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It's easy to spot amateurish writing - 1) tell don't show 2) adjectives and adverbs, oh my! Lmao at 'prettily'. Let the reader come to that conclusion, don't cram it down his/her throat (forcefully - see, do you really need to add that adverb?).

So I think for Abydons challenge to be more enjoyable there has to be an option to repair gear with materials. It's impossible to repair gear only with Gold in situations where you can't travel back to the hub, like in the Beast of Winter. And really, what purpose does Gold serve while dungeon diving? You should be able to pay blacksmiths to repair with gold otherwise repair with tier 1/2 materials. Honestly I may be running around naked in the cold by the end of Beast of Winter.

So there is still the Day 1 release bug where items no longer slotted are providing benefits. I don't know how hard it is to remedy this, but like I said it's been around since Day 1. For example, my MC and Aloth both benefit from A Whale of a Wand abilities. I'm wondering if you can completely exploit this by shuffling gear around? It's really baffling to me that this has not been remedied since release. It's really hurting my play sessions bc some chars have a bunch of random bonuses and abilities they shouldn't have.

The DLCs are particularly well written.

Swashbuckler - vanilla Fighter and Rogue

Least we can all agree that Haunting Chains is garbo, everything considered.

Can we at least get commas?

I agree about Amira's Roost. Great fight. That ring is top tier too!

And I think that's to Deadfire's credit. The class balance.

What roles does a Soulblade Paladin play? Sounds too jack of all trades. No way its #1

Boeroer, I'm the Joker to your Batman. Secretly, we enjoy each other

Is this a turnbased thing? Nah there was a funny and beneficial bug that allowed chars to move quickly under stealth. I assume this bug was introduced trying to fix it.

I will not being buy an Obs game day 1 or year 1 until I see better QA. Have you played Pillars 2? It's still a buggy mess with a new bug introduced recently that messes up BASIC MOVEMENT. I will eventually support them as I do believe they make quality games.

The most egregious is Maia not attacking you when you slaughter the entire Brass Citadel after a certain discussion post-Maw. That should be changed. Also how does Serafan react if you help the slavers? I assume he should attack or leave.

In all fairness, that's not what he said tho. Saying, what do you know? And then you're right, is contradictory and weird. Its comical and confusing and being called out as such. When he says "What do you know?" it means something like "Well, how about that?" or "Well, that's surprising." It isn't really contradictory, but the reading makes it sound like he may have literally meant "What do you (as in, the guy he just shot) know?" In the last sentence, I meant 'literally' literally (sigh - maybe someday people will stop using 'literally' when they don't mean it and we can go back to just using it without clarification ). I think it's the opposite of what you said. He's meant to say, 'Hey, wadda ya know?' As in you're right, surprise, but it comes off like, hey you don't know, and then contradicts with him then saying he's right. I just played the part recently and this topic helped me understand why it irked me.

Lmao I'm currently playing #60. Lifegiver/Priest of Wael...doesn't seem that low. I'd rank Trickster top 5 certainly top 10, over Mindstalker (which I've played like 3 dif variants).

Brevity is the soul of wit

In PoE1 it was simply OP with a paralyzing AoE. What don't you like about it in Deadfire? Fast cast and ability to paralyze and immobilize tough foes is pretty damn good for a low level spell.

On a side note, Immunity to Con afflictions is really handy on Bardatto's Luxury. I give it Eder and pepper the area with friendly Weakening/Sickening spells.

It's clear Obs has a lot of talent and maybe got stretched thin. If I could have one wish for PoE3 it would be less bugs.

Whitespaces?

Haha well said.

Ah yes, the Intelligent Barb I suppose one can be sophisticated and savage.

The comparison is irrelevant. Back onto your pt...a narrator should describe things that a reader or viewer can't obviously see or infer for themselves. Like a backstory. Or an off the screen act. Or even what someone is thinking. Narrating a character's actions standing in front of you is redundant, and even more confusing when he/she isn't even doing what the narrator says. It goes back to show don't tell, writing 101.

Better still to make Tekehu wear it. Ha don't know if my eyes could take that!