Chaospread

Also Acolyte's Frostbite fits well and has good proc, good to gain concentration and I don't know whether Freezing Bite or Freezing Guts proc with carnage (I guess no), but maybe they proc with other spells abilities of Druid/Barb and could be a nice addition.

I agree, for Vatnir, Lunar Excellence is better. Silver Moon can be good with a damage dealer and is situational, pick the one you feel better, Golden sun is OK, not so much difference in Vatnir' hands The plus of Sun and Moon are +2 power level and the chance to recast a spell (and in some situation, two attacks instead of one).

Yes, it works with any abilities with "fire"/"frost" keyword (besides any bug - depending on the enchantment) if you keep in a hand of yours while casting.

This is normal behavior: https://youtu.be/wxMcXe9PE-E (now I'm writing for him, he could post only private messages without moderation). @paaka is on the XBox gamepass version of the game on windows PC, he has already remove the mod and reinstalled the game --> same issue. I think it is related to some bugs/problems of xBox version of the game. So I'd report the issue to obsidian support, do you know how? Through the respective section of this forum? Or are there other ways? Thanks.

I think they are wrong and/or outdated. Currently is +2, when i have time I can post a screenshot too.

This one its the ultimate true . Anyway My bear has +2 AR from the start, in what FAQ do you see +1? I always remember to see +2... Reflex maybe is the worst defense, sometimes it is a battle between reflex and will I say, but a charmed companion usually is a very bad issue so reflex is actually the worst. Eventually then I took the best option with a bear, ok, you can talk about stats etc. but the circle size can make the difference in this case (sorry for the double meaning ).

I'm sorry, I tought boar had dot damage Antelope isn't +7 all defenses? +10 it's huge! Is health the same for all companions? I'm late game (missing only megabosses) and my bear last so long. It's true +4 AR late game is not so great, but you can buff it with other abilities, spell and so on, I find that bear is a hard tank. Wolf and lion can come in hand when you need damage dealer companion, but in Solo a tank is better and in a party you can do without them. Worst probably is stag.

I think so, too. The Oratory fight should be mandatory, as it was designed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmI7SHRlSE Old release pre patch but it can be do in SOLO. Spirits are sensitive to fire, so put fire trap on their path, go plenty of fire scrolls and item and take figurines, I guess you can have two in that point of the game. Buff every char with food and other. If they engage figurine, you can have time to kill one or two, then put other figurine and you can win without any loss. Oh, you can cast protection from scrolls and keep spell for other things (i.e., fire, as I said or heal).

Don't turn off the mod, DELETE them entirely then start a NEW GAME and retry. Following step should be REINSTALL whole game (if you feel like it). Imho something broke your game data, wasting all current run.

Ok, usually best companion is boar because it auto heal himself and if i remember right it do raw damage over time and this could trigger interesting synergies, but I like (and I'm current playing with it) bear for it good armor rating and I use it as a tank. But ususally I go for a rpg companion, the best that fits my PG in terms of self story

There are times when an enemy as some ability that negate ("counter") the effect and than vanish, I find many of these with ice/fire/frost attacks, maybe could be the case, but I'd bet on slippery mind or something like that. Or it is a bug, try to fight the Oracle with Shimmer Scale upgrade to Warped Scales and you can be hit with Eye of Concelhaut which has keyword "gaze" ... (happened to me last session).

I change pet depending on the encounter. Default pet could be one that give you int, dex and maybe stride or healing effect, like Bubble, Cajux, Freja, Lil'Babs. Baby boar is also good but you can achieve same effect with personal abilities. You have many ranged characters, so also pets which improve ranged attacks are good: Harley above all, Retina, Sky Dragon wurm if you manage to get it, Atlas, Bernhard... But many are good with you party, you can also choose to increase area of effect, accuracy... I'd try many of them and then switch to the best who make me feel OK.

Addendum: I saved and probably I've gone back to the start screen or quit the game before the "no combat" session.

As I remember I save before exit, then I've tried the fight with enchanted armors, so I've reloaded 2 or 3 times, then cause I wanted to respec I've gone to Temple of Revelation, when I came back in the Oratory, the armors stayed still, the "big death ray" of the machine in the location didn't start, I approached the exit to the north and then, without any previous fight, the Maura's stuff with scene started... I tried to go close to the armors and the pylons in the south sides but nothing happened. It was right I didn't fight Maura because first I had a friendly interaction with the Giant Luminous Spore, so infested Maura didn't attacked me, but the armors, the beam and pylons should have to...