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Essential Tips for Beginners in Divinity Original Sin 2
This video offers a complete guide for beginners in Divinity Original Sin 2, covering everything from choosing skills and thieving to the strategic use of elements and essential items like the sleeping bag. Learn how to optimize your start and improve your chances of success.
To learn a skill, you need to have the required skill level. Access the character sheet to check and level up combat skills.
Understanding the armor mechanic is crucial to applying effects like atrophy, stun, and others.
Check the description of the surfaces to understand their susceptibilities.
1. 💼 Recruit Companions and Steal Essential Skills at the Beginning of the Game
- ✅ When recruiting a companion, ask them to focus on thievery to steal from merchants.
- ✅ Stealing skill books from merchants is crucial to get new skills at the beginning of the game.
- ⚠️ Remember that you can only steal two books per merchant with each character.
| Habilidade | Description |
|---|---|
| Gatunagem | Allows you to steal items and skill books from merchants. |
00:00 - 01:25
1. 💼 Recruit Companions and Steal Essential Skills at the Beginning of the Game
- ✅ When recruiting a companion, ask them to focus on thievery to steal from merchants.
- ✅ Stealing skill books from merchants is crucial to get new skills at the beginning of the game.
- ⚠️ Remember that you can only steal two books per merchant with each character.
| Habilidade | Description |
|---|---|
| Gatunagem | Allows you to steal items and skill books from merchants. |
01:26 - 04:49
2. 🗺️ Location of Skill Merchants and Requirements to Learn New Techniques
- ✅ Skill merchants are located around Fort Joy.
- ✅ Each merchant sells skill books specific to different classes (summoning, water, geomancy, rogue, polymorph, necromancy).
- ⚠️ Some merchants (polymorph and necromancy) may require theft to access their inventories, depending on your choices in the game.
| Classe | Skill Type |
|---|---|
| Invocação | Summons creatures to assist in combat. |
| Geomancia | Earth and poison skills. |
| Patife | Rogue and assassin skills. |
| Polimorfia | Transformations and versatile skills. |
| Necromancia | Skills related to death and resurrection. |
To learn a skill, you need to have the required skill level. Access the character sheet to check and level up combat skills.
05:00 - 07:47
3. 🛡️ Physical and Magical Armor: Protection and Extra Effects in Combat
- ✅ Buy armor with both types of defense (physical and magical) to protect your characters.
- ✅ Enemies have physical armor, magical armor, or both.
- ✅ To apply extra skill effects, it is necessary to remove the corresponding armor from the enemy (physical or magical).
Understanding the armor mechanic is crucial to applying effects like atrophy, stun, and others.
07:48 - 08:21
4. 🎯 Focus on Damage: Strategies to Maximize Efficiency in Combat
- ✅ Focusing on one type of damage (physical or magical) can be more efficient.
- ✅ Have consumables or skills of another type of damage for specific situations.
08:22 - 09:21
5. 🔄 Strategic Repositioning and High Ground Bonus
- ✅ Switch characters during conversations to reposition your companions.
- ✅ Positioning archers and mages in high places grants a 20% damage bonus.
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6. 🔨 Breaking Locked Chests and Getting Loot
- ✅ Break locked chests with skills or summons to avoid damaging your weapons.
09:48 - 11:51
7. 💍 Obtaining the Ring of Restoration and Its Usefulness
- ✅ Find the flower on the map and give it to the NPC MIGO to receive the Ring of Restoration.
- ✅ The ring allows you to use the restoration technique without skill requirements.
- ⚠️ Warning: the ring can be delivered in another quest.
| Item | Effect |
|---|---|
| Anel de Restauração | Allows you to use the Restoration skill (heals 9 vitality points for 2 turns). |
11:52 - 14:12
8. 🔥💧 Synergy of the Elements: Strategic Combinations to Control the Battlefield
- ✅ Use the synergy of the elements to control the battlefield.
- ✅ Wetting enemies with magic rain and electrifying them causes stun.
- ✅ Oil on the ground slows enemies and can be ignited to cause explosions.
- ✅ Wetting enemies and using ice freezes them.
Check the description of the surfaces to understand their susceptibilities.
14:13 - 15:56
9. 🧤 Teleportation Gloves: Strategies and Tactical Advantages
- ✅ Defeat the crocodiles to get the teleportation gloves.
- ✅ Use teleportation to:
- Move companions to high places.
- Position oil barrels.
- Access inaccessible areas.
- Unite or separate enemies.
- ⚠️ Warning: the gloves are related to a quest in Fort Joy.
15:57 - 16:54
10. 🧪 Item Creation: Combining Poison and Potions to Enhance Your Skills
- ✅ Combine weapons with poison to cause additional damage and poisoning.
- ✅ Combine small healing potions to create larger potions.
16:55 - 17:55
11. 🛌 Sleeping Bag: Essential Recovery and Bonuses Out of Combat
- ✅ Use the sleeping bag to heal the entire group out of combat.
- ✅ The sleeping bag grants the rested effect, increasing strength, dexterity, and intelligence, as well as protecting against silence, blindness, cripple, and knockdown.