ALL TIPS FOR BEGINNERS IN ONE TOPIC
Well, since every new player in DS2 has the same questions, and he, in turn, is in a hurry to ask them, I decided to create this modest topic. I hope the advice here will be proven and certainly not from beginners. Dear Veterans and Elite! Let's help our little brothers! I propose to leave here your wishes for beginners, tips for pumping, reflections on the most difficult situations in the game and other thoughts on this topic. Also, I think that it is here that it will be necessary to recall the most common bugs in the game. From myself I will print what I remember ...1) You can start playing for any character you like. A two-handed warrior, a two-sword warrior, a combat mage, a natural mage or a ranger - it doesn't matter. In this game, the main word is PARTY, not ONE. A lone hero with a 99% probability will not be able to complete the game, so you need to plan in advance who to take into the party and who not. For example, if you play as a warrior, then you just need to get a healer into the party (Taar, for example), and if you play as a combat mage, then you can’t do without a contact (Lothar).
2) Ideal parties are those with at least 1 Warrior, 1 Archer, 1 Battle Mage and 1 Nature Mage. Such a party can be created no later than Act 2 in the worst case. The party can first grow up to 5 people (after beating the game on a mercenary), and then up to 6 people (after the veteran).
3) Advice for mages - plan your spell book carefully. The 2 spells in the autocast column will be cast automatically. Active spells will be highlighted on the corresponding bar in the corner of the screen. Naturebenders can master the Heal spell, which speeds up the withdrawal of a character from the state of "UNCONSCIOUS" and simply heals him, as well as Resurrection, which raises a dead party member. WITH INSUFFICIENT SKILL of nature magic, you can use the scroll of resurrection or the Necromancers Guild (a character in the city with a symbol of a gravestone above his head).
4) In the game, not all teams have their own hot keys. I recommend setting keyboard shortcuts for party orders such as WAIT and GUARD. The game also has the option of auto-attack and auto-defense of the character (options menu) - a very useful thing.
5) Newbies! Download skills exclusively for the required POWERS, and not up to the ceiling of 20 skill points. In the future, there will be things +X to all skills of a certain direction, which will raise the skills to the required level. In this game, unlike Diablo 2, you can't go above the 20 skill cap, so don't expect to have a level 50 Dodge here, for example.
6) The game has a lot of secret locations, which you can not get into right away. Very often, the Secret Area opens when you press a certain button or switch. Be careful and press everything that is pressed. On the terrain map, interactive objects (objects, switches, buttons) are marked with blue dots. Press Tab frequently.
7) The order of the characters in the group can be changed by holding the left mouse button on the character's portrait and dragging it up or down. This is necessary for the correct positioning of the characters in the group (warriors in front, magicians in the back). The distance at which the group members stand can be adjusted using the "[" and "]" keys.
8) There are special quests that can be obtained by having a certain member in the party and performing the necessary actions. Most often, these quests open up new locations. At the end of the quests, as always, small rewards await.
9) In the game you can find blue round pavilions, as well as yellow bookends. These books, so-called Chants, can be viewed in the journal, column LORE, subsection CHANTS. If you stand in a round gazebo (Incantation Shrine) and click on RECITE CHANT in the CHANTS subsection, you can get some bonuses for a given period of time. These enchants can also summon dangerous creatures, create random items, and in the worst case, kill the player's entire party (magrum erupto). Be careful! By the way, these enchants can also be entered from the keyboard, but for this you need to have them in your journal anyway. To talk to the dead, you need to complete the DARK OHM quest in Act 2, then cast the vox mortem chant on any Incantation Shrine and you will be able to communicate with the spirits for 300 seconds.
9) Pets, they are domestic animals (yes, pets :) ) are much weaker than well-pumped analogues among characters. They should be taken only for the purposes of "doing nothing" or "and I went through the whole game with only pets." True, a well-packed party will deal with monsters 2-5 times faster, but this is all for an amateur - there is no limit to human capabilities.
10) The game has a HUGE number of various glitches and shortcomings. Less than Sacred and Dungeon Lords, but that doesn't matter. The main and most terrible glitch is in act 1, DRYAD EXILE COLONY. Save your game before going there. There is a grandfather - the Schoolboy of the Azunites, who is attacked by plague dryads. In some cases, after killing these dryads, the scholar DOES NOT GIVE THE NEXT STORY QUEST. If in your case, after killing the dryads, the grandfather still shouts "Help me, young one!", You need to load the game before this battle. If you saved the game after killing the dryads, and grandfather did not give you the next quest, you can delete this character and start a new one. In this regard, TIP - make backup copies of your saves as often as possible (they are located in the MY DOCUMENTSMy Games folder).
10.1) Less dangerous glitch, but also very annoying. Make sure that after each spirit you free, an inscription appears in the corner about the number of remaining spirits. There was a case when I freed the spirit, but this was not counted in the quests. Reboot helped.
10.2) Non-critical glitch, but sometimes appears in the main storyline. After the caves of Kytraya in Act 1, you must destroy the Soul Shard. After it is destroyed by a ranger from afar (using POWERS), sometimes the quest is not protected. But the Azunite scholar lets you into the portal and they give you a new quest, so the story continues. Fixed by reboot.
10.3) A very rare glitch. I had 1 time and I don't know what caused it. The left mouse button in the inventory refused to work in the game (things were not taken, etc.). Fixed by expelling all party members to an inn and hiring again.
I HOPE THAT AFTER THIS TOPIC ALL BEGINNERS WILL HAVE MUCH LESS QUESTIONS. Sincerely, -=CN=-
Thank you for creating this thread and sharing your tips! For example, I learned a lot of new things, since I only went through the first act. I played for the war with two swords, in the game he had a taar, a lothar, and also some kind of archer, I don’t remember how he was (he’s from the forest, he doesn’t sit in the house there). But right now I decided to play for a battle mage. Here, advise whom to take first: Lothar or an archer? And another question: I now want to go to necromancers, does it make sense to pump any fire or lightning until level 12, until death magic appears, or is it better to save points and invest them in the first skills? And another question about Taar: is it better for her to download ice magic, embraces and wrath, or summons?
Elfinit_ElessaR, again, it all depends on your preferences and it's not at all critical with whom you run 1 act. What matters is which game you finish the SECOND ACT with! As I already wrote, by the end of Act 2, you must have 4 different characters. When playing as a battle mage, it would be wise to take Lothar first, but Deru is in no way inferior in importance to him (the main thing is to save up 500 gold for the first expansion of the party). When you have accumulated money for 4 party members, it is logical to join Taar, and then the party will be completely ready for adventure by the middle of Act 1!
For the chosen leveling, it NATURALLY does not make sense to scatter skills on something that you will not use at all. Therefore, since a necromancer is needed, then skills should only be poured into Grim Necromancy, Vampirism and Debilitation. But as soon as the 3 main POWERs of the necromancer: HARVESTER OF SOULS, ENERGY ORB, CORROSIVE ERRUPTION become 3 levels (maximum), and it will be about level 50 of the character, I recommend thinking about further pumping, which by level 50 you will come up with yourself, I hope. About Taar. Also for an amateur. Personally, I have Taar rocked on EMBRACE. This gives one of the coolest POWERS of the game - IMMORTALITY, which gives the party complete invulnerability (12 seconds at maximum swing). The second thing I decided to teach Taar was ice magic. Toward the end of the game, I plan to download SUMMON BOND to her,
And again to advice to beginners...
11) ATTENTION, BEGINNERS!!! PUMPING SYSTEM. The game has a special pumping system, different from DS1. The experience gained from attacking monsters is shared equally among all party members in a given region, but there is a penalty for experience gained from monsters depending on the level (as in Diablo 2). Experience is accrued to all characters for that skill and that attribute that is selected as active. That is, the character can choose the main active spell, for example, TELEPORT. Then the experience gained for killing monsters will be credited to the character in NATURE MAGIC + INTELLECT, EVEN IF THE CHARACTER DOES NOT ATTACK MONSTERS, BUT JUST STANDS NEAR. So you can pump any character any skill you want.
Pets have an empty space in development after they grow up, called Spell.
What can be put in there?
12) ABOUT PETS AGAIN. There is no need to put anything into the SPELL window. It's just that some pets (like the wolf and the mithrilhorn) DO NOT HAVE ANY BORN SPELLS. In this window, magicians have a minor spell when properly fed. The pet spell casts automatically. For example, a necrolithid will have a curse there that reduces the armor of enemies and resistance to death and ice magic (approximately 50% each), a naiad will have a rather powerful treatment there, a dragon will have a good buff there - raising the resistance of party members (approximately 50%) and immunity to curses. ATTENTION! THE LEVEL OF THE PET IS ALWAYS EQUAL TO THE LEVEL OF THE CHARACTER, even when the pet is in an inn. Pets DO NOT GAIN EXPERIENCE FROM MONSTERS!!! A pet's primary stat (melee, ranged, magic) is always equal to its level, so don't be afraid to leave pets in inns "until better times"! By the way, according to my observation, the TYPE of the fed item does not affect the bonuses received in GROWTH (uniques and sets, rares and magic items), only the amount of GROWTH experience received differs!!! IF ANYONE THINKS THAT THIS IS NOT SO AND WILL CONSUME ME - I'LL BARK LIKE A DOG! eight)
13) To the question of magic. Again, I'm judging only from personal experience, so in terms of mass, I would arrange the spells as follows: FIRE MAGIC (the most massive due to the many area-effect spells), LIGHTNING MAGIC (due to the ability of lightning to "jump" to nearby targets ), ICE MAGIC (due to the presence of some area-effect spells) and DEATH MAGIC (mainly SOUL LANCE is effective here - like BONE SPEAR from Diablo 2 and SKULL SPRAY, which throws several shards at enemies).
and still advise what is better to take magic for a novice player? I wanted necromancy, but there are few spells in area ((
Elessar, e-my, you have a solid offtopic! At the beginning of this topic, I clearly wrote - YOU CAN PLAY FOR ANY CHARACTER YOU LIKE!!! And you start to sort through the possible options for the game like a real VETERAN! You go through the game at least once for anyone, and then think for yourself what you had to download and what not! This topic was created to help beginners from experienced players, and we have a chat with you, and it just came out! In general, download the necromancer, if you wanted him. Here is a list of pros and cons of a necromancer especially for you!!!
+Ability to cast curses of very high efficiency.
+Huge damage to single target and targets in a row (Soul Lance). Very effective against bosses. bosses are usually SINGLE OBJECTIVES.
+ Ability to restore your health by dealing damage to the enemy with death magic.
+Very good POWER - HARVESTER OF SOULS, which drains the soul from enemies within a 3m radius and transfers part of health (6%) to all party members. Personally, my Finala MOWS for 4700 lives and this is at the 57th level of combat magic! IT'S TERRIBLE TO THINK WHAT THERE WILL BE AT 100!!! It is this POWER that compensates for the main disadvantage of AREA EFFECT spells.
+Medium effective POWER Corrosive Erruption that explodes the corpses of enemies and deals damage to enemies, depending on the maximum health of the corpse (similar to the CORPSE EXPLOSION of the necromancer from Diablo 2).
- Lack of Area of ​​Effect spells.
-Unable to kill a DEATH INVULNERABLE monster alone (one hell of a game per party!).
FORUM FRIENDS! DO NOT OFFTO HERE!!! THIS TOPIC IS MADE FOR VETERANS WANTING TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH BEGINNERS, NOT FOR BEGINNERS WANTING JUST TO TALK TO VETERANS!!! Sincerely, -=CN=-
That's right... There will be problems with the "elite".
Codem, yours is "if I'm not mistaken, there are only 12 types of FREE CHARACTERS in the game" ... 12?! I don’t understand something ... What is on the “normal� Archers: Deru, Amren, Vix. Warriors: Lothar, Sartan, Eve. Magi: Taara, Finala... WHO ARE THE FOUR ELSE?! I accepted all of them into my ranks - to complete all secondary quests. On the "veteran" - there was a small transfer of specialists. Deru became a natural magician, and Lothar became a combat magician ... The rest remained unchanged. And it doesn't matter, because I don't know how to kick the characters out of the hotel. ;( HOW?! Because I can't hire new old acquaintances. :(
Of those who remained, only Eve shines for me. Princess, after all. When I met her, I pumped her shield and it will be possible to try this tactic with tanking. A fighter with two blades, which I made Sartana for the sake of experiment, I don’t need in principle. Archers are also a gift. I'm not a big fan of remote weapons;) EVERYTHING, there is nobody else! Damn, even take the little animal, damn it !!! :(((
Already now, with 5 Persians, quite often the whole flea market does not fit on the platform. I'm even afraid to think what will happen with six :)))
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Necromancy ... My book.
1. Beam of the grave. Hits one target quickly. 577-1729 damage from 10 meters. Mana cost: 38.
2. Soul peak. Strikes at normal speed with a direct beam. Whom struck - take damage. 684-2050, 10 meters, 77 mana.
3. Pierced. The speed is lower than that of the spear. Hits an area with a small radius. 642-1926, 8 meters, 195 mana.
Soul lance is good when the enemy is on the way and in narrow places. Piercing is good when the enemy comes close or surrounds. Grave Beam - Against bosses because of the rate of fire and when you don't want enemies to pay attention to your nekros.
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Ice magic is an incomprehensible thing for me. Of course, a healer or a buffer should be able to defend himself, but it’s not necessary to pump ice magic for this ... For there is a spell “Grip of the Vineâ€, which has mind-blowing damage and does not allow the target to move.
I have a developed ice branch: Arctic Mastery (17) and Freezing (17). Ice bolt strike 843-1404. There is a slow freeze under 1200-2100.
The vine has 2694-3293 damage ;) It is only on intelligence (as well as healing) and Aquatic Affinity (15)
Why do we need ice? Me - only for the power of "Dragon's Breath".
Special thanks to Zerael.
THANK YOU #1.
Thank you for clearing my dark head! Indeed, there are 8 characters in the game, I just got tired of the game and got fixated on this number - 12... Eva, in my opinion, complements any game well, but her slight dual wield scares me away... Although, for the sake of such girls, you can give up your principles (and then I also wonder how things are with these dual wielders). The final hits me for 500-1500 with a spear of souls, but this, I think, everything rests on the gear, but I'm not very lucky with him ... Zerael, do you want a joke? My main character's weapon is a unique ROSES BLOOD THORN bow with a base damage of 37-67! I already feel you rolling on the floor... But I am patient - and there will be a holiday on our street, besides, I always liked the archers because of the style of clothes and WEAPONS (I hope I will find myself some beautiful bow and more powerful).
THANK YOU #2
By the way, about ice magic. You helped me here too, otherwise I also got hung up on it. But the truth is the vine is a strong thing, I used it sometimes before. Well, I'll think about new ways to level up NATURALIST MAGES. Thanks for the tips, I also need to dispel thoughts and listen to smart people.
Separate topic number 1. Zerael, and you did not correctly apply my own words against me about "wise men who do not read hints, etc." Everything that is in the game, I read, even some books (essno in English), just a toy so buggy that the question of whether THIS IS A GLITCH OR THIS SHOULD BE SO THAT arises oh how often ... At the same time, the question. Don't know why you need GOLDEN CHALICE from Act 3, as well as HERO'S RING and HERO'S AMULET?
Separate topic number 2. Oh, how I wish there was a SECRET LEVEL ... So the desire to have fun over chickens (or anyone. As an option - cows). I've heard rumors that there is a SECRET LEVEL in the game, but I'm not sure how to get there.
I decided to just raise the topic of advice to the top of the forum. For beginners to see.
+ New advice. Download your characters with whom you plan to stay on the elite! At first I ran with pets, but I caught myself on the veteran - and Taar is level 40 in the hotel! So I pumped it for 4 days to 60 ... I was completely worn out.
+ QUESTION TO ZERAEL. IMPORTANT. WHAT OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU HAVE (+ what service pack) and WHAT VERSION OF DUNJON CJ? DVD or 2-3-4 CD? ENGLISH OR RUSSIAN IS INSTALLED?
Guys, make shamans and don't bother ;) I myself play for the City of Magus, and don't care about the members of the group. they will wet for hours, thanks to the pumped branch of the warrior (to health) and the stone fist, and if they take down half of life (which usually takes a lot of time), then I instantly heal with the forces of the magician of nature =)
Damn, I haven’t played for a long time, but here I’m tormented by nostalgia (I downloaded it and what I see) the highlighting of the chests of doors and levers disappeared, I dug in the internet what yes, how, but apparently I dug badly because I didn’t find anything, maybe one of you will answer, but it’s not clear is this a bug or what???