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

[FreeKaner]

Another way I did was using pull of eora the entire encounter to a trap and like 3 grenades, then threw in a fireball. The fight was over extremely quickly and the encounter was 2 level over me (I was 7 at husongo, it was the looters at the right side of the map).

I had to use a chanter to reduce their armour though otherwise it would be underpen.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

No. This is what the text description says, but the description above the text, which is generated from the spell properties, says "Area of Effect: Foe Target + 7.6m Radius from Caster" for both spells.

I have used Returning storm, and indeed it works inside the radius, not exclusively on the target.

What is puzzling you?

You have a AoE radius around you druid, returning (lvl 3) hits 1 target every tick, relentless (lvl 5) hits all enemies inside the radius every tick.

I just loaded a save and it works as described.

1 target, but not the same target, now it makes sense. Well, it's a pretty confusing description IMO.

 

[FreeKaner]

It could be explained better, although I do like the spells used together a lot. You have this aoe of storm that strikes random one target periodically, then all of them, it's almost musical.

 

[Parabalus]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

No. This is what the text description says, but the description above the text, which is generated from the spell properties, says "Area of Effect: Foe Target + 7.6m Radius from Caster" for both spells.

I have used Returning storm, and indeed it works inside the radius, not exclusively on the target.

What is puzzling you?

You have a AoE radius around you druid, returning (lvl 3) hits 1 target every tick, relentless (lvl 5) hits all enemies inside the radius every tick.

I just loaded a save and it works as described.

1 target, but not the same target, now it makes sense. Well, it's a pretty confusing description IMO.

Agreed, though they did write "single random target".

Their tags like "foe aoe" "aoe" "target" "foe" are all over the place, there isn't much consistency to them across spells.

 

[FreeKaner]

What is more perplexing is the fact that the keywords are not in alphabetic order and actually are placed different across two spells. Who does this shit?

 

[FreeKaner]

Did the DLCs add any new rapiers?

 

[2house2fly]

Yeah, you get a soulbound one for siding with the Seeker in the second DLC

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't know whether I'm blind or something, but where do you find the Principi flag in Neketaka? Does it only spawn when you know about it? I didn't find it on my earlier run either, but at least my character knew about it. I think you can sneak in Fort Deadlight without it anyway, though.

 

[Parabalus]

I don't know whether I'm blind or something, but where do you find the Principi flag in Neketaka? Does it only spawn when you know about it? I didn't find it on my earlier run either, but at least my character knew about it. I think you can sneak in Fort Deadlight without it anyway, though.

You get it for giving both conches. Maybe you can steal it from morena as well.

 

[FreeKaner]

I don't know whether I'm blind or something, but where do you find the Principi flag in Neketaka? Does it only spawn when you know about it? I didn't find it on my earlier run either, but at least my character knew about it. I think you can sneak in Fort Deadlight without it anyway, though.

You can just board a Principi ship. Not hard to do just approach Fort Deadlight and one will chase you most likely.

 

[Lacrymas]

You get it for giving both conches. Maybe you can steal it from morena as well.

Isn't the Old City higher level than Fort Deadlight, though?

 

[Sabotin]

You don't even need the flag, you can just sneak in and it's the same thing. Can't remember if there was a check involved or you had to stealth trough some restricted areas though.

 

[Parabalus]

You get it for giving both conches. Maybe you can steal it from morena as well.

Isn't the Old City higher level than Fort Deadlight, though?

Yeah, getting one from random pirates is the best bet. Or from undercroft.

Somewhat sure you can just nick the conches if you have invis though. Bit meta but w/e.

 

[Lacrymas]

Why isn't there a section for this game on GameBanshee? I've always found their walkthroughs pretty handy for repeat playthroughs.

It makes you think.

 

[Roguey]

Why isn't there a section for this game on GameBanshee? I've always found their walkthroughs pretty handy for repeat playthroughs.

It makes you think.

A walkthrough requires just one person with an intense interest. There are quite a few recent RPGs with no GB walkthrough.

 

[santino27]

I feel like the sort of people who used to write walkthroughs have been replaced by the people who stream gameplay videos. Far less useful, far more annoying, but that's life for you.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

For a full stealth approach you don't need a flag. Otherwise you can steal one from Morena, kill/board some pirate ships or complete old city quest for Dereo.

 

[HoboForEternity]

written walktrough, sadly are the things of 90s and early 2000s as a teen i use gamefaqs alot and later gamebanshee when i was introduced to crpgs. youtube videos are annoying when you need to find specific parts digging trough dozens of gameplay video in specific time. but kids today are allergic to literacy, so yea it's dead jim

 

[rusty_shackleford]

written walktrough, sadly are the things of 90s and early 2000s as a teen i use gamefaqs alot and later gamebanshee when i was introduced to crpgs. youtube videos are annoying when you need to find specific parts digging trough dozens of gameplay video in specific time. but kids today are allergic to literacy, so yea it's dead jim

gamepressure has guides for pretty much every semi-popular game
https://guides.gamepressure.com/pillars_of_eternity_2/

 

[oldmanpaco]

written walktrough, sadly are the things of 90s and early 2000s as a teen i use gamefaqs alot and later gamebanshee when i was introduced to crpgs. youtube videos are annoying when you need to find specific parts digging trough dozens of gameplay video in specific time. but kids today are allergic to literacy, so yea it's dead jim

gamepressure has guides for pretty much every semi-popular game
https://guides.gamepressure.com/pillars_of_eternity_2/

True but their grasp of English tends to be hit or miss and their page design is shit. Better than nothing though.

I miss the days of that DSimpson guy and the autist Haeravon.

 

[Lone Wolf]

You can sneak into Fort Deadlight from the beach, can't you? Or am I misremembering?

 

[Rivmusique]

"anyone know where I can buy some scotch?" "There's rum in the cupboard"

The state of this place.

 

[FreeKaner]

I wonder what ingenious balance manoeuvre Sawyer was pulling off when he decided fine shields should have only one (1) more deflection than regular shields. The balance in this game is so tight the individual parts are invisible to naked eye.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Without such granularity you will end up having many items which do the same thing. I guess the choice was between granularity and negligible differences in stats, and no granularity and no difference at all. What would you do in his place? Because the items are freely moddable. Would you give it +5 deflection for example? Then you will have to bump the exceptional, superb, and legendary as well. Wouldn't you end up with the same granularity but more inflated numbers?

 

[FreeKaner]

Without such granularity you will end up having many items which do the same thing. I guess the choice was between granularity and negligible differences in stats, and no granularity and no difference at all. What would you do in his place? Because the items are freely moddable. Would you give it +5 deflection for example? Then you will have to bump the exceptional, superb, and legendary as well. Wouldn't you end up with the same granularity but more inflated numbers?

I mean by mathematical necessity bucklers benefit more from such upgrades, which in itself is questionable. Bucklers also benefit from weapon & shield style disproportionately as well. So if your aim is extra deflection only then bucklers seem to be the best choice, not even worth using the others if you are not going to use the modals actively.