Raven Darkholme

That makes FOD really bad on Blunderbusses. It generally isn't the best paladin skill...

Maybe we should remind ourselves theres rarely only one enemie...

The post which started this discussion was about survival on Potd, one guy claimed that's no problem because you can spam MB. In melee you'll get hit back which is bad for a squishy cipher in ranged you don't need constant binding to survive.

Then you're not good at reading context. I said that in combination of "Binding being the best tactic to spam repeatedly", as if you just need that spell and are in godmode from then on. But if you just got the spell and melee, focus regeneration is a big problem.

Act 3 level 10 here I come. @known Your missing my point with retaliation high might and a mob hitting you you can generate 100 focus in 10 secs. Its just not a reliable tactic when you still use paralyze, later you burn your focus for damage.

Monk is a beast early and best for clearing Act 1. It scales kinda bad though. Have reached Act 3 now with my cipher, nearly level10 and way better than a monk by now.

Just cleared Dryford Ruins boss fight and freed Aelys. Diethe fight with level8 and am now 9.

I tried that kind of build with a thief and it's just way to tedious, because you might as well switch ranged weapons. With the thief at least you have 2x sneak damage if your near the target, with the cipher it doesn't make much sense.

A lion is just way easier to hit than armored foes, thats why you build focus easier.

In my game there are no mere lions left at level 6.

Do you even play Potd?

That's just not true you would never build enough focus in 14 secs of attack minus your recovery time after casting. Also theres groups of enemies very frequently. Spells higher than paralyze are better than paralyze anyway.

That not important. With mods I could make PoE the hardest game ever. Not that PoE is even close to the same league as vanilla BG in terms of difficulty. PoE on Path of the damned is easier than BG on normal. But, whatever. The real issue with PoE isn't that it's too easy, but why it's so easy; as Luckmann has already pointed out. You would have to completely chsnge the game mechanics and enemy classes to accomplish that.

If you are saying this is harder than BG I guess you never used Tactics or SCS mod. Those mods let the enemy casters rise to use their abilities as intended and make BG way harder than pillars.

We can continue this "cheap" vs "scrub" but its not too constructive and pleasant. Is that a Seth Killian quote? As to the discussion I don't mind being cheap or cheesy, but the barb is just too much atm and I want it at least confirmed whether it's a bug or not.

That was meant for all fights not the weakest monsters you can find.

I don't really see whats special about 15 dmg, 2 focus and killing lions. When I killed the ogre and elder bears I was constantly going up to 90, burning it in few seconds and up again. I would have gotten slaughtered with your approach tbh.

Attack speed is good on the shield but damage sucks. In endgame i would prefer retaliation.

You will never build enough focus in melee, low level to use your powers permanently. That makes retaliation so awesome isn't even about the damage on the enemies but focus build.

Before retaliation the melee capabilities of the cipher are just not there. If the items were less good op as they are you couldn't really melee him because focus build is too low and deflection subpar. At least on Potd especially solo.

Dryford Ruins.

Tried several classes but now sticking with solo cipher on Potd.

Nah I like my max might. ;p Just killed the Dryford ogre, that was tough with level 7...

If you have retaliate even 80 def is very good, especially if you play barb, cipher or monk.

I just wiped the forgotten off the face of the planet, first try no sweat. At this point the cipher is way better than the monk because retaliate generates focus and the level 4 spells are op.