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I liked Icewind Dale I and also II pretty much. Icewind Dale II is also in the list of the 100 top RPGs of all time at number 76 (while BG is at 35 and BGII at 3 if I remember correctly).

And dudes and dudettes! The quotes! Please crop the quotes! Holy Lord of Fruitless Debates - this is so much nesting I fear we will see some weird eggs soon...

Cool, we can form a Yin-Yang thingy!

There are some high level ones that are quite tough (and good), for example that little magma blob. And for tough fights you want to spread your low level figurines over the whole party to spam 3, four or even 6 of them right at the start. They may be frail and can do no harm but they surely buy you a lot of precious time and block movement. Of course this doesn't work in a solo game. Right! Because of the same reasons mind control (confusion/charm/dominate) is so powerful in PoE: you basically will have the same effects plus one (or more) enemy less to care about.

Well if you don't get hit a lot because of high defenses and have Concentration then it's not too bad. You can also have multiple layers of concentration (Combat Focus + buff for example).

Just make sure that both priests take Inspiring Radiance - it stacks with itself. Besides that I would maybe go with one Cat and one Boar Druid, one melee Wizard with summoned weapons and one melee Priest of Skaen with Firebrand or Berath with Tidefall, one Blast Wizard and one arquebus priest.

True - I guess they just can't come up with proper stacking rules.

Too bad the chants still can be found under the passive side of the ability tree.

Actually it will be amazing for Beckoner since they tend to have a larger number of weaker creatures so the extra penetration may be just what they need to break a DR threshold. They only have less health. The rest is the same.

The cast of Mirrored Image is instantaneous and has no recovery - it also doesn't take away spell uses. It's not that bad compared to the rest - they are just all equally bad compared to the drawback you experience.

Yeah they changed that in beta4 and it totally messes up the general rule, which is sad.

Based on the title I would have put any bet that this thread was opened by SonicMage117.

Of course. 2 uses per encounter per spell tier is easier to balance than 4 uses (or even 5 or 6) per rest. If you can't or refuse to understand why then you are beyond my reach. Besides that nearly all casting times and recovery times for spells have been prolonged so that spamming nukes in quick succession is not possible anymore. Actually in the beta (which I played/still pay and you didn't/don't) most spellcasters feel balanced or even underwhelming compared to most martial builds. It also feels zero like Dragon Age Inquisition or anything like that. But if you insist to play the Rumpelstiltskin...

I liked the idea and toyed around a bit with it. It is a viable pick but not overly powerful. It's pretty versatile though. Firebrand per se is not very powerful and I would not recommend it in its current state, but I found out the following: Choose Scion of Flame + Heart of The Storm (useful anyways because of your elemental spells), shift into Storm Blight and do Flames of Devotion: you will have +2 PEN because Blight's attacks are stirm based and FoD is fire based. Pretty cool. Also the jump gets that bonus. If you only attack one enemy both (initial attack und jump) will hit him. Unfortunately with normal attacks under Eternal Devotion you ony get the bonus from Heart of the Storm. It also doesn't help to pick Widstrike Burn instead of Shock. A Bleak Walker/Fury gets +3 PEN from Scion of Flame, Spirit of Decay and Heart of the Storm when executing FoD. So all in all you can make this into a decent spellcaster with healing powers and good weapon damage. Too bad White Flames would trigger twice with dual wielding. THe jump of the Blight form unfortunately doesn't trigger White Flames a second time.

Conversions do stack, but they don't get added but are rolled one after the other. So they rather get multiplied. If you have a conversion of 50% and another of 50% as well as the Upgrade of Zealous Focus you will have an overall chance of 76% to convert. Without Exhalted Focus it's 75%... not worth it.

Paladin/Priest is a solid multiclass combo - also because of Spiritual Weapon + FoD/Enduring Flames which leads to several strikes with +80% lash (FoD) and lots of attacks with 70% (Eduring Flames) and makes a really decent damage dealer. Good supporter, too.

But he isn't/wasn't dead. He got a new body and lost some of his memory and aspect and kept on smithing.

Haha - because I remembered incorrectly and calculated with 20sec base duration instead of 15. Sorry. So with 3 INT you'd have a duration of 9.75 secs while with 16 you'd have 19.5. With 20 INT you should have 22.5 - that's correct. The Royal Deadfire Cannoneer Belt is much better on any other party member. Its stat bonuses are gone as soon as you shift and so are its Flame Shield and also Firebrand. On a barb, chanter, rogue, fighter, monk, paladin,cipher or even priest on the other hand...

They did in beta3. And since Ancient Memory is a passive they still should.

I would agree. Fighter is THE crit machine with Disciplined Strikes in Deadfire so far. And has also an AoE capability with Cleaving Stance. Disciplined Strikes and Killers Froze Stiff will make sure you convert most of your hits into crits (75%) so I think that speed is more important than accuracy here. Speed you can achieve with light/no armor and dual wielding (light) one handers. A Skald can run phrases that heal him (and the party) that stack with Constant Recovery in order to compensate for lower AR - or can later use the damage shield. Also his starting values/points per level will be better as fighter/skald because those get averaged and fighters have better values (except Will defense). Drawback compared to a single class Skald will be that you will have no access to the following abilites: PL 8 Unlock - The Wind's Razored Nails Ripping Through Flesh PL 8 Unlock - I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world PL 8 Unlock - With all your Strength, Slay the Beast! PL 8 Unlock - The Foul Thing PL 8 Unlock - As the Song Reached Its Creshendo PL 8 Unlock - And with a furious thrust, drover her dagger into his heart PL 9 Unlock - Did sing a song of carnage Fair PL 9 Unlock - His heart did fill with the light of the Dawn! PL 9 Unlock - The Great Wyrm Flew O'er the Mountains PL 9 Unlock - The Arrow Sings Between the Dragon's Scales PL 9 Unlock - And sip from the Marrow Whatever those are... And you will get access to higher PL abilits later of course. But I think the higher crit chance and Constant Recovery are worth it. And you get Charge!

And of course the greatest handicap of all: Being an Orlan Hey!

You have to act (or talk) cruel and aggressive in order to get ranks in your favored dispositions which will improve your defenses. If you choose diplomatic or benevolent you will gain ranks in those dispisitions at some point ant that will make your defenses weaker. Everything else (stoic, passionate, honest, rational...) has no effect. So you can act/talk in a somewhat decent manner without getting a "debuff".

Yes, it seems so. The favored/condemned dispositions are still the same.

Bleak Walker works rather unwell since you can't multiclass Berath with Bleak Walker due to disposition collision. If you combine Sworn Enemy's upgrade that refunds the zeal costs after killing the enemy then you can have Gilded Enmity several times during encounter - which is good. It lasts for 7 hits - so if you can make sure you only get 25% or 50% damage from 7 hits that's something. Only "problem" is that a great sword user will be very slow if you want to stack lots of AR and wear plate in addition to Gilded Enmity. The combo of Spiritual Great Sword and Flames of Devotion is very good, but if you can only strike three times until the Spiritual Great Sword runs out that's a bummer. So maybe I would use Gilded Enmity + lightish armor instead and try to offtank instand of tank. I think this would be more fun. With Exhalted Endurance you might be able to really tank again though.

Yes, please turn off BBCodeMode and delete the quotes safely. Reading this nested stuff on a phone is so... bad!