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Nice! And also nice template. I had a similar idea with a quick switching Island Aumaua with arquebuses+FoD and a Kind Wayfarer who heals and buffs defenses. But I never played with that and never put it on paper. Cool that you did. Two questions: It is still the case that Inspiring Triumph stacks with Shielding Touch, but not Shielding Flames (or was it the other way round? One of those did not stack with the others, can't remember which). Torm51 wrote a bug report before 3.0 beta came out - maybe they fixed this? It doesn't matter of course if they don't overlap all the time. Remember that Pilferer's Grip's 10% armor recovery bonus did not stack with durgan reinforcement's bonus (sadly). This was also reported to Aarik and he put it in the bug database - don't know if they want to change this or if they already did.

Per encounter spells at lvl 9/11/13 were way too powerful. And the bonus spell talents were meaningless because of that. It all makes more sense now. But I agree that spell mastery should also improve the mastered spell in some way - be it duration, damage or whatever.

Very cool find! One of the best things about 3.0 beta I experienced/heard of.

@Dr. H.: Just like that. @EricGalad: I did a lot of Riposte related tests and I think even in the best case it's not very good. 20% of misses is just too low. 50% would be ok. The best case is high deflection, a heavily debuffed mob with two afflictions and gimped ACC and a hard hitting weapon. Retaliation Items are great however. All the +melee dmg mods (even sneak and deathblows) and Vulnerable Attack work with it and also Deep Wounds(!). Ryona's Vembraces, too (8 DR bypass in total). With Garodh's Chorus and Sura's Supper Plate you can stack two retaliations and have a pretty good frontliner who does good damage even while getting hit. Torm51 used Reinforcing Exhortation on his Devil a lot and said it works great.

She's a good frontliner with a shield and a sabre. Still great damage - combined with good survivability.

I had a pretty good time when I used my druid as a tank. I think that approach also works for Hiravas. Look up the "Batsh!t Crazy" build. It's quite simple and not too weird. Eder would work quite well as Engineer I guess. With the new Constant Recovery his regeneration in the first 45 seconds of combat will be stellar. You could even try to switch the shield for a sabre dual wielding approach - Knock Down is a full attack now. Sundering Blow + Penetrating Shot + Lead Spitter and all the Ruffian specs is devastating. DR bypass of 20 - your Blunderbuss will hit so hard...

Yes. If this was not the case INT would be pretty useless for any AoE. The description could be more correct. But then it would also be more complicated and perhaps confusing for people who take no interest in math.

Also works of course. But it lasts much shorter and only provides half of the speed (+25% instead of +50%). It gives you some bonus MIG but doesn't boost your move speed. And hopefully it becomes 1/encounter as all the other cross class talents.

Ah, OK. Seems that I just didn't play a ranger with a chanter for quite some time.

Sure, why not? Use the Golden Gaze as your standard weapon and cast Minor Blights after Expose Vulnerabilities triggerd - if you need more damage. I would use Alacrity as Spell Mastery option and not Minor Blights then.

But with 2.03 that was not the case any more and still Swift Aim and Sure Handed Ila stacked. Or am I completely mistaken?

Also the focus increase for cipher powers?

It's just that it used to work and was not OP. So why nerf it? However - we will soon know if it's intended or not. Normally Aarik responds very quickly. Let's thank him for that!

Sorry - read the patch notes again and it says: "If you have Resting, Camping, Injury, and Maimed, all bonuses are lost when you camp." I totally missed the "camping" - so that explains my issue. But maybe this topic help others who also experienced this and didn't read the patch notes... Keep on the good work!

I wrote a bug report.

Hi, it used to stack with 2.03 - now with 3.0 beta Swift Aim's reload speed buff surpresses the one of the Sure Handed Ila chant. Is that intended? Both are kind of modal...

It's a problem with all the items that give bonuses that are tied to a special "if". Blood Tempered Helmet, Drinking Horn of Moderation, Mantle of the Dying Boar and so on. They all suppress or get suppressed.

Hi, all cross class talents became 1/encounter. Only Outlander's Frenzy still has 1/rest. I hope it's a bug...

Hi, if you camp two times in a row an don't choose different bonuses your bonuses will be completely gone after the second rest.

Yeah sorry, just found out.

What, there is a special forum? Shame on me, sorry.

No - not a squish. That would work well. Chanters have a quite good base deflection. In fact my chanter tankish build ("Drake's Ambassador") also only has 10 RES and is sturdy enough.

Hi, while all the other cross class talents became 1/encounter, Outlander's Frenzy is still 1/rest.

Hi, if you camp two times in a row and don't choose different bonuses from survival your bonus gets deleted completely.

I think it's just a bug. It would make that talent so inferior to the other ones. If they intend to make it per rest it should have more uses per rest. Josh said a while ago on SA that all cross class talents will become 1/encounter.