Divinity Original Sin

Rasseru · 5 Jul 2017 at 20:12

I'm not going mad, can anyone work this out:

I want to do cripple (no 6). I have 6 AP and moving 3 will get me to the enemy. Cipple hasnt got the red flag which means I have enough AP, right?

WRONG! I move 3 spaces and it goes black (?) not red flagged like the hand (no.2)

Then I look at it and its AP 6, so 4 + 2, i'm guessing thats why it goes black? but why doesnt the red flag tell me I cant do the damn spell? means those flags are completely pointless.

Its making it annoying confusing.

Pighardia · 5 Jul 2017 at 23:05

Cripple needs 6 points to use. You had 6, used 3 to move then had 3 left, so not enough to use cripple.

Rasseru · 5 Jul 2017 at 23:53

Pighardia said:
Cripple needs 6 points to use. You had 6, used 3 to move then had 3 left, so not enough to use cripple.

Yes. but why didnt it tell me that like the other skills? the red corner flag means 'too many AP to use', correct?

in the heat of the battle I have been getting by with making a move as long as the red corner flag hasnt appeared I can make that move.

'The red icon means that if you move as far as your mouse pointer is on, you can no longer cast that spell. If you have 7AP and a spell costs 6AP, your skill will get that "Red Corner" if you move your mouse in such a way that your movement will leave you with less than 6AP'

You can clearly see me with 3 moves and no red flag, thats my point - weird stuff has been happening with my moves getting blacked out and I dont know why, here I caught one to show

SPG · 6 Jul 2017 at 09:25

Never had any issues

AP covers everything you do. Can't remember if you do not use AP it carries over been a long time since I played it.

Rasseru · 6 Jul 2017 at 10:20

SPG said:
Never had any issues

AP covers everything you do. Can't remember if you do not use AP it carries over been a long time since I played it.

Yeah it does. I seem to have a bug where some skills arent getting the red flag treatment causing me to make silly mistakes. Annoying when i'm trying to punch above my weight

Glanza · 6 Jul 2017 at 10:38

They ran this on GDQ this morning , two of them took 35 minutes to complete the game.

Rasseru · 6 Jul 2017 at 12:03

Glanza said:
They ran this on GDQ this morning , two of them took 35 minutes to complete the game.

really? lol thats crazy

DEL 707 · 8 Jan 2018 at 20:24

Sorry to ressurect and old thread, but with the whole hoo-ha of number 2 being out, me and a mate picked up no.1 to do some co-op.

Started off great, got to the 1st town found out about the

dragon eating space and time, why is it always a dragon?

but the game just isn't biting for me, a lot of talking and not much action to back it up so far.

I know we're still pretty much at the beginning, but how long before things start to pick up? I'm scraping for a good turn based fight!

strumpusplunket · 9 Jan 2018 at 11:50

As I recall (and it's been a while), it's not until after you leave Cyseal that the action actually ramps up.

Radox-0 · 9 Jan 2018 at 12:13

DEL 707 said:
Sorry to ressurect and old thread, but with the whole hoo-ha of number 2 being out, me and a mate picked up no.1 to do some co-op.

Started off great, got to the 1st town found out about the

dragon eating space and time, why is it always a dragon?

but the game just isn't biting for me, a lot of talking and not much action to back it up so far.

I know we're still pretty much at the beginning, but how long before things start to pick up? I'm scraping for a good turn based fight!

There is a fair bit of interaction at the start (and throughout tbh) but more so at start while you get the foundation laid. There are however some missions and zones outside the main city walls. The zone's are levelled, so at the start you want to exit through the north west which has lowest level enemies. There is also some quests inside the town itself which will level you up.

ic1male · 25 Jan 2018 at 17:27

Yeah, I’m not really feeling it either. Only just reached the town so exploring there but digging up a pile of dirt reveals a creature with a bomb on that blows you up? Really? That cost me half an hour of barrel looting since my last save.

Probably made a boob by not picking any characters with a healing spell.

No1newts · 9 Jun 2018 at 10:22

I'm just getting round to finish this (eventually) in Hunters Edge at the moment. I still find this impossible to play without a guide as at times the clues are insanely oblique

Want to finish this so I can give 2 a blast.

wordy · 9 Jun 2018 at 10:30

ic1male said:
Yeah, I’m not really feeling it either. Only just reached the town so exploring there but digging up a pile of dirt reveals a creature with a bomb on that blows you up? Really? That cost me half an hour of barrel looting since my last save.

Probably made a boob by not picking any characters with a healing spell.

Use the teleport skill (you should get, it’s essential really)and drop the bomber mob onto the oil barrels, takes it out and does mad aoe on the others around it.

ic1male · 9 Jun 2018 at 10:38

wordy said:
Use the teleport skill (you should get, it’s essential really)and drop the bomber mob onto the oil barrels, takes it out and does mad aoe on the others around it.

I gave up on this ages ago. Not played it since January.

wordy · 9 Jun 2018 at 13:18

ic1male said:
I gave up on this ages ago. Not played it since January.

Oh yeah, fair enough!

monkentage · 9 Jun 2018 at 15:41

DEL 707 said:
Sorry to ressurect and old thread, but with the whole hoo-ha of number 2 being out, me and a mate picked up no.1 to do some co-op.

Started off great, got to the 1st town found out about the

dragon eating space and time, why is it always a dragon?

but the game just isn't biting for me, a lot of talking and not much action to back it up so far.

I know we're still pretty much at the beginning, but how long before things start to pick up? I'm scraping for a good turn based fight!

It took me hours to get into it. It's worth it though.

TheSwede · 29 Jan 2019 at 22:24

Sorry for the bump but got a question.

Just started the game to have a look around and the character creation got me a bit stumped, so many choice and so few points !

So my question is, what kind of build (rough guidelines) would be recommended for a newbie ??

Oasis1974 · 30 Jan 2019 at 12:23

Problem with games like these is starting builds are super important. Mess badly with points at the start and allocating through the game and then your just shooting yourself in the foot. That's why I spend more time looking for build advice and what not than playing the bloody game lol.

mohawk · 30 Jan 2019 at 12:51

TheSwede said:
Sorry for the bump but got a question.

Just started the game to have a look around and the character creation got me a bit stumped, so many choice and so few points ! So my question is, what kind of build (rough guidelines) would be recommended for a newbie ??

When i first played i used the totems a lot and found them extremely useful. so putting point in summoning. if you are going to do 4 characters make sure you have a high luck high lock picking character and also someone with pet pal!

TheSwede · 31 Jan 2019 at 08:31

mohawk said:
When i first played i used the totems a lot and found them extremely useful. so putting point in summoning. if you are going to do 4 characters make sure you have a high luck high lock picking character and also someone with pet pal!

Thanks, I ended up with main as a Warrior and second one as a pure mage breed. We'll see how it goes with those. I did pick pet pal though, but is lockpicking that important considering you seem to be able to break any locked chests/doors ?