Pillars Of Eternity Series

I’m partway through the first game on XSX and love it for its similarities to Baldur’s Gate, Divinity Original Sin, etc.

That said, I’ve not touched it for months, and it’s good old “Will I remember what to do, or even how to play?” that’s holding me back.

I never found it unnecessarily difficult: the learning curve seemed elegant enough.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on!

I picked up PoE 2 (Deadfire?) a few months ago and haven't made much progress. I find the combat pretty tough too: one fight early one where I'm outnumbered and the enemy had ranged weapons took me several attempts to finally get lucky enough to win. Could be a party composition thing where I've got two magic users and one brawler.

That said, I recently bought Baldurs Gate 2 and suck at that: Minsc is already dead and I've not even escaped the dungeon.

There are some situations where you can go "the wrong direction" and end up somewhere "too early", and then combat will be very hard there. So if you went somewhere off the main path and get wrecked, just load a previous save and return there later, when you are more experienced and have better gear.

That said, the combat is VERY tactical, and the same fights can vary from almost impossible to piece of cake, depending on how you apply all the different tools you have available. It's tempting to just go for the damage spells when skilling your wizard, but a well applied charm or stun can be way more effective. Also, use the terrain to your advantage. Stay in a room with most of your group, send a single sneaking scout ahead, then let him reveal himself, run back and pull the enemies into the room and block the door with your tankiest warrior.

If it's still too hard, there are lots of different difficulty modes. Git gud or turn down the difficulty.

What's your party setup? If you are a second row character, and don't let Eder join you in Gilded Vale, it can become pretty hard to do the Stronghold just with Aloth, Durance and Kana. You could try to equip Kana for frontline fighting, Chanters can be good at it, if properly skilled.

The first game can be bastard hard early on without a good team balance for sure. I remember banging my head against it for quite a while before it clicked. Smoother sailing to come after you get over the hump though.

I seem to remember kiting bad guys and picking them off was useful rather than just bundling everyone into a ruck.

Eeeeexcellent. Sounds like you're properly on track now. Enjoy!

After this point I found it didn't get frustratingly hard again until the DLC - it's challenging, but not maddening. I had to up my game massively for the DLC, however.

This thread made me get back into PoE 2 after a 9 months break. Was able to pick it up like I just dropped it yesterday. No idea why I avoided it for so long, it's still excellent.

I am still on my 2 year long playthrough of poe1.

Only recently reached act 3 with wm1 and wm2 completed in full.
All characters are maxed level. Even with increased difficulty in act 3 I'm still overpowered. Can take on boss fights unprepared now.

It's huge game and soo much lore. Don't know when I will ever play poe2.







Yeah. The game can be unforgiving but I found out that in dungeon with 2 companions the issue is approach not just the game difficulty

By using power ups and certain weapons over another fights can be so much easier.


In early levels you dont have much options tough, and nor much info on what works or not so there is some try and fail before figuring stuff works

I played as wizard so I gave crossbow to Edgar who engaged in sneak against enemy and then me and the other mage slaps enemy with range standard attacks. Then that magic attack one can use twice per fight while Edgar switches to sword and shield fighting all in short range.

Magic to backup in case enemy is strong.

Then sleep to get life back and spells.

Very slowly step by step.

Who the fuck is Edgar?

Now I want an RPG where you hunt a misogynist cult, Red Pillers of Eternity.

Try the slightly lame reggae-ish spin-off, Chaka Demus and Pliers of Eternity. Quite chill.

You have to consider four things:
1. The general item type (with respect to armors, look at general DR and recovery penalty, ignore individual DR for cut/slash/pierce etc.)
2. Few enchantments can be crafted by the player, most only come on unique items
3. Enchantments have a "size", which determines how much of the limited "space" they reserve on an item
4. Enchantments can in general not be removed. Some can be replaced with better versions of the same type

That said, most of the unique starting armors are pretty good and quite fitting for their owners. Eder's is maybe a bit light for a front line tank, and Durance can profit more from Blaidh Golan, a unique hide armor that gives stun and prone resistance. But the rest of the starting armors can be kept and upgraded in my opinion.

I don't think I ever noticed the fatigue element on that. I guess I always just considered other options more directly helpful.