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I only sleep about 5 hours a night. I never slept much even as a kid. My oldest daughter has the same behavior and I now realize how annoying that must have been for my parents.

It's toxic, sooo... Decay seems to be a druid-exclusive keyword like Rejuvenation and such. I wouldn't use it in other classes' abilities. Poison is used for Wizard's abilities as well as for poison consumables. So I guess it's nothing exclusive to wizards (just like the elemental keywords that you can find in several classes) and thus might be used in other classes' abilities as well. For example: why does Venombloom (Druid) have the Plant keyword (correct) but not Poison? It even mentiones poison in its description. Of course Venom is not equal to poison... but come on! Cobra Strike also has no Poison keyword although it's clearly applying poison. Don't know if the DoT gets affected by Poison Power Levels though.

Although I'm one of those who question the decision for a complete (systems and mechanics) overhaul I'd still recommend buying Deadfire 2. It's a good game. The multiclassing is done in a nice way and balanced with single classes, Power Levels are a good concept. Some stuff I don't like (PEN/AR for example) - but overall a really good RPG if you like character building.

Nice. Why didn't I notice this before?

If you use mortars with decent AoE size you don't need to run that much. Fire at a group from stealth and then escape to another spot - for exple behind your frontline guys. Most of the enemies will want to reach you and bleed like crazy. When going solo kiting/running away is a good way to use this ability to its full potential though.

The pet does great dmg if you also use Predator's Sense and Brutal Takedown. Perfect with the Persistence hunting bow. The game is not patched anymore - but it's still a great game. I'm still around - so if you have questions about game mechanics feel free to ask. I know one or two things about PoE.

Maybe he's angry because I am the one who always recognizes him after he creates a new account - and reveal it. I understand that's annoying and frustrating. On the other hand: moderators and admin don't seem to care that multiple accounts get opened by the same guy - so just keep on switching if you feel exposed. No need to be mad.

You should make a poll about that as well.

Maybe you should create a poll to be sure?

I thought it might look better than having 4 Nature Godlike Evokers on the catwalk.

I'm an Orlan from the Ixamitl Plains with max Resolve - what did you expect? I mean your accuracy is rather low... I thought you were from PERth...?

Sure it's an issue: high electricity costs.

Whom are you addressing? Who's deflecting me away from whose addiction? You aussies have some weird grammar and interpunction I tell you...

Didn't know that. Great info. For me it's a rather bad ability. I never take it. Also low PL bonus.

Or you only bring one Evoker with da missiles, a Cipher who makes you brilliant and a Priest who casts Salvation of Time?

ROFL for "young". Well I guess I'm more healthy than most people. As I said every now and then: I have a job I like which gets me good money for very little efford (not the great sword), I have a beautiful and smart wife (best person I met so far) who has a prestigious and well paid job, I have three healthy little kids. I even managed to build our own house while playing PoE/Deadfire. I guess I even spend more hours on that than on PoE. I definitely got more white hair from that... But enough about me. I guess other people do more weird and unhealthy things with their lives. For example I just stretched my fingers, did some computer-science-magic-research with some trinkets of mine and read about rather self entitled people who rant online about every restaurant in the Perth area because they think the staff is treating them poorly. People who discuss the quality of hard drugs online in some dubious forums. People who create one forum account after the other to deceive the other users but forget to mask their IPs. Wael have mercy with those people who do all of that weird stuff at once, right? Well this thread is going into the shredder anyway, so why bother...

I think Holy Slayer is still stronger because of the Streetfighter/Powderburns cheese. Arterial Strike in an AoE is def. better than Pierce the Bell. It's only 1 Guile, it has bonus PEN and damage and it will apply it's very strong raw DoT effect on all enemies in the AoE. It also gets more Power Level bonus since it's of lower level. Every additional Power Level adds 5% multiplicative base dmg to abilities. The lower they start the more they profit from your Power Level. Higher base dmg combined with Sneak Attack and Deathblows is very powerful.

1. Nope. Only the direct use of the FoD ability is considered to be a fire attack. 2. It doesn't work at all in this case.

It's +2 from the vanilla ability and +3 on top for the ranged upgrade. So +5 overall.

That's what I'm doing. Alas the only bad thing about weapon debuff modal is only single target. That's why I was thinking of carnage aoe debuff A single class ranger can debuff reflex, will, deflection or fortitude in an AoE with Whirling Strikes. Any class with a melee AoE attack can do that (Barb with HoF, Monk with Whispers otW, Fighters with Clear Out and upgrades).

Until Heart of Fury or Whispers of the Wind I think Holy Slayer is better. The combo of additive dmg modifiers from Rogue and the multiplicative lashes from the Paladin are great. Also that you can apply Rogue's DoTs like Arterial/Gouging Strike in an AoE is very good as well as Deep Wounds. So all in all great class for dual mortars. Monk will be better once he gets Whispers of the Wind - but that comes rather late. But Stunning Surge is also really powerful because you usually crit one of your several enemies and thus pay no Mortification. You can spam it nearly endlessly as long as there are several enemies left. Also Dance of Death and Turning Wheel (crazy big AoE and burning lash) combined with the shocking lash of Lightning Strikes and the MIG bonus is pretty nice as well. Good think about SC monks is that they can get the Long Pain as single-target backup rel. early which scales very well. If there wasn't Whispers of the Wind I'd say Monk/Ranger would also be great because of Driving Flight adding yet another jump to the mortars.

Chainshot and in case of Monk or Barb the one which does more damage at short range.

It's a backer item (from the RPG Codex community), so it most likely is.

No, but it raises Mortification by 2 points. If you also wear Mortificaton Bindings you'll have +4 Mortificaton.