Serg BlackStrider

@Ivanfyodorovich Yeah, sea battles in Deadfire are unpredictable due to RNG and depend little on your skills. Personally I'm trying to avoid them as much as possible in no-reload. My current run with Cipher(Ascendant)/Druid(Lifegiver) is pretty smooth and fun and I think I'll be ready to full saga no-reload with him after finishing this run. Stay tuned!

Oh, no need for apologies! It's all right. Yep, Grim Face as Cipher (Ascendant)/ Priest of Eothas went through Deadfire (PotD / upscaled / Trial of Iron / no Berath blessings) just fine. He hit level cap already, almost finished the main plot (just need to choose a faction to follow/or move alone and head to the end game), finished Beast of Winter DLC and started SSS DLC. I don't like Seeker, Slayer, Survivor DLC much, truth be told it's my least favorite part of the PoE2, so I'm running through it only for the sake of completeness. And then I've put that run on pause and started anothe

@Boeroer: you might be right about autocorrection. The thing is that she never called me like that all this years we know each other. And she know I'm running through Deadfire many times already. That's why I'm confused with that post.

Nice to see you, Alesia! I'm a bit confused with your latest post - whom are you referring to as 'stranger', and what is 'Deadline'?

Since I'm not sure I'm not all alone here nowadays, just a note for the record that Grim Face finally finished my yet another one completionist/ upscaled/ PoTD/ Trial of Iron PoE/WM1/WM2 run. Each and every quest/task/bounty were resolved one way or another. The only exceptions are some companions' personal quests (Durance, Maneha, Zahua). The rest of the run (after my latest update) mostly mirrored the Gloomy Face's one with slight deviations alone the pass. This time we were able to talk Alpine Dragon out of fighting, completed WM2 main quest and defeated Kraken before going to Cragholdt Bl

That one (bound to Priest). Enuhal has it bound to Druid so some abilities are different:

Sad to hear of your Crew demise, Enuhal... Those 'forgotten' are indeed tough. Confusion is the spell vs them (at least in my run they all were affected and that simplified things a lot).

Grim Face (Hearth Orlan, Priest of Eothas) & Co - Part 8 TOC: Again it's about a month since we last heard of Grim Face and his merry band, sorry for that. Due to some unexpected RL events I can't play as much as I wish to though we made quite decent progress and gained two level ups. At the moment we cleared Caed Nua lower levels down to lvl 6, finished all available/remaining act 2 Defiance Bay side quests/tasks (except Cinders of Faith) and also Dyrford Village/Crossing. Most fights were completed via per-encounter abilities and Cipher powers. After gaining Lead Spitter blun

Wow, that was brutal encounter, Enuhal. Glad you made it through!

Long live, Astarta! May the gods bless you! I hope your predictions about Astarta's fate, Alesia, turn out to be wrong.

Looking good, Enuhal! Are you just copy/paste your post from Beamdog forum over here, or need to edit picture links?

Sad news indeed, Alesia... The biggest threat for player in PoE in my opinion is that it's mostly quite easy game and that might lead to relaxing and casual gameplay. For no-reload run it could be devastating. Looking forward for your next run.

Congratulations on finishing WM1, Alesia! It's a real pleasure for follow Alena's performance there!

This is just a pure beauty, Alesia! And special thanks for this thorough write up concerning your buffing/nuking approach!

Glad to see Alena making additional content! And performs there nicely, as usual! Maybe Alesia will feel a taste for completionist gameplay someday? As for your question about multiple 'second chance' items - unfortunately I can't comment on that matter since I don't use them trying to go with a zero-knockout approach and is this case it doesn't matter how those items work. But at least I can say that they are a 'double-edge blades'. If, for example, your char will be knocked out having low health as well with a solid blow leading to maimed condition and then granted a second chance by t