Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Suggestions and Feedback A warning regarding "mystic" and "scholar" tags...

...would be great.

Players, especially new ones, should be aware that, to see ALL of the game, you need exactly the following character in your party:

Lizard with "Mystic" and "Scholar" tags and the Pet Pal talent.


If you don't have that, so many doors are locked...

It kind of counterdicts the promotion, that there are many ways to achieve things if those two tags are that necessary, sadly.

Yes, I totally agree... the complete combination to unlock a lot of contents is actually:

Custom lizard with mystic, scholar, pet pal and tons of persuasion.

As far as I understand Act 2 and later so far, this combination opens the door to many, many quests.

It's the same problem as with "choice when it comes to your companions and their starting classes"... there is no real choice, either, because you can end up with multiple pet pal people or loremaster-experts this way if you're not carefully planning.

This is a real problem in act 1, because many party configurations are not viable because of this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DivinityOriginalSin/comments/70h66r/dos2_default_classes_chart/

I'm not even saying that the tags-requirement should be changed, but there should be a warning when you start with a character which doesn't have both (either Fane or a custom character).

The companion-presets, though, they should be replaced by showing the character creation screen on recruitment - this would make act 1 really great, because of the choices that would be possible. Right now only very few party setups are viable - and you have to see that you don't get to level 2 before recruitment (avoiding helping your fellow godwoken on the tutorial ship... which is, for me, a very sad thing to do).

what's a little irritating to me is not specifically that certain doors are locked behind those tags

the problem for me is that there's no equivalent for any other tag

the only exception is the occasional shortcut the outlaw tag gets you

the noble tag just makes people angry at you, barbarian makes me people afraid of you, and i can't even remember what the jester and soldier tags do because i don't choose them enough, due to the necessity of scholar and mystic tags

Jester tag works like this for me:

1. Conversation gets to a point where Lohse can say something... well... something with the [Jester] tag

2. I hit F5, to make sure she doesn't make someone angry

3. I try it out

4. Someone gets angry (that emo elf in Fort Joy even called her an idiot...)

5. I reload and do a PROPER conversation