Kaylon

The hood doesn't give you +5 melee accuracy bonus each time you're missed by an attack.

The aura these gloves are supoosed to give doesn't work at all.

Now the levels are correctly affected by disposition however you don't get +1def/+2for/ref/will per level like advertised in the patch notes. It seems you get instead only 0.8def/+1.6for/ref/will per level (the final bonus being rounded down). The progression is like that: Lv0 - 4/8 Lv1 - 4/9 (from 4.8/9.6) Lv2 - 5/11 (from 5.6/11.2) Lv3 - 6/12 (from 6.4/12.8 ) Lv4 - 7/14 (from 7.2/14.4) Lv5 - 8/16 (from 8/16) Lv6 - 8/17 (from 8.8/17.6)

Blaming people because they're using the tools at their disposal is a joke. If the game isn't realistic or immersive or whatever floats your boat... you should complain to developpers about their design choices. Heh... If food increasing abilities would exist in reality I'm sure every heavy weight fighter would come with their bellies full before each fight and nobody would find it ridiculous.

Heh... The only thing I see is you don't have any arguments and you keep answering beside the point. It's irrelevant if my videos had or not an impact... It's irrelevant if people consider soloing meaningful... It's irrelevant if other classes are also able to solo the dragon... The only relevant thing is the paladin was and still is able to stay toe to toe with the strongest enemies and slay them, something that other classes aren't able to do for a reason that keeps eluding you.

Heh, I'm not sure you're qualified to say what impact my video had... However I'm sure nobody was able to come with a video doing the same with a fighter... PS. The 2.03 links aren't about the "main argument", are about your "argument" - ie being able to solo dragons because of scrolls... I was hoping you'll point another mistake, hole, exploit, etc...

Killed them even without scrolls, next time I'll try also to kill them slower... *sigh* https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/79181-paladin-solo-vs-adra-dragon-potd/ killing solo has always been more a display o' how to exploit holes/mistakes in the system than anything else. am not doubting folks has found new and curious holes, but you didn't convince folks that paladins were better than fighters at tanking. the main purpose o' a tank, after all, is to absorb damage and hold aggro so that the other party members can more safely heal or dps or whatever. the solo videos o' a 30 second exploit kill o' the adra dragon were no more proof o' a paladin's relative tanky power than the rogue trap exploit videos were showing how incredible were rouges at dps. we can do more links to old threads. show folks, even folks posting in this thread, who were asking for more tankiness and dps from the poe paladin. luckily, the obsidians largely ignored such requests. instead, the paladin actual had their tankability reduced, but their capacity to support increased. HA! Good Fun! Here are more actual ones: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83566-solo-paladin-vs-dragons-v203/?p=1762655 You say mistakes, holes, exploits to solo? I say knowledge, tactics, planning. PS. I guess in your book Sacred Immolation isn't dps, it's just support...

Killed them even without scrolls, next time I'll try also to kill them slower...

If you can't tank and if you can't kite then you need some sort of CC.

For solo or in a party? The barbarian is certainly weaker solo...

Well, the main argument was that fighters were better tanks than paladins. Then I made my first video showing how the paladin can tank and kill the adra dragon alone (people considered at that time it was impossible to tank the adra dragon and the only way to kill it solo was using a petrify trap). PS. The ranger was also considered the weakest class and I decided to show in a video he can also solo the adra dragon without traps.

Personally I find very strange that you get no ingredients, nor superb items from the alpine dragon...

I think you need 15con/res.

I'm surprised that many people find the Radiant Spore that hard. If you free the vithraks at the beginning, the fight doesn't require much tactics - you go for the big spore and you hit it fast and hard because when it dies the tentacles disappear too.

Crucible of the Soul is a decent way to heal yourself when you have many enemies clustered together - 10+ endurance/enemy can give you easily over 50 endurance when you don't want to use a potion.

You also should keep in mind that PC can reach max defense pretty fast (dispositions can be maxed by lvl7-8 during ch2), while hirelings need to wait until lv16 to reach their max.

Actually they're not that hard when you know how to deal with them. With plate and Rymrgrand's Mantle they will do no damage to you. You grab the sword from the entrance with bonus vs spirits and you kill them one by one while standing in the corner. And of course you need high mig/con to avoid stunlock....

You're right, it's a bug... You should post it on the technical forums - maybe it's just a display bug...

Bonuses on shield always stack... (I don't understand why are you saying the the character sheet indicates something else) When I Durganized Badgradr's Barricade a while back, rather than having the character sheet say that my guy has 20% reflection from the shield, or 10% from the shield's main effect, 10% from the steel, it just said 10% from the steel, nothing else. Yes, it never says 20%, they're listed separately.

Maybe you run slower only while shapeshift is active because of the bug.

It seems shields have a hidden +7acc bonus. While I don't think Badgradr's Barricade will be very good on barbs (because of the low chance to proc), it might work well on rogues.

Bonuses on shield always stack... (I don't understand why are you saying the the character sheet indicates something else)

I think what it comes down to with Dawn in Spring is that it's a fast Superb (+12 accuracy) dagger (another +5 accuracy) with a wounding effect. And because it has a base +17 accuracy bonus, it has a generally higher chance to get crits, which should mean even more damage for the wounding effect. DiS isn't exactly a high alpha weapon capable of blasting its way thru high DR's. But IIRC, wounding effects aren't affect by DR, though I could be very wrong on that. And as a fast weapon, particularly if used by a high DEX character, you should be able to get a lot of attacks with it. And if that user has really good might, combined with a high occurrence of crits, you should be able to get some damage past most DR's. One could also take Vulnerable Attack talent to get a +5 DR bybass which would help, though at the expense of some attack speed. Things are really simple... Attacking with 0% recovery (think what it takes to reach that) is basically a 100% dps increase. Against high DR targets the wounding damage can be higher than your physical damage - that's more than 100% dps increase.

You have to enter the camp at night. However if you entered the area during day the guards will never go to sleep. To fix it you just have to save the game when it's night and reload it - now the gards will be sleeping...

For me stealth is good just to remain undetected while stealing. All high level monsters detect you instantly once you come close enough which means you can count only on invisibility for backstabs - totally not worth it.