Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Character Optimization

I've been playing the game for a week now, and wanted to start a thread to share character optimization tips for this awesome game.

A few disclaimers: you might find some spoilers in there, english is not my native language so please forgive the mistakes you are bound to find, and finally I haven't finished the game yet so I might be missing some end-game insights.

Here we go:

Stats

• Vitality:
  
  Each points raises your hps by 7. Since you also get hp each time you get a new level this stat is important at early on, but has diminishing returns later, even more so because you can find equipments that boosts your hps by large amounts.
• Spirit:
  
  Same mechanism as Vitality, but for mana.
• Strength:
  
  Each points boosts your melee damage by 0.5%, Strong Body by 1, Melee Resistance by 1, hp regen by 0.006%.
  
  Strong Body is used to resist dots (poison, bleed, etc..) but they do low damage anyway, and resist polymorphism which is kinda useless since it wears off as soon as you get it (that means very quickly :P).
  
  All in all, this is the least useful stat (see note about damage types), I use it only to meet equipment requirements.
• Dexterity:
  
  Each points boosts your ranged damage by 0.5%, Heightened Reflexes by 1, Ranged Resistance by 1.
  
  Could be useful for ranged-only characters, but I'm reserving my judgement till I do some testing on how Heightened Reflexes works.
  
  For others just put points there to meet equipment requirement.
• Intelligence:
  
  Each points boosts your magic damage by 1%, Indomitable Will by 1, Magic Resistance by 1, mana regen by 0.006%.
  
  Indomitable Will helps you resist stun, fear, etc... quite important since if one of those lands while you're low on hp, that means a quick trip to the savegame loading screen :P

Note about damage types:
Melee damage means the non-magical portion of damage of a melee weapon. Same for ranged.
Magical damage is the damage inflicted by spells, *and* the magical damage of weapons.
You can find a lot of weapons that have 90% of their damage as magical, so in my opinion that makes intelligence the superior stat for offense: it has double the effect (+1%/point vs +0.5%/point), and raises melee, ranged and spell dps, while dex/str only raise one.

Resistances

The resistance points from your stats and equipment are converted into a reduction % of incoming damage.
I haven't figured out what the formula is, but I'm interested if anyone knows

Personally I ended up focusing on ranged/magic resistance. Melee damage can also be mitigated using evade, and I find melee types easy to deal with using smart pulling, kiting, and the dps you can dish out at close range.

Skills

Dragon Slayer

• Expert XXX:
  
  A must for melee fighters, since it increase both physical and magical damage, and also increase all skill damage linked to that weapon (ex: it boosts thousand cuts).
  
  Unarmed, One Armed, Sword and Shield: useless.
  Two Handed: +10% damage/point.
  Dual Wield: starts out well with some hefty +25% on the off hand, but once you spend enough for your off hand to reach the damage of the main hand, it averages out at a disappointing +3%/point.
  
  Note on weapons:
  After doing some averages, it appears a two hander does about 1.65 times more damage than a one hander of the same level.
  By factoring in the expert skill, we get:
  - at rank 1:
  +5%/-50% for dual wield, +5% for 2h
  = x1.55 damage for dual wield, and x1.73 for 2h
  - at rank 10:
  +34%/+34% for dual wield, +95% for 2h
  = x2.68 for dual wield, x3.22 for 2h
  
  Conclusion: if you don't want to invest into melee, you may go for dual wield since 1h have lower stat requirements, gives you twice the enchantment/charm slots, and dps that is only slightly lower than 2h (at rank 1). If you're focusing on melee, go 2h, no questions asked :P
• Mind Reading/Wisdom:
  
  You're basically exchanging skill points for more exp. In the case of mind reading it's not really worth it unless you're trying to mind read everything that moves.
  For wisdom I'd say definitely one point... but you can find a necklace early on that boosts wisdom by 2, so...
• Open locks:
  
  Skill points for more loot.
  You'll have to keep investing in this skill for it to be useful, as the level of locks go up.
  I ended up regretting the single point I put there, but if you can't stand the sight of an unlockable chest, go for it :P
• Stowing: without it you may struggle a bit early on with your inventory management, but it becomes useless when you get your battle tower.

Ranger Skills:

• Poison/Exploding arrow: low damage, that is not increased by either dexterity or intelligence. I'd avoid it (go for splitting arrows if you need AE).
• Evil Surpise: nice for boss fights, though I always forget to use it :P
• Ranger Strength: +5% ranged damage/points. Note that it only increases physical damage unlike Expert XXX that works on both physical and magical. So good only for dex rangers.
• Ranger Stealth:
  
  With 2 points in there, you can get into bow range of a mob without being detected. But the thing is: even after you fire, only the mob you fired upon will aggro.
  That means you're assured to single pull all mobs in the game, even if they're in a pack of 10 or more; well unless they're dropped on top of you like in a boss fight.
  With more than 2 points, you extends your range of invisibility so that you can single pull mobs beyond the enemy's front line, like that pesky healer hiding behind his friends..
  All in all a very powerful skill, to the point of making the game a bit too easy.
• Stunning Arrows: with enough points in there you can lockup a mob during most of the fight while you tear it down. Too bad most bosses are immune.
• Potion use: for the moment potions restore enough hp/mana as it is, may be useful later on.
• Splitting Arrows:
  
  Now we have a winner!
  Its intended use as an AE tool works well and scales, unlike exploding arrow.
  What makes it awesome is that at point blank range your target will be hit by all of your arrows! Since you get 1 additional arrow per point it's awesome dps.
  And to top it off, it's only on a 5s cooldown..
  Well worth it even for a pure melee, that will use it when thousand cuts is on cooldown :p
• Evade: a point there is required since you immediately get +10%; after that it's only +2%/point. Note that it only works on melee hits.
• Way of the ranger:
  
  The bonus only applies to physical damage, so it's good only for a dex ranger. To boost magic ranged damage, invest in Way of the Battlemage.
  The melee damage penalty applies only to physical damage too, so if your main source of damage is magical (ranged or melee) you can get a +50 heightened reflexes boost for a single point (if you're willing to say goodbye to your melee resistance).

Warrior skills

• Whirlwind:
  
  Only melee AE tool known to slayers, and it does its job. More that one point is not advised here as the added damage is pathetic, and the knockdown chance is only +3%/point.
  This skill is also incredibly useful to break crates/jar stacked together. It's really a pain to select each one to check its content, but a whirlwind later you don't have to worry about it anymore, and look! there was a chest hidden behind :P
• Charge Attack:
  
  Very useful strategical tool.
  Lets you quickly move around the battlefield to clean up the lone mage/archer, while escaping the few melees that surrounded you a few moments ago.
  A point is a must.
• Jump attack: the damage is weak. With enough points could be used to do some (manaless) crowd control with the knockdown effect, but it's not very efficient.
• Death Attack: handy on bosses, but useless on regular mobs.
• Defense: nice resistance boosts, also with enough points you won't get any melee penalty.
• Battle Rage: only boosts your physical damage, so only good if you are a str warrior.
• Life Leech: starts out too low to be usefull, but at rank 13 you get 34% chance to leech 46% of your damage. On average you're healing 15% of the damage you deal.. not bad.
• Bleeding cut: the added damage is too low to be useful.
• Regenerate: if you have low str, a single point here will get you a decent regeneration rate. If you need more, go for the heal spell (or ghost) instead.
• Thousands cuts:
  
  The bread and butter of the warrior.
  Launches 6 very fast strikes, for massive damage. Plus it seems that your target is unable to retaliate while the strikes are landing.
  The only downside is the 15 seconds cooldown. A point is a must, the more the merrier..
• Death Blow: increases your crit strike change, what's not to like?
• Reflect Damage:
  
  Passive skill, works even on ranged attacks... sounds awesome on paper.
  But the problem is that your opponents have low dps but high hp compared to you. Meaning that even with some heavy points investment in this skill the reflected damage stays low.
  Might be useful for a character specialised on damage shield (through equipment), and high survivability.

Mage skills:

• Direct damage spells:
  
  All in all I'm not a big fan of those spells.
  You'll have to keep investing points for the damage to scale, and you become very dependent on mana.
  Only magic missile is usable as a main weapon (1s cooldown), but the damage is only on par with a bow (that does not require a such heavy investment). The others are on a 15s cooldown and the damage is not even remotly close to what you get from thousand cuts or splitting arrows.
• Mana Usage: can help you solve your mana problems if mana drain is not enough.
• Mana Drain: very very useful if you melee a lot. But usually a point is enough.
• Confusion:
  
  Very nice if you sling spells a lot. It 'procs' on each individual projectile of a spell, so it occurs more than the percentage may indicate.
  Also a nice combo even if you don't use spells: the magic damage shield enchantment (the one that launches a white ball when you get hit) is considered a spell, so it works with Confusion and your opponents may get stunned just by attacking you :P
• Polymorphism: only true crowd control spell that works on all mobs independently of their level. So a single point is nice if you don't want to invest heavily in another CC (who said charm?)
• Heal: very useful spell, a point here really cuts back on downtime/potion use, but also comes with a high mana cost.
• Way of the Battlemage: raise your magic damage by a large amount, and it applies to your weapon. Awesome.

Priest Skills

• Raise Ghost:
  
  Summons are powerful, and stay useful even after you get your creature. This one comes with a very handy healing spell.
  The downside is you'll have to keep investing skill points if you want to keep using it. Also you'll sometime find yourself unable to upgrade your pet: from level 14 to the moment you get your battle tower, so it'll be harder if you depend heavily on it.
• Raise Zombie: more dps than the ghost, but no healing (which makes it worse in my opinion)
• Master Summoner: nice if you use summon spells, but does not applies to your creature.
• Fear: very powerful crowd control spell, two bad the cooldown is so long. Can be a good complement to charm.
• Embrace the shadows:
  
  Need 10s to drink a potion in peace during a long fight, while positioning yourself in the best position to wreak havoc when it wears of? Skip past a group of nasties you don't want to fight?
  You get all that for only 1 point, more is not that useful.
  It also makes snatching a scale from an angry dragon a breeze... (*hint hint*).
• Charm:
  
  The best crowd control in my opinion: usable during the whole fight duration once you invest a few points, distract quite a few opponents and with lucks even kill some.
  Like most others, you must keep investing in it for it to stays usable.
  Too bad there's a xp penalty for mobs you kill with this spell, or it would be all powerful.
• Blind: can take out a mob for quite a while, but the cooldown is way too long.
• Curse: useful for boss fights, not much more.
• Life sacrifice: handy for pure mages, but for others mana drain/efficiency and potions are usually enough.
• Summon Demon: nice little tank, give it a try if your creature is feeling lonely.
• Way of the wise Wizard: boosts your magic defenses at the cost of less magic damage. At rank 5 the offense penalty disappears, making it quite nice but 5 skill points is a bit too costly for my taste.

Tips/Tricks:

• Damage bonuses stacks geometrically. For example if you get +50% damage from two different sources, you wont end up with +100% but +125% (1.5*1.5)! So try have has many damage boosting skills/stats as possible, instead of focusing heavily on only one.
• Kiting is extremely easy, in particular using the back jump you get after becoming a dragon knight.
• Don't forget to bind the quick save/load keys in the option menu, it makes your life really easier :P
• Go for the warrior class at the beginning, since it gets you whirlwind (nice for breaking crates!), and the str points are always useful for equipment requirements. The other skills you can get (poison arrows/fireball), are not that nice.
• Useful mindreads cost a lot of exp, you can safely skip the low cost ones.

Your turn now! :P

Edit: enhanced the presentation, fixed an incorrect dual wield skill value, added a missing 0 in the regen numbers

Very nice guide. You're mostly correct on the numbers.

To help you out let me inform you about Heightened Reflexes.
A critical does 1,5 times damage.
On top of that add your heightened reflex in % to that damage.

So a normal hit of 100 damage will do 150 if critical and 225 if your heightened reflexes is 50%.


Also on your comparison of the different weaponconfigurations, do not forget the animation speeds.
Unarmed does a lot more hits in 10 seconds than for instance a twohander.

Keep up the good work!

Greever

"You can find a lot of weapons that have 90% of their damage as magical, so in my opinion that makes intelligence the superior stat for offense: it has double the effect (+1%/point vs +0.5%/point), and raises melee, ranged and spell dps, while dex/str only raise one."


hummm, you saying that you should go INT instead of Dex/STR for both ranger and melee style of play in adition to a more "mage style"?

Thats not a very logical from a design point of view... /confused

what is AE and DPS?

I got 5 in lockpick, found some good equipment early on in some of those chests. However, I do disagree with the 2 hand vs duel wield. I've found Duel Wield far more damaging then 2 hand. 2 Had had like 7-69 damage while duel wild had more like 45-69 meaning you don't get low hits. Though swinging a longer sword was more fun.

Shields are a joke in this game, hopefully they are greatly improved in the patch.

I put 5 in healing and maxed the mana efficiency skill. Maxing that skill meant I was not totally dependent on mana as a warrior.

@Greever: Thanks for the heightened reflex formula


I made a damage instead of dps comparison because 2 handed and dual wields seemed to have the same swinging speed, and also because the flat damage value is used for skills.
That's what makes me disregard 1h/unarmed: even if the regular swinging dps is the same (thanks to a faster animation), the skill damage is halved, which makes 2h or dual wield a better choice.


For melee I'd say Int is the way to go, even if that's counter intuitive.
For ranger it's close. Choosing Dex and putting lot of points into ranger strength will give you slightly more damage (this skill is only applied to physical damage). But choosing Int will not cost you any skill point for a damage that is close, and will also boost melee and spells.

@LightningLockey:
AE means Aera of Effect, DPS means damage per second.

I've found that 2h is the best early on but after the battle tower the 1h weapons start to rule and 2h weapons stop becoming stronger + dual wield is slow while 2h in dps do more

because of the skill points bug I've checked the best 2h and dual wield and 2h did on 300 damage more (in dps it should be like 500)

Well... Nice guide, but STR isn't all that unreliable xD I made a Hydrid character, with more str and i can say having HIGH regen is awesome... i barely use potions, and going thru the battles is like a taking walk in the park... The Dragon Slayer skills of Expertise are junk up to lvl 5, nice up to lvl 10 and total hax after that.

It's easy to get high damages, but not so easy to get good defenses, the mage skills aren't all that bad as u said too xD mobs usually have weak magical defense, depends on their classes obviously, but i used to take like... 20 melee dmg and 60 magic dmg, with melee and magical defenses having almost the same values, perhaps, later in the game they get crappy, but who knows, the Dragon Slayer trainer says he is better at magic training, perhaps he CAN do some magic with those advanced lvls...

The Wisdow thingie xD ekip drops are totally random... lucky you u got a 2 wisdow jewelry, i only found a crappy bow that gave 1, if u get something and die, load and open the same chest and it'll drop something diffrent of the first time.

Well... I really liked ur post, rouses up opinions ^^ we can learn wich each other!

Heh, don't worry, using strength doesn't make a character unreliable :P
Sure the regen strength gives you is nice, but take a look at the regeneration skill: with 6 points in it, you can get the same regen as a char with 100 Str... So by going Int, you get more melee damage, ranged damage, and spell damage.. and you can get the same regen if you feel like it. Not to mention that you also get a boosted mana regen that can't be duplicated with skills.


Well for two handed, you get the same bonus/point (10%) whether you're below or above lvl 5. In the case of dual wield, it's the other way around: bonuses are good from 1-5, then average to a low 3%/point after that.


While it's true that most drops are random, not all are; like some named drops from bosses, or a few quest rewards.
The one I'm talking about is the "Hermits' Talisman of the North of the Magic Gods", which is not random, and you can get by doing the the 3 talisman quest in the delerict tunnels below broken valley.

Endgame, Magic Missile is actualy far more powerful than anything you do in melee with similar point investments. Remember the way the spell scales, and how damage modifiers work.

It's harder with magic until level 15 or so, after that it actually gets easier as a mage than as a fighter because the spells are so powerful ^^;

I totally disagree with that. Let me crunch some numbers to prove it:

Magic Missile:
Let's assume 100 int (+100% magic damage), rank 10 magic missile (4 projectiles/33 dmg), rank 5 destruction skill (+50% spell damage), activated rank 5 Way of the Battlemage (+50% magic damage).
You're looking at:
4*33*2*1.5*1.5=594 damage.
With a cooldown of 1s, that's 594 dps.

Melee:
Let's assume 100 int (+100% magic damage), 30 str, 20 dex, rank 10 two-handed expertise (+95% weapon damage), activated rank 5 Way of the Battlemage (+50% magic damage), rank 5 death blow (+17% crit chance).
Let's take a basic lvl 25 2h sword with 85 average damage, 70% of which is magical, and a single 24 magical dmg enchantment.
You're looking at:
109*(.3*1.15+.7*2*1.5)*1.95=519.7 damage.
Let's take into account the crit damage.
7% base crit + 17% bonus from death blow, critical damage of 1.5*1.2 (thanks Greever for the formula :P):
519.7*(1+.24*1.5*1.2)=744.2 average damage

A 2h sword swing once every ~0.82 seconds, so that gives us a total of 744.2/0.82=907.6 dps.

You'll notice the melee build uses a mid-level, poor quality sword (usually you'd add a few +24 magic damage enchantment), and we're just using regular swing dps.
A well equiped, skill using warrior will be doing a lot more than that.
So yes, melee is doing more damage :P

Hello all!

COuldnt help but read this mini-spoiler before playing the game and i must confess i'm quite puzzled that in an RPG, the melee oriented character gets more damage from INT than from STR.

If your numbers are correct (wich they seem), i think larian should re-balance it somewhat so that Strenght is back on its track as more usefull to warrior builds instead of intelect. Perhaps rebalance the percentage of magical damage that weapons do, or rebalance the bonus from intelect on those weapons enhancements.

It also seems that warrior builds, with a 2h weapon are by far the most damaging types, wich probably has to do with that added damage from Intelect affecting enchantments and the magical damage of weapons. Seems to me it should be brought down a little.

There are 2 types of damage that can be done on a weapon.

Regular weapon damage (modified by str)
Magic weapon damage (modified by int)

I was playing fine with adding nothing into int, all into vitality and strength.

Mages get to wild weapons as well as warriors. There are some weapons that offer little regular weapon damage and lots of magic weapon damage. Those require substantially higher int to wield.

And for every 1 dexterity, you get 1% more chance of doing critical damage.

The weapon will look like this as an example

Weapon damage 1-8
Magic damage 0-2

Requires 3 str

--------------------

Weapon damage 0-2
Magic damage 1-8

Requires 3 int.

xD i Don't think str is unreliable, or int is too reliable, and that's what i liked more in the game... You can make any type of character and be good with it!

Besides, there's each one opinion behind each character, magic is nice, yeah, but even tho u can get the same regen of 100 str with regen 6, imagine what u can do with both? or yet with regen 15 and str 100? xD

Well... Perhaps my view might be warped, cause, my lvl lately is being much higher than the mobs, after lvl 25, killing monsters is being a piece of cake, i kill the bosses with one Thousand Strikes...

I see this is a game i'll play many times, i'll sure make all types of builds, then, i could, dunno, discuss better about this, as i said, i'm not even totally melee or anything, i have an hybrid build, at lvl 34 i have VIT-45, SPR-3, STR-62, DEX-48 and INT-41 with the ekips i use, very few skills, invested more in "quality" than quantity...

Made this sticky cause it contains lots of useful info for new players. And I like ppl discussing about this type of stuff.

Really
oo yea
I am mage
I always invest only in spirit and little in intelligence
so on level 18- I have
-505 mana
-250 health
-1 strenght
-1 dexterity
-10 intelligence

After I get high mana I start investiong points in stamina but they still kill me very fast
oh yes
I think I will skip wisdom
I use charm,magic missiles and healing

is that good

Spirit isn't so important, intelligence matters much.
Also, forget about wisdom. It almost useless. Don't spend too much EXP for Mindread and you're set.

Don't forget that putting points in STR DEX and INT also boosts their respective defenses.

yap
but I am pure mage
something like dragon lord

Thanks guys

Even as a mage it's very wise to also put points in strength... to bolster your melee protection. Also, to be able to wear the best armor in the game. I raise Strength only to meet requirements. I don't raise dexterity but use potions of dexterity when I have to fight many archers (to increase my ranged protection).

But then, I'm playing more as a battlemage... I throw a fireball, and if that does not kill them outright, I use firewall when they're close, then hack them up with a two-hander.

Pure magic here
I know this game isn"t suitable for pure mages but hell I am overpowered
Right now

Level 19
Vitality-1(150 health)
Spirit-54(505 mana)
DEX-1
STR-1
INT-34

and I have nice belt that give +1 to magic missiles so I am always one step ahead of my enemies
My true problem is my health but I find solution

Magic is weak against me(34% for now :-D)
Melee enemies are dead before they even reach to me and I am secure against them(firewall)
only problem is ranged attack
damn arrows follow my mage


Spells

Magic missiles-8(4*73=292 DPS)
Fire wall-2
Mindread-5

but I see that virumor is kind of expert with magic

How about destruction(is that even worth to take)

charm VS polymorph


EDIT:I forgot to tell you
I wear nightbringer set(require intelligene and boost ranged and magic ressistance)

Destruction increases the damage output of your magical attacks, so I think it's a must to have... but I think it's most important if you rely on fireball/firewall only for magic.

Nightbringer set is good, but Ufthing's armour is much better because of the many stat boosts + charm/enchantment possibilities it gives.

Your mage has strength 1... but then how did you manage to survive the fight with Stone... and how did you manage to kill Raze without a high level magic blast/fireball/firewall? You need to kill him very quickly and magic missile just doesn't cut it.

Who the hell is stone and raze

Raze-Razakel

So if you mean Razakel he is cake for spamming magic missiles

Trust me, at least a level 10 firewall is a must near the end of the game.

The great thing about fireball is that it does huge damage and has an area effect too. Nothing save bosses survives a fireball + firewall... but bosses are easily defeated by first using a high level magic blast.

No problem
I will max firewall and yes I know
Magic blast is overpowered

From my experience I liked the Explosive arrow and fireball most, since they AE both of them and many groups are clustered and just firewall when the melee ones come running towards you if your damage isnt high enough to kill the whole pack by fireball, explosive arrow combo, even magic missles and the multi arrow also help on AE'ing packs down and again if you use all ae skills and firewall on the melee ones coming in, it eases up the game by a whole lot. just magic blast on bosses and poison arrow and run run run

Ok... So you guys are talking about mages and warriors now, what about the ranger?
I'm lvl 6 atm and haven't invested heavily in stats and absolutly no skills yet until I know what I'm doing.
Should I swap my ranged skills for magical ones and do melee up close then?

Poison arrow
Explosive arrow
Evade
Ranger strength

I'd avoid poison arrow and use stun arrow instead.

Splitting arrows is must have in the beginning for use against mobs, later on replace it with Exploding arrows.

Passive skills I'd certainly use : Evade, Regenerate and maybe Reflect.

I haven't played as a ranger myself yet, though, that's for my next playthrough... in my opinion warrior is the most boring class to play. Destroying entire groups of enemies from afar is much more fun instead of playing whack-a-mole.

after i got the battle tower i changed to ranger, and i'm loving it. i increased the max skill of exploding arrow/ ranger strength and maxed those and that rager stance. my exploding arrow sometimes crits for over 3000 damage, one shotting entire groups. although these high crits are rare they're awesome

i've just collected the entire ranger set but becouse i played warrior at start my dex is to low to equip everything (though i havn't charmed everything yet). might try mage later

A maxed out fireball with destruction does a guaranteed 3000 damage over 8 m. Maxed magic blast with destruction is insane with a guaranteed 5000 damage. Ideal against bosses.

hmmmm
really

fireball-3000 damage

Level 13 fireball, yes.

I play a ranger myself.

I find the Way of the Ranger skill combined with Ranger Strength, Splitting Arrows and Exploding arrows pretty good. Summon something to keep the enemy distracted and you're golden.
Combined with a good Magic Armour Rating, I've cut through multiple mobs without so much as a scratch on me.

As much as its not necessarily optimal, I'd like to throw a little credit to the "monk" style of play. I like to play "themed" characters when I can in rpgs, and I decided to invest in "unarmed" skill, I think that it is extremely underrated as "useless" its at least better than 1 hand sword. The percentages are beastly, and just leveling increases base damage. I also found out, you can were a shield, on your back, while being "unarmed". All I've seen is that the skill is just "useless" never any evidence why, sure, you don't get charm slots for it, and i don't know what the last rank % bonus is. but I'd like to see some evidence to why its disregarded. As previously mentioned the fast attack speed does not lend itself to skill attacks, which is why I've been taking advantage of passive warrior skills and buffs and the "priest" tree, eg; summon/mastery.

I like monk style too
I always take unarmed,thousand cuts(cool),fatality,attact that increase your critical chance,evade,jump attack and regenerate

It also seems that +melee damage charms are much more effective with a fast weapon, such is a trade off of not having hard(er than they could be (2handers)) hitting skills, is that that melee damage from the charm gets multiplied by un-armed skill MUCH more, AND those multiplicative are again multiplied by the fast attack speed from unarmed. just from dabbling so far, unarmed is FAR from useless, I outclass most 2handers I find my level, damage per swing, not even dps.

I'm sort of new to this game, but once I can get some math on it, I will.

I am a dual-wielder
I got high Vitalit and Strength
any chance that i'll survive most dungeons and bosses?

Sure, but you'll have to be careful against groups of mages or rangers. Doesn't hurt to invest in some ranged skills.

I'm a lv18 with about 20 skillpoints left and 44 stat points :p (yeah i suck at deciding what to do xD)

for fun i went with magic, just a bit of fireball, destruction, magic blast and firewall... and wow..
is magic really that powerfull? XD.. i planned on going melee but killing everything that fast is just sweet :P
For melee i wanted to go with thousand strikes.. yet that mana cost blows :P

(if going magic would be viable, can i let hermosa live or should i get kenneth instead?)

I am magic user and hermosa for me
try magic missiles

ok i'll try those to . Gotta say magic damage is nice :P 1 firewall and bye bye enemies :p

Magic Blast is awesome. It's very similar to KOTOR 2's "Force Crush" power.

my character is a pure warrior with only healing magic. i like it though. like a paladin.

my stats distribution is not that specific. but in the end at level 34, all damages i received is 0.

the dead bosses at the hall of echoes gives me around 8-13 of damage out of my 600 hp. only the divine pose a threat.

my favourite skill - jump attack. lol.

i just put my stat points so that my armor ratings/resistance for all types becomes 50% or more. my condition 70%, my reflex 75%( can't get any higher...) my will, only 42%. lol.

my weapon(unique 2 handed blade) crit chance is 21% plus a lvl 13 death blow which adds critical chance of 24% i think. so, lots o crit.

i jump attack my way until the end of the game.

Mind looking up your specific stats? I'm rather curious

how do u post an image? sorry but i'm a beginner in posting. never postee stuff with pics.

showing u is better than tellin u.

Upload the image on imageshack.us and copy paste the link to the full image like this:
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remove the spaces betwean brackets and img part.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5664/mychark.png

i just put the url for u guys. thnx for the tutorial. the stats is more or less the same like i posted before. can't remener that well anyway. huhu. and i'm lvl 35, not 34.

yeikes! i just love your sword!

TQ2. huhu. got it from ba'al. the overgrown demon do crap great items.

Wow, I just respeced. I maxed out magic missle and damn does it do damage, I had maxed out int (all points to int), with an int of 60 and using dual weilding of magic weapons (90% damage from magic, gains damage bonus from int), and I had points in two weapon fighting...

Well, anyways, magic missile does SIX TIMES the damage. its unbelievable...
I still have a maxed out ghost to heal me and my pet to tank.

Game is easy for a DW Warrior. I did it with maxing out DW(13), Regenerate(11), Life Leech(10 or so), Lockpick(5) and Whirlwind(6). Game was a breeze(on medium). Stats went into Vitality/Strength, at a 40/60 ratio. Only trouble I had was Ministry, where you have to protect Zandalor. Put some skill points into summon demon and that was easy too.

Never needed potions later in the game, cept last fight.

Raze was easy too, you just pin him to the wall. There are some convenient little corners in that room. If you don't succeed in that, fight him till he turns around, then make sure you flip the switch before he can regenerate. It's not hard, just takes some timing. I shrugged off his summoned thingies, they couldn't hurt me anyways, and standing near me, they only blocked his way, which was good for me.

Personally, I think it'd be easier still for Twohander Warriors. Always strikes me as more powerful as DW. But I just prefer DW. Only annoying thing for me was Rangers. Kept stunning me and running away. Really annoying.

Also, don't make great weapons quest items, guys. Barbabus' mace was the best weapon I found. Turned in his quest and found myself without a main hander. Had to buy one.

Was a little disappointed in weapons. Lack of good 1h swords. And Intelligence requirements? On swords? I had one legendary sword, gave a bonus to spirit and intelligence, and I never used spirit or intelligence. :-/ All the armor sets (which were great btw, wish there'd been more) had 2handers as a weapon, no 1handers.

of course, I should have thought of that old trick...
STR gives you health regen, vitality gives you more health to regen (and regen is a percentage so, faster regen?) and you regeneration skill gives regen... so all together you have tons of health and heal too fast for the enemies to kill...

that is a pretty good sounding tactic.

Best one-handed sword is Myrthos, but if you picked Hermosa you have to give it up. When I dual-wielded, I used Laiken's word until the end... along with a weapon from the end of Bellegar's Dungeon of moral choices.

Mage, imo, is more fun. I entered the sigil mine at level 33 and all those level 27 black ring fighters couldn't even hurt me... and I cleared entire rooms with one fireball.

Haha, yeah, Myrthos had really good stats, but I wanted to get rid of it immediately, cause it just looked really bad. It was like one of those enchanted weapons in Morrowind, had the whole uncomfortable purple toy-glow thing going on.

Only ugly weapon I found in the game, really.

that is due to level differences.. I tried stone (level 28 boss) at level 26, he killed me in 2 hits every time... I managed to eventually beat him but I reloaded before our fight and went away to level... came back at level 31... he couldn't really hurt me anymore since I was too high a level for him...

Mage, warrior, doesn't matter... its your level that counts.

Umm, sorry? As Greever said it is not a chance, but a damage percentage:



Or did I miss something?

Very nice discussion here

I personally prefer to variation and combine races with each other.

Only warrior is for me at fisrt time fun, but later on boring .. so I try now new things like Magic Missile and Ranger Stealth. But for now, I'm only a L 13 (beginning with 'My fisrt sword'), but I go in Farglow for much training, also with bow and as a wizard ... I love it when I can suprise enemies with my bow ...

I found it very amusing to read whole this topic! It's very interesting to see how many possiblities there are for playing Divinity II & become powerful enough on the end of the game!
That also very good and that's the reason I like Divinity II very much!!
A very good replayability I found !! Also with the diferent Quests-solutions, because I love the Quests!!

I will find for myself a nice & fine combination of warrior/ranger/mage/priest/dragon slayer - skills
(and later on Dragon Skills - how about this??)

AND search my way which Stats (Vit, Spi, Str, Dex, Int) I will prefer set more points in it.
Today, I go for Str, Dext in the beginning of D II ..later on I go for more Int.

So I can read on this topic a few times again, Intelligence is more powerfull that I mean to know before I read whole topic ! I go for it and explore many things again and again

Thanks to Larian for this fantastic game & nice forum

I must say, my strategy, for me, works fine .

My favorite pasive skills in battle are:
1) "Stealth" (Ranger) give me more "sight"! Very good to see an enemie (the most of them) BEFORE they see me!
2) "Confusion" (Mage) give me "more time" to change between Magic Missile and using the bow :
while enemies are confusted when I attack they with a spell (most of all Magic Missile), I begin shooting with my bow (a very good on this moment!) and change whole time between bow and MM-spell , but, if the enemies coms to close (some are very fast runners!),
3) I use skill "Wirlwind" and run a little away if to much enemies surrounds me or an enimy is to strong for only slash him with a sword or mace/hammer/axe ...
4)also the skill "Destruction" give my spells more damage!

My active skills I used most are on this moment:
1)Magic Missile, 3 points in it
2)Summon Undead, 1 point (give me also more time because of enemies attack first or also the undead)
3)Fireball, but not so much, 1 point
4)Magic Blast, 2 points

And I try to make my equipment whole time better and also search for good enchantments and charms.

Furthermore I forget probable things to say ... continued

A question:
who used "potions" for 180 sec more Strength or more Dextery or more Resistance?

I love theese kind of threads! thanks for the info fougere, this is excactly what I was looking for. I hope you will soon update it as you said you didn't even finish the game, so im looking forwoard to it

Yeah Magic Blast is very powerful! Fire wall too!
I combine Mageskills with Ranger (use frequently a bow!) and Warrior, to put a end on the enimies when I have them alsmost killed with magic or my bow! And if enemies surrounded me I take a melee weapon to put an end on all foulish Damned One followers ...

Unarmed expertise is also a funny skill to try !

Next time I begin D II, I would try for a good strong warrior .... look if it is possible..?

But I think a "combination" is always much better because of differnet enemies!
Some enemies kill from afar is much better, other enemies (like some mages!) are weaker (less armor than warriors), so I jump to them and kill them with melee attack faster than with bow or magic!

Most of the time I first kill the "warrior - enemies" from afar with bow or magic, except if there is also a "healer"! A healer I try to kill them first! Also the same with a "summoner - enemie" ...

I've only just began playing in between Dragon Age sessions. (Divinity 2 has such a pleasant 'looser' atmosphere)
The INT for Warrior is so... odd Oo;
I was actually wondering what the best way was to distribute attributepoints for a warrior archetype.

Well the int is actually for mp regen purpose, since there no skill to fasten the regen beside recovering using potion, and for magical defense as well. Unless you choose to use weapons that are focus more on magical damage over melee damage, then int will be more useful in that case for warrior, since weapon in the game comes with melee and magical damage.

So - what about magic damage on weapons?:

melee and magic damage on one weapon.

Melee damage is of course how hard the weapon hits and object. melee damage 0-1 obviously is a poor choice if you want to inflict basic melee damage to a target.

What about the magic damage component? Is that the damage you do when using a magic "spell" of warrior and ranger [whirlwind for warrior, stun arrows for ranger, etc]? Or will the amount of magic damage on the weapon add to the damage a spell inflicts [ie: magic missile]? So let's say I equip a bow with 12-20 melee damage, 6-9 magic damage. If I fire the bow [mouse left click], it will inflict 12-20 dmg per hit. But if I use "stun arrow" - will it stun the target and do 6-9 damage? Or if I cast magic missile - will the missile do an additional 6-9 dmg per hit?

Magic damage from what I know, its just another form of damage which similar to melee damage. If I not mistake, spell dont build up by weapon's damage, but by its rank level and character int.

Basically you can compare weapons which had similar level but with different damage type, ie
1. lvl10 sword with just melee damage 20-50
2. lvl10 sword with melee damage 15-30, magic damage 5-20
3. lvl10 sword with melee damage 5-10, magic damage 15-40

And by summing up the total damage, basically all 3 having bout the same weapon damage. Its more like making it convenient even for mage to go for melee battle with normal weapons, since there no wand/staff type weapon in the game. In the end, its just depends on which stats you invest more on to decide which type of weapon you go for, melee or magical damage. That how its work from what I see it.

I have been reading the boards for a bit, especially this thread. I normally play a ranged bow type of class in most RPGs. So I went ahead and did it with this one. For a bit I had a hard time. Had to get used to the way combat works in this game. However now, in my mid 20's, I am finding it is very nice. At times a single shot of exploding arrow kills everything. I invested points into summon demon as well as the skill where you have a chance to get health back from an attack. I find that now, I barely ever use potions at all. When I do not kill before they get to me, I switch to two one handed weapons and easily keep my health coming back to me against multiple mobs while casters are hitting me with magic. I absolutely love this game. My stat spread is between Dex/Int combo with Str next and then Vit and Spirit. Most of my armor ratings against damage types are in the mid 30's and my defenses for the most part are in the mid 40's. I am using right now the ultimate good bow without anything added to it and my usual damage is in the 100's with my exploding arrow in the 500+ range.

Things will usually goes easier, after you able able to expand your skill level beyond level 5. This is the time when majority will start altering their gears according to needs.

I have been using the little tool in in the character customization area that shows what skills are increased buy using a specific piece of armour or weapon...So far I have been a sword/sheild warrior because my stats always look better that way than using a two-handed weapon except for raw damage....

5/5 Whirlwind, 5/5 Sword/Shield Expertise, 5/5 Lockpicking,2/5 Mindreading,and 2/5 in the Warrior skill Bleeding (or whatever its called......

I have 8 pts in Dex / 12 Int / 6 Spi...and the rest in Strength and Vitality....HP is is at about 350and MP is about 240....I am lvl 15 ATM and am almost at the point in Maxos temple where I fight Amadusius. Am I going wrong here cuz things seem to be going pretty well so far?.....

ur doing fine just forgott aboute any % chance to give back damage or this skill who make enemys take damage based on amount of damage they id to u becosue laten in game they will make 0 damage and 90% of 0 is 0


train killing blow or whatever this skill got name in english is best skill in whole game becouse u can got 0 str and make 2 k damage with weapon to any damage near one u killing blowing becouse is game bug and if your killing blow is 40% of enemy hp and enemy got 1 k hp u make 400 damage to him and to any other mob who is on atack line so if u make damage to mob with 10 k hp u can make 4 k damage o0 works nice with 2 h sword u can use it as aoe with 5 s recast

dont put points in vit is useless train int instead
also dont put points in wisdom is another useles with 1` point in mana drain u can spamm any skill and got full mana all the time mind read every one posible u got alot of skill points and sometimes ability points and loose in exp is not important sience from lvl 30 u got simply god mode and there is few spots in game when u can respawn mobs forever

That skill is call fatality and its not bug, at least not in my game. It only can be use when your target hp match your skill requirement, eg if skill only affect target with hp lesser than 40%, any single target will instant die when you use the skill on that target with hp lower than 40%. And its not aoe skill too.

yes i know how this skill works rly but it can be used as aoe becouse if any anemy is in range of this blow it get hit too but not by your normal damage but by damage u make to your target. i got polish version 1.3

so if u make this hit for 40% ( lvl 10 of this skill) to enemy with 2 k hp u make 800 damage to any enemy on line of atack . i have no idea how its works with 1 h but with 2 h u can easy make huge damage to whole grp of enemys just try to put them in stack and its easy cuz ai sux
if u got lucky u can kill grp of enemys in 2 fatalities
u simply need make enought damage to one target to fatal him :P
and its funny cuz this skill works on every one even bosses . try it on baal when his minions are on line of atack one hit stage clear :P

I had english ver 1.0 and its a single target skill, where it dont do any damage to any other mobs in range, beside the 1 you targeting. And this is suppose how the skill should work out. Beside that fatality cant be use unless enemy hp met the requirement only, eg for rank 10 fatality, it can only be use on mob with hp lesser than 40%. And this skill work with bosses all the time.

YES I KNOW I CAN ONLY USE$ IT WHEN i got 40% in skill an enemy got 40 % hp jesus
in polish version what is based on last german version one weapon slash can hit multiple targets
and is bug propably but fatality is not really killing blow its get amount of damage anemy hp when u hit him an instantyaply it to damage of that swing so if enemy got 800 hp ( 40 % of his full 2 k hp) this skill aply 800 damage to this sword swing so this enemy die instantly cuz 800 hp - 800 damage = 0 but magic starts now the damage your sword make (800) dont desapear but is on sword till edn of that slash so if the same slash hits another target another target get hit by 800 damage aswell - resists so u can make 800 damage to multiple targets. i know i use it by halaf of game expecially after lvl 30 when all mobs are hit u for 0 but got tons of hp and is pajin in ass to kill bunch of this weaklings

Fatality by default is a 1 hit ko skill to targeted mob which met the skill requirement, not a damage skill which damage base on mob's hp. That is what written on the skill description. The skill description is " You can instantly kill enemy whose hitpoints is below a total of ?%" and I tested it before and it works out as how the skill description list out. I not sure how your polish version changes it, but that how it work in english version I had.

like i told u patch 1.3 polish is base on last german version and many of NEW patch that will come for us version soon content is already in i like multiple targets hits by weapon and with that patch ur able to fatality one target and make samedamage to other target/targets if they are hited by this slash . besie what skill wrote its not "insta" kill its simply add damage exacly same like enemy got hp to that slash and targeted enemy cannot dodge and his armor and other restists are set to 0 for that hit. so this target got 800 hp got khit by fatality got -800 hp from that slash so he die . but another mob get hitted by the same slash and he got resists etc so he got hittted by 800 damage and that 800 damage is reduced by nromal factors like resitsts etc, and that damage is flagged propably as magic damage becouse its make almost full to most of mobs even if they got hell out meale resists . thank if u still dont belive me i can make movie in fraps or so

That how yours work out, but not for all. If you had follow up on the patch thread, you should have know not everyone is able to patch to v1.03. There are only certain version could patch to 1.03. There might be changes make in 1.03, but what I telling is now is that how the skill work out by default, at least for me at my current version ok.

This thread is very helpful but I would like to know what the level cap is and how many points you get per level for skill and stat increases. If we know that we can better determine how to distribute points.

There is a technical level cap around level 60, but practically most people finish the game at level 34 or 35 (highest I've seen mentioned is 38).


Welcome to the forum.

there is no lvl cap if u mind read alot and u manage to find all skill books u can get around 60-70 skill points on lvl 35

Thank you Raze and marcusdavidus.

That seems like enough skills points to get a nice Hybrid going.

I reskill at lvl35 and found that I had a total of 72 skill point available. I might actually miss a few skill points through books which I might not be aware off. While in hall of echoes, you can gain around 5 to 6 more skill points. So total up can reach close to 80 skill points at lvl35.

Thank you I find that very helpful.

but remmebr that ALOT of skil points come from MIND reading and alot of times u need mind read the same npc .
litlle spoiler : when u make battle tower quest mind read that woman before fight and after fight too :P

I was thinking of a good general way to build a character and came up with this. Let me know what you think.

Warrior

Str and Vit get a point every level. Then the 3rd point goes between Int and Spi. The 4th point goes between Dex and Str. So Str would be getting a gain of 1.5 every level. Unaltered stats at level 35 with no extra points would be.

Vit 35
Spi 18
Str 55-(34x1.5)+4(if warrior is chosen at start)
Dex 18
Int 18

Mage

Same as Warrior but with obvious changes. Vit and Spi would switch, and Str and Int would switch.

Ranger

Dex would get a point each level. Another would go between Int and Dex. Then I was thinking a point could go between Vit and Spi. The 4th would go between Str and whichever stat(Vit or Spi) didn't get the 3rd point. So for the Ranger:

Vit 25
Spi 26
Str 18
Dex 55
Int 18

Extra points could be evenly divided so if you get 20 extra points then each stat would get another 4 points. Or you could divide them however you like.

Theoretically you do it like that, or any way you like. But I would suggest reserve some points, as you might had gears which provide you with stats you need, where you dont actually need that much of points into that particular stat, as all stats only max out at 100. Beside there are good charms available to be buy, 4 stats charms.

Are those the Blessed Charms? And are they the best?

Blessed(+4) is the best type I've seen. From what I know that's as high as they get.

Best is divine, +5 ,which only from boss loot. Blessed can be bought in aleroth

I have found a Blessed charm in Lovis Tower, in Lovis Chest he opens after mindreading him ,
a Heightened Reflects + 4 charm!

I'm confused, I thought that Magic Damage on weapons increased the damage of your spells and Physical Damage increased the damage of you actual melee attacks.

Both actually are types of damage deal by weapon. I dont think spell damage is affected by weapon's magical damage. You can always test it out and let us know if you are playing a mage.

I don't think for example Magic Blast is more powerful IF my Magic Damage is higher!

another thing: You don't put a charm "Magical Damage + 3" for example IN a spell like Magic Missile, but you put it in your gear

And it's also not necessary because some magic spells are already realy strong! Magic Blast is for sure powerful!


But I don't known which kind of enemy are more vulnerable for Magic Damage of Melee Damage ... !

But if someone have experience with more or less Magic Damage doing on a enemy and the results, please let us known!

Magic Damage stat is for weapons. This allows high INT characters to do good damage with weapons that have Magic as their primary damage. Or STR/INT characters to be really mean with 'Balanced' weapons.

Edit:
Overall it is your LEVEL that is most important. Kill everything, do all quests ... WIN (well kind of ... ending grrrrrr.....).

Yesterday I do the Maxos Temple and go to Sentinel Island. Have done all quests of brocken Valley. I began with a Ranger & female character. Nice ! I use the Rothmans Bow and my 2-handed Arben Sword and change frequently between both weapons.
Play on easy difficulty, maybe now for me a little bit toooo easy

My Stats etc are:
I'm level 16 with 143873 XP (1400 debt).
Vitality: 5 - HP: 165
Spirit: 9 - Mana 268

Strength: 27 - Melee Res : 31.26 % - Conditioned Body: 34 % (CB)
Dexterity: 28 - Ranged Res : 25.12 % - Heightened Reflexes: 34 % (HR)
Intelligence: 30 - Magic Res : 24.18 % - Indomitable Will: 35 % (IW)

Skills: points left: 8.
Active Skills: Magic Blast: 2/5 & Poison Arrow:1/5
Passive Skills: Mage: Confusion: 2/5 & Destruction: 1/5
Other: Ranger Stealth: 2/5, Lock Pick: 5/5, Wisdom: 4/5 (all points from gear!), Encumbrance: 2/5
And the other skills of the Dragon Slayer I have from the start of the game.

Equipment: (incl. charmpoints and enchantmentpoints)
Arben Sword: dam: 43 - 86 ** (9 - 62) ** with enchantment I put in: Lvl 10 Increased Damage = + 27!
(and also enchantment: Lvl 2 Life Leech)
Arben Sword have also one skillpoint in Two-handed Weapon Expertise + 1 point in Intell.

Cuirass: 2 to Vit & IW, 29 to Mana; MlArmRat:4, RngArmRat:8, MagArmRat:3.
Belt: 27 to Mana; enchantment: Poison Aura: 10% doing 30 poison dam.
Leggings: 2 to CB, MlArmRat:6, RngArmRat:2, MagArmRat:1; enchantment: MAg Dam Aura 6%
Helmet: 2 to Str, Int & IW; MlArmRat:7, RngArmRat:4
Gauntlets: 2 to Spir & HR; 6 to HP, 15 to Mana; MlArmRat:5, RngArmRat:1, MagArmRat:1
Bracelet: 2 to Dex & CB; 1 to Wisdom; enchntmnts: Healing Aura: 0.1/sec & Magic Dam Aura 6 %
Earrings: 3 to HR, 4 to Spir, 10 to Mana; MagArmRat: 4; enchantm: Retribut Aura 16 %!
Ring 1: 2 to Dexterity
Ring 2: 1 to Wisdom
Pendant/Talisman of the North): 2 to Wisdom; 1 to spir, HR & IW, 3 to CB; enchntmts: MagDam Aura 10%, Poison Aura 6%. (+ 1 empty enchntm-slot)

Bow is Rothman's bow: 1 to Wisdom; 2 to Strength, 24 to Mana; enchntms: Mana Leech 6%, Butchery +1 Critical chance(Cc) = give 11 % to Cc; with Melee (max 25) + Magic(max 22) damage
Shield + Sword (Brightblade):
don't used them yet, but have something good if necessary
And I have some good Axes in my Inventory.

After experiencing some more with the game I have to disagree with some of the stuff you said about some skills.

Unarmed is truly the hardest way to go, but do not neglect One Handed\ One Handed + Shield, they are not bad. Sure, shield doesn't really add much resistance(thou it does have charms and enchantments), but, aside from looking awesome, its just a bit slower then one handed weapon, which is actually able to stack up quite a lot of damage very fast (auto attack, skills will obviously be weaker, but when everything dies in 3-5 hits it hardly matters). Also 2handed weapons get the least damdge bounus unlike the other possibilities (the dual-wielding mostly surpasses it). Also theres nothing wrong with investing in skills that do a fixed amount of damage (witch is not true since you have skills like way of the ranger or battle rage and so), especially when explosive arrow for example at it highest level can do around 2000 damage (clean) which comes in AOE, low CD (5 sec) and low MP cost, and the damage is high as well.

Also about this

That is not true, MM rank 10 does 146 damage (at the cost of only 36 MP which is sooo low). So your looking at 2628 my good friend (replacing the 33 with 146 in your calculations). And yep, I 1 hit everything with a very similar setup (flying fortress bosses are a joke really).

With the rest thou, I agree, and again thanks for clearing out how stats work with all that INT instead of STR nonsense.

Amor sets are a good way to increase overall stats and resistances. I only have the one set so far but the complete set of ten pieces really added some major boosts. I have the Aleroth Mage/Archmage set. I understand there are other sets but have not gone searching for them yet. I can post the stats for the the Mage set if anyone is interested. If we gather all the sets and their bonuses it may help guide peoples decisions when developing their character.

I know I would have saved a few things had I known what this set does.

Hey, another thing about dual wield that you have to factor in... you get the area for 2 items enchantments and stats, instead of just one (srry if that was a little confusing, kinda hard to say what i'm meanin), so that means that you can have quite the damage added from an extra item, what helps me astronomically.

personally, i have used 2h, and it just doesn't keep up with the axe/sword combo i am using, no matter what the stats of the 2h is.

i see ur math, and i see the logic, but i thought i just might throw you that point for calculation.

(and lastly, ur grammar is great for not having english as ur native language. i'm a stickler for grammar and spelling, and i noticed only one error.. in other words, good job, don't worry about no one understanding anything, u got it down)