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Troubadour is considered to be the best subclass and I agree. If no guns or crossbows then only bows or implements are left. Those have no special synergy with Chanters. Would a reach weapon be a possibility? Because Pike + modal + Skald works ok as well. Eld Nary's Curse scales extremely well with Power Level (gets additional jumps). With the Singing Scimitar can turn Empower into 1/encounter. Empower adds a lot of Power Levels. If you like that then I guess Bellower would be a nice subclass as well.

You go here: https://forums.obsidian.net/forum/130-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire-technical-support-spoiler-warning/ And write a thread like "[bUG 4.0.1] Citzal's Spirit Lance (and Whispers otEP) suddenly don't apply afflictions in an AoE anymore" or so...

Sure Handed Ila used to be verygood with guns because those got the bonus (20%) twice for some reason. Maybe that's still the case? Besides that: go for Eld Nary's curse and stack Power Levels. You can still use the Singing Scimitar in a seperate slot and switch to it when you want to empower your Eld Nary 1/encounter.

I tried it just now and you are right: e.g. Toxic Strike only gets applied to the main target (game version 4.0.1). Also Stunning Surge only hits the initial target. This seems to be a bug because the AoE damage gets omitted completely when using an ability with the lance. Meanwhile, Hand Mortars still apply all stuff in an AoE... Could you file a bug report? Maybe it's fixed in the beta already. There was a problem with Citzal's and Whispers otEP in this patch (also doesn't proc in AoE) and maybe that's related.

beta branch or master branch?

About 1.5% sadly. Linux desktop that is. Wish it was more...

Afaik it's an auto-hit.

Thanks a lot for the update Sam.

Yeah, something's off.

The expected (and current) behaviour is that it gets removed after a successful hit. What's not expected is that it still doesn't work with Spirit of Decay.

Good boy

OR - you die, but do a 360°-Thaos and remember your past life. There, I did it. You can thank my later... "I'll take rebirth for 2000!"

Or (since we are speaking about PL9) you take 5 Berserkers, take Blood Storm, Bloodlust, Driving Roar and Blood Surge, go frenzy and cast Driving Roar for one flipping Rage on everything that comes along your way. Nobody moves, everybody gets hurt. Or you take 5 Druids and cast 5 Great Maelstroms. Or you take 5 Chanters and cast 5 Eld Nary's Curses. Wait - doesn't count. It's PL8 only. :oops: Or you take 5 Paladins with Divine Immolation who dance ring-around-a-rosy... Or... wait for it... that's totally revolutionary for a party-based RPG: you mix it all up! I guess the lesson is that PL9 stuff isn't too bad generally...

Why didn't you just charm it?

That, too. But with Deadfire I don't think I can ever accumulate that many hours. Work just takes up too much time dangit!

I hold a science degree in being awesome - but nobody cares because my arguments are usually shyte.

Can't remember. I just found it was one of the most nonsensical but at the same time funnily bizarre sentences I ever read.

Take parental leave. How do you think I managed to clock so many hours of PoE?

It procs when you kill them yourself with Grave Calling, creating a foe-only Chillfog. A Berserker can kill skeletons very quickly since his Carnage is friendly fire AND he procs Bloodlust and Blood Thirst on kill. But his Chillfog will hurt friends as well until you remove Confused. As a Berserker you might think about picking the other enchantment that summons an imp from your killed skeleton. The imp has no summon limit and thus you can create hundreds of imps while triggering Blood Thirst + Bloodlust. With ancient brittle bones you can produce three imps from one skeleton. Chillfog is more crazy though.

By the way: if you have a subclass that has increased resource costs - for example Corpse Eater - and you use an ability with refund - for example Barbaric Blow - you will not get all the costs back. In this case it costs 3 but the refund is only 2.

But only if you land 100% crits, right?

Maybe you had an injury at that time or so? Or you removed Gauntlets of Accuracy?

It's pretty bonkers if you have a Beckoner who does "Wall of Skeleton" all the time. Or (of course) the notorious Berserker/Beckoner with Grave Calling. You can't spend your Zeal fast enough. FoD with Sun & Moon + Magran's Favor + Ring of Focused Flames is strong if you stack lots of Power Levels. With Prestige you can have base dmg*1.7 (PL bonus)*(1 + 0.6 legendary + 0.3 MIG + 0.25 crit + 0.1 improved crit and so on) * lashes... Or just give everybody one of your ridiculously expensive Exhortations - who cares if Zeal is endless, right?