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Haha true, especially if the emphasis is on the + in 2+. A Berserker/xx under Frenzy with high Arcana can be very fast. Even if Withdraw scrolls have a longer base casting time than the spell itself (1.6s vs. 0.5s) it can still be chain cast to quickly remove 3 or 4 annoying enemies for a very long duration in a big fight. And those scrolls are dirt cheap. It can also be used reactively because of the short cast time (like invisibility, but more offensively). "Oh look, Brian is trying to cast Arcane Dampener on my party! Let's Withdraw him for a bit." Actually now that I'm thinking about it... couldn't it be an amazing way to defeat Hauani o Whe??????? When it first splits, you soften the 2 Gigantic Oozes, then withdraw one before they start merging. Destroy totally the one that remains and its offspring. Then when the other comes back, deal with it knowing that it can't go back to HoW form! EDIT: the cheese lover in me is starting to envision a Berserker/Bloodmage that uses Minor Grimoire Imprint to steal an infinite-use Withdraw spell from a random Priest. EDIT2: I'm testing on Hauani right now but yes, at least the first form can be withdrawn. Also, this could work with a Tactician under Tactician Dilemma (gets Shaken and Confused). If you're in a party, you can also have a rogue hit you with Sap to get Confused. EDIT3: Confirmed, this is a new way of taking out Hauani o Whe. You can withdraw one Gigantic Black Ooze while you focus down the other and its offspring, preventing the merge without needing to devote attention to interrupts, paralyze etc.

Yes.

It works, and it can be interesting in certain very specific situations. However, a confused Priest healing enemies is the worst, so once you've used this trick you might want to switch to Modwyr or use an INT inspiration to get rid of Confused...

that would be my ideal life.

Nice, we should create some " gaming law " where every committed gamer needs to buy maybe 20 % of all games, at least, from GOG or your right to gaming gets revoked until you buy from GOG

I'm not totally sure but the SC Furyshaper Bloodward could be useful to your entire party if you can multiply damage tics to generate a lot of passive healing? Have you tried that? But yeah generally the SC Barbie is really good in fights that are the exact opposite of Megaboss encounters .

Yes... this is the part of Australia I live in 👀

I see blood everywhere

I was wondering... if you play berserker shaman for self-confuse. Can you can use withdraw offensively on enemies to lock them out in the start of a fight to gain the advantage?

You lost me... now I'm confused! 😄 I'm too new to POE2 to understand all that hehe

Yes, TP would be a good pick imo.

Antipathetic Field + Party Members + Death of thousands cuts. Ok let's kill Dorudugan with this.

If you are in a party, you can use a Berserker/Wizard to cast Confusion on everybody and build around a completely bewildered party. And then you can cast Pain Link on enemies (who get attacked by enemies you charmed - or on charmed enemies who get attacked by other enemies), attach Antipathetic Field to party members, Ectopsychic Echo to enemies, Amplified Wave on enemies, Withdraw and Dimensional Shift on enemies, Grimoire Imprints on party members, Combusting Wounds and Brand Enemy on the guy with Rekvu's Scorched Cloak and so on... 😄 Edit: what happens if a confused Priest casts Hand of Weal and Woe on a guy who has Rekvu's Scorched Cloak? Does that guy get the healing and 20% of fire dmg as healing, too? 🤔 Same with Divine Immolation...

We all are 😄 This one started to shaped my love for racing, when I was 9 😄 They were also acquired by some big company (Bridgestone Multimedia Group Global) for thieir IPs after they filled the bankrupcy

Yes this makes it so much better than Stasis Shell especially since this kind of ability used offensively has the best impact at the beginning of the fight. So the fact that Withdraw heals is a non issue. When I think that Stasis Shell is one of just 3 PL7 abilities, LOL. Especially since another one is Screaming Souls, which we just discussed doesn't work as it should. And the last one is Ancestor's Memory! I guess the Devs were very clear on the one PL7 Cipher power they'd want players to pick .

Sorry I post it everywhere, I just can't get enough of that intro xD

Barbarian is one of the fastest attackers even without Blood Thirst - just because of Frenzy. And he gets certain dmg bonuses (besides higher MIG), too. But against megabosses? Meh... not good imo. No class without refreshing resources is good against megabosses is my experience. SC Barb can get back resources via kill (Blood Surge) but in most megaboss fights that's not an option as you already said (against Belranga it works well enough though). I did a solo Furyshaper run - and while most encounters were cool because of the amazing Blood Ward the megabosses didn't work out at all for me (but I admit I din't try very hard because I hate those endless encounters). What you can do is use Lover's Embrace from stealth (Leap works very well here if you cancel it mid air to maintain stealth while landing near the target) to kill most of the megabosses and then use a potion of invisibility and retreat+hide. It's impossible to really kill Huani that way but for the rest it can be an option (didn't try with the Sigilmaster though).

To say something positive... I recently bought a number of games on GOG. Next on my to-do list is Mechanicus (the WH40k game)

Ach, dammit. Broderbund was a big part of my early gaming history... 😢 Edit: The ones I remember having on my shelf, even if I didn't buy them all on the year of release (courtesy of Wikipedia) 1982 Seafox 1983 Lode Runner 1983 Star Wars 1984 Karateka 1984 Raid on Bungeling Bay 1985 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? All of them good for umpteen hours of fun.

Honestly? What a face palm moronic video. Did you grab that from an official party site link? The automatically generated robot voice sounds like it's reading the official party line through a piece of text to speech software. Best case, you don't know any better, worst case you are truly in favour of things slavery, koncentration camps, cultural and ethnic genocide and the principle of might makes right instead of any pretense of a rule of law.

Monks can heal via items and consumables (which are kind of mandatory for a solo run anyways). An item which might help is the Abraham pet (healing in kill) which is good anyway. Monks can increase their defenses quite a lot. they get Duality of Mortal Presence which raises either CON or INT (you can even change that mid fight) which means up to +20 fortitude or will Defense. Crucible of Suffering is an all-stacking +10 to all defenses. Swift Strike raises DEX by 10 points. Players often forget that every inspiration raises a defense by at least 10 points. I would also try a Forbidden Fist with high (maxed) Resolve and Tuotilo's Palm and a non-crushing backup weapon (e.g. Battle Axe). They are quite sturdy and have build-in healing (whenever a hostile effect expires). You want max RES and all other gear that reduces hostile effect duration (e.g. Ring of the Solitary Wanderer). That way your curse and all other hostile effects will expire very quickly, doing less damage (if they do in the first place) than they heal you. A nice synergy with a high RES forbidden fist is Imagined Paint where you get wounds if enemies miss you. This also works if you simply disengage or leave their melee range and they miss. Here the armor Nomad's Brigandine is very useful but it's by no means mandatory. But it also raises deflection against melee a bit so it's a good pick imo. A Forbidden Fist has slower would buildup in the early game but it's very reliable later on.

Serafen has not mutinyed against me but others have. Once they leave, they are gone for good. Serafen will probably do the same but I am not absolutely sure.

Yeah, and maybe Australia making China a rival won't end very well either.

You should try SC Forbidden Fist with high resolve - he can solo everything rather easily from the beginning to the end.

Maybe Brexit isn't all what the British people thought it would be?... As funny as the title of the video sounds, it's just a symptom of a deeper problem. Empty supermarket shelves (Is the UK turning into the newest WP Country?), former busy transit hubs and strategic harbours turning ghost towns, a fishing industry that now has less fish than they had before (because, as a "sovereign nation", Boris Johnson can now sell the fishing rights to the EU) etc.

Pursuing Untamed Ornithoids: Detours Well, in case anyone saw that particular Star Trek: TNG episode, that was Data's way of saying he's on a wild goose chase, and I made a detour on mine a couple of hours ago, because after having watched a couple of episodes of Attack No. 1, Robin Hood and the Evangelion films Amazon's algorithm thinks it has figured out what I cold possibly like in anime and started making suggestions. This came up: Now, far be it for me to see a picture like that and go: "Hey, I need to check that out, like immediately!" because just look at it, could anything scream "I'm the emo lead in this year's usless shonen manga adaptation" any more than a bishonen character with black hair and black and purple clothing? However, that design looked familiar, the clockwork mechanisms, the feathers and the character face. So what is this, then? Well, something called: X, or X/1999, or in the original: Ekkusu (just pronounced "X", because silent "u"s ) The name also did not really make me want to check it out, but hey, after Natsu E No Tobira being really weird, Princess Tutu not really what I wanted it to be and pretty much out of ideas at the moment, I went to good old Wikipedia to look at the classification, and hey, look at that: Can Amazon perhaps get me interested in a contemporary dark fantasy shojo anime, one based on a manga by CLAMP, no less? Well, ponder this: If someone's lying in the desert, dying of starvation and a magical genie comes around offering water, will they drink? There's a film, an OVA and a TV show, released in this exactly this order. The film... well, the bad news is if you watch the film on Amazon Prime Video, you'll really quickly find out that it looks like a NTSC VHS scan. It's so bad it is unwatchable, and the only alternative I have found is an upscaled DVD version with a host of filters applied to make it somewhat watchable, but that left it with too much red*. Everything that's supposed to be white has a, well, pinkish-red tinge, which is super annoying, but beats not being able to discern anything - and I mean that, the Prime Video source is so bad you literally can't make out details. The upscaling and all the filtering left it looking like a game running in DOSBOX with the resolution scaled up by the supereagle scaler. Hello, I'm your favorite DOS game mangled by supereagle (except with red instead of yellow tinging) because screw CRT screens! The sad part about this is, well, if there would be a quality source, then... ...then this would look damned good, wouldn't it? Eh, and just because something's release in a shojo magazine apparently doesn't make it immune to fanservice, even if the framing for this is still somewhat all right. Just in case you're wondering, that woman is played as the evil sister of a princess with white hair and white clothing. In case it's not obvious. Why can't you have a good quality source, film? Why? I mean really, why? It's also pretty gory when there's violence. They sure went a little overboard with the dark in dark fantasy. Spoiler tagged because spoiler. There's something else, virtually every character in this looks like Fujitaka or Toya (warning, this is hyperbole - but it's closer to the reality of the film and the series than I would like). And that includes the girls. No, I'm not kidding. Okay, that's wrong, by the way, because the manga is older than Cardcaptor Sakura, but for demonstration purposes, just look at the pictures above and the one from the introduction. That's not the same character, but they both look like Toya. The girl looks like Toya too, just with longer hair. The movie is apparently a 90 minute version of the later 24 episodes anime series, and if you think the Rebuild movies have breakneck pacing or the 80ies Miyu OVA is a jumbled mess, you haven't seen this movie yet. It's so fast paced it kills one of the main characters off before he's even introduced. There's supposedly less violence, or toned down violence in the TV anime series. One of the main characters is dressed like a prostitute, and there's no real reason given for it. Or anything at all. I can only guess that she's actually prostitute. I've already watched the first give episodes of the series, but not the OVA yet, but I will, because it's a prequel, as I later found out. The TV show has much better pacing, but is still a good deal more action-y than I expected. So far there was no filler stuff like in Miyu, but it also feels decidedly different from Miyu. Much less melancholy. I'm kind of hoping for more character stuff after all the introductions are done. There are a lot of characters to deal with. The story is about two groups of sorcerers (or any sort of magic users) called the Dragons of the Heavens and the Earth respectively. They're both working towards their own goals, but the stakes aren't low key like they are in Cardcaptor Sakura. It'll be the end of the Earth as we know it, or will it? Well, I guess you'll have to watch to find out. Plus I don't really know yet, because apparently the movie isn't the most faithful of adaptations. Anyway, I'm not entirely convinced of the series yet, the movie I don't want to rate because it feels messy, even though it very much was an entertaining watch, even with the quality issues. Some things really don't make much sense. It also managed to surprise me with the motivation of the dark evil dreamwalker lady with the fanservicey clothing, and that's a job well done, girl. Erm, film. Not sure if I would call the film a shojo anime though. It's fast paced, has a good deal of action, fighting scenes with magic and swords and is pretty gory at times. it's really more of a universal appeal sort of thing based on a shojo manga. Or something. Really... except for some characerization here and there, and the... About the manga series, however, well, what I read a little further on - hopefully that'll be in the anime as well: Sounds like a promising thing to look forward to, I hope. Sure, it can still turn out bad, but it's not bad so far. It's just with a lot more action than I thought it would be (the TV show now). The manga is unfinished so far, by the way. I wonder what that means for the ending of the TV show. Hopefully nothing bad. Also, slight spoilers: Oh, and this quote is for @KP the meanie zucchini, you know, just... you know, as payback for putting Mari in your spoiler tag about Revolutionary Girl Utena: Oh, yeah, before I forget, pretty emo boy is a pretty emo bishonen character. You can't really make him look like that and not play the part straight, right? He isn't really into being the chosen one at all, albeit not as whingy as Shinji is. He's more like "leave me alone!" and "meh" and then randomly whacks people away with his telekinetic force thing. *Maybe there's a real regular DVD source around somewhere. If any of you check it out and find it, let me know.

The rideable ladybug could be the same speed as walking/running but you could attach a trailer or wagon to transport large amounts of grass or weed stems

I would really like to see mounts in the game, it would be a lot of fun to ride a ladybug around! I do have a concern though, and it's the fact that the faster a player can traverse the map, the smaller the map becomes. We can already get somewhat impressive speed with natural explorer grade 2 + full spider gear, so while I really want to see bug mounts in game, I also hope the devs have some plan to avoid letting the player shred all the content in mere minutes, due to being able to cross the backyard in no time flat.

I can't believe you didn't keep up with this entire topic to see Sarex post this some hours ago. It's like you're not even religiously following this thread or something. Speaking of Yoko Kanno, I was literally just watching... Memories (1995). Netflix advertised Memories to me not all that long ago (maybe a couple of months ago?), but it seems like it's no longer on there - what a pity. Starting with Magnetic Rose. It's a fitting name. Oddball, really good sci-fi...way greater appreciation for it this time compared to the first watch, same as Millennium Actress (watching all of Perfect Blue, Memories, Millennium Actress, and Paprika in a short amount of time may not have been my wisest decision). Good art and story, great animation (well except for one particular element that looks like Sailor Moon R: The Movie's one bit of CGI), and maybe even better music (by Yoko Kanno!). Stinkbomb. Speaking of Covid-19...the setup is super obvious and you'll get it within literally just a couple of minutes... Even though it's obvious and complete nonsense, it's good and a lot of insane fun just for the extremes it goes to with its premise, plus the animation might be even better in this one than the last, and the last was already great. ...And then we have the ugly stepchild of the three to finish it off, Cannon Fodder. ...But it's actually still pretty decent, all things considered. Didn't remember anything at all from this one from the first time I watched it, went much better than I expected this time around. If this trend of Satoshi Kon stuff being even better on a second viewing keeps up, I should just about think Tokyo Godfathers and Perfect Blue are the best films of all time (since those two were my favorites of his until I re-watched Millennium Actress and had to place it right up there as well)...assuming I ever find the constitution to re-watch the latter at all. As for Memories as a whole, it's good stuff, well-recommended.

The world has been so crazy, it's in dire need of some Johnny Gat to return some sense into it.

Griffin's Blade gives your spells additive 10% dmg. Lashes are multiplicative dmg bonuses. They are calculated based on the complete "primary" dmg you dealt (so to speak). That means that Blightheart will add a 10% multiplicative dmg bonus to your spells, but it has to overcome the target's corrode AR separately. +1 Power Level adds 5% base damage to offensive abilities (besides the other stuff like PEN and ACC). And that is multiplicative dmg increase as well, but without having to overcome another AR value separately. For spells this often doesn't make a lot of difference since you can't really mix a lot of additive dmg bonuses with multiplicative ones as you can with weapon attacks. Usually it's only the base dmg of the spell, then the additive bonus of MIG and then you can multiply that with either Blightheart's 10% lash or/and Power Level. If you have a ton of MIG (e.g. being a Helwalker) that can make a difference though. Imagine a spell with 100 base damage. You have 30 MIG (+60% additive dmg). That means the spell would do 100 + 60 dmg. With Griffin's Blade you would simply add 10 dmg. Resulting in 170 "primary" dmg. With Blightheart you would take the 160 "primary" dmg and multiply it by 10%. You'll end up with 160 primary and 16 corrosive lash. Still not the world, but you get the point. If you score a crit it's even better since you'll add 25% more additive dmg. Same with Overpenetration (which mostly occurs in crits). At that point the lash really pays off compared to yet another flat additive bonus. Same goes for Power Level bonuses. So if you can get a 10% lash (or a +2 PL increase) compared to an additive 10% increase: always take the lash or the Power Levels. Same when you compare stuff like Biting Whip (10% additive) to Eternal Devotion (10% lash). With weapons + abilities it's more interesting because you usually get a lot more additive modifiers which can then be multiplied by PL and/or lash. This includes weapon quality (fine to legendary or even mythic - or post-mythic with Monk fists), MIG, certain enchantments and stuff like Sneak Attack and whatnot. Tl;dr: Blightheart and Cromoprismatic Staff are better than Griffin's Blade (if we look at spell dmg improvement).

I noticed that this happens if you give Modwyr to a party member and that character is removed from the party for some reason, like going into the deck of your ship or by manually swapping them out.