DmC298

As many have mentioned, I got a fight between Xoti and Pallegina early. The moment after I walked out of the hallway after recruiting Pallegina, Xoti yells "I've HAD IT with you!" and my eyebrows nearly shot off my face. Xoti is definitely less insane when you go down the romance route and have her give souls to the animancers, but she will always have some fixation with death as part of her religion.

Also seconding this question. I'm not sure if we have enough info to do the math on this (not in the beta, and I haven't seen numbers on Soul Annihilation yet)

Thanks. I figure that I will move a couple resolve points into perception for dialogue purposes. Was also not aware of rooting pain. Does Swift Flurry / multi-attack bonus make up for moving a few points from dex? It looks to me like Lightning Fists is more reliable in a majority of situations but I'm looking to maximize number of attacks too.

I'm new to theorycrafting but I thought there could be some cool synergies with a Shattered Pillar / Soul Blade combo. I'm not in the beta, but here's my concept: I would basically try to leverage Swift Strikes --> Swift Flurry plus crit conversion passives plus Hearth Orlan to build resources as fast as possible and just repeatedly slam down Soul Annihilations. There are also a fair number of crit-enhancing passives in both trees, as well as penetration bonuses. For weapons I would do unarmed / rapiers. My questions are: 1. What would a good stat spread look like for this build? 2. What cipher spells would be helpful for this? Is it worth taking shred spells (which compete with Soul Annihilation)? Or more expensive CC? 3. Any other issues with this idea? Thanks.