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Yes a kind of workaround I've done is to sneak close to an enemy, reveal myself for 0.5 seconds, pause, toggle sneak again, combat will "start" and now I have a limited time window to "pre-buff" before battle actually starts, as the enemies can't engage with me and they'll start casting buffs on themselves or whatever. I'll use Xoti to cast barring deaths door on myself and then use wilting wind, and it works just fine. I'll just have to get rid of nemnoks cloak entirely and I'll probably switch it to the one where you get brilliant on hit, or the cloak that has a chance to negate recovery when hit. Also side question, I've heard monk is a class that is very worth single classing due to its late game abilities. What advantages or disadvantages would it have compared to the Helwalker/Streetfighter + death godlike/barring deaths door build? I've never been able to experience it for myself yet as I'm only level 14 atm. I may consider installing mods to change to single monk. I don't plan on doing the megabosses this playthrough, my main goal is just to do the main quest and dlcs and learn as much as I can about the game so I can do better in future playthroughs. Thank you.

You're right, it's a per rest thing. I'm willing to rest in between every fight to do this. It's weird though because when i kill myself with wilting wind, the spirit shield and ironskin buffs will apply themselves on my character, but the barring deaths door will not. I kind of just wanted a very fast and efficient way to get my char to 1 hp and get him barring deaths door at the start of combat, and not have to wait for enemies to wail on him. If you have ideas on ways to do that that would be greatly appreciated. If the wilting wind just grazes my character to less than 25% hp then the barring deaths door will trigger, but this is inconsistent and more often then not I'll crit and kill myself. ):

Hello, I'm playing a streetfighter/helwalker build, death godlike, Might18 / Constiution 3 / dexterity 19 / perception 19 / intellect 16 / resolve 3. POTD + upscaled. Idea is to use Xoti to cast barrings death and salvation of time on my streetfighter monk to protect him from death, triggering streetfighter passive and death godlike's PL bonus at low health, increasing monk weapon scaling and sneak attack scaling, all while having 10 wounds for 10+ might. I did a run with this build a long time ago that I never finished, I remember using wilting wind from Amira's wing in stealth, while wearing nemnoks cloak (which grants barring deaths door at <25% hp), making sure to hit myself and the enemies, so I'd start out battle with 1 HP, with all my buffs and barring deaths door. I could have sworn I got it to work like this, but I just keep killing myself instantly lol. Is there some way I can get this to work? I don't wanna have to rely on the blunderbuss distracted modal at the start of every combat. Also side question about Single class chanter tekehu. I see the majority of ppl online say that single class druid tekehu is best. What i don't see ppl discussing is Chanter tekehu's interaction between Sasha's singing scimitar (the encore weapon ability i believe) and his Tier 8 ability avenging storm. Empowering Avenging storm makes every bolt that hits regain max phrases, allowing you to spam invocations constantly? Then i thought couldn't Tekehu constantly spam Tier 9 spells, like his tornado one that knocks enemies up? Thank you for any answers.