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Wael's rod does a good amount of damage and can generate extra Focus through AoE Blast. Other than that, I'm not so sure.

I feel you. I'm considering changing my Cipher/Ghost Heart to Cipher/Devoted for the same reason (plus, those unique war bows are really spicy). The pet eats into way too many of your ability points (points that could be used for powerful afflictions, CC, and such) while you can skimp out on Fighter's melee abilities. Losing out on Marksman won't be a big deal with the accuracy/deflection stance; Tactical Barrage can easily replace Marked for The Hunt. Edit: It's also humorous how a Swashbuckler is better at range than Ranger.

About two or three hours after reaching Neketaka, Eder and Xoti had a falling out with Eder telling her they shouldn't speak to each other anymore. Puzzling because at no point did their relationship take a hit: every dialogue and decision was positive for both.

Good point. I often wondered if Arcanum's real-time combat setting was shoe-horned in because of Diablo 2's huge success. The game also shipped with rudimentary multiplayer (which I'm not sure ever worked).

The import feature fiasco wrecked my hype for this game. I should've been playing it all weekend, but there's no point since I'll just have to restart anyways.

If you want to play around with Howler a bit, you can recruit Konstanten in Queen's Berth.

Cipher/Ghost Heart, Beguiler/Ghost Heart, Ascendant/Ghost Heart. It's driving me nuts.

Sounds really promising. Do you know Sneak Attack's max bonus for multiclass?

iirc, attribute bonuses stack, but there are fewer sources for them.

Looking at building/buying a new PC while moths wistfully flutter out of my wallet.

What was the answer? I made a new character last night, and I saw the Blessings of Berath points on the screen when I was choosing difficulty level, but I didn't see an option to spend the points (I remember clicking on the name to see what would happen). Do you only get to spend them during character creation? Click on the little sphere on that screen and it opens a selection window.

Kinda wish we could take a smaller, but mutually exclusive attribute boost. When they announced the blessings a long time ago, I figured it would be 3-5 points on character creation.

I'm about 8 hours in (level 6) and have reached Nekataka but I'm struggling to find any hunting or war bows beyond vanilla quality. Meanwhile, most of my companions are decked out in fine gear along with a handful of uniques. Any tips on finding a decent bow?

I'm tempted to get a new PC for Deadfire since I built my current rig five years ago and it's showing its age. But from what some high-end users have experienced, it seems like a crapshoot at the moment.

The +attribute bonus is amazing. I want to try to earn enough to get that one by the time the import bugs are fixed, so I can use it on my imported character. Same. I'm just achievement hunting until they hammer out the bugs.

Meh. Until the import feature is fixed, it feels like it's 1993 and I'm just renting a NES or SNES game - getting so far, but knowing I won't be able to finish it and will have to start over. For now I'm working on achievements so my Watcher in limbo can have a better start. I was hesitant to use Berath's Blessing so soon, but after these issues, I just don't care now.

You don't need to finish the game to use the blessings, either, which is really nice when restarting.

I'm on the lower end of the tech spectrum, but I get the same issues: 30fps runs well with other graphics settings maxed, but after an hour or two, the fps drops considerably and panning the camera results in frequent micro stutters that look like tearing. Changing stuff like lighting or shadows makes very little difference. Windows 7 Ultimate i5-3300 @ 3.00 ghz 8 GB RAM AM Radeon HD 7800

I had the same problem last night about 2 hours in. I totally think it's the new "Smart Camera." Anyway, I never turned it off and just rebooted the game/Steam client. Everything was fine after that for another 2 or so hours when I quit. I'm sure you were joking, but spending money right now on PC parts is literally insane. Your best bet and cheapest bet, is to wait for a patch or two within the next few weeks/month. These major issues will get ironed out. Yeah. I should've built a new PC back in October/November, but done is done. Hopefully my old girl can keep soldiering on until prices go down.

My FPS goes from phenomenal to garbage in about an hour due to stuttering and supposed memory leaks - moving the camera, especially on the world map, makes it look like the screen is tearing even with vsync on. Changing the graphics settings makes zero difference. I really didn't want to have to get a new PC just yet since costs have skyrocketed this year, but it seems that may be my only choice.

I'm having the exact same issues. Exterior environments are clunky and on board ship battles are virtually unplayable. Will try disabling telemetry tomorrow.

My import is borked to not have Vela appear, but when I make a similar history, I can't tell Berath about my allegiance to Galawain. Frustrating.

Vela isn't showing up for me with my import. Disappointing since I'm taking time off work this week. Edit: I'm having the exact situation as you: looks like it's either pledge to Galawain or get Vela. Sad day.

I scheduled the 10th and 11th off work so I'll download it on release and start playing on the 9th.

Actually it will be amazing for Beckoner since they tend to have a larger number of weaker creatures so the extra penetration may be just what they need to break a DR threshold. Throw in some solid, non-affliction Cipher debuffs like Body Attunement and you've got a nice sub-squad for dealing with larger enemies.