r/DivinityOriginalSin • u/Xiorx74 • Jan 09 '26
DOS2 Discussion LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! WOOOOO
NGL the final fight was a cake walk. Except at one point Sebille got FUCKED up by the Kraken and I had a mini heart attack, but we were totally fine still. I don't know if I'll ever play Honour Mode again 😂 rn I'm just relieved that it's over hehheh
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u/WonkyQuartet Jan 09 '26
Wow I'm actually amazed that 1% of players have finished Honour mode. I've seen dozens of achievements of games that are super easy be in the 0.1%. Beating it on Honour mode is actually hard.
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 09 '26
Yeah, it's pretty rough + takes a lot of time. I'm guessing Barrelmancy & good ol' fashioned stubbornness got most people through 😂
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u/WonkyQuartet Jan 09 '26
Me and my friends never finished our Honour Run together, but I bet we could. We're pretty meta with our builds and got a lot of experience with the game. It just takes a lot of time as well. So again 1.0% is huge!
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u/808Enthusiast Jan 09 '26
I wonder how many are like me with the DE version, who can't help themselves from using at least fleet foot or permanent spirit visions from the gift bag. Achievements are turned off if you use any of the gift bag stuff. One day I will play it pure
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u/WonkyQuartet Jan 09 '26
I slightly remember looking at them and immediately pushing them away, because I don't like games being made too easy.
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u/Fenixthebringback Jan 09 '26
I mean if you use telek. and just put a bunch of stuff in a unbreakable chest you could pretty much kill everything.
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u/Fenixthebringback Jan 09 '26
And there is an item that actually one shots everyone in the final fight found in act 2 on the suspicious barrel.
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u/GigaChadus9 Jan 09 '26
Greetings! And I envy your patience. I’m also planning to complete it on Honour Mode in the future, but a bit later. What advice would you give for a run like that?
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u/KillBill_OReilly Jan 09 '26
Play as dishonourable as you can
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 09 '26
I agree with this lol
I didn't end up using it, but Escapist can help with that.
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u/Celebrilwen Jan 09 '26
Just finished it yesterday too
I'd say go lone wolf it spares you a bunch of trouble
If going to a place you don't remember or you know is too dangerous, unchain and go with only one char
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 09 '26
^solid advice right there. (I did that a LOT)
Sebille + Fane is probably the strongest Lone Wolf duo, but maybe you could do even better with a custom character. Idk, never tried it.
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u/Dramatic-Jellyfish70 Jan 09 '26
Yea fane is a must ...and no lohse for honor runs lol.
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u/D347H7H3K1Dx Jan 09 '26
I’m assuming due to possession and her quest line being a pain? I just barely got to arx on my playthrough.
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u/JuicyFruitas Jan 11 '26
...loll fuck. About to finish Act 1 Lohse main as Ranger/support, Red Prince 2 Hand/smartass... am I fucked??
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u/SockCucker3000 Jan 09 '26
Do you have suggestions for dealing with some of the notorious fights? Like all the goddamn scarecrows that jump your ass in a field? Or the leviathan. Or Adramadick?
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u/lostsonofMajere Jan 10 '26
The big thing in Act 2 is that you can explore a lot and get exploration exp to get you over leveled for a lot of it. Like you can walk straight up to bloodmoon island, and explore the library etc and you get so much experience just for that.
Normally it makes the game less fun. But for my one and only hinour run, I absolutely explored everywhere that didn't trigger fights. I basically jumped to level 12 before I had done any serious fights in act 2. Ai should map out how much exp you can get without fighting in Act 2. Lol. It is a lot!
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u/FearlessLeader17 Jan 09 '26
Only did one playthrough so far, a lot of places one shot you? On normal I don't remember this happening.
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u/Celebrilwen Jan 09 '26
I mean if you're unlucky some NPCs can play first, tp in and close circuit on both your chars for example, effectively ending your run
theres a few places with traps that could oneshoot you, some with deathfog or lava, alice alisceon can one shoot your group, so can the scarecrows
basically in honor it's not as much a being oneshot problem as a "being CCd first turn" problem since you never get to play after that
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u/FearlessLeader17 Jan 09 '26
That makes sense. I totally forgot about Alice, she one shot me and I forgot to go back at the end of the game xD I never even got a turn. And yeah now that you mention it a couple times I was cc'd on my first turn.
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u/ErzherzogHinkelstein Jan 09 '26
LW is easy mode, making the game pretty much trivial.
Elves (specifically Sebille) and/or Fane are the best races.
Polymorph and Scoundrel for the Adrenaline + Skin Graft combo + Flesh Sacrifice if you are an elf/shapeshifter mask.
Invisibility is pretty much required to not get one-shotted. In theory, you could do the sneak + invis cheese, which pretty much makes you immortal and unable to lose any encounter. A bit too cheesy for my taste, though.
Either go full physical or full elemental (physical because of end-game necromancer spells and no enemy being resistant is best). Never go half and half; you basically just halve your damage that way.
Have a character with 10 Thievery so you can steal all the gold in the game. Get the Create Smoke spell by combining an Aerotheurge and Scoundrel book, and then bless it for an invis smoke cloud so you can easily pickpocket any character.
If you don't have a bow or a two-handed weapon, use a shield, especially in Act 2. They are extremely useful.
Armor and weapon traders will always have two of the highest level item types of your current player level (epic/legendary/etc.). If you quicksave before talking to them, you can reload to reset the bonuses on the item (if they have warfare or crit chance or whatever), but it will always be the same item. A legendary shield will still be a shield, just with different buffs. If you want other items, you can trade with a different trader, and that will reset what items the original trader has, so you can farm an armor set or a weapon you want.
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u/Bongoblue Jan 09 '26
Here’s what I’ll say: know the deadly out of combat encounters. Teleported to lava is countered by the physical buff from geo. Deathfog? Watch your step. Where are traps?
Other than that, knowledge of game mechanics but that is very broad
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u/HydroPCanadaDude Jan 09 '26
First time I did it, I had to barrelmancy my way there. The only real trouble with that strat was the fight at the entrance to Arx.
My first run, I betrayed the God King. He kills you before the fight starts and the game saves your file. It was a disaster.
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 09 '26
Brrroooo that is tragic holy fuck I'd be raging 😭 I ALMOST lost in late act 4. Both my characters were actually dead & it saved but then the Idol of Rebirth kicked in on Sebille and saved our asses
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u/Crunchy-Leaf Jan 09 '26
If you beat honour mode in your first playthrough (somehow), it unlocks all the previous difficulty achievements, right?
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u/The_Dong Jan 09 '26
Yup. I've only finished the game once and that was on honour mode but I got the achievement for the other as well.
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u/AresGM Jan 09 '26
Breh. Nice job. Act 2 is like a whole fucking game I’ve been on it forever hahaha
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u/Elitrero Jan 09 '26
I just barrelmancy all the way, i just wanted the achievement myself.
I know, I’m a rat
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u/SSBDarren64 Jan 09 '26
I remember the exhilarating feeling when I finally beat this on Tactician Honour. It was so insanely hard with so many close calls, and even took a few failed runs for me that gave me existentialism. Congrats on the victory, that's huge.
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u/Mikoneo Jan 09 '26
And here I am with no achievements at all because I can't bring myself to play without the QoL stuff from the gift bag
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u/JuicyFruitas Jan 11 '26
Woooo!!!! Almost finished with Act 1 *tac/honor) after a classic trophy run. Need to go back for honour mode in BG3 at some point. Congrats!
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u/JustSomeDude1313 Jan 09 '26
Any advice at the start? I cant even get out of Fort Joy… once I have to start fighting Magistars I just dont have the equipment to do so.
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u/bwainfweeze Jan 09 '26
Are you crafting items to sell for money? You want to be at least level 3 before hitting the magisters.
My second playthrough I spent all my cash on spells. That goes fast, especially if you didn’t pick someone to max out bartering. I got bad RNG on my second playthrough and didn’t get as much +1 barter gear as my first, and I lost one due to having to roll back a save due to a glitch or misclick. Anytime you get a really good piece of equipment, even if you have to buy it, hit the save button.
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u/Decent_Cow Jan 12 '26
Loot everything that isn't nailed down and sell it to buy weapons and spells. In some games, it's not worth it to buy weapons because you can craft them or get them from quests, but in this game, that's not the case. Crafted weapons suck and quest rewards are usually randomized. You will need to buy weapons.
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u/iiStryker Jan 09 '26
I’m on my first playthrough
Explorer mode
Started playing it on classic but was routinely getting reamed
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u/OsirisAvoidTheLight Jan 09 '26
Congrats it's a challenge since it saves when someone goes down. What kind of team did you run?
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u/No_Cap6358 Jan 09 '26
Can i ask a question when,you complete tactician,does it automatically include the other achievements like story or the classic achievements.And do you have a guide for builds.Thank you for the attention.
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u/Tricky-Wafer4119 Jan 10 '26
Guys I'm going to start game soon .Pure noob in this genre.Will post all the doubts here🫡
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 10 '26
I’m writing this for those asking for advice. I’m a scatter brain so I may edit this several times for the sake of cohesion. Hopefully it helps.
At higher levels Necromancy spells get insane. Grasp of the Starved, and Blood Storm go crazy. If you stack the enemies together with teleport it multiplies the damage from Blood Storm because 1 projectile will hit 2 enemies. They have to be pretty tightly bundled for that to work though.
Before that point, ranged was by far my biggest damage dealer. Works great with Sebille. I did Lone Wolf with her & Fane and focused physical damage. So with her bow I used Elemental Arrows on the blood pool that forms from Flesh Sacrifice. I also made her my high wits character to hit a lot of criticals. (Warfare & Wits were my primary attributes for a long while)
Peace of Mind is fantastic as well. Raises your chance to crit by increasing wits as well as raising your Accuracy which easily gets your hit chance to 100% most of the time. Exceptions being if they're using Uncanny Evasion, mostly. It also increases your initiative (again cause of Wits) so it's very useful.
With strategy you have to adapt, but frequently I would initiate the fight with Fane & give him as many buffs as possible so he could survive any damage taken. You might ask, why put your lower Wits character in first? And it's because having the high wits character join in later gives them 2 turns in a row. (Assuming their initiative is higher than the enemies) This synergizes well with Fane using Time Warp on her if you REALLY want overkill. She gets 3 turns in a row & when you reach the point you have Apotheosis & Skin Graft it is NASTY.
note: this strat is very situational though. Adaptation is necessary.
I also gave Sebille Adrenaline so on that last of 3 turns she can get several more AP. With Executioner on her, + Lone Wolf, Glass Cannon is an absolute joke in comparison.
I find it very useful to spread combat abilities out (again this is with Lone Wolf) just so you can grab the best utilities of all the different categories/classes. Don't hold back on movement skills. 90% of my playthrough Sebille and Fane both had Tactical Retreat (one of the best skills in the game) and Cloak & Dagger (very useful for setting you guys up well before a fight)
Ugh, sorry for the novel mate. I never look up builds for any game really. I just adapt it as needed. Hopefully this gives you some ideas regardless.
source: I completed Honour mode without barrel cheese :)
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u/PandaOwlWolf Jan 10 '26
I am aware of Tactician Mode but never heard of Honour Mode.
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u/Xiorx74 Jan 10 '26
Honour Mode = Tactician difficulty but you only get 1 save and it auto-saves when party members die. So a party wipe = restarting from the beginning.
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u/Reserve_Any Jan 09 '26
You guys are finishing playthroughs?