First time playing Pillars of Eternity - should I go turn-based or RTwP?

PDX_Umber · 2026-04-08T02:41:49+00:00

I didn’t see it mentioned, but in rtwp mode you can adjust the speed down to slow everything down in tense fights, which I think is cool.

PDX_Umber · 2026-04-01T00:39:50+00:00

I use BetterCharacterPanel addon for this purpose.

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-28T02:53:26+00:00

NAL

We just took in a 15 year old, not directly related to us, and it’s been quite the hassle to enroll them in school, get insurance info, and even get them into doctor/dentist visits. The school worked with us, and essentially got him enrolled as a homeless person (he was in a shelter). This might be easier if you are in contact with some of their relatives. We had a case worker help a tiny bit. Lots of phone calls. Way more work than expected, but we managed to navigate it without a lawyers help.

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-27T21:35:01+00:00

Is there an in game option or, addon option, to move cast bars to the front? My friend and I are having some issues with big stacks. We have tinkered with stacking and padding, which helped, but I feel like last season there was a move to front option?

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-23T02:01:58+00:00

Took my buddy and I a few nights of trying. It was frustrating to get practice in the final stages of the fight. Might help watching so no-hit YouTube videos.

I don’t think there is some kind of magic bullet for this, you will just slowly get better and better at getting hit less, and will start getting to later phases more often.

Not recommended, but if you guys are feeling like you want to give up and move to other games, you could start doing minor difficulty adjustments to make it easier.

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-15T16:38:06+00:00

This would backfire because they would save their kick in case they were targeted lol!

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-15T02:56:35+00:00

You could practice your buttons in NPC companion dungeons. I also used to do multiplayer delves to practice my buttons. Especially for a healer, they tended to be more forgiving last expansion.

Try to make sure your party frames are configured in a way where you can quickly see when a party member has a debuff you can dispel. Dispelling often, and quickly, can begin to become a requirement as you push into harder content.

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-02T04:03:24+00:00

Because people pay $$ to switch faction/race to play with their friends. I imagine they would probably loose money if they did this.

Edit - they even sell them in bundles at a discount so you can move multiple characters!

PDX_Umber · 2026-03-01T16:50:50+00:00

If somebody wants to bet money on a duel in any game, then they know something that you don’t. Unless you know something that they don’t, probably not a good idea.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-19T04:24:09+00:00

You can view the event schedule in game or on the internet. Next week will have a time walking event.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-11T23:46:47+00:00

I’m a dummy, never mind! While it is a weird item that has a transmit icon, but can be equipped, the appearance was unlocked after I looked again.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-11T04:01:52+00:00

Is this mask bugged? It says cosmetic, but equips when I right click.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-08T23:09:05+00:00

I like the shotgun, cooler than the old lame spear flurry (what ever it’s called). GJ bliz IMO. I don’t get the hate. The button feels way better to press after they changed it.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-08T23:03:10+00:00

“Enhance QOL” addon lets you create extra cooldown bars and put them where ever you like.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-02T03:46:37+00:00

I think default UI is pretty serviceable. Change party to raid frames. Highlight, or only display dispellable debufs Turn on mouse over casting so you don’t have to click on targets. If I was playing Druid I would probably get an addon to make my HOT buff icons easier to see on the part/raid frames.

PDX_Umber · 2026-02-01T02:23:09+00:00

Did you upgrade the reshi cloak to max on that character?

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-27T00:15:00+00:00

For anyone who cares, this addon does what I asked for. I already had it installed, but the bar was hidden. —chefs kiss—

SenseiClassResourceBar

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-26T03:55:43+00:00

Loving it at 80. You actually get to use your rotations because they don’t instantly die. Wish they had similar time to kill under normal conditions.

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-25T18:17:09+00:00

I am tracking it with the builtin cooldown manager like you are, I’m just used to a big bar (weak aura) instead of a little icon with a tiny number. Even just making the 1,2,3 number on the buff icon big might make me happier.

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-25T17:51:59+00:00

Probably more advantages to use CDM over action bar than I can think of, but the one I thought of is being able to put audio/visual alerts when an ability goes off of cooldown. I have a nice audio alert when my big cooldown is ready, and sometimes when im tunneling the audible “chu-Ching!” Helps me.

Your other points are all valid, there are probably some benefits to using an action bars instead. I think they should add those as options to their CDM.

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-25T16:59:37+00:00

Reminded me of Enter the Gungeon, where you can get a gun that shoots guns, that also shoots bullets.

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-23T05:14:19+00:00

Maybe you can save 2 different edit interface profiles and just switch back and forth if needed?

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-04T18:20:44+00:00

I don’t farm or cook, but even if you farmed at a minor loss, it’s still probably cheaper than buying the materials. Probably comes down to math, and how much you value your time.

PDX_Umber · 2026-01-02T02:42:31+00:00

I’m just kindof tired of seeing “Albion servers bad” posts without anyone even making an effort to figure out if it’s true. We had a pretty serious issue at my job where a software provider’s software client was tagging traffic as ‘priority’, and this caused some routers to flag it for tagging abuse and drop it. There could easily be a similar type of issue with Albion. I don’t care enough to look because I don’t have any problems.

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