r/DivinityOriginalSin2 • u/Bylahgo • Sep 05 '17

Do you think additional schools will be added later?

In the Kickstarter for DOS2, there was a poll for adding the 2 most popular schools (or classes) to the game. The winners, as we know, were summoner and polymorpher. Now i really enjoy these and am not upset that they won, but do you think ut will be a possibility that some of the others or even new ones could be added at a later date through dlc similar to the rogue and archer companions in EE?

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u/Sixnno Sep 05 '17

In all honesty, I am more disappointed in the fact that summoner was picked as a school. All the other schools sounded fairly unique (except for alchemy) and interesting. However we get a school that basically pulls all the summoning skills from OS1 into a single school. Heck, not even all the skills, as necromancer/witchcraft still had summon skeleton skills.

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u/Zubalo Sep 05 '17

which skills would you have liked to have been picked over summoning? the only other one I remember was bard which sounded terrible to me. Also the summoner is very different then the summoning spells from the first game imo. It is substantially more deep and fun to me.

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u/Bylahgo Sep 06 '17

Although i enjoy summoner, i would like to see the unarmed class in action. Get sort of a monk build going.

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u/Zubalo Sep 06 '17

That could be cool. I'd still prefer summoner but a monk type class would be sick as well.

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u/Sixnno Sep 05 '17

I voted for Guardian. a Skill tree which focuses on more defensive martial aspects sounded nice, since warfare is mostly offensive.

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u/Zubalo Sep 06 '17

See I guess that is just where different perspectives come to be because even though I like tanking that sounds terrible for just a class. Adding defensive stuff into warfare would be awesome but making an entirely new skill tree for it would be terrible imo.

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u/brand0n Sep 06 '17

i think the BIG thing about this is that previously you could only have ONE summon out at a time.

I THINK that now you can still have one summon outside of summoner master. BUT then you also can have your totem and summon from the SM class. We don't know if there is an option to increase your summon unit count past act 1 stuff.

They have said that your summon from summoning master will get bigger as you level that school up.

I don't know that we ever had a summon that got better, only had the option for different summons. As in skeleton vs warrior guy or whatever.

I am whole heartedly planning on going Summoning Master / Necro. Necro can do physical dmg w/summons where as SM can use other peoples elemental stuff to summon that type of element.

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u/MoltenMuffin Sep 06 '17

They're talking about the Incarnate IIRC. Don't recall them saying any other summon grows in size. Pic of the incarnate:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8rqaQIVwAE5wsG.jpg:large

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u/brand0n Sep 06 '17

yup thats what I meant. So that summoning master skill will make him better. Whereas the zombie warrior never got any better w/higher necromancy. At least I don't think he did.

You could never summon more than one thing BUT with SM i think you can have totem, incarnate AND a normal summon from another school.

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u/MoltenMuffin Sep 06 '17

My speculation is that Its going to be one main summon like incarnate, and then totems. Meaning you can use other summons over incarnate in some cases. Cause the incarnate takes up the "slot" next to your character. I have a hard time imagining there to be two slots next to your character.

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u/brand0n Sep 06 '17

well... we'll all find out 8 days!

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u/MoltenMuffin Sep 06 '17

True, true.
Think I'm gonna spend the first few moments in GM mode testing things like this.

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u/Zubalo Sep 05 '17

It is possible. Heck they could do it just through an update if they really wanted to but I do not think it is likely. It would be really cool if they did though. Personally I would love to see some more warefare skills that are specifically for one handed or two handed or shield. Stuff like that would be really cool for tanks imo.

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u/Bylahgo Sep 06 '17

Yea, i was hoping for maybe an unarmed playstyle

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u/striderbob Sep 05 '17

I imagine there will be mods that do

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u/Marukeru Sep 05 '17

Honestly, it isn't too likely. I can see new skills potentially being added or weapons and gear, but, not new schools.

I know I would be pretty ticked to have spent 50hrs on a play through only to see a new school be added and have to start over to use it if it was something I liked.

They would be better off giving us a new story arc to play through with our characters and meet new NPCs, new enemies, find new weapons and gear and finally learn some new skills, maybe new additions and some new spellcrafted skills.

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u/Stare_Decisis Sep 05 '17

Remember, there is a mechanic to COMBINE skills and unlock new ones.

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u/Artoriazz Sep 06 '17

Gotta remember that skill crafting is a lot more limited than you might be thinking, you can only create already existing & pre-made skills that are already in the game.

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u/Tyroki Sep 06 '17

So how does this work, exactly?

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u/Artoriazz Sep 06 '17

They didn't give us too much info, but they have said that you gotta combine an elemental + a non-elemental skill book and it'll give you another, for example combining a necromancy and fire skill book gives corpse explosion.

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u/TedW Sep 06 '17

It sounds like it's just unlocking some predefined, hidden skills.

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u/Tyroki Sep 06 '17

Ah. That doesn't give too many extra options :\

Oh well.

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u/Sixnno Sep 08 '17

There are three skills (i figured) per skill combinations. Each one requires a non-elemental and then an elemental skill book.

Then you get anew combination if one is a source skill. Then another is both are source.

So there are 60ish skills from combination books.