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Oh wow, I didn't know Soulbound weapons worked with your current proficiencies. I feel stupid - I've respecced like 4 times trying out different Soulbound weapons. That's good info to know!

It's the Grey Sleeper. Has some great stats so I figured I'd try to use it. However, I've been using that Starshatter or whichever it is Warhammer and i just forged Abydon's hammer for the Eyeless, so I'm wondering if I should bother. Shame for it to go to waste though.

So, I've made it up to Lvl 14 and have this pretty awesome estoc... Say I wanted to re-spec my PC Fighter to utilize it... What would be an appropriate build so they could be a secondary tank with Eder?

Wow, what a difference a few levels and some new equipment make! We just face-stomped the banshee in Heritage Hill. Lvl 6, got Shatterstar, a nice shield (Byrngar's Solace), etc. Just wrecked her. Thanks to you folks, knowing what to do is making this game a lot more fun!

Managed to defeat the Drake at lvl 5. Plugged the doorway by the blood pool and stuck my 3 tanks in it. Durance doing his buff thing, Aloth doing his debuffs and such. Worked pretty darn well! Managed to kill the banshee but those 4 enthralled guys are just brutal.

Well, thanks to your folks help, up to this point has been a good go. I've actually been surviving fights - though casters are ridiculously squishy (especially Durance). Still not good enough to beat the Banshee and thralls in Heritage or the Drake in Od Nua. So I guess I'm going to be travelling to various towns and see what other quests they have to offer.

Currently I have Eder, the arqebus guy, Aloth, and the lady looking for Persic or whatever his name is.

Party.

I've made it to level 3 or 4 last night and was following the lady of pain template with a sword and shield. Gonna see how I can incorporate Boeroer's info into that.

So since I'm going to start again, how should I go about a Fighter? Any builds in particular play better?

I think I might just start over (again) and try to be a little more... thorough with my questing.

OP isn't the only one. Apparently I have 69 hours in this game on Steam and I can't seem to get this thing to work. Even on Easy - like the fight at the Charred Barrel. Absolutely facerolled. So I thought, I'll go back and try and complete other quests. Nope - next part for the chick with the wolf has me going to some geyser place and we get facerolled by Drakes and stuff as soon as we get there. Next part for the Crucible Knights has me facing the rogues and I'm getting facerolled there too. That first Adra dungeon with swamp people? Facerolled. Etc. No wonder I kept giving up on this game - it's no fun getting constantly facerolled.

So I'm struggling my way through this game and my characters have just reached level 5 - most of them. I'm in Act 2, day 17 or something. I get the message to go to the Charred Barrel and meet the group and am getting absolutely slaughtered. I can't even kill one of them! Am I really that underleveled thus far?? Same with Cliaban Riag - those druids and swamp critters are just facerolling me.

So, I've decided to come back to this game, having still not finished it - and started over. lol I'm playing as a Fighter this time and have discovered a couple companions thus far. So far, I've just defeated Maerwald and fixed the east wall and the inn. Problem I'm having is my people dying all the time. Now, of course, them dying is something that happens from time to time I suppose. But I'm looking for help on spells and how to play so that we don't die quite as often. Which spells to buff my fighters, etc. Any help would be appreciated - thank you!

Have you considered lowering the difficult level? This game was made to require a lot of micro-managing. Funny you mention that, I'm playing on easy so I could enjoy the story more than worry about that stuff - I thought. lol

I'm about 25-30 hours in on my first ever play-through of the game and I think I've started to reach the point where I'm under-experienced (both in game and in how to play). I'm playing a Flame Godlike Fighter with a two-handed weapon (greatsword, etc) and a back-up of a single handed sword and shield. I currently have Durance, Kana, Eder, Grieving Mother, Sagani and Aloth (currently Kana is in my stronghold doing missions and stuff since I just picked up Eder). I've completed Act 2 and am Level 8 I believe. However, I'm running into enemies that are whomping me pretty good. For instance, I'm to the Adra Stone Arch in the Persoq quest for Sagani. You face that one caster, couple dwellers and a beetle or two and I'm getting creamed. Those Drakes are pretty tough as well. Up to now, I could pretty much just focus-fire all my people and just brute my way through groups. That's not really happening anymore. I'm dying quite often. I also ventured over to the place where that mage is being sieged by the mercs and two of those people pretty much wiped the floor with my group of 6. So, what should I be doing differently? Is there any way to make my companions use their abilities and the like without my direct intervention? This constant micro-managing is a huuuuuuuuuge pain in the ass - and it doesn't even work that well.

I wasn't thinking my particular class/race combo or anything, just anything that folks were like, "Man, if I knew that back then..." kind of thing. This thread isn't just to help me, it's to help anyone else who may check it out.

Hey folks! I've been a backer of the game for a while, but not OG, but never played it much. I tried it back in BETA but it didn't make much sense and I dropped it. I'm just now starting up again with a fresh play through with a male flame Godlike Fighter. I apologize to you mon/max folk who see my class and race and shudder - I just picked it because it looked cool. Lol Now I get to the heart of the matter. I just got to Defiance City, so pretty early. I'm here to ask you folks, if in my place, what would you have wished you knew? No spoilers, please! I mostly mean in the way of game mechanics and how things work. Thank you!

Just copying and pasting this post as this thread seems appropriate as well. ------ I just finished watching the "Making Of" documentary and I have to say, outstanding work all around! The thing that stuck out the most to me was, by far, the people. The story of adversity, of being down and almost out. Seeing so much work being put into what could have been a last-ditch effort to save everything - to roll those 20-sided die with a "wing and a prayer" and have the community rise up and say, 'YES!!!' It was gratifying to see at the end, the reactions to the well-deserved review scores. To see that pride in your work, the vindication of your dreams and hard work - to see good things happen to good people. I think the best thing I can say about the documentary is that I finished watching it with a genuine smile on my face. Kudos, Obsidian! Enjoy the success - you've earned this one.

I just finished watching the "Making Of" documentary and I have to say, outstanding work all around! The thing that stuck out the most to me was, by far, the people. The story of adversity, of being down and almost out. Seeing so much work being put into what could have been a last-ditch effort to save everything - to roll those 20-sided die with a "wing and a prayer" and have the community rise up and say, 'YES!!!' It was gratifying to see at the end, the reactions to the well-deserved review scores. To see that pride in your work, the vindication of your dreams and hard work - to see good things happen to good people. I think the best thing I can say about the documentary is that I finished watching it with a genuine smile on my face. Kudos, Obsidian! Enjoy the success - you've earned this one.

So does this mean we cannot purchase Beta keys after the 18th?

Character creation and progression are always difficult for me in these kind of games simply because some spells/abilities are worthless and I hate wasting points on something that was best left undone. Currently have a Fighter Aasamir in NWN2 and just now found (level 6) that I can't use an editor to change race, so I kinda boned myself as well as can't change his initial class. So... Off to restart again. lol

This thread has turned out wonderfully - thanks to all who participated! I tell ya, I'm very interested in playing a Cipher. Melee heavy with magic augmentations - sounds nice!

This sounds quite intriguing to me. I've always looked for some sort of magic/melee hybrid - a melee heavy fighter with magical augmentation. Someone to dive into a fight yet wield useful magical abilities. Charging in with a Mind Wave and then blasting everyone with the Soul Shock... This sounds like my kind of fighter!

I'm more inclined to feel this way as well. Huge, dense cities full of quests and the like just feel cramped and overwhelming. And when you're in the same place doing the same things, seeing the same places... There's very little feeling of progress.