Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Guns are pretty much the game for me. My ranger uses a bow, my wolf uses her teeth, Eder uses a sword and shield, every one else uses a gun of some sort.
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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Guns are pretty much the game for me. My ranger uses a bow, my wolf uses her teeth, Eder uses a sword and shield, every one else uses a gun of some sort.
Priests actually do very well with firearms from what I've seen so far in the game. I made my Priest adventurer into essentially a battle-priest(plate armor, arquebus, and war hammer) and it's worked out really well so far.
A very similar glitch happened to me in the
Sanitarium thalos quest
Raedric's keep is far easier. As soon as I entered Caed Nua I got gangbanged by a team of shadows and phantoms no matter which way I went. In the end I stealthed past them and into the keep. Once I'd explored most of the keep I went back out into the courtyard and pulled the groups apart while in stealth, luring enemies away form their groups to be killed several at a time.
Felix Lighter
Member
I just arrived at the Goose and Fox and I robbed it blind. Even the mead behind the counter. Never felt so alive.
I think this may be an annoying bug, but someone please tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
I have auto-pause enabled for ineffective weapon, and the tooltip says it's if a party member's attack is ineffective...but it seems to trigger every time an ENEMY does an ineffective attack. This is both annoyingly often, and I don't typically care when it happens since it means I'm not taking much damage.
Is there any way to only pause if your own attacks are ineffective? Or, if I disable that autopause checkbox, is there any way to find out from the combat log that your attack is ineffective?
I have auto-pause enabled for ineffective weapon, and the tooltip says it's if a party member's attack is ineffective...but it seems to trigger every time an ENEMY does an ineffective attack. This is both annoyingly often, and I don't typically care when it happens since it means I'm not taking much damage.
Is there any way to only pause if your own attacks are ineffective? Or, if I disable that autopause checkbox, is there any way to find out from the combat log that your attack is ineffective?
it just tells you what type of damage they are weak against, you can also find it via tooltip by hovering over an enemy in combat
Pinko Marx
Banned
The bestiary can tell you what types of damage monsters are resistant to, so you can deduce which weapon/spells to use on them.
decoyplatypus
Member
I'll give it a shot. Shouldn't be more than an hour of lost progress.
Probably not, but I suppose since you can't save during battle it's probably an unintended consequence.
adampa1006
Banned
Are Paladins really that bad/boring?
Really considering restarting the game with a new character seeing all the negativity about them.
Really considering restarting the game with a new character seeing all the negativity about them.
Thanks! I think I'm missing something, though. Where exactly on the stat sheet does it say this? This is for foes I've killed 4+ times.
Pallegina seems pretty legit on my team
I wouldn't advise playing a paladin or priest with the reputation tags turned off unless you are very confident
Interesting. I found caed nua pretty easy where I struggled in raedrics keep. Maybe I need a different weapon set for my rogue to handle the heavy armored paladins.
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I'm doing a pretty completionist run of the game and am about 35 hours in and I just reached dryford village. How far along am I? Feels something like halfway.
Kinda, yea. I'm 35 hours and the paladin guy I made basically is just a tank. But the fighter guy you get is a better tank anyway so he's just an off tank. Healing abilities are nice but your priest does it better and more safely and their damage output in unimpressive.
Cipher imo is the most fun class. Their abilities do crazy amounts of AOE damage and they aren't limited in spell uses at all. Cipher combined with priests break the game basically. On hard mode, nothing but the bounty quests have provided any challenge at all so far. My next run, I'll probably do path of the damned.
Kinda, yea. I'm 35 hours and the paladin guy I made basically is just a tank. But the fighter guy you get is a better tank anyway so he's just an off tank. Healing abilities are nice but your priest does it better and more safely and their damage output in unimpressive.
Cipher imo is the most fun class. Their abilities do crazy amounts of AOE damage and they aren't limited in spell uses at all. Cipher combined with priests break the game basically. On hard mode, nothing but the bounty quests have provided any challenge at all so far. My next run, I'll probably do path of the damned.
Hmm, I dunno. Now, I get that you might want to keep him out of harm's way, but Priests have so many powerful spells that are tiny AoEs centered around the caster. With quarterstaff or another extra reach melee weapon, Durance will stand right behind your tank(s) dealing damage through them, and you'll have better opportunities to use his small AoE spells. I know you can do this with proper ranged weapons, but it takes just a little bit more micromanagement with your positioning
BrokenFiction
Member
I'm playing a Aumaua Paladin myself, but for RPGing purposes. I went in knowing that I wasn't going to play the stats on this game, I was going to truly role play my PC and I wanted to do it as a Kind Wayfarer Paladin. The chips will fall where they may.
bobnowhere
Member
Not sure really, though when I'm scouting as a group and find something it's Durance who says he's the one that found it and he has by far the highest mechanics. He also has terrible perception and much lower stealth than some others. His intellect is also well behind.
Did you have a cipher with a soul whip? There was some sort of bug that gave permanently boosted (doubled?) intelligence when a cipher used a soul whip. Maybe in a certain situation.
That sort of makes sense if "mechanics" is the "rogue-like stuff" stat. It's used for lock skills too, so I guess finding hidden things goes along with it.
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Paladin, Cipher, Chanter, Priest, Wizard, Fighter.
Paladin and Fighter tank while everyone else (beside the wizard) has a powerful gun. Chanter giving the entire group improved attack speed basically turns every fight into an unfair firing squad. Oh, and the Wizard and Cipher are firing AoE balls of death inbetween shots. Priest has crazy powerful buffs, heals, and debuffs.
Guns are very good guys.
Still kind of silly when you have a stat called perception and it doesnt help you percieve things.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Act II task question regarding Derrin:
How do I find his killers? I have the dagger with the initial B on it, but no one in the brothel has a B name and I can't speak to anyone inside about it either.
decoyplatypus
Member
No luck with the earlier save. Whatever triggered the glitch, it's many, many hours in the past. Do many other quests run through the House of Mysteries?
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
I really didn't think an IE style game could hold my attention with the decade plus of 3d games slowly chipping away at my attention span towards isometric style, but damn has this game surprised me. I honestly don't think I've been this engrossed in an rpg since Fallout 3, and well, the IE games before that. The writing is so fulfilling, I love the descriptions, definitely fills the void I've been feeling since these kind of games left the scene. Some of the character intros are so well done, especially
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Combat is just so satisfying, to be able to get back into party management like this feels like I didn't skip a beat from the last time I picked up BGII. It's tough but I dig the challenge, but will probably be cursing up a storm as I work my way through The Endless Paths.
Only criticism I have is it feels like the larger cities art wise leave a bit to be desired, some of the districts feel so sparse with a lot of empty space, I felt like Athkatla had the perfect balance with density of shopfronts and detail to make it feel like a lived in place. Budget wise it's understandable though. I seriously don't want this game to end, hope it lasts me a good week or two. I rarely do restarts soon after completion but I just might with this game, feels that satisfying.
Grieving Mother
Combat is just so satisfying, to be able to get back into party management like this feels like I didn't skip a beat from the last time I picked up BGII. It's tough but I dig the challenge, but will probably be cursing up a storm as I work my way through The Endless Paths.
Only criticism I have is it feels like the larger cities art wise leave a bit to be desired, some of the districts feel so sparse with a lot of empty space, I felt like Athkatla had the perfect balance with density of shopfronts and detail to make it feel like a lived in place. Budget wise it's understandable though. I seriously don't want this game to end, hope it lasts me a good week or two. I rarely do restarts soon after completion but I just might with this game, feels that satisfying.
PandaPedinte
Member
I think I did almost all the quests on Gilded Vale, but I'm with the game closed so I don't remember the quests names, anyway tell me if I'm missing another quest besides the two major ones C
and R
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aed Nua
aedric's Hold
- The mother asking to find the cure for his soulless to come baby
- The feud between the drunkards and the old man at the mill
- The temple of Eoras
- I rescued the inn's chef
- I killed the bear
- I brought back the shipment to the blacksmith
- The feud between the drunkards and the old man at the mill
- The temple of Eoras
- I rescued the inn's chef
- I killed the bear
- I brought back the shipment to the blacksmith
Pancakes
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I don't want to spoil it for you but the killer isn't in the brothel, he's outside somewhere in the zone. I can get more specific if you want.
wolfhowwl
Banned
There is a gang on the western side of the map if I am remembering correctly. Their leader's name obviously starts with a B.
is there a place to buy guns from? I don't think i've seen them yet. But I just got to defiance bay after restarting. so maybe that's why. Would like one for my cipher.
a very cute dog
Member
Any tips for a chanter build?
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
Everyone says get the phantom, the skeletons suck balls
I agree, but I also think that it's kind of silly for an auto-pause option to say it pauses on party member ineffective attacks...but it also pauses when the enemy attacks are ineffective on you as far as I can tell.
I tried a ranger with a bear and it was a non-stop string of pauses every time enemies hit the thing.
It's just a hassle to me to have to disengage Durance, especially when dealing with big mobs and you can't predict who they will engage. So for me I prefer to not have to deal with him dying all the time and just keep him in the back.
Should be the bottom part, Demage Reduction "DR". Low DR means more of your damage goes through.
Right, I've got that. But where does it tell me what types of weapons/spells the enemy is resistant to?
If it shows the enemy is strong to blunt, then it's strong against weapons that do blunt damage....same thing with Burn and Corrode and all of that. You can see that kind of stuff by hovering over the monster.
If you are looking for it to tell you specifically what weapons, you are going to be out of luck. You're going to have to do some work yourself.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Looks like someone is going to discover general relativity in the middle ages
Near the base DR there are elements with different numbers, if they are higher than their dr it means they are more resistant to that element, if they are lower it means they take more damage from that element.
Just like on your armor there are some elements in parenthesis, they are just the elements where the DR is not the same as the base one.
The weapons and spells they take more damage from depend on what element (or damage type) the spell or weapon inflicts.
Well it's tutorial segment for a game while kickstarting story. You could think it as pilot episode for TV series, you know it will look sucky in hindsight as series find its pacing and gets going.