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That's totally fine and as far as I can tell it's the truth. For that you have my upwards pointing thumbs. I mean not my actual thumbs... Just the sign.

Can't you create an Obsidian account and then claim the reward on their backer portal? You should be able to generate a steam or gog key. If not you should write to support@obsidian... or write a PM to AarikD here (Community Manager). Good luck!

1) Nonsense 2) PoE mechanics are indeed obscure and made unnecessarily complicated. 3) Right. And on the other side the complicated speed system doesn't even improve anything that much. 4) no problems here

Hearth Orlan's Minor Threat + Animal Companion: yes. Even summons and charmed enemies work afaik. Quarterstaff and Pike are especially great with Instruments of Pain because it gives you +500% range. And both weapons already have a range of 1.8 meters instead of the normal melee range (reach). So with IoP you get a range of nearly 11 meters. Attacking with all the melee goodies from 11 meters is... awesome. The Long Pain is also great, but it's considered a ranged weapon and thus doesn't work with melee-only stuff. Very high ACC can also be achieved with Monk/Ranger. Enduring Dance stacks with the Ranger ACC bonuses. Also Long Pain with Drivin Flight is great. Or dual mortars + Stunning Surge + Driving Flight. But honestly the PL8/9 stuff of monks is so good...

Amen. If Sonic is what passes for the board troll these days then we have improved by quantum leaps over the days of Krezack and his multiple personalities (and every one an a-----e) Nur Ab Sal, Yushaa, that girl that used to threaten to kill us all, whatever her name was. Sorry, I missed that phase. I didn't want to promote a ban by the way. I just explained why he would get banned - if he would get banned. Like... hypothetically.

It does. Helwalker + Bloodmage = Suicidal Spiral

It's very powerful on a Phantom because it has very high base damage, does corrode dmg, drains life for the phantom and targets Will instead of Deflection(!). Use your Wizard's Miasma of Dull Mindedness and a club + modal to drop Will completely (-65!) and let the phantom pummel away with crit after crit.

Still awesome

Dang!

Wow - that confused me somehow.

No, he would because you are the member with the most trollish posting style. That doesn't mean that I can't agree with some of your posts - but your blueprint for a thread involves writing provocative stuff in a trollish manner in order to get attention and to provoke fruitless discussion about opinions. Because of that you never take part in discussion about factual things like mechanics, rules, items, quests - anything that is tangible. You also don't give tips or advice on games. You don't do bug reports. You don't contribute useful stuff. Fair enough, nobody needs to. Having a joker can be nice as well. But whenever you start a thread there's the guarantee that it won't end very well. Given that there are many, many threads in this forums and very few of them - even the ones that criticize - get such negative reactions I wouldn't blame it on the other forum members "who just don't agree with the content of my posts". What they not only disagree with but loathe is your attitude. It's like when a guy walks into a bar and yells "Which one of you mongers wants to buy this handsome dude a drink?" and later tells the policeman who scrapes him off the street that he didn't do anything, "really - they just couldn't stand my overly handsome face I guess."

1. Might is an additve dmg modifier. That means it will add +x% of the base damage of an ability to the overall damage. Power Level raises base damage (so it's multiplicative with other dmg bonuses). All other dmg bonuses are additive. 2. No idea, sorry 3. Corrode and Acid should be the same - also Decay. There might be cases where the ability is not tagged correctly though - although that got improved a lot with the latest patches. Corrode/Acid/Decay is a bit of a mess though. I don't remember all items that raise the according Power Level. Chromoprismatic Staff does. For other gear you might want to search the wiki at gamepedia 4. What exactly do you mean? From skills like Religion etc? Or abilites? Essential and Substantial Phantom will not have your skills and abilites. It's like a separate character with its own stats that have nothing to do with yours (but are quite ok since they scale with char level) that is auto-piloted. BUT it gets copies of your equipped gear - which can be used for crazy stuff. One hint: summoned weapons also get copied and will have no duration and thius won't expire on the Phantom (looking gleefully at Concelhaut's Draining Touch).

You mean solo? Because with a party it's not that hard to keep an animal companion alive. Since you want to take on the Megabosses at highest level anyways your AC will have scaled AR and there are some nice AR buffs which makes them rel. sturdy. Add passive healing or healing over time (Chanter, Paladin, Druid) and you're good. I soloed the Dracolich several times (when there were no Megabosses yet) with a Stalker Geomancer because of the awesome ACC and some other nice synergies against single targets and my AC wasn't even attacked that often. I didn't use any consumables so I guess there's still room for improvement. A nice synergy against tough single foes is Paladin/Stalker - because you and the AC have bonus AR and defense, more heals, an AR+ aura that heals passively, Flames of Devotion does +20 ACC with Ring of Focused Flames on top of all the Ranger ACC bonuses and other things that can be good for your AC. And you can evade very nicely with Evasive Roll - although that can trigger the Stalker debuff for a short time. Paladin/Troubadour is also nice because you can stack more passive healing and also create summons that distract from the AC. An endless stream of summons can be very helpful (see the chant phrase "Many Lives pass by" that summons an autopiloting skeleton every 3 secs that "stacks" with other sumons...). Another way to reach high ACC without ranger is single class Monk. With Enduring Dance and Razor's Edge you can get +22 ACC on top of the other stuff. And The Long Pain's ACC scales very nicely. Run around and kite while firing with those flying fists is pretty nasty. Another nice thing is Chromoprismatic Staff with Instruments of Pain. Also look at Empowered Strikes... just saying...

I did

Amen

Woedica ist about justice and oathkeeping and stuff. And while her favorite dispositions are cruel and rational in this case I believe that "cruel" should be understood as "merciless". Because it's paired with rational it doesn't sound like "unnecessarily cruel".

Yes. Run Through with Assassinate and Backstab is pretty nice.

I wonder if a Paladin/Arcane Archer with Spearcaster is as good as I anticipate. With FoD you can circumvent the ACC loss of the Archer - and since you are putting lots of points into Arcana anyways... Plenty plenty plenty ACC I presume...

Blood Sacrifice will not interrupt your focus generation. Neither will Alacrity. Only damage that passes an attack resolution counts.

Keep it like that. I'm the same (with a party) and it's great. Consumables are just tedious. Open the bag, click on that potion/scroll/whatever, wait for that animation... meh. Sure, during a solo run it's inevitable and ok since I only have to manage one guy. But with a party? Please... I had to make that dedicated PoE-scroll-rogue build "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in order to force me to use scrolls. I don't hesitate to use per-rest abilities and Empower though. And with a Nalpasca I will use drugs. So if it's part of the char/class concept it's fine. If not? Pfff...

Essence Interrupter Frostseeker Kalakoth's Minor Blights Thundercrack are the ones I remember. Besides that: also all Flames of Devotion attacks will not suffer. Using Paladin/Arcane Archer is a good way to prevent the ACC malus with any weapon once your Bond is gone.

If you have somebody in the party who can prevent death (Priest, Shieldbearer) it's definitely a good thing.