Original Sin 2 - So You Want To Be A Metamorph (Change is Good)

[@xandermoore4081]

Very glad to see more uploads, easily the best divinity channel on KZbin. One thing of note: Tentacle Lash sets atrophy, which is a functional hard cc to weapon based enemies. On tactician, if you remove a fighter's weapon or a ranger's bow, and have Opportunist, the AI will just skip their turn, making it significantly more valuable than I think was portrayed in the video. Atrophy is a VERY good status ailment, and if managed properly is a solid addition to the Battle Stomp/Battering Ram cc lineup. Also fuck mages, still. All physical party all the way.

[@90snetworkproductions79]

*Physical party all the way* Ohhhhh boy, sounds like you’re gonna have a rough time against some of the bosses, especially against ol dude with the mansion in act 4. Dude had ridiculous physical armor, 2nd only to the final boss 😲 😱 Metamorph has its uses, but all it’s good for is physical buffing, and slight cc really, best skills from it are 1. Skin Graft 2. Forced Exchange 3. Invisibility, and *especially* Apotheosis 😈 (best skill in the game, especially if you run lone wolf builds 😈)

[@xandermoore4081]

@@90snetworkproductions79 Having played a full physical party through the game I think 3 times on Tactician, I can safely say I never found him to be an issue. The hard bosses were: Aeteran, and that was pretty much it. Full physical parties are significantly more powerful than hybrid teams or full magic, and there are more than enough tools in their kit to handle anything that comes at them. Also bouncing shield might just be the best goddamn spell in the game.

[@TheNosScarFace]

Thank you! Hate the mage-physical combination, because as a physical you get either stunned, frozen or burned (or a combination of the 3) every fight. Also it is just ineffective to fight both physical and magical armor.

[@xandermoore4081]

@@TheNosScarFace The math on it is pretty simple. Hybrid parties reduce the damage you deal and increase the amount of health your enemies have. Full-magic parties don't have enough good spells, and int is the worst stat of Int/Fin/Str, playing magic is pointless in divinity, if you're min-maxing. It's fine if you're not.

[@zemittenz1227]

@@90snetworkproductions79 Yeah, while you can basically solo run anything in honour mode, I believe lone wolf necromancer does the most damage (if I'm remembering correctly, I critted ~100k in the original and ~30k in definitive with just grasp of the starved). I've never seen numbers like that with mage builds. But I disagree with Xander saying that Int is the worst stat, at least with the necromancer build.

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[@44444444443333333222]

I initially overlooked the polymorph tree, since I learned you *couldn't* transform into monsters. But then today I learned you can swoop in, pummel enemies into a chicken, slap a guy far away with a tentacle, gain all your AP back with two adrenalines, almost die but then decide that an enemy's health bar is now yours, and then fly away to safety while your party members wonder what the hell just happened. All on the same turn your normal fighter walked ten paces and smacked a guy, and your mage needed to heal him instead of casting cool spells because he's always almost dead.

[@buttqueef9900]

You are naive for thinking tentacle lash is a bad spell. With any warrior/knight build it's a turn of atrophy that does a solid chunk of damage at good range. It's one of few atrophy spells available and is excellent at getting rogues with low armor to piss off.

[@hippegast12]

I agree it's good vs rogue's or rangers. Especially them because now they dont do any dmg and u can just fuck them up without worries of retaliation

[@luvkpop9xx]

He protecc He attacc But now he's BACC

[@ToTeMVG]

polymorph works really well combod with warfare, also tentacle lash HITS HARD, since it all stacks with strength it becomes on of the most powerful hitter you can use later on, especially since it sets atrophy

[@Drakefance5]

He's Alive? welcome back.

[@wittlekitty3174]

or is he?

[@sjeggy6]

The reasons oily blob is great: - synergy with medusa head since it does magic damage - oil everywhere so you CC a group of enemies - summon = more actions, attacks etc for the cost of 2ap, giving you 4ap per round for the blob

[@alexandermire7278]

Oil blob initial hit scales off of strength, basically making it a fossil strike for STR characters that makes a decoy.

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I started watching his videos yesterday, and he immediately uploads again today. Just want to let you guys know that he’s obviously back because of me, you’re welcome.

[@stupidfakename5661]

Thank you. Also. Watch another one

[@Taja_]

Tentacle lash is arguably one of the best skills in the game, what are you talking about?

[@raff_spriggles_tfn5910]

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[@MrRmann1234]

@@raff_spriggles_tfn5910 absolutely...I always open with a slap from my big slimy tentacle

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Yeah it’s good.

[@evilovesperry]

Its thematically random

[@yoursenpai7558]

Maybe in the start of the game but mainly its optional

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[@holyknight51]

I completely resigned myself to being on fire, to the point where my strategy was having two melee and then casters, then cast fireball twice on my melee people killing whoever they are engaged with. All I had to do was handle fire better than my enemy

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[@YourBoyNobody530]

The wings are actually really good for mobility as it lets you quickly move 13 meters for a single AP using another AP to activate

[@beageler]

Yeah, after all the other mobility (teleport) skills only have 2m range and cost 4 AP...

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[@AJTupman]

Great to see you back, your guides are helping me get through my first tactician run pretty much unscathed. Midway through act 2 and I'm only getting stronger.

[@wesleyfilms]

Oddly enough, this was the first class I chose.

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[@mitchsirois606]

I didn't see it mentioned but Medusa Head also increases your geomancer skill by 1 and gives you some earth resistance. Bull Horns increases your retribution by 1. Summon Oily Blob I find better on a strength focused geomancer rather than a summoner. It acts like a fossil strike that scales with strength.

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[@dramaexterminatus]

I used rupture tendons chicken claw a lot, it's great. Metamorph is just a fantastic supporting skill tree for just about any class

[@Gangerworld]

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[@IohanGueorguiev]

hey quackstack, thanks for the video and enlightenment on the polymorph tree! may all your hits be crits and views be subscribers

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[@harz632]

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the medusa "second" head is the scariest thing I've thought of all week, tyvm

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I thought this was an old video reminder from KZbin. Welcome back

[@ZeDawgear]

On my blind playthrough, I actually used the Oily Blob fairly frequently on my warrior lizard. If she needed to do at least some magic damage, throwing the blob at the target and lighting it with fire breath could do a surprising amount of burst damage. I doubt it's a truly competitive skill, but I found it interesting. :V

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Literally just did that fight 20mins ago. I can say that my Fane was pretty useless there but still won in the end:)

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[@lakeside1168]

Its cuz he doesn't like tentacle lash

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[@BarokaiRein]

Polymorph is pretty good stat dump for melee lonewolf builds since every extra point it gives counts as 2. So you can max out several ability scores faster. I usually max out my main skills and then weapon skill, but this time around I tried maxing out Polymorph after warfare and necromancy and it actually worked pretty damn well.

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[@totoru4ever]

Oily blob is an attack spell with elemental damage which scales with strength. If you throw it in fire then extra fire damage, otherwise it takes its turn right after you and can do extra damage with melee/rock blast, spreading oil and slowing enemies. It is awesome in mixed parties and even good in mostly physical parties where a necromancer combo and a metamorph are the main responsibles for elemental damage and cc. Equalise is very good with resist death and on the final battle, or maximizing AoE, but its very situational and you'll most likely forget about it. One of the few skills that better on a metaporph mage. Also dwarf is underrated, especially the rouge/polymorph one, which have flay skin, gag order to greatly reduce magical armor, great movement abilities, and an extra 1AP cc because of the petrifying touch.

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[@imperialwtiter2062]

Answering to old video is bad, but oily blob is op with fire skin and red prince as a main.

[@shaxcekado9810]

The first run through of the story of Divinity Original Sin 2 I really played was a metamorph warfare elf. One of the unique axes I got pretty much boosted my strength I think to 30 or 40, either way it was close to the max, if not the max. I was absolutely demolishing encounters. Apotheosis was and still is busted. My strongest attack, by far, was tentacle lash, so wtf are you talking about. Of course, I never played any super hard difficulties, but it was casually dealing I believe 100+ damage. Atrophy wasn't much of a thing I noticed, because I was securing kills or breaking armor down with lash. Other than that, warfare and max strength was carrying, plus picture of health getting up to at one point 6k armor 10k hp I think, though I forget my magic armor. (I did beat Lucian's hp, which was insane. I guess 10 in both warfare and polymorph, plus whatever my con was, ~20, and picture of health really is busted.) I was wearing a few other unique types too, so that might help trying to figure out my build. Anyways, I rate lash a little more than you do, because damn was the damage scaling a little bonkers. Bull horns had it's moment as a decent mobility tool, because it didn't matter when I could just stab myself for another AP. I never did manage the chicken kills tho. Demons still kicked my ass.

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[@anikisnek5497]

I think you're wrong about Tentacle Lash. This skill is a must have for any sort of class based on strength. The damages is based on your level, and honestly it is really good. You don't need to invest more into polymorph - this skill will get only stronger with your level. It has really good range, it puts atrophy status on your enemy and in the late game it has the same damage as your weapon if not more (personally for me I always notice that my Tentacle Lash deals more damage than my weapon, even though I'm sure as hell I'm not missing good stuff). Anyways, great video. I'm happy that you're back.

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[@Dr.Moogle]

You really undervalued Summon Oily Blob. It's a two part skill. The first part where you launch the oil blob is basically a Str based Fossil Strike. From there the skill summons the blob. The blob has Fossil Strike and Turn to oil for further slowing it can capitalize the Magic Armor damage caused by it's summoning and Medusa Head.

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