Obsidian should have enabled the slow combat mode by default. Damage and endurance depletion for your characters can quickly take a downturn even on normal speed.

Just finished the game and I am glad I can move on to other games. The hundreds of damage types, status effects, weapon types etc. were pissing me off. Using stiletto or dagger? Looked in the forums, both suck. Using swords or axes or flails or whatever... Wands VS. rods, VS whatever VS ten other weapon types - those endless choices were getting on my nerves. The characters which joined my party, had stupid talents activated when they joined my party, had to reskill them. Except for aloth, because yeah, losing all my spells just to reset his skills? Seriously? Some dungeons are so tiny that my party members were blocking each other and only 2 could fight front line, while the others were doing NOTHING, or running around like nut cases. The game does not care to notify you that your wizard spell won't trigger because the wizard cannot get close enough to the enemy line, the spell is simply ignored and the wizard is doing nothing, great. I know that this can be used for my advantage, but with a party of SEVEN characters (incl. ranger's animal) navigating the fights was a nightmare. The fights were either way too easy or slightly crazy (like adra dragon wiping out my party with one attack - great balance, while on another try i simply rushed the dragon and killed him, even before his minions could come to his aid.) The automatic fighting programming is so bad, that I switched it off, but then sometimes in a battle it was so messed up, I did not even see that there was an enemy left, because he was standing somewhere behind/between my characters and in manual mode my party just passively watches how they are attacked? The priest spells are so messed up - when a party member was confused/charmed etc. I literally needed a few minutes to find the right spell to stop that effect since they are all spread all over the different spell levels, with no order. Or I tried clicking on one of my characters and the game won't let me, because of some status effect, which is shown with such a little icon, that someone needs to have binoculars to see it. Then, when it comes to story, I don't mind reading some dialogue/text, but this game - I got tired of reading and wondered why some passages are read by voices and others are not, very messed up. Also I remember trying to make sense of the gold plate characters visions, spend a lot of time reading those, until I read on the Internet that these messages are useless and have nothing to do with the game. In general, this game is impossible to play without consulting a guide on the net and then spending dozens of hours just learning about the damage types, and whatever else. Like finding out after 20 hours in game, that gear does not stack up, making the equipment selection a total mess and very unintuitive. Or that you cannot finish the Endless Path if you chose the wrong option with Maerwald. Great storydesign, great for people who have played this game a hundred times, but horrible for newbies. (Like you want to increase Might on a fighter and since [e.g.] his armor already has Might 3 all the other items are worthless. Combined this with a bug, in which I taught a character one of these defensive talents against being charmed etc. and it did not show up in the character screen at all. I reloaded and it worked fine, but had I not noticed, I would have wasted the talent on literally nothing. In a nutshell: What is so fun about a game, which gives you a headache to learn all the intricate mechanics, reading dozens of forum threads to learn, which effects stack and which don't etc. etc.

PS: And then having a guide on the forums, since not everyone knows what CC, EP, and whatever shortcuts these people in the forums use, really mean. Looks like some people who love these games are so much into their own bubble, that they don't even notice that half of what they write is unreadable for someone new to the genre (and I have already successfully played DAO before, so at least I knew the basics of these games - feels good to use shortcuts, lol ...)

@@diekritischestimme you're bitching about having too much stuff 🤣 to each their own. I'm in heaven with this game and don't know anything yet

I've been playing for over 10 hours and this video is still going right over my head 🙃

Everyone uses avery atreibute. That was the design intention.

And Perception is the attribute for your tank. Take everything in other games and turn it upside down.

Remember those old CRPG games? Yeah, I do, you do, but WE as a whole most likely have no inkling of knowledge about those archaic games. So, today that won't apply as a lot of the players are not familiar with ole D&D rules

Yes, I also ubbed!

@@dima97 ha ha.

@@awoken8infinite XD

I have just started the game but interested to know why so many hours? Do you replay with different builds?

@@davidrobinson8954 I’ve played through three times and I am a completionist. And many times I did start over until I found out you could respec your character in -game. Plus it’s kind of a go to when I get in an indecisive mood. IMHO this game has one of the best prologues I’ve played in a crpg. Of course it loses its shock value after the first time.

Hitman Barnes u play on ps4?

no mate pc, i do have a ps4 tho but use it mainly for bloodborne.

Keep in mind the game has been rebalanced significantly since this video was made

Glad it helped!

It’s infuriating because the loss is role play. In an old school role playing game. I can’t get past the stat checking. It breaks the game so badly as far as immersive role play. Tf is my wizard stronger than my barbarian? How heavy are those books?

Ha! Yes for sure - me too.

The stat system is a total mess. What helps more against being charmed for instance? Raising your Will? Or your reflex (since it is AoE in many cases?)? Or choosing a defensive talent against those? Or does might help? Even after like 20 hours in the game I still had to read all the info-boxes about these stats, because I didn't get it. It's also weird I can only upgrade those useless skills like lore or survival on characters, but not the important main attributes like Might. In the end I stopped using those points or put all of them into athletics, since that is the only stat which affects fighting a little bit, boosting the second wind ability. Then later I watch some pros finishing the game on hardest difficulty with a single character and putting completely different stats on their rogue, because they ignore dex for a rogue and go for 0% attack speed delay etc. or they just put resolve on zero, because rogue has bad deflection anyway (makes no sense what I write, just trying to show how weird and confusing the whole system is).

Yes, that wasn't initially the case and introduced far after I made this guide. It's very important now, certainly.

@@haasgaming I recommend you sticky/pin this comment.

TareOm Yeah, definitely. Wear the light armor, enchant it with stats, but don't bother with the medium and heavier armor. Too much of an action speed hit.

That is going to depend on your class of course. Take for instance a ranged Cipher or Wizard, I'd recommend 18 might, 3 con, 18 dex, 18 intelligence or at least something that approaches that min-max range. For dialogue, I'd say take 14 in the stat you want to pass at least the basic checks on. With my Wizard, for instance, I decided to go 14 resolve purely to pass some of the dialogue. If you do go 18-3-18-18, you'll have perception and resolve at 10 with 1 point to spare. You could quite easily reduce some of either and put enough into the other (I don't believe there are attribute 10 dialogue checks so you should be good lowering those).

Ged The Esper Generally speaking if you want to make the most out of your dialogues you want to concentrate on Resolve, Intelligence and Perception, possibly in that order, making a defensive Paladin a perfect fit for your first playthrough imo, since you can easily ignore Might and Dex, and even Con isn't that much of a big deal, with a decent healer, which you should have anyway. However keep in mind, that secondary skills also play a major role, and then there's backgrounds and choices in the game themselves, so your adventure might well look different than mine. That being said, there's more than enough content to warrant a second or third playthrough with different approaches, so don't bother being concerned with missing anything, simply enjoy the ride, it is a good one after all. =)

Thanks guys. I'll be playing a Priest on my first run. I'll drop the Con down and make sure The recommended skills are nice and high. Probably need to give Perception a miss though. How important is Dex for a Priest?

In terms of defense it is entirely useless. However DEX also contributes to your action speed. So the more DEX you have, the more you can heal, and the less your party has to suffer. So in short, don't treat DEX as a dumpstat ! To me the priest fits best into the glasscannon-mage category, in that it's rather hard to fit in dialogue-related attributes. However, that's not a bad thing, that's just what your character is then. Also, i forgot to mention, just because you have the option to rely on an attribute check, doesn't always mean you should use it. Not to spoil too much for you, but sometimes it's best to go with the generic options, although sometimes it's just more fun to be "in character" and do the "wrong" thing. Confused yet ? Good, now go and enjoy yourself =) Oh, and skipping on CON and PER is the right call for a priest, i'd say, so don't worry, it will work out fine.

Cheers man :D Dropping Con and Per it is.

RoDilllV Normally, the damage reduction of a monster to any type is listed next to "DR". In this case the Ogre Druid has a flat 10 damage reduction. This will count for everything, unless it's specifically mentioned. So it also says "Freeze: 20", "Corrode: 5" meaning for those two types it's different with a high resilience against freeze and a low resilience against corrode damage types. So fire, in this case, they take regular damage from.

***** Ohhhh ok thanks man. Nice guide btw, helped me out :)

***** Yeah. Every skill point you don't spend it saved for the next level.

***** Thank you for confirmation :)

Lol, was playing divinity original sin 2 on pc with a controller and I found an item exploit that doesn’t work on kb&m.

Hold trigger, select skill, then press x to unpause the game. Do not select A.

Where are you having trouble? Make sure you have at least 4+ characters in your party as soon as possible. You get 3 of them in the first town area (wizard, fighter, cleric) and can easily create/hire 2 more at the tavern. Read up on different classes to see which ones you should have. I hired a rogue and paladin. In the options, set combat speed to slow, and make sure your characters use their special abilities when needed. You can also set their behavior with the AI settings.

@@JCTiggs1 thank you for the tips! I give it another try, first thing I'm gonna do is look for the other characters !

This is for Pillars of Eternity 1? It's different from 2. In Pillars of Eternity 1 non-weapon item attributes do not stack, so only the largest bonus will apply at any given time (making the other bonuses irrelevant).

@@haasgaming Good to know cheers x

No turn-based videos on PoE2 I'm afraid. I've been wanting to do those at various points, but never got around to it. It's definitely a different experience to real time with pause, some elements works quite well (like I much prefer spellcasters in those as it's less about spamming short, high value spells and lets you do more with control spells since they become a lot more valuable). That said it's also quite clunky with how action speed becomes almost entirely worthless, and accuracy becomes incredibly important even more so than normal. All in all, it's not a bad mode by any means, certainly different and certainly not perfect.

@@haasgaming yeah that's what i thought about speed and abilities, i like divinity better for now, so im more interested in poe2 now that it has tb. Was even hoping they would add it in poe1, although its fun too. But disappointed in maps in poe1, so small basic. Cheers.

@@haasgaming seems on ps4 it's a little clunky and slow responsiveness in rtwp from what i read, maybe better in tb mode. Also pathfinder1 on ps4 might be same way, and that game you can even change mode on the fly it seems.

+Niels Schaap If he picked a different name instead of haas you wouldn't know jackshit..

Haas, Schaap and Foogle (Vogel). How dutch can this comment section be?

Indeed, but Int helps the Bar's AOE attack; swings a big axe, it hits all enemies.

Poe in a nutshell: the wizard moves heavy things while the barbarian figures out the puzzles. It’s “different to remove dump stats”. Glad nobody ever min maxed in this ga... wait that’s why we watched this. This system is dumb.

@@IAmAnEvilTaco I don't mind them trying something different, in fact it's nice in theory. But this just makes no sense

Why cant a barbarian be strong and smart lol

@@specrtre yeah, they may not be wise but i don't see why they can't be intelligent

Same. Been in my steam catalog along with Poe2, Divinity Original Sin 2 and Tyranny. So far behind on my gaming lol. Always loved Rpgs, but dang having a toddler makes it hard to play games that take 50plus hours to complete.

You have low perception/enemy has high deflection? You can check the combat log for details.

Youre also just going to be missing a lot early on. Common early issue in these sorts of games. It will make you appreciate when you hit mid level and start to become very effective in combat.

This game is not for everyone. It's based on DnD mechanics which are not as simple. If you want to have fun without much effort then just play some shooters or something. But if you play on easy or normal then I don't think you should have problems with combat.

@@martinsoukup562 lol this is not dnd rules, divinity is, you sound like a smug idiot

@@Nick-tl7ts wow you are so afraid that you deleted your comment?

if you have the dlcs you can get to lvl 16.

There's also mods that raise it to 24. But you'll get most of the abilities you'll want by 12/16. This game is not as stingy with them as D&D is where you need like lvl 20 to complete your build, you get most of the stuff much earlier here.

My favorite class is the Druid, I like the option of casting spell and then going to town on my ennemi with my Bearwear form. form.

I thought the same at first (though the info is much appreciated), but I just clicked the cog wheel for settings and changed video speed to 0.75 and it's just right for such detail.

Just need pause it like the game hehe.

Thanks for your comment, I am trying to figure out why this is happening. From what I can tell, this is the only video of mine that is acting up in this way so I am in the dark as to what the issue can be at the moment. Turning off ads seems to have done nothing, but as far as I can tell this only happens when I try to view the video in 720 or 1080p. Is this the case for you as well, or do you have this regardless of viewing quality?

I tried to watch the video from my phone and it's not loading at all in 720p60fps or 1080p60fps. 480p works fine. On PC, it plays the video, but the image is still (the cursor is moving, though). Again, the problem is only in 720p60fps and 1080p60fps. Yes, this is the only video I had problems with. I think, it has something to do with uploading in 60fps.

Thanks again. I've asked around, and from what I can tell this is an issue KZfaq is aware of that some older videos suffer from. Apparently they are working on a fix, but there is currently nothing I can do. So I've been told, anyway. Hopefully it'll be normal within a reasonable amount of time.

it's 16 with two expansions