7 Essential Tips For Divinity: Original Sin 2 

Are you playing Divinity: Original Sin 2? What's your best tip?

Combine your shoes with nails, it makes you immune to slipping on ice

I'm sure plenty of people have already corrected this, but I feel compelled to do so myself: You only need one Bedroll. You don't have to fill your inventory with a lot of them, just grab the one when you're still on the ship and put it onto your hotbar. Every time you're out of combat, smash that button. Instant party heals. The Bedrolls are unlimited use.

My favorite combo so far that is a little broken is to give a rogue some polymorph skill and the chicken claw ability. Get behind them, knock that armor off, used ruptured tendons then turn them into a chicken. Ruptured tendons deals damage with every step they take and a chicken just runs around aimlessly.

Use custom map markers!!! The quest system doesn't hold your hand and if you're not paying attention you might be unable to blindly follow a map marker. Mark down places of interests, quest NPCs, ANYTHING that looks interesting and you might want to come back to later. Trust me, it'll make a ton of difference.

Some experiences I've collected: 1. Decide at the very beginning what kind of weapon you want to go into (finesse, strength, intelligence...) and only level this one up out of your attributes for max damage and max out the fitting combat skills for it. In my lone wolf playthrough for example I maxed up my summoning skill and then went into some other intelligence based combat ability and kept leveling up intelligence. 2. Summoning is pretty useful, especially because you can decide whether your summons and totems damage the enemies physical or magical armor. Check what resistances the enemies have, as well as their armor stats, and based on that you place your summon. Keep different types of grenades. They do shit damage, but they are super useful for creating a surface to infuse your summon with. 3. "stun lock" powerful enemies. Focus on them first and get either their magic or physical armor down and try to keep them unable of fighting as in stunning, freezing them, knocking em down or turning them into chickens. 4. Fire and poison spells are the most useless, since both don't have an option to stun enemies. In addition, many enemies, especially eternals heal from poison. 5. Around end game, if you don't know where to spend your combat points on, put them into polymorph. It grants you attribute points, plus you can use useful polymorph skills like invisibility or skin graft (all spells cool downs are gone). 6. There is always new stuff to find. I finished my fourth playthrough today and each one I learned new things, found new stuff out and so on. It's fun to explore the different Charakters and different abilities and spells. 7. Use spirit vision!!! You can miss alot of things if not using it regularly , even little tiny details which ain't even that important, but interesting. Hope someone may finds this interesting and useful!

Here's some tricks I like 1. If your finding a combat particularly difficult you can unlink your party members to make sure they're not grouped up. More importantly of you take a high initiative character you can move him away from the group have him draw all the eyes of the enemies and then sneak your other characters around wherever you want them to be and give them a free turn. 2. Talk to NPCs with different characters gives you different dialogue options. It helps to have one character whose really good at persuasion. 3. Movement abilities are the best in the game. Whether it's speeding up your character with haste or slowing down theirs with oil make sure you're always a step ahead. 4. Focus fire is very important especially since most conditions bleeding, burning, knockdown ext can only be applied once the enemies armor (magic and regular) have been drained getting their shields down is imperative. 5. Don't be Anakin. Get to the high ground first if you can and before the fight starts is preferable you'll do more damage and have more range. 6. Unlike most RPGs divinity encourages not just Min-maxing. While you should focus on only a free attributes skills from various classes and create devastating combinations. Playing a ranger? Put a point or two in another finesse class, scoundrel, and crank up that crit multiplier and learn get a invisible skill to put you on the high ground faster. Or give your cleric some necromancy to use some of their passive skills to heal yourself while using your healing for the party. Just keep tinkering and all will fall before your might. Good luck Godwoken and have fun.

Bed rolls are unlimited use

Before you leave Fort Joy, make a note of where all the traders are. Get a character with decent Thievery 2+ is fine and go and pickpocket all the vendors, from doing this i got over 10 skill books, a couple thousand gold and about 8 resurrection scrolls. Make sure to run away as soon as possible once you've pickpocketed them though or they will chase you down and ask to search your inventory! Also when you've "finished" Fort Joy (you will know when you're ready to move on) all those Magisters are just walking around the fort... if i remember right they give 800xp each... would be a shame if something happened to them ;)

If you want to be alone or with just one companion, take “Lone Wolf.” It makes you REALLY powerful, but you can only have one teammate. It doubles your stats and increases hp and armor by 30%. Why is hp and armor not doubled to? Well, you don’t have to split as much loot. Meaning you can keep all the good stuff for yourself and your one companion.

1. Teleport spell is your best friend in abusing some fights (like getting better position before) and getting to many places. 2. After you get teleporter pyramids you can do really cute trick with them which saves a lot of time. "Unchain" character so that he can travel by waypoint alone, use waypoint to town to buy/sell/identify things, use teleporter pyramid to get back to your group.

Big change from Divinity: OS as well: NPCs notice that stolen items are missing now and will chase you down to search your party, if you don't make yourself scarce pretty sharpish

Biggest tip I can give as someone that has actually reached the end of the main story: DON'T RUSH THROUGH THE GAME. Seriously, though you might think that most sidequests are unimportant, or that you really should get on with the story, rushing through the game, keeping your aim on the main story will make the game so much worse, and by the time you reach the end, you'll have a bad taste in your mouth when you see all the hints at potential ends to game-long secondary storylines. So take your time, take your *long* time. Listen to the conversations, enjoy the music, find a toad to kiss. It'll improve it immeasurably.

DON'T take pet pal. You'll be having to tell bear cubs that their mother is dead, and putting sharks out of their misery. Its not pleasant work

Very good tips! Bonus of skeletons: your fingers are lockpicks :D Also, another tip from experience: don't rush through act 1. I kinda did and had to start over because the boss between acts was way too high level for my party. So enjoy your stay in Fort Joy, walk around, enjoy the sights.

"Also, make sure that every member of your party is carrying at least one [Resurrection Scroll] at all times. There's no point in having your main squeeze carrying them around, because if they go down, they'll take all the scroll with them." Eeeeexcept you can still use them from your avatar's inventory. Magic Pockets. It's kind of a big feature of the entire game's inventory system. You can use things from other peoples' inventories, even if they're dead.

There’s going to be fire EVERYWHERE!! Get the rain skill ASAP!

1. If one of your party members is a healer(Hydrosophist) I also advise to get them necromancer, it's an effective way to self sustain if your hydro healing spells are on cooldown. Also, necro skills scale with INT but they deal Physical damage, giving mages an extremely effective way to shave off armor on enemies at long range. If your character has both Hydro and Necro, you can get blood rain, which leads me to point 2 2. If you are playing an undead and since you can only heal yourself with either poison or necro skills, the talent Leech with the aforementioned blood rain is super effective way to heal. Ath the very most you can have 2 story driven undead characters in your team, so it's a good balance since your healer can heal both undead and living party members this way. 4. Healing spells are SUPER effective against undead, I've had my healer wipe and entire squad of undead enemies with Healing Ritual. 5 Melee fighters: Executioner talent is your BEST friend, also really effective for Rangers, trust me, that one point in warfare will be worth it. 6. Make sure one of your party members has high Wits, (Preferably the Ranger, or a Wizard with Savage Sortilege talent benefit the most), for a many helpful and necessary interactables are hidden. 7. Far out man talent for rangers and mages is a MUST. 8. Having one character some points invested in aerotheurge is very useful, because in Aero, you get nether swap, teleportation and tornado, 3 skills I find myself using very often to cross dangerous terrain or bring distant squishy enemies to striking range of my melee fighters. 9. Wizards benefit from Huntsman alot, so items that have +1 Huntsman for wizards is very useful, high ground damage boost is the shit.

Another tip is to surrender or avoid battles that are to difficult and go back later when your stronger. Enemies or areas are not scaled after you.

Please, don't mislead new players, playing an undead is overpowered. It's meta to pick an undead elf with pet pal trait. This way you will be able to: 1. Talk to animals. It often gives you a shortcut in quests. If you suspect a dude killed his wife, his cat would be the perfect witness. Might also provide you with info you never wanted to know, like how often he beats his meat. 2. Gain memory of dead people by eating their flesh. Pretty self-explanatory, also often used to open shortcuts in quests. Why wonder who is the murderer, if you, as an elf, can bite into the victim's butt and know for sure it was the butler who killed her? 3. Pretend being someone else. Undead can make and wear a mask that turns you into a creature of any of the playable races. Once again, very helpful, since more than half the people you meet on your way will be racist and will gladly tell their fellow racist secrets they keep from the pesky elves/dwarves/humans/lizards. 4.1 Get your "health" potions with zero effort. The living need ingredients for health potions, so they often crawl around woods searching for the right mushrooms. Undead can just haul around a barrel of poison and pour its' endless contents into vials. 4.2 There's items and spells that turn nearly any liquid into poison, simultaneously healing your undead ass and poisoning enemies, who just a second ago were sighing in relief they put out that huge fire with some water. 5. Play dead. Undead are basically animated corpses - they don't breath, they don't blink, their hands aren't shaking uncontrollably. All it takes for them to play dead is to stop moving. And that's one thing enemies can't counter - in any other situation they know how to use your weaknesses. They will heal undead, they will drain your armor or shields, depending on what's weaker, and etc. But when you play dead - they do nothing about it. They don't use AoE spells and abilities, don't drop bombs at you... They just... Ignore you.

My absolute favorite trick is to chat up one of the traders , then unlink my thief and rob them blind, then quickly run away with that character while still in conversation and just wait out the item search while grinning like the thief guild taught you. Great game have fun ;)

First time playing divinity EVER on the PS4. It felt very difficult to get a handle of in the beginning - like a lot of stuff to learn all at once, I nearly just gave up on that alone. Fortunately I've played a few other games like this and had a general idea of how things usually work with this stuff. I stuck with it, and man this game is so addictive. If you enjoy strategy turn based games, this is perfect. I decided to play it how it was meant to be played, with the original level of difficulty. Meant sometimes I was stuck for a looooong time, but it makes me feel like when I was younger playing FF7 for the first time and I really had to stick at something to beat it. Games generally aren't as difficult these days, which is good and bad, but I do miss having a great challenge.

Me and a friend played it for the first time yesterday...we played for 16 hours straight, yes it is that fun.

I have to admit, doing full tip videos like this was an excellent idea. Thank you.

Other tips: Don't try to keep everyone set in one class. Multiclass everyone. Get self teleport or invisibility for everyone. Also use the hell out of your sneak and thieving abilities. You can really get ahead in the game by just sending your best rogue out into the world to explore an entire castle stealing everything and from everyones pockets. (Even the pictures on the walls) also Tactician Mode is way harder than Classic. Enemies have double health as well as lots of other buffs. But it's great for a second play through.

It doesn't matter who's carrying the ressurection scrolls, after the person with them dies you can use them from their inventory. No, it doesnt cost an extra AP for picking it up.

My current game of the year.

I have an undead character and I’m carrying around a barrel full of poison bc I’m pretty sure that’s unlimited use too. I’ve been poisoning every weapon and morsel of food I find since normal heals don’t work on me. I’m also an extremely new player so if there’s a better way let me know. Also! If you’re suspected of thievery, one thing I’ve done to avoid conflict is use the stolen item in a way that hides it. By that I mean if I steal nails, I’ll “hide” them by combining them with my boots so the character I stole from won’t recognize them.

Will be 40 next year and I only play games on easy, I honestly do not care about a challenge anymore I just want to enjoy the game.

Great video, just one thing: Bedrolls are Infinite ^^

Resurection scrolls are not rare at all every merchants sell those

Dear Bioware, THIS is how you make a GOOD RPG.

''Bone character'' is the most OP, change my mind

One tip I've learned is that you should always un-link your characters before entering combat and make them sneak around to try to position them before combat starts. Another tip is if you have someone using daggers, make them sneak up behind an enemy and auto attack, it basically is a free attack before combat starts that doesn't use anything up, can be really nice for mini bosses

here are some more tips: - if you dont have a lizard in your party who can dig, grab yourself a shovel to get that buried treasure. - having points in necromancer causes you to be healed for a percentage of your damage; very handy for high damage classes. - use your bedroll just before combat for a little 3 turn boost. - if you dont want to save scum (or cant), focus one character in escapism to flee easily. a scoundrel works very well.

I'm finding DOS 2 extremely tense so tense in fact I haven't opened it yet!!

Heads up on the Resurrection Scrolls, when you click the portrait of the character you want to bring back you can then choose the location by clicking the screen, noticed in this video you resurrected into fire, not ideal ;)

Take the side entrance into Ft. Joy. Avoiding Alex and Dallis is a good thing. Come back at a higher level, then stomp the crap out of Dallis using teleport, slow down effects, and ranged attacks. She drops a beastly 2h weapon that you can justify giving to a melee or a caster.

Even if your main is dead, you can still send resurrection scrolls to party members from the inventory

Poison barrels can be used to poison a weapon or create poison flasks with infinite uses. They take up 60 points of inventory weight though

Divinity is like playing DnD alone with awesome visuals A giant awesome roleplay sandbox

I think armor restoring abilities, both physical and magical, are way waaay more important than healing, not only it's the same effect (you can take more punches) but as long as you have armor, you can resist status effects: stun, shock frozen etc. Also have a rouge in the team that can open locks.

A tip for every skeleton player: Combine a empty flask with a poison barrel - this will give you a poison potion (Which heals Skeletons) The barrel wont dissapear after your first few uses, you'll always have potions as long as you have empty flasks (They lay around and some merchants sell them) Thats way easier than buying regular potions to poison them

Something about this game it's maybe the most addictive game I've played in a long time if not ever. It sticks in your mind and makes work a waiting game to get back to it.

My advice is to check all things u find, a lot of them are needed for example. essence of life+ essence of water + paper and u got ressurection scroll. I sell a lot of essence before i knew that it is useful.

Fane...combine poison barrel and single empty potion bottles to get poison. Carry barrel in backpack for infinite fills. Combine poison potions to get stronger poison. Doesn't work with stacks, which is annoying.

When you pickpocket, stand a team mate near the person that didnt steal and they talk to him first, let them search them. Once they are done, move the stolen items to that character and let them search you.

resurrection scrolls are only rare for the first few hours, I'm at act 4 and I have so many I have no idea what to do with them.

just started to play it on switch, addicted!

"It is not just savescuming, just play tactical". :)

I gotta give this game another try. I got so frustrated from dying so much, I traded the game. I see the potential of this game but I lack the patience and nerve to get a hang of it... it’s so much to take in because of its in-depth options of fighting and pre fight strategies. It’s a way different speed from the rpgs I usually play. I’ll take these tips and try it out again, thanks.

Should I pick pet pal or something else?

Respect to the developers, there are so many options in this game

I'd add that whilst Res Scrolls are certainly valuable, and it's handy to buy them almost as often as you can, that they're not too hard to come by after escaping Fort Joy. There are a large number of traders and characters you can trade with from there onwards who can offer Res Scrolls fairly often, they restock every hour.

You dont really need to spread out your resurrection potions. After a character died you can move his inventory items around without ap cost.

Steal as much as you can! Invest in thievery, seriously, so u can steal skill books, precious items, scrolls etc. Btw, easy way to steal: talk to vendor, while dialogue is up, thief goes behind and steals. Then either i) throw stolen stuff on floor and get examined (nothing happens) or ii) as soon as dialogue is closed everyone run away quick like 1-2 screens, vendor searches for thief, wait a bit, then come back. Easy. :)

Save scumming? Never heard of it. So taking advantage of quick save now has a negative label eh? Stay classy internet.

Get Persuasion up to at least 5 on your main character to save a trip back to the ship at end game.

You might want to add comments to this video to let people know the game has changed a lot. For example, bedrolls are now infinite use. And you can put all of anything on one character, and cast them from downed characters. All in all, its as if the inventories of all characters are one unified inventory, with the only thing unique or specific to a character is A) The weight they can carry, and B) One character can make a trade with a merchant at once.

Get flight and teleport for as many characters as possible. Re-position yourself and enemies to suit your party composition in fights, and reach nice loot using teleport and flight outside of battle.

Rain nourishes the land Seriously though, elemental surfaces are a big deal in this game. If you are playing on a harder difficulty such as honour mode, consider using rain to prep the battlefield before a tough fight. if you cover an area with water, you can electrocute it, or use contaminate to poison the water. If you contaminate, you can use a fireball to create a massive fire field.

the best tip is to play the game first and make sure you do all the quest...exp and free item is better then a free bed specialy when you can travel with one...

i love doing crazy damage elemental chain reactions.. accidentally

FINALLY something challenging!

Oh, just remembered another one - you're going to want a shovel, so stealing one from the kitchen area of Fort Joy, or buying one (can't remember who in the Fort Joy camp sells one) is a must, especially if you have a high-Wit character, who can spot secret digging spots

One more recommendation: make sure the person who has Pet Pal also has at least 2 points in Persuasion. This will help as this way, that person can deal with all conversations without worrying about messing up a speech check.

1. Start a 2-player campaign with a mate. 2. Pick Lone Wolf 3. ??? 4. Profit

Pet pal is so important that is should just be a basic part of every character

I sadly killed the dog I needed to rescue because I just saw an enemie and didn't even thought about talking in the fight. I started with some sort of thief necromancer combination and changed it to necromancer summoner at the moment. I don't think my character is as strong as he could be, but a bit more of the tricky and annoying type. I mean I like my character, but if I would have to fight against this character, if would probably be annoying. Long story short, at the moment I think I like what I can do. Not sure which summon is the strongest, but I think the Spider is bette than the cat at the moment. How many uhhmm thinking places (not sure how they are named in english) for the abilities would you get or level? I think I had put three or four points there till I noticed that I get some once in a while.

Should i quicksave after a quick save?

I just bought the first one on Xbox it's pretty good👌

How can i revive my companions when they lay dead on the ground instead in form as a gravestone?

You can go to inventory in mid battle and even use scrolls from a dead party member.

I can't reach to Tutorial Log. I searched everywhere but nothing. When I click on the Journal and click on the rightest button on the top names Tutorials and click on General and then Tutorial Log, it just says that i can see tutorial log by clicking to tutorial log but there is no button to do that.

I don't get how undead are more difficult. I started off as one with coop, but then also started a single player game cause we can rarely play and i couldnt wait, so i played something different and found the game harder than before. Having unlimited lockpicks is a big plus, also compared to my non-undead companions I was almost always at full health with lots of poison lying around and taking leech to also benefit from bloodpuddles, so wherever i stepped i had something that healed me. The downside of being an undead is supposed to be having to wear a hood, but i also found out that helmets count too (which they should logic wise) and why would you not want to wear a helmet anyway? To top it off, you can find that mask to make you into a different race pretty soon.

First game to make me lose 2 hours of progress because i took a boat ride.

I love how you perfectly explain save scumming and then try to say it's not save scumming. xD

If the person that dies has rez scrolls, you can still use them from other characters. I found that out and it was a life saver, literally.

Lone wolf perk seem better then two other party members when use a lizard fighter guy

I've only played tactician mode since release, now Im not trying to boast or anything but it is the best way to go, it is incredibly difficult in the first play-through but it makes you far better at the game

steal some skill books at the beginning on traders. Learn the skill right away because NPCs will seach your poket for it.

I've considered buying a laptop just for this game.

But i still dont understand,why do you go in one way if you can get more xp from trying all solution? For example in fort joy i can escape from the fort easily after i freed the elf in the kitchen,why should i escape so early if i can slaughter the entire magister in the fort and escape with the kid and his boat below the dungeon? It will get me more xp to do so right? its kinda kill the immersion for me

Can I do single player? Just got the game on steam. Late, but didn't wanna miss it.

Is there any reason to using a spear over daggers for a finesse build?

U gotta quest and explore to level up and get armor

This was a while ago but the one about the res scrolls being unusable if the char carrying them dies is untrue, others can cast directly from that persons inventory.

These are great, many of which are still very applicable from DOS1. Seriously, I'm super excited for this game... on console on the couch with my wife. :)

Teleport spell or Teleport gloves. Then teleport your enemies above other enemies to give them extra damage or teleport them into the fire, water or poison. How about you teleport your enemy in the middle of your group or in front of your party member that got that transform into chicken ability? You got the idea. ;)

I’m on my first play through using a dwarf fighter I made. I’m planing on using a lizard man on the next one and focus summoning and polymorph and make a kind of shapeshifter character

You can use a controller too! You have to be on the main menu to when you turn your controller on. If the game recognizes it it'll fad to a selection screen that will let you choose how you want to play the game. On the Xbox controller it's hit A button to activate it or any key on the keyboard for keyboard and mouse. If the input screen doesn't auto show, hit the escape key to get there. Alternatively, if you're already using a controller and want to go back to keyboard and mouse you'll need to go back to the main menu screen and hit the B button to show the input screen. Using the controller will offer some unique controls for the game. Holding A will search an area in a radius around the character you're controlling and a list of things you found will pop-up. You'll also notice that the whole game interface has changed to accommodate the use of a controller. This is a real nice option for playing the game on the couch!

Also, the biggest advantage of playing Undead is that you get the free skill "Play Dead," which is WAY better than Adrenaline for avoiding aggro (as long as you aren't the tank in your party).

First time playing, on the second difficulty, classic I think. I have 27 resurrection scrolls around 9000 health on all my party members, I chose a custom character, and Im level 20 with all level 20 gear on Arx... only died around 100 times in the first 4 hours I played, wasnt used to this combat

Playing as an undead makes this game even more easier... Just wear a hat and no one will attack you for no reason.

Pet pal is worth its weight in gold? How much does a talent weigh?

Water can b blessed turning it into healing springs. Helpful vs undead. Forced to attack characters beforehand n some areas to prevent ambushes.

I really wish the main menu _explained_ the difficulty levels. EASY = Story Mode. MEDIUM = Explorer Mode. HARD = Classic Mode. Story Mode doubles your health, armor, and damage while halving the unfriendly NPCs. Explorer Mode raises yours by 50 percent and lowers the NPCs' by 50 percent, and Classic Mode puts you on even terms with the NPCs.

>Undead makes the game tougher >it's a challenging game >resurrection scrolls are rare >bed rolls are limited use >try explorer mode, "classic is brutal" I refuse to believe that you people actually played the game.

i just started to play i wanted to finish the first one but got a bit mad at it i keep walking to the monster and some bug so i decided meybe i want to play orginal sin 2 first... and if i feel like finish the first one ...

use lone wolf and be a badass