u/Fortuna_Iuvat

I've started playing Divinity: Original Sin 1 EE coop sometime ago.

What would you think would be the tips or things-you-wish-you knew about the gameplay?

Things like for example the fact that to organize your stuff in containers inside your inventory also make impossible for enemies to use your stuff if your characters gets charmed. Or that candles and similars not only can be used to inflame/activate oil and poison but that they remain lit in your inventory if you pick them up already lit (I thought they would have required me to lit them up everytime thus making them not the fast option I was hoping for.)

Everything that you are willing and have time to share will do!

Also, a few questions:

Are Cleansing Water or even Purifying Fire worth it? To remove negative status effects seems useful but I'm not sure if it really is in practice.

To advance the personal quests/special dialogues with companions, do they have to be necessarily in the active party or they advance automatically and the new dialogues branches or even the ! will appear as soon as the plot they are related to will? Can I miss lore if I don't bring the right companion in the right place for example?

Thanks in advance!

I’ve been looking at Sumner’s reconstructed list of governors of the province of Asia from 94 to 80 BCE, and I noticed that several governors seem to overlap within the same year.

C. Iulius Caesar
C. Iulius Caesar
(C. Iulius Caesar) L. Lucilius
L. Licinius Murena
(L. Licinius Murena) M. Minucius Thermo
(M. Minucius Thermo) C. Claudius Nero

Since provincial commands in the Late Republic could last anywhere from one to five years, I’m trying to understand why some governors served longer, others shorter, and why some were replaced mid‑year or very early in a year.

What were the usual and unusual reasons?

I’m also curious about the specific case of C. Iulius Caesar pater. Sumner suggests that he left office only a month or two into what would have been his third year. What might explain such an early departure?

And for the years 81 to 80 BCE, right after the Mithridatic War, what are the possible interpretations of the rapid succession from Minucius Thermo to Claudius Nero?

Any insight or even curiosities about it all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Any Tips about DOS1 EE?