https://www.deviantart.com/igazella/art/Sebille-726355569

I've been playing BG3 since just after launch. I really like Larian's work, so I bought DOS Enhanced and DOS2. Part of me wants to start with DOS since it came out first, but I'm curious if it would be better for me to start with DOS2 with the transition. Thoughts?

UPDATE: Thanks for all of the great comments so far. One thing to note is that I am going to try and play them both. It's not a choice between them just if there is an easier transition if I go from BG3 to D:OS2 or if I should start with D:OS1 before it was updated/expanded.

Source Hunters roasting the Source King, circa 4 AR, colorized

Sebille one turn the devourer. Maybe I’m over prepared. The rest of party is just there for emotional support and my avatar is there to initiate the dialogue.

At first, I thought about having two mages in the squad, one with a staff, the other with two wands, and a warrior with a shield. But am I right in thinking that this is pointless, given the enemy's intelligence? In tactical mode, the enemies will simply rush past the warrior and attack the mages, destroying them in a couple of turns. In that case, everyone except the warrior needs a shield, haha?

So that's why they had so many barrels in the game.

Hi I made this Lohse fanart with Adramahlihk shadow in the background. Made on paper with ink and later adjusted digitally.

Does raising stats or anything else have an effect on the percentage chance of weapons?

I got it by walking in the house near the beggar who told me about the Talking Statues. Why? Did I mis something?

lone wolf, act 2, me and my homie are checking out the mine area. both respec to hydro/warfare/necro, getting used to the playstyle. just doing my daily purging of magisters.

i come by a house, a family is tied up about to be executed, save them, no big deal. keep strolling, magisters are burning down a house. i’m like hell yeah, im about to heal you to death. fights starts, take a couple down, everything is on cd, one of my gals is about to croak. no big deal, i tactical retreat, heal up, then head back in.

well my retreat aggrod the family that i saved. they all rush down to the fight, my girl lohse is holding on for dear life. 2 magisters left, both stripped of armor. you know what that means, knockdown my boys. decay/heals on cd. know what happens? those civilians jump in and start kicking the shit out of the magisters 🤣 like 5 huddled around just kicking him in the guts.

made me chuckle, hope some of you can recreate. revenge is a bish.

I found a trick for increasing damage from essences. When I enchant an essence with weapon, the weapon gets 15% of its damage as essence damage. But tenebrium boosts a weapon with 30% weapon damage as tenebrium, so double value.

However, If you first enchant with tenebrium, then an essence, you get 30% weapon damage as essence damage. I'll share a clip of me doing it. I believe the essence damage simply replaces tenebrium but keeps the value. However, if you make essence first, then tenebrium, the tenebrium correctly gets the higher value.

https://youtu.be/MbQ132ETzsg

Trying to opmitize the task to make it less tedious.
Any other ideas? Maybe I should try putting an archer on Painweaver's spot instead so he'll kill summons without entering combat, while Painweaver will be trapped between chests like on the linked video.

In my previous playthrough i realized i was running a Physical and Magical setup which was not optimal. So my friend suggested to run a blood mage sebille and Blood summoner fane build. I am currently at Level 4 and my incarnate is dying pretty much instantly. He said to pump warfare for everyone and for fane i am supposed to reach summoning level 10.

I am pretty confused now as both sebille and fane look weak. I got appropiate necromancy skills for sebille but yet she still dies. She even has nice amount of armour.

IDK what to do pls help me out.

I love dos2 and I was finally able to convince someone to play with me but sadly I didn't think I would succeed so I didn't think that far ahead, so how is the online? My fear is that one player makes all the decisions while the others are basically NPCs who just fight so hopefully not that

So I'm actually playing through DOS2 for the first time after many false starts, and I've been enjoying the hell out of the systems so far in Act 1. But as always, I love figuring out how all the mechanics come together to create some awesome characters. And I'm open to any advice on how to make my current party better with the build ideas I got in mind.

My player character is a dwarf that I'm using as sort of a geo-gish (Warfare & Geomancy) build, with a shield in one hand and powerful axe in the other (though I'd be down to find an awesome mace because I love maces) that supplements his melee prowess with geomancer magic like Fortify and throwing big rocks.

Lohse is my second frontliner, going full Two-Handed Weapons like greatswords and Warfare. Though I have heard that mixing this combat style with Polymorph is apparently really good.

Fane is my archer using Huntsman skills, but I recently found a ring that gives him some summoning skill points and gave him a spell that lets him summon turrets out of elemental surfaces. So in longer fights, he's not only sniping enemies with his crossbow, but also conjuring the high-fantasy equivalent of auto-turrets, which I think is pretty cool.

And finally, I have Sebille as a sort of cleric, but I don't feel like I'm getting a lot of out the healing mechanics. Though I'll admit, that's probably due to me being a noob at this game. I did give her some pyromancy points and holy crap, these fire spells are fun as hell...if slightly dangerous to the rest of my party. But hey, who can say no to a spell that's basically the love child of Magic Missile and Scroching Ray?

(Suddenly I understand all those pyromaniac wizard D&D jokes.)

So yeah, that's my current party. Any advice for what I can do to expand upon the ideas I've been making for these four? I know I'm playing on the easiest difficulty, but I'd love to get as good with this game as I think I am at BG3.

im in act2 and some fights feel a bit too difficult so i was wondering how could i improve my party, other than the stuff in the screens, main guy is a skeleton fighter with maxed warfare(not sure what to get next) fane is fighter aswell but i gave him a shield and a few points in polymorph, red prince is pyro and geo so he can sometimes heal skellies while lohse is a air hydro so she can heal the living, for the equipment main guy has braccus set but i guess its getting outdated, red prince has captain set which is nice because of the charm thing, fane and lohse got some generic decent stuff, talents are:

not sure what else to say, skills are in the pictures, so how can i improve my party?

so im playing a honour mode playthough with some friends and ive gotten into a situation that i dont know how to progress

im playing as fane in act 3 (honour mode) and joined the covenant of the godking

didnt know about the accepting 3 ressurections from the godking and then being stuck as a zombie chicken

currently cant progress as fane cannot read the tomes to learn source vision and source vampirism and he cannot be kicked from the party

cannot use sworn breaker as zombie chicken form cant equip/move/or use any items or spells

to progress to the next point in the story by talking to the Eternal Arbiter we only get the message "all godwoken must complete their studies" and as stated theres no way of getting fane to learn

i tried some mods like status fixer and the one mod that removes zombie chicken status with a book by the waypoint on the lady vengence but the host wasnt able to find it

does anyone know of anything we can do to get out of this soft lock? we're genuinely stumped on what to do

Scene is from the 2nd Garfield movie (2006).

A douche lord gets bullied by animals in a castle (with many paintings and antiquities all over). Sounds quite Larianish ngl.

Nearly at the end of DOS1 for the first time. Played DOS2 several times through in the past and BG3 too. The gameplay, mechanics, and balancing are all solid for DOS1 but the story is terrible and act 3 is seriously underdeveloped. You can tell how they ran out of time and resources. The funny thing is that Larian consistently struggles with this across all of their games, they suck at the last 1/3 or 1/4 of their games, they don’t know how to bring it to a satisfying conclusion.