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had a real play session this weekend and i can't get over how significantly @Noqn personally has improved my quality of life. just effortless to use potions in fights now. what am i going to do with my "AI mode toggle" hotkey button now??

i will blame/credit BG3 for making me think about shoving pushing mechanics a lot more in Deadfire and where to take advantage of it, so yeah I also enjoy coming back to this kind of build even now, even if it's not super cheese-tastic. for example, my current run has an SC ancient, but uses tanglefoot and wicked briars in conjunction with xoti as monk and konstanten as skald (for the knock back incantation) to knock enemies around and slow them down. it's especially satisfying with the Tikawara rest bonus that lets your abilities interrupt on empower - for tanglefoot and wicked briars (as with all other pulse spells) this means interruption everytime the abilities trigger. can make some fights stupidly easy if you knock back tough enemies (or knock in ranged enemies) and they're constantly getting interrupted just trying to slowly get back into position.

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Yeah push is a lot more impactful than it seems at first glance, especially when you have another party member helping out with hobbles/immobilizes/knock downs (from Barb shout and such). I even find it cool with the Red Hand because I think with every other run I've ever did in this game (and I've done a lot of em) I've enchanted that to destroy vessels. But enchanting it to push instead has revealed that actually being able to double tap push enemies away from vulnerable party members is really quite nice. I've saved my backline a few times doing that. Sometimes all the push effects do is buy a few key seconds to activate an ability or pop a potion or get a spell off and the value of that can't be discounted either. And the old reliable sunbeam/insect plague combo is still as good as ever with this character. Animist gets some nice free spells.

@thelee with the classic loss aversion. 😉

Yes, some significant improvements over P:Km. And it's a very long game. So take your time and enjoy the ride. Relatedly but separately, have any of you done Owlcat's community survey? I think it is a very useful exercise: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P9XHP2L

Started on WoRT yesterday and I have so far just defeated Hosilla at the end of the Maze so its prologue chapter, very early days I feel its going to be an excellent game, so far some things I like I am going to completely customize my party, after playing P:K I am comfortable now with the rules to not use the auto-configuration when companions advance I have enabled the Crusader quests, I made a "mistake " by auto managing Kingdom advancement in P:K and I want to participate in all components in WoTR So far I like the overall main narrative, I am looking forward to meeting some hot Succubi I see there is an obvious good vs evil path you can choose and that is represented in different ways like which companions you can choose, as usual I will choose good and the Angel Mythic Path They have added some new mechanics like the way you disable traps and more advanced camera options. These seem to be improvements on P:K

food confession: if you eat a meal at our table and we had to microplane anything as part of a dish's preparation, there is at least a 50% chance you are getting a smidge o' Gromnir skin along with the traditional and expected ingredients. fair warning. HA! Good Fun!

It is a misunderstanding: it is not a 5% slash lash, but a 5% buff to any melee slash damage 🤷‍♂️

funny how puppet and proxy of usa can provoke and posture all they want but if anyone even raise their voice in response they are the aggressive one then when usa coup them it is actually a good thing since now they stop raising a fuss

No one said it was good. It is however better than, well, invading countries and getting a million people killed, training genocidal militia and getting a million people killed and the rest of the things France, Britain, the US and Russia have done. Some of them multiple times. No country accepts Taiwan as independent. It'd be like, well, Georgia deciding to invade reintegrate South Ossetia; except of course that would be an invasion because we like Taiwan and don't like China- and Taiwan makes rather a lot of computer stuff we really don't want China getting their hands on. In terms of actual invasions there's been one from China in the past 60 years which lasted six weeks and resulted in no occupation or similar. Which is just a tad better than those other countries mentioned. Though neither of those examples are exactly great since there are more than a few examples of the west kidnapping people. As well as extrajudicially blowing them up. And invading their countries, and murdering their citizens, then imprisoning the people who blow the whistle on that behaviour rather than the perpetrators. All depends on how you couch the terms of reference. When it comes right down to it most people only care about other people's governments when it effects them- or they're told to by the media. Hence, the use of 'internationally'. China's conduct towards certain ethnic minorities is without doubt genocide; though as we've continually seen recently genocide, torture, mass killing of protected classes like journalists and medics etc is not actually a bar to western support, if we like the perpetrator.

I think the west is very woke in that aspect. They've gone through the color chart.

Necroing this a bit but just wanna say I've been playing this on my Watcher (slightly different as I'm a Nature Godlike instead of Orlan as I imported from poe1 but otherwise the same build) and having a good time with it. The combination of push + entangle is surprisingly useful. I just did the Woedican Temple which is normally a pain in the butt fighting that mass of humanity in there but with the combination of push + entangle I was able to buy myself time to get buffs up and get Eder into a good enough position to start soaking up a bunch of engagements on the enemy. I especially like pushing enemies and then having Xoti hit them with a halt when they try to come back into range or have Serafen knock them down with his shouts. And against enemies where that tactic is less useful sunbeam tends to do a lot of work, or blights, or healing. Spreading Plague also helps quite a bit to enable other effects for the party. This character is also great at protecting the backline. You can sit back there with the Red Hand pushing enemies away that try to target your backline and if the enemy is being really annoying you can just swap to shield and engage them and let them try to beat on you for a bit. You're tanky enough that they won't really be able to take you down. I've had a lot of success just bullying enemies that try to troll my backline. The build is tanky enough to ruin the day of any flankers that try to do that - especially with its push effects. But even if the pushes fail it has fallback options and can tank. Anyways not super far with this yet (level...10ish I'd say?) but it's pretty fun so far! Kudos on a good build. I've done other Druid multiclasses before but never done a Fighter variant

Always kind of amused by this sort of thing. It's truly shocking that China is an enemy to the west if, and only if, the west isn't an enemy to China. Which by any objective measure it quite clearly is. This sort of thing is entirely reciprocal but you're supposed to think that anything They do is wanton aggression, while us doing the same thing is purely defensive. Ever so very slightly Orwellian. Anyone paying attention knows that the west and the US specifically has been sending black boxed systems to China (and everyone else) for literal decades. That's tremendous- everyone says it's tremendous, people stop me on the street to say it- for our security, not so much for theirs. Well, it's tremendous for us so long as our interests coincide with US ones, and the US is a rational player, and has a rational President, and doesn't put its economic precedence first and only and, uh, yeah. By any objective measure China has been by far the best behaved of the major powers internationally. That just isn't saying much, considering how badly the other four permanent members of the UNSC have behaved.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer Biden diagnosed with cancer, spread to his bones, apparently. His family sure has gone through a wringer. Wonder how long before Trump comes up with some jokes about this.