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Engagement >>>>>>>>>>>>Aggro. Good god I hate the aggro mechanic.

Better main story. Less trippy hippy dream crap. I smoked weed to see if the text got cooler and it just got worse. The worst of it all is when you make me choose memories from a past life I have absolutely no basis from which to choose with. Experimental writing gone real bad and I say this as a fan of experimental writing. A shame, because the side quests, some of the NPC's and those GEORGOUS hand painted cut scenes showed why these guys are lauded for the writing team. Everything else about this game is freacking awesome!!!! You sure there's always some tweaks, but man what a foundation for a franchise!

I understand your point. I like Wizards but I wanted to avoid them in my current party. So I took Druid and Cipher for CC, and for now it works. (Well, I would be perfect when the storm bug will be corrected. ^^) But currently, I doubt chanters can replace Priest, even with druid and paladin. Part of the problem is you can't really go "full Buff bot" for chanter ; indeed, you can't customize so much a chanter. By the way, even if chanters had around 50% buff capabilities of Priest, it would be ok. You could indeed rely on druids, paladins and paladin multiclass talent to fill most of the gap, and your party would have other abilities to compensate anyway (especially chanters and pally tankyness). Now I would estimate chanters around 25-30% of priest buff capabilities. The gap is still huge is you consider for example priests can get up to +65 party deflection, while chanters cap at +10 with a 3rd level chant. The Chanter gets it done by debuffing the enemy, which ends up being the same as buffing yourself. He doesn't heal but he's the best off tank in the game. I adore the Chanter, truly in love with the class as it replaces the traditional cleric role in a completely new way. The Chanter really is the alternative to Priest since you probably don't want both of them in same party unless you looking for a very funky party mix (pure defensive or no-tank).

Priest is undoubtedly a great class but I think it's balanced in POE because unlike D&D clerics they do literally no damage and play more like speed bumps than off tanks. You can run without one, Pally and Druid can divy up the healing, Chanter can go full buff bot if you play him that way. But yes, I kinda agree, it kinda does take 3 classes to replace him. Every other class has a direct substitute. But that's a problem there has always been. I'm just used to playing the Pally/Druid/Bard party because I've never liked having Clerics and Wizards forced down my throat.

I'm doing PoTD on my first playthrough and the difficulty is perfectly perfect. Sometimes I steamroll through stuff, sometimes I have to stop and come back to something later. But pretty much every session I get a couple battles that come down to the wire. I expect to play Trial of Iron/PoTD if I'm looking for a challenge on 2nd playthrough.

Yes, more comparable to rogue as they should be. Not quite the face melter but better tactically.

I'm treating this like a campaign where my characters will end at level 20.

Maybe coincidence, but it also happened to my Druid.

Yes, this also happened to me. It was not a game specific bug, it is character specific. I respecced another character just fine. The bugged one is broken, no amount of going back to before respecc makes the respecc work for him. Might have to delete that char. //edit: Important info. The character that respecced properly went straight to char creation screen, the one that broke went back to game with char at level 1 and the gold + blinking. Also pretty sure that the char that respeced properly was created before 2.0 and the one that broke was made after.