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I don't know if the Long Pain is too strong. At least not in a party setup. First of all you need to get two wounds so you can't start right away with it. Secondly it needs some time summoning. Then you need another wound to trigger Lightning Strikes (you want to do that). If you want to use Torment's Reach or Force of Anguish you are forces to go into melee because else you won't get wounds. And if you really want to max the damage you have to go high MIG and take things like the hater talents - best is every one of them. It adds even more micro to a monk but you get rewarded with awesome damage, which is fair I think. They could be a bit slower though, that's a nerf that would make sense. adding a short "charge fist" animation to the attack cycle would be ok. All in all it's very powerful, but there are other things in the game that are even more powerful. I mean Kalakoth's Minor Blights with Blast strikes me as the more powerful thing for example. It's also a summoned weapon but its summoning only takes a fraction of the time the summoning of the Long Pain takes. Its damage is high - even the AoE part has good damage, and paired with Blast it's hilarious. Combine it with Alacrity, Combusting Wounds and Pull of Eora and in my book it's one of the most powerful ability/weapon combos in PoE if you factor in that it involves very little micro and fuzz. Same with Rot Skulls and Citzal's Spirit Lance. Even if you don't spec your wizard towards two handed weapons at all the lance still annihilates whole groups of enemies and is also good against single ones. All in all i think the Long Pain was on of the best things OBS intruduced with a patch. It turned a melee-only class into a viable melee OR ranged class. They should have done something similar with fighter and barb, too. It onlytakes one ability as one can see...

If it looks like a bug and rolls pills out of poop like a bug it usually is a pharmacist.

They should have made a subclass called "Batsh!t".

As far as I know nothing has changed in that regard.

Another great Swift-Flurry-Combo: The Long Pain + Driving Flight + Swift Flurry = awesome. Not as many bounces as with a rod + modal, but a lot faster attack speed of course and good base damage. I added a Sharpshooter because Long Pain only has 5 base PEN. Sadly this causes friendly fire and will kill you. I already reported that bug.

Hi! I just tried the above combo with a Shattered Pillar/Sharpshooter (adding Long Pain and Driving Flight via console). I couldn't determine which of the three abilities causes this (I guess it's not Swift Flurry), but if you combine them like I did your Long Pain Fists will work with Driving Flight and trigger a lot of crit-flurries. First of all the "jump" of Driving Flight exceeds the max range of Long Pain (5m). This means the jump has a longer range, which is odd (also happens with scepters by the way). It seems the jump has its own range while it should inherit the range of the use weapon. Secondly the jump from Long Pain + Driving Flight will also hit friendly targets, including The Village People (...) and your own character. I managed to kill myself multiple attacking some CRE_Dummies. I didn't have this behavior with other weapons + Driving Flight (including summoning combos like Minor Blights + Driving Flight), only with The Long Pain so far.

Depends. Attack animation and recovery will become slower and your dps will suffer. Also the summoning process of The Long Pain is quite lenghty. With low DEX you're summoning around like forever - it's no fun. Better dump RES.

Phew - hats off! I hope OBS will just hire you for Deadfire. Not that I speak Chinese at all - but for all those fellow gamers in China.

If you can't get hit anyways: why not less CON and more MIG?

Did you miss this? I think I listed everything you can (and can't) do with the Long Pain in that build description. As far as I know nothing has changed since then. Since the base damage scales and is insanely high at higher levels, every dmg bonus you can get is golden (crit, Merciless Hand, high MIG, also hater talents - but also lashes like Lightning Strikes and Blood Testament). Total opposite of Transcendent/Novice's Suffering where additional dmg bonuses besides MIG don't work with the flat "suffering" damage bonus.

I agree.

Two resource pools...

No. Livegiver gains +5 power level for Rejuvenation spells while shifted and suffers -5 Power Level once the shift ends. You really want to shift as a Livegiver.

But you already get +3 PEN, 50% hit to crit and grazes with your scaling summoned weapon. A bit lower power level isn't that bad. There has to be some kind of drawback if you multiclass.

Obviously you have to multiclass with a Trickster, Priest of Wael or a Wizard in order to get Illusion spells.

And that would be bad?

You should post this as a bug. Sounds like one.

Yeah, check this :D I think can top that: try Sharpshooter/Monk with a blasting rod, Swift Flurry and Driving Flight. Driving Flight doubles the blasting (every projectile triggers two blasts: one normal and one from Driving Flight) and every blast has the AoE-potential for a crit. Usually you oly need one shot for a group of 10 spawned dummies. I guess it's even deadly and superpowerful when Swift Flurry gets fixed. You can still get 4 crits/hits per victim from one shot.

Hi, if you cast a damaging spell while shifted and have picked wildstrike <whatever>, your spell will also get the lash. Same thing if you are a priest and summoned one of the faith attuned weapons. The lash will get applied to damaging spells as well. Bug or feature?

As far as I know it doesn't even work with ranged weapons, only melee ones.

Maybe. I also wondered where the 2% came from.

You have to substract the casting time (75 sec) of course.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't also the base damage scale with Concenhaut's Staff? I had the impression. I didn't look at it very closely though because I immediately cast it away when I realized that the weapon is bugged (no draining). Besides the scaling quality the priest weapons' lashes seem to be determined by power level as well if I see it right...? With a Nature Godlike (+2 Power level) I got +62% lash instead of 60% at lvl 6. So maybe it's a flat X% + 1% per power level?

Like "Pukecaller"?

You also get a chant that helps against dragons and lots of summons which is very helpful in a solo game. Open with a figurine and then summon some ogres to distract enemies. Chanter can also use mind control. A paladin with maxed out defenses is quite boring (until lvl 13) and tedious to play but a rel. save bet. Early Outworn Bucker helps a lot. Later get Drawn in Spring. Priest is a bit hefty at the start but is good later on. With all those buffs (esp. Radiance + Devotions + Minor Avatar) you can land everything on a dragon. Summons and mind control items (Munacra Arret, Spirit Spiral, Ring of Changing Heart) help to distract enemies while you buff (and buff and buff) yourself. I would use a priest who has another "Symbol of <whomever>" -damage type than burn. Because if you meet burn immune foes you would be screwed. Shining Beacon, Storm of Holy Fire and so on - all burn damage. So either Berath (corrode), Skaen (pierce) or Wael (freeze). Combusting Wounds + multiple pulsing effects is always very nice. There's also the Colored Coat which triggers Wicked Briars. That also is great with Combusting Wounds. Paladin + Sacred Immolation, Druid with Nature's Terror & Wicked Briars + Venombloom, Wzard with Chillfog + Wall of Flame, Barbarian with Hearf of Fury and so on are all great with Combusting Wounds. My best experience with a party is with Spark the Souls of the Righteous - but when goind solo you don't have that many allied bodies. Wood Beetles and Skeletons die too fast...