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I contacted a backer with an inn. It's totally up to him if he wants this or not. But I guessed it doesn't hurt to ask. It would be to my liking if the Black Isle Bastars would indeed be "real" bastards: founding members were illegitimate sons and daughters of ducs and other high ranked individuals who didn't achnowledged their children, but made sure they were well fed and educated properly (and became officers, priests, merchants, whatever). Nowadays they recruit all kinds of people - the only requitement is that you are truely a... well... bastard. Of course I don't insist on this - just an idea to explain the name. What they do nowadays I don't really care: adventuring, freebooting, running an inn, planning a coup d'état - or maybe all of that.

By the way: who's looking forward to playing a Priest of Skaen/Assassin in PoE2:Deadfire? :dance:

Funny that people vote but only few post something. Maybe because we already discussed that stuff in the previous thread.

True, that can be a problem. Usually, when using such characters, it's not the lack of per-rest-spells that forces you to rest but low health. This can lead to more resting. It's not that bad when you have vancian casters. Because you can dish out a lot of spells all the time - you will have to rest because of low health anyway. Ok, jokes aside. You can do something when you have such problems and they are annoying you: When you stack healing bonuses (MIG, survival, +25% items) and then use Wound Binding or Field Triage you will get way more than 40% or 20% health. You can read about that effect at length in my Chillfog chanter build. Same effects apply to potions of Infuse with Vital Essence! It will restore health. It's a cheap alternative to Wound Binding and stuff. It will not add as much health as the talents, but enough to push the need to rest a bit further away from you. But yes - you will have to rest more with such characters.

The stats remain untouched as far as I know. Now you might have additional abilities, talents and levels. And also more knowledge. Frankly knowledge about this game is the best buff you can have.

Champion's Boon only gets triggered if you kill something with Steadfast. At least that was the case when I last tried. In order to proc Champion's Boon you would want to reach 0 recovery with a durganized non-bashing shield or even one handed.

Tehehe... that was quite funny.

I like it that the "one tank to glue them all" approach doesn't work. I personally rush enemy casters with one or two special characters. Why shouldn't the enemy do the same? Especially if they are twice in numbers? A very easy solution is to not build parties with one or two lame tanks who can't do anything but stand upright and rest glass cannons who could kill everything in seconds - if they wouldn't fall on their faces all the time after being looked at.

Actually I like the idea of having all zealous auras in one ability. It's a good idea. I only meant that post from Orillion that took things a bit further and suddenly it sounded like Diablo III to me.

You're not very good at this, are you?

Isn't the whole idea of PoE2 to simplify things? PoE was blamed for being clumsy, hard to manage, too fast, too many effects.. rules were not clear and casual folks not sure what's need to be done? .. Even in QnA .. Josh stating some folks need hand-holding on which exit they should choose? You either didn't play Diablo III or you didn't understand what I wanted to say. Or both. Whatever - it was only a sidenote so let's forget about Diablo III. The sooner the better.

You don't know how many pages each spell uses.

Having all abilites at hand all the time and just deciding what you will use in an encounter. Which leads to not building or skilling a character level by level into a certain direction. You can change the whole purpose of the charater in every encounter. On level up you gain some new skills/abilities (you don't pick any, you get them all) and then you can decide which ones you want to put into your hotkey list for the next encounter. That system is totally foolproof (no bad skilling)... and also superboring. No risk, no fun I say!

That's a bit like Diablo III. I hate Diablo III.

Hehe - percent doesn't matter in this case I'd say. It's good to see how many would pledge in absolute numbers.The number of naysayers is actually pretty meaningless for me. My parents and neighbor Horst would also say no to this - how does that matter?

If you plan to cast Combusting Wounds on the enemies you want to hit with Heart of Fury (strong recommendation) than any bashing shield will also be fine (larder door for example). That way you can generate the same amount of hits like with dual weapons and still have awesome deflection and reflex. Combusting Wounds will do the killing because HoF with two swings generates a lot of hits.

@MaxQuest: true. If you get Heart of Fury before Badgradr's Barricade (or Dragon's Maw) you'd better be switching to dual weapons before triggering HoF. You don't even need Two Weapon Style because it does nothing for HoF.

It's in the build description I guess. But yes. The trick is to stack as many acc debuffs on the enemy as possible with frightening, dazing and similar effects and combine that with good defenses and defense buffs. Like a paladin's Reinforcing Exhortation and so on.

Actually it's totally fine to do Heart of Fury with Badgradr's Barricade or Dragon's Maw. No switching needed. Especially when your endurance drops a HoF with Dragon's Maw will do good damage and fully heal you at the same time. I did a playthrough with this barb tank guy and he was good (no need to min max, alsoworks with balanced stats): The Golden Dragon

1. Pools of Radiance (C64, pure nostalgia) 2. Pillars of Eternity (I put +3k hours into it - it MUST be good) 3. Eye of the Beholder 1+2 (nostalgia) 3b. Legend of Grimrock (maybe 1k hours? ) Honestly I never played Planescape. Don't know why. I played every other RPG that came out after Pools of Radiance I guess. Baldur's Gate I and II and the expansion were great, too, but at that time I didn't have the time do really dive into it like I did with other games. I even played that Ishar stuff, Ultima and also Lands of Lore and so on. Like... nearly everything. But only RPGs. That includes Diablo and Torchlight, too. Actually, I liked Diablo II + expansions a lot and wasted at least one semester at university because of that friggin' game. Diablo III was a big disappointment. There's one exception though (no RPG) and I consider it to be my favorite game of all times until today - and that's Faster than Light (Advanced Edition). But for obvious reasons I can't put that on the list.

As I said: there were similar questions here and on twitter - it's perfectly fine to summarize them. No problem with that. So you could say some (few) questions from here were answered. My questions about throwing weapons and bashing were yelled into the chat at the end of the stream (not exclusively by me, but also by me). Especially the throwing weapons got asked so many times it was hard to ignore. These were the questions I considered to be the least interesting ones to be honest. I really would have liked to know about the bad sorting in the stash (because it affects the performance of the game a lot on older cmputers) and the command queueing (make it visible). But it's hard for me to yell such complicated things into the chat with a few words only. "Throwing weapons??? Come ON!!!" was much easier.

ROFL

Maybe when he was 100kg, but at 85kg I think he's lost the +2 Might necessary for it (I say this as someone who's 1.97m and 95kg and definitely doesn't have the +2 Might) I guess have some bonus MIG (although MIG is not maxed atm), but sadly, I also always had a stupid malus on CON. There's no pillars race which can do this. I may be special. And who says Orleans can't use growth hormons? I ate that ethereal pig that somehow found it's way into my backpack and it was full of that stuff... albeit tasty. Also gave me nasty pimples...

I liked to play as assassin with illusion, sneaking and backstabs'n stuff in Skyrim. Totally different gameplay then and very immersive, too. I once nearly peed myself when I was playing at night... on the PS3 with projector (~4m screen width) in my living room, exploring a dark and gloomy cave... and suddenly a hand was placed onto my shoulder... It was my wife and I nearly knocked her out by accident because I was jumping up like a crazy rabbit who licked a 1000-Volts-wire. Today I would just suffer a heart attack and instantly die I guess.

Aloth has the arms sombody would have who is not sitting at a desk all days. Who knows what he has been up to lately. I stopped lifting nearly 10 years ago (now sitting at a desk all day) and dropped from 100kg to 85kg (I am 1.90m)... and my arms still look bigger than his. My belly now, too!