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For Context I bought Avowed on the steam sale cause I wanted to replay it, and I get to the first sidequest and all the talk of soul problems and Watchers has me being just…
Well I could Play PoE1&2 again, but even though I make other characters to do different runs I always seem to go back to the same character
PoE1 was the first True Isometric CRPG I ever played and I can’t seem to see any other characters as ‘The Watcher of Caed Nua’ I started this character just based on what I thought was cool and she slowly over time evolved into a more defined character, In PoE2 I decided to use the choices I made in Character Creation to inform the way I would roleplay her, especially cause nationality informs a lot more in that game.
I also have to headcannon that she’s one of the few Godlike that remain after the breaking of the wheel, cause I just can’t fathom anything else.
Anyway my watcher is,
Aryn
Moon Godlike - Aumaua
Monk
Rauataian Mercenary

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This likely won't go well

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a TB Playthrough of PoE1, where I hope to import my Orlan Cipher into PoE2 (RTwP). My preferred playstyle is melee DW and casting charms and debuffs as needed. I'm thinking of continuing having a melee semi-caster Cipher but I am considering to multiclass her, which is why I'm looking to you for help and insight from the community.

I'm mainly looking at multiclasser my Cipher with Rogue (Mindstalker), Ranger (Seer), Fighter (Psyblade).

My thinking is that the additional class would provide abilities (preferable full attacks in case I dual wield) to use to gain focus. I would then leverage the focus to debuff enemies/buff allies as required by the battle.

A melee Cipher might lend itself well to the Soul Blade subclass, but I wanted your input on that. Does it feel boring to almost always just leverage your focus into the Sould Annihilation ability? Is it strong enough to be worth it?

I'm also considering the Cipher Beguiler Subclass in combination with the Rogue Trickster subclass. I can't decide if I see synergy or anti-synergy between the two. Both Soul Whip and Sneak Attack are less potent for those two classes, but is the additional utility* provided to them might make it worth it regardless? Should I go for either Trickster or Beguiler or are both OK? Cipher Ascendant looks a bit less flavorful but it might lend itself well to a play style where I play as a Rogue until I reach max focus and then I switch to playing as a Cipher while ascended?

*Cipher Beguiler: additional range of Deception abilities such as Mental Binding, Phantom Foes, Whispers of Treason, Puppet Master, Ringleader and getting focus back on casts of Deception abilities.

Trickster Rogue: Mirrored Image, Ryngrim's Repulsive Visage, Llengrath's Displaced Image)

Cipher/Ghostheart Ranger and Cipher/Fighter (no subclass or Devoted) also sound like good choices. Fighter would provide me Armored Grace to keep my attack speed up, while Ranger would give me a pet to bounce Cipher spells off of and provide me with full attacks with a nice accuracy bonus.

What are your thoughts around a melee dual wielding character?

• Soul Blade/Trickster or other Rogue subclass?
• Beguiler/Trickster or other Rogue subclass?
• Ascendant /Trickster or other Rogue subclass?
• Cipher/Fighter?
• Cipher/Ranger?

Thanks in advance!

disciplined barrage or knock down first ?

should i keep both int and resolve at 10 or dump resolve and pump int ?

which weapon type has the most unique items ?especially in early game ?

edit : poe 1

I'm kind of torn between bows (especially Stormcaler and Massuk Hunting Bow for switching between damage types) or guns for single big hit for loads of focus. My entire question basically boils down to "which performs better in Turn Based Mode)

The Undying Burden and Upright Captain's Belt are probably the two best belts in the game for main tank characters.

The first gives you +2 constitution, +1 athletics, reduced weapon damage as you lose health (which synergizes very well with the +2 con) and a second charge of Second Wind, which definitely never hurts a main tank.

Meanwhile, the second gives you +1 constitution, concentration, which is never bad, and most importantly: immunity to push and pull effects, being 1 of only 2 items in the game that has this effect, and the only one that a godlike can wear.

So, in your opinion, which one is better? Getting +2 constitution and a second charge of Second Wind is definitely pretty good, but the immunity to push and pull effects seem too good to pass on. Thoughts?

Kind of confused about how the skill spreads work in party assist mechanics. What are the most important passive skills for The watcher to have?

EDIT: currently running my watcher focusing on bluff, diplomacy, and intimidate, Eder focusing on Survival and streetwise, Xoti on religion and history, and Aloth on insight and metaphysics. I plan on picking up the cipher soon and keeping this party for the rest of the game. Is this a good spread?

I've spent hours trying to fix the stuttering in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, and at this point I'm convinced it's an engine issue rather than a hardware problem.

My PC is more than capable of running the game. GPU utilization rarely goes above 50%, CPU usage stays below 50%, average FPS is very high, and even my 1% lows are usually above 80 FPS. Despite that, the game suffers from noticeable microstutters every few seconds. Frametime constantly spikes from around 8 ms to nearly 20 ms.

Things I've already tried:

• Lowering every graphics setting.
• Vulkan renderer.
• Special K.
• Registry tweaks to disable the Unity anti-aliasing workaround.
• FPS limits.
• Different V-Sync options.
• CPU affinity tests.
• Fresh AMD drivers.

None of these made any meaningful difference.

The constant frametime spikes completely break immersion. Has anyone actually found a real fix, or is this simply an unavoidable limitation of Deadfire's Unity engine?

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Hi all, I wanted to say thanks for all the helpful and supportive comments I got on my last post.

I'm finally having fun playing Barbarian and two key things helped me appreciate the class:

1. Somebody mentioned in my last post that Barbarian doesn't get many "fun" buttons to press until late-game. I'm currently around Level 13 and have recently obtained Heart of Fury and Dragon Leap which have done wonders for improving my engagement with the class.
2. After getting all the companions, I've come to appreciate how absurdly strong Blood Thirst as a passive is for mob fights. Especially with how it works in turn-based, killing multiple enemies (like in the linked video) means you get a bunch of turns in a row where you can just keep continuously chaining kills together for a seemingly unending turn.

All to say that I appreciate people telling me to stick with the class instead of restarting - turns out all the fun stuff was tucked away in the higher levels!

Is there any hope of POE1 being recompiled for native Apple Silicon support? Since Apple is deprecating Rosetta.

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Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool no problem with that at all

Just started Deadfire & my castle’s been blown up! *I just finished building it in POE1 before beating that game.* C’mon!

Where’s Durance, I am going to godhammer whoever is responsible for this.

I want to get a ranged DPS for my party and I'm undecided between Maia and Ydwin. Maia seems like the obvious choice, with her insane combination of Might, Dexterity and Perception, coupled with her class giving her incredible passives like Marksman and Gunner and her subclass giving her increased range AND her Hawk companion, dealing insane damage. And that's without mentioning her possible multi classes, Scout (+rogue) for additional damage over time and passive damage with abilities like Deathblows or Geomancer (+Wizard) giving her the ridiculously powerful Essential Phantom. Give her Acina's Tricorn, Aegor's Swift Touch and keep her in her Sharpshooter garb and you have arguably the most broken ranged DPS in the game.

Ydwin, on the other hand, lacks the ranger+gunhawk bonuses Maia has and doesn't have *as great* stats, but compensates for it with an amazing class on her own: Cipher. Besides being a great support class, both by doing crowd control and by being the most reliable source of the Brilliant inspiration, Ydwin can also multiclass into rogue giving her the same advantages as Maia in that regard. It doesn't hurt that The Red Hand's double fire ability will fill her focus right up faster than I can notice. Give her the same gear as Maia and she's definitely a force to be reckoned with.

There's nothing preventing me from swapping one for the other when the situation demands it, but I really really like to keep the same chosen companions for the entire time, even when it's not the most optimal choice.

With all of that being said, what are your opinions? Which of these two characters will fulfill the role of ranged dps better?

To be clear, this is mostly to invite discussion or maybe similar stories.

After multiple attempts of trying to get into Pillars, turn-based was enough to get me to try again and I'm having a ball. I can tell I'm having fun with it because I'm already having ideas for my next playthroughs!

The problem is that in taking a break from my playthrough to create new characters with other classes, I've realised that I picked maybe one of the least interesting classes possible - that being Barbarian.

Don't get me wrong - I'm very powerful and mowing down groups of enemies is very satisfying. But it's overall not a very engaging playstyle. 90% of my playing is Frenzy + Barbaric Yell + cleaving as many enemies as possible. Maybe I'll get out Firebrand for tougher enemies, otherwise stick with Tidefall. Very strong, very one-dimensional.

After playing Rogue, Monk and Cipher for a bit, I'm afraid I may have committed to a class that I'm just realising doesn't get a lot of flash or style.

Has anyone else navigated this situation? I'm still absolutely going to be finishing this run but I'm wondering if my best bet is to change my class in Deadfire unless Barbarian gets better there?