Can someone help me with this fucking game? I came back to this game after a year and can't get past where I left off...

Can someone help me with this fucking game? I came back to this game after a year and can't get past where I left off, the fight in the Sanitarium. My party is wiped out in less than 15 seconds after the constructs and patients attack. I have no idea what the fuck to do. I already turned the game down to easy difficulty.

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Do you have a tank? Park the rest of your party near a choke point and have the tank start the fight and run back. Also, use crowd control, get your wizard to Chilling Fog and Slicken and Confuse or your Cipher to Whisper of Treason and Paralyze. The easiest party setup is one unkillable tank Monk or Fighter laden with every piece of defensive gear imaginable and five guys shooting spells and arrows past a convenient choke point.

What the other user said, plus remember to enchant your weapons to the next tier, and add some lashes to them, helps a bit
You shouldn't have any problem on easy to be honest..

A priest blessing and healing everyone might help. Accuracy buffs are god tier, and the best healing spell is the Consecrated Ground second level one that pulses healing out every few seconds for ages.

I'm playing a Cipher so I have some CC, unfortunately it's not very useful. Using your advice I was able to hole up in one corner of the room. Durance and Kana survived long enough to outlast them all. Thanks user.

How do I upgrade weapons? Am I supposed to upgrade armor too?

That may be part of the problem, I forgot all about Durance's healing spells. I checked my last save and it's from November 2017.

Whisper of Treason is great, use it all the time. It’s so cheap it’s almost free, ties up multiple enemies when you consider how other enemies fight the one you charmed, and is so fast it’s the perfect answer to anything that breaks through to your back line. Ciphers are great at CC so long as they have high intelligence, and if you need more, get Aloth or a merc wizard, and leave the primary damage to a rogue or ranger with a fast bow.

Also, remember you can always respec characters at inns for a nominal fee, if you find yourself getting stuck with your old feat and spell choices,

One of the hardest fights in the game. Try to b8 a few of them out, don't try taking them all on at once because you won't win. If they all start coming, leg it.

How useful are mercs anyway? Right now I'm just using the named party members (Aloth, Eder, Durance, Kana and Sagani).

I think I may have picked shitty spells then. I have 19 INT but most of my spells seem to have a ~30-50% chance of success and don't last long at all. I have:

>Eyestrike
>Tenuous Grasp
>Whisper of Treason
>Mental Binding
>Mind Blades
>Phantom Foes
>Psychovampiric Shield
>Puppet Master

Maybe it's just bad luck that they keep getting resisted.

You need crowd control spells and ones that do damage over time.

Playing PoE 2 right now. I didn't buy it right when it came out because of the shitty reviews from anons. I regret that, I'm really enjoying the game. I find the Deadfire way more interesting and exotic than Dyrwood and the qol changes are really nice. The soundtrack is amazing and the story so far is engaging, I love the scenes where the Gods let you sit in on their meetings. The romance stuff is cringe but so far I've encountered only a minimal amount of it.

>listening to Yea Forums
Kek

Sounds like you want more accuracy - look for items and high-quality weapons that buff it (or perception, which also improves it), and feats like the accuracy-buff-at-long-range one I forget the name of. Also spells that buff it or nerf enemy defenses, and if you dumped perception at creation you could also respec for some more.

There was a PoE general on Yea Forums leading up to PoE 2 and the game's release essentially killed the thing people were so put out. I figured if the guys who liked the first (like me) didn't like the second then Obsidian must have really fucked up.
It's obvious the game has several writers because some of the writing is really top notch and some writing is really bad, but the former is way more prevalent than the latter.

OP here, also how safe is it to blow through the main quest? I'm finding a lot of the side stuff very tedious despite enjoying the main quest, but I don't want to end up underleveled or missing out on anything good. I remember reading that Act 2 is basically safe to rush, and I think I'm in Act 2 now but I don't remember.

Frankly if I can keep my interest up I'm excited to try multiclassing cipher. Can't decide what with though. For some reason I just really like multiclass systems. Maybe Soulblade cipher plus Tactician fighter.

Act 2 is basically everything in the city and the town west of it

>Another zoomer can't into superior RTWP
Its okay, just admit defeat, and go play Divinity or some garbage

How do I learn to read fast enough to enjoy these games?

just put the game on very easy and you win.

PoE2 has problems but I have a soft spot for the game overall because good pirate games are so rare, pirate RPGs even more so.

read books you fucking philistine

I think you’ll have a lot of trouble with the final fight and especially the DLC. You’ll be missing a lot of the best gear. There are also side quests with minor implications for the sequel you wouldn’t get to see.

If it’s the combat parts getting you down, perhaps you’ll have a smoother experience once your party works a bit more efficiently and/or has a few more levels? Level 9 is in particular is key if you have a caster or three, since they get per-encounter spells then. Some of the early game fights like the abandoned temple or Raedric are brutal and can be frustrating without a super efficient party, but later or once you have a stronger handle on the mechanics, you can tear through almost everything like paper. Use lots of CC, especially when you can target their worst defense, and remember that ranged damage dealers are a lot easier to keep safe than melee. I like to just dump everything defensive on my tank and have the other five as a bow-wielding death blob artillery platform that deletes enemies one by one.

I do read books, albeit slowly. When I read it's like I'm talking to myself. Everyone I ask about it says they just skip most of the words and put the meaning together automatically but to me it's like listening in on a conversation.