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Bilestomper was ultimately designed to be able to shower himself (and the enemy of course) with poison/disease/corrosion spells. The Mountain Dwarf passive helped a lot - but in Deadfire the Mountain Dwarf gets a completely different racial ability. In Deadfire a similar approach would be to use Rekvu's Scorched Cloak and shower yourself with fire spells I guess. Addendum: Neckless of Fireballs has the keywords Fire and Evocation. It scales with universal Power Level but also fire Power Levels but NOT Evocation Power Levels (for whatever reason). So a Helwalker with Sun & Moon + Magran's Favor + Otto Starcat, Prestige and Thunderous Blows does >100 fire damage per target with the necklace easily at lvl 20 due to the 60%+ PL bonus combined with the insane MIG. Unfortunately you can't stack the same amount of power levels for the Missile Gloves (only keyword is evocation and that doesn't work for some reason as I said above). Universal PLs like from Lance of the Midwood Stag do work though.
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Most powerful or effective would be spamming summons from figurines or some of the DLC trinkets maybe? Didn't really analyze that. I never used that export/import "trick" for an actual playthrough - except for a partial one with a Barbarian I build around Vengeful Defeat (with items such as Effort and other items that trigger AoE stuff on knockout). In PoE you could turn off kockout injuries so such a suicidal Barb could be fun enough to play. In Deadfire you can't opt out of injuries - it would be possible to use Vengeful Defeat up to three times per encounter - but you'd want to rest after each fight and that's kinda lame. So I exported/imported the Ring of Reset to be able to use the same approach but with no injuries after the encounter (and no need to cast a reviving spell of course). So basically it spared me the rest-spamming. I didn't consider that to be superpowerful - just a lot more convenient. So I can see how this little glitch may enable you to play some cool character ideas - like a fireball-slinging SC Helwalker or an all-fire themed SC Paladin who can still sling some spells then. Basically you could add a (tiny) subset of wizard spells to a single class or multiclass char. Like adding half a class on top. Something like my old Engineer build from PoE times who was a Fighter who used elecricity and missile spellbindings. This could be done with a Fighter/Skald for the shock stuff and the whisp summons and then add Missile Gloves. Stuff like that. Not necessarily OP but just something different that is still viable and more importantly fun.
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The microchip will travel to your brain and make your gray matter microsoft?
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Speaking of Necklace of Fireballs: In case you guys didn't know: if you have at least two Necklaces of Fireball you can unleash 8 Fireballs per encounter "for free". Just keep one charged necklace in the stash (NOT the character's inventory) and wear the other necklace. After a fight where you used charges of FIreballs just stack them in the stash, then reequip and *tadaa*: necklaces refilled to 8 charges. This works with all items that have per-rest uses or charged uses IF you can find at least two of them. Necklace of Fireballs, Missile Gloves and Stone of Power are the ones that most people find two or more of, at least if you use the Berath's Blessings vendor. You can also export a character with items such as Ring of Reset and then hire that guy with items in your actual playthrough to just take those items. That way you can turn all per-rest/charged items into per-encounter items.
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I was talking about an unchecked capitalism in general. Those trends are less prominent in European countries that have (or had) a rel. strong social democratic influence. This doesn't only mean free education but also universal health care, free child care (day nursery, kindergarden, pre-school), paid apprenticeship instead of unpaid internship, access to funding and fair loans, information campagins and so on and so forth. Rich kids and kids of academics will always have a head start - you shoudn't put a spoke in the poor kids' wheels. Small anecdote: in my school class on the Gymnasium (high school basically) there were 25 kids and none of us had parents who were rich or academics. We nearly all went to university. I met most of them on our 20th anniversary of the Abitur (high school diploma) in 2015 and was pleasantly surprised that all of them had been quite successful in life.
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Yes, your Animal Companion is a teammate and Minor Threat will work. Killer's Gloves don't give you a higher chance to crit, they only give you 10% more damage if you crit (which isn't a lot). Crit conversions do stack (other conversions, too). But not like "10% + 10% = 20%". Instead those conversion chances are checked one after the other - and if one succeeds the checking stops. You can calculate the combined chance to convert like so: (chance NOT to convert * chance NOT to convert (and so on) - 1) * -1 --> your overallchance to convert. Example: you have Minor Threat (10% or 0.1) and Dirty Fighting (10% or 0.1). You calculate: 0.9 * 0.9 = 0.81 -1 = -0.19 * -1 = 0.19 --> 19% Minor Threat and Dirty FIghting and Uncanny Luck: (0.9*0.9*0.95-1) *-1 = 0.23 or 23%
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Completely ignoring the word "threshold". The problem aren't people who start "on the path" with big paychecks. It's the people who get dropped right at the finish line by inheriting huge fortunes. At the extreme it's like feudalism where it's impossible to improve your quality of life at some point because your social ranks become cemented. Poor, brilliant people will stay poor and uneducated while rich, stupid douches and their decendants will stay rich. The total opposite of meritocraty and "working your way up". Capitalism without the proper amount of redistribution leads to disruption, imbalance and finally a collapse of the system. Naturally those who profit most will always oppose changes and will make something up like the trickle-down nonsense - but they are also complaining the most when they can't get out of their guarded compounds anymore or finally get clubbed to death by a starving mob. And the funny thing is that 75% of society are led to believe they are the ones profiting (or at the brink of doing so) while actually it's the top 10% if not even less.
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Maybe, but as I said there should be thresholds (I wouldn't want to tax a home which you plan to live in - for example). One should also check if inheriting a company and having to play a lot of taxes would mean you would have to close the company. That would be counterproductive. Stuff like that. It may be tricky but I think it's doable. You have to prevent wealth from working like a black hole that draws in more and more money and drains it from the people and the economy. Unfortunately wealth will automatically behave like this because of our financial system which uses loans with interests - where you can gain more money by just having money. Income without any work. Inheritance tax is a way to split a bit off of that black hole at least every once I a while. Maybe it isn't necessary with the right amount of property tax though. That could be. Property tax is tricky as well. But I think that one's doable and beneficial if done right, too.
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No, I am a certified banker and software engineer/computer scienctist. My father is a mason who also knows woodworking (and basically all of those adjacent crafts) though, my uncle is a car mechanic, another uncle is a carpenter and a third one was a painter/paperer. So growing up I picked up lots of stuff. We almost never had to hire somebody to fix things (except electricity because of insurance issues) because somebody from the extended family would come and fix it. I even cut my own hair (and my childrens' hair as well) because my mom is a hairdresser, tehehe. They are all retired now (painter uncle is already dead unfortunately) but they still have their private workshops and can give tipps and tricks.
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I build a cabinet during my free time last week. Isn't 100% finished. Today I will paint it. Since we moved into our hoise in June I build a kitchen cupboard, two loft beds, a kitchen isle, an office bookshelf, a cozy corner for reading and a bedroom cabinet. I also planted roughly a hundred shrubs and trees etc. in the garden. Feels good to work with your hands. Today is painting day as I said. That's my least favorite thing unfortunately. I hate painting.
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That is correct. A steeper progressive inheritance tax, higher tax on income from capital/investment and a small tax on financial transactions should do the trick. I also wouldn't oppose luxury tax (expensive watches, jewelry, second car etc) and property taxes. Everything with certain thresholds of course. And before people start to scream "that's socialism" or "but the middle class!" and nonsense like that: Last time I checked our personal household income was among the top 5% of Germany. Since Corona it dropped a bit because I spend a lot of time with homeschooling my 3 kids (and since I'm self employed...). But still top 10% - zero doubt. And those kinds of taxes would barely touch us! The top 1% are so far away for me I might as well live in a tent - the difference in wealth would basically be the same. And the little those taxes would touch me: I'd be happy to earn a bit less from my fancy fonds and stocks I bought for retirement etc.. My kids still won't go to bed hungry and I could still buy the latest crap from Amazon whenever I wanted to.
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Uff! That was a joke. The picture is "Q", an omnipotent being from the Star Trek universe. Q as leader of his Anons you know.
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Iirc Smoke Veil is not a free action in TB and only lasts 1 round. So you can't go invisible and then attack from invisibility. Is that correct? You'll need to use Shad. Beyond since that is a free action. That limits the amount of invisibility uses per encounter a bit more. Instead of 5 Smoke Veils you can only use 3 SBs. Devil of Caroc Breastplate can lift you up to 4. Somebody correct me if I'm talking nonsense, I didn't play TB mode and am only repeating what I (think I) read.
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Also keep in mind that not only Engwithans were sacrificed but also lots of Huana gave their lives (and souls). Not only are sacrifices of Huana (together with Engwithan "priests" depicted in several of the ruins - but also BoW shines some light on how the Engwithans toppled over one of the biggest empire with all their create-godlike-essence-golems-with-fancy-machines shenanigans.
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In terms of versatility and more interesting options I would also go for an Assassin/Caster. Most likely Assassin/Bloodmage. That you can use Arkemyr's Brilliant Departure to cast CC from invisibility (without breaking it) is cool. You can put a bunch of debuffs and CC on enemies without getting noticed and then finally strike with a perfectly prepared nuke. Or you can just use Ninagauth's Shadowflame from stealth and invisibility all day long. Lots of options. Assassin/Paladin however can kill almost everything even if severely underleveled with stacked True Love's Kiss + Gouging Strike + Brand Enemy. First attack from stealth is with single handed Lover's Embrace + Gouging Strike. It gets +42 ACC (5 dagger + 12 single handed + 25 Assassinate) so you won't even miss bosses. And Brand Enemy is an auto-hit. You can do bounties with three red skulls easily and take on almost everything prematurely. It's kind of a two-trick pony though: either shoot your arquebus and kill the enemy right away, then turn invisible to flee and reset encounter - or apply endless DoTs and then turn invisible, retreat and let them bleed out/burn to death. Don't know how well that works in TB mode though. You need Smoke Veil for the DoTs (Shadowing Beyond will break with DoTs) and I believe SV only lasts one round? Can you still retreat far enough then? No idea.