Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

Good game so far (only a couple of hours into it) and rolled a monk. Not sure if I should reroll, but I play a monk in every damn game that has one available.

I like Eder. He's just a good ole farmboy

This game is great. Was a little sad to see my first to companions bite the dust at the soul sucking machine, but I got an even bigger shock when I rolled into Gilded Vale and saw their tree decorations.

The first dungeon is definitely rough. I just have 3 party members, myself(barbarian), the fighter from town, and the elf wizard. Was able to clear the entire thing with a LOT of saving & reloading, except the 1 small room that has 5 shades in it down on the 2nd level. That's just too much, they just mow me down at level 3 on everyone. Those goddamn shades love teleporting to the mage and just dropping him instantly. I may need to re-do his grimoire with some defensive spells, I usually just have him standing WAY in the back wit ha crossbow when he's not casting spells.

I'm also a big fan of the initial archer-volley to start all encounters. With just the 3 characters with crossbows I can usually drop 1 mob instantly before the melee starts.

TJT_sl said:

I'm going to replace Eder with a Rogue, and maybe the 6th slot with a monk if I don't find someone cooler. I'll have to play through again to do their questlines I suppose.

Also, how the fuck do you rest in the Brighthollow place in Caed Nua? I end up just camping outside whenever I am there. Ever after I restored it.

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Bed on the second floor of the in, biggest one in the top left.

joeboo_sl said:

The first dungeon is definitely rough. I just have 3 party members, myself(barbarian), the fighter from town, and the elf wizard. Was able to clear the entire thing with a LOT of saving & reloading, except the 1 small room that has 5 shades in it down on the 2nd level. That's just too much, they just mow me down at level 3 on everyone. Those goddamn shades love teleporting to the mage and just dropping him instantly. I may need to re-do his grimoire with some defensive spells, I usually just have him standing WAY in the back wit ha crossbow when he's not casting spells.

I'm also a big fan of the initial archer-volley to start all encounters. With just the 3 characters with crossbows I can usually drop 1 mob instantly before the melee starts.

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I had to hide my wizard in another room until melee got them good and mad.

Anyone know if you can defend your keep against attacks , because i had an attack on mine and I lost 3 upgrades and then had a 300cp debt to pay off. Rather rough....because you have to pay to rebuild them again. Lost the main keep upgrade , hunters lodge and one other all pricey to rebuild.

Osiris The Everliving_sl said:

Anyone know if you can defend your keep against attacks , because i had an attack on mine and I lost 3 upgrades and then had a 300cp debt to pay off. Rather rough....because you have to pay to rebuild them again. Lost the main keep upgrade , hunters lodge and one other all pricey to rebuild.

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Yeah I figured out quick you need to get a barracks ASAP to hire some dudes, also you can defend against some attacks manually which will not cost anything.

How buggy and messed up is the game right now? I keep reading about a first patch which made your early savegames unuseable and turned all kinds of guns into terrible weapons by cutting their damage in half.

bytes_sl said:

How buggy and messed up is the game right now? I keep reading about a first patch which made your early savegames unuseable and turned all kinds of guns into terrible weapons by cutting their damage in half.

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One bug so far but minor, if I quicksave with one character selected and quick load I can't do anything until I manually click on some one elses portrait. Other then that game has been perfectly smooth, guns are stupid anyhow I try to ignore them.

anyone want to comment on difficulty?

busy with other games, but did start a game, just to check it out quickly. Went with "normal" hoping, it actually meant that. should I restart on "hard"?

no screwing around with ironman mode or anything though. ha.

Qhue_sl said:

I restarted and made a few more sensible character choices. Doing much better now.

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What have you gone with this time around Qhue ?

Wow. 678 reviews on Steam atm, 95% positive. Even if people start to grump about it in a couple of weeks, that's a pretty strong positive rating.

From what I've read, Hard is actually the default difficulty and both Easy and Normal remove spawns to make the game less of a challenge. I picked Normal at first because I generally don't like artificial difficulty levels--which is exactly what Path of the Damned appears to be--but after reading that I went back and started over on Hard. Probably a good thing; my original plan was to be a rogue that packed a blunderbuss, but that was a dead end anyway since the patch nerfed guns into uselessness.

Still sticking with rogue, but now I can't decide between 'adventurer' (estoc/war bow) and 'noble' (rapier/dagger/crossbow) weapons. I don't really understand the mechanics well enough yet to know if estoc, being a 2h weapon in this game, is still viable for a rogue. I assume it is, since one of the options during character creation was offering me a greatsword.

I couldn't handle some of the goofy build choices the standard party members come with, so I rerolled and just custom recruited a team.

Decided on a main character rogue, with fighter, druid, chanter, ranger, with the last slot left empty to maybe temporarily rotate the normal npcs for their quests. Been going a whole lot smoother when I'm not using things like a priest with 19 resolve.