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And how can we not talk about "Driving Flight"? One of the best passive in the game, and it came also early.

Good job, I think you have taken all the right choices for him! Keep having fun!

iirc there was a cheese with IwVE with which you could be healed drinking the potion (or casting the spell) just before a combat was over, max heath was increased, combat ends and you kept 50 (or more with bonus) health point. You can master IwVE so you have it every battle and you can avoid many rests, can't you?

Yep, these are the builds: Druid is a Fire Godlike focused on fire spells, abilities, weapons, items and so on - a nice themed character I say Paladin was built to achieve best defenses you can, just for fun (even if it was quite boring to play ) Rogue was built to maximize hits to crits conversion, an amusement "proof of concept". These are the links to youtube playlist with battles against bosses and some other fights in some cases: Druid: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2gBiT5sb44aNWJD8N2h-uL0Cs5AZ3CHa Paladin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2gBiT5sb44Y3PJX4bJATWORybXlqC71x Rogue: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2gBiT5sb44ZPsASkb5qy30uFF-EF2mTT Feel free to use them as you like and/or ask questions about them, I will be happy to contribute! I think you should go for the Ranger. First, Boeroer is always right and he knows many many many more facts about PoE1 than me , second I've experience on PoTd almost exclusively in SOLO and third, thinking in deep about these two classes, Rogue give the best indeed in SOLO, while Ranger is a better addition in a party as he can kill single enemies, can tank with AC support, can also read scrolls with good ACC while AC can tank, do damage or protect the ranger instead a Rogue need complementary support. I'm glad that almost one of the two classes will be upgraded Looking forward to listen to another great "video/podcast" with @Boeroer 's mellow voice! You rock guys!!!

Oh i don't understand achievements so much, you can try a early achievement and see if it work if you wanna play on the last release I think you should ask help to official support.

Hi, first of all a wish: Please @Boeroer put a Shock Druid with cat form in your video builds, he rocks as nobody! Or if you wanna change, at least one druid, they are awesome in PoE1 I'd like to see also the "trickster" Rogue who cast scrolls better than a wizard spell thanks to his high ACC After that, I'm speaking about SOLO and I've finished the game PoTD, all bosses, with a Druid, a Wizard, a Rogue and a Paladin, if you want @Aestus I can give you link to the builds and the bosses fights I almost agree with your list. maybe with one exception. Game Breaking Tier: Priest, Druid Overloaded Tier: Cipher, Monk, Wizard, Chanter Bread'n'Butter Tier: Barbarian, Paladin Niche Tier: Fighter, Rogue, Ranger Priest: you have said already all. Squishy early game, the most powerful in the end. Ok in GB. Druid: my favourite. Spiritshift give power early levels and it is effective end game, some spells are game breaking like Relentless Storm and Avenging Storm, with Nature's Mark, Tast of The Hunt, Returning Storm and Moonwell or Form of the Delemgam as your Spell Mastery you can beat all no boss mobs easily, wildistrike is awesome, they can do damage, CC, heal... no words, very cool class. Sure GB. Wizard: mmm, it is maybe the best class late game, maybe better than Priest in SOLO, a martial wizard buffed can erase all area, but it is too squishy early game, so ok in Overloaded Tier. Monk: insane damage, less versatile than druid but very powerful and very funny to play. Ok in OT. Chanter: I don't add anything. Also it is good in use items while he is chanting, it is versatile, great support, healing and so on but non great damage dealer, so ok in overloaded. Cipher: Ok, a chiper can beat Alpine Dragon with bare hands (there is a video for it) but no so powerful as a Druid, and you say, focus gathering is a lack sometimes, so ok overloaded. Barbarian: very fun, but no so "manageable", he needs support most times but it is great versus large number of squishy mobs. Ok in BnB. Paladin: mmm Paladin can reach so high defenses that it can become untouchable also versus bosses. But it is boring and lack resources, no great damage, no great healing, a little support... ok in BnB. Fighter: good defenses but not like a Paladin and it is missing resources as well and it's also boring. Ok in Niche. Ranger: Oh wait. A level 1 Ranger can SOLO the game Companion is a great addition but in a party I agree, they don't shine in anything, and its only goal is single damage dealer, but maybe rogue is better on that. So OK. Rogue: Eh. I SOLO the game with ONE handed rogue in PoTD. Squishy early, but he has more ability to manage that (you can pass all area with stealth and so on), they are great damage dealer and awesome single enemy killer. Late game a two handed weapons can prone and stun also any bosses with his high ACC and with We Toki and Godansthunyr. They also can read scroll with high arcana and high ACC and high crits convertion better of all classes. Also enough fun and can achieve mission in multiple ways. I think they deserve BnB maybe.

Ok, this seems strange, I think it could be the windows version to cause the issue. I suppose you cannot try to install windows 10 and make a test on that, can't you? Maybe in a different partition...

Which platform? Steam, xBox... others? By the way maybe the problem is that your PC is a company PC and some software installed on it cause the problem.

The shift key! Indeed! I'm fighting megabosses, so I guess the battles worth it You save my day Wow, like new year day eve and christmas lights on the battlefield And you can put on top others priest buff plus chanter aura and so on!

Oh, I'm sorry, it seemed strange to me you didn't know that Yeah, 8 ancient weapons buffed are amazing, they have only one flaw: you cannot script them to use their abilities!!! I'm always like: click every single weapons, change their AI to auto-attack*, hover over ability, add shortcut (i.e. F1) to ability, then any time they end, click on every weapon, F1, click on enemy... and so on for 6 weapons everytime (6 because I'm MC, luckily ) If you know how to script it, please tell me * in case I forget one of them, at least it did a normal attack

Yes, it works If i can tell my opinion, I'd pick bear: more AR, good defense and larger circle that can make the difference in some situation, but it's valid most of all for SOLO, you know.

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.