pillars of eternity retaliation focus gain

Because of this, I recommend high Might and INT. Into the fray, charge, and knockdown can be used to further protect your party. Also, by having a low deflection score, enemies will foolishly want to attack you anyways so you don't have to worry as much about forcing them to engage you with abilities. It really doesn't matter if the enemy hits you if you immediately heal the damage with constant/rapid recovery. The level 15 ability is actually worthless if doing high con/resolve and much of their self-healing is wasted if they are not taking a lot of damage. Fighters can be super tanks while also being a great damage dealer because all of their abilities benefit from aggressive stats. Personally, I feel like the high deflection, big shield traditional tank is best left to chanter or paladin. Confident aim can help mitigate the lower accuracy and if you stick with a shield, reflex should still be good too. I did a play through with a 3 perception fighter with large shield and my accuracy was still reasonable by mid game so reducing it down to around 10 shouldn't have too much of an impact. I also agree that you want high might, regardless of the type of fighter because your core ability, constant recovery and the fighter specific talent/items also involve self healing. Together with Knockdown, Bonus Knockdown, Girlde of the Driving Wave and Clear Out there will be tons of Knockdowns. You could compensate for the missing shield with Cautious Attack and/or Superior Deflection. So theoretically even enemies that run past you but and are covered behind other enemies (but in reach) would eat disengagement attacks from you and fall on their faces. It's a reach weapon and together with Defender and Hold the Line you could have 5 engagement slots in an area of 1.8 meters (reach weapon). There's a quarterstaff named 'Wendwalker' in the game that has 'Guarding' (=+1 engagement limit). If those want to leave you they will go prone. I didn't try it but somebody said reach wepons are good for that because you will be able to engage enemies that are normally out of reach. If you raise MIG like DreamWayfarer said, your Constant Recovery can become very powerful and you can not only tank, but also spank by yourself. Fighters have the highest base deflection in the game. But then, with above average Might and INT you may just out-heal every graze that comes your way, so I think high RES is still a good choice. More endurance is harder to get through gear and buffs than more deflection. You may also wish to drop RES to increase CON. It will not be worth as much during longer battles, however, and high INT is more useful if you are a damage dealer first and tank second. If your resistence comes from self healing, not high defenses, the AI is more likely to think you are not tanky. If you are already going to give it to an interrupt Barbarian, consider taking Measured Restraint, a rapier you get in the first floors of the Endless Paths.ĮDIT: You may drop RES instead of INT, or instead divide the fall between both. Take the unique warhammer Shatterstar, which you can get quite early, since it increases your engagement limit by one. I would also drop Defender and take Confident Aim. Higher Might will also help making you tankier by making your self-healing abilities more powerful. That is not to say there is no purpose in making resistent characters, and the new Talent does make them more viable, but you could consider lowering PER to 10(as Fighters base accuracy is already high) and taking 4 points from INT, increasing DEX to 8 and MIG to 16. If an enemy sees a high-damage frail character nearby, and is engaged to a low damage character, it will often be willing to take a disengagement attack. In Pillars' current state, pure tanks are more often than not worth less than tanky damage dealers. I almost forgot I am playing on hard difficulty so probably that high amount of defense is not so required that I currently have I was thinking dumping maybe Int and Preception to buff Dex and Str. With current DEX and STR values he attacks really I mean really slow and does like 5 damage per hit.Ĭan someone suggest what stats to decrease and what to increase to make him also a more damage threat. I like the fact that my fighter is really tanky, but I decided to maybe switch a little bit of stats to make him a little more damage threat. Now my characters are lvl 5 and my stats and looks they way presented below Taking into consideration the new lvl 7 talent when enemies trying to break the fight with fighter can get hit with additional effect. Eventually I decided to stick as fighter because of the defender and capability to engage more enemies. I was thinking about fighter or paladin class. Currently I wanted to make a different approach and prepare a tanky character in my next gameplay.

Pillars of eternity retaliation focus gain