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ilitarist
Apr 26, 2016

illiterate and militarist
Had a great bug/oversight happen to me.

Endgame, after Ashen May. I am in the palace district and want to go to Wild Mare to rest. On my way here I am ambushed by Woedica Agents. Don't care, run away successfully. Teleported back to palace district. Go to Wild Mare again. The same thing happens. I run away. Then again. And again. As far as I can tell I am stuck forever till I fight those guys.

Edit: going to Periki Overlook first helped.

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2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
Ha, I guess they didn't plan on people running away from that. Does Izzia unlock even if you just encounter them, or do you need to loot the note off them that mentions her?

ilitarist
Apr 26, 2016

illiterate and militarist
I didn't fight them in the end - or rather didn't finish the fight cause I was on my way to winning the game and wanted to leave some content for the inevitable turn-based playthrough - and don't know anything about Izzia. I also failed Religion check to identify them even though when you get in combat you can see they're Woedica agents.

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
How feasible is POTD on an all companion party anyway? I figure most of the buildomancy online is overdramatic about how useless some of them are (especially given how many of them seem to literally not care about making builds that focus on the actual meat of the game, i.e. levels 10-16)

Entropy238
Oct 21, 2010

Fallen Rib
I’m rocking with my PC (Herald), Edér (Fighter/Rogue), Pallegina (Fighter/Paladin), Ydwin (fighter/Rogue) and Aloth (pure Wizard) on POTD. The difficulty’s just right although I’d imagine those are some of the stronger characters.

Lucas Archer
Dec 1, 2007
Falling...
I just picked PoE2 up and was going through the very starting area, where Berath gives you the choice to server her or go to the Wheel. gently caress it, I thought, and chose the Wheel.

Two screens of exposition later and the game crashed. I figure it was the game just giving me the finger for being dumb.

Starks
Sep 24, 2006

Agnosticnixie posted:

How feasible is POTD on an all companion party anyway? I figure most of the buildomancy online is overdramatic about how useless some of them are (especially given how many of them seem to literally not care about making builds that focus on the actual meat of the game, i.e. levels 10-16)

Without god challenges, iron man and level scaling? Absolutely. I think most people in this thread have beaten the game on potd including myself without using custom companions (and I’m not very good). You can still afford to make a lot of mistakes on your build and in combat.

E: are there people somewhere saying you can’t do potd with the regular companions?

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015

Starks posted:

E: are there people somewhere saying you can’t do potd with the regular companions?

Specifically I got the impression that there was a consensus that multiclass Xoti and Serafen are borderline useless, ditto Fassina in general due to how bad Specialist Mages are supposedly

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Agnosticnixie posted:

Specifically I got the impression that there was a consensus that multiclass Xoti and Serafen are borderline useless, ditto Fassina in general due to how bad Specialist Mages are supposedly

They're not useless even if you multi them. I like Xoti as a single class priest but that's mostly because the level 8 and 9 Priest spells have some nice options.

But you can spec the companions with any class combos and do fine with them.

ilitarist
Apr 26, 2016

illiterate and militarist

Agnosticnixie posted:

Specifically I got the impression that there was a consensus that multiclass Xoti and Serafen are borderline useless, ditto Fassina in general due to how bad Specialist Mages are supposedly

It's not like it's a linear game with increasing challenges. Maybe some party composition will make it much harder to kill megabosses without DLC items and looting a lot of places before you go there. But when we talk about completion - you can get to the end without fighting anyone really big. In last two story locations there are fights against relatively weak opponents if you can talk your way through it.

Don't worry about an optimal party. Even if you play on PotD you have a lot of freedom in your choices. And what the point of playing high difficulty if you want someone to tell you how to play it?

ilitarist
Apr 26, 2016

illiterate and militarist

Starks posted:

Without god challenges, iron man and level scaling? Absolutely. I think most people in this thread have beaten the game on potd including myself without using custom companions (and I’m not very good). You can still afford to make a lot of mistakes on your build and in combat.

E: are there people somewhere saying you can’t do potd with the regular companions?

I made a custom Wizard/Paladin for PotD and she wasn't that useful. I chose the kind of wizard who couldn't do many spells I liked like Fireball. She was somewhat effective healer and aura helped but she didn't do much in terms of actual combat. Xoti in her place would be much more effective. I've also made Tekehu Druid/Chanter and while it allows for two unique classes with free spells for both of them - he turned out to be very weak in combat even in decent armor. It would make more sense to turn him plain old Druid and put in the front or Chanter and put in a back.

But, again, it was still manageable.

Lucas Archer
Dec 1, 2007
Falling...

Agnosticnixie posted:

Specifically I got the impression that there was a consensus that multiclass Xoti and Serafen are borderline useless, ditto Fassina in general due to how bad Specialist Mages are supposedly

Is that true? I started as an evoker wizard for my Watcher, but I haven’t done much at all yet - just got to the first port and talked to the governor so I wouldn’t feel terrible about re-rolling.

Ravenfood
Nov 4, 2011

Lucas Archer posted:

Is that true? I started as an evoker wizard for my Watcher, but I haven’t done much at all yet - just got to the first port and talked to the governor so I wouldn’t feel terrible about re-rolling.

One of the Wizard's strongest strengths is its sheer versatility. The subclasses, except for blood mage, limit that pretty significantly with only modest rewards. They're not bad, but I've never liked the feel of any of the specialist classes (in part because some of the specialities' restrictions feel very arbitrary)

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011
Yeah, specialist wizards get pretty restrictive, so if you're not always doing your specialization, your pretty much worse than a regular wizard. That said, you're still a wizard and the game is well balanced, so they're still solid. Though summoning the familiar in TBM sucks.

KPC_Mammon
Jan 23, 2004

Ready for the fashy circle jerk

Lucas Archer posted:

Is that true? I started as an evoker wizard for my Watcher, but I haven’t done much at all yet - just got to the first port and talked to the governor so I wouldn’t feel terrible about re-rolling.

Evoker is probably the only specialist wizard (other than blood mage, which doesn't lose spell access) that is actually good. I've played one, they do lots of damage.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe
Specialist wizards are fine really. The penalties are a bit more severe than I'd like but it's not that hard to find 1-2 good spells a level with any of the specializations and then just spam those in most encounters.

Like Fassina loses two really good Wizard schools and that sucks but I still find plenty of solid stuff to use with her so that she doesn't feel underpowered.

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

Ginette Reno posted:

Specialist wizards are fine really. The penalties are a bit more severe than I'd like but it's not that hard to find 1-2 good spells a level with any of the specializations and then just spam those in most encounters.

Like Fassina loses two really good Wizard schools and that sucks but I still find plenty of solid stuff to use with her so that she doesn't feel underpowered.

My only complaint is that one of the class "features" is kind of awful. The familiar takes a whole turn to summon and makes you spend time moving it away from battle just to get a little bonus. Imo it would've been rad if you got the bonus from any summon.

ProfessorCirno
Feb 17, 2011

The strongest! The smartest!
The rightest!
Monk/priest isn't the worst combo, it's just worse then pure monk or pure cleric, even with Xoti's kinda janky monk subclass.

Serafen's cipher subclass always felt like way more downsides then upsides, and pure barbarian is real good, so if you're aiming for making the NPCs the best they can be mechanically, you probably wanna go pure barbarian.

Fassina's subclass isn't good, and also suffers because, well, Aloth is right there, being better then her.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Nasgate posted:

My only complaint is that one of the class "features" is kind of awful. The familiar takes a whole turn to summon and makes you spend time moving it away from battle just to get a little bonus. Imo it would've been rad if you got the bonus from any summon.

I've had that complaint about potions too with turn based. It feels rare that I ever want to waste my first turn drinking some potion that gives a small bonus. Like great I can get +30% interrupt chance or something but I gotta waste my whole turn to do that?

At the same time potions would be overpowered if they were a free action so I'm not sure what to do there. Maybe potions should be useable as a once per round free action?

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


Going to start POE1 again. Haven't beaten the game since 2015 and never experienced the WM2 content. Despite having upgraded my computer I'm not looking forward to the preponderance of load-screens when backtracking.

Recommended Level Scaling: WM1 Normal, WM2 and Act 3 Higher? Does level scaling affect the bonus dungeon?

POE2 is definitely better gamewise than the first, because I'd rather sail a ship than run a castle that's canonically gets trashed anyway, but I found the OST either lacking or just recycled from the first. Also the larger map means the content is spread much thinner.

Digital Osmosis
Nov 10, 2002

Smile, Citizen! Happiness is Mandatory.

Ginette Reno posted:

I've had that complaint about potions too with turn based. It feels rare that I ever want to waste my first turn drinking some potion that gives a small bonus. Like great I can get +30% interrupt chance or something but I gotta waste my whole turn to do that?

At the same time potions would be overpowered if they were a free action so I'm not sure what to do there. Maybe potions should be useable as a once per round free action?

Yeah, I feel you. I never want to play my glorious drug-monk anymore. It sucks that my first TB playthrough was with a Wizard because now any standard-action or cast buffs seem decadent, even the incredibly strong ones.

And re: Fassina, I finally found a good way to play up her summoning theme: I made her into a Chanter (Beckoner) / Druid (Ancient.) You don't have to feel bad getting locked out of some very good wizard spells if you're not a wizard!

rope kid
Feb 3, 2001

Warte nur! Balde
Ruhest du auch.

With specialist wizards, we erred on the side of making the specialists have severe drawbacks because A/D&D specialist wizards are usually absurdly superior to generalists. We made a few buffs to them over time, but they're still a bit underpowered.

fuckpot
May 20, 2007

Lurking beneath the water
The future Immortal awaits

Team Anasta
Can someone please explain how delay turn works to me? I am having trouble googling it. To be specific, how is it different to ending your turn?

Basic Chunnel
Sep 21, 2010

Jesus! Jesus Christ! Say his name! Jesus! Jesus! Come down now!

You get to move last in the turn order, afaik. Meaning, if you’ve got a rogue up against a fresh dude, you can delay your turn to give the mage a chance to apply an effect giving you sneak attack. The dude goes before you, but it’s all a calculation.

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

rope kid posted:

With specialist wizards, we erred on the side of making the specialists have severe drawbacks because A/D&D specialist wizards are usually absurdly superior to generalists. We made a few buffs to them over time, but they're still a bit underpowered.

Honestly, I still feel like they're pretty fun for me personally. Being so restricted has forced me to use things other than the unique Iron Clasped Grimoire spells.

PirateBob
Jun 14, 2003
What's with these company bitches :ssj:

Can't get Maia to stay. Even though the RDC tried to massacre her and me after I refused their insane plot, and Maia helped me kill them, she still won't let me side with the Huana or the Vailians? No matter what I say? This is kinda bullshit. I did her side quest and we're on good terms. But that counts for nothing.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

it's not like you are your companions' god. you're just some guy. maybe a friend.

PirateBob
Jun 14, 2003

Cavauro posted:

it's not like you are your companions' god. you're just some guy. maybe a friend.

My point was that her bridges are well and truly burned so why is she still loyal to those assholes?

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011
Maia is like a career Israeli Defense Force soldier and youre asking her to support Palestine or Egypt.

KPC_Mammon
Jan 23, 2004

Ready for the fashy circle jerk

Nasgate posted:

Maia is like a career Israeli Defense Force soldier and youre asking her to support Palestine or Egypt.

Got to hand it to Bioware though, convincing a generation of gamers that completing a personal quest should be more than enough to convince someone to betray their country and gently caress you.

PirateBob
Jun 14, 2003

Nasgate posted:

Maia is like a career Israeli Defense Force soldier and youre asking her to support Palestine or Egypt.

Well, an IDF that had no qualms about killing her. And what was the point of the whole "they made me assassinate a leader in cold blood and I really didn't like it" story if you won't get a chance to turn her after the RDC tries to engage in more of the same poo poo on a much bigger scale?

Nocturtle
Mar 17, 2007

A minor thing but IMO area design is improved in POE2 compared to POE1 as I'm playing through it. POE1 is great but a few of the areas were comically overcrowded. "Russetwood" in the WM1 expansion stands out in my memory, where a bunch of ogres, slavers, vampires, wolves and wizard ghosts were just standing around staring at each other in a football field sized open wilderness area waiting for the player character to arrive. Going with a larger number of smaller, focused areas spread across the various islands is an improvement. In comparison Baldur's Gate 1 chose to have large number of large, mostly empty areas, which in retrospect was very tedious to play through.

Basic Chunnel
Sep 21, 2010

Jesus! Jesus Christ! Say his name! Jesus! Jesus! Come down now!

To establish her loyalty to RDC

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

PirateBob posted:

Well, an IDF that had no qualms about killing her. And what was the point of the whole "they made me assassinate a leader in cold blood and I really didn't like it" story if you won't get a chance to turn her after the RDC tries to engage in more of the same poo poo on a much bigger scale?

lol if you think people become better people in response to events.

if anything maya is painfully true to life in remaining a total shithead even as she moans about it

Entropy238
Oct 21, 2010

Fallen Rib
Oof. Trying to take down Dorudongdongdu at the moment and I've wiped a few times now after about 30+ minutes.

I want to kill it without having to resort to making mercenaries. After the first couple of wipes I did a bit of googling and there doesn't really seem to be any way of doing this one without having to optimise gear, ability choices or mercenaries so I've gone the route of respeccing my Troubadour with the skeleton summon chant for fodder.

Things start to go to completely to poo poo after he starts using his magnetic pull attack so I'm going to start experimenting with ways to avoid it tomorrow. I've got the belt and the helm that give immunity to push/pull for two characters and I should be able to make my other characters untargetable by using the Rogue fart cloud on Eder/Ydwin and Arkemyr's Spastic Colon on Aloth. So long as I can keep my resources up with Ancestors memory there shouldn't be any issues, unless it is has more surprises at near death. Withdraw scrolls were another possibility that sprung to mind but (a) the fight's already long enough (b) I don't want it to reset Hel Hyraf's fury.

It was a massive dick move giving it the ability to heal itself.

Nasgate posted:

Maia is like a career Israeli Defense Force soldier and youre asking her to support Palestine or Egypt.

:eyepop:

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

KPC_Mammon posted:

Got to hand it to Bioware though, convincing a generation of gamers that completing a personal quest should be more than enough to convince someone to betray their country and gently caress you.

see here's the thing from the opposite perspective, everyone has a handful of people in the world who they trust tremendously and you'd go all in for them if it was ever necessary. it's not really the kind of scope of relationship you can develop over what three months or even a couple years or however long your in-game deadfire campaign lasts, but it's not an impossible scenario. maybe with this specific character sure, but if you were bros with someone like eder or aloth since poe1 they should be like "hell yeah brah let's ruin this poo poo starting at the feet and working our way up to the head"

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

The White Dragon posted:

see here's the thing from the opposite perspective, everyone has a handful of people in the world who they trust tremendously and you'd go all in for them if it was ever necessary. it's not really the kind of scope of relationship you can develop over what three months or even a couple years or however long your in-game deadfire campaign lasts, but it's not an impossible scenario. maybe with this specific character sure, but if you were bros with someone like eder or aloth since poe1 they should be like "hell yeah brah let's ruin this poo poo starting at the feet and working our way up to the head"

It's all about the characters as individuals though. Sure Aloth the sub will do whatever Watcher Dom wants him to. And Eder sees you as the only consistent power in his life. But of your close friends, do you actually have any that you'd be willing to defect from your country and abandon all of your other friends and family for? Because that's what op wants Maia to do.

Zane
Nov 14, 2007

PirateBob posted:

What's with these company bitches :ssj:

Can't get Maia to stay. Even though the RDC tried to massacre her and me after I refused their insane plot, and Maia helped me kill them, she still won't let me side with the Huana or the Vailians? No matter what I say? This is kinda bullshit. I did her side quest and we're on good terms. But that counts for nothing.
to answer your original question: the devs might have patched this out? if you romance her a tricky route for the huana supposedly does exist -- which i also can't confirm. my information isn't up to date because i don't like her very much.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Basic Chunnel posted:

You get to move last in the turn order, afaik. Meaning, if you’ve got a rogue up against a fresh dude, you can delay your turn to give the mage a chance to apply an effect giving you sneak attack. The dude goes before you, but it’s all a calculation.

I use it a lot with buffs. Have Xoti cast Devotions of the Faithful ---> Delay Fighter turn until buff is applied----> attack.

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May 3, 2002

by FactsAreUseless
Nap Ghost

Nasgate posted:

Maia is like a career Israeli Defense Force soldier and youre asking her to support Palestine or Egypt.

Well that puts a whole new spin on the Maia/Xoti romance.

Edit: Still the finest backer update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIUqGbIUP6c

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