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Not to speak on behalf of @dgray62 or anyone else, but you're totally fine . This forum is a quote and tag fest, and contributors are mostly good-humored, considerate, willing to help, and just looking to talk about intricate and less intricate Deadfire shenanigans until the end of the Wheel. Cheers mate!

@dgray62 Thank you so much . You have provided a good write up of the core concepts. I will look through forums to get the details, but I think you have nailed the key points in playing that combination. If I ever play a chanter/priest combo I definitely want to be a caster first and foremost, especially since I want to do more melee with my death godlike now. (totally off topic, but I tried tagging drgray62, I wanted to test this since I have no idea whether it works or not, if it does... I know that in some forums it is considered rude to bother people with tagging them, but I personally like to either 1. be mentioned when the reply is directly for me, so I immediately get a ping on my phone or 2. I want to address someone specific when I want to thank them/ask them a question in response to their previous comment... thanks for any advice on this, I really have no idea what is considered nice/polite/standard here, I barely have 70 posts and I certainly want to be more active, especially with playing a bit more Deadfire, avowed coming - I am so pumped for that one :D)

And then rename Steam to XBox Live Steam Edition?

I think it would be great to get more icon selections for chests, markers, and perhaps more selection for signs. Color selection is decent enough if we had more to choose from. Loving the game either way!

This is always a matter of historical khan-text. I'll show myself out.

No problem for me either!

Most "do x on y" weapon effects do that. Since they originate from the weapon they count as attacks from that weapon. Def. less stressfull for the hardware but still OP I fear. Yes, since the Chillfog hit rolls count as weapon attacks they also not only count for the number of stacks but also paralyze enemies themselves. 😄

I have students debating whether the Mongols were civilized or barbaric in class, and they are using posters to illustrate their arguments. My favorite so far starts with "The Mongols: It's All About the Khan-text".

Chanter/priest is not hard to play, and is a very viable build, including for solo play on PotD. From the chanter side you have summons, which are tremendous when playing solo. You have buffs for yourself and the summons on both the chanter and priest side, and you have the amazing combo of Barring Death's Door and Salvation of Time, which makes even Trial of Iron not too stressful, as you basically become unkillable. You can get all of the tier 3 inspirations every battle with Sasha's and the least unstable coil, which you can extend with SoT. You also have great fire nukes on the priest side, and two great lightning and cold ones (Her Revenge and Her Tears) on the chanter side. You can also debilitate and perm-interrupt foes when energized with your chants, particularly if you pick troubadour and turn on fast recitation. Overall, it's a very powerful and fun to play combo. But keep in mind with this build you'd basically be a caster, alternating between chanter invocations and priest spells. If you want more of a melee orientation, then I'd recommend Helwalker/skald, wielding sun & moon for incredible crit fests that give you phrases. It's not quite as sturdy as the celebrant, but very fun to play. The goal here is to control aggro through hard CC, by permanently paralyzing and/or stunning dangerous foes. There are some great builds for this combo that have been previously posted.

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I had a similar situation happen and I ended up creating a new boot manager on the correct drive and didn't need to reformat. I don't remember the exact process for doing so, but I do think it is possible. However, looks like you already reformatted and found the Windows.old, so I guess that'll do. I should really mirror my entire Windows user profile (with AppData and all) just on the off-chance my C drive suddenly dies out of the blue. My first and second ever system SSD drives both died in under a year, and let me tell you, when SSDs die, there is no warning and they are just straight-up gone. At least with HDDs, you usually have a warning if you're vigilant enough...paying attention to odd sounds, occasionally checking SMART data, a rare 2-minute diagnostic scan...but the "it suddenly died and doesn't even appear in my BIOS" is my greatest fear and why I always have everything important to me mirrored these days. The first 1 TB I ever had did that to me and just would not come back no matter how much I unplugged and plugged it back... When I got the replacement drive like a week later, I decided to put both of them in and suddenly the "dead" one came back to life, and I transferred everything over freaking immediately. That was the first and last warning I ever needed on keeping important data mirrored...and the original drive ended up lasting about another twelve months before unstable sectors started terminating themselves and I subsequently ripped it apart to see what the inside of an HDD looked like.

(Dons a fake mustache and a real wig) ^Holy moly, man! Those are some good games! If only I liked fun and puppies and love I would request some via PM, as is your way.

I'm in "Day 5" of my Disco Elysium playthrough, my first time playing the game. My inate need in my RPGs to be the world-saving hero who fixes everything is taking a beating in this game. Seems like the game provides for many different outcomes in Harry's life and in side quests. But when it comes to the overall main story, all paths lead to one outcome:

Pathfinder has the same problem for me as every Bethesda open world RPG - the setting fells like a theme park, not a coherent world, also if dictionary entry for word "derivative" needs an illustration, they should look no further than Pathfinder. I find Obsidian's settings both more original and more believable, with a little side effect of it being hard to be mean to characters there, whereas Pathfinder's world and characters make me want to go full Nerat on them. 👹

I don't want to convince you to play Helwalker/Priest, Devoted/Priest is fine. I just wanted to say: one can mitigate the "glasscannon" aspect of Helwalker in two ways: a) use your wounds frequently when you think you're receiving too much dmg. Stuff like Blade Turning and Thunderous Blows etc. are good for this. Use Enlightened Agony to still get enhanced INT (and lower hostile effects, too) b) use Iron Wheel and keep the wounds. When doing it right the higher CON and the higher AR will more than offset the higher damage you receive. Get bonus INT via Enlightened Agony. This combo also gives you an absurdly high fortitude defense when at 10 wounds - which is awesome imo. Especially in combination with Enlightened Agony you will only get affected by most nasty disables shortly (if at all).

Games, how many of us have them? Games, ones we can depend on Games, how many of us have them? Games, before we go any further Let's give away games New list incoming soon up since I signed back up for Humble and forgot to cancel it many moons ago. All are Steam unless otherwise mentioned

They should buy Valve. That should leave a lot of people confused about how to feel.

A survival game by Blizzard is probably about trying to be a female game developer.

In NWN2 I only ever started paying attention when big red dragon completely wiped the floor with my party, I dropped difficulty to easy and she wiped the floor as easily again. So I searched for help and - "wow, there's a whole system under it? 😲 Cool!" And there was a lot of stuff on Internet useful for a newbie - how things work in general, builds and stuff - that was based on the game itself, not general PnP rules. Makes me wonder why there's no such thing yet for Pathfinder after two supposedly popular games.

I sort of am, but if given the choice I'd still either take the rather neutral children's anime/world masterpiece theater style of the late 70ies/early 80ies (Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Dog of Flanders, etc.) or late 80ies to late 90ies anime style over the alternatives. I have a soft spot for certain 60ies character designs from liking Attack No. 1, but that's as far as I would go. There are certain modern animes that grew on me after a fashion, like Violet Evergarden (outside of some of the CGI used) and especially K-On! which... honestly isn't something I would have thought I'd ever enjoy, aesthetic wise, but somehow ended up doing. For K-On! at least, I think it's something like form following function, I suppose. The art style works perfectly fine for what it is. I will, eventually. "Fun" fact, almost all the sexual assault I've seen in anime recently was girl on girl (I don't now if that is supposed to lessen its impact or increase it's appeal*, or both), but yes, that's pretty much what I was talking about, in addition to putting the characters in embarrassing and revealing situations for no real reason. I mean, there's no way Plastic Little wasn't made with the male gaze in mind, but it was noticably more mature about it than ecchi elements in general tend to be. I have, to this date, watched four shounen shows. Two at a time when they were on TV and I just watched anything that was on TV, and two that were an adaptation of the same manga, that last one based on the recommendation of friend a couple of years ago, in between the time from finishing Sailor Moon's original run and reviving my interest in anime - in one of life's little and strange coincidences by rewatching Sailor Moon. The first two are Bismark and Robin Hood, the latter of which lessend the impact of the shounen dolting there is (and that isn't entirely a whole lot, but that's filtered through nostalgic memories from a long while ago) by placing it into medieval Europe where some of it makes more sense, what with the feudal system at the time, but I've talked about Robin Hood at length. Bismark is fun 80ies sci-fi trash, atlhough it does feature an initially fairly stupid shonen dolt frenemyship between the lead character and an American called Bill that may only have been a part of the dub. Not sure, the series was apparently changed a good deal in dialogue. There's every chance I'd actually hate the original. Still looks pretty good though, but follows the anime sci-fi trash formula of having mech fights until the main characters just whoop out the main cannon and obliterate the enemy in one blast to the T. Ever since I was a kid I've wondered what stops these people from simply employing their enemy one-shot mechanism immediately - if all your dramatic mech combat momentum hinges on an unexplained contrivance, you're bound to lose me, and indeed, the mech fights are the least interesting parts of this. Really, that makes no sense at all. As did the change in the dub that the enemies they kill don't stay dead, but just get teleported back to their home dimension, leaving me to wonder how they'll ever be defeated. The other two are Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and while I liked them well enough in spite of what they are, I'm generally "that guy" when it comes to preferences. I like the slow burn of the original adaptation more, but prefer Brotherhood's less metaphysical ending. Needless to say I watched it more for Al and Winny than caring about Ed... overall not a complete loss, but I certainly don't understand how this won every "most bestest favoritest anime of the year" awards during its original run. No, that's not it, because people who are young in body and old in heart generally are either fanatic Christian young earth flerfers or young poster boy conservatives that swallowed Ayn Rand's nonsense hook, line and sinker, and you don't strike me as either. You're just a person of taste, and entertainment's gone down the crapper in recent years. The first TV show I can't answer because it's one of those that were on TV, and I really don't remember what the first one was. There were always at least four or five animes running. As for movies, that's a tough nut, for all the anime I've watched, there weren't a whole lot of anime films on TV and unless we count OVAs like Legend of Lemnear or Plastic Little (which we should not, I think) then the answer to that is actually MD Geist. I was going to say it was the Sailor Moon R movie, but it wasn't. MD Geist and Akira were before that... Can fully recommend MD Geist for every fan of 80ies sci-fi trash, but keep in mind, it pretty much is trash. *This is what Miyazaki talked about, in part. People in the anime industry not observing the real world in any meaningful way, and ending up making scenes like that. There's a pervasive schism between the depiction (and acceptence, actually) of lesbians in entertainment (adult or otherwise) and the real world, and it's especially bad in anime and in, well, adult entertainment. In my experience, so that's just an anecdote, heterosexual men in particular seem to react with a certain amount of disappointment and disdain when real life lesbians don't turn out to be like the ones they like to watch in films. Which is like all the time. *sigh*

Then why not use the Spiritual Greatsword that a Priest of Berath can summon? It totally fits the theme of course - and with Lightning Strikes and the Spiritual Great Sword you'd have two elemental lashes on your blade which is good (multiplicative dmg bonuses). And if you feel that it's not so hard to stay alive after all you could still use Turning Wheel (instead of Iron Wheel) which would add another lash to the weapon, leaving you at +15% shock, +20% burn (at 10 wounds) and up to 30% corrode iirc. That's +65% multiplicative dmg which is a great dmg bonus, especially when combined with +30% dmg from the higher MIG. If you feel that he's too squishy you can still use Iron Wheel. I would still use a backup weapon - Effort is good if you enchant it with Hemorrhaging. Because the sicken/hobble effect even works with ypur spells - and the wounding enchantment is good, too. Another fitting two handed weapon is Engoliero do Espirs (Berath-themed). Blade Feast also works with spells (kills from spells I mean). Voidwheel is also nice, but a bit of a suicidal tendency as Helwalker. Twin Eels fits 100% of course, but it would come a bit later. Its heal on kill also works with spells and all sorts of damage you deal.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring - thank goodness, I wasn't looking forward to the inevitable 7-2 conservative Supreme Court if he didn't.

I was going to take that chant for extra skellies, though not arriving until PL7 means I'll spend a good portion of the game behind the Beckoner's skelly generation until I get it. Tough call.

Up until I stopped reading, the story certainly recycled story types (usually regarding Ranma encountering someone with a special talent, like figure skating and having to defeat them in a martial-arts-figure-skating-contest and then next story it'd be gymnastics or something) but still felt like it had forward momentum for the characters (as often the competitions were really there to force the characters to deal with something or someone they didn't want to - like pushing Ranma to have to deal with one of his many paramours or his dad). That said I have heard that as time goes on they increase the level of side wacky characters, too. But I think Rumiko Takahashi can probably make it work.

Valve's Steam Deck Finally Has a Release Date.

If you haven't played before you should just keep playing. You're better off not being spoiled.

I still don't know why Boba Fett wants to be a crime boss now. Especially since he doesn't seem to want to do any crime.

That's the problem with this build unfortunately. My game slows to a crawl due to all the pulsing chillfogs.

Berserker/Beckoner with Grave Calling is pretty bonkers. Have Modwyr in the second weapon slot. Frenzy (confused), kill a skeleton with the sabre --> procs a Chillfog which counts as weapn attack which kills the other skeletons --> they all proc Chillfogs and so on... switch to Modwyr and back to get rid of the confusion and then walz in (else you will die). Usually the fight is over in seconds. But it may fry your graphics card because of the multiple chillfogs all pusing at once...

I hate to ask what you think about my preferences lmao. Insomnia struck last night so I watched Aggretsuko s2. It's sort of slice of life with elements of Office Space that features anthromorphic animals and death metal karaoke.

Ranma is 1989, probably the earliest thing I listed specifically (and from what I've seen, Ranma got uglier and simpler the longer it went on). I vastly prefer this over anything post-2000 that isn't Millennium Actress (which was traditionally animated despite being made in 2001, and it apparently has the distinction of being the last major anime film to be so). Rurouni Kenshin came out 7 years later after Ranma in 1996, and is very mid to late 90s-looking (and also looks to be a shonen if the few screenshots I saw were any indication...). I actually did watch an episode of Blood-C, which I thought was bad but not terrible-looking - doesn't hold a candle to what I like most, but it's also not eye-searing like most other series from the 2010s. No LaserDisc as far as I can see, but the DVD versions I looked at quickly looked at least a little less terrible than yours, e.g.: You mean sexual assault that bizarrely isn't treated like it because anime apparently doesn't believe sexual assault is real? Pretty sure that's what you mean, . Yes, something that distinguishes itself as being about adult characters for adult viewers without the strongly untoward elements endemic to ecchi is inherently less insulting and gross than...I don't know, having male characters "randomly" assault teenaged girls and young woman or just having them experience "wardrobe malfunctions" because it's supposed to be funny and/or gratifying someway somehow. Still, not exactly my cup of tea, especially with how extreme Plastic Little in particular was right off the bat.

Everyone has their own preferences. Amentep apparently loves the 70s and early 80s (e.g. Conan...which I like the backgrounds of, but am merely "okay" with the character designs - I certainly prefer it over 99.9% of modern stuff!), I personally prefer a number of styles between the late 80s and late 90s*, Lexx likes very modern stuff, majestic is probably all over the place at this point... I watched Airbender as a kid on live TV - great show, hard to believe it came out 16 years ago, hope majestic one day tries it out. Didn't care quite as much for the sequel series, but it has its fans. Its art style is obviously meant to be anime-esque, though...even if it isn't exactly quite like any anime in particular. *Although I'm finicky enough that there are still plenty of styles even within that time period that I do not care for - the original Sailor Moon, early Ranma 1/2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Perfect Blue/Millennium Actress, various 70s-90s Ghibli movies are all some examples of my favorite anime styles...and I have my eye on a number of other things that I haven't yet watched like Gall Force, Cowboy Bebop, Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, Gunbuster, and number of other smaller series I can't recall off the top of my head on the basis of looking appealing to me.

Keep in mind that the Voulge is a very different weapon in the hands of a druid that it is for a barb. For the former it is basically a stat stick that boosts your storm spells. For a barb, it's a fantastic and unique weapon, the only one to my knowledge that applies effects via carnage. Hits with the weapon (including via carnage) apply static thunder stacks to the foes surrounding you, and then when you crit, all those stacks are discharged in an often spectacular AOE lightning explosion. It's worth using at least twice, once for a druid and at least once on a barb.

All that definitely makes sense. And of course, I personally love film grain for animation (and don't really mind the subtle frame jitter that you see in traditionally-animated work...although there was one show, I'm forgetting which, where the last 10 or so frames of a scene went like an 15 entire degrees off of what it was supposed to be which was startling and clearly unintentional and yet somehow they didn't bother to fix it even though it was super obvious what had happened), which is another thing digitally made stuff just doesn't have. The art of animation is...I wanted to say dead, but "undead" is probably more accurate, . The Magnificent Myao and the Rambunctious Ran: Myao's "disguise" in episode 12 is quite possibly one of the worst things I've ever seen. When I originally watched that episode, I immediately created a screenshot and intended to post it for you...but then I remembered that you said you would probably watch the show, so I decided to withhold so you could experience it for yourself. Although it is one of the worst things I've ever seen, Myao was wearing it, and that broke my brain and put me in a laughing fit for most of the rest of the episode. Her being crucified with her yelling and screaming and crying and praying was also incredible. As for episode 13...Goddess Myao (or whatever the hell that was supposed to be, with what she was wearing and being carried around by slaves) is the best Myao. Yes, a great final episode for a semi-straight, semi-wacked out parody of a samurai show, .

Do notice my PC boots a lot faster, so definitely had the HDD involved in the bootup for some reason. Strange thing for Windows to do, but I guess I should pay attention to that. HDDs are pretty cheap, so guess will replace that just to stuff music and other files. Also need to get a new backup drive. Should also start putting together a new build, but so lazy in my old age I think I'll just bother a friend to come up with the list for me

I blame digital coloring, and to a lesser degree scanning the animations, i.e. the outlines drawn on paper, scanned and animated digitally by stringing the frames together instead of using cels - at least for Japanese anime. Western cartoons didn't suffer as much from this, like, when you look at Infinity Train it looks fine, but it too was animated on paper and colored digitally. There are some physical properties you'll just never get from digitally coloring scanned outlines, no matter how hard you try. Like having an actual coat of paint with not always evenly distributed amounts of color (perhaps intentional, to boot), colors on top of each other and colors according to what we can observe in reality (where else would go get colors from). I don't want to say digital coloring feels so soulless, but it's pretty much like the difference between the original Star Wars and Attack of the Clones. Star Wars, for all its being sci-fi, looks like the real world because it was shot in the real world, Attack of the Clones wasn't. Everything is shiny, bright and just feels wrong*. That's why you have modern anime where the backgrounds look fantastic and the character models don't, because the backgrounds were painted and then scanned, not vice versa - but they're also by far and large static, so the extra work pays off by making them look better and not causing a whole lot more effort. I'm guessing you could apply some digital trickery to simulate color thickness and layering and whatnot, but looking at the screenshots, that's just not done, and even then... that's never going to be the same. This is a lot like this stock picture here: Now, this has someone with a ball, a broken window, and someone angry. I think this is supposed to mean that the guy believes the other guy damaged the window, but my reaction to that is, given the perspective on this, there's no way that ball could have made that small a hole. Whatever the ball is, it sure wasn't used to break the window. *edit: At the end of the day, a painting has a structure and an actual uneven surface that breaks light differently than the inherently flat surface of a digital plane of color. That's why painting and scanning the background beats digitally created backgrounds every time, even if a little bit is lost without cel transfers. At least, I think that's what is bothering me, but I might be wrong, I'm by no means an expert on the subject of animation.

@BruceVC, @bugarupsays it pretty well here. This is how I largely feel as well. Furthermore, I would say that because of how the Pf games are made, which is to say they are directly made from Pf TT game modules, you get only a micro-level exposure to the Pf world (Golarion), unlike the PoE games which give you a much better immersion into the world (Eora) overall.

The problem I have with fancy settings is that they have done all this work, so now need to spend a lot of effort telling you what it is. But I just need want to play the game.

I confess, I don't get the hate for the space vespa gang. I haven't seen them in context of the show, but it seems kinda like the usual "I'm on the internet and I must show how I hate everything and I couldn't on Mandalorian so I'm going to nit-pick the Boba Fett series apart" kind of thing. But since I haven't seen it, it could also be godawful in ways that I cannot know without having seen it.

You may have done just that. 😄 After reading your tips I am honestly torn between the two (helwalker or devoted). Just tell me which one you had more fun (gameplay, gear or roleplay) with, that is the one I will go for. Maybe I am overthinking it...I don't plan to play on PotD so either is probably fine. Lately I have been busy with a new job and other things and finding enough time to play 100+ hour RPGs is hard... That is why I wanted to get the most fun out of it and I sometimes (read always) overanalyze things.

Losing the ability to stand on walls affects MANY THINGS! I have half wood walls around the tops of all my bases.. and overhangs.. Normally, I can stand on walls to shoot at Creatures underneath.. or at the bottom.. (as half walls are aesthetically pleasing.. they prevent this.. as your vision is blocked.. and.. you can't see through them.. this also affects Building... (especially building UP!) That's a Huge deal.. This also Breaks bounce towers.. (I know.. they were never intended..) but it was a cool thing players discovered.. and works.. really well.. Many base builds.. and.. Zip Towers.. (which many of us have put Countless hours into) utilize all of these actions.. Shooting arrows from atop our bases.. building.. upward.. at all.. and.. yes, bounce towers.. As it stands.. if any substantial damage happens to any of my towers..(rolly polly?) I can never repair my Zip Network.. (Ridiculous amount of hours invested) I can't even stand on my mushroom castle walls or battlements.. This Breaks the Game.. In Several Ways..

Thanks, I have decided that I will go for a caster priest next time around (probably fire godlike that is either SC or multiclassed with some chanter - I like the idea of having Sasha's scimitar early and empower spells + other shenenigans), but since I am already playing a Death Godlike with aumaua physique with a huge greatsword in PoE 1, it would feel weird to play a pure caster/caster focused build in Deadfire. I have settled on a Devoted(greatsword)/Priest of Berath as that should be a bit more survivable than Helwalker/Priest of Berath. To be honest the micromanagement aspect of helwalker really appeals to me but I hate playing glass cannon builds. I even toyed with the idea of using Death Godlike racial for +3PL (I would boost CON to make this more viable) and then go to town with some greatsword or nuke with spells but since this will be my first Deadfire priest playthrough it feels scary and daunting. I will probably not play on Trial of Iron this time, but I am not very comfortable with risky builds. I mean...how likely are you to beat trial o iron with +50% dmg taken when have 10 wounds? Maybe some meta masters can, but I would be worried to say the least. Actually, I might as well ask about the chanter/priest with SSS. Is it a hard build to play? Is it squishy? Tanky? Good for Trial of Iron run(probably solo/normal)? I will not play for some time because I want to finish this death godlike playthrough but that will not stop me from planning other builds... Thanks again for the great feedback guys

Sometimes I get into cycles of "search stores for games on sale that look engaging, buy game, play for a bit, then go back to searching." Usually this is just because it hasn't captured my imagination. Alternatively, I love when I can really get into the lore of a game. But lately I've been trying to get better at looking over my own vast library and loading up games I already have. Of course, that results in me playing games I know I will enjoy. Right now I'm hooked again on Xcom. The tough part is there just aren't that many games released any more that I know will be a home run for me. The next Xcom or Avowed are probably the closest. I also find that, more and more, I need to capture a certain mood to really enjoy games. Sometimes that means getting up early and playing before the rest of the house wakes up, sometimes that means pouring a beer and playing Disco Elysian when the sun goes down. It's weird how fickle I can be about my gaming time.

After much procrastination I managed to knock this out: Because on a world countless lightyears from our own mothers still use Royal Dansk Cookie tins as a sewing kit container.

Stalling on D:OS halfway through the first act when I first tried it playing "normally" - i.e. single-player with a full party - then coming back a year or two later in co-op Lone Wolf mode (one character each) and absolutely adoring it was the affirmation that my CRPG tastes had completely flipped. It was a slow process that probably started with DA1 but which now I fully embrace. Never played any variant of Pathfinder and don't plan to unless they add co-op or design a solo adventure.