not all your lore master facts are right. I doesnt matter who you select when you identify, the loremaster will still do it. Also the mag glass isn't used up.
Quackstack kinda wish they were used up as I have a stupid amount of them and the old elixir problem is happening "don't get rid or use them as you will want them later"
The way they made this work to my knowledge is using the identification glass on the items, (right click, identify and click on item in party member's inventory).
I like how Fane covers all his bones not to reveal he is a skeleton, but as soon as we get into a fight every enemy knows to cast a restoration on him XD
I rlly want to get and stsrt this game but I’m only hesitating bc it seems complicated with just how much there is
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@@Val-yq7pt don't worry. Just start. It has enough mechanics and variety to challenge you, but also enough story and quest to keep you interested. I'd say it's definitely a long term game, not the usual 30-40 hours story campaign games.
Playing as Fane makes me feel like everyone can actually tell that I am undead, but etiquette demands that they politely ignore it unless I outright show my skeleton. Then it is socially acceptable to kill me. XD
Another comment here states that as soon as combat starts, whichever member of the enemy party has the highest loremaster skill, checks all of your stats and informs the rest. Since you can do it to them, they do it to you. But it does raise the question of why these people with loremaster skills aren't tasked with checking peoples stats constantly, as a form of prevention or safety measures.
@@AllanEnraged if you count enemy stats, they are bloated. Larian still cant balance their game but i will forgive them somewhat since no one else is trying as hard as they do
Ramza Beoulve it was in the first game and I didn't even use it then lol. Only time I did use it was when I was playing through with a friend and he made my boots slip proof after I got off for the night
Extra tip: Hoard all the bones and skulls you come across. With a mortar and pestle you can make bone dust from them which is very useful and worth a good deal.
Another great tip is that later when everything in shops costs +4k. just give free 1k gold to the shop keeper to boost your favor to 100% then every item you buy is s going to be like 1-2k cheaper than originally :) Effectively when buing new weapons, gear and skill books you save up to 10k gold just by sacrificing that 1k at start.
Tom Wallen exactly. i also killed every trader before leaving fort joy. i'm not gonna be able to return anyways, so why let anyone (except the seekers) live? easy 8k + gold to start off act 2
Eh, you can rationalize the free 1,000 gold as becoming an investor in the shop. Cheesing would be the folks who do things at the Fort like give alcohol to the drunk guy for XP, then heal him for XP, then taunt him and slay him for a third round of XP, use his card to win the card game without revealing the source, and then murdering everyone there for more XP. Also, the wholesale slaughter of everyone in an area you'll never return to in the future.
For the hotbar management, instead of switching to a different hotbar there is an option under gameplay options you can toggle to prevent items you pick up from automatically being placed on your hotbar.
A tip that not a lot of people know without looking at wiki sites: 48 skills are created by combining a skill book from one of the elemental types with any of the other disciplines. For instance any normal Aero book with any normal Huntsman book gives the Erratic Wisp book. If either of them is a Source skill, you get the Evasive Aura book. Simply use the crafting menu and place both books there, then combine.
Yeah, it was when a quest requiring a corpse explosion skillbook, then I realised how many powerful skillbooks I was missing out. Those certain skillbooks couldn't be bought, only crafted.
Just some additional info based on the tips shown: 2) When stealing, it's important that you try to prevent anyone from being caught. While early in the game it's not much of a problem since NPCs won't badger you if you don't have the missing item in question, but later on they will force a persuasion check on anyone they find with a stolen item in their inventory or equipped. This can be hectic in multiplayer since if you don't know if your friend is using their sticky fingers, you could get forced into combat as if you stole the item. 4) There's also a way to select a bunch of items at once, reducing the number of keystrokes/button presses when doing things like moving items to a bag or sending them to another party member. This feature can get bugged from time to time and will sometimes require the game to be reloaded before it resumes function. 5) Instead of putting up each individual item on your toolbar, you can put the bag on it and use it as a sort of quick access to avoid clutter on the toolbar with nonsensical items. Keep in mind it only makes a shortcut on the toolbar when you initially create a stack of one particular item, so there is a point to keeping at least a few common items such as Firestorm grenades or spell scrolls. 6) As an Undead, save all of your empty bottles and normal potions. You can combine Zaikk's Talon with any normal potion to turn them into poison (a must have) and you can combine any empty bottle with a barrel or ooze to create a bottle of lesser poison. Using the knowledge that combining two poisons of the same quality will grant one of a higher quality, you can fill your inventory with potions that not only heal you significantly, but also grant HP over time with the poison debuff. Additionally, be careful for any event that may remove your helmet or another piece of gear, as being undead you have to wear gear in all slots at all times and if you reveal yourself to any NPC (even story related ones) you will drop their attitude towards you to -45 and initiate combat. Keep in mind, this can happen to characters that have 100 attitude towards you, which can either be costly, or a mistake worthy of reloading your last save. 11) Combining two runes of the same quality and type along with pixie dust will upgrade them to the next rank of rune. Two major components are used in Pixie Dust's creation, Bone and Stardust Herb. Both will need to be combined with a mortar and pestle before being combined with each other, and the 4th and final rank of a rune requires a superior stardust herb. 12) It's better to gain a level inbetween each steal session with an npc. A particular character can only pickpocket from an npc once, and (usually) their items will automatically restock when you level. Sometimes skillbook vendors will even have higher rank skill books once you've leveled, so it's important not to waste a use of one of the best civil skills just so you can empty out a particular vendor of their last shiv. 13) It stands to reason that all builds should probably have access to Teleport, Netherswap, and Uncanny Evasion, all requiring 2 Aerotheuge. Additionally, you could also use a movement skill such as Tactical Retreat, Spread your Wings, Cloak and Dagger, or Phoenix Dive to move somewhere out of reach without dealing damage to a party member. 14) Migo's Ring is great as an early addition, but I'm guessing someone in your party will probably have some investment in hydrosophist early on, and it quickly wears out it's usefulness. Instead, bring the ring to Magister Yarrow on the wall near the entrance to Fort Joy to unlock the Hero tag early as well as complete her quest for a lot of experience and a randomized quest item. Additionally, if you are still wanting the ring, you can kill both Magister Yarrow and Migo for even more experience and the ring will drop as an additional reward for doing so without any future consequence. Additionally, he mentions summoning an incarnate pre-battle, you can also have one character initiate battle and then summon your incarnate off screen and away from the fight and then controlling him so he walks in. This allows you to also sneak in for an additional action at the start of combat. If dialogue is opened before combat, you can still move freely with other characters before the fight starts, and any buffs applied to the character currently talking to the npc will not tick down, meaning you can supercharge a character before a fight as well as get your sneak attacks in during these scenarios. Keep an eye out for perfume bottles and jars of mind maggots. Although they sell for a lot, Perfume bottles can be combined with any honey source to make a 2 turn charm grenade, and Mind Maggots can be combined with an empty grenade to create a 4 turn charm grenade. Both of these are godsends during fights since they work on any enemy as long as they have been stripped of their magic armor beforehand.
I started playing this game yesterday and today at work I feel like a junkie. I can't focus and can't sit still. All I want is to get back to the game. I am completely addicted and I need my fix so bad.
Late to the conversation train, but I bought this game on a steam sale a couple years ago and never played it. For some reason I kept telling myself I didn't like the play style of a "top down" rpg and so this game sat collecting virtual dust Started playing this a few days ago and I can't put it down. This is a true RPG unlike most games that claim to be. The story is awesome, immersive and seemingly never ending. There is so many secrets, puzzles and tricks that I just can't put the game down. For the first time in a long time I want to explore every inch of the map, talk to every npc amd solve every puzzle.
I just discovered one really important thing that I didn't notice until now (200+ hours played): you can aim at different parts of bodies. I'm not talking about destroying the arms or legs like in other games. I'm talking about adjusting the arc of your projectile, by aiming low or high (feet vs forehead). This means that some shots that appear to be blocked can actually work.
Hey. I just finished baldurs gatev3. And buy dos2.. just wondering.. better pick custom main. Or original main? [ I want to have. Fane red prince. Lohse.. and sebille? Or ifan? ]. I want to have an origin main. but the problem is. Origin main dont have a voice in dialogue.. and. Voice dialigue is a must have for me
Here's a tip if you're playing undead. On the ship there's a room with deathfog barrels that will get destroyed if you enter the room. However if you're quick enough you can pick one up before it happens. It basically makes one combat encounter against living beings trivial.
Wow. Just pick up the chest. Haha I'm kicking myself for not thinking of that. We're so trained to think in videogame logic and we get a game like this that follows fairly standard logic rules. Loving it.
If you've played the very first Divinity game (Divine Divinity, that is), you could pick up various chests, barrels and stuff there too. My inventory was cluttered with urns and chests, some of those were special in that when you've opened the chest in your inventory, the chest itself weighted 0 and only counted the items inside it to the overall weight. This doesn't work in D:OS2 though, each chest has it's own weight regardless of the status it's in (well in the inventory each chest, backpack and stuff is always closed, there's no animation there).
@@Croftice1 you could use a basket in DOS 1 to nuke the end boss by putting storages inside it with countless amounts of explosive things ranging from grenades to barrels. place. shoot with fireball. wait half an hour for the game to process the spread of fire across the map; and also how much damage you just did.
the Bedroll deserves a BAFTA award, it's so good. It;s never a bad idea to have Fane spec as a geomancer, as this allows him to cast Poison spells to heal himself while also destroying enemies' magic armor. Using restoration skills offensively is tricky though, as they'll be on cooldown when you desperately need them in some instances. But hey, luck favors the bold
Most videos like this have "tips" that everyone already knows. But i found this very useful. I had no idea you could combine barrels with weapons or arrowheads. Thanks!
Follow up on Migo's Ring, you can use restoration on the beat-up drunk guy near the Elf cave and get the Sparkler card from him. Then you can use that sparkler card to win the card game on the top of the fort wall. Just don't tell them how you actually got the card and you won't have to fight them. It's a pretty big chunk of gold for the start of the game.
Also if you just offer the doctor some alcohol and go about your way, the drunk guy will evetually just die and you can take the sparkler card at this point.
Quite a few things I didn't know and notice.. like use the way points from anywhere, jesus. But most of all I want to thank you for a video that doesn't start with 1 minute of subscribe/shit music/what's up guys this is xyz etc. Nicely explained, to the point and easy to listen to so THANKS.
careful putting posion on your weapon, if you fight undead your going to be healing them with hits, its not a lot of health but it may just be enough for them to live 1 more turn :)
Always good to have a few weapons for your melee characters so you can use the best ones for the enemy type, especially if you're going to embue them with elemental.
If you're going to fight undead, there's always Restoration, your best friend. There should also be a talent, that improves healing spells and potions, should work on undead to deal greater damage that way. Not sure though.
@@Croftice1 Leveling Hydrophist increases healing and water damage and magic armor gained by 5% from skills and potions per point. But yea there is no Talent for healing, just Living Armor to also gain 35% of healing as magic armor.
Another tip. How to teleport yourself as it seem that you need a target to do so. Well, if you keep the black cat alive, once you leave fort Joy, it will become a summon spell with the possibility to swap place with you. This is usefull when you want to play the game in lone wolf mode with a party member of one.
2 points in ranger and in metamorph also gives you similar movement possibilities, with the jump and fly skills. Having those 2 if you're playing a solo lone wolf seems a go-to to me, even if you're not specing in those.
Damn, I liked these crafting tips. All my 82 hours of crafting were about turning healing potions into poison. Thanks for that. It would be great to see part 2 of these.
Tip: Pressing O will bring up the tactical overhead view and highlights enemies in red. Especially useful when there are things obscuring your view, i.e. smoke, foliage, etc.
Well I just did that. My Lohse being near the finale is now on hiatus, while I started another Lohse run with different party members from the beginning. XD
I never thought about just teleporting once I had a barrel (specifically an Ooze barrel) and storing it there. That makes so much sense! I loved this vid, man. Great job!
Holy crap thank you. I wasn't expecting a ton out of this, but almost every single thing on here was super useful. There's so much to this game it's nuts
I bought the game and played a few hours and was really enjoying it but a lot of things just slowed it down for me. The bedroll thing is going to be a campaign saver and the way point is amazing
If you have a rogue in your party or someone you dont want taking damage. Get a bunch of empty potion bottles (you can find them on potion racks) and pick any chantarelle mushrooms you come across (you can also tell the boy on the boat to look for them) combining the two gives you an invisibility potion so you wont take damage that round. Also combining nails on any boot will prevent your characters from slipping on ice. Useful if you have an hydrosophist enchanter in your party that specializes in frost.
This was very helpful. I'm currently playing and absolutely loving this game. I'm lost as a goose at times and I'm sure I've missed certain quests and started others out of order but I'm having a blast lol.
I have over 100 hours annnnd didn't know until last night. Knowing about the teleport rez thing would have saved me a fair amount of reloads. #thestruggle
Kylie at the start I encountered the witch that slaved a Dragon and was only able to kill her without all the other mobs. Than I fled with the only remaining survivor and came back with ressurection scrolls later, trying to escape with all the ressurected characters. This all thing took me about 2 hours and I could just use a teleporter. Wow.
WHAT? YOU CAN DIRECTLY BALANCE THE GOLD AMOUNT WHEN TRADING WITH ONE CLICK? It was so annoying dragging that gold and adjusting the gold while holding the mouse button. OMG this changes everything!
you are not alone... it also took me some time to figure this out. but its actually better to give the trader a little bit more each time to save a lot later
Pro tip 1: When you have a conversation, use your melee guy. Leave the ranged guys behind in sneak mode so they all get to pop sneak attacks in one of the melee guys turn. Pro tip 2: use jump abilities to disengage out of combat, refill your heath, reload cooldowns and refill source before you pop pff a new sneak attack and re-enter combat. Pro tip 3: spider form... nuff said.
The Nail tip, Barrel tip, and the Waypoint tips are something that im really happy to know now.... at 40 hours into the game. Another one is the trade button on npcs. There are many Npcs that are labeled trader but don't have dialogue options for trade. Some NPCs even lose the dialogue option for trade, like the lizard-warrior trader in the cave at Fort joy. It was a while before I actually discovered that I could just run up to a trader select them and then tap the button to the left of their portrait to trade.
In the options menu you can prevent the new items appearing in the hotbar. Aldo you can prevent the desappear of the skills. Really helpful for chars with polymorph.
Note on casting before in combat: it still has a timer and will eat into your summon time much faster. A few seconds can eat up chunks of in combat time.
RealFlicke that I know... my plan was to collect small runes, combine them and slot the large rune into my equipment near the end. But since I can remove them.... I'll just slot them in as needed lol
I don't know if people already posted about your fifth tip but, another way that I found really useful is: -go to game menu; -Select options; -Go to Gameplay Settings; -Go to Automated hotbar behaviour. Here, you can select wich items you want or don't want to go to your hotbar :)
another good tip, if your party is about to fight someone but you need to talk to them first you can have say a melee fighter initiate the conversation and then have your caster or whoever else isnt in conversation use a bunch of buffs on the person in conversation before the fight starts such as haste,peace of mind, encourage etc. because the person is in conversation time has effectively stopped for them and the buffs dont run out, instead as soon as the conversation ends and combat initiates you will have a fully buffed ready to fight character and not have to wait to enter combat and waste ap buffing on your turn. this helped me win alot of fights.
The waypoint teleport of dead party members is something I wish I knew. I’m already at Arx and I would’ve benefited a lot from it had I known earlier. Thank you!
When one of your characters is speaking, you can apply buffs to it and they will not expire as long as the conversation is still going. Meaning that if you know that a dialog will lead to a fight, you can cast all your buffs to the character that launched the dialog, wait for the cooldowns, and then start the fight with a fully buffed character for free ! :)
you can even listen to the conversation with 3 out of your 4 characters (the 4rth one being the buffing one), and then you start your fights with 3 fully buffed characters. ;)
You can use the poison talon thingy to convert healing potions to poison potion. Forgot it's name but it looks like a bone finger/bone claw with poison on it.
@@CErra310 Just by logic, it's like dipping the poisonous talon into the healing potion, to pollute it (for role play sake), but yes, in the game it works in crafting without consuming the talon item.
Ps4 Edition here, you can open up the map and Teleport to any waypoint no matter where you are. Also pressing R3 will highlight whatever you can pick up.
This was actually a very nice and informative beginner's video. I came from another "beginner's" video that was the first result on youtube but the guy who made it assumed that you already knew things about the game (so not really a beginner's vid). Good job! Your video should be the 1st result.
Few little exploits and tricks at the start of the game (mild spoilers): 1) If you attack the magister near the door leading to Windego in the tutorial boat, you enter combat and Windego insta-kills everyone as per usual. Except this time, you get all the experience for the dead magisters. 2) If you give Doctor Leste the alcohol to numb the dying man's pain, you get 250xp. If you do that, then immediately heal the dying man, you not only get that xp, but 250 more AND the item reward for saving him. 3) This one is really just a bug and not an exploit, but when you defuse the situation at the Hollow Marshes Ruined Castle, your summons can kill the targets in the second encounter near the shrine itself without actually initiating combat. 4) You can get the Hero and Villain tags at the very start of the game by generally acting heroically, ratting out Stingtail, attacking Silence and attacking enemies before they initiate combat with you. If you defuse the situation with Kniles, for example, you can attack him out of combat and I usually get the villain tag on that encounter. 5) Because of the highground advantage when approaching the final fight of Fort Joy, you can teleport the boss to your characters and gank them without having to engage the rest of the enemies, provided you use some clever positioning. This is much less of an exploit, as it is an intended potential strategy, but it's a damn good one if you're struggling on tactician.
Played this game for the 1st time yesterday and a friend told me to watch this. SO much I didn't know/think of that I'm totally gonna go back and try now. Thanks!
What a shining example of how RUclips should work. Helpful advice everywhere in the comment section. Just learned a bunch. Went all the way to act 2 not knowing half this stuff. Thanks everyone.
About to dive into this game with my gaming buddy since we're both working at home and got some spare time due to not traveling to work (Corona Virus semi-lockdown). Can't wait... will keep us busy for quite some time ;p
Note 2: both of our girlfriends do not agree with this decision. Just to be clear ;p They know they'll not be seeing us as much these next couple of weeks/months. Since we'll be locked into our mancaves.
Looking through some old DOS2 videos just for shit and giggles and first time I come across someone else putting blanks between their categories of skills. Vindication!
Great tip about the items you pick up going to the hotbar, pisses me off when it does that. Like you, I like to organize my skills and leave a gap between.
not all your lore master facts are right. I doesnt matter who you select when you identify, the loremaster will still do it. Also the mag glass isn't used up.
^ ^ ^ -> This guy's right, like him. Least they sell for a bit.
Quackstack I am currently in a multiplayer campaign and the loremaster can identify items in other players inventory
+Ryan Ortega Think that's definitely patched! Good call. Now to patch Lucky Find and Barter so it applies to all characters when in multi-player.
Quackstack kinda wish they were used up as I have a stupid amount of them and the old elixir problem is happening "don't get rid or use them as you will want them later"
The way they made this work to my knowledge is using the identification glass on the items, (right click, identify and click on item in party member's inventory).
I like how Fane covers all his bones not to reveal he is a skeleton, but as soon as we get into a fight every enemy knows to cast a restoration on him XD
There is a mod to fix that
@@brushboss99 does it enable achievments?
you can use another mod that enables achievements while using mods
@@brushboss99 lol what magic is this but i will look out for it
modded magic
especially the class reworks by Odin on nexus
modded magic is the best
Silly tip - using a summons to destroy a locked door saves on weapon durability
or any ranged character/weapon
Just use spells or any ranged weapon or an old weapon or scrolls or barrels or grenades. So pretty much anything.
Yep thats what I do
+jazz boi laurie it didnt when i played it, about a year ago(?) maybe it does now with recent updates
Thank you
I'm a couple of hours in and I'm legit overwhelmed. This is probably the first game to do that to me. There's just so much stuff
The first act is a whole game tbh hahaha
@@ActNasty5 yeah, I'm a hundred hours in now and Arx is just so fucking big.
Thức Vũ i took a huge break after getting to act 2. Im thinking about just restarting today
I rlly want to get and stsrt this game but I’m only hesitating bc it seems complicated with just how much there is
@@Val-yq7pt don't worry. Just start. It has enough mechanics and variety to challenge you, but also enough story and quest to keep you interested. I'd say it's definitely a long term game, not the usual 30-40 hours story campaign games.
Playing as Fane makes me feel like everyone can actually tell that I am undead, but etiquette demands that they politely ignore it unless I outright show my skeleton. Then it is socially acceptable to kill me. XD
Another comment here states that as soon as combat starts, whichever member of the enemy party has the highest loremaster skill, checks all of your stats and informs the rest.
Since you can do it to them, they do it to you.
But it does raise the question of why these people with loremaster skills aren't tasked with checking peoples stats constantly, as a form of prevention or safety measures.
@@AllanEnraged if you count enemy stats, they are bloated. Larian still cant balance their game but i will forgive them somewhat since no one else is trying as hard as they do
that nails + boots blew my mind....
Scrolled down to see if somebody commented this. That tiny thing is gonna be a gamechanger :D
oh how many times it would have saved me when telling character to walk on ice...
Works in Divinity OS 1 as well
Ramza Beoulve it was in the first game and I didn't even use it then lol. Only time I did use it was when I was playing through with a friend and he made my boots slip proof after I got off for the night
I stoped playing my water wizard because I kept on slipping
Extra tip: Hoard all the bones and skulls you come across. With a mortar and pestle you can make bone dust from them which is very useful and worth a good deal.
Useful for what?
@@kosterix123snort the dust
@@joshuacruzgarza64 which button is that?
@@kosterix123S
Another great tip is that later when everything in shops costs +4k. just give free 1k gold to the shop keeper to boost your favor to 100% then every item you buy is s going to be like 1-2k cheaper than originally :)
Effectively when buing new weapons, gear and skill books you save up to 10k gold just by sacrificing that 1k at start.
Why buy when you can pickpocket!
Tom Wallen exactly. i also killed every trader before leaving fort joy. i'm not gonna be able to return anyways, so why let anyone (except the seekers) live? easy 8k + gold to start off act 2
Nelson Chow I have about 30k gold halfway through act 2 and I haven't really cheesed like that, money is plenty if you're thorough
@@terryterry4934 lol "cheesed like that" an idiotic way to attempt to sound superior to someone about video games..which is already pathetic.
Eh, you can rationalize the free 1,000 gold as becoming an investor in the shop. Cheesing would be the folks who do things at the Fort like give alcohol to the drunk guy for XP, then heal him for XP, then taunt him and slay him for a third round of XP, use his card to win the card game without revealing the source, and then murdering everyone there for more XP. Also, the wholesale slaughter of everyone in an area you'll never return to in the future.
For the hotbar management, instead of switching to a different hotbar there is an option under gameplay options you can toggle to prevent items you pick up from automatically being placed on your hotbar.
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Theres an option in settings that allow you to remove that new items get placed in your hotbar.
Thanks mate, great data!! Do you know how to pass 115 items from one character to another that is not one by one?
@@DarioDube If you play with KB/M you can't. Controllers have the option to multiselect things, though.
Yes i do :( Thanks mate.
Thank you!!!
A tip that not a lot of people know without looking at wiki sites: 48 skills are created by combining a skill book from one of the elemental types with any of the other disciplines. For instance any normal Aero book with any normal Huntsman book gives the Erratic Wisp book. If either of them is a Source skill, you get the Evasive Aura book. Simply use the crafting menu and place both books there, then combine.
Holy crap. This is HUGE news.
wow. But I suppose you still need Wiki sites to realize the list of combinations, right?
@@EujenSandu Well you can try all the combinations yourself. The wiki is just other people having done that for you.
Yeah, it was when a quest requiring a corpse explosion skillbook, then I realised how many powerful skillbooks I was missing out. Those certain skillbooks couldn't be bought, only crafted.
i fucking love this game
The nails and boots... I played the game for 80 hours and always hated ice lol
I learned that lesson in divinity 1
You can combine runes (of the same type) to make larger runes.
Also buy as many rune frames as you can get.
Ooooh, useful!
This does however also require Pixie dust, which is crafted with stardust and bonedust
Same with potions (didnt watch vid yet idk if it was mentioned)
Thank u!!
Just some additional info based on the tips shown:
2) When stealing, it's important that you try to prevent anyone from being caught. While early in the game it's not much of a problem since NPCs won't badger you if you don't have the missing item in question, but later on they will force a persuasion check on anyone they find with a stolen item in their inventory or equipped. This can be hectic in multiplayer since if you don't know if your friend is using their sticky fingers, you could get forced into combat as if you stole the item.
4) There's also a way to select a bunch of items at once, reducing the number of keystrokes/button presses when doing things like moving items to a bag or sending them to another party member. This feature can get bugged from time to time and will sometimes require the game to be reloaded before it resumes function.
5) Instead of putting up each individual item on your toolbar, you can put the bag on it and use it as a sort of quick access to avoid clutter on the toolbar with nonsensical items. Keep in mind it only makes a shortcut on the toolbar when you initially create a stack of one particular item, so there is a point to keeping at least a few common items such as Firestorm grenades or spell scrolls.
6) As an Undead, save all of your empty bottles and normal potions. You can combine Zaikk's Talon with any normal potion to turn them into poison (a must have) and you can combine any empty bottle with a barrel or ooze to create a bottle of lesser poison. Using the knowledge that combining two poisons of the same quality will grant one of a higher quality, you can fill your inventory with potions that not only heal you significantly, but also grant HP over time with the poison debuff. Additionally, be careful for any event that may remove your helmet or another piece of gear, as being undead you have to wear gear in all slots at all times and if you reveal yourself to any NPC (even story related ones) you will drop their attitude towards you to -45 and initiate combat. Keep in mind, this can happen to characters that have 100 attitude towards you, which can either be costly, or a mistake worthy of reloading your last save.
11) Combining two runes of the same quality and type along with pixie dust will upgrade them to the next rank of rune. Two major components are used in Pixie Dust's creation, Bone and Stardust Herb. Both will need to be combined with a mortar and pestle before being combined with each other, and the 4th and final rank of a rune requires a superior stardust herb.
12) It's better to gain a level inbetween each steal session with an npc. A particular character can only pickpocket from an npc once, and (usually) their items will automatically restock when you level. Sometimes skillbook vendors will even have higher rank skill books once you've leveled, so it's important not to waste a use of one of the best civil skills just so you can empty out a particular vendor of their last shiv.
13) It stands to reason that all builds should probably have access to Teleport, Netherswap, and Uncanny Evasion, all requiring 2 Aerotheuge. Additionally, you could also use a movement skill such as Tactical Retreat, Spread your Wings, Cloak and Dagger, or Phoenix Dive to move somewhere out of reach without dealing damage to a party member.
14) Migo's Ring is great as an early addition, but I'm guessing someone in your party will probably have some investment in hydrosophist early on, and it quickly wears out it's usefulness. Instead, bring the ring to Magister Yarrow on the wall near the entrance to Fort Joy to unlock the Hero tag early as well as complete her quest for a lot of experience and a randomized quest item. Additionally, if you are still wanting the ring, you can kill both Magister Yarrow and Migo for even more experience and the ring will drop as an additional reward for doing so without any future consequence.
Additionally, he mentions summoning an incarnate pre-battle, you can also have one character initiate battle and then summon your incarnate off screen and away from the fight and then controlling him so he walks in. This allows you to also sneak in for an additional action at the start of combat. If dialogue is opened before combat, you can still move freely with other characters before the fight starts, and any buffs applied to the character currently talking to the npc will not tick down, meaning you can supercharge a character before a fight as well as get your sneak attacks in during these scenarios.
Keep an eye out for perfume bottles and jars of mind maggots. Although they sell for a lot, Perfume bottles can be combined with any honey source to make a 2 turn charm grenade, and Mind Maggots can be combined with an empty grenade to create a 4 turn charm grenade. Both of these are godsends during fights since they work on any enemy as long as they have been stripped of their magic armor beforehand.
Is zaikks talon reusable?
@@CErra310 Yep ^^
Charmed is resisted by physical, not magical.
Bro THANK YOU 🙌🏽
@@adwaawddw4730 No, it's resisted by magical armor
I started playing this game yesterday and today at work I feel like a junkie. I can't focus and can't sit still. All I want is to get back to the game. I am completely addicted and I need my fix so bad.
Haha. I feel the same way. I can't get the music out of my head and keep thinking of things I can do in the game once I play again.
Late to the conversation train, but I bought this game on a steam sale a couple years ago and never played it. For some reason I kept telling myself I didn't like the play style of a "top down" rpg and so this game sat collecting virtual dust
Started playing this a few days ago and I can't put it down. This is a true RPG unlike most games that claim to be. The story is awesome, immersive and seemingly never ending. There is so many secrets, puzzles and tricks that I just can't put the game down. For the first time in a long time I want to explore every inch of the map, talk to every npc amd solve every puzzle.
Same holy shit. I played 15 hours nonstop during those last weeks. This game is a drug
Me to but Im playing it with a friend sooo... Two months in and still in act 2
@@Tomer4105 lol facts. Every time I play a game with a friend it takes 10 times as long to beat
I just discovered one really important thing that I didn't notice until now (200+ hours played): you can aim at different parts of bodies. I'm not talking about destroying the arms or legs like in other games. I'm talking about adjusting the arc of your projectile, by aiming low or high (feet vs forehead). This means that some shots that appear to be blocked can actually work.
How did it take you 200 hours to figure that out?
Hey. I just finished baldurs gatev3. And buy dos2.. just wondering.. better pick custom main. Or original main? [ I want to have. Fane red prince. Lohse.. and sebille? Or ifan? ]. I want to have an origin main. but the problem is. Origin main dont have a voice in dialogue.. and. Voice dialigue is a must have for me
@@dennywangsaputra5598your main character doesn't have voice in dialogues
I absolutely love that this series operates more on D&D rules over traditional rpg/video game rules
50 hours into the game and didn't even know half of these. Fucking great video man, keep em coming.
0:15 Bedroll
0:49 Alt+Shift
1:22 Waypoint Button
1:50 Inventory Management
2:40 Hotbar Management
3:21 Undead Quirks
4:08 Nails
4:42 Loremaster
5:10 Chest-mancer
6:03 Barrelmancy
6:56 Runes
7:24 Stealing
8:11 Teleportation
8:48 Migos Ring
9:23 Respec Your Character
9:40 Quick Hits (Bonus Tips)
I know I'm late to the party but THANK YOU
@@ElectricBlaze164 wasnt expecting a comment lol! but no worries.
Timestamps are in the description. 🤦
more informative than the quick tips gamespot and ign are making
I know right, they are on the level: "if you click on the ground, your character moves".
They mass produce videos for non-gamers
I assumed they just didn't care about this game.
IGN and Gamespot are for the casuals.
IGN and GameSpot treat their viewers like idiots. "The hotbar is used as shortcuts for spells and items." rEaLLy, No wAy!
Here's a tip if you're playing undead. On the ship there's a room with deathfog barrels that will get destroyed if you enter the room. However if you're quick enough you can pick one up before it happens. It basically makes one combat encounter against living beings trivial.
put one point into telekenesis to makes picking it up faster
Barrelmancy just blew my mind. Was wondering where I would ever be able to get poison source for food for my undead... Seemed like a rarity
If you want to poison food then just get a Zaikk's Talon instead of a barrel.
Barrelception
@Saša Šijak you can turn healing potions to poison potions
Wow. Just pick up the chest. Haha I'm kicking myself for not thinking of that. We're so trained to think in videogame logic and we get a game like this that follows fairly standard logic rules.
Loving it.
Semi-logical... I think? It definitely isn't logical to be walking around carrying multiple chests while getting into fights lol.
Well said, we are all pretty conditioned to video game logic and this game helps us think outside the box!
The game literally flashes a "pick the chest up" option...
If you've played the very first Divinity game (Divine Divinity, that is), you could pick up various chests, barrels and stuff there too. My inventory was cluttered with urns and chests, some of those were special in that when you've opened the chest in your inventory, the chest itself weighted 0 and only counted the items inside it to the overall weight.
This doesn't work in D:OS2 though, each chest has it's own weight regardless of the status it's in (well in the inventory each chest, backpack and stuff is always closed, there's no animation there).
@@Croftice1 you could use a basket in DOS 1 to nuke the end boss by putting storages inside it with countless amounts of explosive things ranging from grenades to barrels. place. shoot with fireball. wait half an hour for the game to process the spread of fire across the map; and also how much damage you just did.
the Bedroll deserves a BAFTA award, it's so good.
It;s never a bad idea to have Fane spec as a geomancer, as this allows him to cast Poison spells to heal himself while also destroying enemies' magic armor.
Using restoration skills offensively is tricky though, as they'll be on cooldown when you desperately need them in some instances. But hey, luck favors the bold
Wtf is geomancer you nerds are funny
@@Masterleechan Noobs are funny
Most videos like this have "tips" that everyone already knows. But i found this very useful. I had no idea you could combine barrels with weapons or arrowheads. Thanks!
2020 and I am just starting DOS2, I thank you for teaching me and doing it in a way that even my dumb ass can understand
I STARTED 3 WEEKS AGOO THIS GAME IS AMAZING
I'm 45 hrs in and really enjoying it, but I lost 4 of my companions after leaving the island and things got a bit more difficult for me.
started like 3 days ago, so. much. fun.
haha in character creation as we speak
@@reclessantics have fun 😉
they should replace the lodingscreen with this video. After playing for 30h, i still click every item to add them to wares. thx for the video
TheSchandauer THIS. I wish I knew about it sooner!
after 90 hours I didn't even know wares were a thing :p
You can actually modify the Hints.lsx file inside the game foolder and rewrite the hints manually to more useful ones!
@@richhaaaaard But if you already know the hints why would you need to see them.
Follow up on Migo's Ring, you can use restoration on the beat-up drunk guy near the Elf cave and get the Sparkler card from him. Then you can use that sparkler card to win the card game on the top of the fort wall. Just don't tell them how you actually got the card and you won't have to fight them. It's a pretty big chunk of gold for the start of the game.
NeoFreezz and then kill them to get the card back :) not sure if its useful anywhere else
Oh ffs. I'v done the start so many times and now i see this. =_=
well, i killed them after because they piss me off for some reason, but the card will remain as a souvenir i guess?
Killing them was always my first move XD
Also if you just offer the doctor some alcohol and go about your way, the drunk guy will evetually just die and you can take the sparkler card at this point.
Quite a few things I didn't know and notice.. like use the way points from anywhere, jesus. But most of all I want to thank you for a video that doesn't start with 1 minute of subscribe/shit music/what's up guys this is xyz etc. Nicely explained, to the point and easy to listen to so THANKS.
Nails tips are lit af
careful putting posion on your weapon, if you fight undead your going to be healing them with hits, its not a lot of health but it may just be enough for them to live 1 more turn :)
Always good to have a few weapons for your melee characters so you can use the best ones for the enemy type, especially if you're going to embue them with elemental.
If you're going to fight undead, there's always Restoration, your best friend. There should also be a talent, that improves healing spells and potions, should work on undead to deal greater damage that way. Not sure though.
@@Croftice1 Leveling Hydrophist increases healing and water damage and magic armor gained by 5% from skills and potions per point. But yea there is no Talent for healing, just Living Armor to also gain 35% of healing as magic armor.
Another tip. How to teleport yourself as it seem that you need a target to do so. Well, if you keep the black cat alive, once you leave fort Joy, it will become a summon spell with the possibility to swap place with you. This is usefull when you want to play the game in lone wolf mode with a party member of one.
2 points in ranger and in metamorph also gives you similar movement possibilities, with the jump and fly skills. Having those 2 if you're playing a solo lone wolf seems a go-to to me, even if you're not specing in those.
Nebula Jumper -You can actually have lone wolf perk active with one companion (a party member alongside your main character).
I know. That's why I wrote "if you want to play with a party of one" :)
Or you could just put points into marksman or scoundrel, especially if you're in lone wolf.
Yea... I ended that cat's life so quick
Damn, I liked these crafting tips. All my 82 hours of crafting were about turning healing potions into poison. Thanks for that. It would be great to see part 2 of these.
Thanks Quackstack, as someone who was late to the party, this was super useful! Also, you have chosen the BEST pokemon for your avatar.
Tip: Pressing O will bring up the tactical overhead view and highlights enemies in red. Especially useful when there are things obscuring your view, i.e. smoke, foliage, etc.
@Daniel Worden not hard to just press a key
This video makes me want to start a new game instead of continuing the one Im playing now.
Well I just did that. My Lohse being near the finale is now on hiatus, while I started another Lohse run with different party members from the beginning. XD
@@Croftice1 you can use old characters in a new game???
I never thought about just teleporting once I had a barrel (specifically an Ooze barrel) and storing it there. That makes so much sense! I loved this vid, man. Great job!
Holy crap thank you. I wasn't expecting a ton out of this, but almost every single thing on here was super useful. There's so much to this game it's nuts
Hands down one of the most fun RPGs I've played! Just started it up again.
Playing for almost 50 hours and I was walking to every waypoint instead of using that button near minimap...
Damn im sorry
probably why you were at 50 hours lol
I am at 100 and that's because I don't rush the game
Me too :(
I wish I knew that.
It's nice to know the Bedrolls are infinite use. I've been hoarding them and I only needed 4 (or even just 1.)
You need only one for the whole party, but I also keep 4, each member gets one in case they got separated for any reason.
@@Croftice1you can move the bedroll or any other item between the characters at any time, even if they are separated.
Here after buying it with the winter deals in steam! Thank you so much
I bought the game and played a few hours and was really enjoying it but a lot of things just slowed it down for me. The bedroll thing is going to be a campaign saver and the way point is amazing
This is an awesome video! I'd have never been able to guess these tips myself thanks a lot
Hey man, just wanted to say that these tips still hold up! Especially the Barrel tips. You're a hero!
My God, you're doing the Lord's work man. THank you
If you have a rogue in your party or someone you dont want taking damage. Get a bunch of empty potion bottles (you can find them on potion racks) and pick any chantarelle mushrooms you come across (you can also tell the boy on the boat to look for them) combining the two gives you an invisibility potion so you wont take damage that round.
Also combining nails on any boot will prevent your characters from slipping on ice. Useful if you have an hydrosophist enchanter in your party that specializes in frost.
This was very helpful. I'm currently playing and absolutely loving this game. I'm lost as a goose at times and I'm sure I've missed certain quests and started others out of order but I'm having a blast lol.
I did not notice the waypoint button. Holy fuck haha
Mr. Venator. Yea me2 after 80 hours of walking to waypoints to travel it's a really big help
Same here, i was pretty far in the game when i found out....i got mindblown.
I have over 100 hours annnnd didn't know until last night. Knowing about the teleport rez thing would have saved me a fair amount of reloads. #thestruggle
Kylie at the start I encountered the witch that slaved a Dragon and was only able to kill her without all the other mobs. Than I fled with the only remaining survivor and came back with ressurection scrolls later, trying to escape with all the ressurected characters. This all thing took me about 2 hours and I could just use a teleporter. Wow.
WHAT? YOU CAN DIRECTLY BALANCE THE GOLD AMOUNT WHEN TRADING WITH ONE CLICK? It was so annoying dragging that gold and adjusting the gold while holding the mouse button. OMG this changes everything!
.........
you are not alone... it also took me some time to figure this out. but its actually better to give the trader a little bit more each time to save a lot later
Nobody told me about this feature. The game doesnt tell it and videos like these "Tips and Tricks" do neither. I found it by accident while watching.
XWurstbrotX No one should have to tell you, its quite obvious
fixer10091994 I pressed it once and nothing happend. So i guessed its for something else xD
Pro tip 1: When you have a conversation, use your melee guy. Leave the ranged guys behind in sneak mode so they all get to pop sneak attacks in one of the melee guys turn.
Pro tip 2: use jump abilities to disengage out of combat, refill your heath, reload cooldowns and refill source before you pop pff a new sneak attack and re-enter combat.
Pro tip 3: spider form... nuff said.
what is spider form ?
@@abilovestotrade polymorph skill option
man this is really realllllly helpful, thanks alot mate.
The Nail tip, Barrel tip, and the Waypoint tips are something that im really happy to know now.... at 40 hours into the game. Another one is the trade button on npcs. There are many Npcs that are labeled trader but don't have dialogue options for trade. Some NPCs even lose the dialogue option for trade, like the lizard-warrior trader in the cave at Fort joy. It was a while before I actually discovered that I could just run up to a trader select them and then tap the button to the left of their portrait to trade.
Me at 90+ hours and I still didn’t know half of these haha
Same lol. 80 hours into the game and I didn’t know like half the things he said.
I was 80 hrs into the game when I found out about the bed roll😂😂. Restoring health with wine and apples was a pain in the arse
In the options menu you can prevent the new items appearing in the hotbar. Aldo you can prevent the desappear of the skills. Really helpful for chars with polymorph.
THANK YOU...I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed and this was VERY helpful, especially with the time stamps too! totally subscribed.
Super helpful video, thanks.
This is the absolute hardest game I've ever played, I needed this video SOOOO bad LoL thank you
Note on casting before in combat: it still has a timer and will eat into your summon time much faster. A few seconds can eat up chunks of in combat time.
The barrel combinations are insane I did not know. Thank you!
You can remove runes from armour? Great now I feel stupid too -_-
You can also combine them to bigger ones. Its also best to buy every single rune frame and every single rune if you have enough money.
RealFlicke that I know... my plan was to collect small runes, combine them and slot the large rune into my equipment near the end. But since I can remove them.... I'll just slot them in as needed lol
Yes but you can't remove frames from runes as far as I know.
RealFlicke frames?
They add additional properties to runes an can be bought from merchants later in the game.
I don't know if people already posted about your fifth tip but, another way that I found really useful is:
-go to game menu;
-Select options;
-Go to Gameplay Settings;
-Go to Automated hotbar behaviour.
Here, you can select wich items you want or don't want to go to your hotbar :)
another good tip, if your party is about to fight someone but you need to talk to them first you can have say a melee fighter initiate the conversation and then have your caster or whoever else isnt in conversation use a bunch of buffs on the person in conversation before the fight starts such as haste,peace of mind, encourage etc. because the person is in conversation time has effectively stopped for them and the buffs dont run out, instead as soon as the conversation ends and combat initiates you will have a fully buffed ready to fight character and not have to wait to enter combat and waste ap buffing on your turn. this helped me win alot of fights.
Amazing feels like i knew almost none of these thanks my man
Damn so many great tips dude thanks! :) Did not know that about the posion barrels or about combining potions for bigger ones!
The first tips video where I find everything to be useful and informative. Good job!
The waypoint teleport of dead party members is something I wish I knew. I’m already at Arx and I would’ve benefited a lot from it had I known earlier.
Thank you!
Holy crap dude, this was incredibly informative! Thanks for sharing and getting straight to the point!
When one of your characters is speaking, you can apply buffs to it and they will not expire as long as the conversation is still going.
Meaning that if you know that a dialog will lead to a fight, you can cast all your buffs to the character that launched the dialog, wait for the cooldowns, and then start the fight with a fully buffed character for free ! :)
you can even listen to the conversation with 3 out of your 4 characters (the 4rth one being the buffing one), and then you start your fights with 3 fully buffed characters. ;)
140hrs in this game and still learned a few things from this... Thanks!
"I like to leave gaps between skills..."
Me: _instant like_
super useful info! Watched it before I got the game, and watching it again now that I understand some of the tips
You can use the poison talon thingy to convert healing potions to poison potion. Forgot it's name but it looks like a bone finger/bone claw with poison on it.
zaikks talon
Is it reusable?
Chris yes
@@CErra310 Just by logic, it's like dipping the poisonous talon into the healing potion, to pollute it (for role play sake), but yes, in the game it works in crafting without consuming the talon item.
This is the most helpful video I've found on this game, this is so great, thanks for taking the time, very nice!
9/01/2019 Still being useful Thanks! lol
I love how the syrinscape fight music is the chosen music for underneath the narration. well done sir
You can also attack a chest to break it open. The items will not be destroyed
Ps4 Edition here, you can open up the map and Teleport to any waypoint no matter where you are. Also pressing R3 will highlight whatever you can pick up.
Just started the game and this just increased my hype level
This was actually a very nice and informative beginner's video. I came from another "beginner's" video that was the first result on youtube but the guy who made it assumed that you already knew things about the game (so not really a beginner's vid). Good job! Your video should be the 1st result.
Few little exploits and tricks at the start of the game (mild spoilers):
1) If you attack the magister near the door leading to Windego in the tutorial boat, you enter combat and Windego insta-kills everyone as per usual. Except this time, you get all the experience for the dead magisters.
2) If you give Doctor Leste the alcohol to numb the dying man's pain, you get 250xp. If you do that, then immediately heal the dying man, you not only get that xp, but 250 more AND the item reward for saving him.
3) This one is really just a bug and not an exploit, but when you defuse the situation at the Hollow Marshes Ruined Castle, your summons can kill the targets in the second encounter near the shrine itself without actually initiating combat.
4) You can get the Hero and Villain tags at the very start of the game by generally acting heroically, ratting out Stingtail, attacking Silence and attacking enemies before they initiate combat with you. If you defuse the situation with Kniles, for example, you can attack him out of combat and I usually get the villain tag on that encounter.
5) Because of the highground advantage when approaching the final fight of Fort Joy, you can teleport the boss to your characters and gank them without having to engage the rest of the enemies, provided you use some clever positioning. This is much less of an exploit, as it is an intended potential strategy, but it's a damn good one if you're struggling on tactician.
Played this game for the 1st time yesterday and a friend told me to watch this. SO much I didn't know/think of that I'm totally gonna go back and try now. Thanks!
I played the alpha about 5 times, and completed it two times to completion... I didn't know all of these things, great video.
You completed it to completion. Incredible.
What a shining example of how RUclips should work. Helpful advice everywhere in the comment section. Just learned a bunch. Went all the way to act 2 not knowing half this stuff. Thanks everyone.
“just pick up the chest”
Oh yeah..... i forgot about that
This is easily the greatest tips video, not only is the video informative but the comments are just packed with extra great tips 😁
Man, and I thought this game was complicated already.
Short, to the point, with pertinent video demonstration. I like you.
OMG THE BED-ROLL ! You saved my life thank you sooooooooooo Much !
First thing I learned in the first five minutes playing the game. 😂
@@woolgum i played for like 2 days before i found out.....
Love that you make a video for the very sake of sharing information. Timestamps! I love you
About to dive into this game with my gaming buddy since we're both working at home and got some spare time due to not traveling to work (Corona Virus semi-lockdown). Can't wait... will keep us busy for quite some time ;p
Note 2: both of our girlfriends do not agree with this decision. Just to be clear ;p They know they'll not be seeing us as much these next couple of weeks/months. Since we'll be locked into our mancaves.
The barrel tip is life-changing. Thank you
Looking through some old DOS2 videos just for shit and giggles and first time I come across someone else putting blanks between their categories of skills. Vindication!
Same! I also sometimes sort my skilled based on color for easy memorization
Skills*
i even go further and categorize them if they are utility or damage or other
thank you for the tips. your video is well done, not annoying like 99% of the other guys, and very informative. really appreciate it. sub for you.
The bedroll... I’ve already finished my playthrough, so the depression is settling in over the wasted time casting Restoration. 😭
I was amazed the first time I had the theory of teleporting a chest & it worked. Sold me on the game honestlyx
Auto sort is really useful unless you are like me and 1 person is holding 90% of everything you pick up
Lol, 99% for me.
Great video. I'm glad I saw these before sinking more hours into the game.
Did the Definitive Edition make it so magnifying glasses don't get consumed? Cause I've used the same one for probably 100 identifications
It is fixed.
Great tip about the items you pick up going to the hotbar, pisses me off when it does that. Like you, I like to organize my skills and leave a gap between.
Here as D3 died at Blizzcon 2018...