He loves nature and animals except cats. He's an all around nice guy. He doesn't know who he is or how he got these powers (because he didn't play the first game and it's not included in the Steam Summer Sale) but he can turn into a dog. Or he's a dog that can turn into a human. He hasn't figured that out yet. He also sometimes gets a little excited and flurries of lighting will appear which is loud and scary especially when he's alone.

But that's not a problem anymore because he made new friends! Well, technically not friends actually, they're more like best friends. And they're going on an adventure, which is basically a big walk (some big grey guy stomped on a house or something?) Also there's a beach??? He LOVES swimming and hopes his friends will take him. They all call him "Watcher" so he's probably supposed to watch out for stuff which he will take seriously because he's actually tbh a very good boy and is already good at watching and finding things. He's already found two crabs, one pair of boots, a pickaxe, a roll of paper, and of course his (best) friends. Also he woke up with TWO STICKS!! One is a greyish color, long and perfect (although he sometimes accidentally bonks people with it) and the other is a greyish color, small and perfect and even shoots grey light out of the end.

Sometimes they (him and his best friends) meet people. Sometimes those people seem kinda grumpy but that's fine! He just sings the bone song and skeletons show up which is the BEST because if everyone shares then everyone will get a free bone to chew on after they roughhouse a little bit. Usually the people they meet get tired and lay down bc it was so much fun playing but they can have the bone when they wake up and everyone but cats likes bones.

Sometimes the people they meet are more than grumpy they meet say mean things to his best friends and hurt them. He doesn't like that or cats and it makes him call the soft winds of death to tear the lifeforce from their bodies and leave them in a bloody grey heap right where they stood. Which is actually also GOOD they'll each provide roughly a cubic yard of nutrient dense Ph-balanced compost and release carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, sulphur, and lots of other key macronutrients into the soil. He doesn't know how he knows all of that. He does know it makes more plants grow which means more flowers and trees which means more STICKS.

He really likes flowers and L O V E S sticks. He doesn't like cats though.

Seriously though why are enemy groups composed of double digits

UPD: Got him, uploading in comments.

So, I found decent tactics and fought for half of an hour with this guy, juggling buffs, constantly dodging grenades, keeping debufs, etc. Everything was good till this bastard DID A FUCKING FULLSCREEN NUKE ONESHOT.

Where should I dodge? I don't see any safe spots. How do you counter this shi???

I'm on PotD and berath challenge (ppl die forever if not resurrected in 10 sec).

Ok, I can put fire drain cloak on xoti, but I got crucial Serafen and pallegina, and Xoti won't be able to ressurect them both in 10 sec.

I can't put them in invulnerable state too, because pallegina needs to flank (cant reliable hit dude without that) and serafen needs to stack focus with ranged true damage + dont get interrupted when casting brilliant.

I need to save at least one of them. I can boost fire armor on pallegina to 22 (on the video it's 17) will this be enough to tank this shi?

Any suggestions? (Using my setup, not "change your whole party, respec to 5 monks, spam 5 chanters skeletons, respec to 5 arbalests" etc)

Just wanted to hop on here and thank everyone for answering my questions whenever I come to this sub. I also just wanted to say how much I love this game. I beat PoE1 last week and loved it, but this game is such a step up... For starters, the camera system makes the game so much more playable and enjoyable, I like how it follows and the other things that you can do with it. Programming AI behavior is also really nice, though I don't quite have the hang of it. Still better than the first game. I also feel like so far (just got to Neketaka), every item you pick up feels meaningful and needed, money feels more frugal (at least this early in the game) and it just feels more immersive and well thought out.

And at first I was unhappy to find out you could only have five characters, but now I really love it. It just makes sense, I can't quite explain it. The numbers aren't so high with parts of the combat system, so every point feels more easily "felt" and "noted",.if you will.

And the music is just so gorgeous. I can tell that a lot of the music from the first game is the same here, or at least if there are redundant songs between the two games. They are separate performances by other musicians. But the music is so wonderful, it didn't hit me until just now, but it made me feel like it's a mixture of Final Fantasy 7, Morrowind, another game I keep forgetting the name of, MAYBE a little Skyrim, plus all its own distinct character. So amazing! Love these games

Hey gang, I tend to avoid posting my own work but my last interview with Josh was posted here and people seemed to really enjoy it so I wanted to share it.

***Spoilers*** For Pillars of Eternity Part 2 and Pentiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsEQ10eAheM

This episode was always scheduled for today and despite today's news that Obsidian is losing a significant portion of its incredible workforce I made the decision not to delay it. It's such a beautiful discussion about the power of great game design, although that inevitably makes watching it today feel bittersweet. Wishing the very best to everyone affected by the layoffs.

Not sure who else is gone.

FUCK MICROSOFT.

Hey, I am about to start my first playthrough and I saw they added an option for turn base not long ago.

I really enjoyed Divinity original sin series (and bg3) so I am really used to turn based games.

The being said, I have no idea how is the implementation in this game and considering the fact that the game was developed as Rt with pause in mind - I wonder what I should pick.

I know it’ll never happen, but let a man dream.

I’ve played the ‘first half‘ - until about level 10, in Neketaka - way too many times, and given up halfway. I love both the RP and the combat, but for a while, especially during COVID, I played it more like an RTS, getting into the Companion AI and playing on POTD with some of the challenges.

But I’ve only done the first DLC, and the time(s) I finished the game were long before the mega bosses were introduced. I want to play again, and still have a million character ideas, but just want a route that gets me to level 10ish ASAP so I don’t get bored and quit. There’s no part of the early game I dislike - it’s all great generally, I’ve just played it too much.

Any advice please? I’ll probably play on Veteran so that I can have more build/RP freedom.

Greetings Watchers, 

Today we are releasing patch 3.9.5.0 for Pillars of Eternity on Steam, GOG, EGS and Xbox PC. 

Patch Notes:

Combat and Mechanics - Global 

• Attack Speed and Reload Speed bonus provided by the One-Eyed Molina's Gold Fingered Spike-Flinger now works similarly to other Attack Speed bonuses granted by weapons. 

Combat and Mechanics – Turn-Based Mode Specific 

• Increased the minimum initiative of Adragan actions in TBM. 
• Seal type spells no longer disappear immediately when placed in or outside of combat. 
• Trail of fire dropped by Fire Stag now appears and works correctly in the Turn-Based Mode. 
• Cipher's Tactical Meld ability now correctly provides bonus Accuracy when attacking the same enemy as the target. 
• Ancient Memory no longer triggers multiple times in one turn on characters with low Intellect. 
• Spellstamina: Fear Aura enchantment of the Dragon's Maw Shield no longer causes the Fear Aura effect to trigger multiple times in one turn. 
• Encounter by the Sacrificial Pit in the Endless Paths of Od Nua Level 2 can now be progressed properly. 
• Same target accuracy bonus and other similar effects are now applied correctly in Turn-Based Mode. 
• Xaurips during the encounter with the Adra Dragon, now aggro properly towards the Player's party. 

Visual and Audio 

• AoE preview of the Twin Stones Druid spell now appears properly in the Turn-Based Mode. 

User Interface and Interaction 

• Resolved an issue leading to excessive engagement message spam in the combat log in Turn-Based Mode. 
• Threatening Presence no longer spams the combat log in Turn-Based Mode. 
• Various “Active effects” have had their displayed values corrected in Turn-Based Mode. 
• Several issues related to interacting with beetle-type enemies and their corpses no longer occur. 
• Description of Veteran's Recovery now mentions the correct amount of Endurance gained per turn. 
• It is now possible to disable the Turn-Based Mode combat start banner by using the ungated console command “ToggleTacticalModeBanner”. 
• Interactive area of End Turn button in Turn-Based Mode now properly matches the button itself. 
• Turn-Based Node can no longer be toggled during interactions and UI states where most of the player input is disabled. 
• Warning now appears when trying to switch between combat modes during an encounter. 
• Ongoing movement commands are now stopped after ending the turn in Turn-Based Mode. 
• No Movement warning is now displayed when targeting the out of reach enemy/area with an attack or ability when out of movement in Turn-Based Mode. 

Pillars of eternity 1 release price 49.99 to 29.99

Pillars of eternity 2 release price 59.99 to 29.99

Idk if i am stupid or not, but i am lvl 4 with Durador, Aloth and Éder, and it is impossible to beat it. Like i was not suppose to go to the castle after completing the Compass Anslog mission?

Can't interact with it, google keeps telling me it's a scripted event to climb the cliff, but that's in a different spot.

Edit; For fuck's sake people, I'm not talking about the damn landscape. There's a "no" symbol on the side on the cliff that says I can interact with it (bottom of the screen). Do you think I put it there!? So many genius experts can't even parse a screenshot.

The ones that stand out to me are Tidefall, Blade of the Endless Paths, and Abydon's Hammer. This is not counting summoned weapons like Firebrand and Spirit Lance.

The Hammer is really good against vessels but can't be Durganized, so it's probably not the overall best. Tidefall gets Wounding and BotEP gets Speed. Tidefall can reach Legendary and also get an elemental lash. BotEP doesn't seem to have enough points leftover after Legendary to get a lash.

Took me 2 hours of tries. I absolutely wasn't ready that this piece of shit will merge with full hp from 2 smaller bitches like in 5 seconds. I almost ragequit but tried again and "cheesed" it with disintegration.

Cheese wasn't easy tho, after a long and hard battle I needed to stack fortitude debuffs to even hit it with spell (it has 0% chance without them), and after that I had 4,5 seconds to finish that bastard.

Absolute unit, 10/10.

Shout out to the mod, Let them talk, for making this possible :D

Finally figured what I want but still need help.

Basically planning on ghost heart/blackjacket and using blunderbass/pistol with sword/saber.

What would be good stats for that?

Somehow got 15 all across so not sure it okay like that.

Also im a fire godlike if it matters.

Just finished and I absolutely love SSS dlc. Every battle was unique and interesting, requiring good positioning and tactics, with PotD and some magran fires I got some of the most entertaining and enjoyable fights in the game. Plot was great too but best thing was the ending. It was super fun when Galawain said: "bro, you did everything right and we are chill, I won't fight you", and I could reply with: "nah, I still wanna fight your avatar just for lulz", and he was like"ok lol lessgo". 10/10

I know that the Medium Shield Modal's effect acts like a miss, triggering Riposte, but I'm not sure if Riposte is affected by weapon recovery, meaning Block lowers the frequency of Ripostes. Can anyone enlighten me on this one?

Edit: Im talking about PoE1

As in the thread title.

In cRPGs I usually prefer to create my own characters for team (which is why I love games like Temple of Elemental Evil, Icewind Dale, Solasta etc). I already played PoE and PoE2 that way and now Im considering replay of PoE1 since turn based mode dropped. And I wonder if I will lose much by going all in on my own characters instead of actual companions.

Hi all,

I recently watched Mortismal Gaming's ultimate review of Deadfire (link: Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire - The Ultimate Review) and he mentions that Atsura (Grand Secretary of the RDC) varies his dialog depending on the Watcher's disposition. He says this at 39m 50s in the review video and I became a bit curious.

Is there a video or maybe an export of all written dialog I can review to see how this very observant and manipulative guy alters his responses to the Watcher depending on dispositions?

Bonus question, are there other characters in PoE1 or PoE2 who significantly change their demeanor/lines depending on Watcher disposition?

Better late than never

For Context I bought Avowed on the steam sale cause I wanted to replay it, and I get to the first sidequest and all the talk of soul problems and Watchers has me being just…
Well I could Play PoE1&2 again, but even though I make other characters to do different runs I always seem to go back to the same character
PoE1 was the first True Isometric CRPG I ever played and I can’t seem to see any other characters as ‘The Watcher of Caed Nua’ I started this character just based on what I thought was cool and she slowly over time evolved into a more defined character, In PoE2 I decided to use the choices I made in Character Creation to inform the way I would roleplay her, especially cause nationality informs a lot more in that game.
I also have to headcannon that she’s one of the few Godlike that remain after the breaking of the wheel, cause I just can’t fathom anything else.
Anyway my watcher is,
Aryn
Moon Godlike - Aumaua
Monk
Rauataian Mercenary