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Badgradr's Barricade or Little Savior if you need defense and no ACC penalty.

Well, Tacan are a population, while Nalpazca are a monk order

Wait for his quest

Vithrack Brain: Sold by Cartugo in Ondra's Gift (1×). Sold by Curio Shopkeeper in Curio Shop, Caed Nua (1-3×). Sold by Bledha in Elms' Reach (5×). [WM2] Sold by Hamond in Hamond's Emporium, Stalwart Village (1-3×). Ruby: Sold by Curnd in Ondra's Gift (5×). Sold by Alarhî in Hearthsong Market, Hearthsong (2-4×). Sold by Iŵen in Hearthsong Market, Hearthsong (2-4×). [WM2] Sold by Hamond in Hamond's Emporium, Stalwart Village (1×). About monk as a tank, I totaly agree with @Boeroer: not only it is good for a monk to be a tank (he needs wounds after all) but he is wonderful as one foe killer and he has plenty of disabling abilities to use ;)

I'm playing Deadfire, now I'm going to decide wether to start another run with a modded class, play the ultimate on PoE1 and 2 or move to other games. BG1 and BG2 are the spiritual ancestors of PoE, you know: isometric, party, fantasy, real time with pause, but above all the companion deep characterization is the similar feature that "lives" in Poe1 as it was "born" in BG.

I've just finished a Wildrhymer run and I've to say that "The Thunder Rolled Like Waves on Black Seas" has saved my back sometimes, also at late levels

It is a misunderstanding: it is not a 5% slash lash, but a 5% buff to any melee slash damage

WM is ok for a party of level 8, better 9/10 I guess. Stay away from Crägholdt Bluffs until at least level 12 A part from what Boeroer said, that is all right as usual, a Cipher can be useful also to buff party at (very) higher levels

No, because many people play with "outdated" hardware and issues come for "newer" devices... I'm sad I can't give you further help.

I think it is related to AMD CPU/GPU. Have you tried to disable all graphic enhancements in settings and / or set graphic level to low?

Yes. EVERY effect that shortens action time and/or increases speed action is ALWAYS convenient. It should be so. Thus, a normal duration of 6 seconds and linger of 3 seconds is 9 seconds and give 3 hits, anyway IIRC there is always an "added" tick and therefore it should hit 4 times. It is good also if you have 2 (or 3, or 4, or...) chanters, with effects applied on damage and on DoT (i.e. Combusting Wounds) and if you have some effects such as heal on damage dealt etc... In Deadfire it is far better because heal is "incorporated" Too good early levels, it's a pity it doesn't scale the following levels.

Hi, I'm a little late but I agree that chanters can be played as tanker, off-tank, ranged, healer, buffer and in a loto of other ways Kana Rua lends himself to be played as ranged, but you can find Kana's builds as melee tanker and the popular way to build a chanter in PoE1 is the tank /off-tank with low/min DEX. In both ways, ranged or tanker/off-tank, Kana is viable, effective and feasible. No issues as you build a companion, until he perform as you wish and you have fun

Yes, if you have two CoB you can do the trick, but I think there is only one of it in game, if you wanna two you need to get the second via console. Indeed a great item with 10 charges, good summons, +2 INT e +5 ACC versus vessels.

Aren't you a rogue? Do you wanna kill a megaboss via cheese? Do you wanna rid of Guardian of Ukaizo but you don't start combat in stealth mode? Here I am! This is a way to get Gouging Strike even if you aren't a rogue and you haven't a rogue in your party The procedure is not very difficult to reproduce but the odds it can happen are very very little, to be truth and honest. But it has happened to me just against Guardian of Ukaizo battle and I wanna let you know First of all: equip the Charm of Bones amulet. This amulet has the follow enchantment: Call the Restless which summons a random vessel. Among the random vessel it can summon, there is also this one: Risen Armsman. If you manage to summon exactly this monster, it has indeed Gouging Strike among its abilities, and it can use it against you enemy! It seems, since Rise Armsman is above all a ranged entity and that gounging strike is used particularly and mostly in melee by this monster, that it would be better summon the vessel close the foe you wanna kill in order to maximize the chances that gouging strike will be used... but these are my guess assumptions and maybe Rises Armsman can use Gouging Strike also ranged... or not using it also melee... who knows... Anyway, Charm of Bones has 10 uses and the total number of summoned vessels should be 13, so how much are the odds you can summon a Risen Arsman? If i am right, this is a typical Bernoulli Process, so with 1/13 single chance probability (about 0.0769) and 10 trials you end up with 0.383, thus almost 40%!!! But then you have to hope Risen Arsman uses Gounging Strike... not so unbelievable at the end If you manage to try this approach let us know how many times you can get a Gounging Strike without a rogue, thanks!

Yep, but you should cast IoM as the last spell