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I remember that even different kinds of retaliation - like Binding Rope + Lavender Wreath or Garodh's Chorus - suppress each other. Don't know how Barbaric Retaliation behaves in this case. There are also issues with multiple "auras" like Executioner's Hood + Threatening Presence. But I can't remember exactly what it was. You'd have to test. I skipped the Hood entirely because it's so easy to cause frightened with the first shout.

By the way: which god is connected to Nature Godlikes? Galawain? He has "Wilderness" in his portfolio...

Maneha is way better off with Tidefall in my opinion. Wounding and Draining with Carnage ist great. For the best experience from lvl11 - Heart of Fury - it's best to choose a dual wielding approach though. Once you have a priest you shouldn't need a lot of defenses against afflictions. But of course Bear's Fortitude + Body Control is always nice. Maybe also add Unstoppable. Another great thing against those afflictions are Fenwalkers (boots). They not only give you a defense bonus but also shorten the duration of the afflictions - which is powerful. This leads to zero durations most of the time when enemies only graze you with afflictions. Other nice items with defense bonuses against paralyze & co. are the Tempered Helmet and the Wayfarer's Hide. Superior Deflection is also good since it stacks with everything.

That's like Viettro's Formal Footwear's enchantment "Carouse" from PoE1 - WMII.

Now come forth my dwarven boar druid!

Sure. I agree. I just wanted to point out that we are supernice diplomatic and benevolent pirates who like to pillage and raid in perfect harmony with the other backers.

The article doesn't fit PoE. The crafting system is very simple, the game doesn't force you to craft nor does it push you, all recepies are known from the start and you only have to press two buttons in order to enchant things, bake a cake, brew a potion or write a scroll. And you can totally skip it. You don't miss fancy things when you don't craft. Except durgan steel maybe. So if you don't like it, don't use it. It's already in the game engine and I think it doesn't give us or OBS any advantage when they remove it.

What about a black cat o'nine tails? Or another whip? Could easily be placed into the flail category. As some of you may know I always wanted to have whips in PoE.

We already had the Crossed Patch in PoE1, White March (immunity to the blind affliction, bonus flanking damage, -2 to ACC).

Hm... I can imagine it would suck a bit if somebody else had the same glorious idea with his backer content than we had. For example that backer spend 5000$ on an inn and wants to run it in an old ship. Two ship/inns wouldn't be very unique. I'm sure we can find a good compromise then, right? We don't want to step on each others toes - even if they are made from wood.

No, Fluffle edits his OP and updates the numbers. Edit: oops, I was too late.

Speaking of cheese: I killed Firkraag with a Wizard's Eye. The eye is invisible and indestructible. But Firkraag can see invisible things. So when I placed the Eye right in front of him he would start to attack it and the Eye was tanking like in god mode - while all party members hit the dragon. Cheesefest times hundred. And a very early Carsomyr +5.

Huh? Did you receive such requests?

I know - I put a lot of time into that stuff, too.

What would the Letter of Marque do? I mean besides allowing you to attack enemy ships - which is of little value for the party I guess... Is it a trinket (=new items slot in PoE2)? Maybe it gives you a RES bonus.

Not bad!

Still very complicated, but makes a lot more sense.

Funny observation: 68 people who voted 15 people who donated

Firebrand works with Scion of Flame (+20% base damage) and can be great fun. It is very good in the early to mid game because it has awesomest base damage, damaging III (incliudes a bit of an ACC boost) and also Annihilation like Rumbalt. Because of it's big base damage, all damage mods like Savage Attack, crits and stuff work really well. It can't be enchanted, so later in the game an enchantable great sword like Hours of St. Rumbalt will clearly be better. But if you want to use it I would recommend to pick Scion of Flame and Intense Flames asap. The Redeemer is fun against vessels - once you "destroy" a vessel it will count as a kill and trigger Strange Mercy + Insp. Triumph (if you took that). Kana: The best position is in the front line as a tank with a small shield (Little Savior) and plate - if you want to use Dragon Thrashed. I would not mix Dragon Thrashed with something else. It stacks and does tremendous damage. It doesn't work with Scion, but the burning lash chant does - but only for the lash that you get (20% instead of 25%), not those of others. To make him very sturdy, you can take Ancient Memory, Beloved Spirits AND Veteran's Recovery. All those will stack. While the first two will also heal the others around you Veteran's will be only for you. If you add an item with healing bonus (Fulvano's Amulet or Belt of Bountiful Healing) you will have an awesome regeneration. You don't need to use things like Cautious Attack then. You can give him any weapon - preferably one which has some supportive feats like marking or a spell holding. You won't do a lot dps with it. It's also the most passive setup you can imagine for him. This can be great (less micro) or bad (if you like him to be more active). A front line position is also good if you want to use any of the damaging invocations. I can see a formation like so with Kana as the main tank and the two sturdy dps frontliners as wingmen: Eder - Kana - MC Pal Aloth - Durance - Hiravias Since you have enough sturdy frontliners you don't need a supertough tank. Kana will do great. But of course you could also use him differently.

Yeah it depends on your country. In some it's possible to pay via bank account or credit card directly. A paypal account is for free. Here in Germany for example it's sufficient to have a bank account - you don't even need a credit card.

Your first question does indeed show that this system has some bad flaws. Having a fixed "border" at which the damage drops or increaes dramatically will lead to problems. It will also be a great opportunity to abuse stuff. Because they can never think through all the consequences such a big change will have. It also sounds very complicated compared to the old solution. Plus: I don't know why they are doing this. I can't see the advantages. But that doesn't have to mean anything of course...

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If you take Runner's Wounding Shot I would even recommend that you drop INT. It works best with low INT. Don't make the rogue too squishy - pistols and blunderbusses don't have a huge range and with the sabre you have to get near. Stats look fine for me.

Hi, sounds nice so far. As for abilites and talents I would choose a different setup - mostly due to the decision that you want be a (sturdy) damage dealer. Kind Wayfarer damage dealer with Strange Mercy and Sword and Shepherd is nice and fun. Abilities: lv1: Flames of Devotion (helps a lot with dps) lv3: Zealous Focus (same) lv5: Sworn Enemy (same) lv7: Lay on Hands (it is one of the best heals in the game - dps or not. Especially with high MIG and INT. It also will help you to survive and make you sturdier) lv9: Inspiring Triumph (you will kill enemies anyway, so why not stack some more on-kill effects?) lv11a: Coordinated Attacks (works really well with the Blade of the Endless Paths, see below) OR lv11b: Healing Chain (you will be no. 1 healer anyway) lv13: Sacred Immolation (no brainer indeed) lv 15: Abjuration (kinda cool and adds easy kills in cetain encounters ) Durance can totally focus on buffs, not heals. Same with Hiravias - can focus on CC and damage. You can do automatic "passive" healing through FoD and killing (scales, it's a lot of healing already) as well as with Lay on Hands and eventually Healing Chain. You can skip Deprive the Unworthy. You will have a priest spell for that. Same with Righteous Soul and also Aegis of Loyality: you will have Durance's prayers for immunity, so why "waste" two ability points? The synergy between Aegis and SA is cool, but if you don't need it it's not worth it in my opinion. Talents (no particular order): Strange Mercy (obviously) Sword and Sheperd (not useless - it's healing stacks with others and you don't need to use FoD as alpha strike. Just wait a few seconds. Use Runner's Wounding Shot instead. And not every FoD hit will be a kill. Not even close) Weapon Focus Adventurer (if Blade of the Endless Paths) OR Weapon Focus Soldier (if Great Sword + maybe arquebus) Runners Wounding Shot (it does 80% if your overall damage as raw damage - crit + burning lash + Scion of Flame included. It is very strong and helps with the killing. Can also be used as alpha strike without wasting the healing of FoD's sword & sheperd) Two Handed Style (+15% all the time is good) Intense Flames (adds more power to FoD - also works with Scion of Flame. Together with a burning lash, FoD + Intense Flames * 1.2 from Scion your FoD strikes will be devastating) Scion of Flame (for FoD + Intense Flames + lash and also SA) Savage Attack (better than Appr. Sneak in this case I'd say - if you take Hours of St. Rumbalt I'd say Apprentice Sneak instead) Things like Vulnerable Attack I would not take. It's not very good with two handers. Bloody Slaughter is total crap. The only thing it does is causing overkilling. It only works when the enemy has less than 10% endurace. Maybe it has some use when you are using fast weapons and fight against dragons, but in 95% of the game it's total nonsense in my opinion. If it would trigger at 25% - which it doesn't - it would be another story. If you choose to take the Blade of the Endless Paths instead of a Great Sword I would recommend taking Coordinated Attacks as well. That way you can give +20 ACC to somebody who attacks the same enemy as you (really helpful against dragons for example). I would recommend Edér to be your flanking buddy against dragons: Durance wil give you both Devotion (+20), Edèr will have +20 from Discipl. Barrage, you will give him +20 from Coord. Attacks and the Blade which has the Marking enchantment. It's easy for Edér now to prone the dragon with Knockdown. You can still use the Redeemer because it has an universal weapon focus. If you like Great Swords better I would not choose Coordinatd Attacks and skip the marking part altogether. I would choose Hours of St. Rumbalt over Tidefall because it's lore fits so well and also because with FoD and Sworn Enemy as well as Durance's buffs you will score a ton of crits. Hours will then cause prone AND will deal double crit damage because of Annihilating. THis fits perfectly well with Merciless Hand from Doemenels. When you score a crit with FoD and all that crit power it will be a very hefty strike - most likely a killing blow. Tidefall is great, but it works best on characters with lower INT. You can use Tidefall against high defense, high DR tagets though because it's better than Rumbalt in that case. But my no1 weapon would be Rumbalt if I'd go for Great Swords. For race I would pick Coastal Aumaua because the locals of Deadfire (Huana) are Coastals.