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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No, because many people play with "outdated" hardware and issues come for "newer" devices...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

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Follow Boeroer's advices, after then in act 2 with Defiance Bay, Endless Path, Dyrford Crossing encounters and mercants a world opens to you In early game you can also give some normal weapons slaying enchantments (i.e. slaying kiths); it is +5 acc and +25% base damage, it helps in some encounters and you don't waste enchantments points on unique ones 😉

Totally agree. The others are occasionally, if you encounter resisting foe and/or you have some ranger characters (or one very strong ranged) the second choice is Sure-Handed Ila Nocked Her Arrows with Speed. Someone says Rime and Frost Followed the Footfalls of Karth can be good, but it is uncomfortable as it needs some micro etc.

Hi, I've missed many messages but you can have a BW in a whole party even if as Boeroer said other classes achieve the damage dealer role better (rogue, monk etc.). My consideration is mostly because in a party I like to play with different classes thus 2 paladins is a little boring, but a BW full equipped and well builded can deal good damage. For the druid and wizard, you can take them late game, in the last levels they are very powerful and a lot of fun! Druid build is quite "easy", pick Relentless Storm, Heart of the Storm, Wildstrike Shock and its upgrade, Outlander's Frenzy, Apprentice's Sneak Attack, Two Weapon Style and other spells you like. For mastery a good choose is Nature's Mark, Taste of the Hunt, Returning Storm and Moonwell (or Form of the Delemgan). Cast Nature's mark, the 4th level bonus spell, Rentless Storm (or Returning storm for easier encounter), spiritishift and start to kill enemies When spiritshift is over, you can use Gyrd Háewanes Sténes to regain spiritshift or you can cast AoE damage spells and/or utility/healing spells. Equip with Wildstrike Belt please! After Caed Nua, when you arrive in Defiance Bay, the game is easier also for mid level caster, so don't worry and hang in there!

It would have been a great weapon if Living Wood had been from the hit point and if it had been upgradable beyond superb. But Healing ability can be useful also late game in some situations.

Hi, PoE1 dragons is harder than boss in Deadfire but not so much. On the other side equip is stronger in Poe1, so this balance out difficulty. You can beat the game on PotD SOLO with every class, so a full party is good in any combination, more or less. I'd switch a paladin of your party with another class: maybe druid (trade of all jacks, and also a good healer if you wanna keep such role without a paladin), wizard (AoE damage and control, or a melee wizard build, and he can achieve heal with scrolls) or a damage dealer (rogue, melee or ranged, or ranger, ranged indeed). If you wish a great damage dealer a monk is actually strong, and a barb is fun and good for groups of foes. It is only to have variety in your party, you can stick to your party composition and you'll have no many troubles with a chanter, a priest and a cipher.

What I'd do if I were you: do the Hiravias quest and then sacrifice him.

Oh yeah, it is a bluff 😄 But I'm curious about statistics, I see quite only bashing shields used in posts in the forum. @Kaylon is right, but monk is only one of the possible classes, in SOLO I end using bashing shield and when I switch it is for specific enchantments (i.e. Shimmer Scale). Reversing the question, if a shield were a normal shield, with added damage, PEN and ACC of a weapon, I wonder which shield a character equip between a normal shield or a bashing shield... and also for a second weapon with same properties but without DEF and reflex improving and with a modal but with its drawback. In SOLO I'd use only bashing shields, a part of some particularly builds and/or encounters, in a party an off-tank would used almost ever a bashing shield. I agree that above all PEN of bashing shields is low, but it should scale less than a "normal" unique weapons in the case, and even so, they would far better than a "normal" unique shield.

The builds you see in forums etc. aren't all the builds players use. If you see internal game statistics, most monks use actually Tuotilo.

If a bashing shield would scale as a normal weapon, 80%/90% of equipment and build were weapon + bashing shield and two-weapons + sword and shield styles. Or you'd have to add almost one disadvantage to more PEN and more damage bashing shields.

This one. I agree. And there are some synergies, i.e. with a bashing shields its easy to generate Hunter's Claw (or its upgrades) stacks with a blunderbuss, having also a good ranged (and melee... and reflex if you have the style) defense.

It is intended. With the right enchantments, food, spells and abilities bashing shields are good enough. With no one of that, I hit successfully a megaboss with "the best defense" with a wildrhymers. Bashing shields are indeed good as two weapons style and two weapons speed bonus apply.