Divinity: Original Sin 2 Tips for Beginners

Maintain Your Position During Combat

It is very important that your ranged characters stand behind during combat and have easy access to attack your enemies. Look for a spot where enemies can’t reach your ranged characters, but you can still attack. The great choice is the position where you can hide after the attack.

In turn, don’t be afraid to send melee characters forward to take and deal damage.

One more extremely important tip, do not gather your companions during a fight, keep them at a distance. Many enemies have area attacks that can deal heavy damage to the entire squad.

Use Bags to Sort Inventory

You can find several bags during your traveling, or even craft your own. They can help you manage your inventory and keep it in order. For example, you can divide all your items into categories and sort them by several bags.

It may be especially useful at the late stages of the game when your inventory is full of different stuff, and it’s hard to find something there.

Respec Your Skills

If at some point in the game you realize that you have taken the wrong skills – no problem. You can always reset all the skills of your character and take new ones for free.

This is very important because it is difficult to think about the development of your character from the beginning. To respec skills in Divinity: Original Sin 2 you can use the magic mirror, which is located in the second act.

Increase Character initiative

Many newcomers underestimate the initiative rate in turn-based combat. If your heroes have a higher initiative rate than your enemies, that means you’ll be the first to go. This gives you a lot of opportunities that can set the tone for the entire battle.

• You can kill, stun, or weaken enemies before they move
• You can slow down enemies and prevent them from getting close to you
• You can strengthen your characters
• You can better position your characters on the battlefield

Plan Your Turn at the Beginning

Each character has a certain number of action points, which determines the number of movements in one turn.

Plan your turn to the very end before you start spending action points. Spend points only when you are sure that they will be useful, and you will definitely have enough of them. Otherwise, you may waste points and not do anything. This happens very often if you don’t plan your moves.

Sometimes it is better to skip a turn to save up points and use a more expensive skill on the next turn. Moreover, you can increase the amount of action points with the help of special skills.

Pay Attention to the Characters Turn Order

Always check the character turn order at the top of the screen during combat. This will help you prioritize your targets for attack.

For example, if one of your characters has low initiative, it makes sense to quickly kill those enemies that can stun him. This way you can avoid damage and give that character a chance to make a move.

You will also be able to more effectively identify and finish off enemies with low health, or save one of your characters from being killed.

Remember About Statuses

In Divinity: Original Sin 2, there are many statuses that allow you to damage or immobilize enemies.

• Burning: The hero gets some fire damage each turn.
• Cooling: The hero becomes inhibited or completely immobilized.
• Stunning: Completely immobilizes a hero.
• Petrification: Removes other statuses, and immobilizes the hero.
• Poisoning: The hero gets some damage from poison each turn.
• Dissection: The hero cannot move but is able to attack nearby opponents.
• Bleeding: The hero gets some damage from bleeding each turn.
• Knocked Down: The hero misses one turn, is unable to attack, and becomes vulnerable for one turn.

These statuses allow you to deal more damage to enemies, prevent them from making a turn or moving around the map.

Always look for ways to immobilize your enemies and use statuses as an advantage. This will help you avoid damage and control the battlefield.

Use Liquids to Your Advantage

There are several liquids in the game that can be poured on the floor and used during combat. The simplest examples are water or oil.

If your opponent is standing on water, it would be smart to hit him with electricity and deal increased damage. Or you can hit him with cold and freeze him with some chance.

Similar situation with oil, which can be set on fire, which will make your opponents burn. Below you will find the list of all liquids and their effects in Divinity: Original Sin 2:

• Water: reduces certain characteristics, and increases resistance to fire. Used to freeze an enemy or increase damage from electrical strikes.
• Oil: ignites when interacting with fire, and leaves a trail of fire.
• Blood: turns into poison to deal additional damage to heroes with bleeding. Characters with the “Lich” talent in a pool of blood are able to restore health.
• Poison: creates the effect of poisoning, you can get rid of it by burning. Characters with the “Zombie” talent can heal with poison.

Increase Your Persuasion

Persuasion is an extremely important skill for your main character. This ability allows you to complete some unique quests, avoid difficult battles, earn special rewards, and sway other characters to your side. Sometimes it may be very difficult to pass with low persuasion.

This is probably one of the most important Divinity Original Sin 2 tips. Always prioritize it on your main character, while the damage can be dealt by your allies. This skill will noticeably simplify and speed up your playthrough and help you solve even the most difficult situations.

Always Take a Rogue in a Team

The rogue is not the most interesting character during battle (imho), but he can be extremely useful when traveling around the map. The rogue has an increased chance to steal, break locks, and detect hidden items.

This can be useful while traveling through, as it can help you open unique chests, find traps, and secret clues. I highly recommend taking a rogue with improved Thievery skills.

If you are faced with a shortage of lockpicks, you can take an undead into your squad. This hero can use his fingers instead of lockpicks.