Silvaren

Not yet. Is it bug or diversion?

I'm not sure if stealth works as intended during conversation. You can enable stealth mode with one character. Then go to the most crowded area with chests or any different kind of "loot boxes". That character will be spotted ofcourse. Then it's simple. Start conversation with different character in the party. Detection circle will decrase, wait in conversation until vision's marker disappears, then end conversation, pause the game. Use hidden character to loot any nearby chests without beeing spotted. With enough stealth you can even pick locks. The hardest part in such cases is to get closer to loot boxes undetected and it's most of the time impossible due to crowd and their sight's cones. Normally character will be spotted passing through sight's cones, but if you start conversation while the stealth character is already behind or in middle of crowd, and wait until that character disappears, you can steal from anywhere and anyone before you will be detected. This trick simply allow to toogle stealth mode in places where the character is spotted from the start and normally can't disappear from plain sight. With conversation - can.

I did disperse the souls as Wael asks and by doing it I broke all promises I gave to gods. I think only Galawain left. If he boosts bosses does it means that Guardian of Ukaizo will survive single Minoletta's Missile Salvo? I wonder if Wael will reward me for dispersing the souls. I would like to play Wael's godlike and have unique dialog like "I'm watcher, I have my eyes on you. All dozen".

My current save is based on probably the worst scenario, the one with Watcher who lied the gods and broke promises about fate of the souls. Hylea Occurs during first scene with gods on the journey from Port Maje to Neketaka. Hylea sent birds to **** on my ship which gave me "guano" sails and hull with crap all over them. It's funny and it can be switched for any sails/hull upgrades. Berath Occurs after entering the Sacred Stairs district in Neketaka. Berath cast curse on the Watcher which lowers all attributes by 1 until the Watcher bring 75 souls to the Wheel (75 kills done by the Watcher so player's character have to deal finish blow). Rymrgrand Occurs during conversation with Rymrgrand in Realm of the Beast of Winter. Rymrgrand summoned memories of all Watcher's past lifes and leave the Watcher with heavy burden. It lowers Might and Resolve by 2. Right now it seems to be permanent. Rest didn't remove it. Work in progress.

That would explain why I couldn't find it before launching new game and why I can find it while playing.

LOL I must be blind xD

Tekehu's Chill Fog is even more OP. Most fights take place in open area so lack of choke points somehow balance Chill Fog, but it is still one of the best spells.

1. I took quest from Ezalli Bardatto ("A sinking feeling") and try to convince her to find a peaceful solution. 2. I went to Atello Valera and spoke with him about peacful solution. 3. I took the quest from Martino Valera ("A bigger fish"). 4. I resolve "A bigger fish quest" and returned to Martino. 5. I spoke with Ezalli that Atello wants to find a peacful solution. She agreed to meet with him. 4. I proceed through "A sinking feeling" questline to find out about robbery the vault and stop that quest just after the task in the Hole inn. At that moment : 1. I could speak to Ezalii about robbery and follow her plan to set a trap for Valera family. 2. I could speak with Atello Valera about Martino's plan to rob the vault and follow his plan. 3. I could speak with Atello about meeting with Ezalli to negotiate agreements. I wanted both families dead so I planed to start meeting and turn them against themself, but my party had low level at that moment so I went do some other quests. After I did some quest like Poko Kohora and rescued Oswald: 1. I went to Atello Valera to start the meeting, but there was no option because he find out that Martino has plan to rob Bardatto's vault. 2. I was sent to rescue girl from Bardatto's estate. 3. I went down to the basement and I've been attacked by welcoming party just around the corner (there was nobody near the stairs). 4. I meet the captain and his man torturing the girl. 5. I killed all hostiles. 6. The girl said that I should run through the window, but I robbed the vault and walked out through the door upstairs. 7. I went to Atello Valera and he was conviced by Martino to kill Ezalli and her family. 8. I killed all Bardatto. 9. I went back to Atello and was rewarded for dealing with Bardatto - "Family Pride" quest was finished in the journal. 10. I could speak with Atello and one of the options was to arrange meeting with Ezallio. 11. Negotiations started - Ezallio and her people at the meeting were alive. 12. I said that I gathered them to kill them all. 13. I killed them all. 14. I didn't get journal update, but in the finished "Family Pride" quest second stage from the top was about previous final solution to that quest (that I sided with Valera and eliminate Bardatto). The top task in finished quest stated that the negotiation was closed with a massacre. Now I have double Ezallio's equipment and I guess double Valera's family weapons. Few save files if it will help: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yxkrpn4klinyaup/AADjOi8ofUpYW8NYfV-tsH63a?dl=0

Is it possible to implement such feature? It should work just as Expert mode but only for conversations. I would like to play without obvious skillchecks, personality changes icons near all dialogue options, info about gain or lose of reputation. Iirc there was such option in Tyranny and PoE 1.

Rare grimoires add additional spells like Ninagauth's Shadow Flame (ice damage + paralyse). There are at least two grimoires with direct damage spells from levels 2-4 and even 7, dealing raw/corrosive/ice damage and bonus effects. Concelhaut's and Ninagauth's unique spells.

I had most fun with revenge on Benweth stealing his ship and then killing him while he was alone. Arkemyr's Mansion is cool too. I really like Fassina, imps, props in the mansion and ofcourse meeting of the circle. If you trade knowledge with Llengrath, you can ask her about her dragons. And I found Arkemyr to be very funny person. Ruins of old city has great atmosphere, nice layout and big worm which was the only hard fight for me (I was level 6 or 7). Nemnok is funny if you play as mage or scientist there is an option to speak that he is just an imp. Then he explains something with dreadful tone and watcher can once again tell him that he is still just big imp.

I don't know yet. Berath's Wrath looks like red version of Punisher's logo :D

Not herself, her birds ofcourse ;p Still better than -1 all attributes from Berath until my watcher collect 75 souls.

Hylea has such sublime sense of humor. Better than Berath's curse. I wonder who else will punish my watcher for dispersing the souls at the end of PoE.

Same happened to me. I already cleared the way into the crypt before I talked to Copperhead. I asked him to create a diversion, and now he just wishes me luck. Don't know wheter or not destroying the orb has any effect. I load save from the entrence of the crypt and clear entire floor again, but first I killed 2 bosses and only then used their blood to open the door. I leave the orb intact and then spoke to Copperhead, completing the quest.

Still better idea than pointless sacrifice party member.

I played bleak walker/assassin and assassin's stealth dmg, acc, pen bonuses affect only first weapon even with full atttack abilities so I was running with estock most of the time at least for initial strike from stealth.

I'm playing helwalker/assassin right now. Idea is to grab Eye of Wael asap and dual wield it with melee weapon for quicker recovery. Destructive Channeling boosts damage and pen while generating wounds. It doesn't end Dance of Death, so I stack Might from wounds as Helwalker and stack high Acc from DoD, combined with Swift Flurry triggering free attacks on crit. So Eye of Wael should proc 8 sec of invisibility on crits which can be used for assassin's stealth bonus to acc, dmg and pen and allow me survive between shoots all those higher damage recieved from helwalker/assassin tradeoff.

I have cool idea in my mind but need at least two weeks to test it. Wonder if it won't be nerfed because it utilise some cool monk's abilities like swift flurry and dance of death. The idea is to pick helwalker/assassin, high dex, high perception, use Eye of Wael with Destructive Channeling for higher dmg, pen and wounds. It has 25% chance for invisibility for 8 sec after crits and put random illusion spell on target. Ofcourse dual wielding with melee weapon for better recovery and attacks only from the scepter. It probably won't be as powerful as all those blunderbusses and ice bow ranged monk's build because Eye of Wael shoot single projectile. Maybe it will stack enough acc to fire crit after crit. It should allow to abuse invisibility for assassin's stealth attacks with creazy acc, pen, dmg (even as full attack it affects only first weapon so dual wielding Eye of Wael with melee is the best option) and thanks yo invisibility between shots it should provide enough survival to all those incrased dmg against helwalker/assassin from their vulnerability. Some sustain health replenish from items/party would be helpful. I will test my idea and show some results in 2 weeks I guess.

Quick question. All builds for PotD were tested without upscaling?

I have an idea for interesting build but I will test it after current playthrough.

Thanks.

Does damage from Destructive Channeling end Dance of Death or just like in case of Retribution it doesn't count?

During combat it is hard to spot which grimoire from quick item slot should I switch to without opening it to see list of spells. Icons look similar, titles are sometimes not intuitive. It would be very helpful if player could rename grimoires for quick recognition.

No, wood elf evoker with power level gloves and empower but without resting bonus.