pillars of eternity 2 cipher build reddit

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#Pillars of eternity 2 cipher build reddit update#

The Thunder Rolled is a great control/debuff spell targeting reflex and it even does decent damage, it can get +15 accuracy with the update so it remains always good Reason for not getting Whisper of Treason from the start: at a certain point/focus level you may (or not) want to replace Whisper of Treason (pros: cheap) with Puppet Master (not so cheap, but better) Level 1: Psion: Soul Shock, Troubadour: The Thunder Rolled You have so many good spells you can try it's hard to choose, but as the level 1 is the most difficult as you can't respec it, I'd say

If the enemy is not super tough/risky you can wait to have high focus and then go out of stealth and spam cipher spells ascendant style Well, it is normally a pure-caster build (with the exceptions of some hard-to-penetrate megabosses with which you may prefer to use monastic unarmed training fists) centered on controlling the battle field with always-up summons with brisk recitation and always recharging chants/spells, summing the summons damage with the cipher spells control and damage (as controllable summons make you able to use a lot of spells targeting them) while possibly keeping player (and Vela if you play with Hylea challenge) away from damageīasically you try to start from stealth placing a trap/a bomb, keep stealth at least until your perma-summons are up, then according to enemy difficulty you keep the summons up from stealth and improve them with fast casting of things like pain link (25% always hit damage back), lately Tactical Meld. Any interesting synergies? What were the harder / hardest fights? If you don't want to micromanage that, a psion or a properly built beguiler can get you focus in less-PEN-dependent ways.Ĭould u elaborate a little on your psion/trobadour build? Gearing and skill set wise? I’m theory crafting that Sasha’s singing scimitar and least unstable coil will have some fun stuff at least. I think the big thing to be worried about on PotD is PEN, because most cipher approaches require damaging the enemy with weapons, and if you don't manage your PEN and enemy AR situation, you're going to be in a world of frustration. On PotD especially, giving a gigantic -4 PEN penalty to basically every enemy on the battlefield along with no engagement capability is a gigantic survivability boost all enemy casters also get weaker, and in certain fights is just utterly ruinous (where enemies might have a weakness: intellect). an underappreciated power is Mind Plague - basically battle-wide confusion and dazing for huge durations. Even a tier 1 charm is useful in to the end-game. Obv, there's the fact that even a multiclass cipher gets brilliant, as ciphers have a lot of really good powers. I don't know what you read that ciphers are underpowered, but ciphers are definitely not.