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This is a work in progress V1.0.0

Introductions:

Hello, im Logen and i wanted to make yet another post about character Builds, i will update atleast once a week, unless i notify otherwise.

Further, Give me your Build, pm me or mail me at "applicationwhitelist@gmail.com".

We have to start somwhere so here we go.

1: Ability Points

2: Attibrutes

3: Action Points


4: Traits

5: Equipment


For those intrested Builds
*Note* any build without an author is me, missing talents in my builds are not there by design, this is a character building guide not a just a list of builds, builds are here for reference or example.

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Planned:

1: Attibrutes
2: Equipment
3: Talents
4: Resistance
5: Abilities + Tenebrium

No ETA: Crafting (i will only include what i feel is relevant)
No ETA: Recommended party (only when i have compiled the neccesary Builds)

Changelog:

[07.08.14] V1.0.0
1: Added description of ability points
2: Added incomplete description of attibrutes
3: Added description of action points
4: Added descruption of traits
5: Added equipment with no description
6: Added six Basic builds for melee characters

Hey man. Thanks for posting your builds. Lots of good info here.

What difficulty are you looking at playing in and why no Glass Cannon? I spent some time trying to set up optimal, but cheese-free builds and decided to go with dual Lone Wolf/Glass Cannon builds. Seeing as Glass Cannon allows you to free up a lot of attribute points that would normally be spent on increasing the number of Action Points per turn (through Constitution and Speed) while retaining about the same amount of vitality with only half the attribute investment in Constitution.

I do think that getting Glass Cannon on all 4 characters is crossing a line in the sense that you can get a ridiculous amount of AP without sacrificing too much in Normal difficulty or less. That's the reason that I wanted to go with only two characters, but I feel like Lone Wolf without Glass Cannon reduces your build options too severely.

Personally, I regret getting Leech on my tanks in the first play through because I feel like it's a little overpowered when combined with high absorb from armor and a decent amount of Constitution. Add to this the fact that healing spells become too powerful and frequently usable as the game continues and somewhat trivialize the damage that enemies are allowed to do. Not to mention the fact that spells like Bloodletting equal a full heal.

I've tried to find builds that are rewarding to play and don't trivialize the combat portion of the game. I've just installed the Source Difficulty Mod from Nexus and I'm hoping that will even out some of the more glaring issues in the campaign and restore some of that healthy tension that is so prevalent in the first chapter's encounters.

"All Skilled Up" and "Bigger And Better" should not be taken on the main characters - they're okay for henchmen/companions - unless you're prepared to go through the hassle of a complete respec later on, since the same individual who allows respecs also lets you trade talents for much better ability/skill returns than those two talents provide.

1) Bully
1) Lone Wolf
5) Glass Cannon
7) Weather The Storm
11) Guerrilla

Tenebrium 5+2
Man-At-Arms 5
Aeorotheurge 1
Sneaking 1

Tactic: Rage + Invisibility + Flurry or Whirlwind enemy group.
Damage: 3,000+ Flurry or over 6,000+ Whirlwind.
Bonus: Party member casts Oath of Desecration for even higher damage.

LC
Leech
GC
Guerrilla
The rest doesnt matter

Tenebrium 7+1
Man at arms 5
Willpower 5+4
Bodybuilding 5+4
Sneaking 0+5
Aeoro 2
Geo 2
Crafting ??-5
BS ??-5
Anymagic school 5 (doesnt matter)

Tactic:
Step 1:get good gears
Step 2:walk to enemies flip coins to use random skills
Step 3:go make a smoothie
?????
You can either auto attack them to death or something

First of all thanks for providing the general information to new players.
That being said, I have a few mayor problems with your suggestions:
-what difficulty are you playing on?
-Not even mentioning the brokenness of Glass Cannon, Leech, multicoating (using multiple essences on the same equipment to get to > 100% resistance), end of turn sneaking and the Seller of Secrets exploit
-builds are only for level 20 chars
-the +ability / attribute points books and the +int-per books
-homestead only crafter
-Moloch (respec and trading talents for ability/attribute points)
-Tenebrium
-Characters don't exist out of context. They have to be build to complement your party.

In the header of each post you got a parchment symbol that is a direct link for each of your posts.
F.e.
Strength + Man-at-arms + One handed + shield Builds:
http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=538276#Post538276

First of all thank you iru this is valuable information to me :P



I've been told that from several places, thank you i will re-define my builds a little.



Thank you very much, thanks to you i now realize that i have to make a few additions to the first page such as a talents, multicoating or resistances. But please realize this is a work in progress, as such i had actually forgotten about the + ability and + attribrute books.

also some of you may hate me for this but i have yet to complete the game.

as it stands, i will add:

Resistance
Talents
Abilities + Tenebrium
Crafting (i will only include what i feel is relevant)
Recommended party (only when i have compiled the neccesary Builds)

example:
1 Char = STR - One handed - Man-at-arms - Shield
Tank/Damage [link]
2 Char = INT - Staff(lol) - Air and Water magic (i know but i can't spell the words from the top of my head)
Damage/Heal [link]
Companion Madora = two handed - Man-at-arms
Damage/Tank [link]

Gamepedia has good lists on Talents and Skills:

http://divinity.gamepedia.com/Talents
http://divinity.gamepedia.com/Skills