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Well as you said the Community Patch Soul Mind change is not the base game. The PL scaling is good to know, effectively it sounds like if you balance for cast time you can just chain out spells indefinitely. I wonder how it works with something like Time Parasite?

Looking to do another run with BPM on POTD Upscaled. Last run I did I used a Beguiler and liked it a lot, very much enjoyed the chain casting to build lots of focus without attacking at all. Psion looked neat in the base game but just doesn't work in practice. I read BPM makes it much more viable but something I am very curious about is the Focus gain. Ideally I'd like to do Single Class Psion but the big thing for me is the Focus gain. How much Focus do you generate as a Psion, and moreover, when you pair it with features like The Complete Self can you just go with effectively a pure casting Cipher as Psion, similar to Beguiler?

Did you find a place for Light of Pure Zeal (the PL 9 nova move)?

I personally am a big stickler for classes. I think they make an excellent differentiation between experiences and target fantasies the game is trying to present. Avowed's latest trailer showcased some gameplay and in that gameplay it appears to me that the game will not have classes. I could be wrong, but what it looks like is they will have some type of skill system not unlike Divinity or Skyrim and you can allocate or develop your desired skills as your progress. For instance in the trailer we saw a variety of magic types and also several characters using weapons. The magic types could be seperated across skills (Maybe Arcane, Divine, Primal and Cipher casting for the Wizard, Priest, Druid, Cipher carryover) and for the weapon users a number of "abilities" were showcased. I say abilities as it was more than just swinging a weapon around, we saw things like a shield charge, boot to the chest, some type of ground slam etc. This makes me think these will be unlockable abilities you can specialise into and possibly locked behind certain weapon types or fighting styles. This is all speculation but I am curious to if other people think Avowed will have classes or not. To me it seems like it won't but who's to say.

The druid sounds super interesting! For POE 2 what classes/multiclasses do you like or would be interested in doing?

Looking to maybe do a fighter for the first time and someone raised an interesting idea. Fighters are in the highest ACC group in the game and can also use Discipline Barrage for +20. Their high accuracy carries over to spells they cast from Spellbinds (and maybe Scrolls too?) so makes them interesting candiates as pseudo spellcasters. Using items like White Crest Armor, Bittercut, Belt of the Royal Deadfire Canoneer or the Flames of Fair Rhain is an interesting way to get some spells like Fireball, Torrent of Flame and others but what are some additional interesting options?

Want to run through the game again with three characters. Am looking for some advice on which three to go with. I think breaking them down I'd like the following: High Micro (Something like a priest or wizard who needs to be babysit to have maximum effectiveness) Tank (Mostly to group enemies up) Low Micro (Something that can sort of be set and forget so I can focus on the High Micro character) Also fairly partial towards Druid, don't know why but I really like that class for some reason. Also probably wanna cap Lore at maybe 4 or 6 since some of the higher tier scrolls (cough cough Maelstrom Scrolls) are outstandingly strong. Currently I think maybe Druid, Fighter, Chanter might be good. Or something like Druid, Paladin, Chanter? Would be curious to see if anyone else has had some experience with trio runs.

Followed these videos as they were releasing, thanks for the build! Any current plans for another playthrough?

I did not know Avenging Storm and Carnage work together. That is very very interesting and sure to be powerful!

Thanks for clarifying. Unfamiliar with whats easy/hard to change so can understand your decisions.

Sure, I just find that it makes the ability very hard to find it's spot to shine when it's actively messing with your other party members.

Druids are potent damage dealers through either their spells or through spiritshift. They can focus on lightning damage with their spells, an implement stell build focusing on Rot Skulls, a spiritshift build focusing on single target damage or a combination of these things. When it comes to dealing damage, what is the best setup for druid?

Nature's Terror should be Foe Only. Infestation of Maggots AOE should be big (like in POE 2)

Damn, that is a shame. It definitely would feel better if these could be accessed from the pool of memories, you could also possibly attach a reward structure after each battle so you could do a 1-20 proggression with it. You can achieve a similar effect through the console but it definitely is not as user friendly or intuitive.

Agree with the Blessing of Wael change, it's very potent right now and since you can have all 3 maluses applied at once it compounds it's effect a lot. I think -5 PL is a bit extreme (I know that's what it is in vanilla but it still felt very bad), I might suggest -3 instead so is not so severe.