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Priests don't have a big variety of damage spells, true, but the ones they have are among the best in terms of damage (as I said: look at the damage done by Shining Beacon with high MIG and INT through Minor Avatar or other buffs and add Cleansing Flame to double the ticks) - also because they can buff themselves while buffing the party so well. Another reason why priests are the most powerful class for me are the prayers and litanies. They make most defense buffs against afflictions obsolete. Another trick with a priest: Inspiring Radiance + Devotios for the Faithful (+30 ACC combined) stack with universal ACC bonuses like Disciplined Barrage, Zealous Focus or Blessing. I can totally recommend building a priest who's focused on damage. The first two spell levels are a bit meh, but then the good stuff comes around. And of course: at the start of the fight both priests should cast a buff before the CC and finally the damaging part begins. That way you spare precious buffing time. For CC wizards, ciphers and druids are cool. Buff them with +30 ACC and watch how their CC spells crit. Then start the nuking...

Ah, ok.

Priests is the most powerful class in my opinion. When they don't buff they can deal awesome damage. They are only a bit short of CC, but there are other classes for this. So if you want to use Durance for buffing mostly I would skill your main character for (spell) damage. Then take the Doemenel faction for the talent "Merciless Hand". With a crit your spells will deal a ton of damage then (look at the damage of Shining Beacon if you have high MIG and INT AND score a crit). With the right dispositions, your Holy Radiance can one-shot most vessels. Healing is very situational so I wouldn't evolve a whole character concept around it. If you can deal a lot of damage (with high MIG and INT) you will also be good at healing. Actually I never tried if 2 Inspiring Radiances stack. If they do, that would be superawesome. Stacking MIG and INT into the sky is pretty easy with a priest. Little Tip: Aggrandizing Radiance's bonuses stack with everything. If you cast Minor Avatar and then Aggrandizing Randiance, you will have +10 to all stats and +2 Move speed. If you cast a damaging spell with those stats enemies get obliterated. Also nice for Envenomed Strike if you like that talent. You could even make your MC priest a melee one - berathian priest with great sword is actually pretty fun. So is a skaenite priest with stilettos or a priest of eothas with a morning star - but that's all a matter of taste I guess. Note that all soulbound weapons an summoned weapons (Firebrand) work with the special priest talent that gives you +10 ACC with certain weapons. They also work with EVERY weapon focus. So you are no necessarily stuck with the weapons which are mentioned (like for example long sword and arquenbus as a preist of magran or great sword and mace as a priest of berath and so on).

Yes, that might be. It might also be that OBS changed that because it is (or was) a bit cheesy to be honest. I also like WoT a lot. Tenuous Grasp just used to be my no. 1 opening strike "for free" and I liked just because of that. I didn't play a cipher with either WoT or Ten. Grasp for a while so please keep me posted if you discover if more stealth works.

It's impossible to understand the mechanics completely if you can't look into PoE's source code. They are just too complex and there are many inconsistencies and also bugs. MaxQuest did a truly great job looking into the code every time somebody asks questions. Also check out his Attack Speed Calculator (link in his signature). It's superawesome. Honestly OBS should hire him as a consultant for their mechanics - and also as bug crusher.

PoE's PoTD is easier with the official companions.

I think it looks fine.

Yeah, you are right. Would even be better if there was a GUI that lets you pick a custom portrait from anywhere via dialogue. It's easily done with Unity. Maybe even has the ability to crop and shrink the picture to the correct size - like profile picture uploads on several websites do it.

Just replace the background with one of the original portraits, maybe dye it.

The reason why MaxQuest doesn't recommend Psychovampiric Shield might be that its deflection bonus doesn't stack with Borrowed Instincts'.

Buy it right away, both parts (WM I and II). It isn't a sequel that takes place after the main campaign. INstead it expands the main game with higher level cap (from 12 to 14 in WM I and up to 16 in WM II) new locations, items, abilities, talents and quests that you can visit/use relatively freely throughout your playthrough. They expand and improve the vanilla game a lot. So there is no point in waiting if you want to play the content of the expansions anyway.

All cool. I think it's because it's hard to mod the UI. Even now, during the development process of PoE2, the devs talked about how difficult it is even for them to make quick UI changes so that the resulting UI doesn't suck or look weird and so on.

You can always pick a primary and a secondary color for your outfit. However, there are limitations: - A lot of unique armors don't change colors. But some do. - Special parts of armor - for example shiny metal parts - won't change color but stay silvery or golden. A good example is plate mail. Generally speaking- the more fabric and the less metal the more likely it is that you change the color of the armor. Even some hats and helmets change color if they have leather or fabric parts.

Seems to be broken again. *sigh*

What do you mean? You don't have to edit any game files. You just drop pictures of the right size into the portrait folder and that's it. Pretty simple. Where did you get that wrong information? Or do you mean that one may not have writing access to the game folders? In that case, your question makes sense. It would be convenient to have a dedicated portrait folder in the user space. Although on Linux the game will be installed into the user's space so that's no problem. I have no idea how the game gets installed on Windows... Edit: typo

I won't recommmend using a gamepad at all for this game. Way too much micromanagement. More than DA:O since the combat mechanics are more complicated and the AI is worse. But if you can play DA:O with a gamepad then it's doable I guess. I honestly have no idea if it's already controllable with a gamepad atm. You can play a wizard like that on the picture. Although there's not THAT shiny plate armor. Since the guy on that picture has a staff (?) I recommend using the summoned two handed weapons of a wizard (you can still use other weapons like a normal staff or a great sword or whatever as backup without drawback). Those are very powerful in the stages of the game where you get them and all work with the same talents. There's Concelhaut's Parasitic Staff (spell lvl 1) and Citzal's Spirit Lance (splvl 5). Later you can summon Llengrath's Warding Staff, too. They also look a bit more phantastic than the usual weapon.

I won't recommmend gamepad at all for this game. Way too much micromanagement. More than DA:O since the combat mechanics are more complicated and the AI is worse. But if you can play DA:O with a gamepad then it's doable I guess. I honestly have no idea if it's already controllable with a gamepad atm. You can play a wizard like that on the picture. Although there's not THAT shiny plate armor. Since the guy on that picture has a staff (?) I recommend using the summoned two handed weapons of a wizard (you can still use other weapons like a normal staff or a great sword or whatever as backup without drawback). Those are very powerful in the stages of the game where you get them and all work with the same talents. There's Concelhaut's Parasitic Staff (spell lvl 1) and Citzal's Spirit Lance (splvl 5). Later you can summon Llengrath's Warding Staff, too. They also look a bit more phantastic than the usual weapon.

No idea to be honest. But there was a time up to 2.something (if I remember correctly) where it also didn't work. May it be that it only works against targeted, non AoE spells nowadays?

You can totally play a wizard in armor and with a sword. And there are a few wizard spells that heal you, starting at spell lvl 2 with Concelhaut's Corrosive Siphon which damages the enemies and gives you the dealt damage as healing for example. It's a pretty awesome spell for a melee wizard. Wizards have powerful self buffs and also nice and powerfu summoned weapons, although those are staffs, wands a wicked pike and even a war bow, but not a sword. But it's not a problem to pick up a normal sword, go dual wielding, use a shield or go for a two handed weapon, everything works as long as you pick the right talents and spells and put on the right equipment. Even an unarmed wizard "monk style" is viable and fun to play. There is even a bounty quest in PoE where you have to bring down a whole group of wizards - and they are all different. Some are in plate with great swords, some in robes with wands and so on.

Binding Rope and Lavender Wreath don't stack, one suppresses the other. normal retaliation would also get suppressed. Glittering Gauntlets (daze) will stack because they don't work via retaliation but via your own active weaon attacks. Godanythunyr instead of Nightshroud is better in my opinion. To damage types and stun on crit. If you combine this with Binding Rope you will cause stuck via retaliation, then cause a stun with the hammer and then follow up with a Thrust of Tattered Veils on Deathblows. Enemy's dead. Weaker alternatives: We Toki or Cladhaliath. Starcaller with Spell Striking Minoletta's Minor Missiles is also very nice with max DR bypass (Penshot, Ryona's Vambraces) and Deathblows. Best offensive boots are Boots of Speed in my opinion. Reach your target faster = more dps. Boots of Stability or Fenwalkers are very nice, I agree.

You're welcome. Thank you as well - and have a nice one!

Maybe it's a superpet.

I would like that.

I'm pretty happy with me. Do you honestly think that my post was aggressive and yours was constructive criticism? We should use more emoticons. I would say I'm the last person to react aggressively to constructive criticism. But maybe I have a problem with my self-perception.

I would build it less squishy, take Veteran's Recovery and some defensive talents - then yes. What works great with chokepoints is summons and Dichotomous Soul as "tanks" while you fire with fists. Kiting is also easy with this.