Eternity Pillars of Eternity + The White March Expansion Thread

[Bonerbill]

Not giving durance a plate armour and an arquebus to recreate him in image of Magran? Plus helmet is essential to hide his terrible neckbeard.

Agreed. These fags here keep putting priests in robes. That's freaking gay. Priest are suppose to based off the BA chainmail or heavy armored cleric from D&D, I either put them in medium or heavy armor (with their diety favored weapon), or I won't use them.

 

[Excidium II]

I wonder if no one ever catches these bugs in the patch beta because hardly anyone pays attention to the numbers.

That's probably what it is. Though at this point they should have a save/load testing routine considering how many things have bugged with it over release.

 

[Sensuki]

 

[Terpsichore]

Is the game still banal shit boring?

 

[Sentinel]

Is the game still banal shit boring?

Only was so if you were expecting waifus to chase after like your BioWare sodomization simulators.

 

[adddeed]

Nope, never was anyway.

 

[Bubbles]

It's too padded out and poorly balanced, but it's not banal.

 

[Excidium II]

Balance's better now after it got more patches than RoAHD.

 

[Lyre Mors]

If I had to rate it, I'd say PoE + White March is at a solid 8/10 these days. I didn't much care for it upon it's release, but played it again around 3.0 and had a great time. That playthrough clocked in at around 90 hours.

 

[Grunker]

Is the game still banal shit boring?

I thought the release was decent, but not great. I completed my second playthrough this week mainly focusing on White March content, and it was fantastic.

Play on PotD.

 

[Excidium II]

PotD is the new hard now.

 

[eXalted]

Thinking of starting this game with all patches and DLCs. Which difficulty is best for someone who is not a hardcode grognards. I am never able to create combo-wombo late game build on most of the RPGs I've played.\

Hard or PotD?

I don't want to roll over all enemies from a point onward but at the same time I don't have the time to reload 10+ times every second fight with mobs...

 

[Starwars]

Well, start on Hard and see how that feels. Is it possible to switch to PotD midgame? I can't recall.

 

[Sizzle]

Well, start on Hard and see how that feels. Is it possible to switch to PotD midgame? I can't recall.

You can only start the game with PoTD (and expert mode and Trial of Iron), there's no way to turn it off/on later.

Also - an area will remain the same difficulty as the one you had enabled when you first entered it.

 

[Parabalus]

Thinking of starting this game with all patches and DLCs. Which difficulty is best for someone who is not a hardcode grognards. I am never able to create combo-wombo late game build on most of the RPGs I've played.\

Hard or PotD?

I don't want to roll over all enemies from a point onward but at the same time I don't have the time to reload 10+ times every second fight with mobs...

The game doesn't make sense without PotD - you can ignore too many gameplay elements otherwise. If you played any IE RPG, which you have since this is the Codex, you are basically insulting yourself by not playing on PotD.

 

[eXalted]

The game doesn't make sense without PotD - you can ignore too many gameplay elements otherwise.

Yes, this was my main concern. Well, PotD it is then.

 

[Excidium II]

Hard is too easy now because of all the changes making everyone stronger overall.

 

[Grunker]

PotD is the way to play this game, but if you're shit at RPGs, don't do it my friend. The Codex might flex and say it's the only way to play 'cause we're all supergeeks and play these games for the challenge, but since the patches, PotD is for people who like reloading and thinking about what they're doing. You will probably get frustrated and stop playing if you're not good at switching up or if you just go with the flow and build something retarded.

 

[Excidium II]

At least PotD makes chanters useful.

 

[adddeed]

Do not play PotD, play on Hard instead. All difficulties below PotD mix up mob composition only, while PotD also buffs the enemy stats too. Play on Hard and enjoy, no need to get frustrated on PotD. Plus loading times aren't exactly short, and im sure you'll want to reload often on PotD.

 

[Excidium II]

The PotD stat buffs are significant mostly earlier on since they don't scale, and they make debuffs more valuable.

 

[eXalted]

Alright, will the first 4-5 hours gameplay on PotD give me good estimation about the difficulty or does it ramps up extremely later on?

 

[Prime Junta]

Alright, will the first 4-5 hours gameplay on PotD give me good estimation about the difficulty or does it ramps up extremely later on?

Nah the difference is most apparent early on. I do get a bit burned out on the mob sizes though, they are always big which makes the whole thing somewhat grindy.

I'd say Hard is a bit easier than BG(2) on Core Rules, and PotD is a bit harder, but nowhere close to the hardest difficulties in the IE games. If you're a completionist you will be dangerously close to outlevelling and out-gearing the content towards the end of the game anyway. Whatever you do, don't play White March early and then return to the main campaign; either do it last thing level scaled up, or save it for a second play-through.

 

[Delterius]

If you're a completionist you will be dangerously close to outlevelling and out-gearing the content towards the end of the game anyway. Whatever you do, don't play White March early and then return to the main campaign; either do it last thing level scaled up, or save it for a second play-through.

Does Od Nua and the Bounties give EXP? I didn't do either and didn't feel like I overlevelled the game's content too much. A few choice encounters were pretty challenging/fun then, IMO.

 

[Excidium II]

Completionism is the one true way.