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Yes, I also didn't encounter your problem yet.

It reaches it's peak with Blood Thirst, yes - but alreay Frenzy and Bloodlust (which come pretty early) improve the casting times a lot. The "problem" with Streetfighter is that it lowers your recovery a lot but does nothing for the actual casting time. At the same time Frenzy + Bloodlust do lower casting times AND recovery times. Since most damaging spells you want to span have a rather long casting time... Streetfighter is awesomest for everything that has shortish action time and longish recovery (e.g. each weapon attack but also Mind Blades. Mind Lance etc.), but I find Barbarian better for casters who want to use spells with 3+ seconds casting time. Add Blood Thirst at lvl 19 as bonus and it's truly awesome of course.

Sine you don't need to press all the stuff (skeletons + Grave Calling) into one character it's actually supereasy to murder most of your 6 puny skeletons (that split into 12 even when turned to imps) with one attack (also at lvl 19): Berserker/Devoted with Clear Out. Summon skeletons, gather them in one spot (skeletons are some of those summons you still can control directly) and hit them with Clear Out. Each Clear Out hit will trigger Carnage. Often all of them die, turning into 6 imps and 12 skeletons (which you can't control). Many lives pass by is a good bonus. But of course that's not for solo.

Exactly

I'm not against lists. I just don't think that doing a "tier" list or ordered list by power is working in such a complex environment as Deadfire is. Especially not if you only use description/wiki etc. Because it's very hard to draw the lines: is it a generalized list, is it a list that includes a few build tricks that make some items especially useful? Some items are bad for certain builds while they are awesome for others. On average this can't be a god-tier item in general, but for a special build it can. See Reckless Brigandine: great if you have lots of engagement slots - useless if you have zero. That ring that gives you +2 defense for every enemy that engages you: great against a bunch of Xaurips, useless against a bunch of tigers (don't have engagement). And so on. It would be better to do a list with all the Tipps and tricks and experience with that item, showing its pros and cons and then let the players decide what's best for their needs. Because a tier list will always lead to controversy and is full of bias. As source for objective information it's rather pointless unless you put a lot of explanation into it. Better remove the "ranking", make it alphabetical and point out the goods and bads, maybe give recommendation for certain builds etc.

Yes. You have to kill with Grave Calling.

You can assume a lot. If you want to make a general list then you have to use the average usefulness, not the usefulness with a special build. Else Espirs would be god tier for example. Or you make a list of weapons when build around properly - but then you'd have to mention the build/abilities/skills as well. Mixing both up would be completely useless as a source of information.

Yes. Don't confuse Mortificaton (non-replenishable resource like Discipline or Guile) with Wounds. Iron Wheel gives you +3 AR and +10 CON with 10 wounds. Mortification as the second resource doesn't matter at all. Shattered Pillars can only have 5 wounds at max! So Iron Wheel/Turning Wheel is not that strong with them. Monk is the only single class with two resource pools - so that can be confusing at first.

Humility: 20% resist against two damage types is low tier? Do you realize how good this is if you build a bit around it? Again a list that was done with little in-game experience.

As with the other two lists: no point when having no in-game experience with them or reading about in-game experience. Once again: Espirs procs spells on kill that get all weapon bonuses and every kill procs those spells - not only blade-kills. Oathbreaker's End dito. WotEP ist really bad against single targets while it's good against mobs if you can apply afflictons with melee attacks. Wahaī Pōraga only attacks max 4 enemies and has friendly fire. Bad against single targets. Lord Darryn's Voulge applies its effects with AoE stuff like Carnage. Citzal's Spirit Lance, while being one of the best (if not the best) weapon is not even on the list. In general I think those tier lists are pointless because it so much depends on you character what's powerful and what not.

The Red Hand is god tier while Hand Mortar and Fire in the Hole are not although they apply all an-hit effects from abilities in an AoE (Stunning Surge, Toxic Strike, you name it)? Red Hand is god tier because it shoots two times while Watershaper's Focus does basically the same but in an AoE, almost guaranteeing Ondra's Wrath which gets all weapon bonuses? I take it you didn't actually use those weapons? As with the one-handed weapon list those lists are rather pointless if you go by wiki/game descriptions instead of actual game experience.

Then the list is of little relevance, right? Because judging weapons based on their description alone doesn't work well. Take Scordeos Edge: you can't know that its bonuses work for all weapons you use unless you used it. You'd have to test it to find out. Also that Grave Calling and Hel Beckoning can be used to summon imps that don't count towards the summon limit and let you create a huge imp army (if you pair it with the right classes) can only be experienced by testing (or reading people's posts about testing). Another example (not one-handed though): the Espirs estoc will proc Ghost Blades on kill. That's the description. Sounds rather lame because Ghost Blades only have 8-11 base damage. What the description doesn't say and what you can only find out via testing is that those Ghost Blades profit from the enchantments of the blade, from all passive abilities that work with the blade (e.g. Sneak Attach, Two Handed Style etc.). And that not only kills with the Blade trigger those "empowered" Ghost Blades but all kills as long as you hold the weapon. This includes the Ghost Blades themselves which can therefore proc themselves. So, the difference between description and actual behavior is huge. There are so many behaviors that only get revealed once you use an item - a tier list (partially) based on item description is rather pointless in my opinion.

New bug in 2.0 where "take all" doesn't work in some cases. You have to choose a character and take each item seperately. It's rather annoying.

Just use any enchanted helmet that you can find. Argwe's Adra helmet or White Crest helmet are both fine. He Carries many Scars as well.

Hehe - yes ok. But how can one explain this? If the duration was shorter because of RES and thus dps higher I could understand - but overall damage, too? I can't imagine the weird mechanics behind this. Is Deep Wounds also profiting from low INT? Because in PoE it was not. Man now I want to build a Scout with 3-> 1 INT (from -8 item), Deep Wounds + Wounding Shot and wounding weapon.

Ok. Now I understood what you meant. Yet there are exceptions to "two [active] buffs to x will not stack". For example Vigorous Defense or Llengrath Safeguard or Circle of Defense will stack with Mirrored Image (was mentioned in the OP : thumbsup:). Which is bad. I mean it's good for your char of course, but bad for consistency. Internally it might be that +x to all and +y to deflection are two different groups, but which "normal" player can understand let alone suspect this?

I don't know the exact range, but the cone is pretty wide and the range is not too short.

No. As I said: Duality of Mortal Presence raises INT directly and supresses the INT bonus of INT inspirations. Devotions raises ACC directly but does not supress the PER bonus of PER inspirations. Attack Speed bonus + DEX inspirations: sure.

How is that?

Yes. Sort of. I think not the actual quest - but you have to take him to Fort Deadlight. Because if not you there will be no Remaro in Sayuka. And if there's no Remaro in Sayuka you can't finish Serafen's quest. But only if you finish his quest you will get Fire in the Hole. Finishing his quest is fairly easy and can be done really quickly: take Serafen to the chest in Fort Deadlight (not Dunnage), go to the Luminous Bathhouse and speak with the lady in the upper left corner of the map, go to Sayuka and speak with Remaro in the harbor. Done. I think. You can put him into your party, sail to Deadlight (even if Benweth is already dealt with - I believe it's only the chest what triggers Serafen's quest - hope I'm right), sail to Neketaka, sail to Sayuka. Takes maybe 10 minutes or so.

Wounding and some other DoTs still work like that today (lower INT with fixed damage = higher DPS - in case of non-raw dmg also higher overall damage because fewer but higher ticks that can overcome DR more easily. See Goldpact Knight's burn DoT with FoD).

Spoiler alert. Please put this into the char build forum.

No. But it won't jump around corners or sideways. The second enemy has to be behind the first (in a rel. wide cone). So always shoot the first enemy in the pack who's standing next to you. It also has a range. And again the General Discussion forum? Ts ts ts...

However, with Espirs you trigger Ghost Blades on every kill. Imagine Amplified Wave triggering Ghost Blades killing an enemy triggering Ghost Blades and so on... And since holding a two handed weapon doesn't slow down your casting...

Right, +INT/CON from Duality of Mortal Presence will not stack with Inspirations (Smart,Fit etc.) - active. +MIG from Helwalker stacks with everything - passive. So far so good I think. Accuracy Bonus of Devotions stacks with Perception Inspirations (or did so at release).