Divinity: Original Sin 2

Droigan said:

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On elves, they don't add THAT much so far. A lot of time it's pointless shit, a few were useful for some quests that could have been resolved a different way anyway. Main advantage is you'll sometimes get skills from it for free, which well, is free. The first body you find on the boat gives you Adrenaline for example which is neat, but those aren't that common either. I ate a lot of bodies so far and not much was useful.

Also on Pet Pal, Ifan and Lohse start with Pet Pal for free, not sure if any other(I haven't tested Fane, Beast and I played as Sebille). Just use a preset that's not Wayfarer(built in pet pal so you get fucked out of a talent). I assume it's intended for Ifan, since it was in the EA, but Lohse is new, gives you more choices that have free pet pal I guess.

Been playing but progressing slow as fuck cause I HAVE TO loot everything and talk to everyone and pickpocket everything I can and make sure I'm not missing anything, so shit's been slow, especially since I didn't play the EA so I'm still discovering most of that stuff. Some of the early fights are way more challenging than the stuff in the original, hell I'd say a lot of fights are more challenging than EE tactician mode. Large part due to the CC changes. In EE/D:OS1, you had that OP geo spell that was a ranged knockdown with low cd/cost, the Man-at-Arms fist thing that was the same, Bull's Rush, Freeze(both a touch one and a ranged one a bit later), Teleport and so on, so it was really easy to knockdown stuff but here, not quite as much since you first have to pop their armors(and mini boss type mobs have fairly large armor values). That's why I'm using Chicken Touch atm, it's surprisingly effective and reliable unlike most other CC(although the enemy runs around a bit so it's not perfect).

And yeah origins have a fairly large impact on stuff. Also they sometimes step on each other's feet. I killed one guy for my MC then remembered the Red Prince wanted to talk to that guy so had to reload, get the Red Prince his info, then kill the fuck. Worked fine in that order although the Red Prince wasn't very happy. I assume there will be more stuff like that later down the road especially with what I learned. The characters are all more interesting than most of the shit from the first game too so that's nice.

I originally wanted to go custom but since I was making an elf female rogue anyway I just went with Sebille. I think you could just play Lohse as enchantress(it's her default class) and be fine like that. I was planning on using Fane as my damage mage but in the end switched him for Ifan instead, I didn't like the idea of having to deal with all the undead bullshit, shit looks annoying.

I went Sebille rogue(MC), Red prince tank, Lohse air/water mage support and Ifan fire/earth damage mage. Other than Ifan interestingly, that's pretty much their basic roles. I did edit the presets some cause all of them have stupid Bartering or Loremaster and I didn't want this crap though, I changed Red Prince to have Lucky Charm(gonna be opening all my boxes with it maxed, tank first seems good for traps and such too, although I wish I could give him a bunch of wits but seems crippling stats wise), Lohse to have int/wits instead of int/con(she'll be my wits char since she's support) and my wizard preset for Ifan to have Persuasion instead of Loremaster, so he has Persuasion/bartering from being a human, he does all the trading and shit. The basic presets aren't too bad, but it's still kinda annoying.

Also regret putting a point into Sneaking instead of Thievery on my main, Sneaking doesn't do all that much but more pickpocket weight/value limit would let me steal more stuff. Can fix sneaking later. That said I already have like 3k gold and I'm not even done with Fort Joy and I have most of the books I wanted already, you can't steal that much stuff anymore but you do get a fair amount of gold as quest rewards/drops and stuff it seems.