Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Will Polymorph be revised with game release?

With how polymorph works with invested points, there is no reason to put any of your leveling points anywhere else but this skill once you invest the initial one point in the other lines of your choice.

Will this be revised?

No one knows for sure, though supposedly spells will have skill point requirements again now? We don't know what spells will be affected or how, but yeah.

Why do you think it's only viable to put combat ability points in Polymorph?

With a point in Necromancer you get for example more self-heal through damage. A point in Warfare ups the damage against physical armor by 10% which may be better in some occasions than a general increase of damage by 5%. A point in two-handed gives you 5% damage and some crit chance.

A point in Polymorph gives you an additional attribute point. Which is nice of course. But with the second benefit of attributes (for example + physical armor for Strength) removed now, you get not more or the same than from a point in combat abilities, but less. It may be a good decision to put points in Polymorph for an Intelligence based build.

Then there is the rumor that higher skills need several points in the according combat ability. Which is in my opinion absolutely necessary for the health of the game, as it's biggest fault is the easy way to amass ubar skills from several schools.

No one said it wasn't viable, that's a strawman, nobody said that. Additionally cherry picking situations is also another flawed argument, as it doesn't represent overall balance, so let's move on from that point as well.

There's a difference between viable and effective.

There needs to be multiple "effective" roles because that's what a well designed game consists of, not a end all be all min/max single option.

It needs revision.


Before you asked why I haven't addressed the rest of your post is because your post relies on a flawed premise. Therefore it is pointless to argue the remaining information you've provided as the premise it uses as its foundations is logically flawed.

Additionally, if you have any official word of balance changes going into the game at launch that contains changes that would alter the balance of stats, please provide them. Otherwise I'm going to assume based on no other current knowledge, that what we have now will be similar if not identical to what goes in at launch.

As someone who gave no explanation for his reasoning in the starting post, I find your style of arguing not very satisfying. But ok, I understand that you don't want to talk to dump persons like me.

Many spellbooks have higher requirements than 1 point in skills. Some skills have hidden benefits at higher levels, especially Summoning which gets bumps at 10 and 20 points.

But most importantly? Aesthetics. I won't be using Polymorph because I don't like the way it looks.

I think the bonus you gain from polymorph will be changed as in it's current form it would cause an issue with the new OneManArmy.