Races In Divinity Original Sin 2
One our most anticipated RPGs of the year is finally heading out of Early Access and into full-blown release. As would be expected from the previous entry in this beloved role playing franchise, there are a whole lot of replayability elements to be found in Divinity: Original Sin 2, including a robust crafting system.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 includes some big changes to the series in terms of races, classes, spells, and stats. While some of the recipes will look familiar to those who played the first game, others have been tweaked considerably throughout Early Access. In this guide, we've broken out each and every recipe and its base ingredients from arrows to grenades to weapons.
All Divinity: Original Sin 2 Crafting Recipes
Note that many of the recipes included below are interconnected, and a player will be rewarded for trying out new combinations. For instance, you need to be manufacturing certain types of potions if you want to reliably produce elemental arrows.
Arrow Recipes
Although frequently lacking the area affect possibilities of grenades (well, unless you place something flammable on the ground first), many of the elemental and magical arrow effects can be just as useful, with knockdown and charming arrows in particular offering plenty of tactical options.
Note that you actually have to combine the base arrow shaft with the head for each type of arrow to get the final product (such as arrow shaft + slowdown arrowhead for a functional slowdown arrow).
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Arrow | Arrow Shaft Arrowhead |
Poisoned Arrowhead | Arrowhead Ooze Barrel (or) Intestines |
Slowdown Arrowhead | Arrowhead Oil Barrel |
Explosive Arrowhead | Arrowhead Fire Resistance Potion |
Steamcloud Arrowhead | Arrowhead Water Resistance Potion |
Static Cloud Arrowhead | Arrowhead Small Air Resistance Potion |
Stunning Arrowhead | Tooth Knife |
Knockdown Arrowhead | Shiv Antlers |
Charming Arrowhead | Arrowhead Honey |
Freezing Arrowhead | Arrowhead Water Essence |
Poison Cloud Arrowhead | Arrowhead Earth Essence |
Necro Fire Arrowhead | Fire Arrowhead Source Orb |
Blessed Water Arrowhead | Water Arrowhead Source Orb |
Armor Recipes
These are all pretty basic armor recipes, and not too many have been discovered -- so it seems like a good bet there will be more of these to find through trial and error.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Handmade Leather | Threaded Needle Leather Scraps |
Handmade Cloth | Needle & Thread Cloth Scraps |
Handmade Mage Armor | Needle & Thread Cloth Scraps Pixie Dust |
Handmade Chain Armor | Needle & Thread Metal Scraps |
Handmade Scale Armor | Anvil Scale Scraps |
Handmade Plate Armor | Anvil Plate Scraps |
Winter Boots | Nails Armor Shoes |
Cooking and Food Recipes
I can't stop laughing about making tomato sauce with a tomato and a hammer. But hey -- I guess when you don't have an immersion blender or a food processor, that's one way to get the job done. Note that some items, such as the pies, require the mobile kitchen to be properly cookedafter the ingredients are combined.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Boiling Pot | Cooking Pot Campire |
Flour | Wheat Mortar & Pestle |
Ingred Dough | Flour Water |
Ingred Dough Pizza | Ingred Dough Tomato Sauce |
Ingred Dough Cheese Bread | Ingred Dough Cheese |
Water Bottle | Empty Bottle Water Barrel |
Tomato Sauce | Tomato Hammer |
Honey Jar | Jar Beehive |
Porridge | Wheat Cup of Milk |
Potato Porridge | Potato Cup of Milk |
Fries Rivellon | Cold Fries Boiling Pot |
Boiled Potato | Potato Boiling Pot |
Apple Juice | Empty Mug Apple |
Orange Juice | Empty Cup Orange |
Fish Pie | Dough Fish |
Apple Pie | Dough Apple |
Mobile Kitchen | Cooking Pot Bonfire |
Grenade Recipes
You usually want a steady supply of these on hand, both for straight damage and for causing effects on the ground, and they are cheaper to make than to buy.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Love Grenade | Empty Perfume Bottle Pixie Dust (or) Honey |
Tremor Grenade | Empty Cannister Earth essence |
Thunderbolt Grenade | Empty Cannister Air Essence |
Terror Grenade | Empty Cannister Tormented Soul |
Razzle Dazzle Grenade | Empty Cannister Jellyroom (or) Air Resistance Potion |
Chemical Warfare Grenade | Empty Cannister Rotten Eggs (or) Intestines |
Cluster Grenade | Empty Grenade Fire Essence |
Nailbomb Grenade | Empty Grenade Nails |
Frost Grenade | Empty Grenade Water Essence |
Armor Piercing Grenade | Empty Grenade Broken Bottle |
Mustard Gas Grenade | Empty Grenade Poison |
Molotov Grenade | Bottle With Oil Fuse |
Water Balloon | Intestines Water |
Oil Flask | Empty Flask Oil Barrel |
Rune Recipes
Each type of rune can be used to enchant weapons or armor to add various effects. Keep in mind that each type of rune can also be upgraded by combining them together (such as two small thunder runes becoming a medium thunder rune, two medium thunder runes becoming a large thunder rune, and so on).
How to actually enchant is super clear from the inventory. You have to switch to the crafting screen, then tab over to the Enchant section. Not all items are able to be enchanted either, as you need equipment with rune sockets, which don't become available until later in the game.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Small Flame Rune | Wood Oil Pixie Dust |
Small Thunder Rune | Water Gold Pixie Dust |
Small Frost Rune | Water Metal Pixie Dust |
Small Rock Rune | Rock Beer Pixie Dust |
Small Venom Rune | Bone Poison Pixie Dust |
Small Masterwork Rune | Livewood Wine Pixie Dust |
Potion Recipes
As with the runes, remember that you can get the next grade up of a potion by combining two of the previous types. For a medium healing potion, combine two minor healing potions, and so on.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Minor Healing Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Penny Bun Mushroom |
Healing Elixir | Any Healing Potion Type Yarrow Flower |
Small Magic Armor Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Whisperwood |
Small Physical Armor Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Amadouvier |
Minor Constitution Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Faranghite |
Minor Strength Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Amethyst Deceiver |
Small Fire Resistance Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Guepinia Mushroom |
Small Air Resistance Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Jellyroom |
Small Earth Resistance Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Earth Tongue Mushroom |
Small Poison Resistance Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Drudanae |
Small Water Resistance Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Bluegill Mushroom |
Minor Speed Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Wizard's Hat Agaric |
Minor Finesse Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Boletus |
Minor Perception Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Puffball |
Minor Intelligence Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Calocera |
Altar Of The Black Rose | Empty Potion Bottle Blood Rose |
Invisibility Potion | Empty Potion Bottle Chanterelle |
Scroll Recipes
Yep, you can craft your own scrolls to cast spells, just like in the previous game. Here's all the scroll formulas we've found so far, but there's bound to be more added in the near future!
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Searing Daggers | Paper Sheet Essence Fire Tooth |
Infectious Flame | Paper Sheet Essence Fire Sharp Tooth |
Fireball | Paper Sheet Essence Fire Sharp Claw |
Haste | Paper Sheet Essence Fire Claw (or) Antler |
Rain | Paper Sheet Essence Water Herring |
Hail Strike | Paper Sheet Essence Water Unknown Fish Type |
Resurrect | Paper Sheet Essence Water Essence Life |
Healing Ritual | Paper Sheet Essence Water Fish Star |
Steam Lance | Paper Sheet Essence Water Source Orb |
Fortify | Paper Sheet Essence Earth Herb Whisperwood |
Fossil Strike | Paper Sheet Essence Earth Piece of Rock |
Impalement | Paper Sheet Essence Earth Metal Shard |
Teleportation | Paper Sheet Essence Air Feather |
Shocking Touch | Paper Sheet Essence Air Nails |
Blinding Radiance | Paper Sheet Essence Air Gold |
Tornado | Paper Sheet Essence Air Hair |
Chain Lightning | Paper Sheet Source Orb Wool |
Dimensional Bolt | Paper Sheet Tormented Soul Pepper |
Storm Ethereal | Paper Sheet Source Orb Carrot |
Chicken Claw | Paper Sheet Essence Life Chicken Foot |
Tentacle Lash | Paper Sheet Essence Life Rat Tail |
Tools and Miscellaneous Recipes
From lock picks to pixie dust, these are all the random items you need that don't quite fit it any category but are essential throughout the game.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Lockpicks (4) | Nails Repair Hammer |
Lockpick (single) | Soap Key |
Quill | Knife Feather |
Yarn | Wool Wool |
Rope | Yarn Yarn |
Fuse | Rope Rope |
Needle & Thread | Thread Needle |
Pixie Dust | Stardust Bonedust (or) Moondust |
Voodoo Doll | Wooden Figurine Needle |
Weapon Recipes
Need an extra weapon but nowhere near a merchant? You can make some on your own, with stats tied to the level of the character performing the crafting.
Crafting Item | Ingredients |
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Shiv | Cloth Sharp Piece of Metal |
Shank | Leather Scraps Sharp Piece Of Metal |
Big Tongs Roped Together | Leather Scraps Tongs |
Twig With a String | Wooden Stick Bowstring |
Toy Crossbow | Wooden Stick Wooden Stick |
Crossbow | Wooden Branch Wooden Stick |
Improvised Staff | Wooden Branch Shell |
Sharp Stone on a Stick | Wooden Branch Sharp Stone |
Club | Wooden Branch Cloth Scrap |
Wand | Wooden Stick Skull |
Those are all the Divinity Original Sin 2 recipes we've discovered so far! Have you found any others, or noticed any changes to the ingredients post-launch from their Early Access counterparts? Let us know in the comments section below!
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The level of customization possible in Divinity: Original Sin 2 is staggering, whether you want to focus on a smooth-talking teleporter with a ton of skills, an undead soldier who knocks down all enemies, an archer who summons corpses, or nearly anything else you can imagine.
In this guide, we're going to go over four epic Original Sin 2 builds with vastly different focuses, from a stealth assassin to a masochistic necromancer who revels in taking damage. With any of these builds, you could either co-op or even potentially solo your way through the game.
Rogue Assassin Build
With this build, you always want to be positioned behind an enemy for backstabbing and generally avoiding detection. On the attribute side, Finesse is probably a better idea than Strength. Don't discount Wits though, as you get a bonus to initiative and critical chance. For your ability points, you want to put your points into Scoundrel for the critical bonus, and of course Stealth for the sneaking.
On the skills, Adrenaline is a must for getting enough action points to kill with a backstab in one turn. Throwing Knife and Backlash also lets you deal backstab damage, while Chloroform can knock out an enemy at the end of your turn without breaking stealth.
If you go for a secondary ability beyond Scoundrel, oddly enough Polymorphing can be helpful, since it lets you fly around and avoid terrain or remove all negative status effects quickly. The Polymorphing skill Chamelon Cloak gives you two turns of pure invisibility without breaking stealth. Warfare isn't nearly as useful as you'd think, since many of the associated attacks aren't helpful for backstabbing and Scoundrel already gives you a bonus to Finesse-based attacks.
Pros
So long as you pick skills that don't break stealth and you have a weapon that benefits from the high Finesse, you can essentially cheese your way through any combat by staying hidden and then quickly backstabbing or knocking an enemy unconscious before they react. Getting items early that provide teleportation abilities will be a must so you have maximum mobility.
Cons
You will generally have lower armour ratings, since you are focused on staying hidden, meaning that status effects will hit you more often. The game is also a good deal slower and more tense if you are always sneaking and having to pay attention to line-of-sight cones.
Rogue Assassin Build
Solo Masochist Necromancer Build
Put either two points into the Necromancer skill, or one in Necromancer and one in Warfare for the bonus damage. When you level up, place your combat points into Retribution. For your weapon, you probably want a big two-handed weapon that does the most base damage possible with devastating criticals.
From the Necromancer side, you absolutely want the Bloodsucker ability, which lets you heal from the ever-present pools of blood on the ground. You may also want to invest in the Leech talent to automatically heal from blood sources if you aren't going the solo route. Mosquito Swarm is another one that both deals damage and heals. If you are mixing Necromancer and Warfare instead of straight necro, either Crippling Blow or Battle Stomp is the way to go.
Pros
Your idea here is to always be healing yourself while reflecting damage back to the enemy. Every point in Necromancer means you automatically heal damage when you deal it, and each point in Reflection increases the amount of damage you automatically deal back to anyone who hits you. In other words, just walking around getting damaged in combat lets you both kill and heal.
Cons
With the Necromancer skill, your vitality only heals when dealing damage directly to enemy vitality, so any enemy with high physical / magical armour will prevent you from healing.
It also takes several levels for the bonuses from Necromancer and Retribution to actually hit useful levels (starting at a measly 10% and 5% with only one point each at first level). However, this can be overcome by taking the Lone Wolf talent instead of Leech.
With Lone Wolf, each skill point is effectively doubled, which halves the amount of time for those skills to reach useful levels. Despite the name, Lone Wolf actually lets you bring along one companion in addition to your main character while still retaining all the benefits of the talent.
Necromancer Skills
Paladin Build
Your archetypal holy knight, this build revolves around battlefield control. You should be dealing out decent damage, knocking down opponents for control frequently, and then healing your party when necessary.
Hydrosophist and Warfare should be your ability picks, giving access to healing and armor boosting spells, in addition to the bonus to straight damage. For skills, your starting picks should be Restoration and Armour Of Frost (which removes negative status effects) -- and your Warfare pick should probably be Battle Stomp, since it gives battlefield control and doesn't affect allies like most area effect spells.
On the weapon front, either sword and shield combo or a two handed weapon focus compliment the build.
Pros
The Paladin build is excellent for your main character because it overcomes a lot of the weaknesses of the five other origin companions. While you won't be flinging fireballs and creating poison clouds, you can gain easy battlefield control and ensure the rest of the party doesn't go down in flames. There are a lot of combos you can do with other party members as well by first creating wet conditions using your Hydrosophist abilities and then creating electrified areas.
Cons
Outside of combat the build isn't nearly as useful, since a simple bedroll you can grab directly at the beginning of game in the ship prevents the need for healing items outside of battle. You also won't be the stealthiest.
Building a Custom Paladin
Elemental Mage / Summoner
Taking the Lizard class for this fire build is a decent idea, since you get the Dragon's Blaze bonus ability to breathe fire. However, you may want to go with Undead instead, since they heal damage from poison, and you will frequently be creating poison clouds.
Your attributes should be focused on Intelligence for bonus spell damage and Memory so you have a broad range of spells to use and are never in a situation with all your skills in cool down. For abilities, of course you want Pyrokinetic and Geomancer.
On the skills, Ignition is less useful than you'd think because it does damage around you, which can hit allies and of course set off oil puddles and end up hurting yourself or other friendlies. Fossil Strike pairs well with Searing Daggers to create a fiery battlefield -- and for maximum map controlling damage, don't forget Poison Dart creates a poison cloud.
For a twist, instead of Pyrokinetic, switch over to Summoning but keep Geomancer. Now pick Conjure Incarnate instead of Searing Daggers. If you summon your Incarnate in a poison cloud, he will deal tons of poison damage to your enemies for you, essentially acting as a bonus free companion.
Pros
AoE is the name of the game here, as you set large swathes of the battlefield on fire or fill it with poisonous vapors. Dual-wielding elemental wands is a great idea so you can deal bonus damage to fleeing enemies who are on fire or poisoned. Even when you aren't hitting, you will still be dealing damage due to everything being on fire.
Cons
It's incredibly easy to end up damaging your own team here with all the area fire and poison effects, and you don't have much of anything in the way of healing or physical armour.
Undead Wizard
These are the four best Divinity: Original Sin 2 builds we've had the most luck with playing through the campaign and dominating in combat. What's your favorite build, and what combos would you recommend for getting through different acts of the game?
Divinity Original Sin 2 Race Class Combos
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