Ceranai

Playing with a full party on hard is actually what i would call normal difficulty. If you want a real challenge restrict yourself to a smaller party, thins become much more tactical when you dont have dedicated healers, dpsers and tanks Should he also cover his eyes and get drunk to further the difficulty? Artificially restricting oneself isn't a part of game difficulty. If smaller party should be a part of higher difficulty, then the number of comapnions in a party should be restricted by the game. Sadly PoE doesn't provide anything in a tactic department other than: - have a tank up front - assure higher damage than enemy can heal - assure higher healing than enemy can damage Want real tactical combat play XCOM games. I wasnt saying that he should just keep handicapping himself i was just saying that tactical play comes into effect much more when you have a smaller party, as in you have to optmise you gear etc. I also agree the game could use more mechanics to the boss fights. If you want a more tactics based game sadly this is not a shining example but I was just saying there are things you can do to make it less easy, especially in solo play you really have to plan out most of your fights, things like traps, scrolls and figurines become non-optional

Playing with a full party on hard is actually what i would call normal difficulty. If you want a real challenge restrict yourself to a smaller party, thins become much more tactical when you dont have dedicated healers, dpsers and tanks

Whatchu talkin' about? Monks are sword-and-shield fighters. Monks can fight with their fists, but unarmed falls behind pretty rapidly, and even if you want to dual-wield, it's generally better to use weapons. they dont drop off until you have pretty high level weapons. Especially with the accuracy, makes you hit for more in PoTD especially with all the high deflection values

Is it after patch? Before patch they were valued at ~600 (horn) to ~1500 (figurines). If yes - damn, that's a difference. Still, you can find at least two figurines (scarab and spiders) quite early in the game. Yea the main issue i was having (over in the solo expert whatever thread) is that in PoTD solo some fights are just impossible without a summon because you get swarmed and stun locked, before the patch you could just about do it by finding a wall and summoning a figurine. IT was annoying as hell because the only reason the fights are impossible is because phantoms stun lock you for your entire hp (i had a cloak that healed my damage back to me) so it went from full hp to 0 over like 3-5 minutes, and because phantoms stun on autoattack multiple phantoms were entirely impossible to deal ith regardless of how good your build was. The figurine was so needed that I resorted to banditry until i could afford it

i was so dissappointed when i tried druid. I mean yea thier spells are great but from a RP perspective the only reason i chose them was for the shapeshifting and I was like IM A STAG MONST.... im an orlan again...

Btw all if you do all three faction quests at the same time you get assess to all three faction armories and there are some REALLY tasty gear choices in there

Yea but unless an enemy has crust resistance ive found my fists hit harder than most weapons (and are cheaper too XD) im sure if i see good enough weapons i will use them.

Also i was just checking the accuracy, its 12 accuracy level one, does that improve? That will miss every single time on some monsters.

the way i see it this build is awesome in some situations but could be terrible in others, for example fights where there are heavy hitters about. (having nt played around it this is only a prediction thoug, im also thinking in terms of a triple crown attempt, im sure in games where you have priests etc to heal you it would be much better

Monks all the way, they have better base stats for one thing (especially at higher difficulties the accuracy bonus makes a big difference)

in that case they need to update the description of spirit shift, it explicitly states that it is supposed to last until the end of engagements

Should hold up fine, very balanced so should do well in most situations

It's the one in those ruins under that town in the east Wait what this is a thing? surely given how you can make new compainions any permanent bufffs are easily easily easily worth it?

Thats dissapointing, i was going to do a spirit shift dependent build

He may be using exploits... how long is spirit form supposed to last???? Im trying out the class and i cant figure out its duration, i just randomly pop out of it

I cant loot the water

No other class has unlimited access to summoning cheese. (just the level one phantom is a free 50 HP every 12 seconds, cant imagine what drakes are like

So im a bit confused, is spirit shift supposed to last until the end of combat? mine keeps dropping way before combat is over? it doesnt have a duration listed so not sure whats going on

So we can all agree that fighters are probably the best tanks in the game, what they lack is any real damage. One thing i have found is that once you get access to vendors scrolls become quite common place. It's not something I have seen brought up before probably because its very mix max heavy but there is nothing to stop you building a tank machine with high lore, by the watcher i had 4 fan of flames on my monk solo PoTD run and those made the fight vs the phantoms possible. I mean to be honest it skews the game against spell casters even more as its possible to play an unkillable scroll basedwarrir wizard but try rolling a wizard and watch yourself die in two hits. Thoughts? (this is mainly aimed at high difficulty solos where you are min maxing)

Exactly, what makes chanters so good is that their summon dps and health etc it totally independent of of their stats or what they are doing, i mean you can have 3 tank summoners and three ranged summoners, really doesnt matter, i mean i would argue that summons are so strong getting anythin other than phantom as an invocation is a waste of point unless you already have a summon active

Just switch out amulets for the one that halves damage from poison and disease I dont need to do that I just use "Purge Toins" xD Just saying. Nt to do with act I spiders. honestly i now have 3 figurines and access to whatever scrolls i want so it the game got easier by a factor of like ten

true, only worth it if you have a good high hitting one hander.

Just switch out amulets for the one that halves damage from poison and disease

I know, i just stood in a doorway and made myself a cup of tea, even the spider boss, like i ate all the food set traps etc for it then it dropped before i even hit half health lol

im glad we can find these things without buying them.... 15000 for the one from the merchant in copperland jog right on, ill have finished five times over by the time i can afford to buy all the figurines