Boeroer

I think that crits are severely underrated. If you only factor them in with +25% damage at 10 MIG this will not display their power in the actual game (as you already said). Crits very often lead to overpenetration which adds another +30% damage. For the same reason I think that hit/crit conversion is much better than most people think and surely 20% translates to more than ~3% dps in the actual game. I know it's impossible to calculate that without major efford. Just saying... That makes one handed weapon usage the best offensive melee option for auto-attacks (and primary attacks without ACC bonuses) in the beta in my opinon. And that's ok, because heavy dual weapon setups profit massively from Full Attacks. Two Handers a bit meh at the moment. Good option for primary attacks with dmg bonuses but not so good for Full Attacks and not for atuo-attacks. This could easily be changed with +1 PEN for Two Handed Style. It makes sense (weapons that get used with both hands have higher kinetic energy and due to their weight also more momentum and thus can pierce armor more easily) and translates to higher dps because you prevent underpenetration or can even overpenetrate. Or give the style a higer dmg mod if you fear the stacking of PEN. The only thing where (I guess) two handers will be the best option at the moment is with Blood Thirst (non-beta ability) if it works like in PoE (0 recovery after kill).

Maybe Josh meant with "inspiration trumps affliction" that you can always remove a high-tier-affliction with even the lowest inspiration (of the same stat). I mean it also works the other way round, but I don't know what else he could have meant. Or he had no clue.

Why is the raw lash only half of the elemental lashes? With the new PEN system, lashes don't have to overcome AR anyways. Or am I missing something? So either they didn't understand their own mechanics or they just wanted to be kind since this is an ability for foes.

This surprised me, Boeroer! From what I've seen you write in the past, I would have assumed your Monk Witch Doctor build would have won. For me, I tend to have the most fun with Melee wizards and the aforementioned ranged monks (using the long pain). I thought about the Witch Doctor, too - but the Ploi is so versatile.

Ah, thanks!

Quick question: is the code from Carrie Patel's shirt in? Can't find it in the opening post... Edit: or was it Kate Dollarhide's shirt? Can't remember. I saw a black shirt with a code on Pax...

I'm trying to see what shirt he's wearing, if maybe that has something to do with it... It's a shirt of a German bike shop located in Berlin. No codes whatsoever.

"Pause on char hit" still applies - so I guess yes. I didn't pay attention to barking though when I loaded up that save.

Worth to be cited for eternity.

Did you realize that Edér and Aloth are done by the same voice actor?

We could post fotos of cats on bikes.

Hey, no problem!

Only for auto-attacks though.

Well I skipped some parts...

Me neither

But you have to admit it was a very, very weird post. I cringed a bit while reading it. PS: Hehe - good one!

ROFL Like Sonic in the flesh. But no - I meant something like "Told you so!" And he would be right - after I slapped him so hard for saying it last week.

Look at the left of the screen (small tooltip) and how I hovered over the combat log (Additional Effects is white - sorry no mouse cursor visible): CG pulsed every 3 seconds or so and healed every time for 7.8 health. I can't see a bug. Maybe it was just displayed differently before?

I loaded it up and it works just fine. You can see in the combat log that every time CG pulses your chars get healed. If you hover over the "Additional Effects" in the log the tooltip will show you how much helath exactly was restored. I don't know what else you expect it to do?

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/96832-full-vo-neat/

So... now it's your turn, SonicMage!

But in the screenshot (combat log right at the top) I can see that Consecrated Groung healed your merc fighter for 8 health...?

But if all party members are at full health then Consecrated Ground will indeed do nothing. Healing doesn't take place if the party is at full health already.

And doesn't it even appear (the VFX I mean)?

Why? 25% damage is enough and Minor Blights has 4 different damage types. Or what do you mean? Ach, you mean single enemies like Skulking Terror without ads. True.