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Yeah - I do speak Russian (not too well though). But as you hinted one can't assume that QA of an American company does. I mean maybe someone does - but the chances that you will get help (also from fellow forum users) might drop enormously when not writing in English.

Man. How is anybody at Obsidian supposed to understand that?

It's called "asnjas benutzt Fäkelsprache, um seinen Unmut auszudrücken, obwohl er einfach nur noch eine Tüte hätte quarzen müssen, damit ihm alles egal wäre."

Umm it is lol. Depends how one defines "broken". But since some core mechanics are not working since TB was introduced I'd say it is. For example: You can't remove Afflictions by Inspirations or suppression in most cases. It will start and run though. So some may argue it's broken when it doesn't do that anymore.

I guess that's why the German word is used then. Weltschmerz, Kindergarten, Butterbrot, Rucksack, Existenzangst and so on. All pretty cool words that are used in other languages. Because it's so easy to create totally valid terms in German - simply by merging two or more things into one word. Ask the next Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän you meet.

Schadenfreude I guess?

Bonus points to me for writing "Slavation of Time".

Thank you! I also edited my PM in order to replace the URL to this thread.

Bethesda?

Try Chanter + Ancient and cast Wild Growth on a summoned Dragon.

Yeah - I guess a lot of people don't know and thus don't realize how goot additional PLs are. Also a reason why so many people think multiclasses are superior (while I think it's the opposite as long as you have a Full Party). But in their defense: the information is obscured. How would you know if you didn't read here or run excessive tests?

@thelee: could you maybe rephrase your thread title so that it's more obvious there's a severe bug we're talking about? Something like "[4.1.2 BUG] Broken core mechanic: Afflictions not supressable/not removable by inspirations" or something? Maybe also edit the first post (insert a bug description right at the top) so that the problem is clear right from the start and the thread is recognized as a bug report? Atm, only judging by the title one could think this thread's just a rant - and maybe devs stay away from those? Not criticising you - I just want to make sure that this gets noticed because it is indeed really bad.

Unfortunately SChin didn't read my PM yet. Maybe he's on vacation or something. Edit: although he did log in here yesterday after I send my PM. Hm...

Since those new trollish reviews all mention the Epic store and all popped up directly after the announcement about TOW getting released there I think your last point is not valid here. I mean yes: him being political might make him and the games designed by him a target - but in this case that doesn't seem to play a role.

In Italy men stay at home a lot longer than men do in Germany (average). But I never heard that they feel more entitled. They just learn to fry an egg and wash their clothes a bit later as far as I can tell.

The study which said that Baby Boomers behave more entitled than Millenials unfortunately isn't online anymore. Anyways: I don't live in the US and thus can't judge about the situation without reading a lot of stuff - which I don't have the time for. But here in Europe there isn't such a big discussion about millenials. Sure - every once in a while people will say that today's youth is xyz and whatnot and that mobbing is a bigger thing, that mental issues are on the rise etcpp. But often enough the explanation for that is that those things get diagnosed and monitored a lot better/sooner than they were 30 years ago. Anyway - there's no big discussion about that here. During my time as researcher at university (after I graduated) I would also lecture students and supervise student associates. Later I worked with trainees in companies and so on. Those were mostly very competend and well behaving, decent people. I seldomly heared or hear a complaint about their work ethics compared to "the good old times". A discussion we had recently was that conservatives said that kids/students who are currently protesting on fridays because of climate change (and show a lot of engagement) shouldn't skip school. I mean if that's the biggest problem with european youngsters then everything is in order... While we speak about the difference between US and European youngsters: One thing I have noticed is vastly different. Let me give an example: In Berlin and other capital cities around the world (that's where I live - I move a lot) you can meet quite a lot of US Americans with their families (expats & diplomats mostly, sometimes military). Especially if you are connected to the diplomatic community like I am. You not only meet them at receptions but also on the playground and so on. Geberally speaking, US Americans seem to treat their kids very differently. In the eyes of most Germans they are overprotective. Its funny to see how stoked US moms are if they see that you let your 2-year-old daughter climb up the monkey bars all by herself. "What if she falls?" "Well then she will get up again I guess?" "But it will hurt!" "Sooo....?". There's sand, there's padding - but still they will look around in panic - in search for those uncaring parents. One even asked me where the playground security is. Playground security in Berlin... that provoked some thigh-slapping. Several parents from the US told me how hard is was for them to adapt to the german "laizzez-faire" approach when it comes to supervising your kids. I also met several Russian families - and I guess they think the same about us Germans, haha! :D

I read this and found it more convincing. And of course I look at this from a european perspective.

What? As a chanter you simply run around with Dragon Thrashed active, find a good place where only few enemies can attack you, tank the damage and just burn/slash the enemies with your chant. The more enemies in your reach the better.

It might be intended - because Time Parasite depends on the effect you put onto your enemy, not yourself. If you pay close attention you will see that if you kill the enemy whom you cast Time Parasite on it will stop immediately. Same with Wild Leech. Both are buffs that only work if you put the effect on an enemy and thus I suspect Slavation of Time or Wall of Draining won't work since it's not the effect on you which determines the duration but the effect on the enemy. There are other cipher effects that might have the same behavior: Psychovampiric Shield, Body Attunement etc. All those powers require you to cast teh spell on an enemy. They are not mere self buffs.

After the early game it's usually more than that.

Totally depends on your party setup. If you have a very balanced party it's not that good I think while it's very good if you have some dedicated killers who need healing support. Like Shadowdancers for example.

I agree that it doesn't really matter at which Power Level you pick Uncanny Luck. It doesn't scale with additional Power Levels, so generally it's no problem to move it down - eh... or up. Depends on how you look at it.

Oh... I know that there's only one conversion into one direction - so no graze->hit->crit conversion with one attack roll. But I'm not sure in this special case. Couldn't it be that the attack gets converted from hit to crit and then back to hit by the enemy? I don't know. Good question.

Is there actual data that supports those claims? Because recently I read about a study that showed that baby boomers act more entiteld than millenials - which would contradict your statement.

Not really. Because then it's a lower PL than Dirty Fighting but has the same "net percentages" while being a universal/generic ability - which is not desirable following thelee's point of view (not trying to be snarky!) which says that class specific abilites should be better than generic abilites (hope I summed that up correctly). Dirty Fighting is PL3.