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They have no hand mortars. Amateurs.

What do you need defensive buffs like Ll's Safeguard for if you can't die anyways?

Sabres + Thunderous Blows + modal has enough PEN to penetrate (+4). Longer recovery doesn't matter for Whispers of the Wind. With Driving Echoes you might get overpenetration in some cases which means a meager +30% additive dmg. A waste of casting time for an Ascendant in my opinion (except against high AR bosses - but there Reaping Knives will work).

All my summons don't scale properly with level. When I summon an Essential Phantom at lvl 20 it has 34 ACC. Same with Xoti's Lashing Vine and so on. Beckoner's summons and Ancient ones as well. Essential Phantom... The only summon that seems to scale correctly atm for me is Matau (the head guy from SSS).

Driving Echoes does zero damage.

This seems to be in line with the problems of the other summons: they all don't scale properly.

Any ideas?

So...?

Oops - Driving Roar is not supposed to Knockback, sorry.

Why? You can just recast your buffs. Arcane Dampener is more annoying. Even if it grazes.

Xoti's Lashing Vines have an ACC of 34 (Xoti is lvl 20). All summons seems to suffer from this. That's not so great...

Bumpedy bump.

Yes, every corpse in range will emit healing. No corpse = no healing. It's very strong if you are at the end of a long fight with lots of corpses lying around. Like in SSS. Pollen Patch works like a charm. I never had any problems with it. Among the most powerful healing spells there is in my opinion.

Don't know. Both Troubadour and Skald generate phrases pretty quickly - if you build Skald right (by the way playing an awesome Konstanten as Barb/Skald atm in SSS - Brute Force + Morning Star + weakening chant + Spirit Frenzy just rules when it comes to generating crits. Enemies fort is always down in the 50s even if they start high). Beckoner has slower phrase generation and his summons cost more - but seriously: double summon count is so good. My concern atm is that all my summons don't scale properly and are unusable. Maybe that's the real problem that was occurring here.

Works. With FoD, Instrument of Boundless Rage and other non-caster abilities that are keyword with fire/burn. Also Scion of Flame and Ring of Focused Flames. If you want to make a paladin build around FoD you should consider those two things as well. Another weapon you might want to pick up is Sun & Moon (+2 additional PL for fire abilities). Makes +4 in total.

Both doesn't work (at least last time I tried... in beta - those guys are so late ) because the AoE attacks of both seem to be attached in a way that they don't work with other AoE attacks. Also not with HoF,Whirling Strikes (Ranger), Whispers of the Wind (Monk) and whatnot. Not even with Instruments of Pain. It's always the initial attack only, AoE gets omitted. Or got. It works with Citzal's Spirit Lance though. Clear Out + Spirit Lance is the Battlemage's no.1 melee nuke.

Mmm, do they stack ? If they do, it's indeed good for barbaric retaliation. If they don't, it's not good for this build but it's very good in general. It makes half-sword basically free for frenzied barbarian (except bersekers who don't care). Half-Swording most likely doesn't stack with Frenzy. I remember people complaining about PEN from modal not stacking with PEN from Tenacious, that is granted by Frenzy if you're Berserker. Just to be sure: We are talking about the deflection malus, not the PEN.

Good call, I'll switch out my lifegiver for a Lifegiver/Priest Just a suggestion. And sorry for the multiple "then/them" typos. My phone hates me...

I read your post multiple times before I posted my reply. Your statement doesn't make sense. Also not with your reinterpretation: why would I want to cast Reaping Knives (3 secs, 30 sec duration) on one Monk and Driving Echoes (4.5 sec, 24 sec duration) on the other if my goal was to use the Monks to generate focus for me? I could cast Reaping Knives on both and get my focus for my next Ascension even faster - and skip Driving Echoes altogether? By the way: does anybody know if Draining Whip on the Cipher influences the focus generation of Reaping Knives (which are carried by allies)?

How so?

Sword modal is great for a single class Barbarian who wants to rely on Barbaric Retaliation. Frenzy: -10 Deflection Half-Sword: -15 Deflection Flanked: -10 Deflection Crits here into my face please!

That's not very exact though.

No. Read this: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/99409-mechanics-power-level-compilation-thread/page-1 And you'll need no training area. If you want to find stuff out by yourself then simply go into any area you like and use the build-in console to give yourself levels, abilities subclasses, items etc. and spawn enemies.

Yeah, Reaping Knives work "especially well" with Driving Echoes (+8 PEN) - because they deal raw damage. @Razorchain: yes. If your Berserker is immune or only resistant to RES afflictions ("Mind" includes all RES, INT and PER afflictions) then he won't be confused anymore. By the way: with your party setup (two chars who can profit from being bloodied) you maybe should've brought a priest for Barring Death's Door + Salvation of Time to keep then bloodied/near death and only heal then once BDD is about to in out. Lifegiver/Priest of Eothas (or whatever Priest) would have worked. Just saying...

Hm, besides his special summons mechanic he's not different from a vanilla chanter, is he? So what excatly is meh about him?