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German is also not very good despite Josh speaking German fairly well. Hope it wasn't too expensive.

You could do the following: MIG: 15 CON: 10 DEX: 15 PER: 15 INT: 15 RES: 8 Order: Bleak Walker or Goldpact Knight (Variant A) or Darcozzi Paladini (Variant B) Abilities: Flames of Devotion Zealous Focus Sworn Enemy (A) or Liberating Exhortation (B) Lay on Hands (A) or Sworn Enemy (B) Coordinated Attacks Inspiring Triumph Sacred Immolation Abjuration Talents: Remember Rakhan Field/Enduring Flames (A), Inspiring Liberation (B) Intense Flames Weapon Focus Adventurer Scion of Flames Runner's Wounding Shot Two-Handed Style Savage Attack Apprentice's Sneak Attack In Defiance Bay, choose the Doemenel route to get Merciless Hand. In Twin Elms, side with the looters to get Dungeon Delver. Key items: Belt of the Deadfire Cannoneer, Forgemaster Gloves, Spectacular Spetum, Blade of the Endless Paths You will have Spectacular Spetum and Blade of the Endless Paths as weapon choices. Both grant +10 ACC to an ally who targets the same enemy as you. This also works for spells etc. This is EXTREMELY good against tough enemies which are hard to hit. If you have any ally in the party who can debuff an enemy (hard CC like stun or paralyze are awesome - but also blind etc. works well - providing a severe drop of defenses) you should attack a tough enemy with Spetum or Blade (depends if the enemy is more vulnerable to slash/crush or pierce - most of the time the Blade will be best). It's enough to point+click on that enemy - you don#t have to actively swing at it to give the nearest ally who also attacks this target +20 ACC (or +30 if you used a Darcozzi). It's just imporatent to not cancel the attacks for doing something else which is not aggressive (this will cancel the ACC bonus for your ally). Your ally then casts his (hard) CC onto the enemy which will most likely hit or even crit. Now it's time to decide if you want to summon Firebrand (not while your ally is casting: will cancel the ACC bonus) to finish the enemy off very quickly with Flames of Devotion - or to stick to your current weapon and finish the job. It depends on the stage of the game and on the immunities/DR of the enemy - and on how much endurance he has left. Don't put too much thought into it and go by intuition. Thing with Firebrand is that it has enormous base damage compared to other weapons and thus works very well with all dmg bonuses - it also has double crit damage. You can enhance this further with Merciless Hand etc. If you do hard-CC your enemy you will be landing crits a lot more often (debuffed defeneses meet your overall very high ACC with Flames of Devotion) which means that this enemy will die very quickly. That's against tough enemies. Against weak mobs or enemies with low defenses you can summon Firebrand right away if they are not immune to fire. Scrap the additional +10 ACC for your allies and go right to town with that burning blade. In the late game with all the Durgan Steel and lashes on your weapons you might feel that Firebrand doesn't do that much more dps compared to a fully upgraded Blade. You can then switch the Forgemaster Gloves for Gauntlets of Swift Action and only summon Firebrand as backup once you meet foes who are vulnerable to fire (hello White March). The thing with Firebrand is that it's very strong in the early to late mid game. And with Belt + Gloves you get 6 casts per rest which ususally is enough to use it in all encounters until you rest. The stacking of Marking, Coordinated Attacks (and with B Inspiring Exhortation) means you are also a supporter - but a selfish one because you want to profit from the "supported" CC. Of yourse you can also use that ACC boost to support the dps of your ally. FOr example it's quite easy for a fighter to prone dragons with an Overbearing Weapon (We Toki for example) if they get +30 ACC from you - while you also hack away at the dragon. If you combine this support with a Priest whi uses Inspiring Radiance (+10 ACC) and Devotions (+20 ACC) which will stack with it - and/or a Cipher with Tactical Meld (+20 ACC, stacks with your support) you will have a very easy time hitting/critting even the most toughest enemies while also do good melee damage. You are not a healer though - nor are you a tank. So don't jump right into the middle but play more like a flanker. Paladins are ok off-tanks even when picking no defensive talents whatsoever. But don't overdo it. If you find yourself flanking a lot (or have a Cipher with Phantom Foes) you might want to use the Survival bonus that gives you +dmg on flanked targets and wear and item (like Glanfathan Stalking Boots) while swinging Firebrand. It stacks with Apprentice's Sneak Attack and works beautifully with Firebrand's high base dmg. Else the ACC bonus from Survival is also great. Just note that there's none against kith, so in that case the flanking bonus is better. For Deadfire you can then use a Holy Slayer (Paladin/Rogue). Those are a very nice combo of sturdyness and dmg output since the combination of high lashes (Paladin) with high dg bonuses (Rogue) is very potent. Subclasses like Assassin or Streetfighter come to mind. Unfortunately there's not items in Deadfire that summons Firebrand for you might want to pick one if the many Estocs, Pollaxes and Great Swords to keep the style. You can reforge the Blade ofthe Endless Paths for example. It's a good weapon and fits well. You could also try a Paladin/Druid (Liberator). You could summon Firebrand then in every encounter. In Deadfire summoned weapons scale with char level so it will keep being viable until the end. It has an inherent lash so it's quite good. It also works with the Ring of Focused Flame (+10 ACC always) and Scion of FLame (+1 Penetration). The Druid part won't add a lot of melee bonuses besides Firebrand, but he can be used to heal and put out CC very well. Holy Slayer would do a lot more melee damage, Liberator would be a lot more versatile (healing, support, CC, dmg).

A cipher can be quite tanky at higher levels due to stuff like Borrowed Insticts. In the earlier levels he can be tank-ish, but not comparable to a Paladin or Fighter. Chanter is also never as tanky as those, but he can be tanky enough to survive longer than all his enemies who get burned/slashed down by Dragon Thrashed. Fun facts: Using Withdraw on a Chanter creates an untargetable, unkillable "totem" who still keeps singing chants (like Dragon Thrashed). Look out for the Black Sanctuary shield if you are solo. If you combine it with summons you can Withdraw without ending the encounter and keep dealing damage while also blocking chokepoints. Getting proned while wearing Little Savior or Solace + any other Preservation item (like Blaidh Golan) will give you +100 defenses (minus the prone debuff) - but you will still chant. Perfect setup against Ogres. You will lose no dps but gain a lot of defenses once they start smacking you down. Switching to a one handed setup gives Dragon Thrashed a +12 ACC boost. One Handed Style does NOT work. Combine with 1. or 2.

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.