IF No One in the party has high Perception, are you screwed?

[Stardusk78]

I wanted to do a heal bot playthrough as my PC but that means no one will have sufficient Perception to detect traps and hidden things. Is there any way around this?

[Boeroer]

Nope. Sadly not.

[zeldagaiden]

Resting after taking wounds from traps? Also, most traps are either fort or reflex saves, so the guy with highest fort save (might+con+class bonus) should be fine taking the hits. Unless you really want to FIND traps, then you go to gear/food for per bonus.

[jintegrity]

Yeah, not too fond of the switch from Mechanics to Perception in PoEt2. I understand the concept, but, when you take into account your starting companions, it really gimps parties where the MC doesn't use Perception as a main stat. It was irritating not being able to find the hidden stashes in Port Maje in the early game because of it.

[draego]

I agree. I didnt like this change and i was never sure why this changed happened. At best it should be an either or check with mechanics. To me the worst issue with this is its not scalable. You dont ever increase you stats on level up and im not saying you should, but having a scaling difficulty to perception checks for an unscalable stats seems wrong even with gear and drugs and stuff. 

Edited August 19, 2018 by draego

[pi2repsion]

Answer to title: no, you are not screwed if you aren't able to find every single treasure in the game due to not having sky-high perception, neither are you screwed if you can't detect all traps.

 

That said,

 

a) If you are willing to play with custom adventurers, you can have somebody with as high perception as your PC could get

 

b) You can always take Maia Rua for high perception for trap detection; Pallegina with a few sources of +PER should find most things too. Companions ordered by perception (stats taken from wiki)

 

17 Maia Rua

14 Pallegina

12 Aloth, Eder, Serafen, Xoti

10 Tekehu

 

c) Sidekicks ordered by perception

 

15 Vatnir, Ydwin

14 Mirke, Rekke

12 Fassina

10 Konstanten

Edited August 19, 2018 by pi2repsion

[Stardusk78]

Answer to title: no, you are not screwed if you aren't able to find every single treasure in the game due to not having sky-high perception, neither are you screwed if you can't detect all traps.

 

That said,

 

a) If you are willing to play with custom adventurers, you can have somebody with as high perception as your PC could get

 

b) You can always take Maia Rua for high perception for trap detection; Pallegina with a few sources of +PER should find most things too. Companions ordered by perception (stats taken from wiki)

 

17 Maia Rua

14 Pallegina

12 Aloth, Eder, Serafen, Xoti

10 Tekehu

 

c) Sidekicks ordered by perception

 

15 Vatnir, Ydwin

14 Mirke, Rekke

12 Fassina

10 Konstanten

Maia would be a solution but I want to support the Huana so...kind of screwed.

[thundercleese]

It makes sense from a logical viewpoint that PER is used for discovering things. But I agree it isn't necessarily a great decision gameplay wise. I do enjoy not having to permanently travel in sneak mode in order to not miss any traps/secrets though - best change they made by far.