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You mean with a pet? Or which other ability should give you +20 health on kill? It may be that damage of/death by Resonant Touch isn't connected to your character properly. Does it increase your "overall damage done" statistic when applied?

You can't go over max zeal afsik (the number you start with). But if you spam SI and stuff all the time (e.g. giving every party member an exhortation and so on) you can spend your Zeal pretty quickly. Only thing with dual wielding Dire Talon is that it will then proc wurms less often. If you want to proc White Flames twice and still keep up good defenses then you can use a bashing shield (like Magran's Blessing).

I think that (optional) megabosses shouldn't be a reason for keeping a broken and overpowered inspiration. Especially if that problem mostly occurs when playing solo (which is not the intended way to play Deadfire and not how megabosses are balanced anyway). Better: adjust Brilliant (I like @ocelotter's idea of giving back a fixed amount of resources once - can be more for replenishable resources like wounds and focus, a bit less for fixed pools like discipline and zeal and 1 spells use per tier for casters) AND adjust values of megabosses. For example make them harder to hit but take away the absurd amount of hitpoints. You can work around high defenses but you can't work around a stellar HP pool.

Oh, nice. Never thought about that combo. Using Essence Interrupter also is funny: eventually geting zeal from killing the enemy (Virtuous Triumph) AND getting zeal from the transformed enemy (summon) that gets killed. But of course the bow can be used by any party member to profit from the latter. So Beckoner/Berserker with Grave Calling (kill your skeletons and turn them into imps while they split into two lesser skeletons: three summons for one - cool), a bow user with Essence Interrupter and using Dire Talon on that Paladin should work really well. Nonstop summons and Zeal.

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The Fury attack (when shifted) has an auto-jump. But that doesn't stack with Driving Flight. Taking Driving Flight will do nothing then. But other auto-jumps (Watershaper's Focus, Fire in the Hole) do stack with Driving Flight no problem. The dmg reduction (-20% dmg per jump) does stack as well. So it's not overpowered.

Just got a PM from @MaxQuest: he's alive and kicking. Just some huge pile of RL stuff that needed attention.

Obviously for a "true stalker" one has to pick Stalker/Assassin. Takedown Combo + Accurate Wounding Shot + Assassinate + Sneak Attack + Deathblows: *boom* You got stalked man! Stalker/Priest of Skaen might also be nice. Having some nice support spells for you and your buddy plus Finishing Blow and Shadowing Beyond. Of course you need to use Stalker's Patience as main weapon.

Same with this forum and also reddit.

Takes too long for my taste.

Single wielding a pistol gives you +12 ACC. That's with all single handed weapons if you don't use an offhand weapon or a shield: you get +12 ACC even without any style. The modal is -15 ACC. Combined you get -3 ACC only but still -50% reloading time - which is a lot faster than dual wielding + two weapoon style. Generally speaking it's the best dps option when using pistol(s). Of course there might be certain unique items and synergies where you might not single wield a pistol - but in most cases a single pistol (+modal) is better than two. Single Weapon Style can give you +15% hit to crit conversion. This isn't too helpful with crit damage since pistols have reduces crit damage - but it can help with PEN issues as well as with on-crit effects (Stunning Surge for example or as you said Scordeo's Edge - which has enchanced crit modifiers).

We can't contact MaxQuest atm. He wasn't logged in since July 10th and doesn't respond to PMs. We hope he's well but we are a bit worried.

5 out of 11 is "a few?" It's a form of investment. The conditions are made clear. If you are lucky you can yield nice returns (look at Phoenix Point which runs until 2022 and already nearly doubled the investments before release - or Kingdoms and Castles which tripled them) and if you're not lucky you lose money (like with Deadfire). It's like trading shares or warrants. Of course the investor takes all the risk. He also takes all the returns if the game sells well. If you really believe that it's a scam you should file a lawsuit.

Please remove the time restriction for edits! Please extend the login time! Please reintroduce BBCode mode! Why is nothing done about it? No comment or answer either. I can't edit the char build lists anymore. Others can't edit their sticky posts with tipps & tricks. It can't be too hard to do that stuff can it? What's the point of this thread then? Ks ks ks...

It is not. As I said earlier there are several games on fig which did return much more than 100%. Here's a list from the end of 2018: It's like most other investments: there are risks. Calling fig investments "a scam" is out of place.

Some other games from fig.co returned a lot more than 100%, one even 300%. Of course deadfire was the biggest game and its failure will have a big impact on the reputation of fig investments I reckon. I don't know if it bombed in a big way. In Josh's post mortem talk he said somethiong along the lines of "was a disappointment compared to PoE - but not a disaster". But maybe I remember that incorrectly. It is a great game but I have to say I still like PoE more. Why? Can't relly put a finger on it... PoE was more addictive to me for some reason. I had to uninstall it in order to let go - else I'd still do playthroughs with build idea no. 12436534645. Deadfire is still installed but I don't want to play it anymore.

From a national economic point of view following that rule strictly would be fatal. Even as a private person this is hard to follow - for example if you want to build a house or need to build up private pension. So I wouldn't say "any kind of investment". There's a reason why there are forms of investment that are usually very safe (like government bonds): because people can't affort to lose that money. If we are talking about "playing with money" in order to generate more returns: sound approach. Like with gambling.

Solo Cipher vs. (lone) Megabosses is difficult in general. Like Kaylon said: focus generation is often difficult except against Belranga. For every Cipher and especially for a Beguiler since he will often miss with a Deception and his Soul Whip is not as powerful (against unafflicted enemies). Even a Psion (who would be the ideal candidate to gain focus without having to hit anything) doesn't work well because of his lame "focus generation stops if you take a hit" mechanic. In general a solo playthrough requires heavy metagaming, grind and often tedious an/orcheesy tactics that I don't find particularly entertaining - so I'm not an expert on PotD solo. I did do some runs with several builds just to see how they fare - but I didn't complete a lot of them. I believe only two. One Geomancer and one SC Monk iirc. I like the Beguiler subclass (as single class char) a lot in a party but haven't tried it solo. Resolve: In general (unlike other values with potentially diminishing returns like accuracy) deflection bonuses have increasing returns. So the higher you go the more impact every single point has. A difference of 10 points via 20 RES at the start of the game might not feel as significant as let's say an increase of 10 ACC (through 20 PER). But later, once you add Borrowed Instincts and other sources of deflection it could have a lot bigger impact on your survivability and performance. In the early game I would charm the heck out of everything that can be charmed to be honest. It makes the early game a lot more easy since it's basically removing one enemy and turning him into a "summon" at the same time. Just don't attack the charmed enemy: nor will it give you focus neither will it stay charmed.

Maje island is actually the hardest part if you want to fight every encounter.

Yes. A shield that also counts as offhand weapon (Tuotilo's Palm, Magran's Blessing etc.) will profit from both styles.

I also have the fig badge but I didn't do any investments/fig shares.

It used to be very good but its base dmg got nerfed severely. Now it's just okish. As Kaylon said it has it's own base damage and that is not weapon related. You'llget a rel. weak ranged piercing attack at the nearest enemy as a bonus on top of your roll for your ability point. Afaik it's not tagged as weapon attack so it wouldn't profit from weapon related passives and also would't generate focus. Most of the time I don't take it.

It is affected. You can look it up if you watch the tooltips of your equipped weapon during combat. The Hunting Bow modal wasn't changed by the Community Patch. It was always -50% recovery and -15 ACC. -15 ACC is pretty massive, especially in the earlyish game. You could get better results with a single pistol + modal I reckon. It's only -3 ACC and also has -50% recovery/reload.

The Long Pain is one of the best ranged (single target) weapons in the game.

Ha sorry. PoE1-induced brainfart with the retraining. Action speed modifiers work for reloading weapons as well. So with Swift Strikes you reload faster. Also with Two weapopn Style and dual wielding. Streetfighter's recovery bonus also works for reloading. What does not work is Barbarian's Blood Thirst. It only removes recovery only, not reload though. But since you don't use a Barbarian... no problem.