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Who fixed that? Allen Inversion?

After the tears dried: It's one of the best two handed weapons in the game. Comes superior, has the speed enchantment (which is one of the best) and has also marking, which is also great if you know how to use it. As all other weapons in PoE, it's no game breaking stuff. Just a good unique weapon.

Great blunderbuss build: Island Aumaua wizard with Arms Bearer, Quick Switch and focus on max DR bypass (Pen. Shot, Ryona's Vambraces, Expose Vulnerab.) and Combusting Wounds. Cast Expose Vul. and Combusting Wounds on the enemies and then shoot them with your blunderbusses. Awesome! Most of the time you will do additional >100 burn damage with CW. Not the usual wizard build - but one of the best gun wielders in my opinion. Spell Mastery Expose V. & Combusting W. Nice additions are things which generate a lot of hits, like most missile spells and wall spells. Guess I'll have to post that build at some point. Soon I'll have more time, I promise. You can also take a ranger and use one or two Rings of Searing Flames. With Driving Flight this will generate even more hits, but it lacks a bit DR bypass. Not a problem with a ful party though.

Pet snail for the win! Awesome defense, tremendous endurance, immune to all affliction, emits foe only corrosive drop traps passively. 0.0000000000000001 move speed multiplier...

One can't see OP's text when on mobile. Guess I didn't miss much. Too lazy to mark it in order to make it visible.

It's Eder speaking. Would love to see him in PoE2 as well.

If you want you can also take Novice's Suffering and skip weapons altogether. Jojobobo of this forum tried that and was very pleased. It's because the damage of grazes, hits and crits don't differ that much with fists - it's a weird game mechanics thing. Since barb's carnage already has reduced accuracy and tends to graze more often, this is a good synergy. Also works well with high might. I think Jojobobo hasn't posted his build yet. I think he did a solo PotD run with the unarmed barb.

Priest = MC is indeed a rewarding choice. In my opinion, priest is the most powerful and useful class at higher levels (lvl 9 and above). The only thing at which they suck is the early game.

A good way to make a barb who is not a late bloomer is to give him high might and intellect and then take Veteran's Recovery. This removes the most frustrating part of the barb in the early game: his squishyness. Add Savage Defiance and combine this self heal approach with Fulvano's Amulett or a Belt of Bountiful Healing and 8 points of survival for the +40% healing bonus. Suddenly you are even sturdier than a fighter while dishing out AoE damage. Normal to high CON will give you lots of health which is not too unimportant if you rely on regenerating your endurance. Dual wielding is not mandatory, but surely fun with a barb. Heart of Fury (lvl 11 ability - great stuff) is best with two weapons. I also like Great Swords a lot on a barb. With high accuracy (great if you have a priest) the "Hours of St. Rumbalt" is one of the best options for a barbarian in my opinion. Tidefall is really nice, too. A very nice spear is the Vile Loner's Lance that you can buy in the Salty Mast in Copperlane. It causes -5 to enemies' defenses and has a 1 sec interrupt values which is twice as long as usual. With this spear you should choose high perception and take Interrupting Blows. You can of course use a one handed approach, a shield or another spear.

You should use your priest as buffer for defenses (including prayer) and accuracy mainly. Healing is OK, but buffing is the best part of the priest. The combo I would always cast is Inspiring Radiance followed by Devotions of the Faithful. +30 to ACC that stacks with other ACC buffs for the whole party is a huge advantage at the start of a battle. I personally don't use healing a lot with a priest because I like it when chars can heal themselves with things like Veteran's Recovery and so on. And then I like it if healing abilities are spread over the party. It's too bad if your only healer gets disabled. Paladins, chanters and druids can be good healers in one way or another, too. It's absolutely no problem to play without a priest. But it's right that they can make the game easier. But for example there's a scroll for every prayer. You only need a guy or a gal with lore. The only prayer like things which aren't on a scroll are the (single ally) litanies against minor & major afflictions.

ACC = Accuracy. The most important thing in this game. Durance has prayers. Like Druids (and unlike wizards) priests can't choose their spells, they are always the same. You are lvl 10, so Durance should have lvl 5 spells. That means he has Prayer against Restraint which will protect your party from paralyzing and petrifying. That should help a lot. For Prayer against Treachery you would need to reach lvl 11, sorry. Or you could use scrolls with prayers. But the anti treachery one requires 12 lore.

Weapons don't matter that much anyway. What you encountered are Andragans - very potent casters. They will petrify you and that can be the end. You can make those fights easier if you use the prayer spells that Durance has. Prayer against Treachery and so on. This will prevent domination. Then you should use summons as cannon fodder to distract the enemies. Then durance should use Inspiring Radiance and Devotions to boost ACC by +30, Aloth should cast Eldritch Aim and then, with +45 ACC, he should cast his best disables - same with the cipher with Borrowed Instinct - before the melee guys like the barb go in. The prayers and litanies are one key to an easy playthrough.

Nidhen's Finger or something like that.

Too bad The White Crest's Overwhelming Wave is only 1/rest. You should also try the Swaddling Sheet in combination with not too high deflection. At least that's 1/encounter, multidirectional and foe only.

By the way: the proc chance is not four times as high just because you have four arrows per shot (twined arrows & driving flight) instead of one. The chance is ~34% with those abilities instead of 10%. Still very good!

Items: - Shod-in-Faith boots - on a char who is near the pet most of the time (also see Riptide build). - Lost Periapt of the Winding Path - same - scroll of Moonwell and so on Cipher: - Pain Block - cast it on the pet - Going Between - same - Defensive Mindweb - if you have a real tank in the party your pet will be near unkillable Chanter: - Ancient Memory - Beloved Spirits - Kindness chant Priest: - Triumph of the Crusaders - as long as the pet kills enemies, it will get insta-healed. - Consecrated Ground - if the priest is near the pet - Watchful Presence - Watchful Guardian - Crowns for the Faithful - +25 RES, meaning +25 deflection - Shields for the Faithful - another +25 deflection - Circle of Defense - +15 to all defenses, stacks with the above - Armor of Faith - more DR without speed loos is alsways good Paladin: - Lay on Hands - best single target heal like zeldagaiden said - Reinforcing Exhortation - +25 deflection, doesn't stack with Shields for the Faithful - Zealous Endurance - more DR is good, doesn't stack with Armor of Faith Druid: - Nature's Vigor - not only heals, but also raises endurance by +15% - Nature's Balm - heals faster, stacks with Nature's Vigor - Moonwell - heals and raises defenses by +10. Doesn't stack with Circle of Defense, but with all deflection-only buffs - Form of the Delemgan - great spell for pets: +8 DR to weapon damage and shock+corrode (stacks with everything, also Armor of Faith or Zealous Endurance) and immunity to stuck - Garden of Life: very powerful continous healing if there are enemy corpses

Vicious Aim also works with some of the ranged targeted spells - as does pen. shot. But it's only the +20% damage that gets applied. Another great ability for scoll casting is everything that speeds you up, esp. Blood Thirst. But there's nothing that beats a rogue who casts Combusting Wounds + Missile Barrage + Deathblows with max DR bypass.

I didn't try it in the last few weeks, but normally it should work like this: Shift (hold it) + click target no. 1 then click target no. 2 and so on - then release shift. If it doesn't work OBS may have changed the queuing. The processing of the queue also stops if one of the targets you clicked on dies or changes sides (charmed or dominated for example). If this all doesn't work and queuing is broken then you could retrain for low micro: dump INT to 3 and don't take Envenomed Strike. You can then wear the Hat of the Diseased Yak (RES+2, INT -1) or the Ultimate Hat of Alluring Perfection (MIG and CON +2, RES and INT -2). This will leave you with 2 or 3 INT. You can put the points from INT where you want. Low INT is perfect for wounding damage and also Runner's Wounding Shot. It applies the same damage than with high INT, but in much shorter time. If you keep firing at one target, Deep Wounds with low INT is no problem because it gets refreshed after every hit. Unfortunately Envenomed Strike is bad with low INT (damage increases with INT) so we skip it. Such you would turn the multiple target Mad Hornet into a single target Dumb Hornet. Micro would be near zero if you don't get attacked and if others provide afflictions for your Sneak Attack and Deathblows. Persistence also works against pierce immune targets: pierce damage will be blocked but wounding still happens.

Actually a barb with Frenzy + Bloodlust + Blood Thirst is the official boss of spell slinging. Too bad he hasn't that many spells.

Whom you can't see under all that armor. But without the helmet: yes! With a beard please!

The only one handed weapons with marking are Shame or Glory and Cladhaliath. This is the oneand only setup where you can dual wield marking weapons. Or you use the Helwax Mold to clone one of them of course. It's a good question if this is better than Outworn Buckler. I guess it depends. A darcozzi paladin with dual marking could buff a single ally's ACC by +46 - not bad at all. On the other side - +5 to all defenses (stackable) is also a good thing. Charming with Munacra Arret and Sworn Enemy is fun and works on any enemy who is not immune. The +10 feom the spell itself, Zealous Focus, Sworn Enemy and Distant Advantage (with Wood Elf) add up nicely to an ACC bonus of +38. I did not miss once as far as I can remember, not even dragons. @MaxQuest: if you have Strange Mercy (and maybe Inspiring Triumph and maybe Executioner's Hood) you will have to steal kills. It's not that hard. Just support your people until an enemy is nearly dead, then strike. If you kill somebody with FoD you will trigger two heals - most of the time this would be overkill, but it can be a real lifesaver if an ally's endurance is very low. Actually, I did a "mercyful" Executioner Paladin build with Strange Mercy, Sword & Shepherd, Spectacular Spetum, Coordinated Attacks and the Hood plus Insp. Triumph. It worked quite well. I didn't do a whole playthrough with it though.

Cladhaliath can be crafted with marking as well (if you don't want to choose the Crucible Knight's questline).

When you give double Bittercut to Riptide you are taking away the whole base of the build. The ranger is supposed to do wounding damage for his pet in order to trigger Predator's Sense all the time. That's the reason he must wear Tidefall in my build. An alternative would be Drawn in Spring or Acuan Giamas. Both come late, Tidefall is early. Dual Bittercut would be really good on the cipher. Use an Island Aumaua and don't take any ranged or switching talent. Instead, use the Coil of Resourcefulness from the first map of the White March (Russetwood). It also let's you quick switch. Then use two pistols or blunderbusses to fire two quick shots for good focus and then switch to dual sabres. You won't lose any talent points. Lady should be MC. She profits the most from the story talents.

I thought so. It's easy to mix up because of "duality" - especially if you play a translated version.

Well, you sell everything you find to Heodan. He pays a lot of extra money, way more than any other merchant. So every potion and item you find you should sell to him before you fetch Sparfel's Waterskin. Then you should have enough money to make a beeline to Gilded Vale and recruit 5 additional adventurers. It's best to hire asap so that the exp gap to the MC is very small. Exp gets spreaded evenly. If you have 6 party members every member will get 1/6th of the exp you gain. So, obviously a solo char wil level more quickly than a whole party. But there's enough content in the game to level up 6 guys long before the end of the game.