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I don't recall any of that, but I do remember him explaining that real gods were a good idea because people were fighting each other all the time over thousands of imaginary ones before.

Yea, she's too amorous for my tastes as well. First she goes after Eder asking everybody how to make him notice her, then she wants the Watcher and if you don't give in ends up with Maia Maybe it's just her being young and passionate, but I saw that as lacking any subtlety or self respect. Also, if you rebuke her advances she's bugged in the ending slides along with Tekehu - it's treated as if you were a lover who dumped them. That also mars any good first impression of their character.

Btw, I didn't connect two and two at first, but if you complete Maia's quest about the missives, in the ending slides it is said that those Rauatai agents killed both Fort Maje's governor and Tikawara's ruler. Not to mention that Maia herself goes to assassinate somebody at the end of her quest.

Well, I'm like 1/3 into the game, so can't say for sure about the actual amount of dialogue (beyond 2 conversations at 1 and 2 approval), but yes, Eder does notice and has a banter with Aloth about it, so I would assume other companions do too, it just didn't trigger for me yet. Maia also had a "shame you've already "accounted for", captain" conversation with my character. Also, upon entering Queen's Berth Aloth had a cute little line: "So many people, I much prefer quiet evenings together" (not sure if it is location specific though). And there was this scripted interaction, where you can enter a swimming contest, and Aloth says: "I'll keep a close watch on your things. By which I mean your clothes". Aloth coughs uncomfortably and lays a hand on your discarded belongings", though I can't be sure if it's romance specific or he is just being his awkward self :D Nice, haven't heard any of those. It was Xoti at the swimming contest for me.

Could you tell how did you "find" it in the end? Because I'm at the same state - raised Aloth's disposition via mod to 2 after completing his quest. Aand... no romantic dialogue. Tried previous saves and on some of those it worked. But not on all. Can't understand what's wrong. I'm definitely not in a romance with anybody else and only completed some Huana quests between the "yes dialogue" and "no dialogue" state. Could just forget it and lose 1-2 hours of the game, but I'm scared to somehow break the romance again. If you don't have a romance dialogue with Aloth after completing his quest and having rep of 2 then go do the main quest (Ashen Maw). After the talks at the palace he will talk to you immediately.

Sounds as the same bug Aloth is having.

Did you play with a multiclass rogue? If so, do you think it as worthy losing the high level abilities? No, I played as a pure rogue assassin. It was great And high level abilities turned out to be very good, especially for assassin who needs invisibility to hit really big. Sneak attack also scales with power level so I got to 75% at level 20. I'm not sure I will want to dilute all that with any multiclass now.

Not a bad idea, not in the game unfortunately.

On Classic. I suppose you'll have to micro him even more to keep him alive on POTD, but that won't affect the damage output.

No.

Don't need to ally with them for the ghost ship. Also it's not even an amazing ship unless you're broke. Well, it's part of their questline, but yea, it sucks. I loved the submarine though, looked very cool inside.

Perhaps that's even the source of Aloth's reputation bug - if those two are conflicting with each other it's no wonder so many people are getting stuck at 0 or 1 rep at best.

Yep:

Sneak scales off PL or character level? It scales with PL (there is also a 9th level ability that raises PL) so if you wanna maximize it better stay single classed. Single class max PL is 9 (+1 with 9th level ability), multi class max PL is 7.

There was nothing sweet about any factions - they all selfishly worked for their interests undermining other factions in the process, not wanting to unite with each other even facing the mortal threat that Eothas posed for all kith. But if you mean you get to sail on secret ships then yea, that was pretty sweet. So if I recall correctly: Vailian Trading Company - blow up Rauatain powder storage, kill Rauatain leader and Huana prince at the palace. Somebody gets killed at Ukaizo too (Principi leader iirc). Huana - blow up Rauatain powder storage, blame it on the Vailians. Somebody gets killed at Ukaizo too (Principi or Rauatai leader, don't remember). Rauatai Royal Company - kill the Huana queen. Somebody gets killed at Ukaizo too (Principi leader iirc). Principi sen Patrena - Huana prince and queen are killed at Ukaizo.

Even better, now there are active and passive abilities that set up sneak attacks like no tomorrow and if you play as Assassin subclass you can get even bigger numbers by going invisible multiple times during combat thanks to several invisibility abilities.

I loved playing as a rogue in POE1 but I was really skeptical about it's POE2 version before release because of some of the changes to abilities and sneak attack modifier. But it turned out really awesome actually, felt much better than POE1 version because of the addition of some cool abilities, especially invisibility ones. And it turned out that sneak attack scales with power level.

I was contemplating a lot whether to play as a single class rouge after all the fumblings in the beta, but I'm glad my worries were unfounded. Sneak attack goes to whooping +75% damage at level 20 because it scales with power level and there are plenty of op gear and cool abilities that make a powerful critting machine out of rogue. He can also stay nearly untouchable flying around the battlefield with all those super useful invisibility abilities, they are a much needed addition for the rogue class indeed. It still needs quite a lot of microing but all in all it actually felt better playing as POE2 rogue than POE1.

I dunno, I've seen all the endings and Principi and no alliance ones were the worst for the region. Huana was very meh. Rauatai was ok. And Vailan Republics one was the best, imho, looking at the big picture of events. Just gotta stick with the old director at the trial, he actually cared for doing more than just grinding adra. Also that makes Pallegina happy, gotta stick with your old buds

I got all the achievements except the Principi one (bugged on me), then looked into those Blessings tab and...wow. Those are very cool! What a great idea to reward players for achievements! Now I can get most of those blessings and start op

That's BS indeed. First of, there is no telling where the soul reincarnates next - it could be an animal, or two people sharing half the soul each. Second, Roparu caste seems to represent the majority of the population, so even if the gods deigned to temper with Roparu souls for them to be birthed in higher caste families there simply won't be enough bodies for all of them. And third, that kind of manipulation seems very hard to pull off, probably requiring some Engwithan machine, as gods themselves seem to rely on them to pull off anything major and I kinda doubt that Engwithans cared about doing that for the Huana, if there were a Huana at all back in the day. So I think this all is just like a real world BS with caste system - it is meant to pacify downtrodden classes of people with their fate so that they don't oppose the existing government of the ruling class.

Yea, devs should have stopped right there. It made sense that the In Between was a siphoning sieve for the gods, but after that it just went as incoherent canon retcon.

No, you get it by killing Concelhaut. Again

That's exactly what is confusing. This Wheel retcon doesn't make sense.

Here are Aloth romance slides with him staying with the Watcher: