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There's a cipher passive which increases effect AOEs with the amount of focus you have. This works with scrolls and bombs too and it's immensely powerful since your ordinary intellect modifier to AOE doesn't work for consumables.

As the title says. I've always liked Boeroer's The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and I'd like to try a similar character in PoE 2. What class (or combination of classes) is best in a situation where I plan to use scrolls a lot? I found a very interesting topic about scroll modifiers, but very little about classes. From what I can see, it seems that - as strange as it may sound - Barbarian (Furyshaper?) is the best race/class in PoE 2 for this playstyle. As for attributes, the only really useful ones seem to be Dexterity (for quick scroll usage) and Intelligence (for longer frenzy). What do you think about this?

She touches on headlines in that, but probably shouldn't. Overreaction in all the reporting, Kharkiv offensive spelled doom for the world, now the Kursk one has completely turned the tide, etc. "It allows Kyiv to address its partners from a position of strength" made me chuckle a bit, as well. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/politics/russia-has-diverted-several-thousand-troops-from-occupied-ukraine-to-counter-kursk-offensive-us-officials-say/index.html If true, then at least less reserves in the south is an accomplishment. So far good progress, they dropped one of three bridges over the Seym river, Russians will have pull back behind it.

This in Foreign Affairs today: Ukraine on the Offensive: How Kyiv’s Attack on Russia—and Successful Defense of Its Northern Flank—Has Changed the War

Or just some penalty to engaged enemy. Like accuracy or recovery. I feel this is the thing that's not radical but keeps the tank theme. You get benefits when enemies naturally just don't disengage.

That's OK Bruce I wasn't really trying to start a new topic, I was just having a cheeky jab about your seemingly boundless enthusiasm for giving one of the worst human beings alive as much benefit of the doubt as you can possibly spare.

I didn't use a lot of scrolls in Deadfire so I don't know a lot about their workings by heart tbh. But first of all: including at least one class that gets the highest Arcana bonus might be good? The Wizard gets +2 from the start and with Chamaeleon's Touch it's +3. But if Shared Nightmares works with scrolls I'd also say a SC Cipher (for me it would be a Psion) should be great. Also Time Parasite and Reaping Knives might be awesome with scrolls. I mean those synergies won't click until the latest char levels - but you'll have a great caster character right away. The Barb's appeal is stuff like Frenzy (Blood Frenzy's DoT on crit?), Bloodlust, Blood Thirst (and maybe even the +25% dmg from Blooded), right? Furyshaper to get even higher scroll speed with the Frenzy Ward and later health drain with the Blood Ward? How about a Druid with Cat form? Should be able to cast scrolls very quickly, too. Advantage would be that it wouldn't require any lengthy setup. Just shift and activate cat flurry which is both instant casts without recovery. Can Shifters cast scrolls while shifted? I never tried... Does the PL bonus of Ancients (for beast spells) or Furies (for elements spells) work with fitting scrolls (do the scrolls like Avenging Storm for example carry the "elements" keyword?). Paladins' Eternal Devotion adds its burning lash to spells etc., I suspect it also adds it to damaging scrolls (never tried)? If so this would be very good. Should the lash from Blightheart, soulbound to a Wizard, also add to scrolls and not only Wizard spells I think a Paladin/Wizard would be excellent: high Arcana bonus, double lash on scroll dmg... cannot test bc. I am on vacation in Latvia. Do the elemental PEN abilities (Scion of Flame etc.) work with scrolls? If so all classes who have access to these abilities might be worth considering. Are there scrolls that do piece, crush or slash dmg? Because that might trigger Deep Wounds of the Rogue maybe? Speaking of Rogue: what about the Debonaire's 100% crit conversion against charmed enemies? Does it apply to scrolls? That would be great. Debonaire/Beguiler or -Psion or Debonaire/Chanter could mass-charm and then drop a friendly fire scroll that mostly would crit I guess? Does the Assassin get anything out of scrolls when he casts them from visibility/stealth? Lots of questions and little answers from me, sorry.

Watching Abba: In Concert (1979) in a live stream of our national public broadcaster. It being a somewhat strangely cut documentary style concert movie nonwithstanding, ABBA sure was a great group for mainstream music. Then again, back in the 70ies and 80ies mainstream music wasn't as awful as it is today. edit: they streamed (and, well, broadcast) a number of concerts today, including Bruce Springsteen and the Bee Gees. Pretty nice for running in the background.

how many years did paradox trying to make bloodline 2 maybe they will finally see reason and let obsidian make another wod game

I would love for Obsidian to do a Shadowrun game.

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is not a Russian specialty.

Obsidian CEO Would Love to Make a Shadowrun Game

*fiddle with 7 days .xml edits re: all kinds of things, make maps, play a map, say those edit changes turned out neat but bored of map/chr already, repeat process over and over* *explore planet's in No Man's Sky, build a few bases, explore more planets until I'm sick of looking at planets* <---this game needs more modding capability I could use a couple more chill games of this nature to stick in a rotation. I have yet to find any that peak my interest. By the time Light No Fire comes out I'll end up playing it, even if it's more of an online game than NMS, just because I'll want something similar. I'll just have to hope it's truly large enough that I can find isolated spots that no one has found yet, or no one wants to find. >.>

Why not make it isometric? That way it would be clearly something different from Bethesda and it's not-really-Fallout games Games like Pillars of Eternity, Phoenix Point, Weird West and Baldur's Gate 3 shows that you can make great isometric games and they're quite popular. Would be amazing if we could get real Fallout 1 and 2 feeling again

Apparently German authorities have issued an arrest warrant in the Nordstream bombings for a certain- and I swear I'm not making this up- "Volodymyr Z".

Don't think the NSA would bother when they have PSP (and IME for Intel; and Pluton on newer MBs for overkill) already. (I'm always mildly suspicious when what we're told are 'essential security features' for us are, for some mysterious reason, excluded from or disabled for products supplied to the US government...)

The best DC++ hubs are in Russia after all...

Why is there suddenly such detail information. Also... really curious that this happens now, while Ukraine is directly attacking Russia? Maybe it's just conspiracy brain, but the timing of the release of that information is kinda awkward.