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was really excited about radora and out of a sudden they cut it. don't quite like fessina design that much compared to pallegina though. something to do with her lips and nose maybe? by the way, rekke is completely mute? not sure how i feel about it to have a completely mute characters in your party who don't understand a single word you say and yet can take instructions what to do during battle?

Somebody pinned this. This is really awesome information here! @Climhazzard Now that you mentioned, just 1 point below armor rating it received 70% less damage which dont quite make sense. Maybe it's not not working as what mentioned by thread poster? If you ask me, i think it should work this way if Penertration is lower than AR (Armor Rating): Penetration: 35 Armor Rating: 40 (1 - (AR - Pen) / AR) x 100 = Deals only 87.5% damage instead of 100% Or the simplified version Pen/AR* Base Damage. So if just 1 point below the AR, 39/40 should deal 98% base damage instead of 30%. Sorry for my bad maths. But i think you get the idea. Anyway, what looks good on theory doesn't mean it works well for the game. Let's see how it turn out once we get to play the game.

On the other hand, i rather have all the details, informations, calculations, what get suppressed or stacks to be clearly shown on the combat log. Also maybe, make the log to have opacity?

I dont know how this happened. Basically in dialogue screen, it just keep auto scroll to the top. There's no way to scroll to the bottom to read and select which decision to reply to a conversation. It just keep scrolling up. During vanilla of this game i encountered it before. Can't believe final release the bug is still here. Obsidian is really bad in fixing bugs.

Wow double shame.. that's more like an exploit! lol.

I really hope Obsidian would clearly highlight the effects and what stacks in Deadfire. These were really bad put out as a game desgin. Btw, how about Devotions of the Faithful? Does it suppress Paladin's ZF? Also, are there going to be an upgrade to ZF? Like Empowered ZF or something like that. Now that i know Bless is useless, i'll cast something else. Do we have a list of what stacks and what not?

What?! Zealous focus don't stack with Blessing? I've been doing it all wrong all these time!. Damn Obsidian they should better explain in combat log what stacks and what not.

I think scroll and potions are there for lesser party or maybe solo. It's there for a reason. It's contingency plan for impossible fights maybe . So i think they are fine. Don't need to use it so far. The only thing i feel crappy are traps. Does anyone use it? Place a trap and i saw -20 deflection or something. How are enemies going to get hit by that? And you can only place 1 trap per encounter if not mistaken

Currently level 6. Loving the Ranger much more now . Playing a bit different. Kana as main tank with the bouncing heal that's so nice. Didn't take paralyze as it's only 11secs but i've used it before on my other Dragon Thrashed chanter. Seems like Durance is a good tank. He has high concentration, and resolve. Making him the off-tank. With shield and giving him Fine scale mail, with consecrated ground he's and Kana having shod-of-faith too. Microing the pet a little to reach enemy nukers and ranngers. Quite fun for a change!. I used to dislike Ranger. I think multi-classing ranger is much more important in Deadfire seeing that we are missing 1 character slot now. Btw, the bouncing heal is it exclusive to Kana only? I didn't recall i see that for my Main Character chanter. Btw. all my PT are POTD thanks to senpai Boroer :D

I choose meaty expansion. Not a big fan of small DLCs.

For me on the PC, I can highlight the pet and "Ctrl 7" if it is a 6man party. Press 7 again will select the pet. Technically 8,9,0 should work but I never tried those. Thanks!. Yeah i'm using 7 now for my pet. I hope we have more key bindings and shortcut for Deadfire!

Sorry for hijacking this thread. Was always wondering if rogue and stiletto is a viable option? The main problem i see with Pillars is the DR. Enemies have so high DR and even immunities, is there really a point in going these kind of damages?

I feel you. One of my biggest issue i have now is probably due to my preference and attachment to the character themselves and possbibly their roles. I seems to always pick the following characters for my playthrough: - Eder - Aloth - Durance - Hiravias My current PT is a ranger and that leaves me with not much option seeing Chanter and Paladin are so good. It seems i may have to sacrifice Eder for Pallegina but as character in the game i love him so much. It really makes no sense to handcuff the players on how they want to play their game especially single player. Unless, maybe Obsidian is going to introduce PvP multiplayer 5v5 for expansion? Who knows everyone chasing the MOBA dream nowadays.

I'm going with the minmax approach. Currently the hitpoints is real bad. Planning on infuse vital essence potion if needed. By the way, any shortcut command binding for pet selection? I want to select the pet with the "Q" key and i can't do so. I tried Ctrl+Q it doesnt work

dumping both con and res is it advisable? will the character be so gimped that is hard to play in POTD? planning a stormcaller ranger myself :D. also would be the following a good party composition? 1st companion: Eder early game will switch to Zahua when i get to WM. btw what's best level to go there on POTD? when i go at level 9 the system prompt that i'm overleveled and i tick the option that enemies will scale. Basically i love Eder but already 2 games having him so gotta replace him with Zahua. 2nd companion: Kana. why? because my current PC Chanter is kicking arse and loving him so much. 3rd companion: Pallegina. She's so good that i think i need her on every game. 4th companion: Durance. Only priest in the game and same as Pallegina. Will never have any game without Durance unless i'm priest myself. That leaves the 5th companion.. its so hard to decide!!. Aloth? Because no Wizard in my party seems wrong. Hiravias? He's so good that I need him as well on every game. Maneha? Yes because all my PT never has any Barb!. Devil of Carroc? Yes please because i haven't play ANY rogue yet. Please help me decide or suggest party composition. Now that i think of it 6 characters are probably not enough . That's why Deadfire broke my heart so much.

If it is due to budget constraint, i had like it that they retain the animal form. make the form slightly different such as bigger/smaller/slimmer and maybe different colors to distinguish it? My point is it looks better as the animal version.

I find that shape-shifting form looks weird. Most of the shape-shifted form looks like were-wolf to me. If shape-shifting to a bear, why it didn't look like a bear? It looks like a man in fake bear costume to me.

Is this build still viable? Makes me getting greedy wanted to start the next build with a Ranger. Also, putting too many points on dex does it has diminishing returns?

@Boeroer You mentioned Shimmering cloak. I have it. What's the use of this? Shimmering cloak grants mirror image and +10 deflection against range. It doesn't grant any missiles at all. Also, for my MC Chanter, it seems with Sword and Shielf it actually has lower ACC. Would it be better equipping other weapons that increase the ACC helps hit rate (or crit) instead of Sword & Shield? On spell mastery, what would be your pick? Durance - I'm getting blessing as this is my No. 1 favorite spell. My opening of any battle starts with blessings. Hiravias - I'm going for Sunbeam over Nature's Mark. It deals damage and it has Blinding status effect. That alone is far better than Nature's Mark IMO. Aloth - Would it be great if he picks MMM? More Missiles together with Pallegina ? On the discussion of Gun vs Bow. Wouldn't it be better if Pallegina use Persistence / Bow instead of Pistol/Blunderbuss? Bow has higher range and marking will help MM or offensive spell ACC? Besides, Blundebuss/Pistol has -5 or -10 ACC. That suxs badly and the speed is Very Slow. Sure it has 6 projectiles for Blunderbuss but on average i think it may have lower damage compared to bows? What's your take on this? Thanks

@Boeroer Hats off to you!. Thanks for all those awesome answers!. Can't believe you are still hanging around after so long and still helping newbies like me!. Last but not least, in older BG games there's point blank penalty. Do we have it in PoE? For eg. using a bow at point blank. Also, does Gunner talent helps reload speed of Blunderbusses? Is it a significant talent? For range is it rely on Attack speed or reload speed or both? Next would be, would Pallegina lose the coordinated attack or marking if she use a scroll? Point is i'm dumping all the skills to survival. I think bonus ACC or Damage vs Flanked wouldn't be bad either.

Chanter is freaking awesome. What if you had TWO Chanters? Would it be better to have both of them singing Dragon Thrashed, or better to have one sing Dragon Thrashed while the other sang something else? I dont like 2 characters having the same role. My next character.. i can't decide whether it should be a barbarian or a monk? I saw most of the abilities are only 1/encounter. Hmm still wondering why people like them so much.

Chanter Paladin Wizard Priest Fighter Druid Chanter is so freaking awesome.

Come back when you are level 8 with a full party of 6. You will cook them for breakfast. Go to Defiance Bay soonest you can get a lot of easier fights and leveling there!

@Boeroer Thanks for the insights! If after marking by attacking and then use Lay Hands, will it remove the marking? Also, the marking is only granted on an ally. That means just one? Who will it grant to? Automatically to the nearest? Prestidigator's Missile is just 1/per encounter. How are you pulling missiles twice? With Arms Bearer, can you mark 2 enemies instead of 1? Also, maybe you miss the question. Does stealth has any use for detecting traps or purely mechanics are enough? Besides to also get Shame or Glory, i think i need to go with Crucible instead of Doemenels? Hopefully i dont miss out so much on the crits.

Actually i would just say i like suggestions on how to build NPCs character instead. Pallegina - Her Might is really bad here. I think the point of her is only as a main character support? How would you build her? Sword and Shield? I already have a main tank which is my MC Chanter. Since her low might, is there really any point for her to go melee at all? Durance - I have him as my mechanics guy. Seriously this is only 1 guy i dont throw all my Survival points to him. Am i making a mistake? Also most importantly does Stealth detect traps? I was pumping to both Stealth and Mechanics. I only want a spot traps/disarm trap guy. I only switch him to Arquebus after i done buffing everyone though. Eder - Currently DW sabres. I think i'll respec him again for DW warhammers. Plus with WF: Soldier, Eder has a choice to go Greatswords as well. For Atk Speed, i think Pallegina Hastening Extortation should be cast on Eder? Or Coordinated attacks better? Aloth - I find myself using his Parasitic Concelhaut ALL the time. Maybe i'm doing something wrong. My fav spell for him is Chillfog, Blind, Parasitic Concelhaut, Infuse Vital Essense, Deletrious Alacrity of Motion, Llengrath Displaced Image, Maura Tentacles. I'm going to have Citralz soon.. so i guess no point for Parasitic Concelhaut anymore? Spellmastery would goes to Chillfog? Thanks for any suggestions!