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If you didn't already notice: you don't get a lot of XP from combat. Most XP by far comes from quests. Even he most simple ones. You don't need to fight the bandits. You can also just sneak in there and steal the crate from under their noses. If I were you I would also pick up all official companions youc an gt so far: Aloth, Edér ad Durance. That way the fight in the bandit camp won't be that hard anymore. Soloing in the early game includes a lot of pulling and kiting.

The bandit camp is quite hard. Use chokepoints. Block the path to other party members utilizing obstacles/environment. That way enemies will gather in front of the tank/front line and will not move around a lot. I will always start combat with Inspiring Radiance and cast Chillfog simultaneously. Pulsing spells like Chillfog change their ACC on a per-pulse basis. That means that even if you have cast it before an ACC buff that comes afterwards will affect all the following pulses.

I poured me a small Pálinka (from northern Romania I brought with me from our last posting). The first sips were really good but the last two ones were a hellish nightmare, uäch. How can a drink turn from good into urglfx in half an hour? This never happens with stuff like Vodka or Gin but lots of times with Whisky, Cognac, (fruit) brandy and the like. What am I doing wrong?

Cool. I'll be 45 in June.

May I ask how old you are?

My wife is rel. high-ranking and gets more than that. Also being married and having three kids gives you a really decent bonus (of course that gets eaten up by the husband and the kids, but still).

Same here! I even refuse to write mods for Deadfire although I could. 😄 Instead I drew icons for a Deadfire mod that somebody else put together - as a treat. Can't do the same stuff all day, nope.

I'll charge from 20€ to 200€ per hour depending on the customer. The average is ~100€ I guess. Of course then I will have to pay taxes, health insurance, social insurance, pension insurance and my expenses from that. At the moment I'm not doing much because Covid and 3 rel. small kids (9, 6 and 4) at home. I briefly studied to become a teacher in biology and German and now I can put that to good use (not really).

I'm a software engineer (or computer scientist). I'm also a certified banker but didn't work in that field for over 20 years now. I've been self employed as software engineer/software architect for the last 12 years or so. The banker/software combo often gets you customers that pay quite well and designing software for those customers is actually not that difficult because most use cases are simple. But I try to work for other, less financially oriented entities - like doing some administration software for the German Basketball Association or the German Association of Sailors or so. Lots of sports associations actually. I played Volleyball and Basketball (2. German Regionalliga) when I was younger and one of my former bosses (still a friend) played Basketball in the German Bundesliga. Yeah... connections connections - so important - which I sometimes loathe. My wife is a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our household income (after taxes and stuff) fluctuates because of me - but it's always higher than 10K€/month.

Cool - should I ever have to move to Sweden I will consider to buy that.

Ouf, I earned more than that right after graduating and working as a research fellow. And that's not considered good payment here... Isn't Sweden also more expensive than Germany?

Yeah, same in Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg or Frankfurt etc. A typical "Reihenendhaus" without garden will be 1.5 million € and moren there. Urgs. I like Berlin. And Lidl is in Laufweite.

@majesticThat's a house in Kitzbühel though, isn't it (the one you listed a page earlier)? Snobby winter sports village and tourist magnet. Try to buy a house in Aspen (Colorado)... My house in Berlin (220 m² + ~800 m² garden) that I build in 2017 did cost me ~750.000 € (everything included).

By the way: Purgatory is nice (and a good partner for Resolution) - but Bittercut is better imo. It doesn't have Annihilation bus works with Spirit of Decay - but more importantly it has two damage types (corrode/slash) instead of slash only. Single dmg types can be really annoying if you meet very resistant or even immue foes. Bittercut also comes earlier (usually - if you don't make a beeline to Purgatory).

What do you mean with stacking? Stacking with what? It only applies to the attacks with the weapon it's attached to - it's not a buff for your whole character (if you meant that). Stats are ok - but I personally would use max DEX (3% multiplicative dps boost). High MIG isn't that important on a Rogue (only additive dmg bonus and Rogue already has plenty of those). I personally value INT a lot - even on Rogues. But that also depends on the weapon and after all that's more a matter of taste I guess.

If i interpret that correctly then you are using Scion of Flame as a multiplicative dmg bonus: (59-88.5) * 1.2 But it only works additively - like Savage Attack for example. Like so: Firebrand average base damage: 25 Damaging III: 0.45 Soul Whip: 0.20 Biting Whip: 0.20 Savage Attack: 0.2 Two-Handed Style: 0.15 Appr. Sneak Attack: 0.15 Scion of Flame: 0.2 MIGHT 26: 0.48 and so on... I now see that your might bonus is too high. You'll only get 3% dmg per point of MIG above 10. So MIG 26 means 16 * 0.03 = 0.48.

Nice - looks good. One thing: you seem to have forgotten Soul Whip's 20% dmg bonus. Biting Whip will add another 20% - so that you'll have +40% overall. You can enchant weapons (and armor) up to legendary quality which would mean +55% dmg (you can't do it with many though and the stuff you need for that comes pretty late). The max enchantment points for all enchantable items was raised by 2 points because of that possibility (which came with the White March expansion). I wouldn't leave out crit damage and Annihilation. It's difficult to guess how many crits you will land because it heavily depends on the enemy, but you could do a variable which you can adjust and see how numbers turn out. For example you could assume that 20% of all hit rolls will turn out to be crits - or 10% or whatever. Weapons with high base damage like Firebrand work especially well with every additional dmg bonus - and crit dmg (+Annihilation) is one of them - even if it it's not reliable. In case you didn't know: Scion of Flame works with Firebrand, giving it a 20% dmg bonus. Spirit of Decay works with Bittercut and Heart of the Storm works with Stormcaller. As long as the primary dmg type of a weapon is burn, freeze, corrode or shock Scion of Flame/Secrets of Rime/Spirit of Decay/Heart of the Storm will work. Durance's Staff will not work with Scion of Flame because it does "crush/burn" damage - and not "burn/crush".

I meant: which formulas did you use? Or were you running some ingame-tests and averaging the results?

If Slippers of the Assassin work differently from Smoke Veil (and more like Shadowing Beyond) then Deep Wounds might cause this. But afaik Slippers do work like Smoke Veil. What might happen (if other enemies aren't too close) is that the kill ends combat - which automatically ends invisibility. An autopause setting might help. With it you can then stealth before enemies trigger combat again.

By the way Josh currently looks like this:

That's correct. Plate will slow you down. You can test attack speed with this tool: https://naijaro.github.io/poe-speed-calculator/ Fortunately the more you advance in the game the less impact thick armor has - so you might as well run around in cloth, one of the Deadfire Pack's uniforms or robes. What math?

Yeah! I also rename the file name because then it's more obvious. I mean visually.

Last night I dreamt about this (maybe because this thread was the last thing I read before going to bed) and in my dream Obsidian hired "the whole gang" as consultants for their next RPG. 😄 You know for the next Pillars game (I feel it will come some day) we should really set up our own website/wiki.

Nope - I renamed the files and it works just fine. Okay, I should have mentioned that I also rename the file extension. Oops. I don't like to delete the files because sometimes I want to test stuff with or without mod and deleting/moving files is bothersome then.

Thank you. Yes, the goal was to not deliver a "moar powa" or be supercool™️ but rather so iron out some of stuff that was left after the final official patch. I can also recommend the mod "Enhanced UI": https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/32/ It is very nice, doesn't alter any mechanics at all but only provides some more info and tooltips in a very unobstrusive way. This and the Community Patch are the only ones I use. A nice thing about the CP is that you can easily switch on/of the changes that are listed seperately. You just have to rename the mod files that are well named. For example if you want to switch off the nerf of Resonant Touch you simply rename the according file to "switch_off_<filename>" or whatver and it's deactivated. Thhat way you can enjoy it even if there are some changes you don't agree with.