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pentyne posted:Disappointing sign of the times, but after being out for 1+ years I had assumed the FAQ community would've written guides and such for the game. Turns out the only thing on gamefaqs is a long winded explanation of the game mechanics and the Steam page only has 1 "walkthrough" that is a bunch of links to YT videos in sequential order and 10+ possible POTD builds. there are wikis these days
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pmchem posted:there are wikis these days yeah but even the PoE 2 wiki has lots of missing/empty/incomplete pages
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Inverness posted:Is there more detailed information about how priests of Magran behave? It's difficult to roleplay a character like that when I have so little information on the actual faith. you have to imagine your character complain about FIERY WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES every five seconds
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Autism Sneaks posted:yeah but even the PoE 2 wiki has lots of missing/empty/incomplete pages I've found the gamepedia.com wiki to be remarkably complete for all my POE2 needs. But, that's the thing about wikis, anyone can edit them, so if there's something you don't like...
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There's a big asterisk on that "anyone", though. Especially if you're trying to do things like restructure it so that it's easier to tell stuff from different games apart - at that point it's really more of a political exercise to get buy-in from the existing editors.
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frajaq posted:you have to imagine your character complain about FIERY WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES every five seconds The Magranites in Deadfire are a lot more tolerable. Militant harasses, but tolerable.
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I just throw questions at this thread if the wikis turn out fruitless. Some of y'all are encyclopedias yourselves I'm regards to Pillars and it's definitely one of those things that makes me glad I threw 10 bucks at this dead gay website.
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rocketrobot posted:The Magranites in Deadfire are a lot more tolerable. Militant harasses, but tolerable. The priestess in 1 was also more tolerable than Durance. The way I see it is, overcome every challenge in your path without relying on others. Magran loves challenges, unless it's a challenge against her.
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The PoE2 wiki doesn't have the DLC endings up, I keep meaning to try and add them but I'm not sure myself exactly what all the requirements are
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Nasgate posted:The priestess in 1 was also more tolerable than Durance. The way I see it is, overcome every challenge in your path without relying on others. Magran loves challenges, unless it's a challenge against her. She's fine with those, you just have to bear in mind she's the goddess of the twin principles of FYGM and smashing obstacles into tiny little burning pieces.
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For whatever reason the PoE series does not seem to attract wiki nerds. The fextralife one is an abomination.
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It’s possibly because everyone that plays it is over the age of 50.
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I am a boy of 30 years and I'm just too lazy to add to wikis. I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to which wikis are created and maintained. Endless Legend/Space games sell great but their wikis are outdated and weak. More noticeably, Total War series never got a good wiki, and it's one of the most popular strategy games. Fallout 76 was a huge disappointment to everybody but the wiki is filled with information from it, perhaps cause it's the same wiki as the whole Fallout franchise and they have standards. Might and Magic series haven't had a good entry in the series for 13 years and it has 11000 pages (though I adore M&MXL nobody played it). NWN is 17 years and its wiki has ~3700 pages. Two Worlds has 1500 pages. And Wizardry, Blackguards, Avernum, have husks of wikis. And I can't find a separate wiki for KotOR!
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I think it boils down to whether or not one of the few people who are willing to put effort into making a wiki happens to like your game. And for stuff like Fallout 76, it's carryover from the wiki-makers who happened to like the Fallout series as a whole.
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Update: after much digging i found a fix for the Bardatto/Valera questline with the console  Will disable achievements but what the hell who cares about those
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DrakeD posted:Update: after much digging i found a fix for the Bardatto/Valera questline with the console cheevos also give you berath points to spend on bonuses for your next playthrough
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Clanpot Shake posted:cheevos also give you berath points to spend on bonuses for your next playthrough Aka you're preventing Eder from having a pet, you monster
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Regarding wiki talk it also doesn't help that the POE2 wiki stuff is split between two different wikis (tyranny also has that problem in having two wikis, both of which are kinda poo poo as a result even if combined they're more than complete), the one on fextralife is generally better for raw mechanics stuff but needs to fix links for poo poo like inspirations and afflictions Also turn-based launch is good but I find myself increasingly despising cipher for trying to actually play as a striker, and feeling like I'm basically only using it anymore because that's what I rolled on the playthrough I used for import and the skill outlay (not a lot of classes start with insight) Agnosticnixie fucked around with this message at 15:38 on May 24, 2019 |
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Nasgate posted:Aka you're preventing Eder from having a pet, you monster poo poo. 
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ilitarist posted:I am a boy of 30 years and I'm just too lazy to add to wikis. A lot of those older games are in an odd place; they're old enough that they *had* a lot of really good resources for it...and they're old enough that a lot of those resources have just slowly faded off the internet since. Like one of the best resources for Wizardry 8 and the last three Might and Magics are all recovered sites because the person who made and managed them died ten years ago.
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anybody remember that dude DSimpson on GameFAQs that singlehandedly wrote like a bazillion pages worth of hyper-detailed FAQs for BG 1/2/Torment? somebody needs to dig that dude up and point him towards PoE because if anybody had an eye for detail w/r/t writing a comprehensive FAQ, it was that dude
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Freaking Crumbum posted:anybody remember that dude DSimpson on GameFAQs that singlehandedly wrote like a bazillion pages worth of hyper-detailed FAQs for BG 1/2/Torment? somebody needs to dig that dude up and point him towards PoE because if anybody had an eye for detail w/r/t writing a comprehensive FAQ, it was that dude Hell yeah, those guides rule Some other ones I really like are this BG1 walkthrough and the guides Per Jorner wrote for Wasteland/Fallout 1 and 2. There's also this guide that does an excellent job of helping the uninitiated make sense of BG2's large spellbooks. It's not a classic CRPG but one of the most useful guides I've ever used is this one for the PS2 remake of Romancing SaGa that leaves no mechanic unexplained in one of the most confusingly presented JRPGs I can think of. I love a good FAQ
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Freaking Crumbum posted:anybody remember that dude DSimpson on GameFAQs that singlehandedly wrote like a bazillion pages worth of hyper-detailed FAQs for BG 1/2/Torment? somebody needs to dig that dude up and point him towards PoE because if anybody had an eye for detail w/r/t writing a comprehensive FAQ, it was that dude I remember them. Dan Simpson, right? I never actually spend too much time on them because they looked like they were written in Notepad, but he was definitely THE go to source for the longest time.
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Agnosticnixie posted:
Do a multi class cipher. Rogue or fighter are both good choices for a striker cipher.
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Khizan posted:Do a multi class cipher. Rogue or fighter are both good choices for a striker cipher. I was thinking of restarting as Cipher/Martial when I get to playing later (I hadn't finished tutorial island) but also kinda dreading another restart and my memories of doing psyblade at release was pretty much an annihilation dispenser, I guess Inquisitor or Mindstalker might be worth trying
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chaosapiant posted:I remember them. Dan Simpson, right? I never actually spend too much time on them because they looked like they were written in Notepad, but he was definitely THE go to source for the longest time. Same guy who had pages and pages of math equations to justify which weapons/skills/spells etc could cause the most damage. I dont expect that level of detail for POE but his BG walkthroughs had literally everything with detailed comments, strategies, etc
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pentyne posted:Disappointing sign of the times, but after being out for 1+ years I had assumed the FAQ community would've written guides and such for the game. Turns out the only thing on gamefaqs is a long winded explanation of the game mechanics and the Steam page only has 1 "walkthrough" that is a bunch of links to YT videos in sequential order and 10+ possible POTD builds. It's worth noting that the Gamefaqs guide is long winded in general, but the individual class breakdowns are digestible looks at the pros and cons of the subclasses and some standout abilities. ProfessorCirno posted:A lot of those older games are in an odd place; they're old enough that they *had* a lot of really good resources for it...and they're old enough that a lot of those resources have just slowly faded off the internet since. Can't believe it's been that long. RIP Flamestryke/Lana.
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pentyne posted:and the Steam page only has 1 "walkthrough" that is a bunch of links to YT videos in sequential order and 10+ possible POTD builds. I think this is also more of a culture thing in general nowadays, people just don't write guides anymore they put a video on youtube so they can have their mugshot on there. I hate the trend. 
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Sometimes the attention to detail in this game surprises me out of nowhere. In this case it was in a pretty amusing way I forgot to take off Arkemyr's robes after doing his quest and he called me out on it lol. I'm amazed someone thought to program that possibility in.
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Every companion has a line for that as well! It rules!
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The appointment with Arkemyr is marvelous and has little bits of reactivity for a whole bunch of parameters in the quest (plus it has imo the better done bits of reactivity from the first game besides the god reactions in the intro)
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help I can't get away from the port maje island without thinking I need to reroll a new PC, the fextralife build vids look so cool...
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RangerKarl posted:help I can't get away from the port maje island without thinking I need to reroll a new PC, the fextralife build vids look so cool... The trick is to do all of Nekataka and some of the surrounding islands and maybe some of the things around the main quest islands before rerolling.
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RangerKarl posted:help I can't get away from the port maje island without thinking I need to reroll a new PC, the fextralife build vids look so cool... I get that too sometimes but what gets me past it is just committing to a play through and saving whatever cool builds I have for future runs. It's not like you can't play the game again later and try a different build unless you're one of those one playthrough only types. En Garde Motherfuckers posted:Every companion has a line for that as well! It rules! Agnosticnixie posted:The appointment with Arkemyr is marvelous and has little bits of reactivity for a whole bunch of parameters in the quest (plus it has imo the better done bits of reactivity from the first game besides the god reactions in the intro) Yeah it's one of my favorite quests. What's cool is how there are different ways to solve it. The first few times I played I had no idea you could solve it peacefully by wearing his robes and pretending to be him. It's much easier to do that than having to fight the whole place. Some of those Golems are quite tough. But you can also enter his manor from different areas as well. And I'd assume the quest would also be possible to solve via stealth even if you didn't want to solve it by pretending to be Arkemyr.
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Ginette Reno posted:
It's actually extremely easy to do this without any stealth investment. With high enough mechanics, there's literally only one roaming imp with a really long route that you need to avoid. Go in through the bathhouse and you can use mechanics to disable the alarm, then unlock the vault without the key. Just need high str and a crowbar to go through the wall iirc.
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I love when Arkemyr is like "Someone seems to have broken into my home" and instead of playing it off or anything you can just straight up say "Yeah, that was me. I robbed you."
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Clanpot Shake posted:Is it possible to get Maia to stick around if you side with the Huana at the end? You need to have her romanced and not have too much diplomatic or shady rep, or unless this one got patched out - start by accepting the endgame quest from the rdc first and when they tell you their actual plan go nope, they'll turn on you and you should be able to join the huana after.
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