Boeroer

You're going there too early. First solve the Poko Whatevara quest, level up and then wander around on the main island.

Magran is about advanced warfare and likes firearms (which are the dernier cri on the battlefield). Faith attuned sword + pistol with the 50% lash generate a lot of focus, too. An awesome source of focus is cipher/wizard with Kalakoth's Minor Blights + one handed weapon in offhand (like dagger). I don't know if it fits the description of neophil though. Maybe you should wait for Serafen and then take away his hand mortar? That seems to be quite the new thing.

I didn't take it that way. Just wanted to correct the (maybe accidental) hyperbole. Your idea is good.

Who knows. Gods can change - even their aspects. Look at Abydon.

I like the balanced approach. Make your paladin hit really hard with FoD and maybe Runner's WS, but also give him good defenses. Deflection is not that important, but a good Fortitude is golden. I personally would also give him Veteran's Recovery (if he hasn't Lay on Hands). Stuff like Righteous Soul is awesome, too. I would also add Fenwalkers Boots, maybe a Tempered Helm and an armor with Breakout (-50% prone and stun duration) and enemies' afflictions can go home.

I was just kidding.

I think cruel doesn't fit Rymrgand, but it's difficult. Besides that: I have no idea why we are limited to the current selection of priests (and paladin orders). Maybe with expansions...

They should. Natural Weapons are considered to be weapons - as are fists. Two Weapon Style speeds everything up that is dual wielded, be it claw, fist or dagger. It was the case in PoE and I see no reason why it shoudn't work now. A Fighter/Druid already could use Two Weapon Style for faster attack speed when shifted in beta 1-3. I didn't test if the Haymaker works with natural weapons - maybe not, since claws etc. are not really considered unarmed - or don't work with unarmed abilites like Novices/Transcendent Suffering (PoE and Deadfire) or unarmed bonus items like Sandals of the Forgotten Friar (PoE).

He was not talking about modals. Also, Wildstrike Attacks may profit from Scion of Flame etc. Didn't test though. FoD works.

When holding Shift while hovering over the combat log's entries, the window for damage is in the left of the screen while the window for PEN is totally out of bounds and not visible (only the right border). Win 10, Steam, 1920x1080 - doesn't chang when I switch resolution or something...

Belt gives you 3 uses of Firebrand per rest, gloves give you additional 3 uses - so 6 uses per rest in total. Less resting, more Firebrand. The damage with a Bleak Walker's FoD crit (including Remember Rhakan Field, Intense Flames, Scion of Flame, Merciless Hand, Two Handed Style, Savage Attack and so on) is very spectacular if you use Firebrand. And Runner's Wounding Shot would add a third strike that does similar damage (+80% raw DoT lash is nearly as good as an upgraded FoD strike with lots of burning lashes). Dual Bitterut (cloned, upgraded to superb+ and refined with Durgan Steel) is better - but all that stuff comes pretty late and costs you a hell lot of resources - while Firebrand is really awesome from the beginning and stays to be viable till the end. And it needs 0 resources. You also could simply retrain later for dual sabres if you want the optimum in the late game.

Says who? The same guy who said 3.04 is the final patch I assume? Edit: forgot to wink

Double checked by removing Scion of Flame and Spirit of Decay during combat via console: only 8 PEN on crit. They indeed give me +2 PEN with FoD as a Bleak Walker. Good times! Edit: Scion of Flame does NOT give my +1 PEN with Eternal Flames. Another hint that keywords do the trick, not actual damage types.

No, but I doubt that holding a pistol in only one hand gives me more accurate shots nor do I think that holding a rifle in two hands makes the bullet do more damage if I hit correctly... Hm... I just tested a Bleak Walker/Wizard with dual fine blunderbusses (8 PEN) and FoD with Scion of Flame AND Spirit of Decay and I get 10 PEN instead of 8 on a hit. Am I missing some hidden PEN bonus from FoD or do Scion + Spirit indeed give me +2 PEN in this case? It all seems to work with keywords and NOT the actual type of damage you cause - because Noxious Burst is keyworded without Acid and thus doesn't get +1 PEN from Spirit of Decay despite doing corrode damage - while Fireball does get +1 PEN because it's keyworded with Fire. FoD is keyworded with Fire, Acid for Bleak Walkers. So I guess it works, hoorray...?

Then it must have been rods, because wands are one-handed. Well, since one handed ranged weapons like pistols/wands/scepters and so on also profit from +12 ACC when single wielded I think that's just fair. A bit weird though. How does one increase the damage of a ranged weapon by using both hands...

Do they? In PoE the styles were melee only.

If you are a shifter with two claws, tusks, horns etc. you want to take two weapon style because it speeds you up (see PoE). As a Fury you'd want to take Two Handed Style. As a non-shifting Animist you can take Single Weapon Style for your spear or whatever. No subclass has unique ability trees - so I don't see the problem here.

I think because he got severely bitten here in the past.

They said no (it was possible in beta1 with Bull's Will and so on) - But I didn't try it out. Edit: oh thanks Balthazar. I was too slow. My question is: What happens if you are a Bleak Walker/Animist (FoD keywords: Fire + Acid) and take Scion of Flame with the paladin side (+1 PEN with attacks keyworded with Fire) AND Spirit of Decay with the druid side (+1 PEN with attacks keyworded with Acid)? I didn't try because I have nearly 0 time atm but I would want to know. +2 PEN with FoD in this case? It's passive and should stack...

That is not correct. At least not for all godlike racials. Silver Tide is very powerful - which headgear can compete with a big AoE healing burst at 75%, 50% and 25% endurance - from lvl 1 on? Also Battle Forged (when used properly) is more powerful than any helmet you can find in PoE. While being pretty underwhelming at the beginning of the game at higher levels it can retaliate for over 200 burn damage. Wellspring of Life and Death's Usher are indeed pretty lame in PoE though.

I don't mind the overlap. That way you can now take your favorite ability with class A and still pick another one that you also wanted with class B (that formerly only was pickable with class A).

Yes

I don't know why you would ever pick Shadowing Beyond when you can use Smoke Cloud. I really start to dislike that different active abilities compete for resource points (like Guile). I will only pick one active ability, maybe two and the rest is passives. I liked the old per-encounter system better. It would be different if you could somehow regain resource points (like Monks/Ciphers/Corpse Eaters can). And I don't mean Empower.

Why would you want to make a soulbound weapon worse with every upgrade? Because they made this mistake with several new items/modals in Deadfire as well I strongly believe it's a bug that occured because they changed some internal denominators (going from reloading *speed* to reloading *time*) and then forgetting to flip the sign (+/-).

Eh? However - I can't play the new beta release until Monday. But I guess there will be enough cool builds you can realize with it. Following the detailed patch notes I think that stuff like AoE + Strikes (Minor Blights + Arterial Strike - or Spirit Lance + Stunning Blows and so on) still works, as does Swift Flurry or Cleaving Stance with AoE attacks - for starters...