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Well I have several friends, three kids and a wife (who is my best friend) - I also have 5 nieces/nephews and a big family. Still I wouldn't run out and buy all the face masks and hand sanitizer I can get so that people who really need it can't get it anymore. Caring for friends and family doesn't mean you have to act like "après moi, le déluge". Hey that should be my family motto from now on. Bit unwieldy though...

Because David Hasselhoff has been looking for it.

Thing is you will lose 3 PLs when multiclassing in the first place (taking Prestige into account) Acute or Brilliant will only give you back one out of three temporarily then. If you only compare with other Cipher/x multiclasses: right.

I will repeat myself: there is none.

Aaaand you're evil.

Go left into the building and loot one of Arkemyr's robes (iirc there is one). If you put it on you can just walk past the Ironclad. But afaik you can also sneak past it. Use Sparkcrackers or Rokowa's Fingers to lure it away.

Or listen to DJ Bobo...

I have not read much from him besides in the PoE and Deadfire subforum - but this is wild. I think he should give himself a warning point...

You confuse people with person. FAKE THOUGHTS LOLZ

So... you're saying that social behavior is for losers? And egoistic behaviour is for winners?

Problem is that many Germans still don't know what is at stakes - and I don't just mean the health issues but the impact on the economy as well. They continue to go to parties. A bit hysteria is what they need I'd say. Also my father in law lived through WWII as a kid and my father was born 1949. Both said today that they never experienced something that has that much impact on our society like the current crisis and do agree with Merkel (on this). But maybe it's also because nowadays there's the internet and information travels instantly. So maybe the challenges just seem to be bigger because you know more.

But nothing happened. Also this wasn't really on everybody's radar back then and so Germans didn't panic. The Berlin blockade can be seen as an aftermath of WWII. Building the wall was ugly, but most western Germans didn't really care much. Life went on without too much disturbance. Currently a LOT is happening in Germany that scares people, disrupts the socienty - and the worst is yet to come. Crematories are working 24/7 in the most affected regions in Europe right now. This is the biggest challenge we faced as a socienty since WWII.

I have seen people walking out the supermarket with like 10 20-kg bags and 40 1-liter-cans of dogfood, 20 whole chicken, a cart completey full of toilet paper, 20 kg of rice and pasta, litres of sanitizer (would be enough to supply a whole block for months) and more... Buying a little more to mimize the trips - that's what I do every time I drive there, Corvid-19 or not: I'll have one big cart full of stuff for my family (of 5) and it will last two weeks or so. Fresh stuff I will buy elsewhere. But those people are just idiots. Where do they put all the chicken? Did they buy an extra freezer? Where do they store the toilet paper? Did they extend the house? It's wild...

We had an Iranian husband (married to a German wife who worked at the Goethe Institut) in our community in Uzbekistan when we were posted there. A painter, lovely guy - supergood with toddlers, too. Like he had the magic eyes and voice that made them stop crying instantly.... Anyways: he loathed the political system in his home country but he also organized holiday trips to Iran for US citizens. And the vast majority of those tourists said that they loved the trip, the country and the Iranian people they met. Sanctions can be effective in some cases, but always think about what they do to the (mostly nice) people who live there. No country is inherently bad. Also don't forget "Operation Ajax" - without it we most likely wouldn't have that particular regime in Iran. Loosening the sanctions in this time of need would be a grand gesture and the Iranians wouldn't forget that - I think.

Yes, seriously. Without a doubt. Germany doubled its Corvid-19 cases in just two days from roughly 7K to today's 14K. The curve currently looks like this: Given the drastic restrictions Germans do already face and looking at what Italy currently is experiencing (same growth rate) and what will hit us as well if the spreading continues like this: what else had such an impact on the German society since WWII? Nothing. The German Reunification was a big thing - but it wasn't such a big challenge because it was a positive thing. Of course that's easier to assess if you are actually living in Germany. But go ahead and have better expertise on the matter than the German chanchellor who's dealing with nothing else that Corvid-19 at the moment. I know for Poland's "conservatives" the biggest challenge still is the fight against the LGBTQ virus, but maybe try to take a different perspective once in a while...

There is none. As you have guessed, items that mention a PL buff for Illusion only buff the spells that are explicitly tagged with "Illusion" - so basically the properly tagged Wizard spells (no matter if a Wizard has them, a Trickster or a Priest of Wael). But items with universal Power Level can help you, like Stone of Power for example. If you have two of them you can stack them in the stash. That way they will refresh their charge after each encounter. Also Wellspring of Life (Nature Godlike) will work as a universal PL boost. What also works are items with elemental PL buffs - like Otto Starcat (pet, +1 fire PL) or Magran's Favor (+2 fire PL) which boost Soul Ignition or Deltro's Cage (+2 shock PL) which will boost Soul Shock. I guess Ciphers didn't get special PL boosters because they have several passives that help them with casting and Ascendant already gets a PL boost while ascended. Wizards, Priests and Druids have only rather generic passives (for casting).

The mechanics around attack resolution (miss/graze/hit/crit) are mostly the same, but attack speed calculation and armor mechanics are rather different. Also char leveling and abilities as well as resources (special attacks per encounter/per rest) are different (although the names are kept (mostly). And you'll have multiclassing.

Ok, cool. So... Megabosses next?

Or does it desolate desolation?

It may be your story once you play it, but you can't assume writers or developers can take every idea and opinion you have about yourself and your character (and the characters you interact with) into account. This is no super AI but a mere game. There have to be compromises. You might imagine that Vela was raised by you as a single mom in Caed Nua who was breastfeeding her while doing Dyrwoodan Aerobic or taking fencing lessons. But maybe the writers had something different in mind - and thus Vela calls you "captain" and not "mom". Too bad for your ideas, but you can't expect developers to read minds. It's a restriction of the medium which cannot react to everything you want to express (unlike a living Dungeon Master at a tabletop game).

Yes, you can get hunted on the world map by the factions you plundered - but you can also fly under false flag so that's convenient.

A QA dev at Obsidian clocked 5000+ hours of Deadfire. Assuming that devs don't play their own game because you disagree with their decisions or find a bug or an error that they might have missed is kind of silly. Saying that "it is a fact" is extremely silly. Concerning your question: Who said that the Watcher did raise Vela? Maybe she was given to a nurse in Caed Nua or to some foster parents?

No. Because nobody shouted. Also the argument was that other successful games and their sequels have similarly poor achievement ratings, not the ratings. The ratings were an argument against the "majority of players hated bugs/story/their mom...".

I personally like a good Witch - but with a morning star (The Willbreaker), NOT blunderbusses (or mortars). Because you'd lose Blood Thirst when using blunderbusses (doesn't work with reload, only recovery) and that's the best part of any Barbarian in my opinion. With the Willbreaker you can not only lower Will per hit (always good for a Cipher) but also Fortitude with the modal which helps to apply Soul Ignition and Disintegrate - which then trigger Blood Thirst (once they kill). Combine with Spirit Frenzy (to stagger with your Carnage and all your spells) - don't upgrade to Spirit Tornado (it's bugged and doesn't stagger with Carnage and spells then). Single class Cipher: Serafen's two mortars become pretty fun once you get Time Parasite and Shared Nightmare. The increased AoE of Shared Nightmare also works for weapons' AoE(!) which makes the AoE of mortars ridiculously big. Especially if you also took Greater Focus and maybe even wear Aloth's Armor and a Ring of Overseeing. Time Parasite reduces the reload times a lot and lets you gain focus quickly with such big mortar blasts. So a single class Cipher with mortars can be pretty nice. Another fun alternative weapon for SC Cipher can be Watershaper's Focus. Use the Blast modal and fire from stealth into a bunch of enemies - usually lots of damage and full focus. Or I'd give the mortars to Mirke (as mortar SC Monk or Monk/Streetfighter). Mortar monks are very strong in general (Stunning Surge, Flagellanth's Path and Whispers of the Wind + Resonant Touch). And a Streetfighter-Shadowdancer with mortars (+Powder Burns)... phew. Both great. Or I'd give the mortars to a single class Tekehu (no matter if Stormspeaker or Waterhaper) because once he gets Avenging Storm at PL 8 they are simply ridiculously powerful weapons to have. Use Chain Shot (jumps trigger Av. Storm) and Blinding Smoke (cone triggers Avenging Storm as well) as enchantments for Fire in the Hole/Hand Mortar, put on Deltro's Cage and behold the constant thundercracks all over the place. Combine with Aloth's or Fassina's Combusting Wounds...

I couldn't remember what's going on with upgrades with the RDC vessel (only used that once) so I played it safe.