Chanur
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This worked well. Made them my bitch fairly easily. Worked a lot better than trying to pull them out.
Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate
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Also anyone who starts as a wizard (and hasn't played this type of game for 15+ years) don't worry the first level is abit of a bitch since you can only cast a spell per camp but after lvl 2/3 its cake walk especially with a few teammates.
This game is amazing. Just finished clearing the crossroad area south of the first town as a clergy paladin and the 3 companions you find along the way and it has been glorious. Not since my first romp through dragon age have I enjoyed a game this much and I know Ive barely scratched the surface but I'm already pretty positive this is gonna be a better game and will rank right up there with BG2. Obsidian knocked it outta the park.
Vorph
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Look in the game directory (steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity) for \Docs or \StrategyGuide or something like that.
Palum
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Is this game the one where:
A) Your main character should be the rogue so you can actually manage traps/sneak attacks without dying instantly.
B) Your main character should be the tank so that your party has a chance to survive.
C) Your main character should be the wizard so that you can blow things up and res everyone else after.
or
D) You have to micro every single character 100% of the time.
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A) Your main character should be the rogue so you can actually manage traps/sneak attacks without dying instantly.
B) Your main character should be the tank so that your party has a chance to survive.
C) Your main character should be the wizard so that you can blow things up and res everyone else after.
or
D) You have to micro every single character 100% of the time.
?
Dalc
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Yeh, kinda what I am working on. Rolled a "Tanky" Paladin, but the fighter dude you pick up in the first town seems to do a better job with his defense stance to increase his max engagements to 3 or whatever. May just boot the fighter out and hire a bunch of custom adventurers for the kind of party I want once I find the money- Story characters seem to pigeon hole you a little bit depending on what you rolled.
But whatever, still a newbie. Only have the wiz, fighter, cleric companions so far.
Palum
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Vorph
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At least on Hard, it's D. Main character can be whatever you want, I haven't [yet] seen any benefit to having the Watcher skills on one class over another. My main is a rogue, and about the only downside I see is that I'm locked out of a lot of conversation options that other classes might be able to choose--my resolve and lore are ass, don't have a deity, etc.
Usually end up restarting games like this half a dozen times before I stick with something all the way through anyway. I'm tempted to switch my main to a cipher and pick up priest, fighter, barbarian, druid, and wizard hirelings.
Usually end up restarting games like this half a dozen times before I stick with something all the way through anyway. I'm tempted to switch my main to a cipher and pick up priest, fighter, barbarian, druid, and wizard hirelings.
So who's going to be the first to get the achievement for soloing expert ironman path-of-the-damned mode
I hate friendly fire crap, I started on normal planning on doing a hard play through instead of restarting abunch but I'm debating picking a different class since any of my good spells fucking melt half my team. I have mainly custom made people on my team. I have my main (wiz), the npc wiz, (lost the cleric in a rough fight and saved without paying attention), a fighter I made with shield, a ranger I created, a chanter npc I just picked up at the keep area, and now I replaced my priest that died with a 2 hand barbarian who I can't tell if I like yet or not since he fucking dies so much even though I built max const.
Anyways, fucking awesome game I just knocked out a 9 hour session to the twilight hours without even blinking. So far my impressions would be 4 ranged would be better since you lose so much "uptime" with melee running in and getting bunched and not doing any damage. I wish they had a straight archer vs. ranger. Who has the best ranged single target damage from your guys experience?
Anyways, fucking awesome game I just knocked out a 9 hour session to the twilight hours without even blinking. So far my impressions would be 4 ranged would be better since you lose so much "uptime" with melee running in and getting bunched and not doing any damage. I wish they had a straight archer vs. ranger. Who has the best ranged single target damage from your guys experience?
Ya I lost 3 times when I ran into him, almost won my 3rd try and said fuck it and went to see the guy he wanted me to. Wiped the floor with that group and got a nice 2 hander.
Sinzar
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The key to a good nuking caster is super high intelligence. The bonus radius from int never has friendly fire, so the way you do it is roll up 18+ int for 50% or more aoe radius increase, and lay your fireballs with the edge of the main nuke just outside your tanks hitbox, with the bonus area covering everything clustered on your tank.
I will say though, if you only want one, the ranger animal friend is a big help in my game. I am only running 1 melee character (my tank), and my rangers bear is a huge, HUGE help in spreading the damage around. Another great perk is unlike your normal units, the ranger pet full heals after combat even if he was killed completely, so I try to let him soak up as many hits as possible just so I don't have to rest as often to top off my fighter.
I'm running both a custom made ranged rogue and a ranged ranger in my game, and their damage is very similiar according to the damage done tab in the character info. They synergize with each other amazingly though. Rogue gets 50% boost to any cc'ed target, which the rogue and ranger both apply with their special shots, and rogue gets 20% more crits from class talents. Ranger has a 20% ranged damage stance, and and does 50% more damage to targets with a DoT, which handily enough, the rogue applies passively for 12 sec on every attack from another class talent.
I will say though, if you only want one, the ranger animal friend is a big help in my game. I am only running 1 melee character (my tank), and my rangers bear is a huge, HUGE help in spreading the damage around. Another great perk is unlike your normal units, the ranger pet full heals after combat even if he was killed completely, so I try to let him soak up as many hits as possible just so I don't have to rest as often to top off my fighter.
Valderen
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What an amazing game, I didn't realize how much I miss these type of games Infinity Engine games. I hope it's successful sales wise so they make more of them.
It's a bit slow to start, game start to really shine when you have 4+ party.
I made a Cipher, which is doing my stealth and mechanics stuff, so not needing a rogue at this point.
Anyways, it's been a while since I woke up early on a Saturday to get a few more hours of game time but it's time to go play now.
It's a bit slow to start, game start to really shine when you have 4+ party.
I made a Cipher, which is doing my stealth and mechanics stuff, so not needing a rogue at this point.
Anyways, it's been a while since I woke up early on a Saturday to get a few more hours of game time but it's time to go play now.
Anyone have any luck on this? I looked and don't see anything in docs and don't have a strategy guide anywhere.
gogusrl
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