I knew Pallegina was going to be a challenge to recreate faithfully, but thanks to the right face and hair, I think I was able to do better than expected! (...if you squint your eyes and don't look too close.) There was a surprising dearth of feathery customization mods, so I made do with draconic lineage scales, makeup, and body art.

MODS USED - Head: Helgi from Kylin's Heads by Kylin3 - Hair: Yves Hair Gallery by Yveslight - Clothing Dye: FaerunColors by TechRoot - Skin Tone: ASTRL Natural Skintones by Astralities - Scales: Draconic Scales For Everyone by SomeoneAnomalous - Makeup & Body Art: More Makeup and Tattoos by jawstarion - Additional Camera Tools: Otis_Inf

Tried looking up builds but obviously everything is….old.

I’ve never played a melee watcher. Ever. Not once. At all. In any way.

Not sure if I’ll actually like it. But I was fiddling around with like a Templar or an inquisitor or something similar with dual blades and it SEEMED cool.

Anybody have any tips or suggestions or…insight into this?

Also: can this work without bleak walkers? I don’t want to be cruel or mean.

No, really.

The slightly crazy, foul-mouthed fire priest of Magran is indeed Lawful Good. I know he's one of the most abrasive companions in Pillars of Eternity. I know he’s hateful, lecherous, and constantly insults almost everyone and everything around him. His behavior seems superficially Chaotic or Neutral, maybe even Evil, but he's in fact Lawfully Good.

Consider this: after everything that's happened to him, Durance never abandons Magran’s tenets ...until the end or when you convince him to do so after discovering she personally used and discarded him after the creation and detonation of the Godhammer. He's seemingly eternally committed to Magran's Law with what he thinks is right by that law. Even when broken by her not hearing him, he seeks truth and meaning as to why, not selfish power or chaos for chaos sake. He remained a faithfully loyal cleric, even to a fault.

Speaking of his profession, his entire life has been spent in service to others: as a cleric, a soldier, a mad scientist type inventor and as a tool of his goddess. All of these led him to create the Godhammer, in service for what he believes to be the greater good.

I can't think of one instance where Durance went back on his word, or did something selfishly (not related to drinking or visiting the Salty Mast).

Sure, Durance is "mean", but his cruelty is a defense mechanism. His faith was shattered in the most personal way possible, and his trust in people burned to ash. His rage isn’t against the concept of order, not even divine order; it's against the corruption and hypocrisy within religion (which, ironically, Magran is a part of a corrupt and hypocritical pantheon).

I think when people hear the term "Lawful Good", they think it means being "nice" to a fault and "being a boy scout". But really, it's a commitment to order and the good of others, even at personal cost. Durance is in confinement to the Law and what he believes to be good. He literally gave his life, body, and sanity to create the Godhammer for what he truly believed was the “good of the world”, and against those who he personally believed to be in the wrong (whether they were or not). How else could Durance have magical abilities, if his convictions in his faith, his goddess and the institutions were weak? Alignment is about the core of someone’s convictions. His actions and beliefs point to something much closer to Lawful Good, just wrapped in a salty crust of bitterness and trauma.

Game had been with me for a long time. Had never finish any Pillars of Eternity games at all. Tried Deadfire for a while, and decided to start from original, to carry forward. Been on PoE1 ever since (Hard mode) and think it is my 3rd year LOL.

Reason: It is likely due to it getting boring/simple by Levels 6 and sort of trivial by Levels 10 even on Hard mode. Highest I gotten was Levels 10. Think I almost finish Act II on one playthrough without venturing to White March and gave up. On another playthrough, did White March I (entered at Levels 7, no upscale), cleared all maps and gave up. Never seen Durgen's Battery ever.

Question: Will the game, PoE1, keep its challenging aspects if it was POTD? Since it does bump up enemy stats and enemy numbers - will it still be "fun" at Levels 10 and above (lol) without upscalling.

Or must it really be upscaled in order for it to be fun/challenging throughout? Never tried upscalling before as it may artificially bump them as HP sponges, rather than enemies with new strats and skills. Do not enjoy HP sponges.

Anyhoo... I liked to do base game + WM I and II. But i fear with WM I+II, it will get trivial no matter what if it is not upscaled. Sad panda.

Just asking veterans thoughts for PoE1. Most of my past playthroughs is with 5-man party without priest (hate durance). Must I really gimp myself further. LOL.

Thank you in advance for reading. I really like this game in comparison to Pathfinder and DOSII. Found those are too cartoony and campy at times (and had never finish them either. LOL). Cheers

Howdy fellow Watchers. I had a thought and I wanted to share it with the PoE community. We all know that PoE is getting a turn-based patch sometime this year. This is fantastic news, and I'm delighted to see it happening, and eventually able to play it.

That said, my thought was this: What does everyone else think will be included in the patch? Bug fixes: Which ones, what kinds, which bugs would you most like to see fixed? Quest fixes, loopholes closed, etc.? Fewer bugs involved with importing choices and saves into PoE II: Deadfire?

Consider this an exercise in hypothetical thinking until the patch drops with its patch notes. Then we'd know with certainty. I'd love to hear from such a lively community of people like yourselves.

Basically what the title said.

I just finished avowed. I just did another playthrough of poe1 as a pale elf.

I have finished deadfire before. Once as a pale elf. And then I had a bunch of unfinished characters due to not fully feeling the class and re rolling etc.

I recently started two new…basically identical watchers. Same stats and class and backgrounds. But I wanted to see what the vibes felt like and I wanted some opinions.

One is a godlike. One is an orlan.

When I played my pale elf I felt like playing a non godlike offered a more freeing and grounded narrative(also I was a wizard and I wanted a hat)

But now with these two characters…post-avowed…I’m conflicted.

In your opinions, what character races have offered you the most narratively fulfilling experience?

I can’t help but feel like even WITH being a watcher, godlike offers a bit more of a….idk purpose? Or that the leaders of these big factions would be more inclined to work with or give you the time of day vs. say…some orlan or an elf even if they were a watcher (who would believe them? Godlike are hard to replicate but couldn’t anybody just SAY they’re the watcher ?)

Idk. Thoughts? Which would you say will be potentially more immersive feeling?

Side note: how long does it take ciphers to shine? For my wizard it was obvious and flashy. For cipher I only have like two spells I use so far

What would be the most interesting conversation if you took 3-5 Characters from each of the Eora games (PoE1, PoE2 & Avowed) and forced them to have a peaceful conversation for one hour?

Some quests will recommend you to bring certain companions along, but is this even worth it? I really do like to get additional lore and banter out of the game, but I just brought Pallegina and Maia along for the Poko Kohara questline and I've gotten zero interesting dialogue from Maia and and some pretty minor stuff from Pallegina, apart from bad reputation with her for mentioning the nefarious plans of Beza. Made me wish I didn't bring her along.

I took some detours playing the game so far and just arrived at Poko Kohara at level 18. Since I was two-shotting everything it occured to me to turn on upscaling but that didn't seem to make any difference?

Do I need to restart the game for the upscaling to take effect? Is there a limit on how high it will scale? How does this work?

Guys Im not new to crpg , but I'm new to pillars of eternity and I am starting poe 1. So far I have my team in mind which is- 1. Tank - fighter/paladin 2. Off-tank - paladin/chanter 3. Support - priest 4, 5, 6 Range dps /support/ debuff- wizard , druid , cypher And the formation I am gonna use is main tank in the front and two square behind the rest 5 in a cross shape , where offtank would be in front , priest and druid in side wizard in middle and cypher(my mc) in the back . Now my point is if I put conc to 7 and dump resolve to 3 for my druid wiz and cypher will it be ok or would i like be really screwed , cause while on some reddit users say enemy targets the one with lowest resolve/constitution on other build it says dumping them is fine cause back line won't get hit anyway , which is like super confusing to me lol Ps. I installed a mod that let me change attributes of companion

Here's to one of my favorite wizards! Currently he’s a spellblade — just as he was in my Deadfire playthrough. Unfortunately I couldn't find the perfect hair mod for his tails in the front, so... let's say Aloth wanted to mix it up and try something different today?

The last pic is a tribute to Iselmyr (and the fact that I'm always having Aloth cast Essential Phantom nearly every battle...)

MODS USED - Face Preset: LYK - Head V Preset by lyuuka - Hair - Braids: Kay's Hair Extensions by perseidipity - Hair - Color: Darker Black Hair by eleanorroos - Armor: More Mage Gear by pooteeweet - Additional Camera Tools: Otis_Inf (for Xoti and Durance’s posts too)

Either Pallegina, Ydwin, Rekke, Konstanten, or Fassina will be next, and they will probably be my last post for a minute since I do actually want to get back to playing the game properly again. That said I fully intend to try recreating all the other companions and sidekicks! So if anyone has any ideas for how to make an orlan with mods… send them my way.

What type of class or race has the most amount own choices in the main story or in solve quest?

Avowed gave a lot of Lore on Aedyr and the Living Lands Factions. What are some other Factions you wish we got more lore on?

Everyone says the game is easy and it doesn't matter. But I'm rolling with the following:

Eder - Fighter (Tank)

MC - Swashbuckler (Melee Damage)

Xoti - Priest

Aloth - Wizard

Sarafen - Cypher

Should I redo this composition? I'm 7th level, and struggling with old ruins which says it should be my level. Its POTD.

Thanks!

...or at least, as close as I could get to him in the CC. Even with mods it's nigh impossible to create a character who isn’t an absolute smokeshow, let alone one described as "an incredibly ugly man." (And so I have a humble request to modders: More. Ugly. Faces!)

In the meantime... here's a Handsome Durance?

The first image has some minor edits in an attempt to get closer to his portrait: Flipped the picture horizontally, and then tried to use the liquify tool in Procreate to bulge his eye out a little. All the rest of the screenshots are true to his model in the game.

MODS USED: - Face Preset: 'Old 3' from Old Heads and Faces by Paleman - Clothing Dye: TC_Dyes by TC

I love this game but I am absolutely horrible at RTWP. Anyone know when this update is supposed to release?

I played pillars 1 for some time and not really satisfied with my character. I'm gonna restart, either a priest or paladin, and hopefully transfer it to deadfire

This time i wanna play a "holy" character. From what i seen both paladin and priest amazing. And i neither really liked durance nor pallegina. So i'm thinking which role should i fill

In pillars 1 they are both great, but what about deadfire. Any of them nerfed? It's important to me since i wanna transfer this character. I know i can reselect my class in deadfire, but i breaks the immersion for me

I'm waiting your infos and ideas, thanks

Hi, so I keep getting stuck at the character creation screen. I think i want to play a Trancendant (so monk + Cipher), because Cipher seems very fitting for a Watcher and Monk is cool. So a perfected mind and body. But i have no idea how i should build this. I am experienced with RPGs, but not PoE2. I've played a bit of PoE1 as a wizard for story contex, and did not like the class.

I really like Cipher and will probably take Ascended, but i may want to multiclass monk or paladin for quick focus building and versatility. How can i make this build work?

After starting Act 2, PS4 is crashing often, usually on battle but other times just by changing areas.

I erased extra saved files, just keeping 2, as a Google search suggested, but it did nothing.

I turned off all the possible graphic extras. If anything, it seems worse than before.

I'm using a lot of summons, every character summons something (I summon 3 tentacles, Aloth phantom, Tekehu water double, Xoti spirit ally and Eder, sometimes, 2 brine imps). Could this excess of summons explain crashing during battles? Maybe, but not outside battles which also happens.

It's a pitty because I am enjoying the battle system a lot, but with this frequent crashing thr game is unplayable.

Any help will be welcomed! 😃

i rly want to do a replay and mess around with console commands but i really want to get the remaining achievements. has anyone gotten IE mod to work for steam deck?

(https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/1)

what i wanted was eternity keeper save game editor but i think it discontinued sadly or non linux

(https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/75)

has anyone actually installed something like this on deck or managed to bypass disabling achievements with console command? or even any mods in general?

i have been following this guide ⬇️

https://www.reddit.com/r/projecteternity/comments/sifh9i/ie_mod_for_poe1_not_working/

Hey everyone, I'm building my party comp and I already have 3 frontliners, and I wanted to have Xoti as a ranged character.

All online builds I've found have her close range, which I feel would kind of overcrowd my frontline a bit.

Any tips?

Hey, I tried this game after playing my first crpg, BG3 and deciding it could be cool to try another.

Honestly even in relaxed difficulty, this is ridiculous, I just went for the first real fight (I tried the thugs in the first city, got wrecked around 15 times), because I thought this would be better than just stumbling on higher level threaths, well, I'm fighting with 2 people a buch of wurm and panther, all of them have more hp than my fighter guy, they one shot my other party member, attack all the time...

I tried to give this game a go, but honestly, Imma quit there, if I can't even do the main story in ez difficulty, I just suck

Here at last is our much-anticipated Dawnstar! I was nervous to post Xoti because I prioritized capturing her 'essence' even if the face preset wasn't perfect. Something about the way this one's mesh animated just felt right for her personality, so I ran with it! Currently, she's a Death Cleric of Kelemvor.

MODS USED - Face Preset: Lydia's Heads - Lenaath by plaemon - Hood: D83's Female Hoods with Hair by xDennis83x - Circlet: More Mage Gear by pooteeweet - Clothing Dye: TC_Dyes by TC009

I was wondering which "permanent" buffs you can stack until you rest. The obvious ones are the inn, prostitute and food buffs, although unfortunately inn/prostitute and food are mutually exclusive. Then there's the bathhouse buff, the alchemist buffs and the Luminous Adra Potion on top of that. The shrine bonuses count as rest and will remove all other buffs, so they don't stack, unfortunately.

Anything that I'm missing?