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It stops generating focus when getting hit. Sounds not so awesome for a melee cipher

Hm, I once had a Berserker/Nalpasca with max MIG (who most likely accumulates more dmg than a Bloodmage?) and had no big problem with Xoti as only source of healing.

Pure CC Bloodmage with dumped MIG seems like a solid option. Also helps with Alacrity. Those spells also aren't too great with Empower anyway. Are there items that reduce MIG? Don't remember any...

The Golden Dragon can also be played perfectly fine with Badgradr's Barricade by the way. If you dropped CON I wouldn't advise to drop the shield as well. Because he will be dead quickly. The Golden Dragon is all about raising his defenses while lowering enemies' accuracy - so your whole party becomes more sturdy. He's kind of a support char who can tank (after some levels) and also does good damage compared to other tanks. I used Larder Door until I found some exceptional shield (the Solace one from the Drake in the Endless Paths). It is totally cool to have a dual sabre setup in one weapon slot and a sabre + shield combo in the other though. So you can switch between speed and defense. No need to take Two Weapon Style.

That's most likely due to better knowledge about the game and not a better MC build.

Like in PoE. Only that DoTs didn't work afair. That's actually a great point with the battle axes. Single Class Barb with Battle Axes and Blood Thirst + Barbaric Retaliation is a great setup already. If all those stacked DoTs also leech... whoohee!

But he has Tekehu as a Stormspeaker/Watershaper in the party. That should provide plenty of healing over time, shouldn't it?

That would have been awesome.

I didn't check: Do a SC Furyshaper's Blood Ward and a Chanter's Old Sic stack? So that you and fellow party members get 30% of dealt damage as health and not only 15%?

Yeah sorry: that script is for PoE2: Deadfire, not PoE1. You are in the PoE1 forum.

I think he didn't mean that Silver Tide leads to unlimited spells. He was only saying that he has unlimited spells because he uses several healing auras (implying that the healing auras are capable of healing the health loss of the Bloodmage). I guess he was speaking about healing auras of other party members, not ones the Bloodmage himself emits. Blood Mage's regeneration ability stacks with other heals. It's great to have.

I think MaxQuest was implying to use Thunderous Report. He spoke about that several times in the past.

The Japanese Prussians - a.k.a. the Royal Deadfire Company. They brought us the Belt of the Royal Deadfire Cannoneer in PoE. You gotta love them for that.

It's difficult. Usually you can only cast one (if it's a fast cast). Sometimes not even that. There's no auto-pause - so it's very hard to pause right after combat begins. Enemies' AI will start to fire the guns right away.

Iirc they already got a slight nerf.

Hehe

Never paid attention to those as I have my eyes on the enemies' tooltips and the combat log most of the time - but I'll make an educated guess and say that they mean: \!/ - you don't have enough penetration against the armor of that fellow \?/ - the armor rating against the type of damage you are dealing is yet unknown - you have to hit that guy first in order to find out.

Check out the name of the armor - and then watch the dev stream where they want to pronounce that name... Then come back and post a sad smiley beause I had to explain a lame joke.

What now?

You might want to put this one forum-layer higher since 4.0.0.0034 is not in the beta branch.

You should only need to add food for (at least) one char.

Just picture him crouching behind that big shield until the gunshots are over, preparing his nasty spell.

Speaking of progress: In Deadfire you have a lot new abilites and revamped old ones. You have 50(!) new subclasses in addition to the 11 main classes of PoE. You have multiclassing. Bigger world, more content, full voice over, completely overhauled mechanics, transition from per-rest to per-encounter, ship fights, God's Challanges, Berath's Blessings, Mega Bosses. All that without an ancient Pen & Paper ruleset and -lore that got playtested and evolved for decades before coming to the computer as CRPG. Facts™, not calumnies.

The best way to avoid death by gunshots during boarding fights in my opinion is to use a large shield in the secnd weapon slot and to take Weapon Proficiency Large Shield. At the start of the combat pause and switch to the large shield and activate The Wall. This helps a lot. Not only because the deflection is high but because the incoming damage gets greatly(!) reduced. After the initial volley it's rel. save to switch back and play as you are used to.

Haha, sorry, I misinterpreted your question. Your MC's multiclass could be Geomancer like Arnold Rimmer suggested. My go-to Geomancer nowadays is a melee Stalker/Wizard who uses Willbreaker and high AR (use thick armor and Spirit Shield for example) and who focuses on Concelhaut's Draining Touch + Essential Phantom. First cast Draining Touch and then Phantom. The Phantom will also get the Draining Touch as weapon - but it will not go away after a hit like on a "real" character. It targets Will -> so you will use Miasma of Dumb-Mindedness to lower enemies will and hit them with Willbreaker + Body Blows while at the sme time your AC (wolf or lion) will use Takedown Combo (targets Fortitude) to give you or your Phantom +100% dmg attacks. Draining Touch has very high base damage and works wonders with Takedowen combo. Also the phantom will crit often when Misama did hit. It wil do nice dmg and heal itself. Use Combusting Wounds to take advantage of all the hits that rain down on the enemy. You will target Deflection with all your nice ACC buffs, the Phantom will target (low) Will with decent ACC and your animal comp. will target (low) Fortitude with Takedown Combos. There's no escape. It is a tanky yet very potent single target nutcraker. Do not take Ghost Heart with this technique. The AC would prevent the use of Essential Phantom and vice versa. I soloed the Dracolich with this guy on PotD without any consumables, blessings, resting buffs or shrine buffs etc. and without special equipment except Willbreaker and Nomad's Brigandine. I used Nomad's Brigandine because it's nice you be able to always run to your pet unhindered as a Stalker. Also you want to be able to move freely because the Phantom is on autopilot and sometimes you want to follow.