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Indeed. Man I despise that behavior. How can anybody start a conversation that way? Especially if one wants help or information? It's like entering the soup kitchen and yelling "Ok suckers I know your soups suck ass but gimme the best you have - but pronto!". What type of character does that? I would reckon the chances to get good soup or info significantly drops once you come off as a douche right from the start. Interesting thing about the ignore list is that everybody else can still read how you get a good scolding for childish behavior - and other users can still quote the ignored user. The ignoring user will still see those quotes. It's a weird implementation and nowhere near a blocking function like with Twitter where you can just exclude somebody from your thread. Edit: Funny - now I could just go and share all that overpowered stuff but OP wouldn't be able to see it, hehe. I mean unless somebody quotes me of course.

Whoops sorry - I missed your update on this (three weeks ago). I hope you have fun with this. Don't hesitate to dump it if you don't

Backgrounds: Yes I guess so. Aristocrat is tricky since it somewhat doesn't fit the caste system of the Huana. Mataru is the highest caste and the Ranga is always from the ranks of the Mataru (I believe?). But a Ranga can be seen as an aristocrat I think? I don't know if hunters are Mataru or Kuaru but I believe Mataru. Hunter and Warrior seems to be the same thing with the Huana (like with the Glanfathans basically, too). Laborer can be Kuaru or Roparu, depending on the kind of labor I guess. Judging by Deadfire's Huana there are Monks, Paladins (undisclosed orders), Barbarians, Fighters, Rangers, Druids (Watershapers of course), Chanters (Stormspeakers), Priests (see Priests of Tangaloa, Magran, Ngati etc. in Neketaka) and so on. I didn't see many ciphers beside the Queen or wizards. The classes which have the most Huana "vibe" to me are Ranger, Barbarian, Druid, Priest and Chanter.

Yet you can't prevent it. I post where I want - and mostly reasonably. So deal with it or block me in your exquisite 5-year-old rage. But always remember: <deleted>

There are plenty of extremely overpowered builds left - but since you chose to post in a 5-year-old-is-pissy way I don't feel particulary inclined to share them with you.

Indeed

Haha, I meant 200Mbit/s. And it's actually 250 (but that never happens of course).

I have geothermal heating (and cooling in summer) and a central ventilation system with heat recovery (no need to open the windows to let fresh air in). The electricity costs for heating currently are ~90 € a month. It won't go up and down based on weather but the supplier will just average it over the year. I could do a lot cheaper but I receive 100% renewable energy from Greenpeace which is rather expensive. For the electricity consumption of my household (different meter and different tariff) I pay around 130 € per month. That is for a household of 5 (2 grown ups and 3 kids) in a 220m² house with a 800m² garden in Berlin. Our room temperature is set to 21°C during the day and 18°C during the night. I have an hydraulic underfloor heating (and cooling) system since its low flow temerature is perfect for geothemal heating (which usually produces around 30°C of water temp. without too much electricity from the thermal heat pump). I also have only LEDs for lighting and the (wooden) house is build with German low energy standards (KfW 24). I have to add that I also have a 10 KWp PV system on the roof which theoretically produces enough electricity for the household on average (heating excluded) - but I have no house battery yet. I'll get 8.04 cents per KWh that I feed into the grid but I don't have any billing yet since the system is only 9 months old. I expect my monthly rate to drop significantly since Greenpeace didn't factor in the PV system yet (the fees are based off of our consumption from before it was installed). Next step is to get a battery so that I can use our "self made" electricity more efficiently. Ah, water is ~75 € a month. 200GBMbit/s internet connection is 35 € iirc.

The Deadfire-Pack merchant Ponamu Bird-Scorned in Anslög's Compass is Huana. Kuaru is the caste for traders so I guess he's Kuaru. But I can also imagine a Mataru warrior coming to the Dyrword as escort, on a diplomatic mission or similar stuff. Even a Roparu makes sense if he used to be a simple deckhand for example.

Avenging Storm only procs off of weapon attacks (AoE weapons and AoE spells that get triggered by weapons - see Chilling Grave - included). So Nature's Terror and Sacred Immolation won't work with Avenging Storm. The rest is correct.

Hahaha! It works: Sacred Immolation is still firing (Nature's Terror, too by the way) and the self damage gets blocked. It breaks pretty quickly though because 200 pts of damag-shield is not much when 30 points of base dmg (scaling with PL and Might etc.) are pommeling you every 3 secs. Also just tested: If you have a Priest you can use Withdraw: the outgoing dmg still works, the self dmg gets blocked AND you even heal up. Be your party's own sigil of death.

Ah, good thinking, will try that out. But you can always use Lay on Hands + Nature's Balm of course - should be enough.

Old Siec is not so great since its health generation is limited to a few hits per attack roll (no draining from all enemies who get hit). If you want a great (the best) draining effect go with a SC Furyshaper. The Blood Ward transforms ALL dmg (except traps, walls and seals - but even DoT ticks will work!) into healing. So ALL hits from Sacred Immolation do trigger the healing effect. You can even turn huge DoT stuff like Plague of Insects into an awesome damage spell with a good self-healing component. Brand Enemy turns into a weak but endless regeneration effect and so on. You can stack it with Old Siec! I played a solo Furyshaper so I know my Blood Ward stuff.

Yes, swift and efficient. Like doing drive-through vaccination - which is brilliant imo. If you can sell burgers, enormous soft drinks & french fries to individuals at blinding speed by not letting them out of the car you should be able to inject a vaccine in the same way at least as quickly. But they had some favourable conditions that can't be applied to other countries, too. But when I look at Germany's efforts...

The whole administration for Hartz IV (and all of the many many local programs) is so very expensive that it dwarfs the amount that actually goes to the people in need. You either have private insurance (several companies) or "statutory" health insurance (also several players which are actually not state-owned but operate differently than the private ones). If you are employed you pay half of the fee and the other half is paid by your employer. The fee is a percentage of what you earn - like taxes. Higher income = higher fee. If you're not employed you pay it all by yourself (or welfare pays it for you). Private health insurances work like most other insuraces where they try to invest the money and get safe but decent returns - difficult with all-time low interest rates though. The more wealthy people "flee" into private insurance the more pressure there is for the people in stat. health insurance.

I would agree to "better melee dps". Also Sacred Immolation comes very late and the self damage is strong tobacco (as ze Germans say ;)).

I didn't say that nor did I make the implication. I merely pointed out that there is no data that indicates that inflation will go up nor that motivation to get a job will suffer. If there's any data about local UBI projects or similar topics like minimal wage then that data points in the opposite direction or indicates there is no influence - but since the sample sizes are too small one can't be sure. Thus you (no matter if journalist or private person) should neither draw the conclusion that people will stop working - nor should you draw the conclusion that inflation will increase significantly. Those are just assumptions that may or may not fit your personal bias and opinion. You also shouldn't draw the conclusion that people will be a lot happier or healthier. Some pilots did show that it happened while others saw no significant impact. There seem to be a lot of variables at play so universal and easy assumptions and solutions won't work. Here's an argument from Germany: The amount of money we paid for social security in 2019 - which was 1.04 trillion € - was higher than the expenses for an estimated UBI of 1,000€ per capita and month - which was 996 billion €. So we would even spare money if we just removed the current system and introduced an UBI system. AND poor people would even get more money than they get now - even those who currently don't get social welfare because they are not capable to apply (don't have the paperwork, no permanent residence, mental issues etc.). Am I a fan of UBI? Not generally, no. Mainly because people who absolutely don't need the money would still get it - like me. That's not social equity. I don't need that money so I think it would be better to not give it to me - instead give it to people who really need it (like single moms for example or elderly whose pension is loo low while their health insurance grows more and more expensive). But there could be implementations where you simply introduce a luxury tax or increase the taxes of higher incomes more to remove that social injustice. Then I would be in favor. I don't see a big problem with an UBI test run in a whole country. I mean if it doesn't work out you just go back - what's the deal? Germany introduced tuition fees and we didn't like it: got removed. We canceled unemployment benefits and introduced social security benefits and kept it, we introdiuces minimum wage and it worked out well: kept it. You can't know for sure what will happen with any UBI unless you try it. But there can be many, many different implementation of an UBI system and I think you can't do UBI justice by quickly discussing it superficially with limited knowledge in a forum of a game developer where very conservative gamers meet very progressive gamers.

It's one thing to assume something in an article and another to look at the model projects where this wasn't an issue. Same argument was made with minimum wage (also here in Germany before it got introduced). Inflation didn't move one bit. It got even lower. I now can get a loan of 1 million € for 0.5% interest rate, fixed for 10 years. Before Minimum Wage it was around 4% iirc (already low). That was with raising employment rates also (not the assumed drop because cheap labor would become too expensive). By the way (if this wasn't posted yet): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots Only one of the pilots showed slightly less motivation for employment (one I the US I the 60s/70s). The more recent ones showed no impact on employment rates. Inflation wasn't an issue at all - since the sample sizes were simply too small. Hence my comparison with minimum wage introduction.

Higher inflation is not necessarily a bad thing. In Europe inflation is so low that it hurts the economy. Think about this: if you had debts, would you want inflation to be high or low? If you had assets that don't lose value with inflation, would you want high inflation (generally meaning higher interest rates) or low? In all model projects I read about people did NOT lose motivation to get a job. They just could afford to take jobs they liked more but which did pay less though.

It's more likely that a less harmful but more infectious mutant will prevail - but there's no guarantee.

Right. The Spanish Flu pandemic ended not only because of herd immunity but also because the virus mutated into a less harmful form (like a normal influenza).

Yes, a lot of lashes. I'd add Hylea's Talons and Belt of Magran's Chosen for additional ones. But also on a Bleak Walker with Scion of Flame & Spirit of Decay you'll have +2 PEN for your Flames of Devotion attacks (including the lashes) and +20 ACC (+10 FoD +10 Ring of Focused Flames) which is a nice package.

Holy smokes: the combination of Nature's Terror + Sacred Immolation while attacking with Eternal Devotion (Bleak Walker) is pretty fun.

Yes it does!

I still don't know about SC Druid as Spiritshift build. Even if you get a lot more duration per (late) kill: it's an "on kill" effect after all - which usually is not a very impactful teigger to begin with (because if you kill a lot that usually means you're fighting weaksters anyway). There might be exception though - like really long fights with waves of enemies (see SSS). I would just miss all the goodies that makes Spiritshift more fun: good full attacks (FoD, Rogue's stuff, Stunning Surge and so on), lashes, speed buffs, damage bonuses... I mean you can uff a bit via Chanter and Priest buddies (Mith Fyr, Champion's Boon etc.) but that's not the same level of fun and "look I build something powerful"-satisfaction imo. Stalker/Shifter: also (Accurate) Wounding Shot + boar DoT +(potentially Hylea's Talons) should stack nicely, right? Boar form always unlocks Predator's Sense I reckon. Back to Wildstrike Frenzy/prolonging Spiritshift: does Wall of Draining prolong Spiritshift? Thinking about a buffed-up Sorcerer boar with Zandethus Draconic Fury...