Divinity Original Sin releases!

2h swordsman+mage (with at least one point in geomancy for the summon spider spell, make sure to start out with the spider summoning spell as well).

Make sure to have at least one healing spell, the 2h swordsman can learn a really powerful healing spell with a long cooldown and short range and the mage can learn water magic to cast a healing spell.

Edit: Stealth will soon be buffed and there is a lot of speculation that Stealth characters will be really powerful soon.

stay away from rogues and battlemages. wizard/knight/shadowblade.... any of those will do a lot of damage. oh, and you make 2 characters, not just one.

I'm struggling in the second zone ... won't be able to progress till the respec zone :( Making a tank was probably a dumb idea ... oh well.

It isn't. You can build the character up. I'm 83 hours into the game, with a tank, rogue, and two knights (one DPS one tank) and the tank is absolutely the most useful member.

Problem is that nobody really targets him ... I fortify the bastard and give him absorb of elements and just send him in with bull's charge and he in 80% of the time gets ignored and everyone goes for the 2 mages in the back ... and the tank himself doesn't do much damage with a shield and a 1h in the front unless there's a shield bash skill or something later on that utilizes the shield mechanics (that's just me dreaming, there isn't anything). Once I get the respec zone I'll at least say goodbye to some ability points ... blacksmithing is useless after 1 point and I invested freaking 6 to lvl 3. Crafting > Blacksmithing by far in my opinion.

What's the whole point of Blacksmithing actually ? Other than repairs ...

You get a trait which lowers the threat of other targets.

Your thief (assuming you have one) can sneak up, use "daggers drawn" (which can almost instantly killer many targets) and then use invisible to remain hidden to bank up points.

You mage as well can use spells to half his physical damage taken and increase constitution.

Using multiple summons act as a good meat shield. they can be cast about twice per a count because of the low recharge use time and (if you like) you spent a very dribble points on another class to allow them to summon elemental (or whatever you want to summon).

Crafting and blacksmithing are two different things. Crafting is for creating items and upgrading them. Put points in that, it's far more useful. At level 5 crafting you can enhance weapons to do almost double to 1/3 more damage via essence appliance.

Jesus this game is so fucking big. And it's not padding like shitty Ubisoft games, practically all of it is crafted with thought and care.

Glad a lot of you peeps are enjoying it. I haven't been able to play lately, but I'll definitely sit down and make time for this one. It's sitting there in my Steam account teasing me.

I just looked it up on howlongtobeat.com and it's 70+ hrs to beat for the main story, 120+ for completionist. Damn, Larian really stretched really that budget!

I'm 80 hours in an only just met the conduit.

Reading a few of the reviews, a few 7's have popped up, i t seems the casual critics are criticizing this game for involving some form of thinking. Pretty much to be expected. Gamers of today are weened on casual fluff.

80 hours? How the hell do you get so much game time in?

I also have a question.

If I were to back Pillars of Eternity, I would have access to the beta. Question is, do the beta characters come across to the final game?

I thought pillars of eternity and Torement: Tides Of Numberma was the same game.

Pro gaming knowledge.

Larian are known to UNDERestimate their games' playtime ... same thing happened with Beyond Divinity and Divine Divinity ... playtime ended up being close to twice as much, or at least in my case it did. :P

I've got 3 magic users and the female tank from early in the game. Only thing I'm not sure of is who to have the sneaking/lockpicking

Best part about the game is that it's easy on the eyes, worst part of the game is most of the stuff is random generated loot with no real unique items so far

I'm playing on hard so it takes much longer. IMO if you just skip through a game it becomes less engaging, shorter and the mechanics becomes less relevant (which is basically just another way of saying less engaging).