#PILLARS OF ETERNITY II DEADFIRE SOLO CIPHER PATCH#

I play with almost all important mods like community patch and tweaks. Hierophant blood mage / soul blade is lot of fun too, not ranged, but using soul annihilation through citzal's spirit lance is just fantastic.Īlso have to mention psion/troubadour if you like summoning things, though you could also make a troubadour/cipher and stick a bow in his hands. Devoted also adds a lot of survivability with unbending and rapid recovery. Take monastic unarmed training, the devoted bonus also applies to fists if you come up against something where pierce/shock/slash won't do it. And devoted gives +2PEN and more hit to crit, on top of +1 from hammering thoughts. Stacks with borrowed instinct and psychovampric shield. Can multiclass devoted for some +accuracy with disciplined strikes, conqueror stance, and weapon mastery (+20, and some hit to crit). With pierce/shock at mythic it has enough penetration since few enemies have high AR vs both, and summoning fodder on crit is just lovely. The Hunting Bow Essence Interrupter would be my go-to, sick bow available very early, secondary Aamina's Legacy. Ranged ciphers can stack tons of accuracy, particularly seers and psyblades. I haven't used Deadly Deadfire but I'm guessing weapons still scale better than spells. Well, ranged-ish, instruments of pain gives a range of like 4.8, usually enough to hide behind dichotomous soul summons if need be.

It can work as a ranged build with instruments of pain, stacks a lot of accuracy, weapon penetration, defenses, and healing from FF attacks. Is it even worth for cipher as just to be caster? Maybe someone can help with maybe MC it? Maybe build I could later also use Seekers Rapier as backup?įF / soul blade is pretty interesting but requires community patch for FF attacks to build focus. I know about MC with monk and mortars but looking for specifically range build. Tried also Hand Mortar and Fire in the Hole but it felt worse.

#PILLARS OF ETERNITY II DEADFIRE SOLO CIPHER MOD#

I'm playing PoTD upscaled with Deadly Deadfire mod so weapons have trouble doing full dmg. Tried SC Ascendant with Kitchen Stove and Xefa Empiricial Explication but feel like it takes too much time to build focus. Enjoy.Trying to add range cipher to my party. In particular, your final choice at the end of PoE1 is quite important in story terms, particularly so if you want that shard of darkness in your character. This can have a big effect on the way characters relate to you in the story, especially the gods, and it offers the widest choice for creating your backstory before the events of PoE2. When it comes to your background, you may want to explore the option to make a custom background which takes you through the choices you made in PoE1 - this is available before you start the game somewhere off the main menu. I'm not going to tell you what that is but you'll probably have it covered if you go with your plan.

Some checks are 'Watcher only' but I can only think of one specific instance in the game where this is crucial to a particular outcome. Bear in mind that your party members can contribute to your total score on non-class specific abilities so you don't always need high levels on all abilities. Go for Bluff if you want to be a bit shady, Diplomacy if you want to be a peacemaker. Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate are all fun to play with but you won't get enough points to pump them all up to high levels. Your Watcher abilities (your character is always the Watcher) allow you to read souls, especially of the recently departed, and these will be used fairly often. A cipher is a good choice for your main but it won't allow you to read minds.If you want to be able to glean people's intentions and motivations, you can pump up Insight, which is non class specific.

That said, class choice is mainly about combat style and only has minor effects in scripted interactions - the odd dialogue or action choice. I think it's a good approach to this game to be clear in your ideas about your character and to role-play imaginatively.

Pillars of eternity ii deadfire solo cipher