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There are three one-handed weapons for you that have higher interrupt rating: Vile Loner's Lance and Shatterstar have 1 sec, Godansthunyr has 0.75 sec. It's no enchantment, it's just there.

It is. There's a mini-guide in the charbuild section from somebody who did it. He said it was relatively easy.

AI will look for the weakest members of your party. With weakest I mean low defenses and DR. They will try to rush them. Best example: Penhelm fight on PotD.

Great. So Slicken is an option.

Another problem that you may encounter when you stop playing and try to come back later are the patches. Some of them changed combat mechanics and abilities - what used to work doesn't anymore and so on.

^ Not for everyone. If you want to rest after each encounter, they are very powerful - like priest and druids, too. I hate to rest a lot - so they seem to be quite ungodly to me. I have to admit that lvl 9 solves this problem. I like chanters. Easy to play and low mainteneance. They perform better on PotD because all fights tend to last longer. And as soon as you can get "The Dragon Slashed, the Dragon Wailed" they turn into great damage dealers. 6 of them is actually a very strong party.

If you're looking out for a support priest that casts fast, but will not be squished quickly, have a look at AndreaColombo's support preist build: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83506-class-build-support-priest-or-how-i-buffed-the-others/ I think it's optimal if you want to cast fast without being interrupted. He uses no (or light) armor for fast casts combined with high deflection so that the foes are not very motivated to attack him (most of them try to target low deflection chars first).

Nice. Just two things: - Fampyr - Supper Plate (although it's suuper nice) I didn't do this fight for some time. Are the fampyrs or Raedric immune to afflictions like prone?

I did that and it was awesome. Check out my class built "Riptide" in this section. But I didn't do a solo run. And my RES was dumped. Maybe it would work with some changes. You could still use arbalests or arquebuses for opening.

Ouch! Try my solution: earn more than 100 € per hour and never do overtime - unless they pay double. Tadaa! p.s.: I don't watch TV. p.p.s.: I don't sleep a lot either.

I will next test if Fighting Spirit (human) and Defiant Resolve (wild orlan) can be prolonged with Spelltongue. Since I can't edit my initial posting, I will write down the outcomings here.

The thing with "high deflection is good for not being targeted" is important. It really helps.

What I forgot: Don't be put off if you think that the beginning of the game is difficult. It's the hardest part actually - if you can make it to Act II you're good.

According to Steam I've played this game for more than 1600 hours... and I still discover new things about combat mechanics. So... either I'm suffering from Alzheimer's, or ... wait, where did I put my coffee mug?

I agree that knowledge about the combat mechanics and a solid tactic is way more powerful than any build. And a good party composition is more important than a single build. I would always choose the class or build that provides the most fun for me. For example I love the barb because of his carnage AoE ability and what you can do with it in combination with items, abilities and so on. But I also like monks, paladins, rangers and ciphers a lot. That doesn't mean the oher classes are bad - I just don't enjoy them as much. That changes over time. At the beginning I hated paladins and rangers for example. Can't say why. Some classes can be very diverse when it comes to builds (barb, monk, rogue, fighter, paladin), others a little less (ranger, cipher, priest) and chanter, wizard and druid are the most difficult to "twist" (at least for me) because they have few individual talents and their abilities are mainly their spells. If you don't like to micromanage every char then I don't recommend too many casters. You might want to use Chanters, Paladins and Fighters because they are useful even when you don't give them orders all the time. Other classes can be build into good "drones" as well (ranger, monk, sturdy rogue, barb). Then spice that with one or two powerful casters that you can focus your micromanagement on. For example a priest and a cipher or a wizard and a druid. That's how I do it most of the time. I find heavy micromanagement to be tedious. If you love micromanagement and power then the casters might be your thing. They all are capable of controlling crowds and doing lots of AoE damage. Wizards, priests and ciphers can be good frontliners as long as they have spells left - even the druid with his Spiritshift can go melee (but in my opinion the duration of that ability is waaay too short, at least for PotD). A melee cipher for example does awesome weapon damage and is still able to cast powerful CC and DPS spells. You can build him to be sturdy.

It does +25% raw damage over time, +45% damage from being superb, you can put a +25% lash on it and it and has +17 ACC. It's the only one-handed weapon that has the wounding enchantment. I think it's one of the most underestimated weapons in the game. It comes very late in the game though (Endless Paths lvl 12/13).

Ah, ok. Adra and Alpine Dragon on PotD are a lot harder to kill because they have higher stats (Defenses, Accuracy) and more (dangerous) minions. You need very high defenses in order to avoid being cc'd. The Alpine Dragon is the hardest (in my opinion) because he has a lot of minions and there's very little space to move. So kiting or splitting doesn't work well.

If you haven't encountered petrifying Andragans with the Adra Dragon, then I take it that you didn't play on PotD difficulty? Alpine Dragon summons Wraiths, Phantoms and Spectres when you hit him - so again I assume you didn't do that on PotD?

I think the party composition is absolutely okay. You will have two very good damage dealers against single targets (rogue and ranger). If you pick up Stormcaller early your ranger will also turn into a good AoE damage dealer. Devil of Caroc can be played in a tanky style (sabre and small shield) that works fine. Also rogue's Deep Wounds and ranger-pet's Predator's Sense work together big time. You have a druid, so you will have lots of AoE damage and some CC. Zahua can be build as a really good dps tank. Look up KDubya's "Juggernaut" build: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/82367-class-build-the-juggernaut-a-heavy-armored-monk/?hl=juggernaut Pallegina can be a really good supporter. Look up Torms "Forward Observer" build: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/83526-the-darcozzi-forward-observer-could-use-some-input/?hl=%2Bforward+%2Bobserver For your PC I would choose a melee cipher - but that's just my personal gusto. A wizard would be good since his Combusting Wounds spell and the druid's DoT spells harmonize well. Or use a priest if you want more buffs and protection.

I have to admit I laughed. Edit: hard

He's immune to the "normal" stun affliction - but did anybody run a test if he's also immune to the stun effect of unique weapons? The affliction they cause is something different than the normal stun and maybe he will get affected. But it will be very hard to test since you will not land a crit very often.

Of course. I get that. Nearly all of the builds that I love most are the weird ones. I absolutely think your idea is viable, even for PotD. Please buy him a fancy purple/gold duelist outfit and post a screenshot!

Thanks. Completely missed that part. Watched it on a tiny phone with kids hanging on my legs.

8 MIG can work I guess. It's not superlow and you can always put on some +MIG gear. And you'll have Frenzy of course. Try to fetch Ryona's Vambraces from the alpine dragon (dialogue option) as soon as possible. +3 DR bypass for a total of 11 will be very good for your fast hitting barb. I also found that Veteran's Recovery plus a regenerating item like Trollhide Belt is a nice supplement for a low dmg draining weapon. But that was with maxed MIG, so I don't know if it's worth it with low MIG.

When they all become 1/encounter with patch 3.0 they will be all OK I guess. Acolyte's Radiance still needs a buff. It's too weak. And Novice's Suffering has to be altered so that the initial unarmed bonus that you get is considered as base damage.