanks.

Curious, what is it you don't like about Ciphers. Being new to the game I can't say I know too much about what they do but from my reading they build focus to cast spells which sounds slightly similar in how the Monk needs to recieve wounds to use skills (although opposite maybe?). As for the Druid, while it still sounds cool as cat, I'm less interested in it vs. other forms (Stag sounds the most intersting) and I'll still likely run with him, but how are Ranger and Paladin played? I was trying to avoid these 2 as Ranger is generally one of my main Go To classes in games and Paladin was my first BG3 playthrough (and seems to be almost everyone runs wwith on on first playthroughts) but I do enjoy both classes. I am also a little worried adding a Ranger will increase the partry micromanagement being it has a pet also. Thanks for the increadibly detailed reply. Looking at some of your builds has been a great help since they are so detailed.

This will be my first time playing through Pillars of Eternety (and my first time playing through a RTWP CRPG) and looking for or some good builds to fit with my party comp and to verify the builds I did choose for some will work with the party comp. Mostly looking at builds from This post PC: Monk using Monksterlasher Fighter: Unsure Priest: Either Fire priest or full support Wizard: No idea, want a caster and not melee build. The classes I'm not entirely sure of adding or not Chanter: Unsure, maybe Chll fog or the gunslinger Druid: Boar build Cipher: Soulbinders build Maybe Ranger but most likely the other classes Any advice would be helpful. Also I plan to use only companions.