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Let's not be hasty here. Please, Obsidian, don't do something as rash as releasing a patch only 3 months after it has gone beta!

@Sking: Any news yet? Or is my game hopelessly lost?

Hello Sking, yes, I verified my cache and the issue / the bug still persists... unfortunately...

I am currently in White March 2 in the great hall and have fully completed White March 1. Nevertheless, when I load my saved game, I get the introductory message (that my steward has received a letter for me) for WM 1. And the already finished quest from WM1 to restart the forge 'updates' again. Can someone perhaps kindly look at my saved game to check what might be wrong? http://www.xup.in/dl,11028725/00f76a59659f44cca2e3b40efa33f90c_20158341_TheGreatHall.savegame/

I honestly think there are enough classes in the game as ist - there should already be a class for every playstyle (support, tank, ranged, melee, ranged caster, melee caster). Personally, I wish the devs would focus on companions with more personality (more interjections, more comments on events, deeper personal quests [perhaps even more than exactly one quest per companion], having actual relationships [not necessarily a romance, although that would be okay, too, but developing friendships, or growing animosity, etc.], companions leaving the group if you make decisions going against the moral code of a companion, these kind of things). Generally, I'd like to have a more immersive game world with more reactivity to the PC's class/race/ethnicity/gender/social status (more than the otherwise meaningless sentence here or there), perhaps with whole quests or other situations specific to certain classes/races/etc. Both concepts could even be combined. For example, right now I'm playing a clergyman from Aedyr, a Priest of Eothas, who specifically came to the Dyrwood to (again) spread the Eothasian belief. But Durance had nothing(!) to say about that (not even during the temple quest in Gilded Vale), which is kind of sad and imersion-breaking. Or an Orlan PC could have to deal with (a lot of) racial prejudice, a PC from the Vailian Republics could get a quest specific to Vailians (like Pallegina does now), there could be a Brotherhood and/or a Sisterhood (like the Frermàs mes Canc Suolias), only open to members of all classes, but only to men/women, the PC might want to join during the course of the game, and where the PC has to prove his/her worth and reliability, and so on...

Hi Sking, I've just resumed my PoE playthrough (I had a lot non-gaming issues on my plate lately). On steam, I had to verify the integrity of my game cache, and had to redownload 247 files. After that, I got the +6 Accuracy boost from my Weapon Focus talent. Although I have no idea how 247 files could have become corrupted, as I didn't do anything which could have influenced my PoE files in any way, it seems that these corrupted files were the culprit, not the beta patch... I do sincerely apologize for keeping you busy with this issue unnecessarily. But thank you for providing us with this marvellous game (and the even better expansions, which made me really look forward to PoE 2)!

But Stormcaller should at least be flagged as a Hunting Bow, shouldn't it? It must now not be flagged at all, as even the Weapon Focus for Hunting Bows doesn't add the +6 bonus...

I have currently bound Stormcaller to Kana, who has Weapon Focus: Peasant. He does not get the +6 Accuracy Bonus, however. He does get the +6 Accuracy Bonus for his second weapon, the Grey Sleeper. So right now, he gets +6 for an Estoc, but not for a Hunting Bow, kind of ironic for Weapon Focus: Peasant...

Yes, I as well only play solo potd ironman, but with my hands tied behind my back and just randomly pressing a button on my keyboard with my nose - everything else would be far too easy, you know! And by the way, your remarks make perfect advice for a new player, as was requested...

Thank you for your reply, @Braven! Which two "early speed weapons" do you refer to? Hm... With the Dragon's Maw Shield, we would basically gain 1 free Ability (replacing Savage Defiance), Bash 4, and a 25% chance to cast Taste of the Hunt on Hit/Critical Hit... Would you say that this would be worth reducing the attack speed of the Unlabored Blade in half?

This is a great build, and I'll sure give it a try for my TCS run (with the alternate build with 2 sets with weapon & shield), As I'm not an expert, I have three questions, however, which I hope somebody with real knowledge of the game can help me solve: When soloing, it's impossible to get the Swaddling Sheet (as I'll have nobody to send on that adventure). What would be a suitable replacement? The Mantle of the Excavator? - That would as well free up the armor enchantment (for +2 CON?). And in the meantime Lilith's Shawl? Or Hiro's Mantle for some Retaliation and DR? The first Weapon Set would be Spelltongue with which shield? Black Sanctuary for the Warding Seals? Or Sura's Supper Plate for some more Retaliation (as it would stack with Hiro's Mantle)? Or would Badgradr's Barricade be the better choice? The second Weapin Set would consist of the Unlabored Blade and the Dragon's Maw Shield. As the shield also grants Savage Defiance, would it be viable to retrain the Barbarian at that point? The advantage would be that I gain another Talent to use (but what for?) and wouldn't have to spend time activating Savage Defiance (as it would be a passive ability from the shield), but the disadvantage is that it would only trigger at 50% Endurance (would that be too late?) and wouldn't benefit from Spelltongue's extended duration (as I would already have switched to the second Weapon Set).

I second that. And it would be even better if we could get all the IE mod autosave options officially implemented, like autosave only after [xx] minutes have passed, or being able to completely disable autosaving...

Just saw your artful removal of the face stuff - really great work. I liked the tattoos, though (just not the blood tears Luis Royo so likes), so I took your image and the original one and blended them for a tattooed image, just without the blood tear. Then I cropped it to the right size(s), and voilá: Original art by Luis Royo.