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You never upgraded the ship? I bought the galleon and completely decked it out but in the end I didn't use it too much, so I could have stayed with the sloop really. I just liked having the space and feeling like a boss with a big ship with lots of cannons.
As for the cypher and chanter being gimped, yes and no: you're right that they need time to get going, but they have a distinct advantage over classes like fighters or mages or priests: their x amount of uses per ability never runs out in a battle. A cypher can theoretically cast his highest level attacks over and over again, while even a lvl 20 mage only gets 1 level 10 spell slot (vanilla) per encounter. Which is for the best, as some of the lvl 10 spells are ridiculous yeah. My wizard had the missile salvo one which basically tore apart every enemy except the real damage soakers and bosses.
Like you, I was a bit overequipped and OP by the end of the game because I did most quests and turned off (approximate) level scaling. There's also so much money in the game....even after buying the galleon, outfitting and enchanting all of my characters with sick gear I had over a 100k left by the end of the game. Again though, I did loot pretty much everything in the game.
Like you I'm gonna reply the game as a very evil character and become the terror of the seas, raiding other ships and trade lines.
Btw The Beast of Winter is really good, with some tough fights you might enjoy. I'd wait until it was slightly discounted though, as it's not super big (like 4 hours if you're quick). But otherwise highly recommended. Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:18 pm
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Party - Druid (int), Fighter (con/str), Priest (int/???), Mage(int), Ranger/Wizard (per)
Ship - sloop
Reload due to death - 2 or 3 times. Once i was defeated by the Fampyr's because I couldn't figure out who was charming my party, the rematch didn't go so well for them. Once i was defeated by a Principi Galleon who was clearly too high level, I boarded it, killed all the rabble but in the end was defeated by 4 very high level enemies. I was also defeated in the skirmish before reaching Ukaizo but that could be considered a broken game mechanic.
Towards the end once i bought all the expensive items and enchanted them my party was very overpowered. Once my druid managed to cast the aoe stun it was chop-chop-enemy-explode-fight over. While classes like cipher and chanter sound interesting in the end they are a bit gimped because the fight is over before they get to cast anything useful. Even my wizard used his bow most of the time because there was no point in casting spells, they would've either hit my own party, there weren't enough of them that close to each other and mostly because they were dead by the time the spell went off. I remember trying to cast a kill spell like 3-4 times and every time the target was killed.
Overall I think its a much better game than PoE 1. The main story was completely "don't give a fuck" but some of the other quests were good. I really liked the payback on the annoying pirate you meet in the first fight. But either i'm getting old or i'm too focused on the DPS that I didn't get much satisfaction out of the game. Still I will probably go back to it one more time, ditching all the scripted party members for the 'build your own' ones just to see the carnage they can cause. Probably lots of multi-classes as well.
Statistics: Posted by Peltz — Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:05 am
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I already finished the main storyline and am working on the Beast of Winter (which is very, very good so far).
I'll give my overall impression once I'm done with that too.I have decided however to wait with another (super evil) playthrough until all the DLC is out. Not because I wouldn't enjoy another run already, because I would. But because if it's more of this before-the-end-of-the-game integrated DLC then I prefer going in clean.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:44 am
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@ Peltz, you can retrain your own party members no? For Eder. Or maybe it just means you can pick all their skills again, not the classes.
My party's a little different from you but not all that much. Full priest Xoti, full (offensive, two weapon) fighter Eder, full wizard Aloth and full cipher Serafen. I wasn't soo sure about Serafen at first but he's won me over, both in terms of personality and abilities.
I'm an Unbroken (defensive fighter) / Priest of Wael (illusion + buff) multiclass myself. Was a bit scared of how it'd work out but it works pretty well. I draw the aggro and take the beatings with high constitution, defense and illusion spells and other buffs, while Eder moves around does massive DPS. And the other three do crowd control, damage and buffing/healing of course.
Since Wael is the god of revelations, mysteries and secrets it's also fun to roleplaying this mysteriously aloof character. I will uncover great secrets and then bury them for no reason than that I don't think they should come out. Which is how Wael would have wanted it.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:56 am
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As for the progression, i've been to Neketaka and gotten the quest to visit the something due west. I also did some bounties and Tikawara and Poko Hara. I think my party is around level 9.
Statistics: Posted by Peltz — Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:46 pm
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