Elric Galad

About lvl 7 spells, it would be easy to fix them : - remove black ooze from call of the primordial possible summons. - double weather the storm duration. - nature's bounty could be a direct effect (taking Druid's Int into account for duration...) rather than a potion stuff. I could understand that Obsidian would like to avoid overlap between druids and wizard for damage spells, providing druid with more support and less direct effects, but they have more or less fail the tuning of a whole spell level. It's sad. (If only call of the primordial could have summoned an Adragan instead ! (even for short duration). Adragans are my favorite PoE monster ^^ Good lore and badass abilities...) As side notes from your spell guide: - Ice ooze dying explosion causes petrify. It worths noticing. - I know your guide is not called Thunderstag, but avenging storm should work with stag carnage. However, I have not yet tested it... This would be my candidate for best limited time AoE melee of the game. If confirmed, it could worth a side note for alternate option (even if stag defense has not great synergy with your idea.)

I find that priests are rather optimal shield users since their most important abilities don't require accuracy (buffs or healing, and seals have a huge accuracy bonus): you can even go big shield.

Maybe sword and sheperd is triggered by skill activation while some other FoD talents are triggered by each attack. This might be meant to avoid double proc from S&S healing (meanwhile applying speed buff 2 times is not a pb). Reverse engineering, yeah !

I don't know what it worths but penetrating shot should work with firebug, overwhelming wave and echoing shout (even if it is not included in your build.) It works on line spells and jump spells.

When you enter Stalwart for WM II, you'll see that the toon has changed a bit. Go to the place which used to be a temple of Ondra. It is now a Temple of Abydon. Talk to the smith girl, she will give you the quest. Do the quest (I don't want to spoil it), and you'll be rewarded with the Unlabored Blade. But that's only the beginning. This is a Soulbound Dagger, you have to bound it to a character to unlock its upgrades. Then you'll see this blade has a very special way of being upgraded... Upgrade it to ultimate level, and you'll have firebug.

Further testing : Penetrating Shot recovery penalty don't apply to spell, even if it adds DR Bypass ! (But of course, it applies to summoned weapon attacks as they are weapons.) Dangerous Implement applies partially to Kalakoth, but in a bad way : you receive raw damages, but no bonus to damages. Marksman does apply to Kalakoth Minor Blights. And Sneak attack applies to main target of Kalakoth's blight, to secondary targets, BUT NOT to blast.

I lost to many times in my life on Gamebanshee. Good site. Do you think Cean Gwla are a kind tribute to Gambanshee ?

Honnestly, not that much. I always use prayer against fear (priest or scroll) for dragons fight. It is important to protect your whole party against fear, not only 1 dude. In this condition, steadfast immunity becomes irrelevant.

Yes, it does. When WMI was released, it was added to the list of status triggering sneak attack and deathblow.

I think it is really poor for offense, but has nice defensive properties, especially the druid, ranger and barbarian version. So giving it to a (ranged) ranger as you do or to a druid, as Thundercat build does on this forum, makes sense. It might even be considered "best in slot item" for them. I don't really see other purposes.

Sorry, it was a little joke. The second colour set is better indeed. Criticism is easy, art is difficult...

This is premium quality testing. Even better because we have clear a general rule now : penetrating shot apply to line spells, single target spells, jumping spells and main target of targetted spells with AoE. It shouldn't work with DoT and lashes (like sunlance). So it should Bypass DR of Silent Scream main target. If it wasn't raw damages ^^ More Seriously, it should work with overwhelming wave, firebug, prone pillar (main target is the onlt one to take damages anyway)... Harder to determine : twin stones (work on line, but not on impact), seven night she waited (work seperately on each line) ? Finally Charge and Flagellant Path should be considered as "melee line spells" and work with vulnerable attack ???

I would really max Dex, so if your race/background can allow it, don't hesitate to put 19 or 20. Second priority is Per. 15 is ok. My last rogue had 13 might. Might is relatively meaningless on a rogue. I prefer letting Con and Res to 10 as Rogue goes to melee. Int is not so useful to deserve a 10% endurance malus.

So you can use golden gaze until Expose vulnerabilities proc, then switch to minor blight for blast festival. It sounds good. Is there any WM II items that has on hit effects ? (Except weapons)

I didn't know that Andy Warhol plays PoE

There are 3 effects from Minor Blight :- Main attack targetting deflection (I think... or is it also reflex ?) - AoE attack targeting reflex (same damages as main attack). - Blast AoE for each main target and secondary targets. Penetrating shot seems to be applied to initial target, and maybe secondary ones (but I can't test it for a few weeks). Blast talent and penetrating blast shall be applied only to the third effects. All of these effects can trigger interrupt even if the logs are misleading (interrupt from blast are confirmed as a single target can be interrupted several times but they are not listed in the blast effect). I'm also curious about Penetrating Shot applied to all crackling bolt and mind lance target (or only the main one). This paranoia comes from Concussive missile where only main target gets its DR reduced by penetrating shot.

It affects the main target of concussive missile, not the secondary ones which is a different effect. So it should work with pillars of faith. That's why I doubt for Kalakoth's minor blight. The main and secondary targets have similar effects so it might be considered as AoE instead of targetted.

An interesting topic to dig out. By chance, does someone know if pentrating shot work with Minor Blights ?

By looking an old thread I found an old post where you were saying this. Other people disagreed. Sounds buggy to me ^^

Yup, but this time I was wrong, it wasn't ever change. I just thouhht I'm wondering what would be the most interesting between a Citzal Lance/melee reach build, a Kalakoth/Implement build... or anything will anyway be meaningless compared to wizard spellcasting anyway, at least for major battles... I wish there could be more specific way of building your wizard. At least this thread is a good example of what could be done ^^

I won't change your party composition either. It's fine. Chanter and pet makes ok tank, especially because pet has infinite health pool and you have a lot of healers. I would just equip priest with Sword and Board, and I would consider the Thundercat build on this forum, as it allow dumping defenses while keeping good survivability. So you'll have 2 tanks and 2 other melee guys to block the way to your squishies. By the I had great fun with a melee cipher with medium armor too. Melee cipher does more damages than ranged one (even if it is less flexible.), so you can be a little less squishy and still deal a lot of damages.

Hehe I'm just starting a new PotD playthrough with almost them party, except no cipher and a second chanter. In my opinion it's totally viable, but you may need more tankiness. Your party doesn't have to be only made of squishies and tank. A simple priest with leather armor and shield can help holding the line : small shield does not cause any malus to spellcasting. Early game, spells are limited ressource so casting speed is not so critical ; late game, durgan steel will negate a big part of armor malus. Furthermore, be sure to pick form of the Delemgan as Druid Spell Mastery for lvl 4. Fast cast party wide 8DR against physical attack will greatly help your survivability. Combo with binding web is great.

By the way, I've done other interesting tests with following conclusions : - Kalakoth blasting blast has apparently returned. Each single hit of summoned Kalakoth minor blast triggers blast. As Kalakoth has an AoE, each hit in the AoE triggers a separate blast, so each ennemy in a pack can recieve multi-blast (as well as potential interrupts). So now, it's like a baby version of Heart of Fury. I thought this one had been patched. EDIT : Apparently, I imagined it was patched. So it works, and it is most likely the best way to get interrupt. - Apprentice's Sneak Attack applies to each Kalakoth hits in the original AoE, but not to blast hits. - Apprentice's Sneak Attack applies to each Citzal Spirit Lance hits in the Citzal's AoE. (Citzal's is described as "blast" in the flavour text, but it is appently a totally different effect.)

Mmmn, I just said that I don't know about monk's clones. Maybe they're different.

Confident aim does work on every spell, as deathblows. The wording on the tooltip is not so cryptic about it. Preservation from items usually DON'T stack. However, enchantments from weapons and shield do stack with everything. That's the reason why you see Little Savior preservation stacking. But thank you for your finds.