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And why does it have a freaking cast time Just exit out of the levelup screen dude

Modwyr is faster, has a good bonus, automatically upgrades its quality, and at max level makes you immune to Intellect afflictions. It's the clear winner.

They were broken in the first game as well

I don't know why you are able to steal some of the best items from shopkeepers. Either offer all of them or none of them. Most of the best items in the game from storekeepers can be stolen

How is that a solution? Once they're targetted they're engaged, and moving prompts a free attack on them

With it equipped you still suffer an Interrupt every time you're hit

Empower is a mistake and a crutch and not necessary at all. None of the per rest abilities from items matters at all, drugs are supplemental, and you should be trying to get through fights without people dying anyways. Scared of traps? There shouldn't be a single trap in the game you get hit by.

I'm also experiencing this, have not had a single non-quest related random encounter

And the good thing about my builds are they involve 0 cheesing or abuse of game mechanics whatsoever. I like to have straight up slugging fights with no stealth cheese, no choke point cheese, no op arcana scrolls, no op alchemy potions. Just a clean build + the right equipments.How do you beat the double Boars, the tigers + Drake fight, and the hordes of skeleton archer/mage in the beginning of the game? I just don't see how one character, regardless of build, with starting equipment and missing item slots tanks four higher level creatures with no strategic use of fight mechanics on PotD By abusing this games silly AI. I cleared them with a lvl 4 ghostheart/Ascendant by using a barrel next to the stairs as a chokepoint where I summoned my bear. Then I focused on charming their heavy hitters while shooting at the wurms. Drake and one wurm was pulled separately by using sparkcrackers from the south edge near the gunpowder barrel, one shot with the Arqeubus on the barrel hurt them badly and they came at me up the stairs. But yeah, without any kind of cheesy tactic I very much doubt that it's even possible. I know it's possible, but the person I was quoting said he didn't abuse chokepoints

They mentioned they are working on adding this

What does this mean exactly? (The expression usually means done correctly.) You are probably thinking of the term 'by the book'

And the good thing about my builds are they involve 0 cheesing or abuse of game mechanics whatsoever. I like to have straight up slugging fights with no stealth cheese, no choke point cheese, no op arcana scrolls, no op alchemy potions. Just a clean build + the right equipments. How do you beat the double Boars, the tigers + Drake fight, and the hordes of skeleton archer/mage in the beginning of the game? I just don't see how one character, regardless of build, with starting equipment and missing item slots tanks four higher level creatures with no strategic use of fight mechanics on PotD

You could've blown their hull by that point, ignore shooting sails

It will direct the spell or center the AoE on the target with the most afflictions

How many blessings do you use and how often do you abuse choke points

I don't think there's much use of combining them as a ranged character, but they work well as a melee using Wizard spells to buff themselves

It might be a bug, but the + penetration (scaling with Survival) of Tanga also applies to your other weapon which is a potent combination for dual wielders

Named NPCs show up with their names but not random NPCs, just their selection circles. I agree it's annoying

Nobody cares about a 3 Raw damage DoT or 20% lash damage or a Chill Fog when scoring a Crit when you can just punch something and kill it before any of that matters. 'Other weapons have abilities' is not really a good reason in this current iteration of gameplay

You address it by not addressing it. You can't make a single change to the game that won't upset somebody. And alienating the player whose build relied on one ability they get in the last 1/3 of the game and who is unwilling to respec is a loss you just have to stomach for the good of the game.

Yes it has never been random

It was a rhetorical question.

That's a ship and a couple uniques, definitely not 'unlimited'

A game is considere too easy if you select normal mode and have the AI win the game for you. Stating it becomes really hard on the hardest difficulty mode is good, but that doesn't mean the game itself is hard. The fact that you have to select level scaling to prevent you from falling asleep during encounters on veteran mode is just dumb. What? That's the whole point of the setting

That's different, where you substitute individual nouns from one language to another. Deadfire is just shoehorned in words at the beginning or end of sentences