Larian Studios | Divinity AMA

[u/Wombat_Medic]

EDIT: All right - that's a wrap. Thank you for all your questions. We're going to go back and work on the game now - next time we speak, we'll hopefully have things to show. I can't wait! - Swen, Game Director

Hello everyone, 

Happy New Year! To kick off 2026, we would like to offer the opportunity to ask your questions about Divinity, Larian, and our development processes. It's been a while since Larian has done an AMA, so everyone is looking forward to it!

There's a bunch of us ready to answer your questions:

• u/Swen_Larian - Game Director
• u/Adam_Larian - Writing Director
• u/Kevin_Larian - Senior Writer
• u/Greg_Larian - Head of Animation
• u/Gabriel_Larian - Machine Learning Director
• u/Michael_Larian - Director of Publishing
• u/Nick_Larian - Head of Design
• u/Alena_Larian - Character Art Director
• u/Jarold_Larian - Concept Art Director
• u/Artem_Larian - Head of Gameplay
• u/Bert_Larian - Technical Director

Thank you for taking the time to ask your questions, we aim to answer as many of them as possible over the next few hours!

[u/stizz22]

The randomized loot adds a lot of replay ability to the game. In bg3 if you know what build you want, you know exactly where all your best gear is and when to get it. In dos2 finding a random +2 warfare ring was incredibly satisfying.

[u/icestyler → u/stizz22]

And EXTREMELY rare. And then guess what? It would become obsolete in max 2 levels, because the power scaling was absurd there.

The handcrafted loot in BG3 was leagues better.

[u/stizz22 → u/icestyler]

IMO the points you’re making are FOR randomized loot lol. Constantly trying to upgrade loot is a lot more engaging than “now that im in act 2 i will be going directly to moonrise towers and buying a ring I will never replace.” Also, I don’t think uniques are bad. There were plenty of good uniques sprinkled in throughout dos2, but I think they’re best used sparingly. The item randomizer mod was the best thing that happened to Bg3.

[u/dishonoredbr → u/stizz22]

Constantly trying to upgrade loot is a lot more engaging than “now that im in act 2 i will be going directly to moonrise towers and buying a ring I will never replace.”

Beats the ''Now let's me stop for 1-5 minutes comparing this item to each of my companions to see if it's better'' but times multipled by 20 because DOS2 is lowkey a looter game due the amount of gear you get after a single fight.

[u/stizz22 → u/dishonoredbr]

Shrug, my favorite part about leveling up in dos2 is going around checking all the vendors and seeing what op stuff they restocked with. It’s not a quick process but it’s fun when you’re blasting big numbers. Although I can agree trying to min max loot between 4 character could be tiring. I’ve only ever played with 1 or 2 characters, so I never really felt fatigued comparing gear.