Single or Multiclass? Which subclasses?

[John Reese]

First, I must admit I was not too deep into the character creation in the first game. I usually play a fighter with lots of health points and damage.

Now this multiclassing gives us several options and with all the subclasses even more. For sure my primary class will be a fighter. The second is most likely going to be druid. But I'm unsure if I got all the subclasses right, due to the lack of stats up to now. Maybe someone can help me with the subclasses?

For the others: I'm also interested which options are you interested in?

Greets

[LOLO]

https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Classes



my suggestion
Unbroken+Goldpact Knights
Devoted + Assassin
Black Jacket +Sharpshooter( Dual Blunderbusses )

[wendigo211]

I think I'll probably try either:
Beguiler+Assassin (Immobilize, then shank)
Soul Blade+Devoted (All about weapon based DPS)
Ascendant+Barbarian (could be insane if Carnage helps you gain focus.)

I love Ciphers since Psions aren't represented all that often in fantasy RPGs, so some kind of Cipher will be my first character. I just hope that multiclassing and spliting power sources doesn't weaken multiclass characters compared to pure classes.

[hairyscotsman]

Holy Slayer (Paladin + Rogue) has reminded me thematically of the 4th Edition Avenger, a divine striker class. The class that rolled 2d20 and took best to hit, the idea 5th used for advantage and 13th Age took for Barbarian rage.

[alrik1119]

Barbarian/Rogue will be my choice.

[Anillius]

I'll go for Herald. Paladin/chanter. Referring to the first game, I love paladin as the boss and main character of my party. Chanterwise, I feel like chanter is somehow not a solid class by itself and must shine in multiclassing. Skald is probably gonna be my choice as a subclass of chanter and looks good for a first line DD. I havent participated to backer beta to test it though.
I have doubts if any of those class have fun game changer high level skills, which is not possible to get if multiclassing.
We'll see soon. In any case I loved PoE, and Im sure I'll love deadfire too. I'll figure out the best multiclass/subclass combination for me -as everyone- over 1000 possibilities. So overly hyped...

[John Reese]

@LOLO
Unbroken + Goldpact Knight sounds interesting as I had a great relationship to them. Would fit imho. I'm not even sure why I consider a druid as the second option. Maybe because of the ability to shift.

@wendigo211
Your options sound interesting, which is your favorite?

@hairyscotsman
Which subclasses will you choose - or are you waiting for the release and choose while you create your chacracter?

@alrik1119
Which subclasses do you peer at?

@Anil
Sounds also interesting - all those choices give us a variety of options

[wendigo211]

John Reese の投稿を引用：

@wendigo211
Your options sound interesting, which is your favorite?

If carnage helps to build focus, I'll probably go with the Ascendant Barbarian. It seems like it would be pretty OP, so I would expect them to nerf it when they do the first balance pass (and OEI was nerf crazy with PoE). Since I plan to do my first playthrough on PotD, I want all the power I can get.

If it doesn't work probably the Beguiler+Assassin. My experience with PotD in PoE taught me that controllers are golden on that difficulty and Beguiler seems like it might be the best controller.

[John Reese]

wendigo211 の投稿を引用：

John Reese の投稿を引用：

@wendigo211
Your options sound interesting, which is your favorite?

If carnage helps to build focus, I'll probably go with the Ascendant Barbarian. It seems like it would be pretty OP, so I would expect them to nerf it when they do the first balance pass (and OEI was nerf crazy with PoE). Since I plan to do my first playthrough on PotD, I want all the power I can get.

If it doesn't work probably the Beguiler+Assassin. My experience with PotD in PoE taught me that controllers are golden on that difficulty and Beguiler seems like it might be the best controller.

Controllers seemed to be really mighty under certain circumstances in POE. Maybe you can give us an insight, when you tried your choices.
I personally prefer a more active part in combat.

[John Reese]

D'amarr from Darshiva の投稿を引用：

Not going to spoil myself with regard to PoE 2, but I've pushed a female Priest of Eothas through PoE and WM1+2 and hope that will lead to something in PoE 2.

May I ask what you focused on in your character development? Which abilities e.g.? Will you import your savegame to PoE 2?

Greets

[Salamander]

Enjoying a monk in this go round with Poe (w/white March this time). Very powerful attacker so I don’t think will get too watered down if I tack on a second class. Chanter is my choice, as I’d like something spell based for entertainment and it’s good to have your chanter at the front line as the radius is small.

[Hariwulf]

This is a RPG, every class or combination of classes will allow you to finish the game.

That said:
- You can play 1 class to achieve max class potential.
- You can mix classes with good synergies (aka relying on same attributes) to complement your build with more options.
- You can also mix with totally unrelated classes, since you may want some abilities of another class without spreading your stats thin, that will work too.
- You can wildly mix and match for crazy utility.

Just have fun and do what sounds more fun to you. Role play!