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    Barring Death's Door (and similar effects) + Fire Stag

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    1 minute ago, Tenray said:

    Last time I played multiclassed priest with anything that could summon, I noticed that it does not matter if you extend the  summon duration. They will still disappear after some time, that's what I have experienced. My initial idea was, when Mega Bosses were released, to create immortal summons fighting for you.

    Yeah. Tried that first too.

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by Decadency

    5 minutes ago, Tenray said:

    Well I did some testing on bosses before going the Ultimate Run and Priest/Rogue with buffs and Hands from Woedica just deals insane damage which makes alot fights easier. You can crit for 200+ with each hand. It's absurd.

    SC priest does work aswell, no doubt. It just does less damage.

    I asked in Obsidian's discord about your run. Maybe someone will help.

    Also as you did the second run and you like it more - maybe you wanna verify it instead?

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    1 hour ago, Tenray said:

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    Hello guys, I just finished Ultimate Run No.2.

    My personal goal was sub 10 hours and I managed to do it in 9:45 and I think it can be done even faster. This time I played as Priest/Rogue, was alot of fun. However I am thinking about uploading or not because as I already told you my internet connection is really bad and I actually have not any motivation to do so.

    The reason for this is my first Ultimate run. Some people were pm-ing me about my first run and were asking when I am getting the approval and all I can say is: I don't know. I haven't got any kind of answer/response from Obsidian so far. I did send a reminder and got no reponse and I even send a  mail from a different domain, because I thought there might be something wrong with my email account. I have no clue if I got even disqualified or if they are still watching my videos. I cannot answer you these questions, I am sorry.

    Nevertheless I have nothing to hide and like to share ideas and strategies and you can ask me whatever you want about running it as Priest/Rogue. I try to commnicate as well as I can and would happy to help you out if you try to beat the Ultimate as priest/rogue aswell.

    For now I am really exhausted and I am not quite sure if I keep working on SC monk because some fights are really luck dependant, especially the arena fights. Probably I need a break from PoE2.

     

    So how did you trigger Brilliant with rogue?

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    59 minutes ago, thelee said:

    lol, yeah i had a bit of tunnel vision. literally like 30 minutes ago, I was like "wait I got several scrolls of maelstrom from FS". a few high level scrolls + holy fire wiped most everything out and then i could just keep concelhaut mule kicked until they died. i forgot that most of bekarna's observatory targets a much lower level and everyone has pretty low defenses and health compared to some other areas even with upscaling.

    Have you checked how I killed him in my run?)

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    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    19 minutes ago, Tenray said:

    I did send it to theultimate@obsidian.net as posted here. I do not even have twitter. 

    You know what ? I'll do another run. A faster one. They'll get a better one. Quitting on my SC monk for now. I have a job to do.

    Check your spam mailbox maybe. They answered me in ~3 days. And verified it in 11 days.

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    38 minutes ago, Tenray said:

    You played alot around with draining wall in the past on your tactican+bm, but when I tried to prolong the buffs with draining wall I always failed so hard. Couldn't make it consistently work, but afaik you need at least two enemy targets in order to get more duration than you are actually losing, don't you ?

    Or more accuracy and hit to crit?

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    22 minutes ago, Tenray said:

    That's what I exactly started to play yesterday. =D

    I am currently at Concelhaut. Tbh, it's not quite bad, but I thought the PL 8+9 are alot stronger. A little underwhelming, imo. The damage is ok, but not that crazy in contrast to Wizard, which both of us played before. Reason for the lower damage is obviously the missing PL you easily get from BM buff and the Hit to Crit buff.

    You could craft the potions of course, but really annoying. Haven't found that many Reptilian Eyes for Perfect Aim potion, maybe just unlucky. Not sure.

     

    From my experience so far, I should maybe mention some great things about SC priest:

    - allows technically earlier fights, because you get SoT very early

    - symbols are all really strong (PL8)

    - Symbol of Skaen targets Deflection => does a ton of damage to various type of enemies

    - Symbols do "stack", with alot of INT they last for 30+ seconds which allows you to stack easily 5+ symbols onto each other

     

    Some disadvantages:

    - priest of skaen is must have (because of invis .... no clue how you should beat, sigilmaster or nemnok without invis)

    - needs constant use of potions to deal really good damage

    - has no access to self damaging lightning spells to trigger Deltro's

    => needs arcana 3 for crackling bolt against a wall which does not deal that much damage

    => arcana 9 for chain lightning for the really dope 100+ rolls

     

     

    Sounds like it is a valid strat. Also you can forget doing bounties and start doing bosses earlier than you reach level 16.

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    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    3 minutes ago, Tenray said:

    I really want to believe that it is possible without Brilliant, but I doubt it.

     

    Btw forgot to mention. I found a "new hippster way" of triggering Brilliant from shroud for EVERY class. However only recommended for Priest+X to prolong the buff with SoT of course.

    Equip generic blunderbuss + Belt of Magran's Chosen and shoot Vela. Vela will regen health really fast. When you managed to summon the Fire Blight of her you need some health regen (Potions, Regen, Lethandrias swap shenanigans) and can wait till the Fire Blight triggers your Brilliant + you are obviously in combat and can instantly cast SoT when your Brilliant triggers unlike with the Rakhan Field boots.

    I haven't found it being posted somewhere so I thought I will share it quickly. It needs more patience ofc, but it opens more builds. Pretty much everything combined with priest.

     

    Enjoy.

    So... I like the idea of  SC Priest

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    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by Decadency

    1 hour ago, Tenray said:

    I thought Hylea + Adra stacking is common knowledge. I am using it in my run aswell.

     

    For everyone who is wondering how it's going for me with SC monk, I am thinking about throwing in the towel. I managed to beat everything EXCEPT SSS. All these arena fights are so impossible, no clue what to do.

    You probably think: "There are so many enemies! Should be awesome with WotW spamm!" Yea well, that's what I thought initially aswell. Some of the fights on their own are already quite tough. Every second you are not in your WotW animation, you are getting so insanely much damage + you need to cast withdraw on Vela from time to time. The recovery time you need after casting a withdraw will almost always kill me.

    I went with Helwalker and I have 422Hp. I wish I went with Napalzca and maxing Alchemy, that's what I would recommend for everyone who wants to try it.

    Wow... I thought you would take a rest from Deadfire after the Ultimate )

    I've bought PoE1 on Switch :) Coming back to Dyrwood. 

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    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    8 hours ago, thelee said:

    well gang, i'm cautiously optimistic. 25 days to do content that i got from above with that one trip back to nekataka removed gives me just barely enough time;

    Sounds awesome btw. I really hope you'll do it. Don't forget to buy rum to craft Captain's Banquet after SSS cause it took me ~6 days to get back to Neketaka and return xD 

    The Ultimate discussion thread Pt 2

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

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    59 minutes ago, thelee said:

    color me just as surprised as you. they seem like textbook case of the same buff not stacking. maybe something got changed and they didn't use to stack. but at least for me it's 100% reproducible - i incurred some injuries from belranga, i drank a luminous adra potion, and found my skills were higher despite me thinking that since i had hylea's bonus active i wasn't going to get anything. loaded up a different experimental character, summoned up a hylea bounty and a luminous adra and combined one after the other, and sure enough i got a total of +4.

    would have been useful to know earlier on, might have saved me some skill respecs or tight stealth sections.

    Very strange. On one of my runs I actually didn't know that they were not stacking and crafted a luminous adra potion in Port Maje. Used it and it didn't increase my stats.

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