Eternity Pillars of Eternity + The White March Expansion Thread

[Brancaleone]

I have over 350 hours in my completionist playthrough of PoE [...] uninteresting combat

riiiiiiight

My "build" was ensured to be viableeee!

Basically, if you have less than X hours in PoE, you have no right to say that combat is uninteresting because you haven't played it enough. If you have more than X hours in it, you have no right to say that combat is uninteresting, because if it were, you wouldn't have spent so many hours in it.

I humbly suggest for next time to put the "for research purposes" disclaimer just after the hour count.

 

[Grunker]

 

[Kem0sabe]

Arguments that atractive people can't be adventurers, that atractive people don't exist in the real world, that these fan portraits are almost porn...

Fucking degenerates.

 

[Sizzle]

My wife has a completionist playthrough as Monk. She started on PotD but eventually got so fed up with the uninteresting combat, that from Act 3 she just switched to Story time, because she was too overleveled (without playing TWM) and tired of killing trashmobs with repetitive strategy.

You can't change PoTD in-game. Did she start over, or somehow console that in?

 

[Parabalus]

My wife has a completionist playthrough as Monk. She started on PotD but eventually got so fed up with the uninteresting combat, that from Act 3 she just switched to Story time, because she was too overleveled (without playing TWM) and tired of killing trashmobs with repetitive strategy.

You can't change PoTD in-game. Did she start over, or somehow console that in?

You can drop lower but can't switch (back) to PoTD.

 

[Lacrymas]

"Almost porn", lol. So, this is how the initial hearings for establishing the ESRB were justified.

 

[Sacred82]

Arguments that atractive people can't be adventurers, that atractive people don't exist in the real world, that these fan portraits are almost porn...

Fucking degenerates.

it's more like ugly people can't be adventurers, isn't it?

Look at the ration of Hollywood character portraits vs. realistic portraits.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The social justice warrior in gaming latest predicament: "How do I combat people's innate desire to be beautiful? There has to be some way to dissuade them, make them lower the bar, and accept my looks as normal"

 

[Sacred82]

The social justice warrior in gaming latest predicament: "How do I combat people's innate desire to be beautiful? There has to be some way to dissuade them, make them lower the bar, and accept my looks as normal"

case closed motherfuckers.


Pretty little dwarves and dual wielding human beauty queens with fancy hats? Give me a fucking break.

If anything, there's more SJW in that kind of thing than anything. Oh noes, ugly reality breaking into muh RPG safe space.

 

[AwesomeButton]

There is no paradox here. Both are tropes, and in the eyes of the man/womyn/sth who is on a crusade, both have to be smashed - dwarves should be beautiful, and female fighters should be ugly.

 

[Sacred82]

There is no paradox here. Both are tropes, and in the eyes of the man/womyn/sth who is on a crusade, both have to be smashed - dwarves should be beautiful, and female fighters should be ugly.

There are probably more normal looking Dwarves than ugly ones in CRPG history, but ok, point taken.

I advocated for some realistic/ ugly PC and NPC portraits during PoE's development, but the chances were slim from the beginning.

Anyway, Mirke still looks better by a few margins than most non-celebrity SJW's, and Rekke is at least a disfigured male, if still good looking.


Tekehu is a fucking disgrace though, and as a chanter no less. You can't look at that smug bastard without thinking "money and bitches".

 

[Lacrymas]

We should have more RPGs in which we play disfigured characters, the only one we have now is VtMB playing as a Nosferatu. Dark Sun with the insect people, too, I guess? Hell, base an entire RPG around ugliness and disfigurement as themes and overall aesthetic.

 

[Sizzle]

Tekehu is a fucking disgrace though, and as a chanter no less. You can't look at that smug bastard without thinking "money and bitches".

The guy looks pretty gay (or at least bi). But that could be just due to his default "sassy" pose.

 

[Dorateen]

I'm much better looking than Korgan Bloodaxe.

 

[Ninjerk]

I'm much better looking than Korgan Bloodaxe.

 

[Sacred82]

bros I need some math/ grog advice

I'm going to run a Fire Godlike Darcozzi Paladin tank. She's gonna have a high Constitution and be wearing the heaviest armor and have a defensive aura to synergize with her racial bonus. Dual wielding light weapons seems to be the way to go in this case, specifically I'll go dagger+rapier and dual maces. Which of these stats would be better for her:

15 Might, 19 Con, 14 Dex

or

18 Con, 20 Dex


I'm not a min-maxer on Paladins, I like them to be versatile. Also no healing, she'll use Flames of Devotion. Thx

 

[Lacrymas]

Paladins have absurd defenses and don't need high CON. Go for max Might and max DEX. I also wouldn't go for Fire Godlike, as it requires you to be at 50% HP, which a Paladin tank will almost never be at. What you are describing better fits a Monk tbh. A dual-wielding, high CON, Fire-like character.

 

[Sacred82]

Paladins have absurd defenses and don't need high CON. Go for max Might and max DEX. I also wouldn't go for Fire Godlike, as it requires you to be at 50% HP, which a Paladin tank will almost never be at. What you are describing better fits a Monk tbh. A dual-wielding, high CON, Fire-like character.

uhm yeah but that's a completely different character, isn't it

I've never finished PoE but I've run a lot of parties and I wanna try a character like I've described, just not completely gimped.

edit: The reason why I want her to be a paladin is defensive aura tbh. I'm also running a melee rogue and I want him to have Zealous Focus and the DR thing on him most of the time.

 

[Lacrymas]

Then create a custom Paladin that has Zealous Endurance, but it's better to go for Zealous Focus. What you are describing sounds pretty gimped in the context of a Paladin and almost pointless since you'll almost never be at 50% HP as a Paladin tank. Unless you gimp your tankiness for no reason. If you want a dual-wielding, high CON tank who best utilizes the Fire-like racial, go for Monk. Paladin tanks are boring to play because they are slow, don't have great Accuracy and can't utilize the damage abilities they have very well. Here's an off-tank build that is better at what you want it to be.

 

[Sacred82]

bro

be a bro and just answer the question bro

 

[Lacrymas]

That is my answer - none of them, lol. Literally both of them are equally gimped and there won't be a discernible difference. Either way, I'd go with the high DEX one, at least you'll use your abilities in a slightly more reasonable time-frame. I'd drop CON and raise MIG, though.

 

[Ulfhednar]

bro

be a bro and just answer the question bro

That was a pretty good answer - you shouldn't need more than 12 CON for paladin front-liner. Anything more than that is a complete waste of stat points, even on PotD. You want to stack accuracy and stack afflictions on enemies.

 

[Sacred82]

Either way, I'd go with the high DEX one, at least you'll use your abilities in a slightly more reasonable time-frame.

by abilities I assume you mean exhortations? It's not like the paladin has a lot of other active abilities.

bro

be a bro and just answer the question bro

That was a pretty good answer - you shouldn't need more than 12 CON for paladin front-liner. Anything more than that is a complete waste of stat points, even on PotD. You want to stack accuracy and stack afflictions on enemies.

In most of my parties fights drag on a bit and my tanks definitely go below 50% Endurance. Lol, gg, u gun get raped etc.


Ok let me put the question differently bros, maybe that'll help with your autism.

It's a DPS question, let's say you'd have to decide between going very high Dex or medium Might and medium Dex on a front liner in heavy armor dual wielding light weapons. And yes I know true spergs can only differentiate between 0 DPS tanks and 0 defense DPS characters. Just roll with it as a mental exercise.

 

[Lacrymas]

If you are going for DPS, then that's a completely different thing. Drop DEX to 10 and raise MIG and INT. Everything else at 10. Still wouldn't go Fire-like.

 

[Sacred82]

If you are going for DPS, then that's a completely different thing. Drop DEX to 10 and raise MIG and INT. Everything else at 10. Still wouldn't go Fire-like.

So you're saying Might is more important by far than Dex on light weapons?

I really can't see how Int would result in higher DPS on a Paladin though