For anyone watching this recently, you can get +300 XP more from the Burro and Kana encounter by resolving the situation peacefully - 1. Stand beside the elf and tell the thug to back off (900) - then just kill them both afterwards.
I always ate food to increase my strength I didn’t know you could just attack the spear. I have many hours in the game and am still learning stuff even after watching several play throughs this game is amazing.
Oh man! I remember when i was watching your videos way back when i was younger, i'm glad to have your vibe back. I need someone good at storytelling for the new games coming up. Since your absence it has been SurrealBeliefs, glad to know that there'll be more content to look forward to! Greetings from Estonia too!
Not far in the video yet but just came to say that Heck yea the Cello has the best tracks by far. There's this one combat track that I just always hummed along with even when I wasn't playing the game.
I've seen that you were playing this on twitch but since I missed the beginning i felt like I wasn't really able to follow along. I'm so looking forward to seeing this and more! Thank you Zemalf for uploading :)
oh my god... i hear Zemalf's voice and remember this Mount & Blade: Warband playthrough I listened to way back when I was still in HS. checked his channel and, yes, this is the same guy I could've sworn Zemalf was an old man (he didn't have a facecam back then). wonderful to see he's still around
I just started this game, and I like how the game doesn't explain that warfare scales necro skill damage. Thank you for that small detail. I see now why my damage sucks. 😂😅
Easily. Lot of people have literally forgotten what a RPG game is and mostly it has dissolved into shooter with leveling system. This game is one of the purest RPG's out there
Really enjoying your methodology in this. My only critique is that, at the 2:56:50 mark, if you talk to Yarrow, you get a reward for completing the quest. Otherwise, good romp so far.
Thank you very much! I remember starting this run on the latter half of a 24 hour stream, semi unplanned, so the first 3 parts are surprisingly good :D
If you ever want people to stop from walking away while stealing. Use another Char to lock him in conversation. They will talk to them too and the thief can just walk away.
Thank you for this content I want to get good at these kind of games. I played this on the easiest difficulty and had fun but I want to play it again on normal. I had it on normal at first but it was too hard for me.
For the annoying dog on the ship : 1.Open his room's door 2. Go to the opposite room (the one on the right) and open its door + the second door at the bottom. 3. Go back to the dog's room and make sure that that room's lower door is closed (important) 4. Attack (barehanded) the locked door that takes you to the 1v2 fight) 5. The dog will startle and run to the second room 6. As soon as he moves, follow him and close the second room's door 7. Go back to the original dog's room and close the door too Now the dog will stay locked away and won't engage in the fight This is just in case you couldn't lockpick the door that leads to the fight. Because if you break it, the dog will engage. If it isn't broken, it can be closed and you'll avoid the dog entering the fight
Decided to try a similar sort of playthrough but with a 2h build instead, playing with Fane to really maximize my action economy and also purely to enjoy the beautiful way skills work together in this game :). I also did some things out of order, and ended up having to kill Griff's crew early with some Grade A cheese.
@@fyfsi3557 I was playing solo and I put beast in the tavern with all my lucky charm gear, got him drunk and put him into conversation so he stayed drunk and then I played the rest of reapers cove with the extra luck boost
Shackles of pain, in solo, totally "stuns" all the enemys for many rounds, since they can't attack you or they will damage their companion. Later you will encounter some enemies that doesn't care about that.
The curse of DoS2 Lone Wolf is that for every item you want to use that requires a single digit above your stats, you'd have to "waste" an extra point to wield it because you'll always operate on even stat spreads. Feelsbadman.
@@timothybrown2250 I prefer keeping my skill levels to never require gear for skill usage, as you'll quickly outscale the gear in the early game, and each level at endgame is pretty substantial. You're always looking for specific stuff and having to savescum every merchant every level when your whole party needs gear is selfish and makes the "town shenanigans" part of the game an even larger slog than it is normally.
Huh, it's good to see you're back. Necromancer and warrior - really can't go wrong with this one. Are you going to get the Resurrection Idol in the second area or is that another personal challange of this playthorugh?
Towards the end of act 1 and especially in act 2 this turned more into "do (and murder) everything" than a challenge, and I'll be doing some experiments in battles to get get max xp and thus, saving and re-loading, so Idol is kinda unnecessary for solo. I do get it, but I reload to keep the Blood Rose +1 permapuffs because those are lost on death.
i stumble on your video since is the only one min maxing exp, istarted a campaign with a 4 man team using your guide but i don t know my 4th character(using ifan finesse tank , sebille archer, Fane geo/pyro ) what you would suggest is the best 4? thanks
With a team of four, take The Red Prince as on of the characters, I believe there's a little extra XP on those quests - marginal, but for min-max :) As far as builds go, four man team works better, imo, if you focus on one damage type, e.g. all do physical or magic dmg. Other option, but less "optimal" because you split dmg, is to do 2 and 2 and then choose targets based on their armor values. I played my first playthrough with tank, archer, pyro/geo and aero/hydro. It's not optimal, but it was fun to have different options in fights.
Necromancer is the toughest early on when you don't have that many spells yet. Corpse explosion is a huge help and kinda why this build is even feasible early, together with the warfare skills. Some prefer starting solo necro as a summoner, which is very powerful early especially with lone wolf, and respec after the first island (lvl 13 or so) for "full necro".
Yeah, I wanted max damage and Flesh Sacrifice maximizes damage. Overall undead probably still more OP, especially Fane (but I didn't want to play with Origin character on this one).
@@Zemalf I thought an undead elf got Flesh Sacrifice too, but that must have been only possible through the mask of shapeshifting. Been years since I played this.
@@LumosX yeah undead only gets flesh sacrifice through the mask and it takes a bit to get it back (need to escape the Fort, defeat the witch), but you lose the head slot to said mask. If I recall correctly anyone can use the mask. Also keep in mind many/most/possibly all enemies have someone with loremaster so you’ll get hit with the Uber healing spells when playing undead, if they have them. Fane is superior to all, and you bypass his obnoxiousness when you play as him, but custom elf is the next most powerful and overall useful, and you get to use all the cool foods. (Undead do not get bonuses from food, they get only healing and only if you poison it first) Free lock picks doesn’t mean anything if you spec into thievery, and don’t do something stupid like get thief 1 & barter 1, instead going for thief 4 by lvl 3 ( lvl 1, lvl 2, skill up, item +1 from rogue vendor) Ever since it got released for iPad I’m having a blast. If anything it’s even more enjoyable now XD
I couldn't be bothered with all the micromanagement of a full party so I'm doing a playthrough with Fane as a summoner using the gift bag where you get Xtra AP
I'll tell you about that magister guard that came out inside the fort. He patrols up the stairs and down to that entrance lol. You just had unfortunate timing xD.
Just curious why you didn't eat the leg on the Merryweather for free Adrenaline? My first thought was that you don't intend to pick up scoundrel, but then later you said you wanted Cloak and Dagger anyway.
The Necromancy Skill... any damage you do to Vitality, you heal X% for. So that is even if I hit them in the head with a club for 10, I get 2 HP back? It's basically Lifesteal/LifeLeech to all damage to Vitality? That's awesome that you can Cross Skill like that.
Yeah. Usually there's also cool secret spells which you can craft and they come from mixes of one's skill book and another's so the game is meant for you to mix at the very least 2 skills together.
Why author is using flesh sacrifice that late and turn 1-2 attacks do not have damage bonus? Monsters are disabled by warfare skills and are not attacking for 1-2 turns. One out of 2 can be often dead with flesh sacrifice. Just started this game, learning its mechanics :)
Flesh sacrifice should indeed almost always be cast first, because it does give that 10% extra damage, and during combat because it gives an extra action point. However, it does lower constitution, which might cause me to lose a shield (if shield has con requirements that wouldn't be met anymore with -con) and I want to hold on to the shield for shield throw skill. Or sometimes I prebuff it (cast before combat), so it's on a cooldown (but active for the first turns). Or I might not have use or don't need the action point right then, so I'm saving it, especially if the fight is in control (e.g. enemies are on knocked down lock). Or I might just forget :) Probably one of those reasons, depending on where I am in the game.
You mean the shield he found in the starting weapon chest at 31:20? The weapons in that chest depend on your starting preset, he chose Cleric specifically so that he would get a shield in that chest. He explains this while creating the character
At 2 hours 6 minutes or so you opened a cupboard that had a green rarity ring, a knife, hold and a letter. If you're gonna leave stuff lying around like that this will be literally unwatchable. /s
Fane's special (play dead) is downright broken when playing solo (gets you out of combat and you can reset cool downs). Undead in this game is quite special; Yes, you need to heal with poison instead of healing pots, but the other way around, you don't need to worry about poison or deathfog.
The Divinity series lore is kind of a massive clusterfuck. They're good games, I love DOS 1 to bits, but the lore seems to have been retconned a few times. Source used to just be healing water found in the Divine's capital while Lucian himself is trapped in the plane of hypnerotomachia by his adopted son (Divinity II, 100 years after DOS 2); then it became the divine magical power of the goddess Astarte which was contaminated by the Void Dragon (Original Sin, taking place a thousand years before the others); now it's still a tainted power source, Astarte is nowhere to be found, and the Void is no longer a dragon but there's eternals now and also 10000-year-old characters and ones that I personally killed in DOS 1, but are still alive, and Lucian apparently also has a real son now and fakes his death before he goes missing in Divinity 2 but also Source is purged from the world (canonically) yet is still present in Divinity 2 as a healing water a hundred years later. A true mess. And alas, Original Sin 2 feels as unfinished as Divinity 2, which just _stops_ at one point instead of having an actual ending. Good games, but my God, they should have done a better job. And they should finish Divinity 2 too.
Perhaps, but the point of my run was not to do something hard, but to have fun and make the most powerful character possible (in addition to doing everything in the game for max possible xp)
This game would have been 2million times better is it was 1st/toggle/3rd person. Instead, you have a contrived angle with the character as a focal point (or perhaps even the focal point is the floor undernieth the character) You cannot look out to the sea or up at the mountains. Everything is tiny and the more you zoom in the less you see.
![Former WR Glitchless Speedrun, any% solo - Divinity Original sin 2 Definitive Edition [34:51]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FhYXc30Ui-s/mqdefault.jpg)
For anyone watching this recently, you can get +300 XP more from the Burro and Kana encounter by resolving the situation peacefully - 1. Stand beside the elf and tell the thug to back off (900) - then just kill them both afterwards.
Peacefully...😂 Good tip anyways bro
Man I love clicking random videos in my feed and ending up in a Zemalf vid. Always a nice surprise.
I always ate food to increase my strength I didn’t know you could just attack the spear. I have many hours in the game and am still learning stuff even after watching several play throughs this game is amazing.
Oh man! I remember when i was watching your videos way back when i was younger, i'm glad to have your vibe back. I need someone good at storytelling for the new games coming up. Since your absence it has been SurrealBeliefs, glad to know that there'll be more content to look forward to!
Greetings from Estonia too!
Not far in the video yet but just came to say that Heck yea the Cello has the best tracks by far. There's this one combat track that I just always hummed along with even when I wasn't playing the game.
I've seen that you were playing this on twitch but since I missed the beginning i felt like I wasn't really able to follow along. I'm so looking forward to seeing this and more! Thank you Zemalf for uploading :)
Have never had the time to complete this game past act 2. Though revealing spoilers I appreciate your honesty. Looking forward to watching!
oh my god... i hear Zemalf's voice and remember this Mount & Blade: Warband playthrough I listened to way back when I was still in HS. checked his channel and, yes, this is the same guy
I could've sworn Zemalf was an old man (he didn't have a facecam back then). wonderful to see he's still around
I just started this game, and I like how the game doesn't explain that warfare scales necro skill damage. Thank you for that small detail. I see now why my damage sucks. 😂😅
back watchin this series again!!
2 hours to wake up after some coffee for me. This RPG is top 3 greatest of all time.
Easily. Lot of people have literally forgotten what a RPG game is and mostly it has dissolved into shooter with leveling system. This game is one of the purest RPG's out there
IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS ZEMALF! GL commander
Ah delighted to see you're playing this game! I have this on steam but don't have the patience to work through it!
Do it! Best game ever
Really enjoying your methodology in this. My only critique is that, at the 2:56:50 mark, if you talk to Yarrow, you get a reward for completing the quest. Otherwise, good romp so far.
Thank you very much! I remember starting this run on the latter half of a 24 hour stream, semi unplanned, so the first 3 parts are surprisingly good :D
It's good to have you back! Really old subscriber here :D
Fantastic - looking forward to binge watch this and then replay!
thank you so much for explain so many things for the one who new to this game like me thumbs up!!
If you ever want people to stop from walking away while stealing. Use another Char to lock him in conversation. They will talk to them too and the thief can just walk away.
Awesome, welcome back!!
Thank you for this content I want to get good at these kind of games. I played this on the easiest difficulty and had fun but I want to play it again on normal. I had it on normal at first but it was too hard for me.
For the annoying dog on the ship :
1.Open his room's door
2. Go to the opposite room (the one on the right) and open its door + the second door at the bottom.
3. Go back to the dog's room and make sure that that room's lower door is closed (important)
4. Attack (barehanded) the locked door that takes you to the 1v2 fight)
5. The dog will startle and run to the second room
6. As soon as he moves, follow him and close the second room's door
7. Go back to the original dog's room and close the door too
Now the dog will stay locked away and won't engage in the fight
This is just in case you couldn't lockpick the door that leads to the fight. Because if you break it, the dog will engage. If it isn't broken, it can be closed and you'll avoid the dog entering the fight
Wow, sound like a insane challenge, you must have played this game for hundreds of hours.
Well i written that right before you said the number of hours you played 😂
Decided to try a similar sort of playthrough but with a 2h build instead, playing with Fane to really maximize my action economy and also purely to enjoy the beautiful way skills work together in this game :). I also did some things out of order, and ended up having to kill Griff's crew early with some Grade A cheese.
little tips : better than selling the skull turn it into powder with a mortar pestle to get more gold out of it
also before opening chest regroup them somewhere and drink some beer or wine to boost your luckyfind level by +2 u can then get more drops
@@fyfsi3557 I was playing solo and I put beast in the tavern with all my lucky charm gear, got him drunk and put him into conversation so he stayed drunk and then I played the rest of reapers cove with the extra luck boost
Shackles of pain, in solo, totally "stuns" all the enemys for many rounds, since they can't attack you or they will damage their companion. Later you will encounter some enemies that doesn't care about that.
The curse of DoS2 Lone Wolf is that for every item you want to use that requires a single digit above your stats, you'd have to "waste" an extra point to wield it because you'll always operate on even stat spreads. Feelsbadman.
Just get that +1 to whatever stat you need through armor or weapon bonuses. boom no wasted points :)
@@timothybrown2250 I prefer keeping my skill levels to never require gear for skill usage, as you'll quickly outscale the gear in the early game, and each level at endgame is pretty substantial. You're always looking for specific stuff and having to savescum every merchant every level when your whole party needs gear is selfish and makes the "town shenanigans" part of the game an even larger slog than it is normally.
3:16:30 I've never been to that location >< !!!
He takes his sweet fucking time to do anything.
Lol 1.25 it
Viola, good name. My sister is also named Viola. Good video!
Huh, it's good to see you're back. Necromancer and warrior - really can't go wrong with this one.
Are you going to get the Resurrection Idol in the second area or is that another personal challange of this playthorugh?
Towards the end of act 1 and especially in act 2 this turned more into "do (and murder) everything" than a challenge, and I'll be doing some experiments in battles to get get max xp and thus, saving and re-loading, so Idol is kinda unnecessary for solo. I do get it, but I reload to keep the Blood Rose +1 permapuffs because those are lost on death.
Waiting for you to start playing Baldurs Gate 3
Killing everyone you find "divinity 2 :back in Bracus a Rex reborn
Perfect Walkthrough
i stumble on your video since is the only one min maxing exp, istarted a campaign with a 4 man team using your guide but i don t know my 4th character(using ifan finesse tank , sebille archer, Fane geo/pyro ) what you would suggest is the best 4? thanks
With a team of four, take The Red Prince as on of the characters, I believe there's a little extra XP on those quests - marginal, but for min-max :) As far as builds go, four man team works better, imo, if you focus on one damage type, e.g. all do physical or magic dmg. Other option, but less "optimal" because you split dmg, is to do 2 and 2 and then choose targets based on their armor values.
I played my first playthrough with tank, archer, pyro/geo and aero/hydro. It's not optimal, but it was fun to have different options in fights.
@@Zemalf aero hydro char i would like but no interesring guides out there especially with a geo pyro in team
ZEMALF WHATS UUUPP HAVENT WATCHED YOU IN AGES
Hey Gavo! Welcome back is in order then :D
Plus another 600 experience if you talk to stingtail after
I just got into this game and I started as a necromancer user and its very hard
Necromancer is the toughest early on when you don't have that many spells yet. Corpse explosion is a huge help and kinda why this build is even feasible early, together with the warfare skills. Some prefer starting solo necro as a summoner, which is very powerful early especially with lone wolf, and respec after the first island (lvl 13 or so) for "full necro".
@@Zemalf yes My spells I use rn, are mosquito spawn, death wish, infect and shackles of pain, also I like ur voice a lot btw
I do like if you don't tell Griff who took the orange (and I think fight Griff) you gain the 'Hero' tag.
sweet video^^
telekinesis plus a very heavy chest and you can one shot everything, i'd do that with an undead character and fire and poison based moves.
I beat honour mode in DOS1EE doing that 🤣
You have a finglish accent :D awesome!
Huh, I'd think that the most min-maxy build would make you undead for playing dead, the poison and deathfog immunity, and free lockpicks.
Yeah, I wanted max damage and Flesh Sacrifice maximizes damage. Overall undead probably still more OP, especially Fane (but I didn't want to play with Origin character on this one).
@@Zemalf I thought an undead elf got Flesh Sacrifice too, but that must have been only possible through the mask of shapeshifting. Been years since I played this.
@@LumosX yeah undead only gets flesh sacrifice through the mask and it takes a bit to get it back (need to escape the Fort, defeat the witch), but you lose the head slot to said mask. If I recall correctly anyone can use the mask.
Also keep in mind many/most/possibly all enemies have someone with loremaster so you’ll get hit with the Uber healing spells when playing undead, if they have them.
Fane is superior to all, and you bypass his obnoxiousness when you play as him, but custom elf is the next most powerful and overall useful, and you get to use all the cool foods. (Undead do not get bonuses from food, they get only healing and only if you poison it first)
Free lock picks doesn’t mean anything if you spec into thievery, and don’t do something stupid like get thief 1 & barter 1, instead going for thief 4 by lvl 3 ( lvl 1, lvl 2, skill up, item +1 from rogue vendor)
Ever since it got released for iPad I’m having a blast. If anything it’s even more enjoyable now XD
Could you do a build spread on this thank you for the vids subscribed
I couldn't be bothered with all the micromanagement of a full party so I'm doing a playthrough with Fane as a summoner using the gift bag where you get Xtra AP
Playing with a friend is better .. lucky i could do it
Which gift bag?
You should have waaaay more views !!
I'll tell you about that magister guard that came out inside the fort. He patrols up the stairs and down to that entrance lol. You just had unfortunate timing xD.
Just curious why you didn't eat the leg on the Merryweather for free Adrenaline? My first thought was that you don't intend to pick up scoundrel, but then later you said you wanted Cloak and Dagger anyway.
2:53:45 nevermind lol
@@johnnyandtheinsatiablevoid I was yelling at the TV, "your a elf! Eat the guy!"
first challange run i ever did was a no telekinesis run...
Good vibes
is there maybe a done build for this Character?
In a proper RPG the enemy should be able to hear or smell you even if you are invisible depending on the enemy's detection skills.
True - Invisibility is broken in this game. Sound based detection had been done in many games, but I don't recall scent/smell being used
have you played mods for this game? Divinity Conflux for instance is superb overall. It adds a new difficulty mode, in fact
Do you have any plans of finishing The witcher 3 let's play?
Yes, The Witcher 3 (and Skyrim w/ Ulik) will be finished. It'll probably be the beginning of 2021 though when I get around to restarting those
@@Zemalf Thank you
@@Zemalf would that be as a stream as well or just UA-cam videos oldschool style?
@@Zemalf I'm so glad to here this. It's great to have you back Z
Bruh you even min maxing the song choice xDDDD
The Necromancy Skill... any damage you do to Vitality, you heal X% for. So that is even if I hit them in the head with a club for 10, I get 2 HP back? It's basically Lifesteal/LifeLeech to all damage to Vitality?
That's awesome that you can Cross Skill like that.
I’m a month late here, but yep! That’s the premise for Necromancy!
10% Leech per point basically.
Yeah. Usually there's also cool secret spells which you can craft and they come from mixes of one's skill book and another's so the game is meant for you to mix at the very least 2 skills together.
Amazing
Why author is using flesh sacrifice that late and turn 1-2 attacks do not have damage bonus?
Monsters are disabled by warfare skills and are not attacking for 1-2 turns. One out of 2 can be often dead with flesh sacrifice.
Just started this game, learning its mechanics :)
Flesh sacrifice should indeed almost always be cast first, because it does give that 10% extra damage, and during combat because it gives an extra action point. However, it does lower constitution, which might cause me to lose a shield (if shield has con requirements that wouldn't be met anymore with -con) and I want to hold on to the shield for shield throw skill.
Or sometimes I prebuff it (cast before combat), so it's on a cooldown (but active for the first turns). Or I might not have use or don't need the action point right then, so I'm saving it, especially if the fight is in control (e.g. enemies are on knocked down lock). Or I might just forget :) Probably one of those reasons, depending on where I am in the game.
how to kill 3 alligator and migro very hard mod necromencer or cleric,
whole first part of this he lives bc his rng shield no cap not a great explanation
You mean the shield he found in the starting weapon chest at 31:20? The weapons in that chest depend on your starting preset, he chose Cleric specifically so that he would get a shield in that chest. He explains this while creating the character
Your voice is awesome
Yes!
the croc fight xd
At 2 hours 6 minutes or so you opened a cupboard that had a green rarity ring, a knife, hold and a letter. If you're gonna leave stuff lying around like that this will be literally unwatchable.
/s
Why is Fane so good character? He doesnt even heal from normal healing pots
Fane's special (play dead) is downright broken when playing solo (gets you out of combat and you can reset cool downs). Undead in this game is quite special; Yes, you need to heal with poison instead of healing pots, but the other way around, you don't need to worry about poison or deathfog.
A shame you didnt get Sir Loras in the stream. Easily one of the best characters
suomalainen mies?
Just saying that you forgot the silence part. You can run go stingtail and save him from her for am easy 1k exp
2:08:11
The Divinity series lore is kind of a massive clusterfuck. They're good games, I love DOS 1 to bits, but the lore seems to have been retconned a few times. Source used to just be healing water found in the Divine's capital while Lucian himself is trapped in the plane of hypnerotomachia by his adopted son (Divinity II, 100 years after DOS 2); then it became the divine magical power of the goddess Astarte which was contaminated by the Void Dragon (Original Sin, taking place a thousand years before the others); now it's still a tainted power source, Astarte is nowhere to be found, and the Void is no longer a dragon but there's eternals now and also 10000-year-old characters and ones that I personally killed in DOS 1, but are still alive, and Lucian apparently also has a real son now and fakes his death before he goes missing in Divinity 2 but also Source is purged from the world (canonically) yet is still present in Divinity 2 as a healing water a hundred years later.
A true mess. And alas, Original Sin 2 feels as unfinished as Divinity 2, which just _stops_ at one point instead of having an actual ending. Good games, but my God, they should have done a better job. And they should finish Divinity 2 too.
you win take your money. lol
When i made a necro I found Fane and he was already level 13????? I made him a rouge and pretty much one shot the whole area of the fort lol
Lw makes it to easy. Just made this without lw/gc/5star and it's easy more interesting. Give it a try
Perhaps, but the point of my run was not to do something hard, but to have fun and make the most powerful character possible (in addition to doing everything in the game for max possible xp)
somebody on 2024 😅😅😅
Most overpowered weapon in the game (funny):
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yoooooo
Subscribed: “I always roleplay females”.Too each his own, but at that point not interested, unsubscribe.Good luck bro.
Huh?
Too many dudes like to be girls these days
I play females cause I'd rather heara female voice and see a female ass....
This game would have been 2million times better is it was 1st/toggle/3rd person. Instead, you have a contrived angle with the character as a focal point (or perhaps even the focal point is the floor undernieth the character)
You cannot look out to the sea or up at the mountains. Everything is tiny and the more you zoom in the less you see.
How much do you love this game?