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I am getting some very weird behavior with this build. First, clicking does not seem to be shortening my reload speed at all anymore - I know that you were entirely correct as I used it in a previous pistol build, but I started using this one after patch 1.1. Second, I seem to be getting the free reload after opening the fight from stealth about 20% of the time, the rest of the time I have to go through a full reload animation.

The next quest, i.e. the second animancer quest, is also gated behind ashen maw (at least it was in my last playthrough). You should be able to continue HTC after ashen maw.

You're correct. Just go Bleakwalker instead of Shieldbearer, and don't use flames. The build is still extremely strong. I don't know if you can solo everything with it, but it is absolutely destroying everything in my current PotD + extra difficulty mod playthrough, even after the patch.

Problem is fixed by using steam's "verify game files"

FYI - I had another post with the same problem. A "verify game files" in steam found one problem, and after doing so the issue is fixed.

Any time I try to enter the map since the patch, the game exits to menu with message "could not load map, exiting to avoid corrupting save". Persists after restart, reboot, and from any direction (including by going directly to a map internal to the brass citadel like the fleet master's office and then exiting).

Wanted to do this without getting cruelty, but didn't have any fast enough CC abilities. It turns out that if you sprint forward after they go red, you can take a few steps to get just close enough to throw a stun bomb which is just barely fast enough to stop the captain's first attack.

Any more detail on those gloves? I can't find them and don't see any in the wiki. Woedeca's look ok though.

I have been trying this out and have some observations and a few questions. First, I must not be very practiced in the art of soloing on PotD because some of the fights at the beginning are incredibly tough. I probably need to make more use of summon tokens and skip some of the fights until later. For now I decided to just use a party because I want to do all the companion quests anyway. Second, what the heck do you do against fire immune stuff? I just got to Arkemyr's and the constructs are all immune and some rooms also have flame elementals... Third, I know that no gloves, boots, or amulets are really that great, but what did you end up using? I would like to track them down sooner than later if there are any good ones hidden in world events, etc. And last, it is in fact really strong after level 7 or so. I do run out of zeal quite quickly - that's the only shortcoming for now.

POTD w/extra difficulty mod, so my totals might be higher overall since enemies have more health (but I didn't do nemnok, vampires, or all exploration). Watcher: 173,897 - 2004/3950 crit/hit - dual pistol monk/ranger using crit talents but purposefully avoiding infinite blunderbus stuff by using pistols. Aloth: 47,779 - 8m18d - Rogue/Wizard buffing self and going melee - . Also took the most damage and got knocked out the most, wonder why... ;-) Maia: 49371.9 - 5m8d - Scout using soulbound arquebus Pallegina - 11,017 - 5m17d - full tank spec, really low damage. Xoti - 5830 - 4m4d - only used early game until her quest was done Tekehu - 21319.9 - 3m11d - druid aoe attacks, also had highest single target damage at 239 Really surprised by how much damage others are getting out of their companions. I wasn't stealth sniping or using a ton of empowers or anything.

I can't parse this: "Konstantin (?) on second floor of the docs as a massuse" What is "the docs", or what map is it on?