TXFlood

So I've had some time to play today and respeced my wizard's stats a little to 19 Might 14 Con 10 Dex 14 Per 18 Int 3 Res Hit level 4 on PoTD, taken weapon spec:soldier and arcane veil. Wearing some plate mail and using a fine greatsword that was a lucky find. Before that I used a single rapier for accuracy when I wasn't wielding that insane summoned staff. Games been a breeze so far, usually I get 2 full buff fights out of a rest but I really don't need all the buffs most the time, for things like forest trolls I did fine just flanking with the greatsword. MC has 2.5x the damage done as the next closest party member and I'm pretty sure I've never cast a direct damage spell. So far I feel that dropping dex for more con was the right call, like Boeroer said it's health not endurance that is the main issue. I'm getting way more mileage out of the leech from the staff and spells like Consecrated Ground now. Also guns probably would have been out and out terrifying with such low con. I'm critting quite a bit too thanks to Merciless Gaze. Does this stack with Dire Blessing? Because that might be a little insane if it does... So far I'm glad I rerolled another wizard, plays completely differently to my previous one. The only spells I remember casting a lot on my old one that I'm reusing are the blind and spirit shield. Really makes me appreciate Obsidians take on them.

So if I wanted 10 con would I be dropping per or dex? Or is even more advisable? I was aiming towards a more dps focused role but yeah, picking yourself off the ground isn't fun either. And buffing infuse vital essence every fight would probably be needlessly tedious and increase the resting needed. Nice to know I can pick something like weapon focus:soldier for maximum ascetics and still get the accuracy mileage out of it. Since you're suggesting stacking crit multiplier I'm guess accuracy isn't horrible? That was another concern I had when scaling into the late game. Would I still hit max attack speed with self buffs and say 10-12 base dex? My charname is always the item hog so gear could fill in some gaps I suppose.

I beat the game on hard back in 2015 with a CC/Nuke wizard, she was pretty solid and lead the party in damage. With the hype building for PoE II I decided to reroll for a cannon playthrough to import later. Initially went with a druid as I remembered the npc druid impressed me and I wanted to do something different. Selected PoTD and off I went. So PoTD is tougher than hard, as in significantly more difficult, and I made some playstyle adjustments for that. Namely I started having Aloth 2nd rank with the summoned staff and he was kicking butt. Lead the party in damage in fact, and could tank fairly well for the durations of veil + mirror image + spirit shield. So I'm rerolling again before I get significantly farther into the game on my druid. I've tried to read up on 'melee wizards' and such but a lot of the info is either really old, ie perception giving deflection, or seems so centered around items that I don't remember or never found. This will be my first playthrough of the expansions. I plan on using either Eder or Pallagina for tanking and Durance for his buffs along with a rotating cast for dialogues. I'm falling down on the stat spread tho. Currently Pale Elf (I'm settled on this race) 19 Might 6 Con 16 Dex 16 Per 18 Int 3 Res Planning around plate armor and summoned weapons exclusively. Am I safe dumping resolve to 3? I plan on using Durance's buffs and Spirit shield to fill in for concentration, I'll just deal with the loss of deflection I guess. Con likewise, wizard's health and endurance bonus is so low compared to the bonus you can get from spells, do I dump this? I really want max int to increase durations for quality of life. Might increases damage done by melee weapons and damage of spells, but does it increase the base damage of summoned weapons? Basically can I 'double-dip' with might on this build? Any super relevant talent picks besides veil/hardened veil I need to be aware of? Sorry for the litany of questions and thanks for any responses.