Temple of Eothas?

[rolypoly]

So I just started playing, got to the first village, met an elf mage, walked around, etc etc, and decided to hit what I believed was the first dungeon of the game (after the tutorial) - Temple of Eothas (gotta find dead bodies of some priests or something?).

Was doing pretty swell, until I hit a room with 4 Skuldar (?) that surprised me (I knew I should have kept "sneaking" on all the time, but it's so slooooow).

Anyway, My main character is a Paladin, so I think quickly, and place him in the middle of the doorway into that room. At first it works, the Skuldar can't seem to pass around him, and this allows that mage I picked up to do some nice damage, but then something weird happens, my paladin decides to run away from his spot for some reason, this allows the enemies to bumrush my mage, and then attack my paladin from all sites and I'm dead. Hm.

Ok, let's watch some youtube videos - > search "pillars of eternity temple of eothas" and.... what the heck? First few videos I see... there are parties of 4! What? How? Did I miss something? Where did they get more party members? Or are they just going back to this after playing further into the game?

Even more surprising was the last video I watched, they didn't have 4 Skuldar, they had only one Skuldar WHELP in that room ...

[Seven Fates]

I'm also a newbie and going through that same dungeon right now, and even with five characters I'm getting the crap kicked out of me. I know exactly why it's happening, but can't do much about it. Even with a party of five, the fact that I have two wizards and a priest is my problem. The cipher isn't so bad, but the fighter simply can't keep aggro on all of the foes.

As far as party member availability, go do the event triggered by sleeping in the inn, and then go out to the tree. After taking care of what happens there, you'll meet up with Edar, whom you may even have spoken to once already. From there, head south out of town and into Magran's Fork. Keep to the road if you don't wanna get bum-rushed by wolves, and you'll find yourself at a little shrine, and you'll meet another possible companion: the priest. Head east through the Black Meadow and into the Ruin of Caed Nua and you'll meet another companion: the Chanter. (Edit, it's late and I can't brain.)

Also, don't be afraid to make use of the free room at the inn to heal your party members up. It seems cheap, but in the end it saves the limited number of camping supplies in the game for later on.

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

ya, dont do that for a bit

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

you can come back later, better belive i came with 4 peple for that bear, ♥♥♥♥ him

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

the cheery guy with shark teeth is Kana,

[Adelion]

You can always return later on. Although if you rest one time in the Inn in Gilded Vale you will have a dream and after waking up you can trigger a story event at that fun tree in the middle of the town. After that you are able to recruit Edar who is standing nearby. So you can have at least three party members the moment you enter the temple without leaving Gilded Vale.

As for the reason why your paladin left his position. There may be different causes. I'm not sure if enemies this early in game possess such abilities but there are abilities which can confuse or bewitch your party members so that you lose control (although they then have for a short time a yellow circle and not a green one). Other then that it may have been poor pathfinding. Your paladin tries to attack an enemy which is in the back row or who changed sides or anything and he changed his position in accordance allowing the other enemies a breakthrough.

As for the number of enemies. That is dependent on difficulty. The higher the difficulty the more enemies there are and vice versa (with the exception of Story Mode which has more but easier to beat enemies then easy mode).

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

You may also "hire adventurers" at any inn, such as the one in Gilded Vale. Hired adventurers are full companions you create yourself. It costs a bit of money, but Heodan pays a lot for the junk you find early.

Difficulty mode also replaces weaker Skuldr Whelps with adult Skuldrs, or even inserts more than one Skuldr King into an ambush.

Better do the temple a bit later. There is no time limit for side-quests.

[rolypoly]

Thanks guys, all those tips really helped out. I got 4 party members now and I am guessing half-way through the lower levels of the dungeon now.

Yeah I'm playing on just Normal difficulty, didn't realize that was supposed to be difficult?

[Chigen Atomic]

Hadn't even thought to go ahead, it was fairly easy for me, I am playing on Easy until I finally beat the game though. Long as I quit restarting

[Gankmeister]

I make my own party at the inn like D'amarr says, fills the gaps til you find the games pre made characters.

[rolypoly]

Is there a max number of characters?

[la_nague]

normal isnt diffcult, normal is normal dont worry.

check your AI settings for your characters.


and you can have 6 total people in your party.

Priest warrior mage paladin can be your party from very early on, you can make more at the tavern or play until you meet story party members. You could for example make one more ranged damage dealer like a cipher, those help a lot in fights because their autoattack is strong and their spells not limited by resting.

[rolypoly]

What should the AI settings be? I had actually disabled them on all

My party is Paladin myself, mage and warrior from the two characters you pick up, and I hired from the tavern first a rogue (which I don't find very useful unless used at range, cause it just dies in one hit from anything if it goes into melee), and now I hired another Ranger with a bear, which is a lot more useful.