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Finishing Blow is so so. Like thelee said. But the additional Shadowing Beyond is great. Ring of Focused Flame not only gives several spells +10 ACC but also Dragon's Dowry. So with modal, Assassinate and Ring you get +55 ACC. First shot out of stealth gets -80% recovery time, so the modal is no problem. If you pick a squishy usually you can kill an enemy with the first two shots which let's the slippers trigger. And so on... @thelee - yes, it was reported. I think no answer from QA yet.

Please delete the last part in order to not embarrass yourself.

You mean the second stupidest Paladin around: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83338-class-build-the-dull-runner-caster-clipper-paladin-tank/

Cosmo (pig), Cutthroat Cosmo (pig with a hat) and Nebula (bat).

Arquebus (Dragon's Dowry) with modal, Ring of Focused Flame, Slippers of the Assassin. Shadowing Beyond and Crippling Strike and off you go. Red Hand with Double Tap can be a good backup since it destroys even pierce-immune vessels. For Flame Blights you need something else. A reloading weapon is nice since you can immediately use Escape/Shadowing Beyond after a shot. BUT: Currently arquebuses seem not to be working with Backstab. Again...

I believe if they want to reach a bigger audience/player base the next PoE (if it comes in the first place) should be done in a rel. conservative base setting/biome. So Raedceras, Aedyr come to mind. Most others sound too outlandish or we already had it (snow etc). I personally would like some exotic place better, but I also believe you lose the interest of many players if you pick a setting that is too "exotic". So I would vote for Living Lands: it sounds if this can contain anything from flying ships to giant beasts and medieval cities etc.

Yeah I know. Tried it quickly with an old save. That doesn't make too much sense since she's not part of the RDC iirc.

Interesting! Very nice catch.

It got reintroduced with Turn Based mode.

They are called "influencers" for a reason Obsidian did some special "pre-release" collaborations with rel. popular Twitch Streamers though.

Depends. ACC raises your chance to overcome all defenses - while deflection is only one out of four defenses.

Before. First comes the attack roll for physical dmg, then additional effects.

Whatever it is - it's in the wrong forum I suppose? Because it looks like a bug.

Right - a Sniper only wants to tickle you. He's not looking to end you with high precision and impact. That's why a Sniper always aims for your belly and uses toothpicks with some cotton as fletching. Your statement that a Paladin does not work well as sniper is plain wrong. We don't need to discuss this further. Arcane Archer/Bleak Walker with Spearcaster and Ring of Focused Flame and Scion of Flame has unbelievable precision and high dmg per shot. One great way to build a sniper. And there's a Paladin in it.

I generally agree when it comes to "normal" weapons that only have lashes. For weapons which do direct elemental damage I don't know. For example Firebrand is a weapon made of fire and only does burn damage. I think it's totally reasonable to put a fire keyword on that. Same as Minor Blights. I'd also say a Decay keyword on Rot Skulls will make sense. Acid on Cadebald's Blackbow, shock on Fury's natural weapons - that makes sense. Weapons with dual damage like Essence Interrupter don't scream "shock keyword!" to me though. Certainly not Dragon's Dowry and also not Sun and Moon although it fits thematically. The additional effects might be candidates for a keyword but I don't know if it's possible to decouple that.

Did you keep in mind that stuff like Silver Tide now gains +2+2+2+5 = +11(!) PL from Staff of Thicket Green on a Lifegiver? I really think it was not a design philosophy to put class-specific keywords (Rejuvenation, Restoration, Decay, Shred etc.) on abilities that transcend classes (Silver Tide, Ancestor's Memory...). If Obsidian wished to do that they would have used a more general "healing" keyword I this case. So... class specific keywords should stay in their class (would be nice if "borrowed" spells like Sunbeam on a Priest would also respect that and remove Elements but add Punishment - like you did). Universal keywords (fire, freeze, shock etc.) can be used all over the place since they were invented for it. Generally I think that keywords are a bit of a mess. There's Decay (class specific) AND Acid/Corrode and Elements and Fire and they all overlap weirdly. But it is what it is. One has to be careful not to put too many keywords onto one ability even if it fits thematically because PL (or other bonuses based on keywords) stacking can become a game breaking thing. Because of that I'm not entirely sure about Cleansing Flame (as example). That's looots of keywords. But all I all that looks much nicer than before.

Poor Dirk.

Monk/Bloodmage has some nice synergies in terms of spell dmg because of +MIG (Helwalker only) and also Enduring Dance and Thunderous Blows. But you have to be really really extra careful when using Blood Sacrifice when you are at 10 Wounds as a Helwalker. +50% dmg and +30% from MIG makes Blood Sacrifice deadly. I would advise to spend the wounds before doing that.

If you put him into thicker armor (combined with Iron Wheel) and don't use Helwalker it's ok. But monks don't have self heals. So you might want to bring some external healing. If you like a tanky Bloodmage I guess Arcane Knight might be the answer. Or Battlemage. Or even Troubadour/Bloodmage (Ancient Memory)...?

Because you are in the Brass Citadell and most people there belong to the RDC - like Hamuto does. They could have left out the Orlan merchant though (if she joins in the first place). Besides that "justification': I managed to kill Hamuto several times without anyone else aggroing. So there seems to be a way (or seemed to have been).

I said it elsewhere, but I suspect TB mode stirred up the code pretty nicely. Where nicely == badly.

You mean women?

I want to add that I like the synergy if Blood Mage and Monk. Blood Sacrifice gives you plenty of wounds which then can be used to fuel Iron Wheel. +10 CON is no joke. You might want to say that the +10 would be better. But in this case I prefer +10 CON (and 2.5 AR). Because I can get +5 INT from Enlightened Clarity or Infuse wVE. Since a Sage likes his self buffs the procedure thelee describes also comes pretty natural: self-buff -> Blood Sacrifice. You get buffed up and are full of wounds. In this context I also like Corrosive Siphon. Blood Mage users don't mention it too much, but in combo with Dazzling Lights + Pull of Eora I find it pretty nice? Not an Assassin/Bloodmage of course... But in general CON is not a bad stat for Blood Mage. I even tried to stack health bonuses and regeneration gear (Amulet of Greater Health, Ring of Regeneration, Three Trolls Stitched, Tough and so on) and it really makes a difference until the flat bonuses fall a bit... flat in the late game.

Holy Slayer (Bleak Walker/Assassin or Street Fighter) is one of the classes which can deliver the highest dmg per shot with an arquebus and adding up to +PEN/ +20 ACC per FoD shot. Don't know what you want from a sniper, but that sounds like Paladin do work very well as snipers.

Dazing Shout (and Driving Roar) are very strong, yes.