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Totally solid.

Yes, I also thought that a Barbarian crit build with Morning Star + modal + Brute Force could be very nice. Maybe in combo with the weaking phrase of a Skald and Killers-Invocation? Or Devoted?

Still don't get the stuff with the white jacket... Anyways - lots of summons/pets is always good and you can't go wrong with that. Paladin/Beckoner is an exeptionally good combo in Deadfire and although stuff like Mith Fyr got nerfed in the final game version it's still good to use Zealous Focus + Mith Fyr + Shared Flames on your party and the summons. The other pally/chanter can use Exhalted Endurance + Ancient Memory to heal them all up all the time. Druid/Ranger is also solid, especially with Boar + Wounding Shots. Ghost Heart would not be my favorite pick though.

Heaven forbid that anyone actually *likes* the ship combat system, amirite It's cool with me if people like it. I didn't say that it should be removed from the game. I'm also not saying drivel like "They should have put the money elsewhere". I'm just happy that there's an option to bypass it - because I can't stand it. I also don't like fennel. Doesn't mean I want to forbid other people to like it. Actually I like fennel... I just couldn't come up with food that I don't like...

Paladin/Ranger is still good. Tons of low-cost Full Attacks. I recently tested ranger/rogue with focus on wounding DoTs and from lvl 6 to 9 it's very good. Use dual Battle Axes with modal, use Arterial Strike for cheap Full Attacks and DoT, use Deep Wounds and the foes will melt. Also that yopur pet always has Predetor's Sense is nice. I consoled Depp Wounds in in order to test.

Better than taking mental damage, right?

For the fan channel (where the devs also show up) you need no invitation. It's pretty easy to find. They also have an official Obsidian server.I don't know if Obsdian has an inhouse-only-channel or server. You won't be able to get in there anyway. The fan stuffis named "Pillars of Eternity Fan Chat". The official Obsidion one is called "Obsidian Entertainment" (who would have guessed ). I tried a bit but Discord is new to me and it was just too fast paced and chaotic for me. I like the sluggishness of forums.

Resistances of the same kind apparantly don't stack. It's a 1/0 thing. Sad, I know...

It's 'High Five', not 'High Six', right?

I didn't watch past char creation - do you know how it works or do you just jump to conclusions based on guesswork?

None that I know of, but as a beta player I can confirm this.

Sorry, I thought you were a "beta guy".

A cat o' nine tails would also have fit into the flail group. That was not the problem I think. They simply said that they can't do unique models for every backer item - which i understand. The tier was only 750$ if I remember correctly. Not too much money for creating an item model and texture, putting in description and eventually coding and testing special effects.

In the final game you will have the option to skip that "Full Sail"/"Half Sail"/"Half Bake" stuff and simply go for boarding. Def. my go-to option...

Oh, right! Good point. Also hope for more spells from Kalakoth. I like his style (except his Sunless Grasp - that's really for a place where the sun doesn't shine...).

What do you mean? Everybody who has the dagger proficiency and uses a dagger.

Maybe "no newbies"? Like White-Jacket (from Melville) who's a novice, too? No idea...

Doesn't Weapon and Shield Style give you additional 6 deflection with any shield (plus the same bonus as to deflection to reflex)?

As we could see in the latest stream some abilities got changed from beta4 to final version. And some new abilites were added into the lower tiers.

Ha, you should have done it. I thought about backing a cat o' nine tails (aka the melee blunderbuss) - but then they said that they won't do custom models but you only should "design" a weapon that can go onto one of their models. Meh... Then they did a broom...

A bit off topic perhaps but, since you seem to have tested this extensively in the beta; How do you properly add abilities and such to your character? When I tried adding the monk modal or the spirit lance etc, it shows up as "Already acquired" in the talent tree, but I do not have access to it in my ability bar. Is there an additional step required to make them usable? Do you need to add power levels or something? For Duality you need to add the base ability and two other ones: Duality_of_Mortal_Presence Duality_of_Mortal_Presence_A_Modal Duality_of_Mortal_Presence_B_Modal Else they will not show upo in your action bar. For the Spirit Lance (for testing purposes) I simply use giveItem Citzals_Spirit_Lance - then you can use it without even summoning it. This also works with Kalakoth's Minor Blights, but you can only give yourself one of the four elemental versions - it will of course not cycle after every shot. But for testing purposes it's totally fine. Works with every summoned weapon, including Long Pain. Adding wizard/priest/druid/chanter/cipher spells that are above your power level is tricky. First you have to unlock the UI in the action bar that lets you access higher level spells. Never tried that so far.

I can't think of a mechanic where the linger durations makes any sense though. It must also be very annoying for a Troubadour to reposition and retarget that skeleton every 3 secs if they replace each other.

We already had St. Ydwen's Redeemer (which was cool). Better come up with something else (in other words: new) now. Since the last stream (from Obsidian with Andy showing his a-game ) I have high hopes for unique weapons in Deadfire.

I can't understand how those (seemingly) unbalanced abiltiy trees pass a quality check. The impression it makes that rogues have 1 active tier-9 ability only...