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You mean Courageous? Because no RES affliction will remove a CON inspiration. Last time I finished BoW at lvl 15. Could have done it a lot earlier. Especially the fights against the dracolich and Rymrgand's Avatar were over very quickly. So - not really "near game end". But of course not early either. While waiting for this one could wear "Strand of Favor". Instead of food one could try to use an inn bonus and also some kind of blessing (shrine) and try not to rest. I mean such a character shouldn't have a lot of problems stying uninjured... Also check out this pet: https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Eviee It seems to be the perfect fit. It's one of the super-pets from the backers and it is pretty great: +2 RES and a party wide effect of -20% of resolve affliction duration (fear stuff). You can get it very early in Serpent's Crown. Before somebody brings up the Ring of the Solitary Wanderer: Lone Wolf is actually a bit bugged: your pet (I don't mean animal companion, I mean pet) counts as ally and therefore you need to unequip it in order to trigger Line Wolf. Meh! Also the range is huge. Your party members nearly have to get off the screen.

Eothas == Lucifer ("Lightbringer"). Before christianity used this as the name for the devil it was simply the name for the morning star ("Dawnstar"). The angel/god who rebels and gets expelled. I guess it's nice that he's kind of the good guy when it comes to that otherwise misanthrophic pantheon. But this was also done before PoE/Deadfire in several novels, one of them "Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice. Those usually tell the story of Lucifer from his point of view where he comes off as a friend of mankind who's simply misunderstood. Like Eothas basically. Only Eothas succeeds where Lucifer fails. So... not really original stuff. Good that more and more details get added that give Eothas his own distinct identity.

Oops - obviously. I personally would like it if you opened a new thread with the test (that maybe leads to a build) so that everybody can add their two cents. You could put a link to here as well. I'm flowing over with PMs...

Thank you. Yes, at the moment I like fighter better in a multiclass. Except Black Jacket with Morning Star, Flail, Club and Pike. He's a great debuffer and the sooner you get Clear Out (for applying the -25/-10 debuff in an AoE) the better. Black Jacket is also a fighter that is not boring to play. With three attacks I can bring an enemy to -10 deflection, -25 fortitude and -25 will + reflex. Bosses tremble before me... Also try the not so boring combo of WotEP + Mule Kick and then Clear Out + Cleaving Stance. Pure fun!

Ah, thanks! @Ascaloth: with 35 RES you will be at -75%. If additional effects stack additively then the Lone Wolf Ring (-35%) should already do the trick. You can even skip some RES then. If it's multiplicative you can never reach 100% unless you are using Clarity (because of the -5 secs). But 75% with 35% (Lone Wolf), 10%(Cabalist's Gambeson) and 10% (Strand of Favor) would lead you to ~87%. A 10 sec affliction would turn into a 1.3 sec afflicton. Already very nice.

Sometimes my invisibility from Shadowing Beyond doesn't break after the first attack I made from invisibility. Maybe it's related. Brilliant Departure can be prolonged a lot with Salvation of Time and Wall of Draining. Bring a Berseker/Priest to provide the enemiy with weak, long lasting buffs!

Ha - that makes no sense. "Oh, I see that you are already injured - let's put some bubble wrap around my flail head..."

Nobody knows. Would be nice though.

Go to the gamepedia wiki and search for "Hostile effect duration". I believe currently it's that Lone Wolf ring, Strand of Favor and Cabalist's Gambeson. Maybe more from BoW. Clarity of Agony is -50% and -5 sec duration. But it's not passive (costs wounds. Besides inspirations RES can be raised with the amulet of the BoW dragon (+4 - you have to kill some of your summons, so bring a Beckoner). Other items are +2 max if I recall correctly. Some consumables give a decent bonus as well as certain inns. I don't think it's possible to reach 35 without consumables/resting bonuses unless I miss some effect. But if you take human or Orlan from Ixamitl or Aedyr, then use that amulet and two items with minor RES bonus and an inspiration you are pretty close to 35. Which stats does Soul Devourer of the Engoliero do Espirs boost? If RES is among them that would be it.

Whispers of the Endless Paths + Clear Out. Morning Star with Body Blows and Mule Kick. Mob Stance + lots of Engagement Slots. Unbending. Disciplined Strikes. Refreshing Defense (stacks with all deflection bonuses). And more... fighters have lots of the good stuff. You may have played a lot of multi and pure classes, but it seems that you didn't understand fighter yet. The only thing that could be improved are PL 8 & 9. And Power Strike. That one is way too expensive. But I believe it gets cheaper with 2.1.

It's ok but not overly powerful. I think they are still considered ranged weapons - so maybe they work with Driving Flight? They did work with the Marksman Ring in the past.

Yes, I also tried a monk when I was testing Soul Ann. with it. I think a high lvl monk is actually better with it than a Soulblade because of bigger AoE, the additonal lash and the additional attacks that frequently proc. However, you can use Soul Annihilation right away from lvl 1.

I just rechecked: The initial hit gets the normal raw damage of SA. Not reduced. in my case 101 raw. All other targets got 23.4 raw damage. I suspect it's the raw dmg with minimum focus (5) for SA. I managed to hit 6 dummies with decent int. Also every hit with the AoE adds one stack of Blade Form so you'll quickly be at -20% recovery time. Then WotEP has +1 PEN compared to a normal Great Sword. And it has reach. With Run Through you can fill up your focus completely (at lvl 15 that is). All in all I think it's superior to dual wielding if you have decent INT and maybe some Overseeing. By the way: Clear Out + WotEP is a great damage (and interrupt) tool!

No problem. This "bug" gets reported every now and then. But there is also a real" bug where companions die when falling unconcious - without using that special pet. However, those players did have the pet at some point but switched it out - still the perma-death on knockout persists. I hope you don't run into that one.

No, it does not unfortunately. And I know excatly how traps work. I think you didn't understand what I was trying to say: My character is immune to burn damage (even gets healed by it). How can a trap that causes burn damage give me a "Serious Burn" as injury? I mean I know how - from a mechanical point of view - I just think it makes no sense and is an oversight. So I suspect (didn't test) that if I lure an enemy who is immune to pierce damage (some kind of skeleton for example) into a trap that causes pierce damage - how can that skeleton get an injury from that? It makes no sense. How can I bath in my own Wall of Flame and get healed by it while a burning trap gives me a serious burn? Why can the skeleton be poked woth a pike until there's no tomorrow - but suffers an injury from a piercing trap (best would be if it gets "punctured lung" as injury )? I hope I made it more clear now. Sorry if my previous post was fuzzy.

If I remember correctly it started high and then declined a bit with every AoE hit in the log - but then at some point it rose again. Very weird. Maybe the attacks in the log where not displayed in the same order in which Soul Ann. computed the damage. But combined it was a LOT more raw dmg that a single hit would have done.

I don't understand the question. *Finger of Assumption got interrupted by a Concussive Poke.* There is no game info on that and as far as I know it's totally random. But it's always a fitting injury - so no severe burn or acute rash or so. Instead it will apply broken ribs, strained wrists, swollen eyes and the like. The injuries - once applied - get displayed in the enemies' tooltip. I never tested if a double or triple attack from Swift Fkurry/Heartbeat Drumming from an empowered attack would poly multiple injuries... hm...

Well you're not adding a lot of sunshine as well... :\ Anyways: good point with the Deep Leap. But there I made the guy so squishy that you really have to place you initial shots carefully (with Dazzling Lights and so on). So once you managed to set up the perfect opener it was cheesy - and if not you were screwed. That gave me bit of adrenaline every now and then. Also I didn't know that it would be so powerful when I did my playthrough with it.

But what about 35 RES + Lone Wolf and other stuff like Cabalist's Gambeson and Strand of Favour and that reduce afflicton duration? Are they multiplicative and you can never get to 0 (except with Clarity of Agony) or are they additive? Clarity + Crucible should be a great combo - increased defenses when an afflicton expires. Well they expire instantly as soon as they get applied.

No idea, didn't test it with WotEP for a long time. However: post 1.1 Spirit Lance still applied Soul Annihilation to the whole AoE (but every hit has a different raw dmg number - no idea what's going on there.

As with Citzal's Spirit Lance, Soul Annihilation applies its damage to all AoE hits of the cone. The big advantage of the WotEP is that you don't need to be a wizard in order to use it. And it comes a lot earlier, too. AND you can be rogue of course. I like Assassin/Soulblade as well because of Run-Through... Not the most powerful stuff over the course of a whole battle but fun to do.

Twinned Shot + Driving Flight + Frostseeker + Combusting Wounds (from a fellow wizard) is very, very good. Although the freeze damage should in theory quench the burn damage - but it doesn't, so... Avenging Storm is only an ok backup for this. The Offensive Parry of WotEP has its own dmg and mechanics by the way. It doesn't do AoE but the base dmg is not as low as that of the normal auto-attack if I recall correctly.

I like the combo overall. But I think the double scaling (summoned hands that scale with level + Transcendent Suffering that scales with Power Level) is too strong for my taste. It feels cheesy and therefore I can't enjoy it that much although Woedican Priest/Helwalker is an appealing combo.

If I had to decide which spell of each level is the "best" (although that really depends on what you want to do with your wizard) then I'd say: - Slicken (casting it two times makes one of the strongest hard CC effect in the game) - Combusting Wounds (best boss killer wizars spell I know - combine with Wall of Flame) - Ryngrim's Repulsive Visage (Terrified is very strong) - Essential Phantom (because you can do great things with it and your item choice: try Spirit Lance + Phantom) - Llengrath's Safeguard - Arkemyr's Capricious Hex - Thayn's Chaotic Orb - Wall of Many Colors - Minoletta's Missile Salvo This is without the grimoire-exclusive spells like Cobra Strike, Shadowflame and Brilliant Departure and so on. I would not pick them in this collection though since there are better choices for certain build directions. For example I really like Cloak of Death on a melee single class wizard better than Missile Salvo. It is hard to keep yourself out of the AoE and use the AoE effectively when you are surrounded by enemies.