Frog Man

This is super helpful! Thank you so much. I was very excited to get her on the team and was at a loss after the throne room incident and she wasn’t there. Thanks !!

Totally with Gromnir here. Obsidian was transparent about POTD being undertuned. So in the meantime, I am enjoying the heck out of my Hard playthrough, going through slowly and loving the story, companions, music, etc. I’m tremendous excited for a hardcore POTD challenge run, but I can wait.

Given that white March came with 3 new companions I have to think the DLCs will include quite a bit of this. Whether brand new companions, sidekicks, or upgraded sidekicks we likely won’t know for a couple months. I’d like to see a few more nonstandard companions like Devil of Caroc. Maybe a xaurip or Ogre?

I actually enjoy the exercise of tier lists, flawed as they may be! They provoke interesting discussion, help devs know how the community feels about balance, and help new players. If I’m a noobie to Pillars, I don’t want to try to make a class that has problems work when I could be learning the game with classes that are better balanced.

Lmao

I would not recommend lying to get out of professional responsibilities - lying is wrong and isn’t worth it. So what I’m going to do is ACTUALLY EAT stuff that will give me diarrhea. Couple chipotle burritos and a chocolate milkshake should do the trick.

* NOTE: I am something of a difficulty fetishist (though not on the first couple of playthroughs). But even I realize that it's a side challenge that the vaaaaaaast majority of the user base not only won't care about, but would be upset to find out that things were cut just so folks like us could scratch an itch. By the way, it would be extremely interesting to know what percentage of players do more than one playthrough (you mentioned "first couple", and this caught my eye). In my view, PoE 1 had a replay value of exactly zero: there was nothing random in the game, and the world was totally static except for the choices you made as a player. I really liked playing the game, but having got to the end, I can't see why I would ever want to start another game. (No criticism implied here.) Besides the different choices and mechanics of a new character, if a story is any good it's worth experiencing more than once. There's things that can only be appreciated on a replay. For instance the entire prologue and first little bit of act 1 actually states the thesis and themes of the game directly but it's hard to tell until you've been to Sun in Shadow. I’d actually be interested to hear you elaborate (even though it is a tad off topic)

I actually messaged him a few months back and asked him if he planned to play the Deadfire beta. He replied the following: No, sorry mate I am not. I didn't back the Kickstarter. Someone did gift me a beta key and I tried it out but I hated it (much as I hated Pillars on release).

In future runs I’m going to want to make full parties with all the fun subclass and multiclass combos - is it possible to fully mod Companions and sidekicks to give them classes they don’t have access to? Edit - just in case it’s not clear, I know we can create our own hirelings, but like most of you I find companions far more fun to play with

By the way - won’t my Priest look great captaining Deliverance while hoisting the Death God’s sails and wearing his cloak of berath? Backer and scavenger rewards worked out well for me.

This party sounds awesome. Would think your main character is going to be hell on casters (mage slayer bonuses + rogue interrupt abilities + barbarian interrupting blows). This thread has been awesome. Lots of ideas for my SECOND (hopefully tuned up POTD) playthrough. For my first, I’ll be playing a single class Priest of Berath and devoted Servant of the death god. He will focus on damage dealing as we have Tekehu and Pallegina for healing. Shining beacon, rot skulls, holy storm, and touch of rot.

Yeah this is a tad disappointing but isn’t so bad. Just confirms most of us will start on a Veteran playthrough and wait until POTD is tuned properly.

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I’m looking forward to graphic descriptions of intense, frenzied, passionate love making sessions...and I plan to play solo

Deadfire will be a 6 On a scale of 1 to MOTHER BLEEPING 6

I was going to, but I was out sick earlier in the year. So, I am low on Personal Days to use. I need to save them just in case. However, I left 5 hours early one day, and that leaves me about 7 hours personal time... Not enough for a full day, but... So, I may go in and use those to leave early again, but I'm trying to be as frugal as possible with those hours. We will see. I need to double check my vacation/personal time this week before I make that decision. I’m swimming in PTO days so you better believed I booked one on the 8th. Then another on friday, and my wife knows I’ve been waiting a year and a half for this, so she’s giving me a couple days to hole up in my home office and chase down Eothas. Used to feel bad for being a nerd, but now I’ve figured out a way to advance my career, pay the bills, AND still be an RPG nerd. The way my wife sees it; she doesn’t have to work and gets the things she wants, and the trade off is that occasionally I want to be a wizard and fight goblins? That’s a good deal for both of us.

Lol. Yes we do. Yes we do.

But if it's possible to respec, is that actually an issue? Respeccing every time I find a new cool weapon. Sounds awesome ....

LOVE spellcasters so I was thrilled with the Deadfire system of pet encounter spells. I’ll be running chanter, pally/chanter, Druid, Priest, and Eder as swashie....so four casters! Not to mention one of my chanters will have high arcana for more scroll goodness!

Only reason I wouldn’t do a devoted for my FIRST play through is that i don’t want to be locked to a weapon type with some many lovely weapons to discover. I want to mix and match and try out different stuff. I’d save the devoteds for later, POTD optimized meta gaming runs! But to each his/her own

Yeah, feels like he is more optimized for a chanter. However, I’m sure with gear and then being really particular on what food you feed him you could get him to be a decent Druid.Pretty sure you can make anyone fit the role you want, it's just disappointing that it looks like they give companion odd attributes on purpose just to makes things harder (but at least on poe they realized some of the attributes were nonsense and they changed them) That’s not true on why they assign attributes. Viable characters to help the player is a part of their aim, but they largely assign attributes based on the personality and backstory of the character. They’ve said this awhile back, can’t remember where.

Man, to everyone wanting a priest of whatever or a steel garrote Paladin, I have one burning question - do you really not have enough options to build your character in this game?

Yeah, feels like he is more optimized for a chanter. However, I’m sure with gear and then being really particular on what food you feed him you could get him to be a decent Druid.

Actually josh said on steam that ALMOST wasn’t available for launch. He was happy to announce they worked it in.

There was a sickass chant in that live stream that returned 20% of damage done by the party as healing for 10 seconds. High level abilities looked pretty sweet today.