Tigranes
Arcane
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My advice is ignore the many bugged quests, don't try to clear your journal, just move on. It's not like you really really need the XP or whatever.
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Divinity Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
- Thread starter Lacrymas
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My advice is ignore the many bugged quests, don't try to clear your journal, just move on. It's not like you really really need the XP or whatever.
Many quests are more obscure than bugged. Skello-lady asking for a special book is good example - it uses something which would have been a cute easter egg in any normal (read: better designed) game as a trigger to close the quest.
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Game became a mess after arriving to Arx. Huge FPS drops in city center, skills/attacks having delayed effect or sometimes no effect (like you cannot even buff the incarnate...), NPCs moving like they're bugged, textures not loading and e.t.c.
Still having fun till now, some good encounters here and there.
Armor system is shit and easly abused by having a full physical damage party. There are lots of monsters that have elemantal resistances and immunties but only a handful of enemies have physical resistances. 1 point in scoundrel and 2 points in polymorph is all you need for easy magical CC.
Journal is a mess. Inventory is better than first game but still a mess. Crafting is mostly useless and unneeded.
Still having fun till now, some good encounters here and there.
Armor system is shit and easly abused by having a full physical damage party. There are lots of monsters that have elemantal resistances and immunties but only a handful of enemies have physical resistances. 1 point in scoundrel and 2 points in polymorph is all you need for easy magical CC.
Journal is a mess. Inventory is better than first game but still a mess. Crafting is mostly useless and unneeded.
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Was literally just about to write this.
Also this is probably just me being stupid, but for anyone else with the same attention deficit: be careful to check for loot when Shriekers die. I didn't before Blackpits and they drop epic items.
I loot everything and pretty sure that I only got some essences at best from shriekers. You just got lucky.
Fuck this games loot and gear system btw.
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Ideally someone would mod this game so that the loot tables are every 2-3 levels instead of every level, and it adjusts accordingly. Replacing 4 weapons every single level is a real pain in the dick if you are on tactician, amount of inventory shuffle vs actual gameplay is pretty bad.
It was 2 Shriekers right after each other, both yielded an epic. But anyway the reason I said it is that I actually didn't notice before that they even dropped loot
Lucky charm helps a bit but yeah, after 16 th lvl you need upgrade most gear ASAP or fights took 30 mins.
This reddit thread is some kind of edge contest.
Chaotic_Heretic
Arcane
Entered Nameless Isle and PC and Comrade Companion is halfway to lv18.
Driftwood definitely had much more content than Fort Joy. But the xp distribution is kind of retarded. Fighting a lv15 voidwoken who sets up a decay plague gives much lesser xp than a shitty riddle with four statues?
Driftwood definitely had much more content than Fort Joy. But the xp distribution is kind of retarded. Fighting a lv15 voidwoken who sets up a decay plague gives much lesser xp than a shitty riddle with four statues?
Don't worry, at last arc lvl 20 boss enemies mostly giving 100k xp while quests giving less for complitation.
There's more content in Driftwood but it's doled out in the same way as the later DoS1-chapters which were so disappointing compared to Cyseal. I've lost hope that there's a Cyseal here - something with real non-linearity (the city obviously, not the surroundings) and impressive scope.
Of my DoS experiences, only Cyseal and a good smattering of well-designed encounters stand out as truly great.
Of my DoS experiences, only Cyseal and a good smattering of well-designed encounters stand out as truly great.
Especially if my default attack does more damage than that skill. I've been in the same situation with some skills.
My favourite wrt this are the bonkers AP costs.
Marksman's wang = piercing damage, can hit multiple dudes in a row, 2 AP.
Ballistic shot = get to high ground, shoop a git at 30m for 150% damage bonus + high ground bonus, 2 AP.
Pin down = do normal domoge + cripple for 1 turn, 3 AP.
Dunno about you but I have no one who can insta-kill Tactician-HP enemies (a rogue or high level ranger is able to with some, but far from all). For 2AP I can knock them down and deny them their turn. I use all CC-abilities and have even splashed for more on most characters.
imweasel
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I wouldn't bother with a ranged character in this game. Dual wielding + backstabbing (scoundrel) does much more damage. Combine that with polymorph, warfare and huntsman (first aid + tactical retreat) and you have an extremely powerful character that just mows everything down. Even better if you have two.
It could have used another few more months in the oven. Especially combat. D:OS 1 felt substantially more polished than D:OS 2 at release.
Okay, so spoil me a bit. I'm about to leave Fort Joy island. The imprisoned elf quest is bugged for me (Along with flaming pigs, but I guess that hardly matters). Journal is stuck at "Saheila will no doubt be pleased - we ought to return to her." and if I try to talk to her she only responds "You go. You survive the journey. I see it. And thank you.". If I leave the island the quest becomes closed and says I left her to her fate or something like that. So should I wait for a patch and hope it gets fixed? Or is it just a minor quest and just ignore it. I'm not in a hurry to finish this.
imweasel
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Dual wielding + backstabbing does substantially more DPS, archers are complete pussies in comparison. You can also easily zoom around the map or go invisible with the proper skills, so you don't need to keep a safe distance. Add on warfare skills and you can just keep knocking enemies down so that they consistently miss their turns.
I had both in my team and eventually dumped the archer. Just try it out for yourselves.
Not really.
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Don't worry about it. Most quests finish properly even if the journal doesn't say so.
Saheila will show up again later despite the fact you 'failed' to save her.
You gonna see her later so no probs.
For flaming pigs, if you killed the undead lizard when she appeared and healed all of them on pig will great you before the abondoned seeker camp. Tell her to visit Amadalia (?!?!?) shrine and try to cure her there.
I don't remember any undead lizard. I healed all the pigs though.
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