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Jussayin': This makes it a lot like Brand Enemy.

There isn't, unless that three stars cannoneer has no other skill, in which case they can become a four star cannoneer, which Chitupec can't (and this is why we let him drown). Crew can only gain a total of four stars. There are some exceptions (I count four), but these sailors have their >4 stars already when you recruit them.

Nine? Nein! None!

Hey, it's because single wielding a one-handed weapon gives +12 accuracy. So if you put anything at all in the offhand, you lose that 12 accuracy That said, I'm fairly sure as far as your spells are concerned, you weren't getting that bonus accuracy for them anyway. Unless I've forgotten how this game works.

Can't engage doesn't mean can't attack. It just means their target can run away from them without having to eat a disengagement attack for it.

No, I think you are being misled by faulty tooltips. Chants last 6 sec + 3 sec linger, and that's pretty much universal. Linger can be increased by int and by being a troubadour. I checked just now and nothing seems wrong. The part in Ancient Memory / Silver Knights tooltip saying they last 10 sec is a lie. You have in the same tooltip saying the duration is 6 sec and also specifying the linger duration. To make it extra clear: Furthermore, turning on Brisk Recitation will not give you full uptime on three chants. It will just make you spam chants that give 3 second buffs (regardless of int) and take 3 seconds to sing. It's for getting phrases faster, and can only give you full uptime on a single chant. They're not useless. The phrase + linger duration is the amount of time they actually buff you (difference being that before the phrase duration has elapsed, your chanter won't move on to the next phrase in the rotation). I don't know that you are correct that the two chants you mentioned apply more often. I don't use offensive chants though, so all I can say is it doesn't sound correct, but it might be Are you experiencing things contrary to what I'm saying here? Any weird durations? Noting that offensive chants are a bit less predictable since enemy resolve above 10 will lower their duration. Edit: It actually feels clear now that this fake duration in the tooltip has made you paint an erroneous image of how chants work. As soon as a phrase begins, the chant's buff/debuff is applied to everyone in range, and will last for 6 seconds + linger. After 6 seconds, the next phrase begins, and acts the same way. If Brisk Recitation is on, a chant's effect will only last 3 seconds and have no linger at all, but you will also move on to the next phrase after those 3 seconds, effectively doubling your phrase accumulation rate. I don't blame you for forming this hypothesis, but hopefully by looking at your buff durations you'll see it works like I described

Only 2) sounds correct to me. What platform are you playing on?

20 int troubadour has full uptime on two chants (in RTwP-mode). It's not possible to get enough for three; you'd need 60 int I think and the game is capped at 35 (which isn't an easy mark to reach either) AFAIK. I do recommend troubadour, partly because I'm obsessed with that full uptime on two chants. Chanters multiclass well. You're doing the first class' thing while passively buffing/debuffing and occasionally throwing out an invocation. You have both versatility and longevity. I can't comment on the monk part, as I'm not a fan of them for fantasy reasons, but I don't expect it will be a bad choice.

HAIL PSIONS!

The guide is all wrong, it doesn't tell you to get Bull's Will + Iron Will (but it did get Deep Faith). The most important part of playing an inquisitor is sporadically admiring your impenetrable will defense.

Just to make sure, you do actually have the horn?

Oh wow, it really was that simple huh Maybe she keeps it locked so that if you ever get uppity she'll point out to the Songretta mea Compresa that you broke into her office.

This is the only thing that comes to mind: Pick the lock on Alvari's door. I'm not intimately familiar with VTC quest mechanics, but I do believe I have picked + opened that door just because I could and the guards didn't care. So, maybe Alvari is there. Also make sure it's business hours. If there are guards outside the VTC building entrance, it's not.

I'm sure they'll at least attempt to address crashes/bugs, but those load times are probably ubiquitous. It takes long on a PC too. I load faster (SSD), but AFAIK non-SSD is significantly slower than yours.

Alright on a side note, you said your player character so I assumed you meant your Watcher and not a hireling, but just in case I got it wrong and it's a mercenary having this problem you need to swap Player_ with Companion_P_ for it to work.

Actually nothing happens to them (maybe with Berath's challenge it does but I don't think so), except in that very first fight. Crew that joins you for any other boarding battle can die and shrug it off after the fight. Injuries happen in cannon combat and scripted interactions.

Yeah, console has always saved the day for me in these situations. Resting has worked too, I just didn't want to rest. This sequence of commands should do it: iroll20s (to enable cheats) RemoveStatusEffect Player_YOURCHARACTERSNAME Flanked_SE_Armor RemoveStatusEffect Player_YOURCHARACTERSNAME Flanked_SE_Deflection

Ok, those bracers seem to be a bit of an exception. Usually that list is quite exhaustive. The saving throw bonuses stack, and you can check them by mousing over your defenses.

Real Time with Time Travel. Patent pending.

On a gameplay level, I have one big wish, and that is (assuming RTwP) a strictly pause button. Obsidian expanded upon RTwP with a rich variety of auto-pause triggers. And these are good, but "read my mind" is not among them (I would like it, but without violating my privacy, figure it out). So a situation happens, and you want to pause, but between you finishing the thought and pressing spacebar, an auto-pause triggered, and you unpaused. And now, you wanted the game paused for two reasons - whatever you tried to pause manually for, and whatever trigger caused the autopause - but it's actually running, things are getting worse, you have to pause again, and maybe the same thing will happen again when you do. The strictly pause button can only pause the game. It's not a toggle. If the game is already paused and you press it, nothing happens. I want that button. (It doesn't already exist, right?)

Yeah, those are a bunch of presets. Go to the main menu and then options, and you can create a finely tuned history there and save it. Then it will be available on that list.

Well, due to being single classed you'll get higher power level, which is just general awesomeness (slightly more damage and accuracy). Scion of Flame, Spell Shaping and Farcasting (as you know ) will also be available to you. I don't think it's a bad choice to single class your wizard. It'll give you a lot of bread and butter. Boeroer's suggestions will give you cheese instead.

Uh, this might not be so easy to explain (I mean, one month ago I didn't know this stuff at all). { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackAOEGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Fireball_Aoe", "ID": "5bc9f76b-2113-409f-81c0-5096e66974be", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] } ] } This is a mod that increases the range of Fireball to 20 (by default it's eight) You can save this as morerange.gamedatabundle and put them in a new folder under override, like you did with Farther Farcasting. { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackAOEGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Fireball_Aoe", "ID": "5bc9f76b-2113-409f-81c0-5096e66974be", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] }, { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackRangedGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Minolettas_Minor_Missiles_Ranged", "ID": "48ea2167-98b1-4680-8644-f751564d8fbb", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] } ] } Here I've added Minoletta's Minor Missiles, so you can hopefully see the pattern of how to add spells. { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackAOEGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Fireball_Aoe", "ID": "5bc9f76b-2113-409f-81c0-5096e66974be", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] }, { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackRangedGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Minolettas_Minor_Missiles_Ranged", "ID": "48ea2167-98b1-4680-8644-f751564d8fbb", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] }, { EDIT THESE LINES "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] } ] } And here it should be extra clear It's only really a matter of finding the lines. Open Pillars of Eternity II\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\exported\design\gamedata\attacks.gamedatabundle in Notepad++ and you will probably see an utter mess. You'll need a plugin, I believe it's called JSON Viewer. With this installed, press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M to format the code into something readable. Then Ctrl+F to find the spell you want. Let's say you want to edit Ray of Fire, so you search for ray_of_fire and find something that begins with: "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBeamGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Ray_of_Fire_Ray", "ID": "e99275fd-a921-40bb-9cc1-a20c6f66106b", These are the three lines you need to copy, so we get: { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackAOEGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Fireball_Aoe", "ID": "5bc9f76b-2113-409f-81c0-5096e66974be", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] }, { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackRangedGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Minolettas_Minor_Missiles_Ranged", "ID": "48ea2167-98b1-4680-8644-f751564d8fbb", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] }, { "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBeamGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Ray_of_Fire_Ray", "ID": "e99275fd-a921-40bb-9cc1-a20c6f66106b", "Components": [{ "$type": "Game.GameData.AttackBaseComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "AttackDistance": 20, } ] } ] } And for reference, 20 range is already farther than your character can see, but you can probably go as crazy as you like with that number

It means Power Level 5, which in this context means that you need level 9 as a single class or level 13 as a multiclass to unlock the fifth talent tier, in which Farcasting is available

Hey, I was able to figure out how to do this for individual spells. It's not too difficult, but it would be way too cumbersome for me to do it for each and every wizard spell. I'll give you three options: 1) I try to teach you how to do it. 2) You name like five spells in particular that you want buffed. 3) My favorite: I write a mod that buffs the Farcasting talent so that it provides much more bonus range, and you give yourself that through the console (or wait until you unlock PL 5 abilities). Obviously that will buff it for anyone at all who uses it. I don't think any enemies do, but that is just a hunch. Edit: I went after 3) already and it was really easy to buff the talent, but for the life of me I can't manage to move it to a different tier in the talent tree. It'd be such a quick & dirty fix. Here's a mod for just the buffed talent (now quadruples casting range). Just make a folder in Pillars of Eternity II\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\override\ for it. FartherFarcasting.gamedatabundle Just open it in Notepad and change the 4.0 to something else if you want more/less range (cast range will be multiplied by this factor).