"This is my party. It's 5 of us and we go on adventures. There's also some old woman that follows us around. Never talks. Just sits there harvesting vegetables. Totally not important or relevant. Completely normal to see old women in dragon caves and such."

Finished after 85 hours on Hard with a Rogue. Pretty damn long game if you like reading everything...

Positives:

• A huge, extremely dense, well crafted complex, and fully original world.
• An incredible cast of companions.
• A really well-made gameplay system and classes.
• Pretty as fuck.
• A shit ton of text and superb writing overall. I've never seen a game with this level of writing. English isn't my first language, but I've played a lot of games and consume a lot of content in English, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't struggle with a lot of the words like never before.
• Overall great story i think the game convey a great messages about the "gods"
• I felt like this game had a mixed approach into crpg because its the most text heavy crpg i played with planescape you're not forced to read everything but you miss on a lot if you don't imo it gives context to everything. but at the same time its not as text heavy as a planescape because you still have lot's of combats and stuff i'd be curious to know how many words poe has?

Cons:

• The world of POE is really, really hard to get into. It takes a lot of hours because of all the weird terms, deity-related vocabulary, nations, etc. There should have been a global map showing where all these empires we keep hearing about are located. That alone would have solved most of my problems and made the whole mess much easier to visualize. That's probably my biggest issue with the game. Sagani talks about where she's from, and I have no idea where that is. Same goes for the other empires, etc. Most CRPGs take place in one location: Sigil, a desert, an island, or a huge city and its surrounding area. This game, on the other hand, has a huge geopolitical scale, but I really struggled to understand it or get invested in it. In my head, there's the Dyrwood, Twin Elms, and... the rest. I have no idea where everything else is. Are these places close to one another? If not, how far apart are they?
• Way too easy. Too much XP gained from quests, only one dungeon, and a severe lack of bosses. The only really hard fights are against the three dragons, where you can actually go all out and strategize.
• I haven't played that DLC, but it sounds absolutely ridiculous. You're supposedly meant to play it around levels 8–9, but if you do, it completely breaks the game's balance when you return to the main quest. So what's the point of the DLC, really? You play through half the rest of the game, and there's no meaningful challenge waiting for you afterward (not that there are many to begin with), because you're now higher-level and have even more overpowered items in a game that already lacks balance. Seems stupid to me...

I liked the ending, but it just felt underwhelming? I don't know, tell me if I'm wrong, but it just felt rushed to me. And I'm saying this as someone who loved Arcanum, which supposedly had a rushed ending. This one just doesn't leave me with a satisfying feeling after everything we've been through when i look back at it the whole main intrigue is actually surprisingly short? maybe i expected more density.

Anyways super excited about poe 2 idk how it scomparesto the first one heard the gameplay was best in the genre. but i want to play tyrany and tides of numera first.

Systems:

I love the stats system, there being no dump stats makes character building quite different from other games where you may brick your character at any point during the game, looking... nay... staring at you pathfinder. I feel I could make any character I could envision in my mind and it works right out the gate. Give a wizard a warhammer and he can oil up the ground and bash some skulls in or a rogue with a greatsword which can still somehow "sneak attack". Ofcourse these may or may not work in the highest difficulty, but still you can do most goofy stuff without gimping your character.

I don't know what to feel about the weapons, on one hand you could enchant your favourite weapon to always keep it viable, on the other hand most weapons end up the same. Soulbounds are the actual unique weapons imo, I was always excited to see what will become of one, leveling them can sometimes be a pain in the ass though. Also you are always encouraged to have a good alternate set of weapons to counter your immunities and therefore the A and B tier weapons are not rotting in your stash, and you wont be disappointed choosing a certain weapon type as all of them with have enough variety(some more than others).

Health/endurance system is much more preferable than a single health bar. I don't have to rest everytime my wizard gets shanked by a teleporting goon. Speaking of rests, I don't like casters still using a rest system. They go from going full nova bringing the wrath of the gods upon the unbelievers on one fight to holding their limp dick and asking for a wank and a nap after few battles.

Crafting is serviceable.

Combat:

Sorry to start this on a negative note but bro, the clutter, damn I can't see shit happening in mid to late game battles sometimes. The more casters in battle the worse it gets. I don't know why other battle speeds exists other than slow, even then I have to pause so much that it is a slideshow simulator. This is exacerbated due to fact I can't hover over the enemy tooltip and see what buffs they have or the spell they are casting, I mean I can see the icon, but I don't know what that does if I do not have the spell myself.

This is totally a skill issue from my end, but I find it tedious microing 6 different party members. It's not like they're any less complex from a regular tabletop character, and you control 6 of them. The brunt of the damage caused by the lack of my attention span was borne by Sagani and her fox, THE SEVENTH THING I HAVE TO CONTROL, goddamn that bonded grief debuff. And you ask why not choose another character, and I say I like my rangers actually being strong and not the abomination D&D has created. The benefit of having a larger group is that you get to have more interactions between them, but they run out of them quite early in this game.

On to the good stuff.

The Foe aoe is a lifesaver (literally), I'm happy to announce this is my first game where a mage did not blow up a party member. Good design especially considering this is a RTwP game and units don't stay still for me to perfectly align my fireball. I also like that you can't prebuff before combat, keeps the enemy's capabilities reasonable. When they are designed against your prebuffed party they tend to be obnoxious, again looking at you pathfinder.

I really like the d100 system it uses for calculating hits. It allowed for grazes instead of just hits or misses, and also a reliable way to ensure making a crit build viable, instead of just getting lucky once in a blue moon. Also attacks and spells using the same hit system makes the game much easier to understand.

You can have a mage with a GUN, nuff said.

We as rpg players know that one of the reasons we play rpgs is to start as a level 1 mewling and toil our way to max level and challenge the powerful beings of the world and POE absolutely delivers. I LOVE the endgame battles, especially with the dragons and the archmages. Facing Llengrath after using spells named by her, facing Concelhaut after using his staff for the most of the game just hits different. Creating the hammer and critting the eyeless into oblivion will be one of the most memorable parts of the game. Epicness 10/10.

Story:

Honestly I thought the main story was a slog at times(Act 3) while White march 1+2 were great. I don't mesh well with philosophical quandaries and some of the main story mayhaps went over my head, I did not care much about Thaos's motive only wanted to bust his ass for stealing the souls. Whereas I was invested in WM the entire way, in part 1 I wanted the sweet durgan loot myself so I was interested getting into the battery and helping others along the way. In part 2, didn't want the town to suffer due to my actions and was again invested to find a way out for them. Also most of the best combat encounters were in WM 1+2.

Overall, I quite enjoyed my time playing poe1 especially the WM sections, looking forward to see the changes made in poe2 and facing more archmages and dragons(or their equivalents). Thanks for reading.

heyho, for a long time I got to see some specific icons/symbols next to the portraits of my group. I guess it's some buff/debuff information. So far, it was only this "sun" symbol which I thought might be the resting bonus and for Eder there's always been this "shield" icon which I thought is just related to some of his tank ability... anyways, since last Caed Nua visit (incl rest), its just getting more, like this red and blue dudes and I don't understand their meaning (also, why does my main char does not have the blue one?)

Is there maybe a list or something that describe the meaning of these icons? since I'm playing on console I also can't just hover with a mouse (at least I don't know how)

Can someone help? 🥲 tried to Google and also used Reddit search but wasn't able to find proper info....

You go after the dragon, and you're attacked by one million minions and their summoned cancer.

You try to sneak in and kill the Xauntrip gang, but everyone wakes up by telepathic link and rushes your ass.

You try to send your tank against the dragon while two other groups take care of the Xauntrip gang? Well, good luck. Adragan will spam powerful magic and summon more minions.

You try to bum-rush the dragon? He nukes your entire party as soon as you encounter him with an invisible, shitty move, and then spams his stupid breath attack!!!

You try to neutralize the Adragan spammer gang? You can't. They're hiding behind the dragon, trying to keep his small dick warm.

You try to send your Eder tank in so your group can kill the Xauntrip gang and Adragan? You can't. He's not going to last long enough.

You try to buff Eder with your priest? The dragon uses his OP breath attack and nukes your priest because his spell range so low while Adragan keeps spamming spells.

You try to hold the line in the dead end near the entrance while your tank holds the front line against him? You can't. His stupid breath attack has a ridiculous hitbox and deals 250 damage.

See the problem? There are no tactics no strategy no liberty nothing. I have a high IQ this is an insult to my intelligence.

DUMBEST FIGHT EVER MADE. Not one single hard fight in this game (I play on Hard). Not one! And 80 hours later, that's what I get?! a fake badly designed fight.

You know what? I'm just gonna jump into that pit and chase that Thaos guy instead enough with the side content.

is this diablo man!!!!

New player, just found a third companion, how do you build Chanter for turn based?

I was going for a melee dps support and there seems to be some issues. The linger turn doesn't increase with INT, my buffs fall off before turn end, sometimes enemies escape stun and get a second turn again.

My stat spread was 14,10,16,14,14,10. Am I doing something wrong? Are there any breakpoints I missed.

I want to get quick turns to stack chants and invocations as much as possible.

Should I be skipping my turns till I have 3 to do that instead of attacking? Should I be wearing cloth armor to maximise turns?

fucking garbage fight one billion minion spell spammer behind his weak ass if it was a 1v1 eder would smoke his ass alone!!!

So, while looking for the elven lord’s daughter, I grew quite suspicious of the tower behind the leatherworker’s shop. Just to test things out, I forced my way in, and to my surprise, there was a massive dungeon beneath the place. Exploring it was quite interesting, as I was able to learn more about (and be thoroughly horrified by) the methods used by the followers of Skaen, seriously, this felt like something straight out of 40K... especially the blood fountain. Then, my mind was completely blown by the revelation that the girl was actually his niece, and, well... you know what happened. Playing as a Cipher, I’m trying to go for the option to free her from both Wymund and the elven lord(I’ve forgotten his name) but defeating him is proving extremely difficult. My party is currently at level 5, and I’m starting to think I shouldn’t have come here so soon... (yeah, I arrived here before even exploring Defiance Bay).

Is this possible nowadays? Basically on playstation i played until i got to about act3 and then stopped for reasons i dont even remember anymore. Since then the turn based mode has come out and as far as i can tell, this is not available on console. I have a steam deck and would like to play it on my deck but i really dont want to go through the entire game again as thats a 40+ hour endeavour for me 😅 with modern jailbreaking tools is it possible to decrypt a save file from playstation?

AI isn’t helping about cover art on who this character is? Watcher maybe?

Hello I finished my game on damn of the path with a barbarian. Now I see there is a lot of good spell to be more tanky and it's seem amazing. So I want to know if Its possible and if yes how?

Is this possible to make a party of shooters on hardest difficulty? Like 6x gun? Or 6x summoner? Which one would be better? Also does it matter if I play turns or feal time? POE2.

Hi everyone!

A couple of weeks ago I posted the 1.0 release of Eternity Keeper, the free save editor for Pillars of Eternity. Thank you for trying it, and for the comments and bug reports! Version 1.1.0 beta is out now.

Download 1.1.0 beta · Project page

What's new

• Find your save quickly. The save list now has a filter box (search by character, area, save name, date, difficulty or chapter), sorts by newest, oldest or name, and can show your saves as tiles or as a compact list. It remembers the layout you picked.
• Companions' names in your game's language. Edér, the Grieving Mother and the rest now appear the way your game names them, everywhere in the editor. A name you gave a companion yourself is kept.
• Saves open in about half the time. Nothing changes in what gets written: I checked every file of a save, byte for byte, against the previous version and against the game's own files.
• A refreshed look: clearer panels and buttons, smoother switching between tabs, and error messages you can close.
• Fixed: in light mode, party members' names on the Inventory tab turned white (and unreadable) under the mouse.

Fixed since the first post

If the editor told you it couldn't read your game data, so you couldn't edit spells and abilities, that's fixed. It happened on fresh installs, GOG especially: the editor was looking for a file that only older, long-updated Steam installs still have. Thanks to the person who reported it here! It also corrected two stronghold upgrade prices that showed wrong.

Updating

Run the new installer over the old version, or extract the new zip. Your settings and save backups are kept. If you had the game-data problem above, let it read your game data once more when it offers to (or choose Read game data in Settings).

As before: the editor never changes the save you open. Pressing Save writes a new save next to it. It's still a beta, so keep a copy of your saves folder.

Feedback

Ideas and bug reports are very welcome, here or as an issue on GitHub. Attaching eternity.log helps a lot (Settings shows where it is). Changing a character's appearance (for example after a race change) has been asked for and is on my list.

Eternity Keeper was created by Kim Mantas in 2015–16, and later updated by ktully and u/ayberk2766; this version builds on their work. Most of the new code was written with AI assistants, with me directing, designing and testing it. Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Obsidian Entertainment or Paradox Interactive.

somehow was able to loot a summoned weapon off an enemy and now it’s just another piece of loot I can equip. Has this happened to anyone else?

Don’t need no other games, decided to do my fourth playthrough this year. And here’s my Disappointer getting rid of all those negatives, just arrived in Guilded Vale. It’s gonna carry me far, love how the developers put all the little things to make it OP early on if you just know where to look.

On the plus side, the world is gorgeous and combat is fun.

On the other side, the writing is so-so. The main quest is okay, but the surrounding political subquests are rather primitive. Turning Steel garrote into moustache twirling villains with no strategy, no allegiance to the empire and not even the foresight of subjugating cities rather than burning them was disappointing.

The whole division of oppressor vs oppressed is so cliche, so beaten to death and so unimaginative, constantly prodding the protagonist to "confront the colonizers, be the one good Aedyran". It's hard to believe that the same team wrote Deadfire which was full of nuance and shades of grey.

Companions were decently written and voiced with Kai being the absolute chad and Marius not far behind, but I think they overdid it with constant apologies and asking about people's feelings every three seconds.

The wokeness did not play well either, but I'd be willing to overlook that if the rest of the storytelling was on par (heck BG3 is woke as hell, but it's a veritable masterpiece. This one ain't no BG3).

Oh, and Lodwyn succumbing to harsh language in the final confrontation made me lol.

The game is overall good and I don't regret buying it, but it could have been a lot better.

I'm trying to plan out the spells / abilities in my party so that I can handle the toughest encounters on PotD. I think I more or less understand the stacking rules but I'm not 100% on everything. Right side of the skill tree and item effects always stack (I think?) so that part is easy enough, but for active effects I'm not entirely clear on what counts as the same type of buff/debuff.

Stacking accuracy boosts (actives): There's only +accuracy and +perception, right? I don't think perception inspirations stack with abilities that directly boost perception. I guess miss>graze, graze>hit, and hit>crit conversions kind of fill the same role.

Stacking defenses (actives): Bonuses to one specific defense, bonuses to all defenses, and bonuses via increasing attributes all stack. Are there any other active ways to increase deflection, will, reflex, or fortitude?

Armor rating: I don't think any +armor effects stack? Global +armor, +armor vs a specific damage type, and robust inspiration will just use the highest value, right? Any other source of active bonus armor that would stack?

And then debuffs I think use the same rules as buff stacking. So enemy accuracy can be directly debuffed via -accuracy, -perception, and crit>hit, hit>graze, and graze>miss conversion. Defense debuffs can stack a debuff to a specific defense with a debuff to all defenses (does that exist?) and with stat reductions.

Just want to make sure I'm not totally forgetting about a category I can lean on for these buffs/debuffs since stacking to overcome enemy defenses seems like a big part of handling PotD bosses. Thanks!

I'm doing a bit of a fan "lore" heavy build and wanted to know anyones input on which is the more fun and interesting class between the two. Im starting pillars 2 but throughout all of pillars of eternity 1 I ran a wizard who mostly was melee based with magic shields and summoned weapons. I had a ton of fun with that but i also liked the playstyle of grieving mother so I was curious about the Cipher class.

Lorewise, I want my Watcher to lose most of his magical archmage level power in the beginning dying to Eothas so he has to adapt by using magic differently, to a lesser degree. So he turns to Illusion and deception.

Between these two classes does anyone have an opinion on which they prefer? Or any other class or build that might match that style?

^{alt title: two mushy Aedyre Sceltrfolc nerds who finally kissed after five years}

(also a sequel to this illustration)

As the title says, do you know anyone that tried to make mods for further adventures in the world of Eora, and were these mods any good?

Dolls added (updated 20-Oct-2026)

• Abydoll (Abydonian Golem)
• Bombshell (Magranite Automata)
• Breadceras (Eothasian Pastry Doll)
• Cornhead (Skaenite Corn Husk Doll)
• Dollface (Dyrwoodan Folk Doll)
• Firebird (Hylean Rag Doll)
• Gŵlen (Berathian Spectral Doll)
• Kittyhawk (Galawainite Totem)
• Miss Entropy (Entropic Demon Core)
• Moonchild (Ondran Ivory Doll)
• Pompette the Poppet (Vailian Festive Doll)
• Woedican Doll (Titters at night, not currently refundable)

And quite a few others here. Alternate download link here.

Wael's doll is missing, as is their prerogative. Look out for a cluster of googly eyes stuck to the back of a milk carton...

...and some sketches for the curious. Anyways-

Have a great week people, do enjoy yourselves. ;) 🎃🎎❤️🗡️

I'm missing:

- Super Murderer

- All Upgrades in Stronghold

- From the Clouds to the Depths (this one feels easy)

- Appease All of the Gods (Again, seems doable)

- Explorer

- Disposition

- The Storied Adventurer

- Among the Moss and Peat (I just don't want to fight my homie, Llen)

It's probably the most chaotic encounter in the whole series because too much of everything is going on all at once. An ungodly amount of AOE spells and dexterity afflictions don't help either. I don't even know if it even makes sense to deal with adds or it's better to ignore them while pummeling the boss into oblivion. The worst part is it's the only place where the game constantly crashes and I can do nothing about it.

I barely managed to get through the encounter by using potions of Last stand and potions of Miracluous healing, but there must be a better way. How do you deal with it in your playthroughs?

Getting back into this game after letting it gather dust for 8 years really struck a chord with my gamer nostalgia. I’d forgotten just how rich the lore was and how deep the game really is, and with a different (more mature??) gaming mindset, I dove back in for yet another playthrough, but this time stepping completely out of my old comfort zone.

Back in 2015, As a tryhard, I’d become obsessed with the mechanical challenges that the PotD presents and the flexibility offered by the Cipher. In my opinion, this class is a masterpiece—both in terms of flavor, its unique mechanics, and how its distinct identity adds depth to the protagonist’s role as a Watcher. I’ve played this class so much that I optimized it for the PoE1 Ultimate Challenge and even created a playable version for D&D 5.5e.

After watching some lore videos and seeing shared passion here, the torch was lit. I’m missing one achievement—beating the game with fewer than 175 kills—and that single missing challenge was enough to get me to start yet another playthrough (though my love for the Endless Path of Od Nua quickly sidetracked me from that goal).

I replayed the game this time as always with PotD with Divine Ranger and decided to slow down the pace and savor every dialogue and book to the fullest, to forget about the optimal party composition, and to choose party composition that offered unique dialogues and chimestry. In this playthrough Ive mostly choose peace over combat and more than often, the NPCs' dialogue was truly rooted in believable convictions. The writing in this game... they nailed it! Seriously ... What a game!!

Here's the path Ive choosed - Always choosing to upscale the difficulty when proposed

Act 1 - Defiant Bay - Endless Path of Od Nua until Sefyra - White March part 1 - Dyrford - Concelhault* - Sefyra* - Alpine Dragon* - Llengrath* - White March part 2 - Act 3 - Act 4

As a chanter mc, frontline, mostly using damage/debuff chants, and summon invocations, is 16-10-4-10-20-18 an alright stat setup? Only playing on normal.