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I just did some tests with Bounding Missiles and a lvl l20 Evoker: everything seems to work as intended. Also dmg wise in line with other wizard spells even with Evoker passive triggering. It seems that a recast only repeats the corresponing missile, not the whole spell. It seems that the Evoker passive gets procced after the cast (not on hit rolls) and simply casts the whole spell twice - it doesn't seem to be checked for every projectile. At least that seems to be the case after more testing with Bounding and Minor Missiles.

Empower adds quite a few jumps to missile spells. It's normal that an empowered spell kills three enemies - especially at lower levels where the impact of Power Levels from Empower is much higher (relatively) than at higher levels. An Empowered Missile Salvo will kill all enemies most of the time. I also don't think that Bounding Missiles individual projectiles or jumps trigger a whole new cast of Bounding Missile but only for that projectile. But if not (I didn't test it myself) this surely should be addressed.

1% chance with every dmg appliance combined with 10 missiles (=10 times dmg appliance) means the overall chance to trigger brilliant is -1*(0.99^10-1) or in other words 9.5% per missile cast. If you can reliably proc it with one or two missile spells then the mechanics of the cloak are bugged.

You are in the wrong forum (PoE I). Oldtown and the GIant Cave Grub are in Deadfire (PoE II).

Stalker's Link itself only gives you +10 ACC. It's the torc that gives you +20% dmg on top. It should go away once you remove the torc. If it doesn't then that's a bug. THis has been around forever. I thought it got fixed though.

Yes. Since there is no +PEN talent for Poison this is only about Power Levels. For example it's kind of weird that the Mask of the Grotto Deep gives you +1 Poison PL and a cool Aoe Poison ability but does not have any impact on Cobra Strike. Or Toxic Strike. Or such things. Same with Spider Silk Robes (poison ability and +2 Posion PL).

Stats of the summons: only char level. The only thing that scales with Power Level is the duration.

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.