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I had a lot of fun with sage (helwalker/blood mage) in last solo quasi abandon run. But I will return to him (still part of BoW to do and two megabosses).

Can You share this mod here??

First you have to trigger brilliant from the cloak, you can use rakhan boots for that or let companions hit you. Then start combat , SoT+BDD+buffs etc. Next step- triggering blade cascade from scordeo edge + SoT. Switch to axe with modal on (bleeding cuts), DOT from it is stackable and will kill him. edit, and you need immunity to interrupts (helm + wound) edit2 check the thread , dunehunter killed all megabosses in something like 5 minutes total

If you have the tools and don't have allergy to cheese Xoti can solo him pretty easily. edit. you need axe modal to pull it off

Recovery bonus and gambit.

Tell me that swift flurry doesn't proc reliable 😇

It's two separate rolls, bit less then 50% chance with swift flurry/heartbeat drumming. And with lighting strikes you are stuck with electric lash (pen vs ar). With swift flurry you can alternate damage. And SC monk have WotW that comes with massive acc bonus, with Scordeo edge getting accuracy above 180 with one instance of WotW it's not uncommon. So vote for swift flurry from me( not enough horsepower between ears to pull some math behind it)

Re: regen. Troll belt should heal outside combat.

Brilliant from cipher on Xoti +SoT and BDD, the same on Aloth +buffs and wall of draining. Tank with palla and Eder. Dont kill adds immediatly, Aloth needs some targets for wall. Debuff and nuke it. If you have scordeo edge you can try to proc scordeo with Aloth and slash it into pieces.

There is over 3k in traps if I remember correctly at sandswept ruins. edit. maybe it will help

Got bored with my sage lately so I've tested how to get brilliant from talks with gods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLFPDNzRSA

There are two fights with Oracle. What party?

Try further east.

Pretty sure it still proc from itself(pre 5.0)

Maybe you were in bathhouse before she joined party.

What do you mean "no sneak attack"? No rouge? Or just no attacks from invisibility? Shadowdancer is hard to beat in wrecking havoc in enemy backlines. Move around with escape and spam stunning surge. If you don't want rouge, brawler (for example devoted sabre/monk). With iron wheel /refreshing defences can take a hit and mob stance can trigger swift flurry / heartbeat drumming and vice versa.

Nope.

I' beaten her few days ago and 2nd stage merged into Hauani, after merging all stages splited so it looks like a bug. But still impressive.

Isn't SoT a AoE spell? In theory it should work. Maybe.

Chanter/wiz too. I've tried wall of draining and I had something like 4 or 5 chants( self buffing) running, and bellower PL bonus too😂.

Didn't check that, but if I would have to guess, yes. Visible difference is lack of numbers above head. I am 100% sure it was different before 5.0. I have it on video sage vs ooze.

It looks for me that you have to have health too to receive dmg, so no hanging on 1hp with BDD waiting to trigger. On the plus side enduring dance doesn't stop when you are BDD /1hp and getting hit. Tested it when I gave Xoti run against Dorudugan.

Just bad luck. And a little bit of pausing during buffing.

Yep, Good thing you can pull it off with story companion and items are pretty easily obtainable. I gave Xoti a try but I was unlucky, it took me 6 minutes to trigger scordeo (normal speed), 80sec to take him down. You could shave few seconds on your run with minor avatar (+20% weapon dmg).

But there is nothing secret in that build, without items it's just ordinary contemplative (SoT, BDD, swift flurry, heartbeat drumming, Thunderous Blows, etc. usual stuff).