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Divinity Original Sin 2 Combat Definitive Guide: Strategies to Survive and Dominate
This comprehensive guide offers essential strategies for optimizing combat in Divinity Original Sin 2, focusing on Action Point (AP) economy, tactical mobility, pre-battle buffs, and skills that grant extra AP. Learn to control the battlefield, manipulate turns, and maximize damage to overcome the most difficult challenges.
1. 🏃 Smart Mobility: Maximizing Movement and Saving Action Points (AP)
- ✅ Use teleport skills like Tactical Retreat (Huntsman), Cloak and Dagger (Rogue), and Phoenix Dive (Warfare) to cover large distances at a lower AP cost.
- ✅ Tactical Retreat not only saves AP but also grants the Hasted buff, increasing movement and granting +1 AP on the next turn.
- ⚠️ Consider investing in mobility skills if you need to optimize positioning and save AP during combat.
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1. 🏃 Smart Mobility: Maximizing Movement and Saving Action Points (AP)
- ✅ Use teleport skills like Tactical Retreat (Huntsman), Cloak and Dagger (Rogue), and Phoenix Dive (Warfare) to cover large distances at a lower AP cost.
- ✅ Tactical Retreat not only saves AP but also grants the Hasted buff, increasing movement and granting +1 AP on the next turn.
- ⚠️ Consider investing in mobility skills if you need to optimize positioning and save AP during combat.
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2. 🛡️ Pre-Battle Buffs: Strategic Preparation for Tactical Advantage
- ✅ Apply buffs before starting combat to save AP during the battle.
- ⚠️ Be aware that buffs have a limited duration; start combat quickly to maximize their effects.
- ✅ Use a character to maintain dialogue with NPCs while others apply buffs; time stops during the conversation, preventing the consumption of buffs.
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3. ✨ Teleport and Swap: Mastering Tactical Positioning on the Battlefield
- ✅ Invest two points in Aerotheurge to obtain teleport and swap skills, essential for battlefield manipulation.
- ✅ Use teleport to group enemies, allowing for the efficient use of area-of-effect skills and saving AP.
- ✅ Swap positions with enemies on high ground to gain a vision advantage and damage bonus for mages and archers.
- ✅ Swap the position of an allied character in danger with a distant enemy to protect them.
- ✅ The swap skill also works with corpses, offering additional tactical options.
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4. ⏳ Delay Turn: Advanced Strategy to Control the Flow of Combat and Maximize Damage
- ✅ Delaying the turn is useful for characters with high initiative. Allow enemies to spend their AP to approach, ensuring you have more AP available to attack.
- ✅ By delaying the turn to be the last to play, you can attack with all the saved AP and, due to your high initiative, play first on the next turn, maximizing damage.
- ✅ In situations where characters are not well positioned at the start of combat, delay the turn of the tankiest character to absorb the initial damage.
- ✅ Characters who enter combat after the character who delayed the turn will play in sequence, allowing for easier combos.
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5. 💪 Skills and Talents that Grant AP: Increasing Your Actions per Turn
- ✅ Adrenaline: Grants 2 AP at no cost but removes 2 AP on the next turn. Essential for any build.
- ✅ Flesh Sacrifice (Elf): Grants +1 AP and increases damage by 10%, at the cost of constitution.
- ✅ Haste (Pyrokinetic): Grants +1 additional AP per turn, lasting two turns.
- ✅ Tactical Retreat (Huntsman): Grants Hasted for one turn upon teleporting.
- ✅ Time Warp from Fin (Source): Grants an extra turn with all action points to the selected character.
| Talent | Effect |
|---|---|
| Executor | Grants +2 AP upon killing an enemy. |
| Elemental Affinity | Decreases the cost of magic skills depending on the terrain (e.g., necromancers in blood). |