Kaylon

My understanding is we have to wear Arkemyr's Old Robe or give the correct passphrase to avoid the fight in his manor, however neither of this options works. Here's a link with my savegame: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2da0k5lja2mxzh/Vhailor%20%28PerikisOverlook%29%20%280fca34c7-ab82-4e6e-b781-70d25269a411%29%20%28764328812%29.savegame?dl=0

Drugs are unlimited at the shops (but you have to wait 1day to restock). But a simple resistance to intellect afflictions should remove the confusion. (And as a barb it's the best choice as the other is already covered by Unflinching.

The flail has 10% chance to cast Meteor on hit and it seems to proc from Dragon Wailed/Relentless Storm...

I didn't say good items should be obtainable only at the end, but there should be always a challenge. You could get them at lower level but then it will be a reward for smart playing.

I think there are too many unique items in shops... For me, they should be obtained almost exclusively from quests or enemies (with the difficulty adapted to the power of the item).

Yes, you can consider Empower being basically a caster ability.

I strongly recommend to use fists. Much more accuracy and dps. Anything could work, I suppose, but fists are just way too good. Fists are better at the beginning when you don't have good enchanted weapons. From the mid to end game however, the enchantments are far superior to whatever marginal advantage the fists have.

I don't really understand your question... Yes, I listed only the "core" abilities defining the build. After that you can pick whatever you want depending on your preferences. As a cipher you can always take some AoE CC spells to help you against multiple enemies.

Pale elf, Devoted/Ghost Heart dual wielding sabers, that's obvious. However the stats should be more like 13mig, 14con, 20dex, 13per, 15int, 13res (with berath's blessings) and focus on attack speed (Scordeo's Edge, etc...)

I think it would be interesting to know what you get if you side with each god at the ending of PoE1... I know if you picked Hylea you will receive some special food in your inventory at the beginning... Don't know if you get something from the others...

About Entonia Ring, yes it works when you're engaged, however from my testing it seems just humans can engage you, which means the requirements aren't meet very often...

Persistent Distraction adds Flanked + Distracted to the target which means you always get sneak attack, deathblows and flanking bonuses (on enemies who are not immune to flanking).

Have you tried to kill him after to see if he still drops the armor? PS. I got the answer myself - it's possible to kill him at night in his chamber without anyone noticing. You get the armor and a second Duskfall.

I don't think that's the solution because they nerfed the bonuses on most items and instead made everything stackable to avoid confusion.

I don't agree. In PoE1 the paladin was able to reach the same kind of defenses and nobody found that OP... What is OP is the fact that every class is able to hit easily the dragon for 100-200dmg... PS. In fact in Deadfire you don't even need high defenses - you need just high armor+high penetration and then you can out-damage any enemy in the game...

Yes, you can use the Cloak of Great Deflection until you find the bracers. No, it affects only the allies...

Yes, it's 1.0.2

It worked, thanks.

It's out but I can't install it... When I click to download, it launches the game instead

Here is an attempt. Regards Thank you!

I tried by myself using Gimp but the result wasn't very good... Anybody can help me with these?

Disintegration is not that good despite what the description says - it does 56 raw dmg/tick (empowered) every 3s, while with Soul Annihilation I do, on average, 100 raw dmg every 3s... Also the fact that it targets fortitude is a big disadvantage. In fact an empowered Plague of Insects (which is a lower level spell) - does more damage/tick, over a huge area and has a much longer duration... Strage, description says 240 dmg per 3 seconds. Maybe it's incorrect then. Yes, I think it's the total damage... The descriptions aren't very accurate

I observed a bug with Borrowed Instincts during long fights... If you cast it while the enemy is already affected by it, the new debuff will appear only when the first expire, however the caster is left without the selfbuff...

If I remember well they can be bought from the bonus merchant...

Disintegration is not that good despite what the description says - it does 56 raw dmg/tick (empowered) every 3s, while with Soul Annihilation I do, on average, 100 raw dmg every 3s... Also the fact that it targets fortitude is a big disadvantage. In fact an empowered Plague of Insects (which is a lower level spell) - does more damage/tick, over a huge area and has a much longer duration...