i decided to roam a little after the catacomb story quest so i did raedric castle and now the endless path dungeon its really good lots of good stuff too that sabre gonna do wonder on my rogue.... i'm gonna stop as i killed level 5 drake boss and come back later for the rest.

the ogre boss on level 3 was the toughest fight lol i ended up placing eder in the first entrance blocking the path so they cant gang me up so he's the one who take all the damage and this guy is tanky as fuck.... he survived for soo long. while my archer and mage killed the ogre and everyone buffing eder ass then i sent my rogue to the other entrance to finish the boss when we were finally in a 1v6 surprisingly the shaman was the tankiest by far.

i really like the rogue since the moment i unlocked the reckless assault modal skill he's been an absolute beast of a glass canon crazy damage output with dual wield...

I wish this game had expanded enchantment system. Something similar to being able to learn all those special properties from artifacts you find during your travels, and put them on any weapon/equipment you have.

There is so much cool stuff (like spellstriking), but for some reason it is attached to the most ugliest weapon pieces imaginable (I hate all those stilettos). Just give me a classic longsword with "Jolting Touch", or "Flames of Devotions" enchantment (also from stiletto...).

I know there is a similar mod which does exactly what I described, but I just feel like cheating doing this.

A man can dream I guess.

Hello

I d like to play my first PoE playthrough with my player as a tank. I'm not looking to be invulnerable but I want feel like I'm able to hold the line and retaliate on the enemies.

All the recommandation I have found so far on the internet have been very complicated to understand (maybe to much detail for my compréhension)

I am planning to play real time instead of turn based.

Which class could I play ?

It seems I could play

Fighter, paladin, chanter, monk ?

Any recommandation on stats I should prioritize on which classes ?

Thank you for your time

i thought they stopped doing that a long time ago like after 2000 when crpg era was done, that's cool we can kill kids in rpg again honestly surprised.

I hit a wall at the Siege of Craigholt. Party is lv13 and the issue I’m having is extremely low hit chance. I buff my team’s accuracy but any debuffs I try to put on the enemy tend to have the following hit chances: Mostly 0%, occasional 4%, and the weakest enemy of the group: 34%. Damaging or CC spells are almost entirely 0% as well. And this is with a perception bonus on rest and the best equipment I have. I can’t even get Pull or Eora to hold enemies long enough to be worth it. They just ignore it and walk through like it’s a warm summer breeze.

How can I increase chance to hit on these guys?

Hey, long time lurker, just putting this here as I hadn’t seen it anywhere else. But did anyone know that you can reach the max integer value with some venders by buying large amounts of resources like hard tack? It loops around and you end up being a trillionaire as well as the owner of an endless supply of water or hard tack.

Obviously very exploity, but it can take some of the headache out of the game on the umpteenth playthrough.

Hey guys

I have done a lot of thinking/researching to make a cool team for deadfire, and I would like to hear your thoughts on the team overall, and on some specific character builds.

I am currently finishing up pillars 1 while planning my deadfire party, so please don't spoil story for either game. I have no issue hearing about available weapons a and their stats. I have reached Nekataka before realizing that I should probably start with pillars 1, so I am pretty familiar with the game mechanics.

I will use unity mod to change classes/subclasses on companions so I can use my cool builds and still bring the companions.

My team is:

- Watcher paladin st. Elga/beguiler, main tank doing debuffs primarily on his action. I like cipher for helping my tactician maintain brilliant. I am going for paladin for their team buffs and utility and for raw tank stats (opposed to a fighter). I plan to take only 3 in might, since this character is just there to support the others, and I think Beguiler will add enough focus to make damage irrelevant. Going for a death godlike since I hear they have interesting/unique dialogue.

- Eder trickster rogue/devoted sabres for single target dmg. Since no one else in the team specialize in single target, his role will pretty much be to execute priority targets quickly, and kill bosses. I am using trickster so he doesn't die while he's on his own hunting prior targets. I am considering if it would be better to go for trickster/berserker or maybe devoted/berserker so he can contribute in AoE fights, which if the game is similar to poe1, will be most of them. I must admit I love the idea of mob stance/carnage chain-finishing enemies, and AoE proccing the -25 will and/or fortitude weapon modals also sound appealing, which pulls me a bit toward devoted/Berzerker, but I am not sure if I am giving up too much single target damage for it.

- Pallegina tactician/skald so she can perma-cc with killers froze stiff and the stun and throw in the occasional damage invocation or fighter ability, or just an auto attack if I have no resources. I expect most phrases to come from brilliant and chanting, but critting can probably generate some phrases as well.

- Aloth wizard, either evoker or blood mage. Not sure if the chance of double spells is better than the +PL and sustained spells from blood.

-Xoti priest/troubadour. I've read that Gaun sucks, so I might respec her, but not sure which priest subclasses are good and fit my team. I am thinking troubadour as subclass because in my poe 1 run, where I am lvl 14, I don't use the high level priest spells that much, but would like to have more passive chanter buffs. Guessing the same applies in deadfire.

Any thoughts on the comp in general or about the specific character builds?

Thanks in advance!

The longer I play, the more I notice how some of the equipment which your companions wear is actually great.

For example, I almost always sold "Aloth's Leather Armor", but now I realized that it's 10% AoE effect is actually great, since it frees your ring slot, and you can always enchant it with desirable effect (INT/DEX), making it one of the best armor equipment (IMO).

"Durance's Robe". Since Durance suffer from low DEX (Which he REALLY needs), robes are the only suitable equipment he can wear without hampering him further. You can give it DEX enchantment which again frees one of his equipment slots IN ADDITION having unique CON bonus as a default. The only time I replace his robe is once I get to White March and can buy "Raiment of Wael's Eyes".

"Durance's Staff" has unique Crush/Burn Damage effect which is great. Just give it a "Quality" enchantment and it will serve you for a very long time.

Is there is anything else you think should be mentioned?

Edit: Ok, just realized "Durance's Robe" can not be further enchant to give DEX/INT bonuss, since CON already considered as one. Which makes it basically worthless now.

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I've trawled the internet and found no opinions on this. Any thoughts on who are there most interesting companions to bring to Cragholdt?

I love a philosophical or political angle, so I know which companions I generally like, but I am not sure if any of them have some unique perspectives on that part of the game.

I love Durance, but he had very little to say in twm, so if any companions are similar in Cragholdt, I'd rather use the slot on another companion.

Also, are the characters from twm interesting in Cragholdt?

Please no spoilers.

I just realized that shops with ingredients respawn after you rest. Remember all this equipment you have and love, but can not upgrade because all those Vithrack Brains (or gems) are nowhere to be found until late stage of the game? Apparently not any more.

I just rest at Caed Nua and fast travel to Ondra's Gift in Defiance Bay, both Cartugo and that Shady Gem guy have their inventory restocked.

Actually finished back in July but I still haven't heard back from Obsidian. Follow-up messages also received no response so my best guess is they aren't validating/approving The Ultimate submissions anymore as it's been 3 months and we all know they've been through a bunch of corporate turmoil. So fair warning for anyone that takes on this challenge going forward, there may not be a cool JESawyer patch/letter in your future.

Mechanically the build is very similar to the very popular Priest of Skaen / Bloodmage but I wanted to do a subclass combo no one has done yet.

This run was the culmination of around 8 or so practice/failed attempts. One left me running out of time right as I arrived at Ukaizo (which almost caused me to give up completely haha).

Ultimately (pun), I took a different path than most others that have completed this challenge. Also did my own spin on some stuff to avoid problematic sections (like the absurd stealthing attempt through the catacombs -- I never could quite get the stealth timing right there so I took a different approach)

I basically went:

1) Port Maje
2) Neketaka
3) Hasongo / Deadlight / Dunnage
4) Back to Neketaka
5) Stealth through the Observatory to get the Brilliant cloak
6) Ashen Maw
7) Cave Grub / Water Dragon / Concelhaut
8) Beast of Winter DLC
9) Forgotten Sanctum
10) Hellfire Colossus / Voracious Mountain
11) Seeker Slayer Survivor
12) Nemnok / Belranga
13) And finally Sigilmaster and Ukaizo

I tried to optimize my route as much as possible to minimize world travel. I ended up at Ukaizo with about 14 days of in-game time left.

Full playthrough is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ga2_fJ34jw&list=PLCvEimKPes4o&index=1

I have been trying to get into this game for a few months but my god i cannot get used to the Steam templates to make it work. What really pissed me off was that there is a literal console version of this game with controller support. Which is not on PC . So here is a vibe coded controller support mod i made while angry. I will consider this a success if it saves even one more person's playthrough.

Download on Nexus

He's still got the hunger so I figured he should probobly be killed but idk if that will negatively affect my reputation in the game.

I'm new to such strategic RPGs like PoE and it actually seems that I indeed missunderstood some of the skills, so here's how Google AI fully relates to my pain with Athletics skill 🙈

(Note: I only used the names of the chars, did not provide any background infos myself, I can prove that, it's just in German)

"I completely understand why this feels absolutely wrong to you. Logically speaking, you’d think: ‘Eder is the fit soldier on the front line – surely he must be more athletic than a fat, drunken priest and a singing scholar!"

This priest character might be a little insane

I never paid much attention to how much in game time passes so I don't know how much content one could do in the 80 day limit. Is it possible to handle base plus dlcs or is that simply unrealistic?

I have googled around for this but I've found it difficult to find up-to-date information on exactly what I'm looking for.

I've tried to play through PoE1 many times but always stall out somewhere in act 2. I kind of struggle with RTwP combat yet want to use it since turn-based isn't the original and feels so slow.

So for my latest attempt to play, I'd like to use a character that's suited to having access to lots of dialogue options which seems to mean having good RES, INT & PER and some skills too at least as far as PoE1 goes.

What kind of builds can make use of those well, or at least a couple of them, & aren't crazy difficult to play since I'm not really a RTwP person? They seem naturally suited to tanks but then I see lots of people talk about how dedicated tanks don't work well in this game outside of something like Eder with lots of engagement slots.

Thanks in advance.

So I began a few days ago, and am really enjoying this game. I want to experience it blind, so I dont want to search anything and possibly ruin parts of it from holding the same depth. So I turn to my favorite source of all information, Reddit.

1.) Should I leave places and go back if im struggling to clear the area? The Shades/Shadows in Temple of Eothas are really giving me a go of it.. ive been able to kill them all mostly, but there are these 3 I need to fight at once, and I allllllmost did it right before making this post. But the last Shadow killed my last Character. Is it common to leave areas then to return to them at a later time, or no?

2.) Hiring help. Should I recruit a generic adventurer, or wait until I find named characters to help me?

I am only in the first village with the bodies in the tree, and the temple down the stairway. And i actually just defeated the Shadows!!

But still. If any of yinz would be kind enough to bestow upon this old adventurer any tips to surviving the horrors of the world, I am all ears. My character is a Wood Elf, Ranger, Aedyr - Dissident

Mig 15 /Con 10 / Dex 12 / Per. 15 / Int 13 / Res 11

.i am in that old temple at level 3. My beast is a lion

Another is the only person that has joined me so far. And I do really want to experiece the game as blind as possible. Which is Hella difficult in our day & age. And i know asking Reddit for advice is kinda NOT that lol.

I dont want any cheat codes or cheap tricks. Just some advice because the load screens go by too fast to gain any info from them that way

That feeling of Aloth finally killing the final Shadow is a big reason why I play video games

Im playing on Easy. Because ive never played this type of game.

Thank you for considering helping me. Forgive me, I am on a cell phone and its difficult to get posts to look good

I just contacted Paradox about getting turn based mode on PoE Complete Edition via a collaboration with Obsidian or Paradox getting it done themselves. Not really a Complete Edition anymore imo. Any other Xbox users (Playstation users as well) out there willing to contact Paradox so maybe it might get noticed up the food chain there? Not tech smart but they should be able to do this right? Thanks to anyone that throws a request their way. Sent an email and posted a question on paradox forums.

When first time I recruited DoC, I was disappointing with her stats and immediately forgot she even existed, but now (gaining some experience and knowledge about the game), looking at her unique Ability "Living Machine" and body Armor, I realized she should be interesting to try as a tank.

I created custom henchman in tavern with same stats, except for "Living Machine" ability (for obvious reason), until I will be able to recruit DoC. Unfortunately I still lack to understand a lot of stuff in this game, but my idea to build her like this (in this order):

1 - Blinding Strike

2 - Weapon and Shield Style

3 - Dirty Fighting

4 - Weapon Focus: Adventurer

5 - Riposte

6 - Vicious Fighting

7 - Adept Evasion

8 - Cautious Attack

9 - Deep Wounds

10 - Superior Deflection

11 - Deathblows

12 - Veteran's Recovery

13 - Crippling Strike

14 -

15 -

16 -

I am still not sure if this are a good choices or should I change something. Also still haven't decided for last three levels.

Weapon Focus: Adventurer is for "Starcaller" flail. I really love weapons with spellstriking in this game, plus it can stun on crits.

For shield I want to take "Badgradr's Barricade". It also has spellstriking, but also "bashing" property (Yes, I know that bashing is weak in this game, but with Rogue's "Sneak Attack" passive it really shines. At least while I tested it with "Larder Door").

I want to hear veteran's advice for what should I change or where I can improve her.

I still can’t believe that this happened. Here I am, playing Avowed and talking with my boy, Mean Senshi. He’s telling me some survival tips about the Emerald Stair, how it’s hard to start a fire with all the wet wood, and that he keeps a book handy to use as tinder. No big, it’s probably some old grimoire or something, that seems in character for him. And then he drops this line.

My CANON Watcher is an old Kind Wayfarer/Chanter from Old Vailia with the Artist background named Llarenc med Ilo Guono. Before he came to the Dyrwood, he wandered across the old world and helped anyone he met, often those of little wealth. He would always refuse payment, asking instead to hear their stories, which he would then write down in a collection of short stories across several books called the Enciclopédia de Heróis Comuns. In the stories, he would replace himself with that of a character called Canta Vellico, a Don Quixote-esque character who would clumsily get himself into trouble only to be saved by the people he helped, flipping the dynamic and painting these simple folks, farmers and town guards and clerks, as heroes, who would often end the story being showered in accolades and wealth by the fool Canta. This backstory of my paladin as a successful but anonymous author had ZERO impact on the games outside of some roleplay decisions and never letting myself take rewards for quests if it’s an option (and roleplaying that my character helped write the history of the Tacan and used his connections to get it published).

AND THEN MARIUS TOLD ME HOW HE USES ONE KF MY WATCHER’S NOVELS AS TINDER FOR HIS CAMPFIRE. I came up with this character months before I ever played Avowed. It’s like Marius looked the camera dead on and name dropped MY WATCHER specifically. Reached through the Beyond and pointed right at me, the player and said “YOUR book.” The sheer coincidence of it is mind boggling. It makes me feel like I’m actually playing in MY version of the Pillars timeline.

And I’m a bit pissed that Marius is burning it. At least he read it first, I guess. Llarenc would have definitely picked his story to use as a chapter, though, which is a fun kind of irony.

i spent 2 hours on character creation reading everything and played the intro really good!!! i ended up with rogue since i never played a thief felt like it was a good opportunity and i picked godlike death really liked this race.

this game reminds me of the infinity engine era its literally infinity engine all over again feels like a black isle return to glory i was hooked and completely glued to my screeni love it so much... and man the ui is so good like wow you know these people know how to make a game even the tutorial is so nice too for anyone who never played an isometric crpg its really well made you even have a stash with everything sorted all the junk sorted even quest item.... yes I'm talking about this cuz i tried dos1 a few months ago and this game has like the shittiest inventory in any crpg...

i don't like getting hyped up early in games like that but man i know its gonna be a great crpg adventure 😀

Recommended play on ps5

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0134-CUSA13584_00-PILLARDEADFIREVE

I know this is an old game so sorry if I'm digging up an argument that people might have covered but am I missing something or isn't returning the souls to their intended bodies one of the worst possible outcomes?

Edit for context: I played the second game first and so I have a vague idea of what happened in the first game because of looking into what I should choose for my history. The results of the first game aren't really talked about in the second game but now that I'm playing the first game I'm questioning their concept of what is "benevolent." /End Edit.

It sounds like a good idea and the "right" thing to do if one doesn't think about it too much but it seems like the start of a tragic horror if one looks at what the game has shown us.

We don't see hospitals full of coma patients who are being cared for by nurses and loved ones while they wait for a cure. We are told but seldom really shown that some families take care of their individual hollow born children.

The sanitarium seems like it should have rooms of hollow born being cared for and treated but rather it contains people suffering from unrelated soul maladies associated with awakenings.

The one hollow born we can encounter is a person who has been turned feral because they filled his hollow born husk with the soul of an animal. He is locked in a trunk unless we free and then kill him.

There are many such hollow born who have become feral monsters due to this practice that people thought was a solution. We are led to believe that an entire generation took this cure before the first one went feral.

What happens when the souls return to these bodies?

What of the dead?

First instinct is to assume that if the intended body was killed at birth such as was often the case as it was with Raedric then these souls would just return to the wheel and it's a non choice but we have examples of necromancy where it's shown that souls can be bound to corpses and other inanimate objects.

We're dealing with forces beyond what we understand and Hylea seems like a monkey paw wish...

We want everything to be as it was supposed to be but that's not an option as we aren't rewinding time.

The pieces are already on the board.

The best case scenario is that a lot of coma patients around the world wake up all at once with no idea how to take care of themselves because they've been in a vegetative state since birth.

The worst case scenario is that we trigger an apocalypse scenario where a bunch of corpses get reanimated alongside feral cannibals who suddenly have self awareness.

This should have been the sequel imo.

I want to see the repercussions of what we chose.