Which is still steep but not as devastating, of course. But, as it gets applied to the recovery only, it changes from 20/20 to 20/30 frames total - from 40 to 50, only a 25% penalty actually. For example, plate armor penalty sounds scary - 50% recovery time. And that makes all penalties/bonuses incurred much weaker than they seem. So it's 20/20 frames for the small ones and 30/30 frames for the big ones (1 second is 30 frames, btw). Now, for the dual-wielded weapons, attack time always equals recovery time.
Why that's significant? Because they're not always equal. And see, all of the attack speed bonuses and penalties are applied only to the recovery time. For guns and crossbows, reload animations is also present. See, all attack actions are split into the attack animation & recovery time. However, other speed bonuses are different. Now, dexterity is easy - it just amplifies/penalizes all of the actions. Speed bonuses work in a somewhat weird way. So if there's 1 point somehow missing for some of my builds, that's because of that - just switch your culture to the mentioned one and it's gonna fit. But, as you distribute the points, you do that with the +1 resolve culture already included. One important thing for this guide is that you first distribute your ability points, second choose your culture. Keeps this “5=10%” thing in mind to easily gauge the benefits of various talents and abilities. Same for deflection – 15 deflection of his is 30% more hits on him than on the paladin's very high 25. To a new player, wizard's 20 starting accuracy being very low and rogue's 30 accuracy being very high may look confusing – it's just 10 point difference, no? But, as you see, it's 20% less hits for the wizard. That's how the formulae work when you're evenly matched. To explain it easily, each 5 points in both accuracy and deflection equal to 10% of effectiveness. Against the DR 10 (nearly all foes have high DR, never forget that) 17 damage is 7 damage per hit.
So the average ~17 damage from the large weapon becomes ~19,5. Say, two-handed gives x1.15 damage – 15%. Percentage increases to damage are better than they seem. You can skip second-liners altogether, but that will make your party rather prone to the ambushes – that can be worked around, but relies on save-loading and/or metagaming. The difference between second and third line damage dealers is their durability – seconds can usually take some damage, though not a lot (barbarians, for example), whereas the thirds are very squishy and, should the things go wrong, will melt in a second. The party composition here is rather simple – you need one tank and one half-tank on the frontline, up to two second-line damage dealers and the rest are third-line pure damage dealers and crowd controllers. So either use them or decide what is more important for you (and, well, if put your bet on the companions, don't set the game difficulty too high – normal is fine with them).
#PILLARS OF ETERNITY CHARACTER CREATION BACKGROUND CIPHER MODS#
Without using mods (which allow you to respec NPCs and even change their classes), it's a lose-lose situation. On the other hand, custom companions deprive you of the NPC storylines. And they take away the joy of building your party and your strategies – PoE's system is very rich and there are lots of combos to try out. Companions have personal stories and plenty of dialogues, but they're all build rather horrible so the combat is harder with them.
One of the toughest choices about the game is custom party vs companion party. With it, you'll have three or four such stats – much more solutions available. Without min-maxing, you'll have only two stats at the level of 17-18 (and that's what required to solve the really tough challenges). Min-maxing is especially important for the main character as the maxed out stats not only make him combat-viable, they also allow him to solve dialogue situations. Therefore, there are pretty much three default settings for the attribute – 3 aka min, 10 aka norm, 18 aka max. Which requires a lot of points so you'll have to minimize something too. When it comes to the attributes, Pillars of Eternity is a min-maxing game – to make a real difference, you really need to max the stats out. But, of course, stuff that works on PoTD will be appropriate on the lower difficulties. This guide is adapted for the Path of the Damned difficulty as that's the only way I play it nowadays. If you prefer videos, I have a fresh playlist here:
I'm investigating all of the classes gradually and so it's going to be updated along with my progress.
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