Constentin Lévine

But not Maelstrom? 🤔 Symbols (tiers 8, so 2 regular casts) deal at the base 245-350 in a medium AoE +affliction or buff. They are foe-only. Their duration scale with a similar influence for their damage : +50% base pulses per +10 int (7 at 10int, 11 at 20int (385-550 "base"damage), 21 at 35int(735-1050 "base"damage)) I know you are speaking about AoERandom but it is not out of subject. I dont really understand why do you want to nerf Maelstrom but recommand some other OP spells (and also why do you tweak some powerful stuffs to make them OP but that is out of subject). To make them equivalent maybe? This is not a reproach but a simple question.

Also for Clear Out, even if you miss with the first Fortitude roll, the AoE attack is launched. So morning Star is not optimale : the attack is a Primary attack using a melee weapon only for the first hit (fortitude). The AoE is also a Primary Attack but using the first weapon slot (no matter the weapon range). Here, a Ranger-Fighter with Xefa Empirical Explication - Frostfall (and avenging storm) on a Clear Out (first roll with melee miss because Out of Range):

Blade Turning redirect all melee attack including abilities, and some spells : if you are into a wall of Flame or a wall of Many Color, you are not affected by these per 1s attacks and redirect them to a closer enemy (or ally). An enemy wit Cloak of Death or Piercing Sigil will take is own reliatation when attacking him with Turning Blade!

I thought you spoke about AoE size, not AoE radius ( sorry I was tired, didnt think to look into the in-game spell description and confused the radius and the size (diameter) !

Superposed : the 4m range limit to the Animal Companion invocation (around the character on the left), and the Leap AoE without int bonus (int never influe on the base AoE but the "friendly" one , at less positively) (BlastSize : Medium). It is the same AoE (also for the "friendly" supplement from int which I removed for clarity) for Leap, Eye Strike, Secret Horrors, etc. So I really dont know what does mean the Blast Radius Override you mention. BlastSize String (BlastSize) Preset values for blast size. Characters within this distance will be affected by the attack. "Medium" BlastRadiusOverride Single Overide raidus for blast size value. from https://eternity.obsidian.net/game-data-formats/components#statuseffectcomponent.

The Blast Radius Override is not the real radius I think, that is determinate by the Blast Size (medium mean 4m I think, there are some same Blast Size with different Radius Override like Eyestrike (medium, override 5), Mental Binding (medium, override 2), Secret Horror (medium, override 0). For Magran's Might, the Blast Size is Override, with an override : 0.5, since only the target is concerned. I dont know how that work, but Eyestrike is not larger than Secret Horror. Concerning Great Maelstrom, the Pulse Aoe (freeze/crush) is Large (like the Whiting Wind) and the other AoE (fire/shock) is Medium, like Leap (Blast Size Medium, blast radius override 2.5). There is 4m between Birta and me, for example. Great Maelstrom is bigger.

This is an upgrade from Flame of Devotion for Pallegina, added in the Community Patch (the Extra mod) : Added Vielo Vidorio ability as third FoD upgrade option for Pallegina. Vielo Vidorio has +20% Burn Damage bonus and provides -20% Recovery Time in 5m AoE for 5s

They stack, they are not the same effect.

Also, the Maia's armor is nice (-20% reload time for Spearcaster). Since you invest in Arcana, the scroll of Avenging Storm work very well with this weapon and your acc : Forceful Impact, the missiles from Arcane Bolts, Pinning and even the ability Skewer bounce with Driving Flight. Forceful Impact and Pinning dont deal damage but as weapon effect, they proc Avenging Storm. They can proc themself their effects, with a new bounce (The missiles cant, they are auto-hit and proc on crit). The scroll is expensive but for fight with a lot of enemies, maybe you will love this thing.

And about Azure Blade (Wrong Place Wrong Time, 25% chance to interrupt on any hit), that work only when there is 3 allies within 2m from self and when the target is alone (also 2m further away their allies). The interrupt is a melee attack (vs fortitude) and proc Avenging Storm.

In vanilla game (not BPM) they dont stack, like potion. Passive bonus always stack! Also, most of the effects from weapon (or equipment) dont stack with themselves, ex : if you have 2 Cadhu Scalth with, on each, Soul Smite, and strike the same enemy with these abilities then the duration of the effect is refreshed. In other case, with one shield with Soul Smite and another one with Soul Strike, these two effects are applied : (With the good classe and the good equipment/potion/bonus, Soul Smite/ Soul Strike can cause -35all defenses (-70 with two shields on the same character). The attack is vs. Will).

It is great for Helwalker, didnt know that (I always pick FF or Nalpazca (I found a trick to stay bloodied with this last)). If you have 2 Willbreakers via Import, and use them on your two weapon's slots, each of them proc their own debuffs. In the case you havent Phantom or Illusions on your character! (this why I said /weapon).

Because all active bonus and malus never stack together, things like Duality of Mortal Presence (+10 int) and Enlightened Agony (smart) dont give +15 int but +10. Miasma of Dual-Mindedness (-10 int, per and res) and correspondant affliction give also -10 for the stat. But equipment and weapon's bonus and malus are passives (like Echoing Horror as pointed by @Elric Galad) and stack with active bonus (but not with the same active bonus). For example, Blind an enemy with Chilling Grave (grave calling) while he is Miasmed make him loose -15 Per (-15acc and -30 reflex). In other hand, Chill Fog instead of Chilling Grave and Miasma make him loose -10 Per (actives dont stack). Tenacious from Resounding Call and Helwalker +10 might give +15 might, but only +10 might with Thunderous Blows.( see in first comment) Chanter's invocation Each Kill Fed His Fury stack in the same way Duality of Mortal Presence etc since it is not Inspiration but only +5stats. In picture, with a hired druid with every tiers 3 inspirations from the Least Unstable Coil, under the Each Kill... effect, and with Engoliero do Espirs (Ravenous Soul Devourer): so +13 might, +13con, +8dex, +5per, +5int, +10res + other bonus from equipment (out of fight : Each Kill and Least Unstable Coil prolonged, Soul Devourer have no limit of time). Here, the 75 fortitude of Birta is reduced by The Long Night (chant are not passive) for -10 (weakened) and -4 (-2might), and by Daze from Spearcaster (-10). With regular Daze (I mean by spell or ability) instead of from forceful Impact, the -2might would have been overrided by the affliction. That work also with, for example, the Keeper of the Flame aroma (-8will from weapon) and Arkemyr's Dazzling Lights (-10will). Combined with Barb of Condemnation (-10 all defenses*), Miasma (-10int, -10res>> -40will), Ryngrim's Enervating Terror from the Whitewitch's Mask (Terrified, -10will) , Sweep you off (Street Sweeper, confused >-10will) and on top Ngati's Tusk aura (Hunter of Hunter, -4 all defenses, up to max at -12 or -13, so env.10), the enemy Will is now decreased by 98. It is more with Retentless (The willbreaker, -3will on hit with 5 stack/weapon). *-10 all defense is not the same effect than -10 will, they stack. Same for bonus (Circle of Protection +15 all defenses stack with Shields for the Faithful +30deflection). This topic is made because stacking rules are not really explicit in-game, and otherwise they are easy to understand with some practice.

Yes it was also returned in comments, but I cant edit the topic anymore (it is not possible after some weeks past). When I tested Orbit Return, I had Scordeo's Edge in offhand so I didnt realize at the moment.

This is why I wrote : I dont think modding the ability is a solution, I mean modding Screaming Soul for making the spell to work as intended by the description is good, but for alterate the effect is an other thing. About GM, as a "skip combat" button or "last hope" spell, the spell work. Like @patronkussaid before : "I don't think Maelstrom needs changes, it's a bit overtuned but I think the druid kit is designed with it in mind power budget wise. I wouldn't change it and leave people like myself who aren't the biggest fans of it to decide for themselves whether they'd like to use it or not. I'll compare it to BDD, a spell that is pretty broken but I wouldn't change it, instead I'll just limit my usage of it and only use it in absolutely necassary dire scenarios. "

Yes this is why this weapon is so good for Whirling Strikes, Whispers of the Wind or SC cipher (Shared Nightmare) : https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/128831-class-build-the-high-dispersed-tide/

Well, are you suggesting Wizards are fragile 🙂 ????? Maybe @patronkusdont know about Temporal Cocoon 😮 About GM, the thing is there is 2 pulse effects : the first is Freeze/Crush and the second is Fire/Shock. Like for Storm Rune (thundercrack Pistol pulse ability), the first (freeze/crush) pulse per3s for 6s, with one attack per target in the AoE. This attack proc (or : is completed, I dont really know) the second attack (Fire/Shock), also pulse for 6s, but with 6 attacks at random per 3s. My guess is every proc from the first pulse could proc the second pulse? Storm of Holy Fire, Meteor Shower etc proc only a pulse like the second one : only the duration and the number of random hit per pulse change (Meteor Shower trigger a burn DoT on hit on top, and have 16 hit at random per pulse).

Judge (Magistrate's Cudgel) +10 accuracy bonus applied by Magistrate's Cudgel hit work on any attack (spells ect) at the condition to have the weapon equipped. Dont need to Soulbound however.

Yes, by repeating casting before the effect is over. Dispersed Suffering work on skelies kill, and from any weapon kill ( Thunderous Report for example, with Frostfall in the other hand, proc potentially a lot of Dispersed Suffering attack (vs will)) Spamming FF but with a very short Enfeebled effect, because the affliction is refreshed when applyed a second time. When this effect is over (Enfeebled), a new Enfeebled effect cause a new +50% of the duration, but not only the current duration (the totale duration since the prolonged effect began, taking ito account how many time it was refreshed too : I dont know if I am clear). If you want, I made builds based on Dispersed Suffering and an other based on Enfeebled (not for copy the builds, I made them only for sharing these powerful discovering)

X is the first value 1., listed as "concelhault's Crushing Doom". the 15s duration is affected by int and PL but not from crit since it is an auto-hit. This effect can be refreshed by another casting of the spell, or Enfeebled (especially with the Low-Int FF monk technic) or Dispersed Suffering. The two other hostile effects are 2. the %damage and 3. the +xacc for the spell. They are triggered by the pulses (every 3s during the first effect) that is vs deflection. They also are affected by Int and Pl but also crit (15s base too). This is not these effects you refresh with a new cast during the spell effect. The first effect end by an immunity (for the effects 2 and 3) to the target, that mean if the spell end (I mean the first effect), all the spell is over (2. and 3. too).

Active effects (inspirations, monk Dualities, food, drugs, potions, etc) doesnt stack. It is a general rule working for everythink, like PL (Acute/Brilliant and the Potion of elevation dont give +3pl but +2). They stack with passive effects, from items, weapons, etc. All passives stack excepted with identical active or passive ( ex : the +50deflection from Escape (cape of evasion) stack with everythink excepted Escape from Rogue or priest). Like said by @dgray62there is some tricks about active effects, and you can find the order (drugs) in the topic about Ultimate part2 I think. Tomorrow I will make a post about it (not intended by the way!)

But Great Maelstrom is more like a "skip combat" button for regular fights, it is not like using a combination of spells to win the fight. With Entropy wich doesnt break on pure DoT spells, or with CC spells, the SC Druid is cheesy too but with an other taste. More sadistic maybe 😮 but malso more strategic. Excepted 2 or 3 times when several mobs was like annoying for my purpose, I never used Great Maelstrom, in over than 3500h. And for testing some stuffs of course.

In the same way, refreshing something like Arcane Reflection only affect the duration, not the taken-spell account . So it is not a good idea.

By the way, I finally understand how that work : It is not "enemy confuse now enemies on hit" >> his enemies? our enemies? who knows, but striking an ally or an enemy with perplexing sap make them all the time confusing the -Allies of the Rogue- on hit. The only way to turn the ability at the advantage is to make the rogue dominated or charmed by enemies (only) and then, even if the charm effect is cleared, the ally or enemy under the Perplexing Sap status confuse now the -Enemies of the Rogue-. I think the problem into the code is the "boolean friend etc" is not concerning the target but the rogue. Or maybe the ability work as intended, namely to make perplexe and confuse the player, I dont know. That said, Infestation of Maggots is nice, especially vs group of mobs who take a new raw DoT layer.

And, contrarly to the other abilities in the list, doesnt need to target someone to work!