Jay Shadow
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 |OT| Dragons & Dungeon Mastering
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Royal_Phalanx
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Fane seems like a difficult character to use in your party. Healing doesn't work on him at all. He has to drink poison to regain health. Since I'm a tanky cleric who has mostly healing spells it's real hard to keep him alive.
I was able to set a marker with a Steam Link + an Xbox One pad last night. Try using Big Picture Mode instead of regular Steam.
I couldnt figure out how to delay a turn on a controller though. It was annoying to do this in OS1 (you had to add the option to your hotbar) but I have no idea about OS2.
Lanrutcon
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I think I'd really appreciate both Ifan and Beast in my party. But that would mean giving up on Red Prince and Lohse.I'm not a big fan of Lohse's personality, but her quest seems very cool. Damn you Larian for giving me all these difficult choices!
The Beast's storyline is probably the most up to date one. The dude is a failed hero who wants what's best for his people, but his countrymen are nationalist assholes.
I don't think it's going to end the way I hope it will.
Equip a shield, if you made him a caster.
I have a bit of a problem with some quests tbh.
Without spoiling anything there's a certain one on the Fort Joy island where from what I can see, if you don't have a certain item in your inventory you just get in a fight and that's the end of it.
If you do have the item it opens up another option, you can continue the quest, you end up with a seemingly handy reward (which tbf I'm sure you can get some other way).
But the point is it's basically arbitrary whether you have that first item that decides if you get in a fight or not in your inventory.
Is this just me? Do I need to just get on with it?
I have him as a caster with a poison wand, he can heal by attacking himself. I'm very early days though, have not fought anything hard yet really. Also necro heals as he does damage. And has some skills that just straight up heal him along with doing damage.
Without spoiling anything there's a certain one on the Fort Joy island where from what I can see, if you don't have a certain item in your inventory you just get in a fight and that's the end of it.
If you do have the item it opens up another option, you can continue the quest, you end up with a seemingly handy reward (which tbf I'm sure you can get some other way).
But the point is it's basically arbitrary whether you have that first item that decides if you get in a fight or not in your inventory.
Is this just me? Do I need to just get on with it?
I have him as a caster with a poison wand, he can heal by attacking himself. I'm very early days though, have not fought anything hard yet really. Also necro heals as he does damage. And has some skills that just straight up heal him along with doing damage.
What class is he? I made him a necromancer so he could heal himself.
Moff
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I finished Act 1 and here's my review.
first of all I really warmed up to the combat. I like how challenging it is, I play only on classic but I am not very good at turn based combat. it feels very good though and I accept the armor system as an improvement.
There have been some funny quests and ideas but all in all I was not super thrilled by act 1. I am just lacking immersion and a strong main story to keep me motivated.
You land on this prison island and no one reacts to you, no guard reacts to the new guys or the sunken ship? what is going on here? the "town" is tiny and disappointing, act 1 in OS1 had an amazing town.
then your only goal is to get off, which is not really exciting, is it?
the cut scene that leads to act 2 told me that
first of all I really warmed up to the combat. I like how challenging it is, I play only on classic but I am not very good at turn based combat. it feels very good though and I accept the armor system as an improvement.
There have been some funny quests and ideas but all in all I was not super thrilled by act 1. I am just lacking immersion and a strong main story to keep me motivated.
You land on this prison island and no one reacts to you, no guard reacts to the new guys or the sunken ship? what is going on here? the "town" is tiny and disappointing, act 1 in OS1 had an amazing town.
then your only goal is to get off, which is not really exciting, is it?
the cut scene that leads to act 2 told me that
the world now rests on my shoulders. uh really? why? how? what did I miss? I don't feel like that at all, nothing epic happend. I simply got off an island and killed some dudes doing that.
You can also give him Geo which has poison skills you can give him.
I really like Fane, I haven't done much with his questline yet, but I love the dialog choices I get from him. His sarcasm and snark fits my personality so pretty much anytime I see a [FANE] dialog choice it's something I feel like I would've said.
bati
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Probably one of best games to adopt this mentality. I'm normally a completionist player but here I just roll with whatever comes my way.
GwyndolinCinder
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Not difficult, but he requires a team composition to back him up. Undead is a pretty strong skill with the right team.
greatnorthern
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Is there a consensus on party makeup?
I would really like a Rogue for backstabs and lockpicking, but I don't want to give up on Ifan's sweet, sweet crossbow. Would it be advisable to make a combo rogue/huntsman? Both are finesse-based.
Otherwise, I'm going to go with a standard two magic, one rogue, one tank makeup.
I would really like a Rogue for backstabs and lockpicking, but I don't want to give up on Ifan's sweet, sweet crossbow. Would it be advisable to make a combo rogue/huntsman? Both are finesse-based.
Otherwise, I'm going to go with a standard two magic, one rogue, one tank makeup.
I spent all of today trying to find a party that works well together with Fane, and I still haven't.
I credit that mostly to me not knowing what skills get available at later levels. I've as good as dropped enchanter as it seems mostly useless, unless the goal is to damage your own party as well.
Right now I'm rolling Fane as a tanky Necro/War, two Summoners (Red Prince straight summoner and Lohse with some support healing and stuff). Sebille is a Shadowblade, currently without daggers cause I broke them on a door.
Having two small demons plus totems available early on is a godsend.
I'm tempted to try Ifan as Wayfarer though. I also like Beast... I don't have time in my life to play this game several times.
I credit that mostly to me not knowing what skills get available at later levels. I've as good as dropped enchanter as it seems mostly useless, unless the goal is to damage your own party as well.
Right now I'm rolling Fane as a tanky Necro/War, two Summoners (Red Prince straight summoner and Lohse with some support healing and stuff). Sebille is a Shadowblade, currently without daggers cause I broke them on a door.
Having two small demons plus totems available early on is a godsend.
I'm tempted to try Ifan as Wayfarer though. I also like Beast... I don't have time in my life to play this game several times.
Prototype Viktor
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fuck the Act 2 mega
in the NW corner of map
luckly i managed to perma cripple em but after it 1 shotted one of my guys twice
werewolf abomination fight
luckly i managed to perma cripple em but after it 1 shotted one of my guys twice
CrichtonKicks
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Did you (Act 1)
Have the conversation in the Hall of Echoes with your God? That conversation starts indicating some of the stakes that are involved
If you missed that conversation then you will get that info (and more) right at the beginning of Act 2.
Ghostbound
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I have him running Warfare/Necromancer and he pretty much takes care of himself. I'm near the end of the fist act and I've only had to use poison to heal him once.
Moff
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yes but
he just told me there are other godwoken around me and I need to kill them.
The range on it is a bit weird. It's not the range that you first see. It's more like the targeting range of the first character that you choose for a swap. If there is even one object between the two it might not let teleport. I'm not sure if it's bugged or if it's meant to be like this.
Mostly physical team works the best in this game imo. You could go one fighter, one rogue, one ranger and one mage.
You really don't have to heal Fane that much later in the game. Just keep his armors up and there are plenty of skills for that purpose.
I have him as a rogue, the only part I had some issues was the final Act 1 fight, where he died like... 4 times? as I had no more poison bottles.
Bit unsure how to respec him, but I'll probably put a couple points in Necromancer...
Though if you have him as a tank, just have your geo always keep up poison puddles on him, that should do it.
I'm confused about an act 2 quest called "Dark Dealings in the Blackpits".
I've done everything I can think of, cleared the magisters out of the Blackpits and out of the cave there. I've done the puzzle and beat the Aethera lady, cleared the other side out where it says there's an empty container that the magisters found. I try using the war-owl whistle and nothing happens but the paladin won't talk to me until I use it.
CrichtonKicks
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Man the music on ship at the beginning of Act 2 before landing in Driftwood is just.....wow.
Just don't split damage types in this one. One mage for utility/healing is fine, but if you are using 2 mages and 2 physical attackers you are basically halving your damage output because of the armor system.
Also summoners are broken and pretty much go with any party, I guess.
Doesn't work with your regular bow attacks, so not really.
This is comically awful advice. Every encounter in the game has a balance of enemies with high magic armor and high physical armor, having a mix of damage makes things far easier.
If you're going through each battle having all 4 characters attacking the same enemy, then I really don't know what to tell you. Yikes.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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I'm a bit overwhelmed by this game but wow I only played the begining on the ship and its really well done. I haven't played multiplayer yet, is it the same as solo but with friends!?
I'm playing a Huntsman and Far Out Man has been really handy, especially with high ground. I dipped into Warfare and took Executioner and haven't looked back.
I actually got significantly better since I started to use 4 characters with the same damage type since I could, you know, actually do damage and CC started to actually work.
hmmm I don't know what to think, so it work will skills but not the regular attack?
Right.
What I'm not understanding with armor runes that supposedly gives +10% to maximum physical or magic armor.
- So lets say I have 227 maximum physical armor before inserting rune.
- 10% of that is 22,7, right?
- So I should get maximum of 249,7 with 10% rune, right?
- Why then I get maximum of 233 with 10% rune?
AnathemicOne
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Bloodmoon Island
I'm busy opening vaults and shit.
Don't listen to this advice.
Moff
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aoe targeting does not seem to work properly.
whenever I target an area between say 3 enemies to hit all of them it will always cast the spell exactly on one of them, either not hitting all the enemies or even hitting my party.
is this intended, am I doing something wrong? is it not possible to hit an area instead of an enemy?
whenever I target an area between say 3 enemies to hit all of them it will always cast the spell exactly on one of them, either not hitting all the enemies or even hitting my party.
is this intended, am I doing something wrong? is it not possible to hit an area instead of an enemy?
10% is probably applied to the armor value of what you slotted it into.
Jay Shadow
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Yeah, I wasn't really paying that much attention to the soundtrack before that, but I didn't want to leave the ship when that music hit.
Ghostbound
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It's mostly just for role-playing reasons.
Pyros_Eien
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There isn't any other than customizing the race/gender combination. The origins are locked in that regard, as well as their appearance until act2(and even then some aspect are locked like Red prince being red). Other than that, Origins are basically superior choices since they add the origin tags which adds a bunch of content(you can see the rough events when you have them as companions, but playing them gives you a lot more insight, especially in the main story sequences).
So really your decision is like, do you want to play a lizard male, elf female, dwarf male or a human, then pick the origin, and if you want the other choices, then pick a custom.
Makes it worse that every fucking single mob that has a healing spell instantly uses it oon Fane for a huge nuke.
I mean It mentions your
godwoken multiple times as well as killing Alexander the *peoples hope* and the only one else who was godwoken, your now kinda the only one to save shit.
Stiler
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The Island is where you were headed to in the first place. You are meant to be there as it's the place that the ship was heading toward with all of you on board with the collars.
There are plenty of npc's that mention that you're new here, etc when you talk to them at first. NPC's even react to you if you for example, take your collar off (guards ask you how you got it off and throw you in the dungeon so you can be recollared).
The City is basically an open prison where they take the sourcerors with the collars (which keeps their powers from being used) and then basically have people that "suck" the source out of a person leaving them mindless and broken, among other travisties like what Kniles is doing to people or what Dallis has done with her two "guards" that she has following her around.
There are plenty of npc's that mention that you're new here, etc when you talk to them at first. NPC's even react to you if you for example, take your collar off (guards ask you how you got it off and throw you in the dungeon so you can be recollared).
The City is basically an open prison where they take the sourcerors with the collars (which keeps their powers from being used) and then basically have people that "suck" the source out of a person leaving them mindless and broken, among other travisties like what Kniles is doing to people or what Dallis has done with her two "guards" that she has following her around.
THIS GAME!
Spoilers Fort Joy Dungeons
Spoilers Fort Joy Dungeons
I accidentally checked the cave to fort Joy you can find while you teleport Gawin, and by the time i got out he was gone and the quest closed, saying i couldn't get out that way. Gawin was gone, no sign anywhere.
I stumble upon Kniles and his meat dungeon, and bam! Gawin's corpse with his robe and other loot.
So Gawin got tired of waiting by the tree stump, entered Fort Joy, got captured and turned to meat by Kniles. this game man...
I stumble upon Kniles and his meat dungeon, and bam! Gawin's corpse with his robe and other loot.
So Gawin got tired of waiting by the tree stump, entered Fort Joy, got captured and turned to meat by Kniles. this game man...
fluffydelusions
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Act 3..
.did you guys kill Alexander or Gareth? Couldn't persuade Gareth
It basically boils to if you want to play as yourself or you want to play as a predefined character with his/her own personality and story. You still make the character's choices, but I guess it also takes away the self-insert factor.
INT, STR and CON I guess? Summoner mostly doesn't need stats and Necro has some spells that use INT. Warfare is STR (Unless you use a staff/wand?). I guess it mostly depends on what skills/weapons you are using.
Stiler
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With Fane the main things you want are geomancer poison abilities and necro abilities either on him or on a caster. Things like Poison wave, dart (can be cast on him), contamination (put down some water or ice, it'll turn that surface into poison and just walk him onto it and he heals), etc.
On top of this there's an item you can find in act 1
in the fort joy dungeon that will let you turn health potions into poison potions, you can find it from the houndmaster fight iirc, it's a poison talon item. You just go into crafting and use it on a health potion and it poisons it, it's infinite use.
As well as any poisoned food/drinks.
Stiler
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Poly works based on your weapon IIRC, I know on my Fane (who I'm playing as) I have him specced as a dual wielding warfare/geomancer and polymorph, using tentacle lash/bull rush it states it scales with STR.