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  1. Combined with the findings for the Squid's Grasps Certain Mutiny upgrade, this could potentially be a fun combo by confusing the chanter and charming the whole team for an extra +30% damage bonus + Squid's Grasp bonus - It does however disable abilities and the int debuff will hurt an already short duration, so it's probably in the very niche category.

     

     

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  2. 4 hours ago, Elric Galad said:

    Yep, but will mess with multiple Conjurers. That's why I think the most fun but balanced way would be to enable multiple familiar but go back to normal casting time for them. Would be pretty fun anyway. Familiars aren't that good summon on their own, so with long casting time, it would be ok.

    Oh yeah, that's true! Didn't think about multiple conjurers - usually only test with one 😅

    4 hours ago, Elric Galad said:

    The issue is that I don't like bonus that only benefits your main school. It makes the subclass less interesting IMHO. It suits fluff wise an evoker who is basically a nuker supported by self buff but for the other subclasses I would prefer not. And I prefer to stay a bit closer from the original versions.

    I understand. I'm also on the fence on whether it is too far from the original experience and would be jarring in context of the rest of the game - but generally moving away from the 1/encounter stuff like free action and reflexive mirror and towards something that changes how the class plays a bit more is good!

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    29 minutes ago, Elric Galad said:

    Ah, that's a good find !
    I think I tried it, but somehow I must have done a mistake and concluded it didn't work.
    KW destroyed attack would mess with multiple conjurer I presume...

    Stackable familiar + instacast might be an overkill though, especially with some ressource regen (a tactician will have an easy time flanking everybody with an infinite flood of familiar 🙂 

    But this is really something to consider for Conjurer.
     

    I didn't know that. Must be a glitch. Even with non-modded version, it sounds slightly gamebreaking, especially if one tries to summon in succession multiple different familiars for multipe stats bonus (Familiar isn't only about PL).

    Didn't know about the buff staying either - might be a lot to change for some visual feedback with little mechanical change (besides a very weak summon).

    KW destroy would be with a new unique KW for familiars, so it should avoid destroying other summons/characters 😉

     

    I'm currently working on changing it to a pseudo animal companion (Permanent summon, out of combat bonus which is what I originally though it would be when I read the subclass text - It's not really balanced however and way too good when you can choose the summon).

     

    I really like the idea of rewarding spell usage of your chosen school - like how evocation has a chance to echo, one could make similar bonuses for the each subclass:

    Conjurer could have a chance to summon imps on casting Conjuration spells

    Enchanter could have your free action bonus

    Illusion could either have illusory buffs or something similar to the Eye of Wael random illusion on hit (one per spellcast or low chance to avoid AOE shenanigans)

    Transmuter I'm not so sure about - I always felt that the brute transformation only covered one part of what I usually associate with the Transmutation school.. could be debuffing the enemies or buffing self or allies?

     

  4. Adding on to the rebalancing of wizard subclasses, I've found that you can make the Conjurers familiar independent from other summons by using the "NotSummoned" SummonType instead - only issue is that it allows you to summon more than one familiar (Can be fixed by adding a keyworded destroy attack that triggers on start of casting like the Mage Slayer disruption), but I don't think it's a big issue since the PL bonus doesn't stack anyways.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Phenomenum said:

    Or if we set a short cooldown (a some sort of immunity when effect is cleared), when Brilliant can't be applicated to target

    I've played around quite a bit with cooldown effects back when I wanted to expand on the Black Jacket subclass - it can work, but it's either very obscure to the player or very ugly in the UI - but by any means, it's worth trying multiple fixes to see how it behaves 😃

  6. 5 minutes ago, NotDumbEnough said:

    The spirits' attributes are independent from your own. See:

    Also while you don't have access to them for most of the game Helwalker+Devoted is powerful enough that you can just punch your way through most fights. I would also use Helwalker over Nalpazca as you already have functionally infinite wounds by having allies nuke you or enemies attacking you. Nalpazca is a lot more useful when your build doesn't have infinite healing from Unbending. If you multiclass with a caster you can't just stand there and let enemies have at you in the same way as a fighter. Your fists will also be much weaker early on.

    Damn, would have been nice to create extra fragile summons..

    It's true that the monk multiclass will be strong throughout the whole game anyways, just a long time to wait for the souls combo! Yeah, Nalpazca would mainly be for spamming summons with a glass cannon build that couldn't handle being nuked itself (and thus needing an alternative way to generate wounds) but knowing that duplicate HP is independent from your own certainly makes this idea less interesting.

    Sage builds (especially with Helwalker) are still quite strong, you just won't be using your fists that much 😉

     

  7. Surprised no-one has responded to this yet, sounds like a fun build (I've mainly heard of Essential Phantom or Shroud of the Phantasm shenanigans, but at will 2x summons seems good if you metagame a bit to exploit it). Do you know whether the health of your duplicates are affected by your own character stats?

    Personally going with the suicide build, I would consider mixing Helwalker (for the Might bonus to spells) or Nalpazca (for wound generation - more spamming of Dichotomous Soul) with a caster - this would be to reduce constitution and other defensive stats of your character (and thus summons?) and simultaneously join in on nuking your own summons for those lovely Knockout effects, does anyone know whether revive on KO effects also work?

    Of course the most important thing to note is that Dichotomous Soul is a power level 7 ability - so you will spend a good part of the game without the keystone of your build.

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  8. Sorry, it seems that most people on the forums prefer RTwP, I've been quite hesitant towards turn-based myself as there is no way to change between the two modes and I can see some later battles becoming very tedious in turn-based. I have very little experience with turn-based, so take this with a grain of salt.

    1. Cipher: It seems that the general consensus is that cipher runs in to action economy issues in turn-based as they need to attack to generate resources and can't attack if they choose to cast spells, this issue can partly be bypassed by the Psion subclass which generates focus passively. As for single classing, a few of the higher level cipher powers are a lot less useful in turn-based (Time parasite and defensive mindweb even more than usual). An ascendant or beguiler could also work, but is more effective in RTwP.

    1. I believe wizard is still very good in turn-based, single classing will work great and martial builds with monk, fighter, or rogue should also be quite alright with free action self-buffing and citzal's lance. Multiclassing either with chanter will give access to strong summons that will make the game significantly easier.

    2. Dex and action/recovery speed definetely seems less important in turn-based (and thus heavy armor is better), the exception being casters where high action speed will leave less time where you are vulnerable to interruption. I believe the range for grazes has been expanded quite a lot, so one could keep that in mind for perception and resolve/defense. Free actions are quite powerful, and the black jacket subclass is also better now due to this.

    3. I have no idea.

    4. Last I heard, the console ports are quite awfully ported. As an extra bonus, the PC version allows for great mods like the Community Patch and Balance Polishing mod if that is your thing.

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  9. 9 hours ago, Boeroer said:

    To be honest: if an upgrade makes it so that I can use the ability against less foes than before (there are a lot of creatures that are immune to disease) I wouldn't pick it. 

     

    Would it be possible to only KW the sicken effect, the upgrade would then give universally useful dual damage type and circumstantial secondary debuff?

  10. 44 minutes ago, Elric Galad said:

    But how much is it for Wurms ? (that is a good basis)

    The desert wurm hatchling is +5 vs ground attacks on the wearer, but pets are generally all over the place when it comes to how helpful the effect is if you ask me.

    Edit: Yeah, +10 would probably be noticeable and make the sub-race more appealing (especially against Druids and Wizards?)

  11. 1 minute ago, Elric Galad said:

    How much is the bonus exactly ? 

    That is mainly what I've been having issues with, as defense-bonus have increasing returns from what I've heard, a small bonus of +5 or +8 vs ground attacks might not seem like much, but could potentially be very good or completely insignificant. A percentile hit-to-graze or miss (like a defensive version of Boreal Dwarf) might be more controllable? Once again, I feel that I don't know enough about Deadfire mechanics to safely throw out a number.

  12. Do you have any plans as to buffing the Island Aumaua racial? I was considering just cobbling together a small mod of my own - in keeping with the immunity towards environmental effects, a small defense bonus against ground effects (like the desert wurm hatchling) could be fitting, but it's hard to find the sweet-spot between useless and overpowered.

     

    I apologize if this ends up double-posting, I'm not sure if the first comment went through, was rejected or simply lost 😬

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