Vaneglorious

Hi. I'm just curious, what do others think of this community balance mod? I'm thinking about giving it a shot, because I hate the fact that there are so many subclasses and abilities in the game that are underwhelming to varying degrees, but having read into it, it seems to me that mostly everything got a buff, and some things got a pretty crazy buff in my opinion. I'm just wondering if this causes too much of a power creep that would make my PotD super easy. Thanks for the input in advance.

But what about when it comes to tough single targets? Namely bosses.

I normally would go multi, but the AL8-9 actives and passives look pretty good to me. Cipher was my favorite class in PoE1, they seem to have changed a lot in Deadfire. Do you play with any mods btw? Do you think the game needs some sort of community patch, or is it good as it is? I know some subclasses are pretty bad.

I see. Thanks for the tips.

I really hate fighting undead with arquebuses. Any alternative for them I can switch to? Party. Which chanter subclass?

Berserker with Modwyr and Scordeo's Edge? Never tried barbarians in PoE 2 before, they seemed underwhelming to me.

Hello, it's been a while. It's time I returned to this game, and I've decided to do a potd playthrough with an Ascendant MC. So, the title holds the first concern. Can I (or should I) build a single class Ascendant? The level 8-9 abilities, both passive and active, look pretty enticing to me. But I also can't ignore the fact that going multi would have some great benefits. Either way, I'd like some advice on gear and play style. For weapon choice I was thinking maybe go for the Essence Interrupter, as I can get it early on, is fast, and it can be quite powerful when fully upgraded. Looking forward to reading your opinions.

Best class is Tactician/Streetfighter. Change my mind.

So the lack of this thing that made PoE sort of a cakewalk is very much there in arsenal of literally (literally?) every single Wizard among the enemy ranks, and boy does it suck. I usually send the main tank ahead with a single buff to trigger it, then I try to Pull of Eora the Wizards together for a quick follow up nuking, but that isn't always an option. And there are encounters that have multiple Wizards literally spamming it on my party. Forget about getting a lucky Will save on PoTD lol. I actually haven't tried Arcane Reflection yet for some reason. That might help. How do you guys deal with it?

Veilpiercer can be pretty good on a Ranger. If you're tired of abusing OP things like Frostseeker + AS.

I just did a full playthrough on PotD with him as pure Chanter. While it was viable, I'd not recommend it. Pure Druid or multiclass are much better. I liked the idea of Stormspeaker, but unfortunately it's not worth it imo. The only subclass invocation I ever used was the tornado one in the last power tier. But most of the invocations (would've been summons...if he had any) were the healing, paralyze, frighten, -2 AR and +3 pen ones.

Driving Flight can be pretty nice with Tranquilizer (interrupt and -30 sec buff duration on 2 targets), especially with the warbow Veilpiercer. I made a SS/Devoted. It's nothing fancy or OP, but it's pretty straightforward and works fine in most situations. Very high acc and hit to crit with decent pen. Other than the really weak companions, they seem ok. What if there was an option for a ranged companion?

I think the only unredeemable faction is the pirate one. I mean, all they want is either to sow chaos or to enslave. Nothing productive or good can come out of it. The other three factions could all be okay with some reforms, changes here and there. I personally think Rautai is the least evil of them all. Naturally, they are far from perfect, they are highly imperialistic, but they bring order, security and trade. The Vailians also improve on order, security and economy, but their main goal seems to be exploiting the Huana lands. The Huana have backwards traditions that halts any kind of meaningful progress, and the ruling tribe (Kahanga) seems really oppressive towards their own lower caste, not to mention a caste system is extremely backwards on its own. So for me, in a best-to-worst order, right now: 1. RDC 2. Kahanga 3. VTC 4. Pirates

Wonder what happens if I kill Llengrath in PoE1. Get a new body?

Wow this was back in June (took them 1 month to answer) and this bug is still alive and well. I keep encountering it myself. Super duper annoying to reload a save after a very difficult boss fight just to remove it, and console disables achievements.

Does anybody know what the Trephine in the middle of the Scriptorium is for? I know I can sacrifice a memory, but what does it do?

Buffing Quite fun till you get Arcane Dampener spammed on you.

I found this fight impossible without cheesing it. I'm immune vs terrify, paralyze and stun....and yet I'm 24/7 terrified, paralyzed and stunned. What gives..? Also, not having a Wizard = gg? I really hate when you gotta do/have something very specific to defeat a boss. I wish it was approacheable in other ways than having a Wizard or cheesing it with Rogue.

I usually roll with Druid/Chanter + SC Priest. They take care of my party healing and support well enough. I even take a Pal/Chanter as my tank for support overkill.

Imagine if Zerker's carnage would work with ranged weapons. I used this bow on my Ascendant/Devoted.

Galawain kind of ticked off my Ranger in this regard, as So much for being the god of Darwinism eh? Wait, doing Galawain's bidding debuffs the dragons? I didn't notice, although all of my dragon fights were pretty easy. But I just thought it was because PotD was a joke at launch, plus Brawler was OP af.

So you mean a prequel. Also slew, not slayed. Not sure if it'd work tbh. But if they wanted to do it, I'd go back to an older date. Maybe the first time Aedyr came to the Eastern Reach.

"I'm not a pirate!" - Watcher of Caed Nua in Port Maje Ain't that called privateering?

Oh dang that could be right. I do enjoy having a bigger aura on chants + longer duration on cc and buffs, though. edit: Nope, only linger is affected by INT.

Right now I'm trying out Devoted/Skald, see what happens. I should get plenty of phrases with the Intuitive and I can get a lot of penetration, too. MIG 15 CON 8 DEX 10 PER 20 INT 17 RES 8 +2 with BB Although I'm thinking about drumping RES for more DEX, because having those long recoveries after invocations kinda sucks. We'll see how it turns out.