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For versatility of range or diversity of damage, to have some backup weapon set in fight can be useful ; there are two items that give a weapon slot when equipped. The Giftbearer's Cloth and the Fleshmender armor give, together, two weapon slots ; when desequipped, the weapons in the slot are like suspended in the game dephts. Via the inventory or in combat, they are unavailable. But for the AI , the restriction doesnt matter and it is possible to switch to the weapon set desired with the script. So, with these two items, the whole party can get 4 weapon slots and using them in combat. The AI can be scripted for using consumables, it is possible to get every scroll and potion slot for the fight too.

This was a discovery I made while testing out friendly fire spells on a Forbidden Fist. The monk passive ability Soul Mirror will not only reflect back missed ranged weapon attacks, but also some spells, including beam spells. When a beam gets reflected by a monk this way, it creates an entirely new, separate beam that originates from the monk and bounces back at the caster without further harming the monk. This new beam also uses the stats of the original caster to calculate damage, accuracy, and penetration, though visually it looks like the monk is the one firing it back at the original caster. Additionally, the monk doesn't need to be the initial target of the beam for this to work. They can walk into the path of a beam, get missed and start reflecting it, then walk out of the path to safety. Here is a screenshot if this is not clear: In this example, I used my wizard to cast Ray of Fire on the Rotghast. I then walked both of my monks into the path of the spell, waited until it missed and reflected new beams, and then walked the monks out of the way so they wouldn't get hurt any more. So the middle beam is the original hitting the Rotghast, while the two new branching beams are reflecting from the monks back at the wizard. Why is this noteworthy and how can it be exploited? The obvious choice is for the wizard to use the Ray of Fire beam and wear Rekvu's Scorching Cloak while suffering from an injury (Serious Burn giving the most synergy here) so that they are immune to fire damage and can convert 10 percent of that damage into healing. With high might and a couple of spell damage modifying items, I was able to deal an average of 20-30 fire damage, translating to 2-3 health gained per tick. While this may not seem like a lot, compare that to Wall of Flame, another fire spell that I'm sure others have tried to use with Rekvu's Scorching Cloak for healing purposes. The problem with using Wall of Flame this way is its base damage is simply too low, so you'll often see it giving 0 health back when it ticks. Meanwhile, Ray of Fire does enough damage to consistently heal, and it ticks off at a decent rate and for a good amount of times during the spell's duration. Not to mention the fact that duplicating the beams with this Soul Mirror trick is a literal damage multiplier for no additional cost other than having to move your monks around and taking some initial damage for them to create more beams. The more monks with Soul Mirror you have in your party, the more beams you can create for additional amounts of healing and damage. If you also cast Combusting Wounds on your enemies, you can deal even more damage from the rapid-fire procs coming from multiple beams. Another part of this interaction you can exploit is the fact that the reflected beams are making attack rolls against the wizard but not harming them due to their fire immunity. So you can use it to trigger items that have on-hit effects while safely not taking damage. For example, wielding the Lover's Embrace dagger, upgraded with the Lover's Quarrel enchantment to match your wizard's gender, can give you Frenzy when you crit yourself with Ray of Fire, and if you also have Slayer's Claw in your offhand, you can get +2 penetration from the upgraded might inspiration. Acolyte's Frostbite has an enchantment called Vengeful Cold which creates a frost blast upon getting crit, however it is tricky to utilize here because it requires you to be a minimum distance away from your allies before it will trigger and its attack will be directed towards the monk whose beam triggered it. The Effort with Hemorrhaging trick to turn your beam attacks into melee attacks also works here, but I haven't found a good way of leveraging this yet. I tried using it with Minoletta's Piercing Sigil and Okura's Kettle, thinking I could trigger their AoE effects, but they unfortunately didn't work. I think it's because they need the attacks to come from an enemy and not yourself. If anyone is able to come up with ways of benefitting from nondamaging self attacks (which can be melee coded if you also use Effort), please share!

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Now that my wife is home I finally saw Orville episode 9 and that's easily the best episode of Star Trek in the last 20 or so years

You are right, a Wizard with reflection spells or any other character with reflect items like Mirrorback and Collar of Eothas's Light does work the same way so you don't necessarily need a Monk with Soul Mirror to be your reflect source. I should mention in my testing that my character had on Rekvu's Scorched Cloak, Rekvu's Fractured Casque, Brooch of Inevitable Winter, High Harbinger's Robes, Kuaru's Prize, Ring of Focused Flame, Firethrowers Gloves, Sash of Judgment, Magran's Favor, Griffins Blade, 23 Might, and and was using Crusted Swordfish food bonus to get the 20-30 damage numbers per tick. I think a lower might score would actually be better as a Blood Mage here so you would take less self damage from Blood Sacrifice and just depend on items for more spell damage/healing. Okura's Kettle didn't seem to work when I used it with Effort. I think the problem is that it might need to be triggered from damage coming from an enemy specifically. Minoletta's Piercing Sigil wasn't working either with Effort for the same reason, I believe. Your suggestion of Avenging Storm and the shock items sounds promising. I'll test it later tomorrow and see how it goes.

Calvin Ridley got a year for betting on his own team to win.

At some point during development of Seeker, Slayer, Survivor there was to be a "Champion of the Hunt" challenge involving a fight against the members of Vox Machina. The remaining data (character stats, arena encounter listing, and a conversation) and ui suggests it was probably in early stages when it was scrapped. Though it is no longer accessible via the Pool of Memories without mods, it can still be started through the console ( ` ) with cheat enabled (iroll20s): To load into the map: LaunchRandomEncounter 7ae85798-f2a8-41ff-a210-ffdbce5f2311 To get the conversation to play and the characters to turn hostile: StartConversation b1a8e901-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 85427693-4d26-4f96-9f17-3358fb87d940 0 The conversation consists purely of lines taken from the voice sets added in the Critical Role Pack dlc. Though audio no longer plays as it should, due to the "ExternalVO" line in the .conversationbundle file pointing to old/incorrect filenames. There are also no portraits attached to the characters. Either way I would guess it was only ever meant to serve as a placeholder conversation for the early stages of development. There is no reward for completing this encounter.

Too late, he already set everything in motion. With his mind. Might take a couple of decades, but it will kill you. Eventually.

OH NO! I'm sorry Tom......please don't have John Travolta kill me.

My local ABC Spirits had the good stuff in stock, so that's what I'm drinking:

I'm going to need you to report to the nearest Scientology center for auditing

Soo, how is it compared to borderlands 2, the only borderlands worth mentioning. Does it have an arena mode.

"If you know.. You know."

Thankfully, I have not watched a Disney film in years and have no desire to after seeing that. Outside of anime I haven't really watched animation much lately, but looking at some of the restorations of films and comparing that to the Disney blu-ray makes it clear that the official remaster/restoration of animation is probably going to be ****. Eh, I wouldn't say that. Sure, big budget American studio films have gone down the ****ter and probably won't come back. Top Gun: Maverick is boring US military propaganda whose "real planes" (and CGI they don't wanna talk about as much) can't save it from mediocrity, but there are tons of amazing films being made around the world. Maybe call up a Memory Beta wiki editor and see if they can do the job.

ah, so this is for like lethandria's devotion?

Well for me it's no wonder I got the grades I did. I talked to myself in the comments, pretty sure the TA's thought I was schizo..

Disney's blurays/HD streams for their classic films are generally of very ill-repute for the techniques used to make them look contemporary (i.e. "clean" and digital) and it makes me the big mad. And no, I'm not ever going to stop talking about it when I see egregious examples of it, .

I use it only for Fast-Switching purpose, and this is how I have found that!

When I tested Okura's Kettle years ago it never worked as advertised. It simply did nothing. Maybe it got patched but I doubt it.

Ahh... the downsides of almost never using AI!

In AU, NZ, UK, Denmark and Germany, I've never seen a wall plug *without* a switch Edit: The hotels in Spain, Greece, France, Sweden, Singapore and Hong Kong were the same (can't speak for residences and work places in those countries)

I got back to Cpt this week so the exciting " Saga of the Sword Coast " chronicles can continue I arrived in the iconic and bustling city of BG and loads of events occurred. What a city, lots of shops and side quests. Freeing nymphs from licentious wizards and helping Necromancers find bodies to name a few of the activities. I have also thwarted Saveroks diabolical plans to control BG, he fled into the maze under the Thieves Guild and I have reached the dungeon under the maze and I expect a final confrontation with my half-brother who I may spare after agreeing to do this with beautiful Tamoko I had the most difficult battle so far with 2 x Skeletal Warriors in the maze and I only succeeded by separating them, I had to swop Khalids weapon to a mace because only crushing damage was effective and magic was useless due to MR....very hard battle Further updates to follow

Pearhaps you dont need a Monk to reflect the beam, any character with Mirrorback could work ; also maybe another wizard with Arcane Reflection (wich can also cast a beam) could work. But Monk reflection is concerning Ranged Attack, and these ones reflect spells, so maybe that reflect only some damage proc, not the beam itself. The Brooch of Inevitable Winter and the Belt of Magran's Chosen, in combinaison with the Rekvu mantle, should be nice ; also multiclassed with Assasin or Hellwalker, with the Furrante's Breastplate to take more damage so more healing from fire can be cool too. Maybe, with Effort, the Okura's Kettle (10% chance to proc Boiling Spray on enemies on crit) ; the High Harbinger's Robes DoT on hit seems always target enemies , and if you cast Flame Shield the Effort's roll can give another fire damage on yourself, maybe. With Effort and Avenging Storm, wearing the Deltro's Cage (Shock Shield) and the Boltcatcher could give you more healing.

He's drinking paperbag tea. That monocle is undeserved.

Went shopping yesterday... my favourite gin (aka the only gin I can drink "as is") and an unknown rum, imported from Cuba. Got to break the blockade and support Cuban industry, right?

It appears their banner image game has regressed as well. First game: That banner image was why I tried the game in the first place! I didn't end up caring much for it (well, I played it for a couple of hours, looked up online how long it was and realized I didn't want to play another ten hours of it - I have a noted aversion for too-long Metroidvania games), but still. Now the second game...: Pathetic: I wouldn't even notice this if I was scrolling past!

UN boss to nominate General Santos Cruz for fact-finding mission in Ukraine. I wonder if Russia will see this as good news, since Brazil is kind of supporting them. Both Bolsonaro and Lula are fans of Putin so regardless of who wins the election later this year, Brazil's position won't change. I don't remember any discussion about this in this thread, not that I checked it all the time, but the word here in Brazil is that more than an interest in Russian fertilizers, Brazil won't condemn the war because Russia is helping with the development of the Brazilian nuclear submarine.

I'm in the middle of a Stalker/Soulblade playthrough, and I have to say I really prefer Ghost Hearth for the later parts of the game at this point. Initially the bear was truly beastly, but as encounters get harder and harder, it gets very tedious to keep it alive, and I try to do everything to passively boost its defences: troubadour chanting, endurance aura, Shining Beacon, Hearth Defender's Scales (I massacred Junvik Vilage). The engagement immunity in particular is what I really miss (I always rolled ghost hearts before - or Maia obviously). Not sure if Stalker bonuses are better than having Ghost Hearth at this point, even if I do focus on the AC and go melee with it. I really think the passive bonus should scale a bit. Spending bond to resummon is no different than spending it on healing, and not having to deal with grief/dilemma is also a big upside. Meanwhile Maia is running on AI, Ishiza stays stealthed and ever since she got Driving Flight, she is taking over my watcher in overall damage done. Will see what happens when I get to Takedown Combo + Desintegration. Maybe I'm just mad, because I couldn't do Memories of a Mad Man trial with a lvl 15/14 party in 2 tries

The second tweet tries to show the similarities in the videos to some picture taken long time ago. And to me, the evidence looks plausible. anyway, it looks like that tonight is pretty hot in a lot of places in Crimea and Belgorod. There is also a video of air defence shooting near Kerch Bridge.

Lockheed delivers high-energy laser four years in the making to US Navy - Breaking Defense

Hi, The new Version 2.3 is live : Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod at Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com) Stacking food, Fury tweaks, and a couple bug/oversight/glitch fixes.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hand-of-fate-devs-new-tactics-game-is-xcom-with-superheroes This peaks my interest a lot more than the Marvel Xcom clone. I mean I'm happy to see as many solid turn based tactical combat games as I can get, but a Freedom Force type game where you get to make superheroes and develop them sounds way better.

0.14.0 Public Test - 3824 to 3829 Changes Shared Worlds -Creating a Shared World copy from a save you have only played offline and then hosting it will properly load your character's data. -Fixed issue that could occur with new saves or making standard/shared world copies after hosting a Shared World and quitting to main menu. -The Shared World owner is the only player who can swap a Shared World from a non-custom to custom game from the Custom Game Settings window. -The number of friends a Shared World has given access to is now shown next to the Owner name in the Save / Load window. Other -Fixed crash that could happen randomly with ants looting bugs. -Helmet textures no longer become corrupted after wearing a Bubble Helmet"

'tween having to take the 5th +400 times in the ny civil case deposition, and weisselberg's plea + agreement to testify, the trump organization as a whole is in serious jeopardy. even w/o weisselberg's agreeing to testify, the plea woulda' been devastating for the trump org. why weisselberg is holding the line insofar as his refusal to cooperate against trump personal remains a mystery, but this news is most certain not gonna be greeted with cheers by donald and the trump klan, even if it does represent trump having avoided the worst-case-scenario. HA! Good Fun! ps biggest question we have is why the feds ain't investigating the tax fraud. the weisselberg plea is an obvious admission o' wrongdoing insofar as fed taxes as well as state, so where is the feds?

Orville Finale- non spoiler version, I liked it a lot more I should have May have had my criticisms but overall a very good season which only really suffers a bit by comparison from having some competent Trek competition for the first time. Hope they manage to wangle a S4.

Wife and son get home today after three and a half weeks in Estonia

Last night I had a glass of Yellow Spot. It's damn good, very sweet honey notes with some sharp apple. Sort of mellows into spice that's hard for me to place but very nice all the same.

BEST. GAME. EVAH.

Can't believe you guys actively dislike Top Gun. There are worse movies out there. Go watch Fire Birds as a contrast, while that's helicopters, not fighter jets, it's... you know, actually like really bad.

The graphics look worse. I don't know if they really are or if it is because the areas look different, they are less alien now, basically forests and mountains just like on Earth. It's definitely a downgrade.

Axiom Verge 2 is finally released on Steam. Much inferior to the first game. This time you have a pickaxe, a boomerang and the drone. None of the cool weapons from the first game. Still a good game, but I'm disappointed.