That Q&A section he did explaining his feelings about doing another game was rough. Like, really rough. He looked so deflated when talking about it. I don't know why, Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2 are great. But according to him, he just doesn't have it in him anymore. He doesn't quite know what audiences would be into nowadays. And for what they are into, he's just not feeling it. For now, the passion isn't there (keyword: for now). With a heavy heart, a sigh and a shrug, he kinda bowed out of the series (for now).

So, let's say someone else decided to pick up the slack and direct the next Pillars of Eternity game. Initially we'd be excited (I know I would), but would a new director be good for series? Not just in continuing it, but in the spirit of things?

We'd have to see how Avowed turns out, but I think a Pillars of Eternity III under Carrie Patel's direction could work. She was director for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's DLC, so she's done something in the isometric style. I'm sure she can carry an entire game, as Avowed might just be the test run to see how well she can handle the series.

Best case scenario, is that Carrie Patel keeps making first person Avowed games, and Josh Sawyer comes back to "finish" the Pillars of Eternity series. But that would take a willing, intelligent and game-saavy Microsoft to realize that yes, actually, they DO want to make money. And a good start to do this would be to make as many games in this series as possible and make them the best games they can possibly be (to avoid first person Bethesda slop).

But in general, what do you think?

I recently started playing on POTD after beating the game a long time ago on normal and this has led me to use the priest spell withdrawal for the first time. Once the spell expires the weapons of the target character have a whitish "flame" effect on them, which does not go away by saving and reloading, resting, changing maps etc. Did anybody experience this? Any solutions?

It's a pure evil run. So far I got. Viper bleak/Assassin. Hyena corpse eater/Tactician. Cruel Bleak/shifter. Dominus Beguiler/Debonaire. Then a complete mental block lol Suggestions?

How do I make Caed Nua generate more money

I’m trying to make an aristocrat old villa fighter who uses dual rapiers any suggestions on how should I approach my build?

Is From The Wreckage glitched or what? I'm trying to report to the queen about Hosanga and she's no where to be found! She's not in the palace. She's not upstairs. I get so tired of looking for people in this game. Spend more time searching for people than playing it. It's my biggest criticism of the game, frankly. No one's ever where the journal says they'll be.

hello everyone, yesterday i started a new game, as i played the game years ago and now i want to finally finish it. i do remembered act 1 is quite hard and to be honest, it took me a few tries to get a hang of the first few areas on the highest difficulty, tried many different builds but i decided to stick with my moon godlike cipher.

so far i think i have valewood and magran's fork cleared out. last night i entered temple of eothas in gilded vale but i'm wondering if this is a good idea. i have Aloth, Eder, and Durance in my party as of late. i've been thinking about hiring some hirelings to help me with that dungeon.

however, as this is the first time i'm attempting PotD i would love to hear some tips on how to do it. a lot of the guides out there are either outdated or too complicated and i usually respond better to something that is like 'explain it like i'm 5' so you know.

anyone want to chime in?

Do chanter buffs stack with priest buffs?

I chose the cocky voice but ended up not liking it

Don't get me wrong, I am usually all for romance option in games but... Pillars of Eternity 2 really doesn't fit with my RP.

The two characters that really caught my eyes in romance were Tekehu and Xoti. But Xoti is bizarre due to her obsession with Gaun. I thought I could push her into the Animancer and let her stop depending on the gods. I don't see that happening....

Tekehu is a better fit since he is chill even if I don't do the Huana Faction storyline but... I am definitely not the 'party' type. He seems chill, but I can't see a romance with him, more like, 'he is my best friend' kind of deal.

Maia is also not a good fit for me. I already made up my mind in burning her faction to the ground, is romancing going to stop her from hating me for it? I am 100% onboard with shady tactics, but her faction crosses the line!!

Are there any sad consequences of not picking a romance option? I also don't want to end up 'forever alone', hehehe

If only Eder was a choice......

My vanilla monk in the first game was basically a tank even in light (hide armor), he soaked up damage and released it back into the world. I played on Hard (and now Veteran) and really loved it.

I do want to stick with monk but change it up a lil by choosing a subclass. Am I right in that forbidden fist has the potential to be the beefiest of them while subsisting on light/medium armor? I really love the flavor of it but wondering if it'll be a liability with the way I like to play my monk (first straight into battle, basically almost tanking by himself) with the curse. I could just multiclass with fighter and make things pretty simple but I kind of like keeping it pure and getting access to Monk's full suite of abilities.

Unsure where to go with the attribute spread during character creation. My first game monk was basically just a meathead with max con and might. I know I want to tank int to make the curse shorter and max res but that leaves me with only so much to choose between might, con and perception.

Did any devs ever shed light on that? Was he named something else during game developement?

So, I'm doing Forgotten Sanctum and ... well to put things short, I killed an NPC before finishing it's questline. Tried to get an older save, but it was waaaaaay older. Is there any console command to ressurrect the NPC? I tried to look on the wiki, but it's all so confusing :(

Hey all - I tried to find an answer to this one but no luck.

I have PoE2 on my main windows machine and an M3 macbook. Both play on steam but the cloud saves don't appear to sync between the devices. My windows save never syncs to the mac and vice versa.

Any advice on this as I tend to continue playing games on my macbook when I travel for work.

Thanks in advance!

Hello there,

I'm struggling with a problem that causes game not to start but stay in the black screen, in Steam. I have cursor control but it also doesn't work at all.

Just googled for a while and the solution that I encountered is to change computer's language into the UK English. However the problem is, it is a laptop and my Windows licence allows me to have only one language which is Turkish currently. So I can't change it either.

I also tried changing location into UK, via settings but unfortunately, it didn't work aswell.

I played PoE 1, on this computer without issues for a while, a few months ago and quit for exams. Eventually, I face this problem. I'm not sure what to do at this point to solve this problem. Do we have a proper way to solve this issue? Other wise, I'll need to try Deadfire which sounds a bit frustrating since I'll miss the first game.

Sorry for, "I got problem, solve it!" post. But it looks there is no other way. Thank you all.

I'm playing Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire in PotD + Solo challenge + Ondra's Challenge as a pure Psion (Cipher subclass), and I recently got to level 11 in 18 in-game days. Some questions

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• 1 - How much more XP am I getting than with a full party? Doesn't seem to be 6x like BG2 nor seems to be merely 2x.

I'm using figurines to deal with certain challenges that have a limited amount of enemies.

• 2 - Where can I find items that wouldn't run out of summons after 3 or more usages? And allow me to summon monsters to distract enemies a lot?
• 3 - Where I can find items to boost my starting Focus. Out of combat, I have only 40 Focus. I want to be able to cast "Ringleader" out of combat to deal with some encounters.

I chose this class as a pure RP experience. If I wanted to really try the challenge, I would have multiclassed into a Chanter only for the summons and believed that it would have made the game ludicrously easier. Honestly, IDK if I can solo the game in this difficulty as a Psion, but I want to try and see how far I can get into.

I'm on my first play through of POE2, and Fort Deadlight was making me hoot and holler. How big it is, the interconnectedness, all the interesting conversations, cool loot, multiple pathways through, it's all great

No spoilers plz!

Want to do a build able to get most dialogue checks from stats and skills, so need something benefitting pumping resolve, int, and perception. Will be heavy into lore and survival for those checks as well if that matters. My only real experience so far has been with a ranger

I have recently started my first playthrough of PoE and have encountered a run ending issue. I'm 75 hours into this playthrough and have been running around everywhere that you're allowed to while in Act 2 before earnestly progressing through the story.

My issue has come now that I have gone through the Temple of Woedica and received the visions from the Acolyte. I am suppose to have three quests I need to complete: The Man Who Waits, Through Death's Gate, and Undying Heritage. However, I've only been given Undying Heritage, completed that, and now have nothing left to do. The other two aren't in my quest log and when I talk to Lady Webb to inform her of what we've found, I can only tell her about the results from Undying Heritage. I have no other quests to do that don't require going over Stonewall Gorge.

I can ask the Justiciars where they would keep their most insane people and was directed to the Sanitarium, for The Man Who Waits, however there's nothing else I can do when I get there. I have tried using the console commands StartQuest, AdvanceQuest, TriggerQuestAddendum, and TriggerQuestEndState for both the primary quest and the other two that haven't shown up in my quest log.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm not gonna be able to pick this game back up for a long while if I have to throw away a 75 hour save file.

EDIT: I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION!!! Leaving here just in case something funky like this happens to someone else.

For 'The Man Who Waits', go into the sanitarium and stand in front of Ethelmoer, use the StartConversation console command followed by 3612e842-1aed-4792-93b1-ca4a37712df8 04_cv_ethelmoer 6. That's the character Guid*, conversation string table**, and NodeID*** inside the table

This will initiate the conversation about a Leaden Key member being in the Sanitarium. You won't receive the update to your quest log, but the rest of the quest triggers will be there now. Once you've finished it all up, you can go to Lady Webb and tell her what you found and it will update The Hermit of Hadret House with the info you receive from The Man Who Waits.

Repeat this same process, but with Beodmar in Dyrford Village and you can start 'Through Death's Gate' in the same fashion as the previous quest.

This will disable achievements, but it is a fair price to pay to not lose any progress.

*An NPC's guid can be found on the PoE wiki for specific characters

**conversation string tables can be found in: Steam\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\data\localized\en\text\conversations

***NodeIDs are the numbers between <ID></ID>

So I've started and quit like 10+ times everywhere between 5-30h runs.

Now i wanna do a full run soo. My watcher will be a MT offtank, i have 2-3 offtanks instead of a proper maintank so to speak.

But I cant decide between SC fighter, brute or crusader. Will most likely do PoTD or veteran. The only thing about paladin i don't like is the personality stuff.

When activate console with iroll20s command realized that the u key will kill whatever have mouse hovered over... is there any way to switch this key to something else or disable this all together?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I’m new. I turned on the game for the first time after just starting it about a month ago and I don’t remember if this square in the top right telling me day and hour was there before if I hit something and can’t get it off. Playing on PS5

I almost always play evil or selfish characters in RPGs but I’m looking to play a stereotypical kind charitable character to take through both games and I’m stuck between ideas

From a reactivity perspective would it be better to play as a priest of eothas or as a kind wayfarer paladin? I’m starting with the first game so multiclassing isn’t possible either

I’m also worried about durance for the first game as I almost always run him throughout the entire game and I’m not sure if two priests would really be needed.

Is it worth using Sworn Enemy all the time? Or is recasting it on every enemy a waste of it. At least Marked For the Hunt changes targets on death

As per title - Ascendants get a "bonus" to their Max Focus as they gain levels, but doesn't that pretty much mean, that their Ascended status is progressively harder to attain? Feels more like a penalty to me...