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After Ashen Maw? Or do I need to Discover Hall of the Unseen as well?

So it's not in the doorway?

If you use swords I'd go w Modwyr for the Int affliction immunity plus stacking action speed. You could also go with a scepter/wand and utilize it's bonuses (Whale of a Wand, Eye of Wael, etc). If you're set on illusions try Eye of Wael and White Witch Mask.

All it really takes is a Druid or two with Charm/Hold Beasts. What's the prob?

When I think Shaman I think Druid.

If they did we'd have an Idiocracy

So I think this absence may follow into the bug category or needs looked at general. It's safe to say most of Serafan's character is predicated on being anti slavery, as he was a slave himself. When you oust Furrante for working with VTC on illegal slave trade, Sera says nothing. Is this a bug or oversight? It's fairly obvious that Serafan should have *some* comment about his former Captain being an illegal slave trader and hanging for it.

Yep you should def try a Cipher/xx.

Yeah I love Palle in combat but I always ditch her for RP purposes (and then create a Goldpact).

In PoE1 they were an extremely rare but extremely powerful form of Delemgan that could petrify at will (using Gaze of the Adragan in fact). They were so nearly fatal to my The Ultimate run (and were fatal to earlier attempts) that I can still remember where they are: level 10 of endless paths, level 15 during the master fight, and then a stupid few random ones in the outdoor areas of act 3. I think they only appeared on PotD as selective upgrades to Delemgans. When solo-ing if you didn't get them down ASAP, they could perpetually heal (moonwell and the druid heal in a close area around them) and petrify on a repeating, cycling timer, which meant that any encounter against them would almost assuredly turn fatal in the long run (due to them constantly keeping all other mobs at high health and repeatedly attempting to hit you with petrify). Wow I remember those enemies actually, and they were quite terrifying. Is there an Adragan in the Poko Kohara ruins? There's a though fight there with a Delemgam who is named, so maybe it's a superior version.

+1 And you could add Amira's Wing or Rod of the Deep Hunter for a ranged weapon. Personally I'd go with the Wael subclass. As another poster said, Eothos and Lifegiver are a bit redundant. You get some really good defensive spells from Wael and Gaze of the Adragan as your last spell. (Seriously tho, wth is an 'Adragan'? Lol). With Thicket Green you get PL bonuses to almost all your spells and for damage can focus on Plant spells, which have some variety. One thing I'm trying out is mixing in Chromostaff on my Wael/Lifegiver, as there are some good Druid elemental spells like Fire Bug and Sunlance.

Do the Monk hand to hand bonuses apply to shifter form?

They listened to fan feedback way too much about the main and companion quests, ironically two major weak spots in PoE2. I find the combat and pacing between fights to be tremendously better, tho, making PoE2 more playable. And ofcourse we have Nemnok. Currently doing his quest and his dialogue and voice are hilarious.

Lame!

Re: Diadre Agreed, but to be fair you skip it pretty quickly. Also maybe it's a dev team learning the ropes. I don't know if the same team did BoW and FS but the writing is outstanding there. There is more patience in BoW, characters willing to converse more and ofcourse Rym being an ass. FS had so many eery and darkly funny parts. Can't wait to jump back in.

If you dual Tekehu make sure someone has 15 Arcana for Greater Maelstrom (maybe Aloth?). At least on Veteran it seems to be the best nuke. A thought bout Xoti Priest - her high level spells blow so I'd think about multi classing or going Monk.

I beat him with tons of Greater Maelstrom/Meteor Shower scrolls and keeping my party to the right side.

Unfortunately it's only single target.

...why are you returning to the hub? you can repair whenever you need. is it just that you're out of gold? Out of gold during the later parts of BoW. It worked out fine, some of the BoW gear broke but it added to the adventure of the story. I did lose Whispers of the Endless Paths and Thundercrack tho

To be fair, Xoti is not innocent of such descriptors either. I recall the game being pretty insistent on her rosy cheeks when I first met her in my playthrough. Yeah I don't even use her much after her quest.

Out of BoW and FS, I thought FS was harder. It certainly tested my decked out lvl 20 party. For BoW I had the benefit of knowing the three main skill checks to get one of the diplomatic solutions. That Dragon fight can be a pain esp if you have to repeat it.

The BoW and FS are exceptionally done, much better written and creative than the main game. I love the options you have for dealing with the Dragon in BoW and FS is a darkly funny Lovecraftian dream. The spore colony makes it so worthwhile and had me in stitches. I may actually ask Wael to let them grow haha.

Fixed

You convince an undead dragon to fight a God. *brushes shoulders off*