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Yes, here I am, got the buff in my current run then I have slept and the bonus has went away but I got +2 Burn AR and strong after a critical hit until I had rested.

Try to load an old save. Or exit to home screen and reload...

You can play a mid ranged Cipher. Blunderbuss are a good weapon at low level, then other ranged weapon can be useful to build focus (arquebuses, crossbows etc... not magical implement). Two pistols as in Deadfire should be wonderful, but you can't Whisper of Treason, Mental Binding, Recall Agony are the bread and butter for Ciphers, mid to long range, low cost and fast cast. At higher levels, Tactical Meld, Time Parasite, and Defensive Mindweb are game breaking. You can play it like disabler, and when the battle last enough, you can put in your arsenal also Puppet Master, Eyestrike, Psychovampiric Shield, Pain Link , Ringleader etc... and go melee too. Never played a Cipher for damage from spell, apart from Disintegration, the others are occasional spells or an amusement to try and forget. And I never trust rays or similar, too much cumbersome for myself. But with right eq, also a melee Cipher in SOLO can make wonders

Elf is good for DEX and PER, but better Wood Elf than Pale Elf, Elemental Endurance is an occasional bonus. Boreal dwarf is occasional too, and you don't want DEX malus. Towerin Phisique is nice and also +2 MIG, but the best for me would be Moon Godlike, DEX and INT bonus plus self healing

I'd do mig 18 / con 8 / dex 18 / per 10 / int 18 / res 6 I've make a run with a solo wiz just hard and he worked well. Per is not so important in PoE1. And Rotfinger Gloves on top of that (Touch of Rot)

Never occurred to my fire godlike....

Yes, indeed, a +3 PER bonus often don't change a hit to a crit, but in the meantime a +18% AoE and +15% duration of buff and debuff can be important

Hi, I've only this version, but almost every SOLO build can work in party. I could say this build work better in a party than SOLO, because focusing only in fire damage can be "restrictive" in SOLO, and you can adapt him easily for a party with more "utility" or healing spells from druid... or you can use him as it is, that's to say a single target damage dealer when spiritshifted or AOE damage with druid's spells

Two different kind of class and two different way to play them. I think bloodmage is more powerful but troubadour is easier to play with and enough powerful too

Chanter. Can utterly rely on passives, phrases and invocations, that are not per rest. And invocations, in particularly summons and debuff, are very powerful. But I agree with @Boeroer, Druid in PoE1 can clean entire screen only with non-per-rest abilities, you have only to use them for big bosses (i.e. Dragons and so on). If you wanna see another powerful Druid build, I can point you to my fire based build: Have fun!

I agree with @Kvellen, Family Pride is the final quest about the issues between these two VTC families; if you resolve it before other troubles, the other quests end since there is no point they should be still "alive".

It would be my second guess

It would be my second guess

And what is the bug? The prizes for Family Pride quest are indeed the two weapons you mentioned...

What do you mean with "deflection breakpoint"? Or you mean defense since you wrote 4 scores, maybe DEF, REF, FOR, and WIL?