how to best deal with luminous spore?

[zayonhunter]

these things keep mind controlling my party and down right killing my melee party membners with Llengrath's teachings. they also store magic which makes them stronger i think? please help.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Intellect inspirations counter Intellect afflictions.

Your only other hope is to increase defenses, to suppress afflictions or to use items that give Resistance to Intellect afflictions, at least. Consume Svef as a last resort. If you find the recipe for Entrancing Dance, bring it to Drowsy Puke, and then you can rest at his place and gain resistance to Intellect afflictions.

[zayonhunter]

i see. thanks

[Ixoliptis]

Wael's Wind is a cheap drink sold in the wild mare (I always stock up this one) in Neketaka's Queen's Berth district, which provides immunity to intellect afflictions.

Also try blinding them (wizard's Chill Fog tends to eventually blind even the most resistant enemies due to the sheer number of its damage ticks).

[TaKo]

chanters have a phrase that gives resitance to intellect afflictions, smth like "they shielded their eyes from the fampyr's gaze"

[Baraz]

Useful tip for all (I am new myself at Deadfire) :

An Intellect Inspiration (buff) will make you immune to Confused, Charmed and Dominated for the duration. So an ability that offers Smart, Acute or Brilliant, for its duration, should protect the buffed allies. The most obvious source is from spells (mainly Priests).

Nuance : if the buff or passive is called a Resistance as such, the negative affliction is reduced by one step. So Confused is cancelled, Charmed becomes Confused, and Dominated becomes Charmed.

I wish it was much much clearer in-game, no matter what fans will say. I love Pillars of Eternity, but that system is not clear in-game and required me searching and reading a lot on the Internet.

Sources :
https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Status_effects_(Deadfire)
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/227477-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/faqs/76599/afflictions-and-inspirations

[Isokon]

Originally posted by Baraz:

I wish it was much much clearer in-game, no matter what fans will say. I love Pillars of Eternity, but that system is not clear in-game and required me searching and reading a lot on the Internet.

You could have opened the ingame cyclopedia and read the entry on afflictions. It has all the information.

[Baraz]

Originally posted by Isokon:

Originally posted by Baraz:

I wish it was much much clearer in-game, no matter what fans will say. I love Pillars of Eternity, but that system is not clear in-game and required me searching and reading a lot on the Internet.

You could have opened the ingame cyclopedia and read the entry on afflictions. It has all the information.

Well, ♥♥♥♥ ! You are right. I read the whole Tutorial section and various subsections of the Cyclopedia, but did not notice the first section called Afflictions and Inspirations. Please do not add salt: I thought I had read it all and read various sites about it.
Damn it.