

This is why speed – your available action points per turn – is sooo important. So you have more time for damage AND your own characters are safe. Easy as f*** – anything that can not act can not harm you. – Disabling is more important than damage. Ah yes, you can of course go without perception and use summons instead, but weren´t we talking about fun? Having to constantly and repeatedly summon something while walking somewhere in order to not miss something important is not exactly my definition of fun. Except rangers, as for them perception (which increases only first turn action points) is more important than speed. And who shoots first dies second (US marine motto). – Speed is the second most important stat after the primary you decided on (like strength for warriors) as it not only increases available action points but increases your chance to move first. I use this term for characters which are primarily fighters (in order to use man at armes skills and wear heavy armour) but have high enough intel to make spells useful.

Note: It´s the touching spells that make battle mages particularly effective. All of these – after reaching intelligence 14 – might be used every turn.

5 ability points invested and you have 3 close combat spells (of which 2 potentially disable), 1 heal spell, 2 surface/environment change spells, 3 distance damage spells, 1 enemy removal spell and 2 support spells. Without too much explanation, let´s look what a mage with just 1 point in every magic school would get: Hydro with freezing touch/ rain and regeneration (healing), air with blitz bolt/ teleportation and stunning touch, fire with burn my eyes (higher perception)/ wildfire (hastening) and flare (fire bolt), geomancer with spider summon/ midnight oil (oil surface which slows) and boulder bash (a kind of rock bolt), witchcraft with vampiric touch (drains life and transfers it to mage)/undead warrior summon and lower resistances (making enemies more susceptible to elemental spells). Because you get 3 novice skills with small to moderate action point costs (your pool of available actions per combat turn per character). – Each first point in a new skilset delivers the best return on investment. So instead of focusing on min/max builds let´s try to focus on very few key ingredients, which make the game more fun during game play, including (few!) spell mentions. All aforemenioned applies to all difficulty levels! You CAN – easily – win any fight without being even near a maximum level in a particular ability (like strength or intelligence) with ease. You CAN even win the final fight without any master skill (level 4 or higher), it just takes a bit longer. You CAN play and win the game with nearly any combination of hybrids as long as you give variety (in skills) some thoughts and look for characters/skillsets that complement each other. When starting the game first time and having searched Steam, Larian and other game forae beforehand you will find a lot of advice on character builds around min/max considerations.
Maximum action points 1 divinity 2 Pc#

Action Points for a Player Character (PC) are broken into 3 separate statistics:
