MaxQuest

You do. Resolved encounters don't use your set formation. But the "portrait order" instead. Try to drag'n'slide the portraits of your party members.

Hmm, I would probably give them to rogue. Reasoning being: - for 2H figher and barb immediate +15% aspd from Gauntlets of Swift Action might be more beneficial - for a DW character like your Rogue is, aspd is not that critical - a rogue will probably make his first kill faster than the other two, hence will trigger the mourning effects earlier. Btw, how exactly do those buffs stack with themselves? Do they stack completely?; the effects are only prolonged?; or even worse: just refreshed? Also for a barb there are few decent alternatives to consider: Ryona's Vambraces, Glittering Gauntlets, Celebrant's Gloves and Siegebreaker Gauntlets (if for some weird reason Clear Out triggers carnage)

And it's also might be an impractical thing to do. As there are so many different creatures with different DR and defenses, and also debuffs which can lower those, that it is impossible to say which weapon choice is the absolute best one. The good thing it's probably not needed, and it's enough to encompass just the top choices, where the end difference in dps is pretty minor. Thus I completely agree on the following:

Nope. A cipher can achieve zero-recovery with a ranged weapon without speed enchant. Although he has no access to Swift Aim, there is also Sure-Handed chant. Which brings to: (1.2 - 1) + (1.15 * 1.15 * 1.5 - 1) = 1.18 > 1 Durgan enchant is irrelevant here, because it has a zero-cost, and can be applied to both. I understand your point regarding increasing weapon quality to legendary. The problem is you can do it so late into the game, that.. it hardly even matters. Last playthrough I have enchanted some weapons to legendary, right after the Llengrath fight. At that point there was only Thaos remaining. And 15 minutes later I've finished the game. Well, Kingsman didn't ask for favorite weapons, but for most focus-generating ones For example my preferred bow is still Borresaine. Draining is nice, but the stun is even better. With it I often keep 1-2 enemy spellcasters at a time being unable to cast anything, by just auto-attacking. I am not sure if 5 DR penetration is better than 3 DR pen + a talent slot. Just Beast Slayer could give bigger returns. But if you have a chanter with Sure-Handed chant (which btw also reduces cast time of a lot of ranged spells), you can get zero-recovery with any bow, even with enabled Penetrating Shots. As for anihilation property of Sabra Marie, I will be able to run some math latter.

This depends on a lot of factors: weapon quality, enemy DR, your might, perception and especially your recovery time. Here you go: spreadsheet Provided you have reduced your recovery to zero, best focus generating weapons (auto-attacking, no quick-switch), are durganized Cloudpiercer and durganized Sabra Marie (if you crit often enough). Prior to that, Rain of Goddah is king. (update: also Pretty Pretty's Rib and Engwithan sceptre if you will take Dangerous Implement talent) But in the very early game, when your recovery is still substantial, and weapons don't have decent dmg modifier from the quality enchant, firearms are worthy as well. Depends on your own playstyle. I personally don't like the added micro. I could consider doing it for example in boss fights. But than again this means I would take a talent that would stay without use in 90%+ of encounters.

The problem is the mechanics are not that well documented ingame. A lot of information is quite vague, and some.. even wrong. It takes time to test the stuff, with enough degree of certainty, such that unambiguous conclusions could be made. This is very different from D&D. To the point where there is no point to even think of attributes/dmg/attack in terms of it's rules. You will be surprised how your own vision on stats spread will change after the very first playthrough. And than again, once you'll try all the classes. You do. But it only increases the replay value

Have backtraced the AdjustDamageDealt() for AttackAoE. Yeah, the damage is calculated and adjusted for each enemy caught in AoE, one by one. As for beam, it has explicit conditions to end if: - duration ran out - owner is dead or unconscious - enemy is dead or unconscious And it is hard to be more specific when it comes to ene It could be that it was written by different programmers while being designed by different designers. Also it looks like they were in a little rush, not having enough of time to refactor the code, and bring the consistency in all the things. A lot of stuff was changed since alpha. There are some legacy constant values here and there giving away that some stuff was originally intended to work differently. And when such changes accumulate in big numbers, you might get a mess in your head being unable to keep everything in memory. Ofc there are methodologies to avoid this... but the trade-off is speed of development.

^ True that. The only builds I can think of that would benefit from it, are: - Inspiring Wayfarer - [2H] or [1H] barbarian with Bloodlust and Blood Thirst. And even than it's a questionable choice. "This" is an instance of CharacterStats class. The [bonu****ToCritPercentEnemyBelow10Percent] is added inside of ComputeHitAdjustment(int hitValue, CharacterStats enemyStats, DamageInfo damage) method. The [CritHitDamageMultiplierBonusEnemyBelow10Percent] is added inside of AdjustDamageDealt(GameObject enemy, DamageInfo damage, bool testing) method. What types of attacks are calling these methods I will be able to check later. But most likely the damage and hit adjustments are calculated against each enemy separately.

That one has a check against 25% of endurance.AffectStat 71 = BonusDamageMultOnLowStaminaTarget It's decompiled C# (via IL Spy)

I don't remember that character. Where is he located? UnlockBestiary helps only partially. You would still see the question marks, like: 50? 96? 48? 68? To be most sure, I just temporary set int to 1, and attack the target with spells that target different defenses first, and check the base values when the effects have expired.

Glad to have motivated you) Few notes through: - this forum doesn't support bbcode tables. But spreadsheet screenshots can do the job well enough. - with that high Mig, Int and Per, Envenomed Strike could deal some solid damage.

Unfortunately push effects do not cause disengagement attacks. They break engagement first. Hmm, are you sure? The tooltip doesn't read "immune to engagement". But: "not stopped by Engagement; +12 when dissengaging; +2 speed", i.e. enemies still try to hit you. Against simple enemies, in the fights that do not require cc, it's not really useful, because majority of enemies are quite sticky to those whom they already have engaged. But it is quite handy in the following situations: - enemies with spells/abilities that have special targetPreference. For example a shade: every 15s it will try to apply Draining Freeze to the nearby member that has lowest frost DR. In this case it could try to disengage, and overbearing could potentially stop it. - hard cc effects (stun, pron, etc) do break engagement. Aside from special abilities, enemies are usually sticking to those whom they are already attacking. But after cc ends, and they are not engaged yet with anyone a target update will be made. Overbearing helps here too. - you can force disengagement attacks via baiting. Imagine few enemies have decided to engage your barbarian. Bring your fighter closer, such that he could engage several of them. And let the barb move few meters away on the wild sprint. Enemies will try to follow him, and will get disengagement attacks from the fighter.

Ok, have checked the ingame files for 3.02 version. Short version: the endurance threshold is still 10%. Long version: As you can see Bloody Slaughter affects stats 219 and 227: These do correspond to the following status effects: 219: BonusHitToCritPercentEnemyBelow10Percent | Tooltip("Converts Value percent (0-100) of the target's hits to crits against enemies with <10% stamina.") 227: BonusCritHitMultiplierEnemyBelow10Percent | Tooltip("The target's critical hit damage multiplier is increased by Value against enemies with <10% stamina.")] And these are used in: Conclusions: - You don't get benefits of BloodySlaughter talent on enemies that have current/max endurance higher than 10%. - As for your case: I am not completely sure why it happened, but my guess would be that once your target died, for some reason the attack wasn't properly reset, keeping the old TargetObject. When your paladin has moved into the ray, it used the current/max endurance of that enemy, which was zero/somevalue, hence less than 10%. - Bonus.Hit written together gets censored

Lol I remember I was checking the asset for Bloody Slaughter (either in 2.03 or 3.00). And it was a 10% threshold. I will be able to check it again later, after work.

I would read that talmud so hard

Oh my... Btw does it also apply other effects like interfering and stun-on-crit?

Hmm, could you test it on enemy mobs? I remember I tested it few months ago in 3.0 (was also thinking of barb+interdiction combo). And these are the numbers I've got against a Swamp Spore: def, fort, ref, will: --------------------- 50, 96, 48, 68 - default 49, 82, 44, 54 - sickened 49, 54, 44, 34 - sickened, weakened 49, 54, 36, 30 - sickened, weakened, dazzed --------------------------------- 50, 68, 40, 44 - weakened, dazzed 50, 96, 40, 64 - dazzed 50, 68, 48, 48 - weakened

Have tested it. It doesn't stack. Envenomed Strike remaining duration (rem_dr) gets refreshed and set to the duration of second appliance (if that one is greater than rem_dr). (that would be v4 type of stacking) And same thing happens for multiple characters. At least it properly gets the double tick-rate from the Cleansing Flames. P.S. Actually every dot I have tested so far gets the double tick rate from the CF. Including Wounding. Including even Cleansing Flames itself. In the log it might display, CF: deals 153 dmg over 15s. But when you count the ticks, instead of 6 (for 25.5 dmg) there are 11.

Have re-read Braven's reply. I wasn't attentive. He wrote they don't stack in the sense that one gets suppresed. Not that they cannot be active at the same time. So, can say that: "you can have active at the same time: one defensive, one aura, and multiple offensive modals (except for the ranger's exclusive ones)". Or there are still exceptions?

^ No. Difficulty and content upscale are separate.

Oh yes, you did It's passive. Nice lazy counter to the plague of insects and alike AoEs.

The usual rule of thumb is: one defensive modal, one aura modal and multiple offensive modals. For example Savage Attack does stack with Vulnerable Attack. And Savage Attack did indeed used to stack with Reckless Assault. But there are exceptions. As you can't have both Vicious aim, Swift Aim and Twin Shots at the same time. They are mutually exclusive. Also, even if two modals are active it won't hurt to check if one of them is not partially suppressed, in case they affect the same bonus.

It might be a little late reply, but anyway: Interrupt does not increase or influence reloading duration in any way. The game has a reloadingTimer; it tracks how long the reloading duration should be, and how much has already elapsed. So when resumed, reloading will continue from the last value. Interrupt does increase recovery duration. When you interrupt someone, the interruption value (0.05 weakest up to 1.0 strongest) is appended to the end of recovery, prolonging it.

^ Depends on the enemy. It has worked for me on majority of enemies, but not on the dragons. They were becoming immune but still able to attack and move, like you describe. Other unexpected thing about stasis, is that you can cast disintegration and then the shell, and target will still take damage from the dot. Was using this on eyeless, until have figured out that 2 x Mental Binding is just cheaper in terms of focus. And another trick is, if one of your party members got charmed or dominated, you can cast stasis on him, making him into a godly tank) (that's might be useful if adragans dominate your closest to adra dragon character, and he will be resisting all the damage)

For the sake of completeness: Symbols do 15-25 base damage in 2.5m base radius, every 3s, for 2s base duration. Symbol of Berath: deals corrode damage vs fortitude. And weakens. Symbol of Magran: deals burn damage vs will. And blinds. Symbol of Scaen : deals pierce damage vs deflection. And hobbles. Symbol of Eothas: deals burn damage vs reflex. And grants +20 to defenses. Symbol of Wael : deals freeze damage vs fortitude. And grants +30 defense against charm, domination, confuse. So yeah, Berath variant is indeed good. Even if it targets fortitude, subsequent ticks might benefit from the -20 from weakened. But it also has a con. Three out of five high dragons are immune to the corrode damage type (Sky, Turi and Gafo). While Adra dragon specifically, has the same DR against corrode and deflection. Btw, is it possible to slow a dragon? The default run speed is 4. Adra Dragon is also known for being slow, so it probably has movement speed of up to 3. And hobbled slows by 3 units. -- edit -- Just tested. Hobbled Adra dragon is basically pin pointed to place for the duration. And can be decimated from distance.