Divinity: Original Sin 2

Pyros said:

But yeah early game don't spend all your point in your main tree necessarily, you'll have good damage scaling from gear+main stat from attributes anyway, so just grab all the various schools you want, and once you have all your basics, that's when you start dumping into a skill for the passive damage specifically. I'd also recommend getting some memory points early on to fit all these skills, you can respec out of them later once you get enough memory slots from normal levels.

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• If you want to steal from a moving character, have another character talk to them, then switch to the thief, this will prevent them from spinning/ roaming around and breaking your steal because they are locked in a conversation
• Keep every skill book unless you have multiple copies of a skill already in the group, down the road you are likely to have every skill open and in many cases, in duplicate and this will keep you from having to steal.. I mean buy them all over again
• There are a number of combat highlighting options in the Display menu that make life much easier when the AoE shit-fest has most of the map covered in fire and goo
• Dip your physical characters into warfare (1 point is fine), especially rogues, having access to Battle Stomp and Battering Ram across all your physical characters make life MUCH easier
• Most of the skills in Poly are also physical, with 1 point in Poly you get access to probably the best single target cc (Chicken Claw) and an invis (Cameleon Cloak).. a second point gives you wings which is a god send on melee

• Any foot armor + nails adds spikes that prevent slipping on ice
• Bedrolls are free and infinite full heals outside of combat, nice time saver to carry one around
• Pumpkin soup adds a bunch of wits, useful if you don't have anyone leveling it to notice buried treasure etc
• A single point in necromancy is good for basically everyone to have bone armor - it scales off level and doesn't require int, and the armor it can give is massive
• Two of the same potion combine in to a better version of that potion, very useful for some fights to have 50% or 75% elemental resist potions around
• Huntsman high group bonuses applies to magic as well, and the teleport+haste skill is probably the best teleport in the game. Mages can dish out some ridiculous damage by teleporting to the highest point and throwing chain lightning or something
• Put shields+wand on your casters. Staves suck dick unless you're trying some int-based melee build and the stats they give aren't that much higher than a single wand. A shield basically doubles mage toughness.
• Weapon skills are all mostly worse than just leveling warfare for the damage bonus there. Some minor sidegrade options for dual wield dodge chance, and at the very end game the crit damage from the 2h skill can become relevant.
• I like having my entire team with 2 points in scoundrel to pick The Pawn talent. Free moves every turn save you so many AP when you need to re-position slightly to land a spell or whatever.
• Take Mnemonic talent on everyone, it's more efficient than leveling memory.
• Savage Sortilege sucks dick unless you're specifically trying to build a dual wield wand character and have wands with huge +critical chance on them; you won't have near enough crit chance for it to ever matter otherwise.
• Blank skillbook + scroll makes a skillbook of that skill. Very useful to get some of the more expensive or harder to find books.
• Grab every idol of rebirth you ever see. They can be charged with a res scroll and are just flat superior to using res scrolls manually.
• Merchants restock inventory every time you level and every hour of in game time. In the mid to lategame you'll want to check them frequently as they will be your best source of gear upgrades.
• You want masterwork type runes for all your physical based characters. The final form of them increases armor of the item by 40%, which is a fucking shit ton on a shield. It's also 15% physical weapon damage, meaning 2 rune slot weapons are often just the best weapon if you have the runes to put in them.
• Honey + arrowhead or honey + perfume bottle makes charm arrows/grenades, which is some of the best CC in the game so be sure to pick up all the honey jars you see and fill them at beehives.
• Air essence + arrow head is a static cloud arrow head, which can turn the tide of entire fights as it cuts off vision and applies stun.

Needless said:

I shall have to try some of those tips, i've been stuck on the fight before you get on the boat (i assume). My damn lohnse is so useless

I also didn't realize telling the sanctuary that i'm gonna go fight those idiots, made them all leave the camp so i can't really buy anything or from that place anymore

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Needless said:

I shall have to try some of those tips, i've been stuck on the fight before you get on the boat (i assume). My damn lohnse is so useless

I also didn't realize telling the sanctuary that i'm gonna go fight those idiots, made them all leave the camp so i can't really buy anything or from that place anymore

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Pyros said:

2 comments on that list, The Pawn only requires 1scoundrel but you do have to put a point in it, not just use an item(I did it on every char, being able to take even a couple of steps to the side to get line of sight or a bit of range is worth for 0AP is well worth it imo). And Mnemonic is good early game but about halfway you might want to respec out of it since once you cap your main stat at lvl ~15(less with polymorph) you'll have plenty of points to drop into memory anyway. Also you'll have a bunch of free slots from leveling up so you don't need as many. Definitely great early on when you struggle though.

Also arguably Savage Sortilege isn't too bad even without DW wands. I have about 20% on my mage without a crit amulet(using a barter amulet cause I'm too lazy to swap on my fire mage) from wand and gloves and maybe something else. It's not a big improvement to damage but due to the burst nature it can be helpful anyway, and it's not like I had any other talent to take(that's really the main issue, there's not that many good talents). I have The Pawn, Elemental Affinity, Far Out Man, Mnemonic(soon to be respec out) and then what? Everything else looks like garbo or super situational. All skilled up is nice but not on that char since it's my barter char so I don't feel it's worth it and the only point of that talent is the 1civil really. Comeback Kid in case I die maybe? Demon for fire resist so I can supernova better? It's all kinda whatever, Savage Sortilege at least increases damage(sometimes). Can also take Hothead with the next talent point to get a free 10%crit in most situations. With that, a 10% wand, a 9% rune in amulet and a bit of wits on gear it isn't too hard to get 40% crit which is a fair amount.

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Ambiturner said:

Why is warfare better than the weapon skills? Both add 5% damage while some of the weapon skills have other bonuses as well

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Khalan said:

Do wands effect Mage/skill damage? I think i didn't bother upgrading them since I assumed they didnt but if skill damage is based on the dps of the weapon I can see why I could barely kill things.

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Pyros said:

That doesn't sound normal, you tried clicking with another char? Maybe you do lose access to it for some quest but I would assume it'd be obvious if you did.

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