Parasol_Syndicate

If you have access to beast of winter, and don't mind lowering the difficulty, you could maybe get away with using Vatnir as your major healer for the latter half of the game. You could even build him as a chanter/priest, and free up the healer and chanter spots. With a solid front line (in most cases, that means a melee PC) you can get away with using Maia in place of Aloth.

As far as companions I'd actually like back: Eder Maia or Kana, both seem unlikely. Konstantin Ydwin Everyone else would be met with halting tolerance, with Rekke or Mirke being on the high end and Tekehu or Grieving mother being on the low.

Straight cryptic, yo.

Aeldys always seemed like the least stable of the faction heads. Castol is an idealogue. Alvari is Ruthless. Karu is ambitious and dismissive. Furrante is a mixture of both VTC heads, with some added charm. Onekaza is a psychic politician. A minor theme of the game is how the new bloods have gotten so much influence by doing stuff too crazy to imagine. Remember that Benwith, the jagoff that starts your whole sad saga is one of hers, and was held in high regard.

I don't really get Monks and Barbarians in the POE interpretation. Having a frontliner you expect to get hurt is just bad thematically, And I've never liked the demands of building barbs around carnage rather than frenzy. I've been lukewarm on rogues and ciphers, but enough time with Ydwin made me really appreciate those classes' synergy.

Now that the cat's out of the bag, "Durti" is my personal favorite.

Here they are! https://imgur.com/gallery/78a4XKH

I did just fine with an Island Aumaua. They liked that I was big. Ydwin and Vatnir will fill in the gaps. include both for some very pointed sniping.

Is that a real book ingame?

If we're not supposed to pet her, why is she so soft?

I've never gotten the crew members event and it makes me sad.

Yeah, there aren't a lot of new events until the endgame. It might change some of her dialogue if you select or click on her, or initiate a conversation. but there's nothing interactive. Tis a shame.

Is Mountain Dwarf still the only way to get Constitution resist? Trying to figure out what to take on a Mule's Wit build.

Not sure you wanted it spoiled or not. but: Pretty strange that Furrante of all people comments on finally meeting a dragonslayer.

It is possible to win the fight. Whether it's possible to do solo depends on you.