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I always want a new PC. I just usually don't have even a fluffy excuse for it. I think it's going to be just like when I wanted to upgrade from the 980ti/i-920 5ish years ago (I think?) ... "now?" "No, don't really need it." and so on for some years.... I'm kind of hoping that Death Stranding 2 will be console-only for a year, so I'd have 2+ years before I'd really think about upgrading for it (if I "need" to). Maybe the 6090 will be almost out then, for only $3699, with triple digit vram! The more you buy, the more you save!

Well, atleast you've got nice weather and shrimps on the barbie?

Went to rehab today, dear mother of god I'm weak. I've got gym twice a week for a month now and several exercises to do at home. Also, got my sisters Aygo running after it's been sitting for 1.5 years, she'd left the handbrake on, and the chumps she first asked to take the car on a trailer to the mechanics didn't know what the **** they were doing and just tried to pull it loose. I got it rolling in about 15 minutes, then I got the seized generator rolling again and it chugged along for atleast 15 minutes without issues. Driving it to the bodywork shop tomorrow to fix the rust. Also, dear god I want a new GPU. **** nVidia for being cheapskates with VRAM, 10Gb ffs... Anyone that has 2-3k$ to send my way for a 5090 when they release? XD

Fine, ruin my gun runner fantasy. Work starts off great with some guy wondering why he has high latency connecting to NY from Dehli. I guess to resolve it I should send him info on immigration to NA.

I forgot that Priest of Skaen can use Finishing Blow. Not that it's a particulary great ability, but for a class combo which has zero other martial attack abilities otherwise, this Full Attack could indeed help to build focus faster.

True indeed, but if you are a Wael Priest you have many speed self buff, litanies and prayers usually are fast, you have some fast debuffs and with Wael's spells defense plus BDD + SoT you have plenty of time to cast average and slow spells as Minor Avatar, DftF and so on Arquebus is better but a dual wield pistol can do wonders as well. Even if mid-later game pistols are better, Eccea's Arcane Blaster especially Keeping in topic I agree is better a Priest of Wael / Psion as combo (more defenses while building focus), if you wanna go more aggressive and use an ascendant, then I'd take Skaen to enhance focus through defense debuffs early (Barbs of Condemnation, Divine Mark) then you'll get Finshing Blows and Minor Avatar, as Spiritual Weapon you have club which helps Cipher's spell with its modal and you have also some defensive spells (Escape, Shadowing Beyond). I think he could be also pretty funny

I personally would use Kitchen Stove (+Thunderous Report) for the initial focus boost and then I guess switch to the Red Hand. Reloading weapons have the benefit that you can always cancel the reloading process and cst right away after shooting. Cannot do that with recovery weapons. There's need for a backup weapon though against pierce-immune foes (like a rod maybe). Priest of Magran had the arquebus as favorite weapon in PoE1... Now has spiritual pistol+sword which is a sh!tty combo imo. If melee I would maybe use the Spiritual Weapon - because lashes generate focus and spiritual weapons have good lashes if your disposition is mananged properly. And then either dual-wield it with a similar weapon (for example Spiritual Flail + Sun & Moon if Priest of Eothas) or use a two-hander (e.g. spiritual greatsword in case of Berath).

IMO universalist is pretty hard to make truly synergistic; "more heals" is a bit overkill given how good of a healer druid already is. i had a build in these forums that made it like a "keeper" from wc3, but what might actually be more synergistic is to go wael + whatever and make it a flameblade or spiritshift build that uses wael magic for protection. i got great mileage from doing wizard + druid with flameblade and ring of focused flame doing essentially something similar. priest lacks as many fast self-buffs so you have more action economy issues (and no deleterious alacrity of motion), but it might still be pretty good.

I always liked how Obs handled diversity in Deadfire, i.e. they just put it there along with world building for it to make sense, no fanfares or shining a spotlight on it.

This WoW NPC is obviously on LinkedIn

Yeah, same for me with the EU server merger. I think half my characters lost their names.

Losing my character names when the Aussie servers were shut down and merged into the US ones was one of the big reasons I never bothered even trying to play the game again. And all that only to bring the servers back later...

While WotEP has the potential to passively restore your focus (using Offensive Parry), its main advantage is the ability to spread SA in AoE (which can become huge with all the rogue bonuses); its Run Through is also great for backstabs and refilling your focus instantly. Basically vs single enemies you should use Sun & Moon + Tuotilo's Palm, while vs multiple enemies you switch to WotEP. Later you can use replace Tuotilo's Palm with The Best Defense, add The Left Hand of the Obscured and have three sources of Terrify (which is just as good as Stun/Paralyze while also triggering occasional disengagement attacks). Other weapons worth using, depending on the situation, are Grave Calling (Chill Fog proc will replenish your focus continuously), Voidwheel (can instantly refill your focus when it procs and is great for backstabing enemies at the start of the fight using No Quarter from Rakhan Field Boots), Engoliero do Espirs can also heal and replenish your focus with its proc.