Divinity Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

[Black]

Surprised that one of the first newbie guides comes from kotaku. What's next, IGN doing good journalism?

 

[Jaesun]

I....... just BROFISTED a Kotaku link.... WHAT IN THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!!!??!!

 

[HanoverF]

Got my backer box in the mail today

 

[Perkel]

"Of course, if you're a real degenerate, you can abuse quicksave to retry a single attack until it lands, or re-attempt to convince an NPC of something until you win the dice-roll."

Kotaku of all places know that people using F5-F9 are degenerates. They should start searching for this problem starting from fetuses and abort them if there is any sign of F5-F9 retardation.


edit:

Midnight Oil is OP as fuck. AoE slow down and most of fuckers won't be able to even hit twice or even come close to my chars + i can just set them on fire anytime + IT COST 3 MOTHERFUCKING AP with 1 turn cooldown.

 

[Arkeus]

Midnight Oil is OP as fuck. AoE slow down and most of fuckers won't be able to even hit twice or even come close to my chars + i can just set them on fire anytime + IT COST 3 MOTHERFUCKING AP with 1 turn cooldown.

Midnight Oil also trigger Bully, which is +50% damage.

Lockpick = Needle + Needle OR Hammer + Nine Inch Nails OR Soap + any Key (Ha)

Hahahah, that soap thing.

 

[Crooked Bee]

There are also some pretty good comments to that article, with some good tips and discussion. The guy who wrote the article is active there too. It's kinda eerie to read such a large amount of non-retarded comments on Kotaku, of all places.

 

[Perkel]

Midnight Oil also trigger Bully, which is +50% damage.


Hahahah, that soap thing.

yeah basically warrior + 1 point in geo and he will be doing more or less more damage every turn at the same time enemy AP is a mess and they can't even walk normally.

cons is that rogue is bit of useless with ton of oil (backstab)

 

[Haba]

I....... just BROFISTED a Kotaku link.... WHAT IN THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!!!??!!

You might be turning straight.

Sorry

 

[Black]

This is why I'm staying away from crafting, many of those combinations (like key + soap) remind me of PaC adventures in which you combine a needle and a rooster to get a spaceship.

 

[Jaesun]

Dear lord... all those "surprises" on the beach.... thankfully my thief has a high perception...

 

[t]

Got my backer box in the mail today

Had to prolifierate that gif by quoting.

 

[Perkel]

"I don't use crafting because there are few stupid recipes, therefore crafting is shit"

Meanwhile you can create ton of logical and useful stuff like potions, arrows, weapons, armors. And upgrade your existing equipment like changing - to movement on plate armor to + boosting a lot movability of your tank.

 

[Sceptic]

Was the key + soap thing really that hard to figure out? Is everyone here too young to have played LSL6?

Don't mind, I'm just bitter that I have to wait another week before I have access to my PC and can play the game

 

[VioletShadow]

Was the key + soap thing really that hard to figure out? Is everyone here too young to have played LSL6?

Don't mind, I'm just bitter that I have to wait another week before I have access to my PC and can play the game

 

[Perkel]

Was the key + soap thing really that hard to figure out? Is everyone here too young to have played LSL6?

Don't mind, I'm just bitter that I have to wait another week before I have access to my PC and can play the game

Oh fuck i remember it. Good one Larian. Good one.

 

[Shadenuat]

C&C, kekeke

Spoiler

Total pushover, because her initiative drops to shit and I think there are no summons either that way. Stun + backstab in 1 round.

 

[Angelo85]

So I was wondering what the optimum abilities count should be. I don't want to spread myself thin. Jahan already has air/ice focus with a sprinkling in willpower and others as needed. I'm wondering if it would be too suboptimal to max Jahans crafting and blacksmith to 5 (it looks like that's the best benefit to point ratio). In general, if I'm running a 4 man party what should be the max number of abilities to focus on? FYI I'm about halfway through the game and the fights are easy to medium on normal difficulty when enemy is no more than +2 my level.

First of all hello and welcome to our little den of villainy

As for your question take a look at this Screen for some indication, Level 18 char:

Looks like you'll get enough ability points to max roughly 4 with some +1 gear. Keep in mind though that you can boost the Craftsmanship stuff pretty easily with equipment that gives boni to those abilities.
For instance my party has 5 in all the crafting abilities while actually having only spent 1 to 2 ability points on them each. The rest all comes from my equipment.

The Mage from the Screenshot for example has level 5 natural (as in levels from ability points spend, not taken into account any equipment boni) in two different Magic trees, 3 in Willpower and Bodybuilding, 2 in Charisma, Crafting and Loremaster + 1 or 2 levels in some other abilities. That's all-in-all roughly 55 points worth of abilities I had to work with up until now (as I stated, Level 18 at the moment).

Hopefully this will give you some pointers!

 

[Hobo Elf]

Unfortunately so far I've found that every single "difficult" encounter against a boss type enemy can easily be done by teleporting the boss guy between your guys and sandwiching them down ASAP. Honestly the whole encounter difficulty comes from the boss enemy, the mooks are just trash.

Edit: Also I've been paying attention to my Ice Elementals names lately. Lol'd at Spengbab.

 

[Tigranes]

Just beat a big, frozen dude. Finally made good use of those elemental protection scrolls, which made a huge difference in survivability.

 

[Arkeus]

C&C, kekeke

Spoiler

Total pushover, because her initiative drops to shit and I think there are no summons either that way. Stun + backstab in 1 round.

Is that what happens if you randomly kill her in the clinic?

 

[Visperas]

Does Jahan has any kind of quest related to him or he'll just talk from time to time? I already have a mage and would like to try backstabbing.

 

[Excidium]

action points based tb combat is fucking awesome. Gridless + action point > everything else. Period.

 

[Shadenuat]

Playing scoundrel without grid makes me want to find whoever is responsible for local backstab tracking and stab him with a butter knife repeatedly.

Is that what happens if you randomly kill her in the clinic?

Yup. I am on a murder fest. My rep is -4. Not sure much will change though.

Ooh, I need to try and murder the Imp.

Btw I found the best lockpick in the game is a crossbow. When you hold CTRL and shoot with it without entering combat by clicking very fast it turns into machine gun.
So yeah, doors and crossbows. Who'd known. Perhaps with unbreakable one with tenebrum damage you can even break plot doors fast enough.

 

[RK47]

1. Stuff explosive barrels into low durability chest
2. Drop chest before combat.
3. Teleport chest to boss.
4. Flare
5. ?????
6. Profit

 

[Zeriel]

Watch_Dogs is one of the biggest games of the year and we only gave that a 7.0, whereas at the same time we gave Transistor a 10

whereas at the same time we gave Transistor a 10

gave Transistor a 10