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Watershaper's Focus with Blast (the modal) should have slower recovery than Spearcaster (especially with Gunner). And I would use Blast because Ondra's Wrath also procs off of Blast hits. If you cast Imbue:Work from stealth as opener (as I most often did) you can follow up with another shot almost immediately (because Stealth grants -80% recovery time).

Interesting. Which files contain those settings?

Lots of corners not cut. 🙃

Right... since the Blood Mage is there I never used something else - so I always forget what specialized wizard subclass loses access to which schools.

They all have no proficiency afair. Tested Minor Blights, Cobra Strike, Rot Skulls, Ogre Fists (Form of the Fearsome Brute) and Draining Touch quite some time ago. Maybe something changed since then but I don't think so. Don't recall how Woedica's claws/fists work after the nerf (they used to work with unarmed profiency when they still worked with Monastic uT/Transcendent Suff.). Cool find with the Reaping Knives! Too bad Devoted's +2 PEN does nothing for them.

That's right.

There were no changes made in the year 2021.

Woodskin/Form of the Delemgan is great in combination with the Lance of the Midwood Stag, too (+2 Power Level for all your spells - only when not shifted of course).

It's imo even more fun if you equip some engagement items (like Reckless Brigandine and Kapana Taga) and then let your Essential Phantom get some disengagement attacks on the same enemies, too. It doesn't have your abilities but disengagement attacks have pretty good bonuses anyway. If you use Kapana Taga in the offhand and summon Draining Touch in the main hand for the phantom it does pretty awesome dmg on disengagement attacks (for a summon I mean). You could switch to another weapon setup after summoning. Of course that's a lot of casting for that little bit of added disengagement fun. But I always enjoyed it to tank and lower my enemies' Will defense with Kapana Taga (+modal) and Miasma oDM for my phantom which attacked them with Draining Touch (which targets Will instead of deflection). And once the enemies get terrified both of us would land nice diseng. attacks occasionally. The Phantom also follows terrified enemies and re-engages automatically.

Can't remember which Spiritshift form Fassina gets... 😵

Well, as Sorcereress you can buff up with some stuff, especially Zandethu's Draconic Fury - and then also use healing over time spells and keep them all alive with Wall of Draining (most often for the whole encounter). This is also true for Spiritshift: it will most likely not end. So basically you can use the Wizard side for fast, endless self buffs and then the Druid side for endless healing and then go into melee with your natural weapons. Lots of casting every time, but nearly unkillable if the Wall is placed right - and the buffing etc. can be automated via script.

I think Death Ring is very powerful with 3 jumps. Not only is it foe only and has a big base AoE (5m radius) but also the destroy-on-near-death part happens a lot when you trigger three of them at once. Still... when I have to decide how to spend my Bond I almost always prefer Imbue:Eora since three long-lasting "implosion spheres" with very high ACC just do have more impact for me - at least if you can open the fight with them and trap all enemies in them. Since Imbue:Eora is obtainable as multiclass I think it's no a bad idea to multiclass Arcane Archers. I did AA/Helwalker with dual mortars, AA/Paladin with Spearcaster and SC Arcane Archer with Watershaper's Focus and they were all pretty great.

They also somewhat scale without mods, but one thing that doesn't scale is the penetration. Community Patch adds a fix that scales the imbue penetration with the Arcana Skill. So more Arcana not only leads to bonus ACC but also bonus PEN. Then that whole thing scales kind of like normal spells would.

Ah! I haven't tested this. But from my experience one of those two three things will happen: a) The chant's hit roll gets the bonus ACC and then the bonus effect gets removed. b) The chant doesn't profit but the bonus effect still gets removed c) The chant doesn't profit and the bonus effect remains untouched. I've seen all three behaviors with Lion's Sprint but never did I see: d) an ability (here: chant) profits from Lion's Sprint acc bonus but the effect doesn't get removed. But maybe it works like that - as I said I didn't test that specific setup (at least not that I can remember).

I don't understand. How can it be useful for a chant if that chant is not doing a hit roll (= being offensive)? Lion's Sprint es pretty borked imo. I didn't find a good rule of thumb in which cases the ACC bonus works and in which it doesn't. I just stopped using it because it seems to be implemented pretty weirdly... 🤷‍♂️ If it had more impact (or if Barb would have refreshing resources so that spending 1 Rage wasn't a big deal) I guess I might have investigated further, but as is it didn't seem worthwhile to me.

🤷‍♂️ we'll have to wait until @pasakorn's answering post gets approved by a mod.

But... the prolonged duration of a hostile effect shortens again once enfeebled runs out, doesn't it (unlike Strand of Favor stuff)? It may be that you can time it right so something is still left so that you can prolong it again, but afaik that's not really a worthwhile endeavor. On the other hand I didn't test this a lot so please feel free to correct me if that's not the case.

- I experienced the behaviour during a playthrough. - I read about this problem from several forum users. - We discussed it here and for example @Elric Galadincluded a fix in his Balance Polishing mod. - it should get included in the Community Patch mod as well (hello @MaxQuest). Maybe it already is in the newest draft? Besides that I think I don't exaggerate or brag if I say that the regulars here combined do know more about the game mechanics than the devs themselves nowadays. It takes some time to get answers but the subforum here is certainly a more reliable and also self correcting source of information than the in-game descriptions are. That's because over the many patch cycles abilities were tweaked (which is good) but faulty descriptions often weren't changed accordingly (which is not so good). Partially because pieces of description texts are auto-generated so maybe Obsidian thought that would update itself splendidly (it didn't always). As I said: expect not too precise or sometimes even wrong descriptions. It's a game with loads of content - and also some minor glitches were found after the final patch was released, so Obsidian couldn't change that anymore. Nobody here really knows whether Spirit Frenzy or Spirit Tornado work as intended. But one of them has a small "bug". I can only give you my personal assessment. Here's a small history of Blood Frenzy and Spirit Frenzy: 1. At release Blood Frenzy (and its upgrade Blood Storm) only worked with weapon crit rolls - Spirit Frenzy on the other hand worked with all hit rolls, but Spirit Tornado didn't (it worked like Blood Frenzy/Blood Storm: only with weapon hits/crits). I guess at that time Obsidian considered Spirit Frenzy to be the buggy ability (well not really bugged, but implemented with a different mechanic). 2. But most players said they really liked the effect of Spirit Frenzy; most didn't take Blood Frenzy because Spirit Frenzy was just better in most situation/for most builds, while not being overpowered. Just a nice source of synergy in most builds. 3. Blood Frenzy and Blood Storm got changed so that they worked with all crit rolls (like Spirit Frenzy but only crits, not hits+crits). So now players can use it with spells, chants etc. which is cool and balances it with Spirit Frenzy. Now it's really a tough decision which one to pick (which is good). But unfortunately Spirit Tornado didn't get that change... I suspect Obsidian just forgot - or didn't even realize - that Spirit Tornado didn't work like Spirit Frenzy. So they forgot to alter it like they altered Blood Frenzy/Storm. At least that's the most logical explanation for me personally. But it's not that I know what really happened and why. What you can do now if you really want to keep the stagger with all hit rolls: - not pick Spirit Tornado - install a mod that fixes Spirit Tornado The last one is not possible when playing on a console iirc. Have fun and don't hesitate to ask. It may take some time but you will get an answer from somebody here.

No idea. It can't be a problem with the Community Patch because I use it and never had problems with (Enduring) Dance of Death. Once you activate it you should get a wound and +3 ACC immediately - and then +1 wound and +3 ACC with every tick. You won't get wounds if your wound counter is already full of course. And ACC will not climb over +12. Maybe you could try to load the mods in a different order. Sometimes they can interfere oddly.

Yes, it looks pretty solid. Two small things: 1. You cannot take Improved Critical twice 2. Spirit Frenzy is great because it will apply staggered with all attack rolls you do, be it melee, ranged, invocations and even chants like The Long Night's Drink. This will also periodically remove all MIG inspirations from enemies. But once you upgrade to Spirit Tornado that feature will be gone and the stagger will only get applied to weapon hits. So I would spare the ability point for Spirit Tornado and not upgrade Spirit Frenzy. Further opinions: Imo you should always pick Blood Thirst - for example instead of Barbaric Shout. You already have a fear ability with Ben Fidel. If you don't really need the bonus engagement of the Shout I would leave it out and take Blood Thirst. Since you already picked "I'll catch you, Ben Fidel" I would suggest to pick the upgrade "Ben Fidel's Neck", too - because the defense debuff it comes with will stack with all singular defense debuffs (something that lowers just one or two defense, for example Nature's Mark or so), making you very good at debuff stacking. There's also no immunity to this effect which sometimes is very handy against certain enemies.

What do you mean?

You cannot pick Monastic Unarmed Training when you have a Monk multiclass. The MuT ability gets removed from the ability tree because you will already have Transcendent Suffering and the game doesn't want you to stack them. You could add it with the console or a mod. In that case the two abilities will stack completely (PEN-, ACC- and damage bonus). Yup

Right. That first part also leads to: enfeeblement prolongs its own duration right away (by the way).

That's right. Fists with Transcendent Suffering/Monastic Unarmed Training scale with power level. But Monastic Unarmed Training uses the PL-progression of single class (maybe oversight) even if you are multiclassed - so even there Single Class vs. Multiclass doesn't matter. With a monk it does matter though. By the way: Ranger's Animal Companion also scales with char level, not Power Level.

Summons scale with character level, not Power Level. So summons of any kind (weapons, creatures) are no problem with multiclassing.