[Dual Mortar Monk Build]

Hi all, I decided to post my build after reading through various threads. The information provided by @Boeroer was especially helpful!

 

Dual Mortar Monk

 

Blessings: +2 Attributes/+2 Skills/5000 Starting Gold/Possibly Fine Equipment

 

Race: Human

 

Class: Vanilla Monk (I tried Helwalker initially but was too squishy for my taste)

 

Faction: Principi

 

Culture/Background: Old Vailia/Merchant

 

Skill Focus:  Athletics & Stealth (Active)/Metaphysics & Diplomacy (Passives)

 

Party: Eder (Kind Wayfarer) Main Tank - Althletics and Metaphysics, Serafen (Soulblade/Barb) Off Tank Willbreaker - Athletics and History/Survival, Maia (Scout) Mechanics/Explosive and Metaphysics, Tekehu (Druid) Alchemy and Arcana/Insight

 

Base Stats 

 

12 Might

10 Constitution

18 Dexterity

18 Perception

16 Intellect

6 Resolve

 

Abilities:

 

PL I - Lesser Wounds, Swift Strikes

 

PL II - Dance of Death, Long Stride, Two Weapon Style

 

PL III - Lightning Strikes, Stunning Blow, Soul Mirror, Combat Focus, Bear's Fortitude

 

PL IV - Duality of Mortal Presence, Thunderous Blows, Enduring Dance

 

PL V - The Long Pain, Stunning Surge, Tough, Uncanny Luck

 

PL VI - Turning Wheel, Flagellant’s Path, Improved Critical

 

PL VII - Dichotomous Soul, IoP

 

PL VIII - Resonant Touch, Launching Kick, Razor’s Edge

 

PL IX - WotW, Prestige, Imagined Pain

 

 

Gear: 

 

Weapon Proficiencies - Blunderbusses, Fists, Large shield

 

Pet: Loki - bigger AoE again

 

Weapons: Dual Mortars!

 

Armor: Gipon Prudensco

 

Helm: Acina’s Tricorn - Shootist passive

 

Amulet: Bone Settler’s Torc - +2 Intellect

 

Rings: Ring of Overseeing & Ring of the Marksman - Bigger AoE and more Pen

 

Cloak: Stalking Cloak - stun from Stealthed attacks

 

Gloves: Mortification Bindings - +2  extra class resource for more Stunning Blows!

 

Belt: Upright Captains Belt - for afflictions resistance

 

Boots: Bounding Boots - Leap for repositioning

[Help with optimisation of a not-so orthodox party setup.]

Just slap the heaviest armor on Kana and give him the best firearm. Done and done.

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A fully party of chanters! You can practically summon an army to defeat the gods.

[Which did you enjoy more, Poe or Poe2?]

I just finished Deadfire last night and my total time was 92 hours (i had FS and BoW) compared to 259 hours in PoE1 (WM1 & 2). Deadfire's main quest is simply too short. They should have started with the Watcher receiving an invitation from the huana queen to deadfire THEN Eothas destroying Caed Nua while they are away. I feel like I'm playing from the middle of a story though I can understand why Obsidian did this as one of the main complaint of PoE1 was that the plot felt bloated.

[Obsidian future plans for PoE series]

PoE2 ended on a cliffhanger so it will really suck if there isn't a part 3 to tie up all the loose ends. However i do agree with you that cRPG is really a niche genre and with Deadfire abysmal sales the future looks bleak. I remembered reading somewhere that Josh is taking a break from the PoE series too.

[[CLASS BUILD] The Fate Testarossa]

OP may not be active on this board anymore but would like to thank him for this build! Been having a blast with this build (sad that the game is ending so soon though) but I did swap out the armor for Miscreant’s Leather as it was taking too long to cast my spells.

[Which did you enjoy more, Poe or Poe2?]

 

Just landed in Neketaka and glad to be enjoying it as much as PoE 1! The ship combat is kinda tedious though and feels disconnected from the game. I mean what are the rest of my party members doing when enemies are throwing cannonballs at us?

ship combat were intended to be a tangential mini-game, sorta like kotor swoop racing or pazak.  the disconnect is natural and arguable intentional. as xar-monty mentions, you may skip ship combat entirely, which is possible in part 'cause o' the fact such encounters is non-essential.

 

that said, particular for a potd and/or solo run, ship combat, while repetitive, is offering the best early-game 1007 and xp opportunity.  is difficult for us to not exhaust ship combat opportunities o' named captains for a potd game as avoidance feels a bit like voluntarily handicapping our self.

 

HA! Good Fun!

 

ps following threads have useful ship combat insights

 

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/107827-need-help-with-ship-battles/?p=2130159

 

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/107286-avoiding-instant-death-on-ship/?p=2123453

 

 

Thank you so much!

[Which did you enjoy more, Poe or Poe2?]

Just landed in Neketaka and glad to be enjoying it as much as PoE 1! The ship combat is kinda tedious though and feels disconnected from the game. I mean what are the rest of my party members doing when enemies are throwing cannonballs at us?

[Extreme Drop In Performance (Out of Ideas)]

Running in full screen borderless (Windowed) mode with Vsync disabled and FPS limit set to 60 seemed to have fixed the issue for me. Though the mem leak is still there. This usually happens after extended hours of play. Nothing much you can do except to quit and restart the game.

[[CLASS BUILD] The Fate Testarossa]

Thank you!

[[CLASS BUILD] The Fate Testarossa]

Is this build still viable on the latest patch? I'm looking for a lightning themed build and this seems to really fit the bill!

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The main thing that PoE lacks as compared to BG series is the companions. The companions in PoE have such boring and shallow quests. And so few companions! Zahua was the only one interesting to me. Dopey monk lulz.

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Scaling adds higher levelled mobs. More mobs are due to higher difficulty.

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Monk and Cipher are nice...

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I like high PER purely for RP reasons. Makes my MC look smart combined with the high INT. Hah!

[POTD Solo Druid]

There are some wizards and priests builds for PoTD solo. Maybe you can check those out? Since they are spell casters so builds should be somewhat similar.

Shapeshifting duration is very short so it’s not suitable for soloing unless you’re using to deal the finishing blow or something.

[how fast can I obtain devil of caroc and zahua as companion?]

I was level 7 and the constructs were murdering me left right...

[The BEST 3 RPGs you have ever played]

1. BG series

2. PoE

3. Gothic 1,2&3

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Any of your equips has the “Second Chance” ability on it?

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Level 21 Cipher...good times

[is this game solid or I better wait?]

With PoE 1 the game was really “complete” with patch 3.02. Hopefully this doesn’t happen again.

[10 hours into the game]

Stop feeding the troll guys. Look at his posts; all of them are mindless bashing of PoE. Artyom, go back playing Metro and your FPS games...

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Any updates??? Obs guys seem to be awfully silent of late...

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I'm so pumped up for the expansion! Maybe I should try playing a dwarf...

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This is not a MMO or MOBA...why care so much about balance??? If you feel that it is OP then don't use it.