Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire + DLC Thread - now with turn-based combat!

Ulfhednar · Dec 5, 2018

Parabalus said:
There really isn't a priest tax in Dumpsterfire though. If anything, there is the CRPG standard wizard tax, but even that's minor.

Good point, I’ve only played through Dumpsterfire once, and took Xoti and eventually replaced her with Vatnir. I’ll try dumping the priest altogether if/when I get back to this game.

Safav Hamon · Dec 5, 2018

Priests are the most useless class in the game. Druids, Chanters, and Paladins are more effective support bots.

Ulfhednar · Dec 5, 2018

Safav Hamon said:
Priests are the most useless class in the game. Druids, Chanters, and Paladins are more effective support bots.

Devo/Shields/Crowns, Minor Avatar, Dire blessing, Consecrated Ground, Circle of Protection, Dismissal... They’re not ineffective, just boring.

Lacrymas · Dec 5, 2018

Priest spells are kinda boring, that's true. The most interesting playstyles for Priests in PoE1 is utilizing the accuracy bonuses for the individual deities, like Skaen Priest going with double stilettos and LARPing a Priest/Rogue multiclass (which still gets me giddy, too bad they butchered Skaen in PoE2). Buff yourself with everything you got and go to town on the mobs.

Delterius · Dec 5, 2018

Priest in Deadfire: you can have every (now unnecessary) buff in the game that other classes can also bring to the table, or you can buy other spells and be a bad wizard.

I knew Sawyer had it for me when he made priests of wael unable to use the one soulbound quarterstaff in PoE1.

FreeKaner · Dec 5, 2018

Sawyer doesn't understand anything from system design, and all his design philosophies are garbage. He is only correct that an unbalanced game doesn't feel fun, but that's it. He has no idea how to balance a game, his decisions are all irredeemable. He admitted himself he sees League of Legends as pinnacle of game balance, that alone should be enough to tell you that you should stay away from everything he does.

Jenkem · Dec 5, 2018

Infinitron said:
They're doing a PoE2 stream on the same day Indiana is announced? Hmmmkay...

Hopefully there's a trailer.

eh.. obsidian's stream starts about 6.5 hours before the game awards, it's not like they are streaming over it. they probably want a stream to show off the DLC and when else would they do it? the day after the game awards seems a bad idea since they would want people to focus on the outer worlds.. I suppose they could do it launch day...

Roguey · Dec 6, 2018

pomenitul said:
I get why this is irksome, but it's a bit of an overstatement, since you're also chasing Irenicus.

You have no reason to chase Irenicus at this point. Yeah, he kidnapped you and killed some guy, but he was arrested. If you don't care about Imoen, no reason not to just move on and go elsewhere.

Yosharian · Dec 6, 2018

Roguey said:
pomenitul said:

I get why this is irksome, but it's a bit of an overstatement, since you're also chasing Irenicus.

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You have no reason to chase Irenicus at this point. Yeah, he kidnapped you and killed some guy, but he was arrested. If you don't care about Imoen, no reason not to just move on and go elsewhere.

But it's not a sandbox game. It's a story-driven RPG.

Roguey · Dec 6, 2018

Yosharian said:
But it's not a sandbox game. It's a story-driven RPG.

Stories should give any given character it allows you to create a reason to care.

Tenebris · Dec 6, 2018

Looks like someone messed up. Got an update from GoG that added in the Forgotten Sanctum as available.

Riddler · Dec 6, 2018

Parabalus said:
Lacrymas said:

Finding Thaos isn't forced at all, it didn't require at least 3 ass-pulls (he causing the biawac, he appearing in your "memories" and the dryads telling you to go find him).

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Compared to saving Imoen it's pretty natural.

Though in Bg2 you can also justify going after Irenicus because "he knows how to unlock your power" to NPCs.

Or that you want revenge for him torturing you for weeks and taking all your stuff...

FreeKaner said:
PoE2 is terrible from a writing perspective, horrible narrative. Honestly it's just inexcusable they went for a direct sequel and didn't leave the god shit to PoE1. The environments, exploration, combat etc. are all serviceable and even fun at times, but I just can't take the dialogue and story of the game being this aggressively bad.

No joke. I just replayed Deadfire and I had forgotten just how bad it was. I mean the whole central conceit of the plot is just so fucking massively retarded I have no idea how it passed even one quick review. Eothas is going to destroy the wheel which the gods claim is bad because it will supposedly lead to Eora running out of souls... Only the wheel was man made in the first place so how could things have survived for the thousands of years before that?