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Truly, what was the rationale behind the Cipher nerfs? Although they have some spells that were very effective, they still had to juggle between physical attacks and spellcasting. Beyond specific combos, Ciphers already have some issues with keeping up with spellcasting in boss fights as focus generation have to be dependent on weapon attacks on bosses with good defences especially on higher difficulties. And facing that, it is now even harder to cast spells during boss fights?

Actually the drugs balance pass includes another Cipher nerf. Prior to 3.0, Ciphers could get +2 PER and +20% Focus gain from Blacsonn, or +4 Focus gain from Carow Golan. Now they can only get +20% Focus gain from Carow Golan if they also suck up a -4 INT penalty that massively shrinks their powers' AoE and shortens their duration. Ciphers really got the hate in this patch, for some reason...

"Chanter skeleton summons set to 2nd level" -- did the skeletons also receive a buff? Asking because they're rather totally useless compared to Reny Daret's Ghost as it is. I wouldn't take it at 1st level in its current state, never mind 2nd.