Stuck at Act 2

[Cyber Diver]

I explored 70% of the island already but everything is lv13 and it keeps kicking my ass! I barely managed to get to lv 11 and everything just seems to out-level me. Is this normal?

[Disco]

Do quests and level up, shop owners will restock better, higher level gear as you do.

[JebKerman]

Might be a bit spoilery but here's a level map of act 2: https://divinityoriginalsin2.vidyawiki.com/Areas+By+Level#gallery-2
General gist is, you should be able to take on pretty much everything in Driftwood itself, the Cliffs West of it, and the Cemetery to the East of it pretty easily, Most of the areas to the North of these regions, while still on the mainland, should be doable as well (barring some level 14s and 15s).

[Cyber Diver]

Originally posted by JebKerman:

Might be a bit spoilery but here's a level map of act 2: https://divinityoriginalsin2.vidyawiki.com/Areas+By+Level#gallery-2
General gist is, you should be able to take on pretty much everything in Driftwood itself, the Cliffs West of it, and the Cemetery to the East of it pretty easily, Most of the areas to the North of these regions, while still on the mainland, should be doable as well (barring some level 14s and 15s).

Oh man thanks. This is just the stuff I'm trying to look for.
Oh and spoilers below













How do I deal with the assassins? They KO'd half my party in just the first turn.

[Qiox]

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

I explored 70% of the island already but everything is lv13 and it keeps kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ I barely managed to get to lv 11 and everything just seems to out-level me. Is this normal?

What level were you when you got to the island?

You should normally be level 9 on arrival and about half way to 10. Then just in town you get a full level putting you at 10 and half. Then you go do the caves to the West and finish that area at 12 and a half. At that point you should have no trouble starting in on Black Pits even though they are 13. You will get that level fairly quick to even things out.

[Martial.Lore]

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

How do I deal with the assassins? They KO'd half my party in just the first turn.

Respec on the Lady Vengeance a couple of your party members with enough summoning skill to utilize dominate mind skill. That or love grenades or charming arrows can be a big help when you are facing tough opponents.

[Cyber Diver]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

I explored 70% of the island already but everything is lv13 and it keeps kicking my♥♥♥♥♥ I barely managed to get to lv 11 and everything just seems to out-level me. Is this normal?

What level were you when you got to the island?

You should normally be level 9 on arrival and about half way to 10. Then just in town you get a full level putting you at 10 and half. Then you go do the caves to the West and finish that area at 12 and a half. At that point you should have no trouble starting in on Black Pits even though they are 13. You will get that level fairly quick to even things out.

Oh yeah I was level 9 when I got there. I made it to the entrance mainly because there are 2 magister helped the fighting.

Originally posted by Martial.Lore:

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

How do I deal with the assassins? They KO'd half my party in just the first turn.

Respec on the Lady Vengeance a couple of your party members with enough summoning skill to utilize dominate mind skill. That or love grenades or charming arrows can be a big help when you are facing tough opponents.

That's what I feared I screwed up my build and now I'm broke and got no money to buy tomes. Charming ignores magic armor right? Then that'd be a big help indeed.

[JebKerman]

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

Originally posted by Martial.Lore:

Respec on the Lady Vengeance a couple of your party members with enough summoning skill to utilize dominate mind skill. That or love grenades or charming arrows can be a big help when you are facing tough opponents.

That's what I feared I screwed up my build and now I'm broke and got no money to buy tomes. Charming ignores magic armor right? Then that'd be a big help indeed.

Charm is blocked by magic armour (so you will need to remove it for them to be effective). Kinda curious how you've wound up broke, mind giving a run down of your team?

[Cyber Diver]

Originally posted by JebKerman:

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

That's what I feared I screwed up my build and now I'm broke and got no money to buy tomes. Charming ignores magic armor right? Then that'd be a big help indeed.

Charm is blocked by magic armour (so you will need to remove it for them to be effective). Kinda curious how you've wound up broke, mind giving a run down of your team?

Fane- Necromancer, Summoner and a part time healer
Wolf guy- Huntsman, polymorph
Generic skele rogue- Full time rogue
Red Prince- 3/2 Warfare and 3/1 pyroknetic

I wanted Fane to be a Necromancer Paladin I was trying to build half way through the game and then I wind up spending my reserves and retirement fund to buy heavy physical armor. Then I realize I don't have enough money to buy skills.
I'm so used to other rpgs like shadowrun and the first divinity where you mainly had to focus on a couple skills and can basically ignore the other skills. I learnt that from the first shadowrun game, where I ended up as multi-classing every class and I couldn't pass any skill check or let alone hitting anything in late-game. Multi-classing is such a foreign concept to me ever since, because everytime I just ended up screwing up all my characters. It's kinda frustrating for me. Eh maybe I start a new game and just play explorer.

[Martial.Lore]

Respec a character with high level thievery and steal what you need. There are lots of people to steal from, including the skill books you need. Steal money or things to sell, and sell loot using a character respecced to high level bartering. The game is really quite forgiving if you know how to make use of all of its mechanics. Don't give up!

[ColorsFade]

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

Fane- Necromancer, Summoner and a part time healer
Wolf guy- Huntsman, polymorph
Generic skele rogue- Full time rogue
Red Prince- 3/2 Warfare and 3/1 pyroknetic

I wanted Fane to be a Necromancer Paladin I was trying to build half way through the game and then I wind up spending my reserves and retirement fund to buy heavy physical armor. Then I realize I don't have enough money to buy skills.
I'm so used to other rpgs like shadowrun and the first divinity where you mainly had to focus on a couple skills and can basically ignore the other skills. I learnt that from the first shadowrun game, where I ended up as multi-classing every class and I couldn't pass any skill check or let alone hitting anything in late-game. Multi-classing is such a foreign concept to me ever since, because everytime I just ended up screwing up all my characters. It's kinda frustrating for me. Eh maybe I start a new game and just play explorer.

I've posted a whole series on the game. If there's a particular fight you want to see, just check the titles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU45meQEKY&list=PL4hv-Mbo-IfWUkBfmSbI2SViSova2fVh3&index=25&t=1s

Your party makeup would be tough, for me. I think you're kind of making it difficult on yourself. But that's just my opinion. If it works for you, that's cool.

[Cyber Diver]

Originally posted by ColorsFade:

Originally posted by Cyber Diver:

Fane- Necromancer, Summoner and a part time healer
Wolf guy- Huntsman, polymorph
Generic skele rogue- Full time rogue
Red Prince- 3/2 Warfare and 3/1 pyroknetic

I wanted Fane to be a Necromancer Paladin I was trying to build half way through the game and then I wind up spending my reserves and retirement fund to buy heavy physical armor. Then I realize I don't have enough money to buy skills.
I'm so used to other rpgs like shadowrun and the first divinity where you mainly had to focus on a couple skills and can basically ignore the other skills. I learnt that from the first shadowrun game, where I ended up as multi-classing every class and I couldn't pass any skill check or let alone hitting anything in late-game. Multi-classing is such a foreign concept to me ever since, because everytime I just ended up screwing up all my characters. It's kinda frustrating for me. Eh maybe I start a new game and just play explorer.

I've posted a whole series on the game. If there's a particular fight you want to see, just check the titles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU45meQEKY&list=PL4hv-Mbo-IfWUkBfmSbI2SViSova2fVh3&index=25&t=1s

Your party makeup would be tough, for me. I think you're kind of making it difficult on yourself. But that's just my opinion. If it works for you, that's cool.

Hahahaha the party just doesn't work. Eh I deceided to start a new game and turned down the difficulty to explorer and also installed some mods too. I play games to have a good time not to frustrate myself really.

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Hi, also stuck at Act II, I don't know if I should start over, but anyway I want to continue to play on the tactician mode. Situation is I don't have very complementing spells learned and I don't have money to buy more to fix it, respec helps, but not nearly enough, I'm undergeared also. Not sure what to do.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by fredfredfredfredfredfred:

Hi, also stuck at Act II, I don't know if I should start over, but anyway I want to continue to play on the tactician mode. Situation is I don't have very complementing spells learned and I don't have money to buy more to fix it, respec helps, but not nearly enough, I'm undergeared also. Not sure what to do.

Respec each team member into thievery and go steal stuff. Repeat that with hired mercenaries if needed for more gold. Merchant inventories reset every time you level up and every hour, so you can steal, AFK an hour then repeat.