Kaylon

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.

It will be more than viable once bash will work with carnage (hopefully next patch) -> Dragon's Maw Shield+The Unlabored Blade.

Moon godlike chanter - has speed, ranged attack (chant), summons and heals.

I created a fresh human character and I was very surprised to discover that his Fighting Spirit ability isn't triggered when he reaches 50% endurance.

There is a nerf AND a bug. The bug involves the fact that disposition doesn't count anymore, only player level (you'll get maximum 5lvls for Faith and Conviction when you reach lv16). The nerf was double - to Faith and Conviction itself (it starts at +4def/+8for/ref/will instead of +5def/+10for/ref/will) and to Deep Faith (+2def/+3for/ref/will instead of +2def/+5for/ref/will). If you add the nerf to base deflection in 2.0 the paladin lost overall +6def/+4for/ref/will since the beginning of the game.

Of course - you have Wē Toki (prone) and Godansthunyr (stun).

They give 10% ranged damage.

Because of the way lash damage is calculated. For goldpact it will be (75%dmg - burn DR/4) while for bleakwalkers it's (75%dmg - burn DR/4 - corrode DR/4). Also goldpact benefits more from Scion of Flame - you'll do 90% burn dmg, while bleakwalkers 60% burn + 25% corrode. A rogue can also solo if you build him like a tank - ie heavy armor, shield and defensive talents. You get Deathblow at lv11 and you can make it work when solo if you have high INT because you can stack multiple effects... However paladins are superior at soloing of course.

Goldpact > bleakwalker and arquebus > blunderbuss for a FoD paladin. And for burst damage rogue > ranger.

He waits for 7 days if you do nothing. If you help him the quest is finished and he leaves. After that he will return from time to time to sell you items, like he did previously...

Because all bonuses on weapons/shield stack with everything. If you have the same kind of bonus on armor (doesn't matter if it's on the same piece) the weakest will be suppressed. The same thing happens with a durgan enchanted Colored Coat - the -10% armor speed penalty will be suppressed.

Silver Flash+Steadfast for Pallegina. Sunlance and Divine mark with Scion of Flame ftw.

Yup. You can't. There is no way to say "Stay in Caed Nua Friend" without previously joining companion (except when Your party is full), so in solo achievements You won't be able to complete Turn Based Quest (tbh any quest at all) neither most of "someone is asking for escort", "someone is asking of help". Also TCS Completionist is probably impossible to make :-P My TCS at least was speedrun (in around 3 hours). I'm pretty sure all visitors can be dealt with without the help of a companion. However the stronghold quests and their rewards won't be available solo...

Ryona's Breastplate gives +3int and there's a hunting bow giving +1per.