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Unless you live near a MicroCenter, which is U.S.-only. That's basically the only reliable way to get your hands on one right now.

^Just fyi, weve had a couple Iron Dome batteries since 2020: Why it’s time for the US Army to divest Iron Dome - Breaking Defense The Army doesnt want them and I think theyve been returned to Israel: US Army sending Iron Dome batteries back to Israel - Breaking Defense

https://streamable.com/swzeiw Some combat footage with only the fight sounds. Looks great, especially for a first person RPG.

No, he's still looking for that critical race theory curriculum.

I don't know. Depends on the enemies. Against mobs some AoE spells are surely more effective in terms of overall dps. But is dps a useful metric in a solo run in the first place? The Assassin/Tactician gets +25 accuracy for his attacks from Assassinate (the damage bonuses don't really matter that much - Kaylin even states that Deathblows isn't worth the trouble - but they are a nice addon of course) which stacks with Aware/Intuitive and the arquebus' modal (+20 acc). In Kaylon's case where he uses Dragon's Dowry (which does fire-tagged attacks) you could even add the Ring of Focused Flames for additional +10 acc and the Ring of the Marksman (+5 acc) and Helm of the White Void (+10 acc if Rogue strike ability) or Acina's Tricorn (+5 acc) which is all very efficient in order to take on enemies with high defenses (bosses, buffed up enemies or simply overleveled encounters). The overall acc bonus adds up to +70 or +75 after a while. It doesn't really matter if it takes a bit longer than casting spells imo - since you cannot get attacked anyway - so there's no need to kill multiple enemies asap in one go (other than getting bored, heh). It's also a lot easier to play. But It may be that it's more fun to abuse this mechanic with a Priest of Skaen or a Wizard instead of an Assassin. There's more variety and versatility for sure. Now that I said that: a whole party of vanishers (Rogues, Wizards, Priest of Skaen) mixed with one or more Tacticians could be really fun to use with this mechanic. Even SC Monk (Whispers of the Wind) as well as normal Priests (Withdraw counts as invisibility) could work at some point. As soon as all party members are invisible the Tactician(s) in the party would all become brilliant. Hm, hm, hm... 🤔 😄

You funny Lexx surly that is normal market behavior nothing strange there.

Wizard has arkemyrs brilliant departure. I know about the ultimate but I saw no build posted here. Just kaylons assassin. I was just saying how skaen and wizard invisibility replenishes as soon as brilliant triggers. We can use offensive spells as long as they do damage instantly. Like minolettas precisely piercing burst or torrent of flame. Wizard is better than priest for that. And bloodmage is unreliable but getting your spell back is guaranteed even for high level spells if you have brilliant. Instead of waiting 6 seconds for smoke veil, and then shooting with arquebus a wizard or skaenite can cast an offensive spell. A real crowd pleaser like piercing burst. Repeatedly.

https://crypto.news/official-trump-meme-coin-price-crashes-as-whales-dump/ "Official Trump meme coin price crashes as whales dump" Oh no, I bet this is the evil workings of the Dems. 🤬 At least we still have $Melania coin.

Paywalled, but still: Trump’s Oil and Gas Donors Don’t Really Want to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Energy companies don't want a repeat of a price collapse by flooding the market? Who woulda thunk. So, let's see. Egg prices are on a record high, farmers' illegal work force is a no show in certain areas, Mexican and Canadian steelmakers refuse new orders from US companies and energy prices aren't coming down any time soon either, by the looks of it. But at least there's only two genders now, and the Gulf of Mexico is now called Gulf of America, but only in the US. The US won bigly so far, I hope to able to watch them win even biglier once Trump actually makes good on his tariffs (although for some reason there already seems to be some waffling on the promised tariffs for China).

Also, on a lighter note - it's not an actual song/music, but it did make me smile.

Btw.: I didn't test this but Brilliant Tactician should also trigger if you can charm or dominate all enemies. The faulty logic is: if there are no enemies, then zero enemies are NOT flanked -> must mean all enemies are flanked -> become brilliant. This might also trigger as soon as all enemies are friendly. But as I said I didn't try it out.

It's pretty amazing how consistent that 25-30% is. 25-30% more shaders, 25-30% more die space, 25-30% more wattage, 25-30% more performance. The only thing that is outside that is (as noted) the +70% theoretical on the memory. That very much looks like a near zero improvement on most like to like bases.

Hi, I'm sorry to hear that you lost your job. I'm also sorry to hear that you encounterd that situation with your party members. It never happened to me (on PC) during thousands of hours of playtime and I also didn't really read about that problem (or maybe I did and forgot about it) - so I'm not sure how to solve this. But I can understand your frustration. Unfortunately the console versions of the game are more buggy than the PC version is. Originally the Pillars game were done for PC exclusively. Only later the publisher (not Obsidian) decided to port the Pillars games to consoles and hired different devs for that task. On PC I could at least give you some console commands to try to fix this, but iirc the X-Box-Version of the game has no in-game console for typing in commands. The game is old though - so if you read about ways how to solve this issue they might still work, no matter if they are 10 years old. The game hasn't changed in the past years - so what worked then might still work now. Maybe it's also a good idea to search in the Paradox forums (they are the ones responsible for the port): https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/pillars-of-eternity-console.989/ But I wonder: don't you maybe have some save game from before this happened? I mean it sure is annoying to have to replay parts of the game - but better than not being able to fix the issue at all I assume. Sorry that I cannot be of more help. But I thought I'd answer anyway just to bump the thread.

How: Illusionist +2, Eye of Wael +2, Whitewitch Mask +1

Why/how +5? Anyway, I'm for extremist so a MC Trickster/Illusionist with plenty of defensive spells/abilities from these 2 subclass and the single damage skills of rouge plus some other enhanced illusion spells such as Gaze of the Adragan and... do you know that Concelhaut Crushing Doom is illusion, don't you? Also good self-defending debuffer 🙂 Not for a SOLO run, but I guess a good mate in a party.

Unfortunately Farcasting does not extend the range of summoning spells. Maybe there are a few summining spells that are implemented differently and which do get extended by Farcasting, but the ones I tried with it in the past (all Druid and Chanter summons, Monk & Priest) did not work with it. Summoning spells have a variaty of ranges, Chanter summons usually have a range of 8m, Lashing Vine (Druid, Gaun) even has 10m. Most Druid summons have 6 and so on.

That is correct. Maybe... in this case because it is so easy to trigger Heating Up at will. On the other hand Assassin also applies to the first cast from stealth - that alone can already turn the tides for you. I think it really depends on what you want to do with your Spellblade. If you want somebody who deals great weapon damage and doesn't want to bother with stealth and invisibility too much then I'd pick Streetfighter. Assassin needs more planning and setup imo. Bloodmage/Soulblade can be very powerful in combination with Citzal's Spirit Lance and Wall of Draining. You can keep all the great buffs (and healing over time) for a long, long time with Wall of Draining (including the +10 max focus on kill the Soulblade gets). Spirit Lance applies raw damage of Soul Annihilation to all enemies in the AoE (not the full number though, that's only for the initial target - still every enemy gets some and that's very good). And of course you have two resource pools that are potentially limitless and lots of great spells to pick from: very versatile combo. Psion is great for pure casters, it's not good for melee characters. I think SC Trickster is pretty cool. Gambit with enough Guile (Devil of Caroc Breastplate adds +2 Guile) has over 100% crit conversion and with any dual wielding setup (includes Tuotilo's Palm) you can use it many times - because the 4 refund is almost guaranteed (if you don't miss or graze). Combined with Wall of Flashing Steel (+10 deflection on crit - that's almost always with Gambit), some deflection gear such as Gipon Prudensco, Casita Samelia's Legacy (maxed Intimidate) or Nomad's Brigandine and Bracers and Cloak of Greater Deflection, also Mirrored Images or Llengrath's Displaced Image as well as Riposte you will have a very sturdy Rogue who still dishes out crazy single target damage with Gambit. And if Guile starts dropping so that Gambit isn't refunding reliably anymore you can use the remaining Guile for hefty spells such as Kalakoth's Freezing Rake. I think that is one of my best liked SC Rogues because you don't have to worry about dropping dead and can still be a deadly Rogue (with spells).

Lag, rubberbanding and massive update problems. 'tis the season again, the 7th this time, and Blizzard still has no handle on how to launch a season without the game croaking. Guess it really is that broken under the hood. Sheesh.

Ok, the minimum value of PER needed to get ALL the traps and hidden items is...

Not normally a fan of “reaction” channels, but I do regularly watch one called ‘The Charismatic Voice’

One might suspect it is driven by a long history of US intervention in Latin America. For example, we did support the secession movement that led to the separation of Panama from Columbia in 1903 (in order to build the Panama Canal).