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Is there a ranger cross-talent that gives you a bear cub or something?
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Aug 25, 2015 21:29
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In a perfect world, the Ranger cross-class talent would make pets lesser animal companions. In this world it gives you a slightly weakened Wounding Shot once per encounter.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:35
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One day, Eder. One day ...
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Aug 25, 2015 21:37
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Wizard Styles posted:In a perfect world, the Ranger cross-class talent would make pets lesser animal companions. I think multi-class talents are suppose to be there to support alternate playstyles that lean into other classes, so whether they're balanced or not is less important to me than whether they're useful for those styles. A weakened Wounding Shot for example I would probably take on a ranged Paladin or a Chanter build.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:39
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frajaq posted:So is the expansion worth it or what maybe give it more than 2 hours :V
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Aug 25, 2015 21:40
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This is the point where I regret purchasing the backer beta instead of the expansion 
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Aug 25, 2015 21:43
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I can't loving wait to give my level 7 ranged cypher (gimped) sneak attack.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:43
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Scorchy posted:I think multi-class talents are suppose to be there to support alternate playstyles that lean into other classes, so whether they're balanced or not is less important to me than whether they're useful for those styles. A weakened Wounding Shot for example I would probably take on a ranged Paladin or a Chanter build. They could make it fun though. Mechanically a wounding shot, but call it falconry and have a bird shoot out from your shoulder.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:44
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Scorchy posted:I think multi-class talents are suppose to be there to support alternate playstyles that lean into other classes, so whether they're balanced or not is less important to me than whether they're useful for those styles. A weakened Wounding Shot for example I would probably take on a ranged Paladin or a Chanter build. I just love the pets and want my space pig to murder for me.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:45
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 [Stoic] is one of the better dialog options i've seen in a game.
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Aug 25, 2015 21:51
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So are there more than 2 souls that you can Awaken in Stalwart or are those all I get?
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Aug 25, 2015 22:32
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Soooo I just tried retraining my level 7 main character and it didn't reset my skills, so I ended up with basically doubled skill points. Repeatable when I reloaded and tried again. Anyone else seeing this bug?
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Aug 25, 2015 23:05
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Most of the cross class skills seem pretty wank at the moment except for the Fighter Regen and the Paladin +4 AoE accuracy buff. I've heard that in the new patch Wildshape got a pretty good buff: base 24-48 damage on the claws at level 12. This means with Wildstrike Corrode, Greater Wild-strike, Savage Attack, Spirit of Decay, High Might and Two Weapon fighting you can rack up some serious damage e.g. 80s and 90s. Not sure if this has synergy with the monk cross class talent ...? I've also learned the hard way that the AI has been vastly improved and enemies are much more likely to go straight for your squishies unless you can get a choke point. Glass cannon builds just flat out won't work well anymore on POTD and you're going to need to sacrifice a lot of offence for the sake of defence. I'm probably going to put my backline in medium armour and retrain them so their CON/RES is higher.
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Aug 25, 2015 23:59
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I'd be fairly interested in hearing if anyone's figured out the new AI mechanics for aggroing. Are enemies more likely to break away from your tanks for damage done, attempted crowd control, your defences or your damage reduction?
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Aug 26, 2015 00:07
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Dick Burglar posted:Soooo I just tried retraining my level 7 main character and it didn't reset my skills, so I ended up with basically doubled skill points. Repeatable when I reloaded and tried again. Anyone else seeing this bug? I let QA and programming know about this but they have not been able to reproduce this. Would you be able to provide a save game? Sorry for the trouble, and thank you.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:07
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ended up killing the new dragon the same way i killed the adra dragon. mind plaguing it and then having everybody attack it. only took 2 mind plagues(they crit) to down it. also i made peace with the ogre matron, but in Durgan's battery, a group of ogres still goes hostile even though one of them says to let me be Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 00:41
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Sent you a PM, rope kid. I would also like to add that I am a little bummed that Drifter's skill bonus got changed from Survival to Mechanics. Well not really, since there needed to be more Mechanics options, but I wish I would be able to change it on my pre-existing character to Hunter, since I'm playing a druid who has zero use for Mechanics and both origins fit thematically. Dick Burglar fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 00:43
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What a great fight in the Mines. And no, I'm not talking about the fight with the barricade of dwarven infantry providing cover for ranged attackers while another group of ranged attackers snipes at you from a balcony. That one requires strategy and positioning, which is totally loving retarded. No, I like the one where it summons a metric shitton of loving ghosts that guard a key you need to get through the area. Not just any ghosts, but ghosts that can grab my guys from across the loving map and teleport them into a group of ghosts that stun on their basic attacks. That's great. I'm glad that you put two of the teleport ghosts in this fight, because otherwise I would have a small shred of hope that if I kill that ghost or maybe just sacrifice one of my dudes so I can gank it, I'd be fine. But hell, you covered your grounds, Obsidian. I like the expansion but this fight loving sucks.
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Aug 26, 2015 00:57
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I started a new game so haven't gotten to the new content yet but man the party AI has been a pleasant surprise. It seemed a little light at first but just a little has gone a long way, especially for trash encounters. For example Durance drops Interdiction and my rogue immediately uses Crippling and Eder uses Knockdown right away. Only thing I am not sure is the difference between Aggressive and one of the Defensive options in targeting. The text is basically the same except one says whether you are targeted or not by an enemy. Does one simply go after the nearest guy while the other goes after an enemy that is targeting you like range guys? Sorry if this is not fully clear trying to go off memory. Also I have already seen more disengagements from the enemy moving than I did in my entire previous playthrough.
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Aug 26, 2015 01:07
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So with the Perception change, what's a good stat spread for a melee cipher now? Edit: Also at the level up screen, the cross-class abilities are all showing up as "Missing Abiliy 14xx" for me. I'm running the Steam/OSX version. Assuming that's just a release day bug? Hulk Krogan fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 01:11
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Considering you only get 1 accuracy per point in Perception, it doesn't seem particularly valuable. It's just unwise to dump-stat it like you could before. Probably should still just pump Might/Dex/Int and keep Perception at 10 instead of cratering it. Then again maybe I'm underestimating a handful of +accuracy.
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Aug 26, 2015 01:32
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are there any adra animants in the expansion? because i've already cleared out basically every dungeon in the base game, including the endless paths, so not being to upgrade this soulbound estoc would really loving suck.
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Aug 26, 2015 01:35
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Downloaded and installed, but I'll probably not be able to try this out until the weekend. Just wondering, does the baby sneak attack stack with the baby sneak attack priests of Skaen can get?
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Aug 26, 2015 02:30
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Man, I started this at level 6 on hard and I feel like I'm not quite buff enough to handle it. I got through the first battle after a few attempts and now there's some random group of frost trolls in the woods that's punking me pretty hard. On the other hand I haven't used scrolls at all and my party almost all have like 6 lore. So it's probably on me.
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Aug 26, 2015 02:39
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Figured out the Autotarget difference. The Defensive one will only seek out nearby guys while Aggressive goes anywhere. The descriptions are exactly the same except Defensive has the word nearby. I am annoyed respecs say they will reset Attributes for someone like Eder but you can't actually change them.
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Aug 26, 2015 03:07
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Hulk Krogan posted:So with the Perception change, what's a good stat spread for a melee cipher now? Do you still / did you ever have the beta version downloaded on steam? I don't know for sure if your issue is related, but still having the beta enabled after the expansion downloaded had me in some half-measure broken version.
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Aug 26, 2015 03:38
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Have the npc attributes been tweaked to go along with the changes?
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Aug 26, 2015 03:42
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Kobogartimer posted:Do you still / did you ever have the beta version downloaded on steam? I don't know for sure if your issue is related, but still having the beta enabled after the expansion downloaded had me in some half-measure broken version. Go to game properties in Steam, local files, and verify integrity of cache.
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Aug 26, 2015 03:44
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Kobogartimer posted:Do you still / did you ever have the beta version downloaded on steam? I don't know for sure if your issue is related, but still having the beta enabled after the expansion downloaded had me in some half-measure broken version. I did. I just went into properties and opted out of the beta, and now it's downloading a 3.5 gig file so uh...we'll see if that works? The entry in my library still said "Pillars of Eternity (beta)" so that might have been it. Scorchy posted:Go to game properties in Steam, local files, and verify integrity of cache. Otherwise I'll try this.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:18
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Started a new game, found a bug: I picked up an amulet with +2 Per, but equipping it on my main character has no effect. If I equip it on Eder or Aloth it works fine, though. It isn't being suppressed or anything because it is the only item I have with any +attributes.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:34
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Where do you go to switch to AI or auto-attack? I can't find them. *Edit* And just when I post this I figure it out.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:36
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Has anyone tried IE Mod after the patch? Am I worried about nothing?
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Aug 26, 2015 04:39
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All right, what AI option do you have to set to where your guys will auto-attack the next enemy once they kill one? Because even with fiddling with the AI options some of of my guys just stand there and do nothing.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:43
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Ouch, the -5 Deflection hit on Defender. I guess this was to make Defender less of the clear cut, obvious choice for king of the defensive modals. I would've liked it if Wary Defender's additional deflection bonus was merely lessened (unless the patch also changed that already) to achieve the same overall net amount of deflection, but I understand the base ability has to have some sort of trade off. Personally, I think I'll just leave Defender mode off until I get Wary Defender to mitigate the loss of tankiness. On the plus side, now that Defender doesn't reduce attack speed, tank fighters will probably see a slight bump in DPS.
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Aug 26, 2015 04:49
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Eh the real meat of Defender always was the extra engagement anyway
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Aug 26, 2015 04:53
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rope kid posted:Letting people have levels of spells is much more complicated than offering individual spells or abilities. I did not receive a lot of feedback on the cross-class Talents from the team or QA, but it's not difficult to tune existing abilities/talents up. Yeah I really think you should tune up the abilities. Why on earth should I pick as a two handed fighter anything other than the baby sneak attack when deciding cross-class skills? I'm sure they have their situational use but passive 15% bonus damage whenever someone gets debuffed is way better than any individual per rest ability available as a Fighter. Even if it was just 5% more damage- I would still pick it over any watered down per rest ability. It turns my frequent knockdowns into even more serious damage windows. The abilities should be given significantly more per rest uses or be made per encounter, I think. quote:Eh the real meat of Defender always was the extra engagement anyway Honestly engagement on player-controlled party members seems pointless. It's more a mechanic to punish you than the other way around. I think I had a grand total of 3 disengagement attacks this expansion. Don't think I had a single one in the vanilla campaign. Even with the more frequent movement of enemies this expansion it's just not reliable like increasing your actual damage or utility is. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 04:55
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frajaq posted:Eh the real meat of Defender always was the extra engagement anyway but isn't the AI more likely to break engagement now? Do chokepoints still reign supreme?
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Aug 26, 2015 04:56
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Accordion Man posted:All right, what AI option do you have to set to where your guys will auto-attack the next enemy once they kill one? Because even with fiddling with the AI options some of of my guys just stand there and do nothing. Auto-attack set to Aggressive.
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Aug 26, 2015 05:08
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Also thanks for that new fighter ability. We really needed another good active and it's a killer. I knockdown then Eder follows up. It's basically  in PoE format.
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Aug 26, 2015 05:11
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Has anyone found the helmet circular stone for the mines? I swear I am on a wild goose chase with this.
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