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Zurai posted:I'd love to play the game, but unfortunately every quest I get seems to inevitably lead to an encounter with a cave grub, and encounters with cave grubs end 2 seconds later with a crash, 100% of the time. Every monster of the cave grub family, from the Giant Cave Grub to Cave Grublings, causes the crash. Hey, I hope you're still reading the thread. This started happening to me, and verifying file integrity in Steam fixed it. Good luck!
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Okay, think I'm pretty much at the endgame for my PotD run after three or four resets and waiting for the first patch. The difficulty still drops off pretty hard somewhere in the teens even with scaling on, but it's hard for me to tell if that's enemies not having any appropriate defenses or what. None of this should be spoilers since it's mostly mechanics observations. 1) Arcane Knight (Fighter/Wiz) is absurdly good as a tank. I used Aloth as my frontline with it and it makes him into a nearly unkillable beast; the quick-cast Illusion and Enchantment buffs (Mirrored Image or Arcane Veil->Displaced Image, Bulwark against the Elements, Spirit Shield and Ironskin) are massive boosts to survivability, and they come online very early. After that he can either throw some longer-cast debuffs or just smack everything with the normal Fighter damage tools while being untouchable, and Grimoires mean that he doesn't need to spend points at all on the Wizard side to pick up useful spells. Checking my records Aloth only got knocked out twice, and I know one of them was when I accidentally nailed him with a double Empowered raw damage spell. 2) On a similar note, Evoker Wizard is absurd. At the point I'm at it's become less absurd since enemies tend to die before a spell finishes so Eder is catching up, but at level 15 or so my PC had something like 90,000 damage done while the next highest companion was sitting around 35,000. Throwing an Empowered (auto-doublecast) Concussive Missile will kill anything it hits, including with the AoE, and that's a level 4 spell. 3) Charge is pretty hilariously broken. It should probably turn into a full attack on the target and debuff/knock aside targets in the way, not do a full attack on each. On the other hand, it does turn Fighters into anime protagonists as they dash through a line of mooks and everything behind them explodes into gibbets. Two discipline for a multi-target full attack just makes me wonder what the heck they were thinking, though; it's considerably stronger than the level 8 Clear Out Fighter ability. 4) Priest abilities seem pretty weak. Xoti is still a stand-out because her unique items are really strong if you stack Religion on her, and her unique spells are pretty good too. I used her as a secondary melee target, running in behind Aloth and Eder after buffing herself with Minor Avatar once I got it. In general, Priest abilities (especially self-buffs) probably want to be faster to cast. Spending six seconds or so between the cast and the recovery time to give someone a single Inspiration is pretty weak when they can usually provide them themselves. 5) Most Cipher abilities are pretty meh, but the strong ones are pretty strong. I liked Pain Block since I wasn't really running a healer so it was nice to toss on people with its quick cast, and Whisper of Treason/Ringleader are super strong. Disintegrate is pretty good too. Time Parasite is goddamn absurd because the buff part of it seems to scale with the number of targets it bounces to, so Serafen turns into a magic missile spammer once it lands since I gave him Frostseeker. e: Might also go back to PoE1 after this since I realized I never actually finished WM2. Anyone have suggestions for a build, and what I should do when I can't program AI into my party members? RPZip fucked around with this message at 00:34 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 00:31
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lurksion posted:I'm done until DLC, spoiler this please https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/100345-vela-is-a-druggie/
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En Garde Motherfuckers posted:I wonder if he's a backer pet, or the result of an inspired designer visiting a message board RPGcodex backer pet I believe
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May 21, 2018 00:41
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Hahahahaha holy shiiiiit This is absolutely incredible. frajaq posted:It's still a shame we don't have two-handed axes in this goddamn game series You do. It's called a pollaxe.
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2house2fly posted:RPGcodex backer pet I believe Haha, that's pretty cool.
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I really want to like the whispers of the endless path greatsword, but that friendly fire cone is such a pita. Is that intentional? Can someone mod it to not have friendly fire? Also, kudos to the design team on this, there are a lot of strong choices, and the visual and sound design in particular gets really impressive results out the engine. But they should have stalled release to June.
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Uh so for sealed fate quest... dude just runs away from me and I either can let him go or kill him? based on his captain's dialogue I should be able to catch him for questioning, right?
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Also what's up with the unique morningstar that does 0 corrode over 0 seconds and can be enchanted to do an additional 0 corrode over 0 seconds
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albany academy posted:Also what's up with the unique morningstar that does 0 corrode over 0 seconds and can be enchanted to do an additional 0 corrode over 0 seconds tooltip/wording error it actually does the damage
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albany academy posted:Also what's up with the unique morningstar that does 0 corrode over 0 seconds and can be enchanted to do an additional 0 corrode over 0 seconds It does actual damage in game, the description is broken. Does it tell you real numbers if you hover the 0's?
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RPZip posted:Okay, think I'm pretty much at the endgame for my PotD run after three or four resets and waiting for the first patch. The difficulty still drops off pretty hard somewhere in the teens even with scaling on, but it's hard for me to tell if that's enemies not having any appropriate defenses or what. None of this should be spoilers since it's mostly mechanics observations. I'm level 16 think with my Wizard/Priest and I'd tend to agree that Priest abilities feel somewhat overwhelming. I actually think Priests are a good class to multi-class with, contrary to what people initially thought. The reason for that is the best spell I've seen so far for Priests is (as in Poe1) Devotions of the Faithful. But after that, you don't lose much by multi classing imo. Granted, I haven't seen what level 8 or 9 spells are like yet. So imo the only thing you lose by multi classing is taking a bit longer to get to Devotions. A lot of the good priest spells come levels 1-4. Now what is actually worth multi-classing Priests to would take some more plays. Wizard has been a decent add for me, though I greatly regret going Conjurer. I'd rather go Evoker if I did this combo again since I think buffing up with Devotions and then chucking Empowered DPS spells would be a lethal combo. Not sure what my next play will be. Some kind of melee for sure, but undecided on what. e: I just fought Concelhaut. And that was actually a pretty tough fight. Hard as hell to actually land attacks on him. Ginette Reno fucked around with this message at 01:36 on May 21, 2018 |
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May 21, 2018 01:33
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Is time parasite supposed to be a deception power? It's the only cipher ability with the keyword "Illusions".
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Snicker-Snack posted:Is time parasite supposed to be a deception power? It's the only cipher ability with the keyword "Illusions".
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If you wanna do dmg with a priest throw out a shining beacon on a group, does 44 dmg per 3s for me atm. Throw a symbol of magran on top of that or before it as it does more dmg. Then if something is somehow alive, throw out a cleansing fire. And you should cast minor avatar before that for all the stat boosts. Everything just melts. Pillar of holy fire hits for 160-190, if you wanna mess with stuff you gotta worry about hitting your guys. I'm usually using this tier spell for boon of the champion to buff the melee guys to hell. And of course there's storm of holy fire, I just don't know if fights are big enough for storm of holy fire. Its on the same tier as minor avatar so I have barely used it. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 01:48 on May 21, 2018 |
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Tenzarin posted:If you wanna do dmg with a priest throw out a shining beacon on a group, does 44 dmg per 3s for me atm. Throw a symbol of magran on top of that or before it as it does more dmg. Then if something is somehow alive, throw out a cleansing fire. And you should cast minor avatar before that for all the stat boosts. Yeah empowered shining beacon is nice. If you get Concelhaut's skull and equip it, he follows you around talking trash. Pretty amusing.
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Subjunctive posted:What are the non-trap weapons for Devoted? Sword? Mace? Spears are rarer than swords, but probably stronger. Looking through the game’s files, Modwyr is okay, but more for defense than damage. Otherwise there’s a sword that’s actually a club (macahuatl) that’s really good and unique. But there’s also a spear that has the stats of a sword (pierce/slash damage types, the same penetration as swords and no accuracy bonus), but has damage numbers far superior to any unique sword. I don’t know when or where you get it, though. The other two unique spears are also really good. Of course, sabers are plentiful, full of fun, unique effects and very strong, but then you’re stuck with one damage type. You can’t go wrong with great swords for sure, though.
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I killed Arkemyr after finishing his quest because honestly why not, gently caress that guy. Maybe if I kill enough archmages then in PoE3 they'll recognise I deserve to be there or else I'll just keep killing them.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Spears are rarer than swords, but probably stronger. Looking through the game’s files, Modwyr is okay, but more for defense than damage.
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Subjunctive posted:What are the non-trap weapons for Devoted? Sword? Mace? Modals are good, flexibility is good, and using the best weapon you have at a given time is good. While most people love Devoted, I actually think it's a trap option.
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I wish I had some of those cool spears. Spears are just a cool weapon. I also like how you don't need to have weapon proficiencies necessarily, at least until you start getting perks for weapons if you do have them.
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May 21, 2018 01:54
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Ginette Reno posted:Yeah empowered shining beacon is nice. Never really used empower for anything other than getting more spells in a long fight. Empowered shining beacon landed for 77 dmg per 3s over 24s(30-40s with crits). That is a retarded amount of dmg. The people in the wild mare died to the first tick, I have no idea which monsters in the game would last with that on them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiy3GDn8VQ I have been messing around with this build, and it's super fun. Very gimmicky. You absolutely need a dedicated healer, so no soloing, but it absolutely shreds.
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Stokes posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiy3GDn8VQ There are a lot of health-on-kill pet auras that I've been using. They're not bad.
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Crowetron posted:I'm at the point in the game where I have to choose a faction, and I'm really torn between the Huana and the Pirates. Just go independent, all of these people suck major rear end. Not gonna support the brigands that roam about stealing from people, the dumbass caste system place, the militaristic imperialists, and the terrible capitalists.
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SunAndSpring posted:Just go independent, all of these people suck major rear end. Not gonna support the brigands that roam about stealing from people, the dumbass caste system place, the militaristic imperialists, and the terrible capitalists. Centrism is the path of cowards Ginette Reno posted:Yeah empowered shining beacon is nice. I want him to show up in a hypothetical third game so that he can get merked yet again 
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Captain Oblivious posted:Centrism is the path of cowards It's not really centrism, I just think all these factions suck poo poo, aren't worth anything, and they should just gently caress off.
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Ravenfood posted:when you're shifted, do you stop getting benefits from rings and belts? Yes, you do not get any benefits from any equipment while shapeshifted which is why all those barb passives are important.
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Khanstant posted:I wish I had some of those cool spears. Spears are just a cool weapon. I also like how you don't need to have weapon proficiencies necessarily, at least until you start getting perks for weapons if you do have them. I'm really glad there are some good spears, but I do want to make a complaint about them. Of the three unique spears, two of them are hunting tools, one of which is a hunting tool for a hunter gatherer society. The third unique is a stone weapon from a time pre-dating metallurgy. I know fantasy rpgs have to cleave to western fantasy archetypes, but the "primitive spear" is one of the most annoying. Why can't you just let us have Gungnir? Heithinn Grasida fucked around with this message at 02:27 on May 21, 2018 |
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SunAndSpring posted:It's not really centrism, I just think all these factions suck poo poo, aren't worth anything, and they should just gently caress off. The faction-less ending just enables the factions to continue to suck poo poo while they wreck each other, and the rest of the Deadfire. it kinda sucks, as an ending
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SunAndSpring posted:It's not really centrism, I just think all these factions suck poo poo, aren't worth anything, and they should just gently caress off. What is centrism if not being unwilling to change anything because of an inability to accept that all paths forward WILL have problems, and then doing even greater harm in the process Exactly like the no faction ending 
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En Garde Motherfuckers posted:The faction-less ending just enables the factions to continue to suck poo poo while they wreck each other, and the rest of the Deadfire. it kinda sucks, as an ending Good, the imperialists and the pirates and the caste system deserve to own each other, while I deserve to be hailed as the person who single-handedly dealt with the Eothas thing.
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Captain Oblivious posted:What is centrism if not being unwilling to change anything because of an inability to accept that all paths forward WILL have problems, and then doing even greater harm in the process If all the paths available through those factions are strongly right-leaning, and you're left-leaning, is it centrist to reject those paths on offer?
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the correct approach is to identify which of the imperial powers is the weakest and then back them to the hilt, this will maximize damage to the corrupt global power structure when they inevitably clash
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Introduce a forging system to craft your own unique items in a DLC. Boom most popular DLC ever.
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My huana faction questline is broken  .
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Queen drops arguably the best hat in the game. Also happens to be a manipulative mind reader that can't be trusted. Don't see any real downside to murdering her the moment I set foot in Neketaka.
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Subjunctive posted:If all the paths available through those factions are strongly right-leaning, and you're left-leaning, is it centrist to reject those paths on offer? Basically. I mean, they're like:  You should help the Huana because maybe they'll treat the people they view as spiritually and mentally inferior nicer and give them food!or You should help the Vailian Trading Company because they'll be nice capitalist exploiters!and I'm just like gently caress this, it really isn't any of my business to be an interventionist, I'm dealing with this loving idiot stomping about in a big green statue and going home.
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SunAndSpring posted:Good, the imperialists and the pirates and the caste system deserve to own each other, while I deserve to be hailed as the person who single-handedly dealt with the Eothas thing. I'd be a lot more satisfied with this if Neketaka and other settlements you visit weren't also screwed over by the conflict in the ending slides, but it's probably the least-bad in the long term On a related note, someone did a pretty good job of filling out the wiki with ending slides and conditions, and it's pretty interesting stuff: https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Pillars_of_Eternity_II:_Deadfire_endings (obvious spoilers c'mon)
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There's a quarterstaff that is a broom you can upgrade to legendary. And one of it's enchants is "...is that a Broom?", along with its other broom style effects.
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