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So.. my race on my watcher is Spirit. I definitely picked Ocean Folk. Is there something going on? I'm in the starting cave after shipwrecking after starting a new campaign on PoTD for 5.0 turn based mode.

Awesome thank you !

The Devoted Assassin works very well, evidenced by sin tee's video on YouTube during the beta. Since then they have received a bit of a nerf to Bleak Walker's Flames of Devotion and one of the Rogue passives (Backstab or Assassinate, I forget which). As long as you aren't playing solo on PotD, you'll wreck face with those from stealth/invisibility FoD's. Can't speak to the monks, I know single class monk is godlike right now but I never liked them as a concept so I've not looked in to them.

I didn't check if cleaving stance was a full attack, I'm just going by what is in the description says(nothing specifically about it that I can see, I haven't picked it up yet). I'm sure you're right about that. There are a few other abilities that I'm curious about, but I'll have to bring them up in another post. Thanks for the build tip, that sounds wicked.

I'm curious, since in PoE1 dual weapons were king of DPS, do the various passives and stances make two handers more useful? I'm thinking of things like Paladin's Retribution passive (gain damage % on next swing after getting hit), Cleaving Stance (bigger damage on the secondary attack after a kill), etc. Big nasties in heavy armor don't feel the same if they've got to run with a couple of dinky weapons rather than a big old bastard.

This sounds pretty interesting. I didn't think Priest had many decent damage spells. Might try this myself

My release day ritual tends to be: 1) Finish download. 2) Clean desk immaculately. 3) Create a character and putter around. 4) Repeat step 3 up to ten more times. 5) Sleep on it, come back next day 6) Start my "real" character 7) Play the first 5-10 hours and then repeat step 5. Play the "real real" character and finish it in about 3x more the hours that are suggested on the box cover. (First play is on Veteran level so I don't have to powergame it, good tactics are typically enough) It's my way of artificially extending the game and getting enjoyment out of it before I finish my first playthrough. Once I do finish that first playthrough, I start to powergame and then it becomes a different type of game to me, still fun, but more mechanically oriented. I may even attempt the Triple Crown Solo this game. Ocean Folk Bleak Walker/Black Jacket with a sweet pirate hat, a sweet brace of pistols, a sweet sabre/parrying dagger, and the sweetest moustache.

After further review I've decided to go Bleak Walker/Black Jacket. Two sets of dual wielded pistols and then get down and dirty with a Sabre/Dagger.

Bleak Walker Paladin with melee / pistol. And a fancy pirate hat. As for multi-class - I still haven't decided yet.

Wah. Guess my idea of a sabre/pistol wielding Bleak Walker is off in a puff of non-existent black powder smoke because I won't be using it.

There better be a cool greatsword! And yeah, you're right I did notice that effect with Mage Slayer and Frenzy. Boo.

What do you guys think of Bleak Walker/Barbarian (Mage Slayer?) with a two handed sword? How would this compare to a fighter? I assume that fighters would be more sturdy, but barbarians would have some more fun active abilities. Any thoughts on this? (This is my second thought if pistol/sabre dual wielded won't work out) If someone could throw me a quick and dirty build up to level 8 or so that would be even more awesome. I'm trying to get a handle on the mechanics of the game and how multiclassing would synergize, but I don't know how stuff works; i.e. how much accuracy is too much accuracy? How much you can ignore attack speed in favor of slow hard hitting attacks?

I apologize if this was already mentioned, I don't have time to skim through to see if it was already. When dual wielding a melee weapon and a gun: If you fire a shot from your gun and then move to melee range in order to swing your sword, you will stand next to the foe and reload your gun before you swing the blade. Seems counter intuitive to this style of fighting and makes it rather useless compared to using a gun in one slot and a melee weapon in another.

They might have pistols and melee itemized for working with each other well. Stat them differently than standard melee + pistol. Such as a sword that reduces your gun reload by quite a bit, and a gun that causes an enemy to be weak to melee attacks. (quick and dirty way to do it, I hope they don't have to do something like this. Be better to just make dual melee/gun work properly)

Pistol/Sabre was utilized by cavalry in the American Civil War (among others), though I doubt it was "dual wielded" for more often than a few moments. It very well could have been with the invention of repeating pistols. Josh spoke about it on the last stream. As long as the bug is removed that makes you reload your pistol after moving in to melee rather than swing away with melee, it'll work well enough.

I'll do some extensive testing and reply here when I have. I'm also extremely interested in making melee/pistol work the best I can. My initial thought is something like Paladin/Rogue where you take your shots with the pistol and Flames of Devotion, then stealth up, wade in and make use of your disabling attacks from melee.

In my experience if you fire a shot from your pistol at an enemy and then move up to melee range, after recovery you will reload your pistol rather than start hacking away with your sword. That said I've had a hard time getting any information from folks here beyond what was stated above. It just seems inferior to using a sword in one weapon slot and a gun in the other one. I'm just hoping it hasn't been tested all that bunch to find out how to really make it work. (I don't have the time personally to delve in to it)

Bleak Walkers have nothing in their creed that states they are evil. Let's pretend the Dyrwood gets inVaded by Readceras armies seeking vengeance for killing Waidwen. Duc Aevar, not wanting a traditional war that could cost many lives of his soldiers and farmers over a long period of time, sends the Bleak Walkers to ambush and crush the Readceras vanguard and hopefully get them to change their mind. The BW are horrifically brutal and execute them to a man, stopping the invasion there and preventing many innocent deaths. I wouldn't consider their actions evil unless the intent behind their deployment was also evil.

I Def don't see bleak walkers as dark. Cruelty can be kind in war...

I don't know the math but I do know that having too much deflection or resistance wasn't ideal in PoE1. You'd rather have some utility or damage once you hit those deflection/resistance break points. I suspect someone else here could help with the maths. I'm hoping that if your attributes are decent and at least one half of your multiclass is tank oriented, you'll be able to protect yourself and your party reasonably well as well as bring something else to the table. The reduction to 5 party members might make a pure indestructible tank not worth it. Then again he has to protect fewer people, so it might work out? A little off topic but I still want to go Bleak Walker that uses a sword with pistol offhand. Anyone know if this still works really janky or if it's just straight inferior to putting your guns in a different weapon slot? What about Magran's summoned weapons, is there a place for that in PotD? (Also I want to spiritshift in to a sh*t blossom)

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Deprive the Unworthy does that for Paladins, no?

Love the Eothasian Priest idea. I may actually do that if the Paladin/Priest of Magran summoned weapon is still janky

Biggest issue I see right now with Priest of Magran and it's summoned weapons is that say you fire a shot and then move in to melee, you'll stand there reloading your gun next to the enemy before you swing your weapon. If this isn't fixed, that's gonna make sword/pistol pretty darn weak since the only value it has is it's versatility.

Scion of Flame always improved it in PoE1. Is there even a Scion of Flame in Deadfire? Haven't looked yet. I though they took out many of the "generalist" skills. I know some are still in though