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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...

And what would I do with my beloved White Worms invocation if The Dragon Thrashed would just leave a pile of ashes behind?

This. So many possibilities to find awesome combos. I will put even more hours into PoE2 than into PoE1. If that's even possible.

I can't believe that my build offer didn't lead to immediate complete funding. OK - how can I motivate you further? I mean I can't offer money, that would be really dumb. I know most people who read this won't give a shart - but if we reach 5000$ I promise all my future class build postings will not only be text & picture, but every one will also contain a video of some sorts - to show it in action or to show the leveling or whatever you prefer. Note that I'd have to buy a new computer for this because my current machine will never be able to capture video and play games at the same time. BIBs I hope the internet connection in Bukarest will be nice...

Good question. I didn't test, but it should.

Yes, even though they are dirrent effects (stuck/sicken/piece damage) those ret. items like Binding Rope/Lavender Wreath/Coat don't stack. That's what I wanted to say. Now I also remember that I tested a max retaliation barb. Barbaric Retaliation definitely stacks. Battle Forged (fire godlike) and potion of Flame Shield also stack.

For early/mid game you can try Firebrand. Pick Turning Wheel and Scion of Flame asap. because Scion of Flame works with both Firebrand and Turning Wheel. Later variant a) Tidefall + burning lash. Tidefall is best with maxed MIG because wounding damage scales with MIG. Pretty straightforward. The alternative b) is max PER with Hours of St. Rumbalt + burning lash and Enervating Blows + Apprentice's Sneak. Enerv. Blows causes weakened on crit which lowers fortitude. Force oA and prone from Hours target fortitude. So it's a lot easier to cause prone. Apprent. Sneak will apply a lot because both weakened and prone trigger it. Hours also has Annihilation, giving you double crit damage bonus. Works great with Merciless Hand and other crit damage mods. Try to get gloves of Accuracy. If you crit with Force oA you willdo a lot oft damage, cause weakened, have two rolls against fort. for prone. This is instant Deathblows if you have a rogue in the party. In both cases I would take Veteran's Recovery and rel. high MIG and INT. RES is not so important. Iron Wheel is good. Of course Lightning Strikes. Shod-in-Faith is always nice for monks. Once Iron Wheel is there you can use light armors. I personally would prefer option b. But Tidefall is also very nice. Such a monk is perfect for "behind enemy line" operations. Especially with Flagellant's Path.

Sidekicks is a smart way of answering the "I want a dwarf companion" and the "I want a pale elf companion" factions. I wonder now what the 8th companion will be? A mysterious person of a nondescript race with a cut-off nose?

Remember: there are also trinkets now. What about a telescope or a sextant? What can they do? Well I have no idea... Ouh-uh-uh! What about that: you need that thing to find the Black Isle? And some other nice effect - still no idea...

As far as I know it only worked with active abilities.

Cool, then maybe it was fixed - or it was just a problem with Binding Rope + Lavender Wreath. I remember now that they also did something with those items that emit auras like Redfield and Executioner's Hood. Because when you used for example Knockdown at the same time when the aura "pulsed", Knockdown (prone) did apply to all enemies in range of the aura. As if the prone effect "piggibacked" on the aura. They fixed this in one of the later patches I think. Maybe they were also fixing other issues with those auras as well then.

Not that your steward told you it's supertough high level stuff.

One more reason to name it Mistress. Whom do you love more than your mother? Because there was no father because... bastards. Hellyeah - the ship could house all the souls of the BIBs mothers. If one of them dies, the BIBs will sail there, pick her body up, give her a heartbreaking funeral and her soul can live on in the vessel - so that the mothers can be with their bastard sons.

A) Frigate (my favorite ship when playing Henry Morgan in Pirates! on C64) B) The (woeful) Mistress (or another adjective - a mistress is a paramour, a concubine - usually the mother of a noble bastard. At the same time a mistress can also be a ruler of the household and so on. It's a term with many meaning which all fit. And usually a ship is female!). C) damaged by Eothas (not completely destroyed - BIBs need help to repair her)

It's simple: you are underleveled. End of story. This is supposed to be tough - it's end level stuff for WM I (=lvl 14). It's not that tough anymore if you have enough levels though. You don't need anything special, you just have to know the mechanics (! not the skill - I mean the rules, how the game works and so on) and have enough levels. Your tactics seem to be OK, but not perfect. Make sure you buff yourself. If you have a priest you should cast Inspiring Radiance and Devotions before attacking with Chillfog and stuff. Also use prayers. If no priest is available: use scrolls to buff ACC and to cast prayers. And most important: you have to watch out what attack targets which defense. For example it's of no use to blind enemies and then cast Chillfog on them. Chillfog targets fortitude, but blind doesn't lower fortitude and Chillfog blinds anyway. So why cast blind before Chillfog? A smarter move would be to buff ACC, then cast a weakening spell (=lowers fortitude) and then add ChillFog which will then hit way more easily. But I know this mechanics stuff is all a bit obscure and PoE does a fairly poor job of communicating its mechanics. You have to try out things. You can't imagine how I struggled when I went to Crägholt Bluffs for the first time. Funny thing: the Torn Bannermen are total losers compared to the things that await you inside the tower, hehehe.

You find a helm which does nothing but looking nice. You put it on. Then you find a helm that gives you +1RES/+1PER. Suddenly you only wear that helm. Nobody said "boo!", nobody complained and felt sorry for that poor old helm that was only there for cosmetic reasons. Nobody wanted a talent for super-helmets. But I agree that all helmets should have a minor effect like all armors have, too. Maybe something like -10% damage when receiving a crit. So maybe normal pets can give you a tiny boost, too. Upping morale or help scouting or bringing food or shiny stuff every now and then.

That's the pet reward, not the item reward tier on fig.