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Just checked: Actually you can theoretically get 6 Weapon Sets as Black Jacket + Giftbearer's Cloth + Fleshmender + Arms Bearer. BUT the UI can't handle more than 4 and thus you have them, but you can't put anything into them. Maybe there's a keyboard shortcut that allows you to put a weapon into a weapon slot?

Or you pick no spells at lvl up and only use grimoires for your spell selection. A bit tough choice for a single class wizard since there are not that many passives that make sense, but a nice approach for multiclass wizards. I think (!) a Black Jacket/Wizard with Quick Switch can switch Grimoires without cooldown? Or not? Never checked this...

It was me - and it was the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

I only say one word: explosives!

Since everything is Streetfighter/X at the moment and that's boring, my theoretical approach (since now there is switching in the AI): Black Jacket/Wizard, Quick Switch, Arms Bearer, Giftbearer's Cloth, Ring of Focused Flame (helps with hitting enemies with Combusting Wounds since it targets fortitude). This should give you 5 weapon sets (?). Fill them all with Blunderbusses. Cast Combusting Wounds onto the enemies, then cycle through your weapon sets with Penetrating Strikes. You should have been able to deliver 40 hits which each will trigger an instance of CW (all in all 320 damge base - a lot more with longer duration and more MIG). If you can make it work without having to switch manually all the taime it could be cool. Of not it's a pase-switch-pause fest which is not nice.

Then why this :

Yeah - that's all I found so far as well.

No. Concerning spell portfolio, Druids and Priests got a huge kick in the crotch. Wizards not so much. It's not that the 2/encounter that severely limits the flexibility of Priest and Druid but the leveling that only allows you to pick one, sometimes two spells at level up.

No. Priests and Druids pick the "abilities" they want to have during level up and can only cast those. Wizards dito, but they can also cast spells from Grimoires. A Wizard/Rogue with Deep Pockets, Fleshmender and Giftbearer's Cloth can juggle 9 Grimoires around (=up to 162 additional spells - which is nonsense because there will be overlap, but still...). He doesn't even need to pick one single spell at lvl-up and still be able to cast from an abundance of spells from Grimoires. And even in fantasy games there is no "real" wizard - because wizards are completely made up you can't have a template that's rooted in the real world. They are products of somebody's imagination. Every game decides which sort of wizard you get and it's always "real" in the scope of that game (unless the game implements wizards known from other fiction and screws up). Thus, arguing that wizards in Deadfire are like "real" wizards while PoE's were not is fruitless. They are different and one can like that because of x or not because of y, but not because now they are more "real".

Who defines what "real" wizards should do? I mean because there are no real wizards, so I'm kind of curious...

There is a ability that gives you two additional quick slots. You must have missed it. It's called "Deep Pockets" and you can find it in the Rogue's ability tree at PL 3. There's an armor called "Fleshmender". It has an upgrade which gives you +1 Quick Item Slots. The Giftbearer's Cloth (cloak) also gives you +1 Quick Item Slots. That's all I know of. Maybe there's more. So all in all you could even stack 8 Quick Item Slots if you wish to. I never did and can't say if you really get 8 and what the UI does though. Same when using a Black Jacket with Arms Bearer and Giftbearer's Cloth (+1 Weapon Set). You will have 5 weapon sets then. What does the UI do? I never checked...

Which ones did you get so far?

Why is that? Didn't Furies just recently get changed from two handed to dual wielding? THat seems to have been a big improvement. What did they nerf now?

It does stack, but not additively. Those conversions are checked one after the other. So if Disciplined Barrage doesn't trigger then the Berserker's Frenzy conversion gets checked and so on. So this leads to a situation where every additional conversion adds less and less overall chance. For example a 25% conversion and a second 30% conversion will result in an over chance of ~48%, not 55%. Now also pick Uncanny Luck with 5% and you end up with ~50%. Only a ~2% improvement. That's why I would never take Uncanny Luck if I already have some conversions (except if I wanted the resistance part badly). Same with Critical Focus or even Dirty Fighting. It's just not worth it once you already have good conversion numbers. As single conversions they would be ok. But +25% is a big chunk on its own and 48 is still a lot better than 30 or 25, so my pick for a melee char would nearly always be Disciplined Barrage - also for a Berserker because there are other means to remove confusion (Svef, Priest's Liturgy, Devil of Caroc Breastplate, Modwyr, Monk's Clarity of Mind or Wizard's Infuse - if you multiclass and so on).

Nice. Finally some Pukestabber! I added the build ot the list.

Then it's quite easy to stack buffs until a certain point (just collect all the stuff that buffs) and impossible to go beyond. With (clearly communicated) stacking rules you need a bit more sophistication to come up with really high buff numbers, but you get rewarded for your efford (with poorly communicated stacking rules and a lot of exceptions and special cases you need sophistication and a lot of testing)... Not saying one is better than the other - but I think some people like to tinker around to get the best out of something, and that's most likely more fun with sacking rules than with a hard cap where further tinkering will not be rewarded. The more casual players will most likely understand the first one better. Maybe a good middle ground ist to cummunicate not too complicated stacking rules in a good way. So that everybody who creates a character understands it. Suppression is only frustrating if you don't know why it happens. But I can even see how the last approach (even if it's unintended) has positive side-effects. I believe the poorly documented mechanics keep this (sub)forum alive a lot longer than easy to grasp rules that everybody understands.

Thanks - there is a really big problem when editing links in this forum... Fixed it. Although this one seems to have been my mistake - I somehow didn't get the complete URL when copying. Just one tiny "f" missing.

It works and is viable. Even on PotD. It's just not crazy good like some other stuff.

In which situation is your crit chance 100%?

I tried Firebrand with a Bleak Walker/Druid. I just switched on Savage Attack all the time when doing FoD. I got +3 PEN for FOD and +20 ACC with the ring (+10 ring, +10 FoD) which lead to nice FoD damage - but you also have to use your spells. Firebrand alone is not good enough to play a "great sword melee only" druid. The Druid brings not much to the table when it comes to great sword fighting (except maybe Taste of the Hunt). The weapon itself is ok now, the problem is that only druids can summon it.

That's only a short-lived Knockdown. Bring Low will put your target to the ground for 7sec (base). But of course Ball and Chain is a nice weapon, too. It's also a light weapon by the way, so that kind of contradicts you initial statement that you'd rather not use light weapons with rogues.

Whirling Strikes works almost the same as HoF - without Carnage, but with raw DoT. It's def. a great ability. And using one melee weapon and one ranged is smart. I knew that stuff like Riposte works that way, but I didn't test this on Whirling Strikes actually, so good point. I think the best thing would be to use Fire in the Hole with Chain Shot and Driving Flight. THat would mean 1 AoE attack + 2 AoE jumps per shot. This will generate plenty of hits (33% more than with Minor Blights). They will do a bit less damage per hit than Blights, but you will have a lot more hits and once you use Avenging Storm it's the number of hits that matter, not so much the dmg per hit. Still, Whispers of the Wind or HoF with Hand Mortar + Fire in the Hole on a crowd is better than Whirling Strikes (even if you can pull it off with one melee and one AoE ranged weapon equipped, you will always miss that there's no reliable AoE on your melee weapon). And it's also more versatile because you can still use it effectively with lets say pistols, fists or sabres when enemies are not forming a tight group. A Ranger is screwed then (if he wants to use Whirling Strikes - same with a Barb). Also Whispers of the Wind is great with Swift Flurry + Hearbeat Drumming + Wahai Poraga if enemies stand near each other. There will be a lot of additional crit procs that will be AoE attacks as well that will have a chance to proc an additional attack and so on. Still one of the most powerful combos against mobs.

That is two questions.

I would like it if they licensed PoE to Subset Games and let them make a "Faster than Hylea" or "Into the Wheel". It would be the fusion of the games I like most these days. And it would be a win-win situation: Obsidian gets money for the license and Subset Games produces another game with few bugs, great gameplay, very little budget and rel. big sales numbers...

I tried a Black Jacket/Berserker with "only" three weapon sets but with 0 switching recovery yesterday - the idea is to deal Body Blows with a Morning Star (in orde to "abuse" Brute Force) and to use the primary attacks with it, switch to a weapon & shield setup for recovery or when I get pummeled too hard and switch to a dual wielding setup for Barbaric Blow/Penetrating Strike. It gives you a lot of advantages - but is surely is very tedious to manage. I didn't find a good AI setting for this kind of behaviour yet (that didn't totally bug out). If I could it would be quite a good composition.