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He didn't say that he's picking Trickster/Illusionist. Basically what you can do with a Trickster/Wizard is pay illusion spells with Guile (are quite cheap for a Trickster) and other spells with you normal wizard spell uses.

Impact will most likely create a dent for all I know...

Lol - I overlooked that. Wait a minute... Edit: So, a rpier actually has a modal that gives you bonus accuracy, not more PEN. Seems to be perfect for your character. Although it's debateable if you can crit more often in a given time because it also prolongs your recovery pretty much. Maybe a dw rapier setup + modal ("+/-0% recovery with +20 ACC) instead of a single one (+50% recovery with +32 ACC and 15% hit-to-crit)? Because with Killers Froze Stiff you'll already get plenty of crits (will give you a 50% hit-to-crit chance against paralyzed enemies). Can't say without testing or doing lots of math... which I didn't plan for today.

No, I meant the summoned weapons (fists) of Priests of Woedica. Tried them yesterday on a monk: pretty awesome. Didn't test Monastic stuff though. I'm 99,999% sure that unarmed bonuses don't work for Lay on Hands, even if it's the one from Steel Garrotte guys.

You are right: it's only +10 deflection against melee attacks with dw dagger + modal. So no point in using two daggers, which is stupid. Because if you use one dagger and let's say an axe you also get +10 deflection but the axe will not have the -25% damage malus - while when you use two daggers you will have +10 deflection as well but BOTH daggers will suffer from -25% damage (just tested in beta4). Really stupid.

Besides the Reaping Knives (which make no sense when cast on oneself anyway in my opinion) Rogue + Cipher is actually pretty awesome. That's because you start the game with a +70% dmg bonus and can go to +90% in a few levels. That's pretty cool. Especially Assassin/Soulblade is pretty spectacular if you combine it with Backstab. You can one-shot the first victim out of stealth pretty easily and get a ton of focus for your Soul Annihilation - which usually one-shots the next enemy, then use Smoke Cloud and repeat. Perfect Assassin in my opinion. Detonate works with Assassination by the way. Does the damage of soul annihilation depend only on your focus or does it also depend on your base damage? You said you fight like this: stealth -> backstab -> soul annihilation -> invisibility -> backstab Would it be useful to use soul annihilation from invisibility or is this just overkill and using both things ( backstab and SA ) after another is better? Using SA from invisibility is not really useful because using Assassination + Backstab already kills most enemies and generates a lot of focus for your SA. If you'd use SA from stealth you would also kill the enemy but be left with 0 focus. Alternating between Assassination+Backstab and SA is a lot better. SA's dmg bonus is a flat one that is only calculated based on the focus you have. Weapon base damage is not involved. BUT: SA works like this: you hit the target with the normal attack and do damage (and generate focus for that hit like with any other hit) and then all your focus is converted into raw damage. So it is acutally benefical to use a heavy hitter because then the damage roll is higher, the focus gain from the initial SA-attack is also higher and overall you'll do more damage with the SA strike. Because of this it's also not good to wait for max focus when doing SA. Since it's generating its own focus before dumping the raw damage it's better to execute it with half focus or so. SA + Assassination does more damage than Assassination alone (Assassination will generate a lot of focus which is then immediately dumped into raw damage). But most of the time this is total overkill. Maybe it's a good strategy against bosses though. What's also benefical with SA: Greater Focus. Because you tend to generate too much focus with Assassination (and the focus is overflown and wasted PLUS you'll lose Soul Whip's damage bonus) it's good to have higher MAX focus. Also lets you start combat with more focus which you then can immediately use for SA if you can't stealth (scripted scene or whatever).

An Assassin has much higher crit damage, penetration (which leads to overpenetration most of the time which does +30% damage) accuracy when doing Assassination (automatically done from stealth or invisibility). He suffers from +15% damage received "only". You can feel it but it's not that you get one-shotted all the time. Just don't drop CON to 3 because you want the ultimate glass cannon. Rogues start with 40 health and gain +10 per level. Fighters start with 42 and gain +12 per level. Ciphers start with 38 and gain +8 per level. So as an Assassin/Cipher you are basically as sturdy/fragile as a single class cipher. You get more health because of the rogue part but also suffer a bit more damage because of Assassin. Give yourself a bit more CON and you won't feel a difference. If you are afraid that enemies insta-kill you after unstealthing then pick Defensive Roll: it makes you immune to engagement after you receive a crit. Because of that you can just walk away once an enemy swing his weapon. Unlike PoE he will miss you when you are out of reach. It's quite effective. Just step a bit out of reach when he swings, let his swing hit the air, await his recovery phase and then step back in and kill him. Because of this mechanic in Deadfire suddenly the defensive bonuses against disengagement attacks (Fast Runner, Graceful Retreat...) are more powerful than in PoE. You also will want to use Smoke Cloud all the time. Diring that period you can't get attacked anyway.

Right. Or do it like in PoE. I liked the weird implementation.

Not 100% - but I did try it in beta1 and think it was that way. Maybe it got changed since then. I can check again in a few minutes and will report.

Yeah, cool stuff!

I guess it prevents Barbarian from repeatabe AoE avenging thunder. Usually, Druids can't attack in an AoE. Oh wait...

@Wormerine: the new avatar is just a vector-based impression of the old pixel-based one. So basically it's still your first PC's face.

A bold move.

Yeah, because introducing of multiclassing already reduced your ability to powergame, right? That communist egalitarian douchebag! Teach him a lesson!

Which is pretty awesome. It's basically 30% graze+hit+crit to miss (or "block" in this case) conversion. Add a lot of crit-to-hit and hit-to-crit and you'll be so much sturdier in melee...

Josh, if you read this: now I love you. My wife and I had the same problems (foreign office senior service and third party funded research - can you believe it?) until we said "Screw y'all!".

Correct! I mean the last thing you said.

I'm not 100% sure and can't look into the game atm - but I think it just lowers the damage of ranged deflection attacks and reflex attacks.

Eh? We already have that.

No problem - can't count the mistakes I make all the time. Combos that somewhat fit and are in the same weapon focus group are: - Sabre (like Purgatory - draining an annihilating) & Stiletto (like Oidreacht - draining) - Rapier (like Spelltonuge - removes buffs on targets, speeds you up, prolongs your own buffs) & Dagger (like Drawn in Spring - wounding) Maybe add the Grey Sleeper? It's not really sentient but seems to have some kind of soul or houses souls/spirits or something and also works with every weapon focus (since it's soulbound). That's all I can think of.

You are welcome. The light weapons not only have faster recovery, but also a lot faster attack animation (which can only be influenced by INT Ach godammit DEX). At the beginning of the game they are strictly worse if you're not a rogue with high MIG (because of enemies DR and the low base damage of light weapons) or a monk with fists (because base damage is like heavy one handers although they are fast like light weapons). But with every dmg bonus (enchantment, abilites etc.) they get better and overtake heavy one handers in terms of auto-attack dps at soe point. That's why Drawn in Spring or Sword of Daenysis are great: they combine (very) fast attacks (and also an accuracy bonus of +5) with some means to mitigate enemies' DR (Drawn in Spring: wounding as raw damage, Sword of Daenysis: rending aka 3 DR bypass). The recovery is calculated seperately for every weapon. So if we stick to your examplary values it would be like: Swing with a sword --> 1 recovery --> swing with a dagger --> 0.5 recovery --> swing with a sword --> 1 recovery... and so on.

Nope. Her named portrait is in the companions' folder. Guesses are that she's a temporary companion like Calisca or Heodan were. Another theory is that she's a ship crew member (although those guys don't have their portraits in the companions' folder). Maybe she's both. As far as I know nothing substancial has been revealed.

That's Mirke

Read this post again and I'm not quite done with it. Besides the Reaping Knives (which make no sense when cast on oneself anyway in my opinion) Rogue + Cipher is actually pretty awesome. That's because you start the game with a +70% dmg bonus and can go to +90% in a few levels. That's pretty cool. Especially Assassin/Soulblade is pretty spectacular if you combine it with Backstab. You can one-shot the first victim out of stealth pretty easily and get a ton of focus for your Soul Annihilation - which usually one-shots the next enemy, then use Smoke Cloud and repeat. Perfect Assassin in my opinion. Detonate works with Assassination by the way.

Depends - if you turn on AI and made a good script the char does whatever the AI thinks is best. If you turned off AI then the char goes into idle mode and does nothing until you command him to do something else.