Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Lockpick totally useless?

@MonkehmaN: Thank you for the info on summoning dolls. I've been bleating about my poor, useless dolls on every forum trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Both of my dolls unsummon in less than 30 seconds. That means they are useless for any kind of battle, tough or otherwise. Not even enough time to summon them and run them across a room, let alone get in a whack. Other people do not seem to have this problem, though... so I'm confused.

Yes, I'll continue to use them as weight-free suitcase... although I'm disappointed. I'd hoped to use them as additional party members. Thank you for the info. It's appreciated.

I think I was too busy buying potions to make sure I didn't die to be honest. When I finished Divine Divinity, I was very scared of Josephine et al... I really didn't like what i'd seen others post about her. (i.e. her being extremely tough). I honestly can't remember what I spent money on, but I was broke by the end of DD <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" /> probably me over-spending.

Raze = Didn't know that because whenever I summon the Act 4 monster and stand in the same room (currently on Summoning Test 1), it flashes and disappears. Which is why I thought it was time based.



Exactly the same for me, mine disappear after time, reguardless of where I am. I am always in the same room because I use them as mules (load them with stuff, then wait for them to vanish). I don't move. Which is why Raze confused me a little, perhaps I have a bug? As DiAnna said, after 30secs mine are gone reguardless of orientation.

The skill menu is just how you said; if you don't click the tick before exiting the menu, it takes it as you cancelled your actions. The tick button is like "accept" I guess, and the cross is "exit". I've done this a couple of times and had to re-level up.

I just noticed this: you have to confirm the change. I was relieved, too, to discover that removing all 5 points spent on fire missiles only cost 3333 coins (Act I).

10.000 gold to unlearn the 1-handed melee skill?? Very odd, i had invested 5 skill points in 1-handed slashing for my DK (damage, accuracy, etc), until i found a two handed sword. I could unlearn the entire 1-handed skill for about 1600 gold and invest the 5 skillpoints in 2-handed slashing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" />.

My impression is that the unlearning cost increases as you move from act to act.

I ran through my recent savegame history... it appears that it is based solely on character level. I checked Act #, # of skill points used, # of skills, # of prior skills unlearned. I'm not sure if difficulty level has any effect. At level 1 it costs 33 to unlearn. At 14 it has moved to about 6533. These were the samples I took:

Act 1
1(lvl) - 33(cost to unlearn)
9 - 2700
10 - 3333
Act 2
11 - 4033
12 - 4800
13 - 5633
14 - 6533

Obviously I'm not very far into game so for all I know future acts my make a difference.