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A Black Jacket/Ranger with Crossbow as his basic weapon and three arbalests as interrupt-fallbacks is a good char to ensure that enemies can't get off a spell/ability. If you see an enemy starting to do dangerous stuff just switch to a loaded arbalest (with modal on) and shoot the guy. Since reloading can be cancelled the arbalest will be ready to fire immediately after switching.

As I understand this, each source of conversion is processed one-by-one. It checks one, if converted, you're done, and if not, it checks the next. So, if you have 3 sources of h2c, at 25%, 15%, and 10% (I'm inventing numbers to illustrate because I don't remember precisely what chance the abilities you mention give you), the chance of a non-conversion is .75 * .85 * .9 = .574. Subtract that from 1 and convert to a percentage to get your total h2c chance: 42.6% Yep

I think it's more petty (and presumptuous) to always call one's mere opinion "facts" and "truth".

Look at my signature. No, not the Waltermann part.

Paladin has one big advantage when it comes to crits: Ring of Focused Flame works with FoD. That's +10 ACC on top of your +10 ACC which FoD brings. Conversions are multiplicative. It doesn't matter if the biggest or whichever part of it is used as "base" though. It's communtative.

AoE. Not with the full amount, but still. Also the focus generation works with the AoE hits.

Try Spirit Lance.

Well... Microsoft is working with Linux more than ever. Of course that's mostly on the business software level, not the consumer level. But in general it seems that Microsoft is more open minded towards Linux nowadays. Maybe also because it's no threat at all... I have no hopes for MacOS though.

Nothing basically. We clashed a bit and that's it. It was just an example (that some people may have witnessed and remember).

With high DEX, Alacrity and Rapid Casting it's not that bad.

I still think that the setting is a big reason. It's visible and obvious when searching for a game to buy. Another might be disappointment with PoE for whatever reason. Those are two reasons not to buy Deadfire. The other internal "flaws" might be reasons not to like Deadfire (and could have a huge impact on the sales of PoE3 should it ever come), but you will have already bought the game then. And remember: reviews were fine. Not a lot of people like getting served "something new" unfortunately (you can include me when it comes to new game mechanics while the old ones worked just fine...)

Wael knows we (the incarnations of bigbazoopa and me) had our quarrels, but I think once forum people bring up good arguments (form aside) it's worth discussing them. I also don't believe in excluding people generally and completely out of animosity. I don't hold grudges (I mean in these "forum cases"). For example I couldn't talk to Gromnir anymore if I'd close the door after clashing with him. Now that would be a shame, wouldn't it? Some of the people we clash with actually post very viable things.

Drconic Fury is especially impressive with Rogue as second class because the huge additive damage bonuses work well with the two multiplicative lashes from Draconic Fury. And Spellblade is a powerful class combo anyway. From a RP perspective Draconic Fury should only be used with a Warlock though.

Kingmaker has the advantage of piggybacking off of very well-known IP/game system (Pathfinder), whereas PoE even after the success of PoE1 is still a niche system. Where'd you come up with the 14m budget number? Very interesting if true. Divinity Original Sin 2 did not have the advantage of " Piggy Backing" of a Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder type Intellectual Property and everyone knows how well DOS2 is doing so i understand your argument there but i also dismiss it as i believe the DOS2 situation has proved your point irrelevant. The $14,000,000 was clarified to the fig backers by fig. There is a post buried somewhere here on this forum where a fig backer posted it, i honestly assure you it is a correct figure. Look i must clarify i am very disappointed that OBS are finished but they made unbelievably stupid school boy errors like: - Shocking narrative and writing - terrible spanish / Italian setting - The ship combat would have put alot of people of purchasing the game especially if they watched how it worked on youtube before deciding to purchase deadfire. I cant stress how unbelievably stupid the ship combat is. - The re-inventing of the wheel from pillars 1 and trying to fix something that wasnt broken. - Stupid implementations like the empower button - The loss of vanacian casting and priests/ druids having only three spells to choose from per level. Why would you be so stupid to do this? Why restrict casters and give them less flexibility. - Stupid problems with the level cap. You get one extra Power level compared to POE1. This is totally stupid and a bad idea. If Obsidian didn't concentrate on all this crap above they could have spent there time doing other things that actually added value like adding a whole new range of new spells and abilities instead of just recycling the same ones from POE1. More story driven content should also have been a priority with cut scene animations. You use "stupid" for a lot of things that are just different. That weakens your argument. If you could ever learn to present your arguments in a more mature manner people wouldn't dismiss them so quickly - because I think you make some points here and most of the decision that were made and that you mention I also don't agree with. I think they didn't help the game at all. But did they lead to bad sales? I was one of those who dismissed the ship combat as unlikeable right from the start. And while I don't think it's terrible or stupid I also believe that it's nothing one can be proud of or what attracts customers. Changing the whole mechanics and "reinventing the wheel" was my biggest point of criticism (loss of talents, too few passives - you couldn't rebuild your Watcher on many cases). I don't think that this puts off a ton of people because this isn't obvious stuff you notice when looking at the game in the shelf - but it surely doesn't help as well. Writing wasn't reviewed as bad. Empower Button might not keep one single customer from buying the game. All in all I think one shouldn't take everything one doesn't like and name it as reason for low sales numbers. Per-rest was one of the biggest criticisms of the first game and got changed just because of this. Can this be a reason for low sales numbers? I don't think so although I don't like the change. But I still believe that most of those gameplay related things you listed don't explain what put off that many people - because you actually need to play the game to experience this and this usually means you bought it. Also they were done because of criticism to PoE. It's hardly stupid wanting to address the biggest gripes with PoE a lot of people seemed to have had. Other stuff like the setting (there is no italian or spanish setting but I get what you mean) is very obvious and can lead to a repelling of many people with very little efford. Imagine mechanics of Deadfire within a setting in Aedyr or Raedceras which are more like traditional fantasy. I strongly believe that it would have sold a lot better. DOS and Pathfinder have traditional settings. Deadfire has not. But the setting is very visible even for non-buyers. Pathfinder KM had little marketing. Pathfinder KM has millions of bugs and bad translation. Pathfinder has had huge balancing and difficulty issues. All those didn't stop it. It has a classical setting though. Bold move with the whole pirate theme and the colonisation stuff and all - but I think most Western RPG players are very conservative and narrow minded with their settings. Maybe such settings would have been better for a smaller Pillars game or a DLC.

It is very good. It's protective as well. Although its terrifying retaliation seems to interfere with other retaliation effects like Minoletta's Piercing Sigil.

Only Nalpasca monks suffer -100% healing from drug crashes though.

Who were those people? You joined after release.

I don't think so. Completed different diction - and better orthography.

No, you are right.

During late game: yes.

I fear that Linux gaming is off the shelf now.

Well at least I respect him enough to spell his name correctly, tehehehe.

Iroll20s is NOT the command to open the console. It's the command to unlock the acceptance of cheat commands. As long as you don't type iroll20s into the console your achievements (be it Berath's Blessing or Steam) will not be touched. Opening the console itself does not disable achievements. The console can be used for other things than cheating.

I will once I finished my current playthrough. Short version: single class barb with Morning Star rocks.

Tell that to my Serafen with Barbaric Retaliation. He rocks so much when catching crits (sweating in his Patinated Plate) that you got to have pity with the attackers...