{"id":7928,"date":"2020-03-08T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:27:47","slug":"divinity-original-sin-ii-definitive-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/divinity-original-sin-ii-definitive-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Divinity: Original Sin II &#8211; Definitive Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For one reason or another I decided to finally see what all the fuss was about regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/divinity-original-sin-ii-early-game\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Sin II<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Definitive Edition&#8221; update (having never bothered to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/divinity-original-sin\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Sin<\/a>&#8216;s Definitive Edition).<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out it&#8217;s nothing but a glorified balance patch, the kind a game like, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/grim-dawn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Grim Dawn<\/a> releases regularly without any sort of fanfare. Which isn&#8217;t to say it&#8217;s <em>worthless<\/em>, since the changes are welcome enough even if they don&#8217;t actually affect how the game plays in any way, but the re-branding is pretty misleading.<\/p>\n<ul>I ended up playing through on <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1139237003\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Honor mode<\/a> using a group of Steam Guide builds:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1179657481\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Necromancer<\/a> (insanely powerful)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1518303306\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elemental Conjurer<\/a> (summons are always good, but lacks finishing power)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1521634004\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Fury<\/a> (weakest link, garbage against a single target)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1172218140\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ranger<\/a> (great at eliminating single targets)<\/ul>\n<p>That was actually my second attempt, as the first used an <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=1523911964\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elemental Archer<\/a> instead of a Ranger and died during the Lost &#038; Found quest because I had forgotten the game&#8217;s cardinal rule: Never, ever, fight fair. Fittingly, toward the end of this successful run I switched over to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DivinityOriginalSin\/comments\/747w5x\/quick_how_to_barrelmancy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">barrelmancy strategy<\/a> to guarantee I&#8217;d get all the ending achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Now I think I&#8217;ll play through it again to try out some <a href=\"https:\/\/fextralife.com\/divinity-original-sin-2-builds-eternal-warrior-death-knight-perfected\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fextralife builds<\/a> that look interesting and grab a bunch of miscellaneous achievements I&#8217;m still missing (not on Honor mode though&#8230; I&#8217;m <em>quite<\/em> through with that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For one reason or another I decided to finally see what all the fuss was about regarding Original Sin II&#8216;s &#8220;Definitive Edition&#8221; update (having never bothered to play Original Sin&#8216;s Definitive Edition). As it turns out it&#8217;s nothing but a glorified balance patch, the kind a game like, say, Grim Dawn releases regularly without any sort of fanfare. Which isn&#8217;t to say it&#8217;s worthless, since the changes are welcome enough even if they don&#8217;t actually affect how the game plays in any way, but the re-branding is pretty misleading. I ended up playing through on Honor mode using a group of Steam Guide builds: Necromancer (insanely powerful) Elemental Conjurer (summons are always good, but lacks finishing power) Fire Fury (weakest link, garbage against a single target) Ranger (great at eliminating single targets) That was actually my second attempt, as the first used an Elemental Archer instead of a Ranger and died during the Lost &#038; Found quest because I had forgotten the game&#8217;s cardinal rule: Never, ever, fight fair. Fittingly, toward the end of this successful run I switched over to a barrelmancy strategy to guarantee I&#8217;d get all the ending achievements. Now I think I&#8217;ll play through it again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[128,28,121,473],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-divinity","tag-fantasy","tag-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}