Does anyone know why this was the case or was is it just a blunder of them thinking that name recognition from PoE 1 would be enough to generate enough sales despite doing little to zero marketing for Deadfire?

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I want to make my fighter automatically change stances depending on how many enemies they are fighting, but my AI doesn't seem to work.

Hi all,

I messed it up and I think I'm going to finish the game with all three of his stats over 6 (Truthseeker, Idealist and Confidence). Which ending will I get? I don't see any scenario of having all 3 stats over 6 in the wiki.

I like playing rpgs where I pass a lot of skillchecks that allow me to avoid combat or manipulate situations in some way. Is that something that can be done in these games? What class should I go for this? Also is playing the first game neccessary to play the second? I am not a fan of real time with pause and prefer turn based. Any help is appreciated.

So it grants +2 to Fire keyword ablitys, does that include flames of devotion?

I've recently played Pillars of Eternity on my old laptop. But now I have a new one, so I want to play this game there with my saves from my old laptop. I thought that my saves automatically synchronized with the Xbox cloud, but when I log in and run POE on the new laptop I don't have any of my saves. Can anyone help me to transfer my savings?

This stat is crucial to creating a battlemage.

I feel like im not using them right . Any tips on magic and buff use?

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I hope his mom doesnt look like an anglerfish

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Made some fanart in my spare time c:

So, re-running PoE1 now to refresh my memory and make a character for Deadfire. Going through WM2 currently, near max level, PotD, upscaled.

Yes, you guessed what made me wonder about monks right. It's ZOOM-ZOOM TURBOCUNT ASSAULT SQUADS filled with members of this lovely class.

Ridiculous defenses. Thousand attacks per nanosecond, each hurt like a truck. Faster than light running speed. CC on demand that sends your characters flying and knocked down or just stunned for ten thousand years. AoE on demand. Also AoE when you hit them. Summon jutsu. Fat HP pool. And and and, hear me out, let's, let's make them teleport! Amazing, right? Perfectly balanced as all things should be!

To say nothing about those Speed Force clowns starting to randomly zoom around completely killing pathfinding - a part of PoE that already can't spend ten seconds without shitting itself at least once.

And difficulty by itself would be okay, but no other class, even stacked, ever gave me even near that frustration. Even their own Ondrite brethren feel like usual humans compared to Omniman.

If it was any other dev, I'd just assume that whomever designed the monk had to do all the writing with one hand - another gotta be taking care of all the excitement. But Obsidian I believe to be better than that. If some enemy is stacked like that - there must be an absolutely.

So, ogre druids were dumb, and easily controllable by mind-targeting spells. Ogre Matron says "My army" - Grieving Mother corrects "Our army".

Is there similar weakness for ondrites and monks in general?

P.S.: Not asking about any particular fight - managed to beat them with scrolls of valor and defense on top of usual accuracy buffs and debuffs plus figurines. However, it felt like bruteforcing the fight compared to figuring out a proper "key" to solve the fight in a clever way. It also feels stange that even compared to enemies in the same pack but different classes monks feel ridiculously strong while others give me no trouble. So I must be missing something, wanted to hear your opinions folks.

I love Pillars of Eternity but one thing that makes me dread booting it up again is the way it handles the difficulty curve, especially on Hard and PotD. It starts off as irritatingly 'difficult' (see: not really, it just expects you to take a static path through content to get the companions) and rapidly devolves into encounters consisting of "click on enemy and wait for them to die." Often, you can even let the AI handle spellcasting and it works out just fine. On PotD.

I don't know about you, but it feels kind of pointless to get all these cool and interesting abilities when they're obsolete by the time you get them. The closest thing to genuinely difficult that I can recall past the first act was>!the final encounter with Thaos!<and he was still such a pussy it took less than ten seconds.

The higher difficulty levels are more engaging mechanically, it's just offset by everything surrounding them. I feel like they could've buffed up enemies past Act 1 and nerfed enemies in Act 1 and everything'd be roughly perfect. Instead, the series shows it's worst to players at the very beginning. I think it's a large part of why the series is likely dead.

Also, don't blame JS for any of this. I've played Pentiment, he has amazing ideas and it's implied from the dev blogs that he did want to "rework" some of these more self-destructive aspects, but in the name of nostalgia he couldn't. Of course, fanboying and refusing to discuss it won't bring the series back.

I have POE2 on my PC, through steam, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to play the game in solo mode. I see videos on youtube of starting wizard solo. how do I do this? TIA for any help.

So I got a new hdd and was organizing stuff and accidentaly deleted, and deleted from recylle bin all of my pillars of eternity saves. Fortunatly I was able to use a program to recover them. Problem is, when I put them in the new place the game created for save data.... they don't show up.

I know its the right place as the saves I'm making for a test game are all showing up there, but the old ones I recovered just don't show up when put along side them. Any ideas?

edit: I'm notcing all the files that are recovered are 4k kb's while the normal files are far less....if that helps?

Eothas. At the end of Deadfire, if you do not choose the Rymrgand ending, He says after destroying the Wheel He will leave Eora forever never to return. At the first glance, this seems to imply that He will just return to the Beyond aming other gods, but then He goes on to say that he will dissippate his essence or can alternatively be otherwise convinced to empower another one of the Pantheon by transferring all of His soul essence energy to them. I am not sure what it truly means to die as an Engwithan-ascended god, but I assume it is similar to mortals going through the Wheel, but does this mean that Eothas, as a whole soul entity, doesn't truly exist anymore, like He did before the Saint's War and after the Godhammer and before and during the occupying of Od Nua's Adra sculpture?

Picked the spoiler tag because it reference some past even that could spoil the games, and some comment may too!

Suppose that you would play in a TTRPG (may it be dnd, pathfinder or even the official Pillars one) which even of the past that wasn't seen in any game would be interesting to play?

Maybe the period post creation of the gods when the Engwithans went far and wide to make everyone in the world belive in their new gods?

Maybe a reincarnation of Thaos wrecking havoc again?

Maybe the Saints War as the Dyrwoodian crafting the Godhammer bomb to kill St, Waidwen?

I’ve seen you can hold shift in pc but no mention of how on Xbox..

Played the first Pillars of Eternity ages ago and recently got the itch to try it out again, but I can’t remember anything about character optimisation.

For roleplay reasons, I want to create a death godlike paladin of the goldpact order from aedyr or the living lands with the mercenary background. What would be the most ideal way to build her, stats-wise and what weapons should I aim for? I don’t need the character to be super min-maxed per se, since I’ll only be playing on Normal difficulty, but I definitely don’t want to feel like my character is contributing the least in the party and generally I enjoy offensive characters more for my MC than tank builds (though if that’s the only optimal approach here I’ll acquiesce).

I ask here because every other forum I’ve checked out so far seems either out of date or at adds with each other.

Also don’t worry too much about spoilers, I basically got right up until the start of the final dungeon with my last playthrough and though the details are foggy I remember most of the major twists in the plot.

I just started Pillars of eternity on PC. I play mostly on console for context. I’m clicking my mouse where I want my character to go but the map isn’t moving so I can see the next bit. WASD isn’t moving the camera and neither are the arrows. I looked at the controls in the settings and I’m clearly missing something. Any help is greatly appreciated

So i've been playing the game from Xbox for about 15 hours, is it possible to continue from that save in PC. (Both are Gamepass). Thank you in advance.

I LOVE this game, but every time i get into a semi hard fight, the AI kills me, every. single. time. Is there anyway to combat this even a little bit? Im playing on classic, and i cant imagine what its like on the hardest difficulty.

Hi!

I just started POE I on my switch, and I was a bit scary looking at reviews here about the long charge screen and others problems. Been only playing 1_2h and honestly didn't encounter any problem, is it getting worse as I advance in the game?

Also, would like to ask, is there any book or material to learn about the lore? I'm a bit lost when pnj reference some races,places, etc.

Thanks!

Just out of curiosity.

I want to try to create some mods, ultimately I want to try to add some more voices, but just want to get started for now. I know the game uses an old version of Unity and modern tools may not work. Can anyone tell me what I need to get started modding this game? I have plenty of programming experience but haven't done game dev/mod stuff much. Thank you in advance!

I chose the no-faction ending first, but I didn't like it. My character somewhat supports both factions but didn't commit to either.

Idk which one to choose??? For the Deadfire I guess huana, but in general vtc?

So, I know Might affects spell and weapon damage as well as healing strength.

But what about status effect spell?

Like if my priest casts blindness or daze on an enemy and they have a mind or reflex resistance, does might make it harder to resist the spell? I know Int will raise the AOE. To use a D&D term, does might raise the spell save DC? I know pillars doesn't use 5e rules but just for comparison.