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In the days of yore there was no income tax in the US, but tariffs were levied and financed the federal government. Several attempts of introducing an income tax and the SCOTUS striking much of it down eventually led to the 16th amendment, giving congress the constitutional right to set income taxes without apportionment to the states. The amendment was ratified because Republicans and Democracts alike were of the opinion that tariffs unduly affected people with lower incomes, something a progressive income tax would not. The politicians of yore knew what the current Republican Administration apparently forgot: who actually pays for tariffs.

Arcane Archer/Ascendant is a good pick if you want to concentrate more on the shooting and less on casting spells: the soul whip damage is 10% less while not ascended, but increased while Ascended and soul whip doesn't turn off. This combo can use Spearcaster (+modal) to great effect vs. single tough targets for perma-prone. It profits from Arcana directly (which Arcane Archer wants to raise anyway) and gains great accuracy that way - and it proftis twice from Arcana if you use the Arcane Archer's imbued shots with it. And then this multiclass can use Frostseeker against mobs. Frostseeker has the added benefit that it counts as elemental attack (no acc malus for Arcane Archer with auto-attacks) and generates focus superquickly against mobs (because the AoE that procs on crits also generates focus). I played an SC Psion with a special attention to Puppet Master some time ago - and she was very impactful (SC leads to 2 more focus per second due to higher Power Levels). I'm sure Ydwin can also be nice as SC with a good setup even though she has to harvest focus the conventional way. SC Ciphers can use Shared Nightmare which is pretty bonkers with any AoE weapons (except Wahai Poraga which doesn't scale its AoE size with and Keeper of the Flame bc. the AoE doesn't generate focus) and in combination with Reaping Knives on a party member. You'll have lots of focus quickly and then a huge AoE for your spells. Ydwin as Cipher/Rogue can generate focus more quickly, but then advances more slowly through the Power Levels (later access to abilities) and misses out on Time Parasite, Reaping Knives and Shared Nightmare of course. But as a ranged "low maintenance" party member the Cipher/Rogue works better I guess.

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I didn't try it out but it could. I don't know if there's an internal cap somewhere, but with a mortar I had often numbers around +300% in the combat log iirc. It isn't that obvious then because the individual hits of a mortar have low base damage. But how would you stop the crit chain so that the game doesn't crash? With 100% hit-to-crit conversion that seems hard to do. Maybe only use it when Guile is low... PS: tried to test it, only had 3 Guile at the moment I used Gambit - game crashed. Lol.

Very hard to manage. In this particular case, it is almost impossible to achieve Huana and RDC faction quests without one ot the companions leave the party (or both). Arcane Archer is a powerful subclass, I don't know which Cipher subclass is better with a ranger, since Arcane Archer is basically a damage dealer I'd avoid Psion and would go on Soul Blade and Ascendant... but wait for Boeroer and other for synergies and so on. Also Sharpshooter is a good ranger subclass by the way. Ydwin is a nice character, i think she deserve a run and Cipher/Rogue can fulfill the same role of a Cipher/Ranger (and cover also others).

---actual mod kit tied to Epic Games >.> I'm not clear if mods only appear in a CurseForge attached menu while actually in-game or if you can download mods from website pages (or Steam workshop re: Steam), also. ---not clear if mods you make are you-usable without uploading them to CurseForge/whatever first, or if that's only if you want to share them ---only thing that might interest me is other's dungeon/level/gameplay mods, if anyone makes any worth trying. Don't care about costumes/skins or making your broom or flying mount look like a cat. ---I guess it's something tho.

I didn't know Divine Retribution proc'ed on summons' death. Seems quite effective indeed considering the healing potential of a dual wielding KWF. Quite a late game thing but definitely cool Also for the ranger option I was thinking about Maia but I dont know if you can have Tekehu + Maia in the grp for all the DLCs etc (can't properly remember when some choices have to be done ie: if it's viable to have 2 different "faction" companions in your party for the long run). If I chose to recruit a Cipher/Ranger what subclasses would you advice ? (I cant tell what is highest-maintenance between Ascendant and Beguiler, one is doing Soulwhip Damage all the time but has those Ascended "phases" i'll have to manage, the other is gonna stop soul whiping when full focus... idk ). Maybe i'll pick a full Cipher (Psion ? Beguiler ?)... Maybe Ydwin, never played with her. We'll see. I'll prob start my run tonight ! I'll come back when I need advices and to let you know how it goes Cant thank you enough for all this insight

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

It appears to be back. Disregard.

cough, gamepass, cough