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more gun than any other nation yet no one can hit one big slow orange target pathetic

Then for sure double down on Shock talents and lashes. Lightnings a good theme for a charging boar too. You mentioned two weapon fight earlier but take care not to pick it for Deadfire as none of the talents effect the shifted weapons. So a storm beastmaster can go two-handed for the Voulge and Frostseeker/Firebrand. Nature Terror's is going to terrify your own Boar too just to keep in mind as a Stalker.

A pure DoT (with no direct damage component - for example Disintegrate) will profit from Takedown Combo without removing it! It is actually the best combo. Or if the direct damage attack roll has already happened and a DoT remains (Touch of Rot, Necrotic Lance, Barrel Axes Bleeding Cuts, Gouging Strike etc.). I believe stuff like Insect Swarm, Plague of Insects and Infestation of Maggots also work like Disintegrate in that regard. So... if an enemy has a lot of DoTs on them already, Takedown Combo will boost all their damage per tick by 100%. Pulsing spells would only profit from Takedown Combo with their first pulse (first attack roll) and then immediately remove the Takedowns Combo effect, making them the worst choice.

Not relevant for OP but does Focused Flame do anything for the fire aoe's for Wildstrike Frenzy (Burn) upgrade on single class? Druids biggest draw for me is versatility so I like to pick the Wildstrike to cover whatever element I'm going weakest in spells with, more so on Shifters as you arent spellcasting then. For OP, that would be Corrode or Burn? Shifter only gets Nature's Terror as a free elemental spell. Vatnir can cover all your Frost and Fassina's good for Corrode. It's not a real concern but burn strike does run into immune enemies from time to time and you cant turn off a wildstrike lash. With two potential chanters in the squad, fire lash is covered too As part Ranger, you can get some use out of Blightheart too, if you're not inclined to give it to Fassina. Konstantine as Skald shouldn't get it imo. You put Shifter as Unchangeable trait but 8 Con and 8 Res might hold back the shifting part, even with spiritshift hides. Your high Mig improves all your healing output too but your defensive attributes isn't taking advantage of that. To be honest, from the post focusing on the Boar form more and your spell selection preference on top of two potential Chanters, maybe you could be convinced to go Ancient? As an Ancient, you still have acces to Boar form, you get Form of Delemgam and Garden of Life for free and both get bonus PL from Ancient and Spine and both are higher level freebies freeing up choices in good PL tiers/investing in the Boar companion. Insect Plague is also boosted and Wild Growth lets you have fun with Fassina/Konstantine chanter summons.

In theory, yes. But realistically, you need to pick all active abilities and no passives for it to become an issue. For example, here is a screenshot of Swashbuckler Eder when you pick all 19 active skills. Though I'm sure there are some builds that have more keys than a piano. 🙂 Also, I left the main active ability lovers (spellcasters) unchanged, because I found it far more convenient when spells are organized by levels, like in vanilla. P.S. I'm experimenting with moving part of ability bar to a second row (a new row above, where usually hotkeys are), but I don't like how it looks so far. Maybe I'll just move the buttons for AI, weapon swap, and items belt there, to make the first row a bit shorter.

There is a big difference between Monk's and Cipher's resource mechanic: the Monk doesn't have to use any action time in order to gain wounds - he just turns the (inevitable) damage he receives into wounds. So he doesn't have to pause what he's doing in order to gain wounds, it happens at the same time he is active with other stuff. The Cipher has to stop casting spells in order to deal weapon damage. Here the action economy is way worse. You cannot harvest your resorce on the fly, you must either spend action time harvesting resources xor use action time spending them. Op top of that the Cipher's resource harvesting is extremely reliant on the defenses and DR of the enemy: weak enemies = easy focus gain. Tough enemies = hard focus gain. And in which fights do you actually want to have a lot of focus because they are harder? Right, the fights against tough foes. This is why Ciphers - to me - feel phenomenal againt weak mobs (or in general at lower difficulty settings where good hit quality is easier to achieve) and pretty much suck (imo) against tough foes (especially on PotD difficulty). There are ways around it: Reaping Knives for example shifts the necessity to deal weapon damage to another party member (who wants to use melee attacks most of times anyways) so you can cast non-stop basically. But it's a late game ability. There used to be a very potent way to harvest focus "passively" like a Monk basically: using Retaliation items/abilities. They made it so that you could automatically relatiate with a bit of pierce and/or burn damage which in turn generated focus for you. This decoupled the harvesting of focus from your own weapon attacks and allowed you to gain focus while castig and basically tanking attacks. I made a build anout this, called the Backlash Beldam. It was very powerful and so Obsidian nerfed the mechanic so that Retaltion effects no longer generated focus. Because I play on PoTD this is a constant bother for me with Ciphers in PoE1. I don't need their bombastic performances during easy filler fights - and I'm frustrated with their lackluster performance in difficult fights. With Deadfire it's a bit different because there's the Beguiler and the Psion subclasses who both don't need to deal weapon damage in order to gain focus. But many players don't play on PotD so they will have a lot of fun with Ciphers in all fights and that's cool.

Nope, it does not. Wikdstrike Burn doesn't add a fire/burn tag to your melee attacks. If you were a Druid/Paladin and used Flames of Devotion + Wildstrike Burn it would be beneficial to use the Ring of Focused Flames bc. Flames of Devotion is tagged as fire attack which would profit from the Ring and Scion of Flame. As a Boar Druid/Stalker you can pick Wildstrike Shock and Heart of the Storm (for the lash PEN and also the several shocking storm spells). As a Stalker I would assume that Stalker's Patience is a must-have weapon? ;) Takedown Combo + Sunlance is very good against single enemies with a lot of health btw. Shifter Boar form has an extremely long woundig DoT (same as the whole Spiritshift duration) and thus deals very high woundig damage. It also unlocks Predator's Sense. It stacks with Taste of the Hunt for a quite impressive multi-DoT attack. So I wouldn't sleep on Taste of the Hunt. When not shifted: it also stacks with Stalker's Patience's DoT (which unlike the Boar woundig doesn't stack with itself though). If you tend to be away from allies a bit then Nature's Terror is a good spell as well. I don't see any glaring action economy issues.

Sorry for necroposting, but I stumbled upon this thread while searching for such mod. I found nothing, so I decided to make it myself. I published it on Nexus, here: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/852 I hope it will help someone who is tired of making one extra click, like me. 😂

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Hello again. If you want to play with the official companions then the Druid (Hiravias) will be a Cat build. But that's okay since it's also a great spiritshift form. If you want to use Spiritshift more than once per encounter,out should give him the soulbound scepter Gyrd Háewanes Sténes because it allows the Druid to regain one use of Spiritshift per encounter. Wildstrike Shock, Greater Wildstrike Shock, Weapon Focus Peasant, Two Weapon Style, Outlander's Frenzy (activate shortly before shifting), Heart of the Storm, Savage Attack, Apprentice's Sneak Attack. Will rip through everything while shifted... Get the Wildstrike Belt asap, it's extremely good. A main character like the Monksterlasher would profit from a Chanter build for Kana Rua that eventually uses Aefyllath Ues Mith Fyr as main phrase in a chant (and a short one like the +1 Movement/+10 reflex phrase from level 1 that Kana Rua automatically has). The +25% burning lash from it stacks with the rest of the Monksterlasher's lashes and also gets boosted by Scion of Flame. In the early game you should only run short phrases in order to be able to summon the Phantom (pick that invocation up despite Kana already having skeletons - the phantom is way better and can save whole fights that somehow went downhill in the early game - it's that strong). Also pick up Ancient Memory and Beloved Spirits asap. Since a support Chanter like that doesn't need attack speed you can give him a shield (a small one will do so your accuracy won't suffer) and thick armor and use him as offtank. If you don't have a Paladin then giving him Gallant's Focus is a good idea to boost your whole party's accuracy on the fly. The Wizard Aloth is good as a Blaster Wizard because he's a Wood Elf (and gets distant advante as racial ability). Use implements and pick up Blast + Penetrating Blast and fitting talents (fitting Weapon Focus, Marksman, Dangerous Implements) and summon Kalakoth's Minor Blights in tougher fights (it's an AoE weapon and all AoE hits will proc AoE Blasts, leading to absurd dmg if enemies stand near to each other). Late in the game try to pick up Llengrath's Blunt Wisdom (unique weapon summon spell) because it's extremely good. For filler fights it's nice to get a wand/scepter/rod that does something on hit/crit. Because those effects also proc off the Blast AoE. Something like Golden Gaze, Curoc's Brand and the Rod of Pale Shades (my favorite) are nice. In tougher fights it's best to summon Kalakoth's Minor Blights and later Llengrath's Blunt Wisdom. For the Priest (Durance) I almost always give him Inspiring Radiance first, then Inspired Flame (a talent that gives him +10 accuracy with arquebus and sword) because you will get a very early arquebus from Kana Rua and a well aimed arquebus **** here and there can make some difference in the early game. Then I pick Interdiction and Painful Interdiction because it's awesome to have some castings that you can use in very encounter. Then Weapons Focus Soldier (arquebus +6 accuracy) and then Marksman and Gunner. The main focus is still to support and buff the party, but sometimes you want to spare spells and then it's cool to be able to shoot around with some proper impact. For melee you can use Forgemaster Gloves or the Belt of the Royal Deadfire Cannoneer and then summon Firebrand if melee enemies bother you. It does lots of damage per hit and it works with Inspired Flame (+10 accuracy) and Weapon Focus Soldier (+6 accuracy) so you will be pretty good with it. And it's a flaming great sword which fits a priest of Magran very well. You don't need additional talents for it. For Eder I like dual sabres (Sabre of the Seas asap, it's awesome) and Plate Armor, Knockdown, Bonus Knockdown, Weapon Focus Ruffian, Two Weapon Style, Disciplined Barrage, Armored Grace and later Charge. It much more fun than building him into a sword & board tank and the Knockdowns are very impactful in the early to mid game (and still good later on but then there will be a lot more options for disabling enemies so it doesn't stand out anymore). I usually end up giving him Sanguine Plate (because Frenzy + Armored Grace + dual wielding + two weapon style makes him pretty damn fast while being sturdy). I add a Blunting Belt and Shod-in-Faith boots for plenty of DR and healing. I don't fancy Ciphers much so I don't have any glaring recommendations. Usually a war bow Cipher is a very solid approach though. Make sure to give the following (relatively) early items to your party (whom they fit best) because they have a big impact early in the game: Shod in Faith Boots: proc 2/encounter if you get crit and grant great passive healing and that spares you a lot of healing spells. Give it to a front liner who gets attacked a lot. Rotfinger Gloves: the Touch of Rot spell on them is vastly(!) better than the spell from the Druid that has the same name. It is foe only and has a huge(!) AoE size. Can turn fights easily. Doesn't work against poison/disease immune enemies like vessels and spirits. I like to give it to Kana Rua because he has decent Might and Intellect which both boost the spell effect. Also chanters don't have much to do until their invocations are ready so your casting of Tough of Rot won't interfere with other actions much. Azureith's Stiletto: I give it to Edér early on together with the Sabre ofcthe seas. He has enormous accuracy with Disciplined Barrage and the help of Durance's Inspiring Radiance. The Jolting Touch this stiletto procs on crit does very high damage for the early game and makes many fights much easier because usually enemies hit by it die (if not right away then soon) Wildstrike Belt: it lifts the Druid's spiritshift damage a lot because it adds 10 points to both(!) Wildstrike lashes: Wildstrike goes up from 30% to 40% and Greater Wildstrike goes up from 15% to 25%. Combine with Heart of the Storm and they go up even further to 48% and 30% which is great. One talent I find extremely useful in the early game (and which stays useful later) is Aspirant's Mark. It gives you a weaker for of Nature's Mark, but in every encounter. In combination with Inspiring Radiance from the Priest you can shift the ratio of your accuracy vs. enemies' defenses a lot in every encounter. Cast Radiance first and then Aspirant's Mark and you party's accuracy is raised by 10 while the enemies deflection and reflex is lowered by 8. That's an 18 point swing in a matter of seconds. 18 points is the accuracy-equivalent of 6 character levels(!) and you can do it in every fight. Again: I like to give it to the Chanter most of times because chanters don't have mich to do otherwise until their phrase points accumulate for an invocation. Cheers!

Thought about eating Okku again. Anyone who managed to run nwn2 on current linux? Neither steam nor lutris worked for me. I'm on SuSE Tumbleweed.

The tiles burst the Tuesday before last. Luckily, even though here it was the orthodox Easter week, I got a couple of contractors to help me strip the damaged part of the floor and pour a layer of concrete. Once dry I painted it white, then added colours to have some orientation. I then threw forks down and sprayed outlines. And spend a couple of days painting faces for the cats from morning 'till way after midnight. Then spread a few hundred actual wooden forks painted as cats over it. The floor hasn't hardened yet, so all I got is a peak of the shiny new floor. I am leaving it overnight and am going to shine it tomorrow then varnish it to protect it from sunlight.

Kassandra went out, through the cat flap, into the garden. Yannis also wanted to go out. I heard him pawing at the flap. So I looked. It was locked from the outside. He was staring out through the closed door and Kassandra was lounging outside looking back at him... I think Kassandra has learned to use the locks.