Boeroer

It's a simple FoD that doesn't use the paladin's special talents like Enduring Flames or Remember Rhakan Field or whatever. Intense Flames also does not work. But I don't know about Scion of Flame for sure. Maybe that works. Same with Frenzy from Sanguine Plate and Greater Frenzy (barb). Scion of Flame (and the other elemental boosters) don't work with DoT abilities and DoT spells at all. Thus, Scion of Flame doesn't work with Enduring Flames. In no case. Same with Scion of Flames + Dragon Thrashed and so on. That's a reason why Spirit of Decay is not a good pick for a druid for example.

Would be cool if the swarm would be immune to pierce/crush/slash damage and did damage just by touching enemies. Like a moving harzard field that Dragon Thrashed is. But smaller of course. Basically like a walking AoE DoT spell.

As far as I know we'll have the same attributes. But what they do will be a bit different. Something like that.

I will write Aarik on this very important matter.

Right. People's perception of a mother's embrace also changed a bit. Back then it meant that your quick and agile mother would choke you if you refused to submit to her will. Very non-sissy name that. Full of brutal connotations.

Tehehe. Same with me. I also hate splatter movies. And I just don't like it if the pieces fly around after a hit with a sword. It's ridiculous. Even if you crit somebody with a sword that guy would never explode like they did in PoE1 and BG. And it's also very difficult to cut off limbs when they are clad in armor. I guess nobody wants gib and gore based on the type of armor the enemy wears. Too much fuzz. For me, a bit of blood and a good collapse-animation are sufficient. The Fallout animations are really cool though.

Sure. Total coincedence. They just didn't notice it when they gave the name to that ship. And back in the days a pink rose would weaken everybody's knees. Nobody would give pink roses to women because it was considered an insult because roses were connected to violence and stuff. And squirrels! Today's squirrels are not the same what they used to be. Jumping on people's backs, biting the head off - such things. Think of pitbulls with bushy tails. Ah - the good old days where pirate ships had all those foul and dirty names...

They have. Give them Hours of St. Rumbalt and Tall Grass.

1) Yes - would indeed use a lower RES score then and put it to PER and DEX. Hearth Orlan is OK if you flank a lot. If you like to engage by your own it does nothing for you. +3 points of MIG is +15% damage all the time. And don't forget that it also means more healing. The defense bonus against prone and stun is also very nice. Actually my pick for a dps paladin would be boreal dwarf. +15 ACC is huge and some really nasty enemies are wilder and primordial (Lagufaeth, Ogres, Adragans, Delemgans and so on). Stacks with the survival bonuses, too. Wood Elf is not as bad as some think: Sacred Immolation works with it. All the enemies which get touched by it but stand a bit away will be hit with more ACC. Polynesian names: http://www.behindthename.com/submit/names/usage/polynesian

For somebody like me who likes to play those games several times with different party compositions, sidekicks are actually a great thing. Cheap enough to develop some of them but enough dialogues and banter to make then interesting. After the first or second playthrough I honestly give a shart about relationships and companion quests. That's when those sidekicks make a lot of sense. For my personal first playthrough they are not needed. So I guess most people who complain about this idea won't play the game more than once or twice - which is totally understandable then. For me: I love that sidekick idea, yes. It will be fun to develop different builds for each one.

Yes - great, isn't it? Can't wait to try those things out.

I know of no historical example where pirates or freebooters used another naming pattern than other sailors. No sane captain would have used a foul name for their ship. Of course there were more sincere ones like "Revenge" or "Satisfaction". But nothing like bitch, whore or something like that. Here's a list of historical pirate ship names: http://www.allthingsboat.com/boat-names/pirate-ship-names/ Have a look at "The Rose Pink" and "The Squirrel" and tell me again that Mother's Embrace is not suitable. You always have to remember that even the most evil human beings seldomly think of themselves as evil, but want to justify or even block out what they are doing. As long as you don't hate the ship on which you are sailing and are forced to be there you wouldn't give it a disrespectful or filthy name. Every other pirate would make fun of you if you named your proud ship something like "Bloody Bitch" or "Wretched Whore". But of course: if your soul is bound to that ship and you can't leave it then it's appropriate to give it a rough name. So maybe if we decide on the story of the Bastards it will be easier to agree on a name that is appropriate. A lot of suggestions so far are good in one way or the other.

Speaking of high acc builds: carnage is considered a low acc ability because it has a malus when the game starts. What few people know is that carnages counts as ability and thus gets +1 ACC per char level. That means that it has very high accuracy in later levels -more than your main attack. Bash is the same. This adds up pretty nicely. Carnage crits with bash happen a lot at the time you get that shield. So - Badgradr's Barricade is a very good pick for a defensive barb who still wants to deal decent damage. Especially Heart of Fury is great with it. Barbaric Blow, too. Same with monk + Torment's Reach. By the way: bashing shields don't get the 50% speed bonus like dual weapons get. You will attack nearly as slow as without bashing (it has a short recovery like fast weapons). But bash is very low damage, thus lowering your overall DPS compared to a normal shield. That's the main reason why it's bad.

^Correct. Generally speaking bashing shields are crap - with the two known exceptions Badgradr's Barricade and Dragon's Maw. Scath Gwannek is also good - but not because of bash but because it has spell bindings.

I successfully tested them with carnage, so I assume they work fine now.

Thanks for the info. I was just guessing why they keep it around 50:50.

Swarm Spiritshift would be awesome! Don't know (yet) what it's good for though.

I don't like AD&D multiclassing. It's so boring. I'm glad OBS is trying out something new that seems to lead to many interesting build options.

I guess the investment reservations have to be backed up first. And you also don't want a bad ratio of backers:investors. While the first ones are "cheap money" (just look how many ingame portraits were "sold"), the second ones can get really expensive so to speak.

There are none (that we know of). But she's also called "The Lady of Lament" which also sounds like a nice name for a ship. Could also be "The Mistress of Mourning" or "The mourning Mistress".

You can vote accordingly then.

Mother's Embrace is indeed a very nice name for that ship.

It works OKish but it's not superpowerful. The problem is that you want to catch grazes in order to trigger retaliation and also riposte. But the rogue's health is so low that - even with fat armor - you have to rest all the time. Deep Wounds works with retaliation, but it can't be stacked.

Yes, pull them out of the room one by one.

It's a nice ability for tanking and stacks with some other ACC debuffs (see the Golden Dragon Build). In the early game it's more valuable for a party than Frenzy. But yeah - you won't find Maneha in the early game...