Pillars of Eternity Ultimate Fighter - Episode 1

Character creation:
0:28 - Knock Down, like all active abilities, gets a hidden +1 accuracy/level modifier on top of your normal attack bonuses. This, combined with the 20% bonus damage it provides makes it one of our best late game damage sources.
0:30 - Even though the extra damage from Might is calculated from your weapon's base damage, once Damage Reduction is applied, the bonus tends to be significantly higher than +3%.
0:32 -There is a great article by MaxQuest on the official Obsidian forum explaining how attack speed is affected by Dexterity: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/866...
0:32 - Although Perception is arguably the least efficient offensive attribute, there are a large number of powerful on-hit effects (e.g. prone from Knock Down, Desiccating from Captain Viccilo's Anger) that are not triggered if the attack misses the enemy.
0:37 - The value of Resolve (deflection) increases exponentially so you should either leave it at 3 or get it as high as possible.

Encampment:
1:24 - Getting rid of Calisca increases the experience bonus from having fewer than six characters by 5% (from 20% to 25%).
3:58 - Talking to Odema here gets you 70 (+25%) experience that you don't have to share with Heodan when you finish the first quest later.
4:08 - Heodan pays 275% more for your items than any other merchant in the game.
7:43 - Enemies engaged by more units than their engagement limit (usually more than one) from opposite sides are considered flanked.
8:25 - Switch to a ranged weapon before the storm arrives to save Heodan and get some extra loot.

Cilant Lîs:
12:46 - Enemies slower than you will eventually stop chasing your character and return to their original position.
15:09 - Spear Spiderlings/Famished Spear Spiders ignore 10/25 points of your damage reduction, so there is very little reason to wear armor against them.