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I'm currently level 11 and when spirit-shifted, i deal very little damage (even with overpen). I tested it with common folks in tavern. I have greater wildstrike shock and heart of the storm. I'm also wielding the Frostseeker before spirit-shift (does it make any difference) ?

hi is there going to be performance optimization for upcoming patch? Fort Deadlight and Queen's Berth are one of the worst performance location for me.

yes they can have buildings that give temporary buffs or guarded buildings/establishment once you defeated them you be rewarded the said artifact. i kinda think of endless possibilities how poe3 will move towards!

I'm not sure anyone played this game before. But exploring on island, collecting resources, building/events across the maps, neutral stacks of creatures. Deadfire implementation reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic. I think they can go further with this idea with future expansions or even PoE 3

to be honest they don't have a good reason at all and i think it doesn't need one. why? it's fantasy and it's just a game. do you really think a few humans (except the watcher with supernatural abilities) can beat dragons, ogres let alone big cats? go throw a few humans in a cage with a lion and see how it turn out

alright i admit is abit click-baity. now i got your attention. i just want to share my experience about combat clarity and path-finding. the sole reason why obsidian reduce 1 party character because they openly mention to address the above. during my 70 hours of gameplay, i would like to confirm that combat clarity and path-finding is a lie. i have occasions where my characters stucked on certain obstacles and also i play on potd. due to sheer amount of enemies on screen and visual effects, combat clarity isn't fixed. with mirror image, ground aoe, buffs, etc. i couldn't still find my character hidden amidst of it. i just want to say that there are better methods like character highlights (when characters hidden behind buildings for example). not that i have a problem with this but i just want to highlight that their so call "fix" for combat clarity and path-finding are really unfounded. so now what you have here is you took a way player flexibility by forcing only 5 party characters (which i also find that it further limit the combat formations). bear in mind with 6 party characters, you have the options to go 5. on the contrary it's not possible to go 6 if you forced it with 5. certain spell effects and even sound effects (compare returning storm in first poe vs deadfire) are being gimped as well. so nothing was fixed or improved but my opinion the real reason is to simplify the game.

i did buff the ACC. i feel it's simply not enough to counter the RNG of d100. with low spell accuracy debuff/CC spell couldn't even score a hit. on the other hand my melee characters seems having far easier time to score a hit because there's discipline barrage couple with dire blessing. or you are talking about alchemy? does that increase spell ACC?

i don't think it's men hating but i partially agree that obsidian pander to SJW. first off what's wrong with the female paperdoll model of first poe? why do they need to make female looks flat? and on the contrary if you see male model, they are muscular. such irony? also not to mentioned all the gods looks awfully ugly. magran, woedica and even hylea for ffs!. hylea should be a god of beauty and they portray her to look so ugly. if anything, this game is not pro feminist but anti feminist. obsidian again being steered towards fake feminism. who told you that strong women are about looking ugly and being more like men? obsidian stop mixing entertainment with politics. look at star wars how the game was ruined by SJW. i love poe and the moment i noticed this i was so disappointed and angry with obsidian.

here's my observation. it seems spellcaster is at a disadvantage compared to melee/range. most enemies has inflated stats that debuff is having a hard time to even graze? that makes deadfire a melee/physical centric game. bear in mind even that IF you have higher accuracy against enemies defense, you CAN still miss. because it depends on a d100 dice roll. how random is random? assuming 0->25 is a miss, you basically miss 1 out 4 attempts. the whole point of debuff/CC is to lower enemies defenses. if you can't even hit with your spells, being a spellcaster is kind of moot. what is the point of having all those nuking spells when you are going to miss all the time? melee on the other hand is different (except class related talents) that every attack cost no resource. for spellcasters you have cast per encounter. even if you give me 5 per encounter, 75% of it will miss. what's the point? this make those duration based CC/debuff very powerful (chillfog for example) because it get's a chance to debuff enemies even few rolls are misses. if you can't debuff your enemies, what's the point in giving all the offensive spells for? for them to miss? in first poe, you get +1 spell ACC per level. i suggest this should be brought back. thoughts?

I chose wolf. I choose Lion initially and i need to restart the game. The way the lion sprint hurt my eyes. Speaking of companions, i'm really disappointed with Obsidian. I had asked for more customisations but Obsidian disregard it. I had asked that i can choose a white wolf or white lion, basically able to choose the color of my pet. Another thing is the variation. I like a black panther as pet instead of just a lion. I'd like a female lion instead of just male lion. Those are not difficult to implement at all! as there's already said animal in the game.

I'm just level 9 and most fights seems tough for me. Not sure why everyone say the game is too easy? Was it because my main character is caster? I'm not sure why most of my spells still miss or the accuracy of my spells still couldn't penetrate most of the enemies.

Will they be implementing skill tree preview button that we can preview our skill progression anytime? Also IINM leveling up is only possible with the "+" icon on the main UI. Why not make this "+" button in inventory or character screen? Also, could they add some background scenery like behind decks for the character in inventory screen? What's up with the dark/vacuum background for the characters? Or how about the background scenery changes depending where they are? Or the simplest would be show the background of the character when they level up (in cabin of the ship) which already EXISTS when you level up?

There you go... It's a bit rough, but it should look ok ingame. awesome work! i was wondering if there''s any non bald version.

honestly what is the hypocrisy of fearing nudity? who has put the thoughts that nudity is a sin and something to be ashamed of? a child already seen bare naked breast the moment they are being breastfeed. also what's more this game is mature rated with use of drugs, killing, murder, torture and rape (poe1 aelys rings a bell?) and also hollowborn (baby borned without a soul). obsidian, there are many games that has nudity and feature far more beautiful figures than the one you modeled. enough rant, please put an option to turn the nudity on/off. you can make it off on default. and you can hide it on some xml settings file (but i don't really see your point of fearing nudity when the gaming industry already has games that feature nudity).

Obsidian please stop this nonsense!. The moment i saw the female body paperdoll that is almost flat i knew what you are up to. Stop pandering. Are you making games for kids? This is mature rated title and stop this hypocrisy where murdering, raping and corpse eating is holier than showing skin. Grow a efking spine Obsidian!

You can buff your accuracy with spells like Devotion of the Faithful, also enemies usually will have at least one low defense that you can easily target. Devotions of the faithful is only buffing melee or range accuracy. I'm referring to spell accuracy. The spell accuracy is too low for me to even lower the enemies defenses. Bear in mind i use spells like dire blessing, blind, hobble, debuffing the enemies and 90% of the time it miss. Am i doing something wrong or the game is badly balance? I'm playing on POTD by the way and i'm playing spellcaster.

I'm level 8 now and i notice most enemy has very insane defense. Very high deflection, reflex, fortitude and will. And the spell accuracy is insanely low. Is there anything that increase spell accuracy? I mostly take debuff spells to lower enemies defense but due to their insane defense stats, i hardly able to lower it. That makes spellcasters very unfun. Am i playing the game wrong? Also if not mistaken, we don't get +1 spell ACC per level anymore and this makes being a spellcaster even worst? I'm also using weapon modals to lower certain stats but that hardly help the situation.

I'm building myself an Universalist. I'm not sure if there's a difference. Should i shapeshift first and cast returning storm or before? Does it make a difference?

Thanks for the confirmation. I think i screwed up with the key bindings.

I have sparkcrackers and i try to throw it in my quickslot but it doesnt seem to throw to the ground. Or i'm am missing something?

I actually wanted to reroll for companions.

made a mistake aloth being a battemage. would like him to be rogue/wizard instead. don't want to restart the game. why does obsidian disallow reset of multclass when reroll?

only way must take the spear and activate the modal? does the fighter stance alone can do engagement?

Previously i went with a Beastmaster (Stalker/Fury Druid). I think it's a bad combo. So i haven't finish the game yet, i'm abandoning it. I'm trying an Ascetic now. Is it a good combo? I went with Helwalker/Fury Druid now. Seems like Fury Druid is range so i'm going with a Nature Godlike as well. Should i go with Helwaker? Since Fury Druid is range, i think she won't be getting much damage since she's not melee. Thoughts?

can anyone help me with this?