Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Help/Tips/Tricks all mage or all warrior is better

dont say it depends. I dont have any playstyle i just use whatever is good. im just talking about most fights

Right now, the most broken thing is All ranger because of current patch arrow storm you unlock in Act 2.

Then mages become the next one because meteor Shower and Hail storm. Those two spells are just weaker Arrow storm.

The problem with mages is that they kinda suck until source spell are unlocked (act 1). Before that, physical damage comp is way better due to the abundance of strong items and as long as you keep your weapon updated, they should deal insane damage at all time.

So if you want an easy life, just play 2 ranger + 1 support tank mage and and a warrior or another ranger. Focus fire enemies so hard they die before they act or round them up and let the 2H warrior do the wiping as 2H warrior will provide the most AoE damage when Arrow storm cannot be used.

If you really feel the need for cheese play:

Summoner + Hydro/Pyro
Summoner + Hydro/Geo
Summoner + Huntsman
Summoner + Huntsman

Get 10 summoning on your people and 2 necro for incarnates and bone widows. You need both for supercharge cycling. Also get scoundrel 2 on all for adrenaline and 1AP teleport and make sure everyone are elves for the +1AP racial. Then spec the hydro/pyro hybrid into a healer /w clear mind and haste. One summoner into healing /w geo fortify, and 2 summoners as archers.

The result is... well. 4 bone widows/incarnates tank/damage dealers, 2 huntsmen damage dealers, and 2 of them doubling as supports.

wont you need so many special arrows?

Once you get to act 2 and remember the merchant that sells the arrow, you can buy like 13 knockdown arrows per hour along with some elemental arrows here and there.

You really never run out if you just shop whenever you can.

will all ranged die too fast?

Not if the enemies die first.

And as long as your gears are updated, only shieldbearers will be really tanky compared to everyone else. Some fight might need you to have someone mending shield though because there are other allies you sometime have to protect.

3 rangers + 1 shieldbearer using Hydro and Geo + leadership is probably the easiest comp in the game for any situation since everyone will be too tanky with leadership aura + mending armor + soothing cold while also dealing way too much damage with the 3 rangers using highest level crossbow.