Source Hunter Abilities & Skills
As a Source Hunter, your mastery over the mystical energies of the world is paramount. Understanding and effectively utilizing your abilities and skills is key to overcoming the myriad challenges presented in Divinity: Original Sin. Your character's build will heavily influence your combat effectiveness, so careful consideration of your skill point allocation is crucial.
Core Skill Schools:
- Scoundrel: Focuses on mobility, critical hits, and debilitating status effects. Skills like Backlash and Cloak and Dagger allow for rapid repositioning and surprise attacks, while Adrenaline provides a sificant boost to action points.
- Warfare: The bread and butter for physical damage dealers. Skills such as Battle Stomp and Whirlwind offer area-of-effect damage, and Bouncing Shield can be a potent ranged option for shield-wielding characters.
- Geomancer: Deals with earth-based magic, often creating hazardous terrain and dealing physical damage. Fortify is an essential defensive buff, while Earthquake can stun and damage multiple enemies.
- Hydrosophist: Specializes in water and ice magic, excelling at crowd control and healing. Rain is a foundational spell for setting up other elemental reactions, and Freeze can incapacitate foes.
- Pyromancer: Unleashes fiery destruction, capable of dealing high damage and inflicting burning. Haste is a valuable buff, and spells like Fireball and ite are staples for offensive capabilities.
- Aerotheurge: Utilizes air and lightning for damage and crowd control. Teleportation offers unparalleled battlefield mobility, and Lightning Bolt can chain damage between enemies.
- Summoning: Allows you to call forth powerful totems and creatures to fight alongside you. The Incarnate Champion is a versatile summon that can be infused with various elements.
- Polymorph: Grants access to transformative abilities, offering unique buffs and debuffs. Skills like Tentacle Lash deal physical damage and can poison, while Chicken Claw can turn enemies into helpless poultry.
Attribute Allocation:
Your primary attributes—Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Constitution—directly influence your effectiveness with different weapon types and skills. Prioritize attributes that complement your chosen skills and combat style. For example, a Warfare-focused character will benefit greatly from Strength, while a Pyromancer will need Intelligence.
Talents:
Talents offer sificant passive bonuses that can further define your character's role. Consider talents like Executioner for increased action points on kills, Opportunist for free attacks of opportunity, or Glass Cannon for amplified spell damage at the cost of initiative.