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I slaughtered the worshippers of Berath to please Magran and impress Durance, but nothing happened.

I can't edit my original thread, but here are portraits with proper blue to match moon god blue in game. The other ones had far too much turqoise. Moonlike Portraits: (Drag drop to folder: PillarsOfEternity_Data\data\art\gui\portraits\player\male)

I usually skip all the grey and just read the bright white text along with the voice acting, or else my brain will begin to slip into a different plane of existence. When there is no voice acting, then I force myrself to read the narration in addition to the NPC's dialogue.

When my character met Sagani for the first time and mentioned she had a husband and child, it reminded me of this video. Click this link to go straight to the good part - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDbb7-dn9A&feature=youtu.be&t=120 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDbb7-dn9A&feature=youtu.be&t=120

SIMULATING ROMANCE FOR WOMEN IN GAMES BY LUZARIUS Let's use POE as an example: * Durance hits on female player. * Aloth hits on female player. * Eder hits on female player. * Lesbian NPC's hit on female player. A fight breaks out between Eder & Durance over the female player. It's up to the female player to control the situation or let it pursue and decide which offer to accept. DAMN I'M GOOD. That's the spirit! I love it That would be such a spectacular scene.

Just an idea which would be nice to have in POE, but if not now, perhaps for the expansion or even POE 2. Each companion has their own: a. auto attack on/off OR b. hold position on/off - this would be very nice for tanks in the front since they like to auto-move after an attack despite turning off auto-attack in options menu. AND c. toggle ability on/off - example: toggle on torments reach so it gets activated as soon as possible. - example: toggle on swift strikes so it gets activated as soon as it's available. - example: toggle on knock down, so fighter keeps attempting it. - example: toggle on consecrated ground, so it auto casts when current consecrated ground is finished. If C is too much, then scratch it. I'm just a huge fan of automating repetitive tasks.

Enemy AI is impossible in a game with such bad combat mechanics as PoE. All the AI has to do is aim straight for the squishies and they are dead with no tanks in the game there is no way to prevent this to happen other than abuse the AI and make one squishie play the lure, running around in circles. I thought this "tactic" was a thing of the past, apparently not.Plus companions dont autoattack. which i guess is the lesser evil compared to them making suicide charges, but still annoying when Aloth casts a spell and then does nothing for the remainder of the encounter if forgotten. If your squishy is being attacked by ranged, then have the priest cast withdraw on him. If priest is being attacked by ranged aggressively, have the priest cast consecrated ground followed by withdraw on himself, the consecrated ground will keep pulsing. If you play the lure and run around in circles, that is called a strategy. In real life, during chaotic fights, I've seen people do both the dumbest and sometimes brilliant basic tactics in the heat of combat. I do agree with you partially, each companion should have their own: 1. auto-attack ON/OFF logic. 2. ability to hold position. Perhaps these can be a feature for POE 2. I think POE is one of the greatest combat systems I've seen, it serves as a perfect foundation to go further and further.

Come on now, we don't know the "why" of the "ewwws" yet. Luzarius, on the other hand, has been very specific. Multiple times. So yeah, I say that dubbing someone as the female equivalent of Luzarius after such a short history of posts is premature. Men need to look like Eder for the female gamers. Make the male romance options for women as handsome, sexy as possible. Women are attracted both to the traditional handsome males and the more feminine tooth pick types. If I was in charge, women would get both. However, under no circumstances would I condone an UGLY male for women. I respect women far too much to do that to them. A lot of women find guys like this attractive:

I just noticed this little chat icon for the first time after becoming lord of Cad Nua. My concern is if I missed any of these convo icons before becoming the lord of the keep? Were there any other convos like these before going to Cad Nua?

How about a romance similar to Valeria & Conan? Seeing how you're a fan of the Riddle of Steel.

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It would be nice if torment's reach could be toggled on so you don't have to keep using it. What I like to do is pick heroes from popular movies, then see if I can re-create them to a certain degree in game. Suprisingly POE gives you A LOT of customization to do this which is impressive. You can make a Samwise style fighter Orlan if you wanted Too bad there is no frying pan crush weapon in game

Pistol wielding gunfighter comes to my mind. You may want to take vulnerable attack in addition to the DR bypass that a pistol gives. You'll want to support Eder as much as possible. Let Eder be your TANK, you be the GUNFIGHTER. Does anyone know if it's viable to have four weapon slots, with a pistol in each slot? Then you take the talent that lets you switch weapons really fast. Bam, four pistol shots in a row baby, HOLY **** THAT'S SOME GUN FIGHTIN SON!!

I've noticed that most RPG's follow this pattern and I've come to accept it as normal. I think the game designers want you to feel powerful by end game. It's nice being able to defeat a final end game boss the first time you attempt it, especially if you're trying your hardest. Do I mind if the difficult increases more so? Not at all, but as long as each fight has the potential to be won without meta gaming on Trial of Iron.

I need to test a weapon in the off hand again. Indeed, I liked my ranger build, but I think I like this monk a lot more.

* Priest - level 1 spell - HOLY MEDITATION gives +15 to willpower * Chanter - level 1 chant - "At the sight of the women, their schlongs grew bold". +10 to willpower You now have +25 willpower vs enemies that attempt to charm your party. EXAMPLE: Before each fight, you need to compare your enemies to what you've fought prior and determine if you want Durance to increase the parties: - Willpower - Damage reduction - Health Regen via Consecrated Ground Ask yourself which of the above is more important for Durance to buff when a fight starts. More ways to increase willpower. * Priest - level 3 spell - CIRCLE OF PROTECTION gives +15 to all defenses which includes willpower * There is a cloak you can get early game that gives +10 willpower. * Sleeping at the inn for 113cp can give you +2 resolve which is +4 willpower. These things add up. GOD DAMN I'M GOOD, AIN'T THAT RIGHT?

Does anyone actually use goldrot chew in game? I always carry some around on POTD, you never know. But not once have I identified a situation where it was needed. Perhaps someone could help shine some light on this?

Be careful of this. Dragon Age Inquisition had a writing team full of LGBT and feminists and the female romance option for straight males ended up looking like a transgender dude (cassandra). ATTENTION FEMALE WRITERS, NEVER FORGET THAT MEN LIKE ME ARE ATTRACTED TO WOMEN WHO ARE PHYSICALLY BEAUTIFUL AND DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. Please do not be offended as I'm not into politics and not into sugar coating my thoughts. The more gay & feminist you make an RPG, the more physically beautiful the female romance option must be for the straight male gamer. This will provide balance. When a straight gamer looks around in game and see's that he is surrounded by feminism and LGBT, he won't be able to identify with the game unless he can look to his left and see a hot babe. Never, ever forget this simple concept. I'm going to repeat it. The more gay & feminist you make an RPG, the more physically beautiful the female romance option must be for the straight male gamer. This will provide balance. When a straight gamer looks around in game and see's that he is surrounded by feminism and LGBT, he won't be able to identify with the game unless he can look to his left and see a hot babe. Dragon Age 2 had some LGBT controversey, but it didn't bother me because I had Isabela to look at the whole time. Please don't talk for me without my explicit authorization. I don't "need" to see a video game's female character as a beautiful woman to romance her. You're a traitor! No wonder Cassandra Pentaghast looks like a man. How about a romance similar to Valeria & Conan? Seeing how you're a fan of the Riddle of Steel. hahahah then we are talking Nah..seriously...no. Why not? If you don't support Conan's romance with Valeria, that doesn't make you much of a Conan fan.

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Good lord, 62? my current highest is like 42 or something. Heya, you mentioned solo? What difficulty was that on?

LOL, we need a cooked mutton leg that can go in the off hand. Holy ****, that would be so epic. It has thirty bites before it's done. So you have primary weapon, then your cooked mutton leg in the off hand. Hit, eat, hit, eat, lol. OH I WISH WE COULD MOD THIS GAME LOL.

Continued.. HIGHLIGHT - RUN RAEDRIC RUN, LOL

Okay, I was able to beat the Raedric fight on POTD with a level 4 party, no custom companions by muscling it, although it wasn't easy. This build is tried and true so far. First, I got lucky and found these two rings at raedric's hold which helped in the fight immensely. I'm putting them in spoiler tags in case you want to save the surprise for yourself: The most important things for this fight were: - scout before hand - eat & drink before fight - +2 resolve inn rest bonus (113cp) - entire party in the heaviest armor I could get. Since the start of this fresh game, I've put all the companions in the heaviest armor I could get. For this raedric fight, everyone ended up in plate armor, if i needed shock protection i would have kana use that one chant that gives everyone +10 shock protection. - hatchet & shield on eder & the monk before speaking with raedric - lay down consecrated ground - summon animat - slicken + chill fog - the two rings I found, the first ring let the monk break free (suppress affliction), the second ring gave me 3 free heals that Kana used to keep the monk alive. SCREENSHOTS - The monk gets into deep trouble at the start of the fight.

For some reason torment's reach works better with pure unarmed, I'm doing a lot more damage. So I've ditched having a weapon in the off hand.

Oh god, now you got me wanting to try muscling it again, lol What did that Varric guy say once, oh, I'm green with envy... If you do record it, you could link it here and i'll put it on the first post, or maybe you can post your build in a diff post and link the vid, totally up to you OR IF YOU WANT TO RUB IT IN, You can not only link your video here, but link it to your post and say: "HEY GUYS, SCRWE THIS BUILD, CHECK OUT MINE, IT"S BETTA".. lol FORCE OF ANGUISH UPDATE I need to neutralize an enemy priest, but a paladin was in my way. I used force of anguish on the paladin and it actually worked, but i needed a roll of 82. There has to be a way to use FoA more reliably against heavy fort foes. Okay, I think I know how to use Force of anguish properly now. I'm testing the waters, thrusting myself into tough scenarios without using choke points. My monk got surrounded by three sellswords, so I used force of anguish and knocked them all back. They had 58 fort against my 43 accuracy. See the pic, I knock the first one back, then i was able to do the same to the 2nd and 3rd, foa worked every time. Against enemies like rogues, sellswords, thugs, raedric guards, FOA works decently, but against paladins or heavy, heavy tanks it's not reliable. So there is a time and place for the FoA skill. Sitting there and letting 3 sellswords hit me is BAD, but FoA let me knock them all back. Good advice.