Eternity Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Pre-Release Thread [BETA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Infinitron]

That's the point, it was in a center of this entire multiclassing concept, now it's just pointless feature bloat.

Eh, not really. We knew about Empower before we knew how multiclassing was going to work and that it was going to work by leveraging the same underlying Power Source mechanic. The two things aren't really conceptually related in any way.

Empower is really just a sort of compensation to "grognards" for the loss of the first game's per-rest resources.

 

[Maculo]

Update #40 - Multiclassing Part II
POSTED: 09/20/2017

Priest

• Berath - Can learn Decay spells from the druid list, cannot learn Condemnation spells. - Cannot multiclass with Bleak Walker, Kind Wayfarer, or Darcozzi paladins.
• Eothas - Can learn Elemental spells from the druid list, cannot learn Protection spells. - Cannot multiclass with Bleak Walker paladins.
• Magran - Can learn Fire spells from the wizard list, cannot learn Restoration spells. - Cannot multiclass with Shieldbearer, Kind Wayfarer, Goldpact, or Darcozzi paladins.
• Skaen - Can learn rogue offensive abilities as priest spells, cannot learn Inspiration spells. - Cannot multiclass with Shieldbearer, Bleak Walker, Kind Wayfarer, or Darcozzi paladins.
• Wael - Can learn Illusion spells from the wizard list, cannot learn Punishment spells. - Cannot multiclass with Shieldbeaer, Kind Wayfarer, or Goldpact paladins.

This is more interesting that I expected for Priests, as each devotion already takes from another class. I am, however, surprised about Eothas subclass. Particularly, the absence of protective spells. By implication, I wonder if the subclass is meant to be more of a damage dealer, especially with the Druid elemental spells. Not that I am complaining, since that is how I played my Priest of Eothas in PoE. Just now I lose the bullshit protection spells

 

[Sentinel]

Why is Eothas's specialization Elemental spells? Isn't he the God or light/birth/dawn? Should be resto imo.

 

[Seari]

This game won't be healthy for me. I have a problem with restarting characters mid playthrough.

 

[Ent]

Why is Eothas's specialization Elemental spells? Isn't he the God or light/birth/dawn? Should be resto imo.

he came back mad and switched his portfolio.

 

[Maculo]

Why is Eothas's specialization Elemental spells? Isn't he the God or light/birth/dawn? Should be resto imo.

That is what I thought, but I guess that title would go to Hylea (the crazy bird lady).

With the elemental spells, it involves lightning and fire spells I suppose. Close enough?

 

[TT1]

Anyone here willing to do the calculation of possible combinations?

 

[Infinitron]

Why is Eothas's specialization Elemental spells? Isn't he the God or light/birth/dawn? Should be resto imo.

That is what I thought, but I guess that title would go to Hylea (the crazy bird lady).

With the elemental spells, it involves lightning and fire spells I suppose. Close enough?

Maybe you're actually a Priest of Gaun, who represents "the cyclic nature of life and the seasons".

 

[Maculo]

It makes sense in a way. The greater surprise is the lack of protective spells. Granted, depending on how Priest spells have changed and what Druid spells the subclass receives (Returning Storm pls), you could lay down some major pain.

 

[Ent]

probably in the 600s if you take out the redundant choices.

 

[Lacrymas]

Eothas seems like a god of everything - light, protection, mercy, hope, life and the cycle thereof, agriculture, the seasons, redemption, Jesus-ness, etc. Agriculture and the seasons should've been Hylea, while Berath should've been the cycle of life.

 

[Infinitron]

He's basically Lathander from the Forgotten Realms.

 

[FreeKaner]

It's like Greek gods many of them overlap.

 

[Prime Junta]

Prestige classes

Get thee away from me Satan

 

[Lacrymas]

Lathander is just the god of vitality/renewal, youth and the dawn (not light). Not everything like Eothas.

 

[Infinitron]

Hmmm.

 

[Lacrymas]

Ok, so its kind of a combination between 3E and 2E.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

55 class combinations with 4 subclasses each makes for 220, minus a few Pala-Priest combos that are blocked.

 

[Prime Junta]

Hmmm.

Hey that's not a bad solution actually. It does let you skew pretty heavily towards one of the classes if you want to. Clever.

 

[santino27]

Hmmm.

I thought the chart made that pretty clear... you only get one point to allocate on the non-power-level-increase levels, so you'd obviously have to pick which class to apply it to

 

[Grunker]

Lathander is just the god of vitality/renewal, youth and the dawn (not light). Not everything like Eothas.

He's also the god of self-perfection, athleticism, birth, creativity and spring. He's not the god of light but he is an aspect of Amaunator who is the god of sunlight

 

[Sentinel]

Hmmm.

You can't change a companion's root class though, right?

 

[jungl]

The priest class always had stupid strong spells. Either the extreme of damage or protective that make hard fights easy. All these kits remind me of baldurs gate 2. With some being particularly op while others for certain classes being whatever.

 

[Lacrymas]

You can't change a companion's root class though, right?

You can if they have 2 different classes to choose from, like Eder. He's both a rogue and a fighter, you can choose both or either. As far as I understood that is.

 

[Sentinel]

Edér rogue... fucking heresy!