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I can't see where I came over as whining. In contrast to some of your posts mine seem to be worded in a relatively reasonable fashion so far. You are exactly the one with certain problems, else you woudn't have started numerous threads about them. And that's fine because it's one of the reasons this forums exist. You can be as douchy as you want - I just explained to you why you won't achieve anything fruitful for you and your cause with that approach. You can ignore that advice or consider it - it doesn't matter that much to me, but I will keep opposing such things because I think they are toxic and harmful. It's just a bit sad that somebody who can obviously think straight wastes his time with unprovoked, counterproductive and (passive) aggressive nonsense. I agree that the resting system is kind of meh by the way. It's quite meaningless besides the food buffs (which I personally can totally do without). It's just too easy to rest so injuries as well make not too much sense other than determining at which point you die permanently.

It's the highest perception score of the party (not combined but the individual score) - including buffs, items, pets, potions, drugs etc. Of course your trapfinder should not walk in the last row - because the front row will trip a trap before the back row can even "see" it. Always put the PER guy in the front while walking around. That's one reason why you can make seperate formations for walking around and standing still.

I don't get why paladin's exhortations shouldn't work on themselves. I mean I remember a lot of situations when I shouted at myself to push me further. In PoE1 ciphers could at least cast Pain Link on themselves (which made them potentially good at being retaliation tanks - even without focus generation via retaliation). Now even that is not possible anymore. While it's not that bad in a party the solo cipher would be more fun if you could cast Pain Block etc. on yourself. Or create a passive (great opportunity for meaningful passives) that allows you to cast those "ally-only" buffs on yourself.

I have the same problem with no. 1. Since the item isn't superuseful I don't care much - but it's still odd that I can't install it.

It has the same base damage as (non-monk) fists - which is absolutely terrible. Maybe it's unintended. I would give it the same base damage as a normal sabre. Actually raw damage isn't so uber in general: you can't overpenetrate with it. The attack animation is pretty great though.

It seems so.

That's correct. But is Aloth's, Serafen's or Xoti's accuracy that much better than Tekehu's or Pallegina's? By the way: I get abysmal attack rolls for my current MC - like... every time. He has the same ACC as Edér - but while Edér hits all the time I *always* get dice rolls below 10. It's really, really suspicious...

Test a Beguiler with Eyestrike: cast it on a group of enemies that surround your tank. You can see that you get more focus back than you spend. That's the beauty of the Beguiler...

You can play anything solo on PotD at the moment...

Chiputec... not always.

You have a point with the 5 guys who play the game for a couple of days. I also don't get why Obsidian doesn't do more intense beta testing with some externals. There are also a lot of bugs that got reported during the beta phase but are still in the game (for example Soul Annihilation working with certain melee AoE attacks). All in all they need to improve the QA. It's always worth the money - always.

He can die after being knocked out, yes. That's because he's not in your party yet. He's basically a NPC. And those don't fall unconscious when they are at 0 health - they die!

If you want to achieve something you can be direct - but acting like a douchebag will only get you so far (not saying that you are a douchebag). Using a term like "We all know/agree that..." while knowing exactly that it's not the case or using stuff like "Are you blind? Have reading problems?" will not get you anywhere - if it's really the improvement of the game you're after. It will just lead to repulsion on the side you wish to convince. You don't have to convince the people who think the same - you want to convince the people who do not. But you won't achieve that with arrogance, insults or insinuations. If you'd present your arguments in a reasonable way (and I'm sure you have some good arguments) the chance of success and agreement would be a lot higher. So I wonder if it's really the improvement of the quality of the game what's driving you or if you just want to rant...? Your discussion style has been awful so far. If you ask yourself why a lot of people oppose you: that's the only reason. That's a pity because I think that the thoughts behind your reasoning are decent - even if I may not agree.

Yes, they do - but not in reach range but in the usual melee range - as you assume. So you have to get close in order to engage. In the beta of PoE they engaged at reach distance but Sensuki showed how game-breaking that is (standing in the second row and getting tons of disengagement attacks while enemies try to reach you) and it got changed.

Yeah - actually INT has no effect on missiles for example.

And you can just drop it behind the enemy lines. Another nice move is to cast Echo on an animal companion (doesn't matter it summoned or usual) and then use Evasive Roll (which has a huge range and is near instant).

No caster class has acc bonuses on spells anymore. So if you have problems with a chanter to hit stuff you will also have with a wizard, a druid, a cipher, a priest...

Boo. They should speed up the animation then. Even if it looks kind of ridiculous.

What do you mean? Edit: Ah - the title. Haha - that was a copy & paste error. I copied the whole opening post from the PoE charbuild subforum and must have missed that number when editing it.

Funny - I backed D:OS 2and then missed the release because I saw nothing about it anywhere.

*yawn*

Hi! If you want this build to go into the build list please PM me a name and a short description. Thanks!

If you would like to get one or both of this build ideas into the pinned build list: could you PM me a name and a short description? Since there are so many new builds popping up atm I start to lose track. PM makes it easier for me.

Animal Companions do indeed scale with char level, not PL. I put your build into the list.

I will put this into the build list. Please use PM to write me a short discription (a sentence or so) if you want the "Coming soon..." to be removed. I'm losing track of all the threads and builds posted atm and therefore I'm asking for PMs so I don't miss stuff.