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I am indeed playing with Community Patch, otherwise I wouldn't really consider Psion. Beguiler seems interesting too, since it's also (theoretically) self sustaining for spellcasting without needing to attack much. A bit more limited in scope, but also less fragile. My idea for Psion was that stacking some deflection (borrowed instinct would help) + having summons on the way from Troubadour would significantly reduce the amount of times we get crit. The appeal really is to have infinite spellcasting that draws on self-replenishing pools- something Beguiler could also provide (and with constant uptime / action economy due to having two different pools to draw from). I just don't know how good it'll be in practice. Also, I watched some clips from that Ultimate run. They used the stealth trick to remain untargetable, and sent out summons with pain link to do the killing. Definitely a neat idea, and reliable for Ultimate stuff, but not the playstyle I'm looking for in a regular solo run.

Hi! After several failed attempts to come up with a viable solo build for PotD upscaled, I gave up and copied Not So Clever Hound's bloodmage build, and it was incredible. There's something about the versatility, power and sheer amount of resources that just makes it so much fun compared to my failed attempts with more straightforward martial combinations. Which brings me to: for my next playthrough, I'm looking at builds that offer a similar package -namely the variety of approaches to fights, and the renewable resource pool. Psion+Troubadour seems like a perfect combination for this, but all the mentions I've seen of it seem to imply that it's a build best played by doing some weird stealth trick to stay hidden during combat - which is just not something I'm interested in. It's possible I misunderstood the posts talking about this. So I'm wondering, is a more direct approach viable with this combo? I don't mind hiding behind walls of summons while I cast -in fact, that sounds quite fun-, I just don't want to base my playthrough on being artificially untargetable through stealth. Also, if anyone has a build they could share (stats, best abilities, general tips) that'd be most welcome. Many thanks in advance!