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Hi all, I am starting mi first playthrough in this game as a bow Ranger on PoTD dificulty and would like to try making my own builds for MC and companions. I would just like some advice on what talents and abilities are good, some that are must take and so on... What companion build should I go for, like should I build Eder as a tank, off tank or maybe DPS (what is the best role to build each companion). Maybe some team comp which is good for a Ranger. And of course any tips and trick on mechanics of the game, synergies are greatly appriciated. I know I am asking a lot but any help would be also greatly appriciated. THANK YOU all in advance. P.S. Sorry for my bad English.

The combination Unbroken/Wizard is especially fun imo if you are able to cast Ryngrim's Repulsing Visage and Ryngrim's Evervating Terror*. Illusionist covers that (sine both spells are Illusions), but the Enchanter subclass will make you lose access to all Illusions spells, including both Ryngrim spells. Besides that there are also several Illusion spells which provide nice defense bonuses. So I personally would not pick Enchanter. Illusionist would be cool with me, but honestly I would rather pick the Bloodmage subclass because the combination of Constant Recovery and later Unbeding with Blood Sacrifice (get back spells, pay with health) is pretty neat. You cannot use the Empower mechanic then, but in my experience players new to Deadfire forget about Empower anyway (or don't forget about it but try to save its uses for the perfect time - which seldomly comes because you have no meta knowledge yet). ;) Your attributes could be pretty balanced. I woudn't go below 10 with any and put a focus on INT, PER and RES. PER mostly because if you play with official companions, most of them have not very high PER - and PER is what determines whether you discover traps and secrets in Deadfire (NOT Mechanics like in PoE - in Deadfire Mechanics is only for opening doors and containers and disarming traps). INT for your spells and RES for more dialogue options and higher deflection as well as shorter hostile effects on you. If you pick a Bloodmage there's benefit in picking the human race - because you can regain spells with health (Blood Sacrifice) you might get bloodied in the process. You can use that to unlock the human "Fighting Spirit" passive (higher accuracy, more damage output). If you pick Illusionist it's not that important which race you pick imo. There's a cool and rel. early large shield for a Battlemage spoiler: name of item which scales some of its defensive enchantments with Athletics (active skill) and Metaphysics (passive skill). It's best to skill those two from the beginning if you plan to use that shield. But you could also retrain with some money when you find it and decide to use it. )* the reason is that both spells terrify enemies. And terrified enemies will crouch down and move around randomly, potentially triggering free disengagement attacks (if you had engaged them in the first place). The Unbroken has paritculary strong disengagment attacks to that's a nice synergy.

The mere act of casting votes is certainly not of itself a good thing. If there's no real choice it simply acts to grant legitimacy which hasn't actually been earned, which is of course why a lot of authoritarian countries still hold elections. If you look at the last US Presidential election, which Trump won handily, the proportions were: Harris ~31% Trump ~32% Didn't Vote ~36% ie ~2/3 of people in the US didn't vote for its President, and more than 1/3 either didn't like either candidate enough to vote for them nor dislike a candidate enough to vote against them. Not exactly healthy. (Really, the Roman Republic model was an awful one to choose if you wanted proper (little d) democracy since it started breaking down as soon as Rome stopped being a regional power; and along similar lines as you see in the US. Probably better than Athenian Big D Democracy at least though; nothing quite as unique in history as stampeding voters into voting to execute all your- victorious- admirals, rejecting peace and then losing the war spectacularly a year later)

You say all this but make Outer Worlds first person even though it gives me motion sickness!

So how would you suggest political leadership gets decided in any country? Or are you only talking about the USA?

Wizard subclasses are fine if you look ahead and see what spells you're locked out of. You can always cover locked spells thru a companion/adventurer. But if Illusionist is what you wanted, a trickster Rogue for multiclass gets several Illusion spells for free that cost Guile to cast and you have all the base Rogue abilities that can debuff enemies. It's only a 10% downgrade in sneak atk dmg compared to no subclass. Rogue and Fighter both have options to displace themselves/enemies/allies and between Fighter stances and Rogue passives, you can contribute dps easily. Skills are gonna be whatever you prefer. Athletics is a cheap heal option, Arcana if you want to use scrolls to get more of the battlemage vibe. Explosives can be nice on a Fighter because they get buffed by the hit conversion bonus they get so soon.

The fencing should be improved so that we either have half pieces or you can just do place many and it will fill the space you need it to.

No subclass or blood mage is way to go bro. Trust me you ll be upset when you cannot cast some good spells later in your run if you go with that subclasses.

The absence of regular voting is worse. Having said that, the American political system is a bit of a joke. They should break up the two party system into smaller constituents like they do in anti trust cases, and institute proportional representation just for starters. An anti corruption drive is also sorely needed. by 'drive' I probably mean purge. Lock the worst offenders up and scare the rest straight.

holding vote regularly have no intrinsic positive value roman senate have no moral highground compare to pretty much anyone

I don't like Radahn, not the regular game Radahn or the promised consort. Design wise, he's just weaksauce. I did beat him though, I think I used a shield nerf build so I didn't have to jump and roll constantly.

On the topic of mages, it would also be fun to see one handed mage weapons, a little less damage, but being able to still hold a torch or even a shield would be nice

I don't think it's very note worthy that the Supreme Court blocked the tariffs. One thing they've been consistent about during the Trump regime is not letting Trump and the rest of Jeffery's old friends **** with the money too much. Sadly, and I really hate to say this, Trump is right in a way. The supreme court has already ceded power and immunity to him specifically; the carveouts for ecobomic stuff like tariffs and the Fed are not consistent with the logic of the unitary executive the court has used to authorize his power. Honestly I find it more contemptible than if the reactionary judges were to go in whole hog as it just shows the bankruptcy of their position, ie being ruled by a king is fine until he tries to crash the stonks.

Recently finished PoE1 and am looking to start Deadfire. I've been playing around with the Battlemage Unbroken/Illusionist or Unbroken/Enchanter idea. I want to be a front line support/debuff/tank. Im open to other subclass combinations but really like the battlemage thematically. I also would like to play sword and board. Not trying to min max but what would my stat spread look like for a build like this and any recommended skills?

The Wacko in Chief thinks he's Paul Atreidies: "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." Which, of course, is a logical absurdity. Presumably he believes he's being funny. Must be rich man's "humor", I suppose.

I have finished The Knightling and contacted their tech support about the bugs. When I tried to submit another one, I got the following: The Knightling is an action game in a fantasy setting. The titular nameless knightling (squire) gets separated from their knight, only with the knight's shield and glove remaining behind, and decides to look for him while helping the locals. I am ambivalent about the game, so no Steam review. Overall, while the idea of a light platformer with Devil May Cry-like combat was appealing to me and I greatly appreciate the rebindable controls, saving at will, and the non-binary MC, the actual implementation is lacking - neither the combat nor platforming nor the story feel particularly good. Ender Magnolia is in progress. The combat and exploration are enjoyable and the bosses are reasonably challenging (adjustable). The recruitment/tuning requiring an explicit input from the player feels good.

Sure but my point is there are people who question the importance of government accountability that only exists in Democracies where courts are independent Its not just in Russia or China where courts would never reverse this type of decision by the president or leadership In South Africa I sometimes hear support for more autocratic countries because there leaders are seen as "strong " but people dont realize what freedoms they lose under those same governments

I found another problem in the magic mirror, this one's easy to screenshot, so I did. This looks like remapping interact is the problem, not jump. So, I tried to just swap L1 and X until I encountered a tutorial popup. I could dismiss it with X as expected. So, it seems that some controls get mixed up when interact is remapped.

Being better than Russia or China on a democracy scale is a very low bar.

My problem is that I don't get any attacks at all, even though I didn't even do the mix-r.

Yes, he can do tariffs in another form and see how they work But for me thats not the significance of this ruling There are 2 main takeaways from this the majority Conservative SC will not always support his policies. There has always been a concern around this because its a 6-3 Conservative majority. Trump's overall ability to implement sweeping policies effectively has been undermined And I predict this will become worse after the Midterms where the GOP will lose control of either the House and or the Senate But end of day its a victory for US Democracy, and global Democracy, because its an example of the functional structure of the checks and balances that all US presidents must be accountable to Can you ever imagine the courts in Russia or China being able to reject and reverse something as significant as these tariffs that the state decided to implement and vociferously support

More stuff from the "it's new to me" file I can't help but giggle at the "What exactly is the meaning of this?!", seems like someone being very impudent with God

More Dew Collector shapes for Grounded 2. One shape would be a full size wall square. Another shape would be circular sized to fit in four arch blocks aligned in a circle. Maybe these new blocks should come in all of the wall shapes and sizes. These Dew Collector pieces could have the Dew Collector functionality or just be Web Windows that can be shot through with arrows.