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Try it with the new v3 patches and wait and see. Random dilemmas are random as far as I have found so you can save scum them if you want.

Personal experience, but I've found that after you've solved Azzuro's dilemma he then appears for trading very regularly and getting his items isn't very difficult - likely due to people moaning about how hard it is to get his items. Getting his dilemma is a bit hit and miss now (it was my last dilemma, sigh), but getting his items isn't too bad. PS I own Mebec's Morningstar, Hiro's Mantle, and several of his other items that I was interested in without even trying. They are super regular now.

Where exactly is the looped rope found? I can find literally zero details on it. It would be great if some kind sir could add locations to all the items, and then maybe Boereor could update the OP with the list - or someone could finally make a nice job of the wiki.

Paralysed figurine summons don't disappear upon death. From what I remember from a v1 when I was originally playing, if one of the figurine summons died whilst paralysed they would show up on every map from then on in as an un-interactable sprite - which completely sucks immersion from the game and makes solo play a lot more crappy as many creatures inflict paralysis and some dependance on figurines is normal in difficult fights. It seems like this bug is still in effect. While I've not waited to see whether dead paralysed enemies show up on every map still (confirmation of whether this was patched out would be nice) as I reload every time this happens for fear of the same crap I had before, they still are lingering at the very least when they die when paralysed on the same map which shouldn't happen. This is a bug that was in v1 of the game, it definitely should not still be in v3 of the game.

That is damn sweet, I thought maybe the idea was binding them to your character made it special to that character but apparently not. Cheers guys.

One thing I'd mention that above and beyond the easiest way to get sneak attacks is flanking. With a party just run some guys round the back of the enemy and you'll instantly see your damage go up, or you can use stealth with your rogue to sneak him round back to get a flank as well. I agree with Boeroer, going the slightly bulkier route to me is better than the glass cannon approach for me. If you take Weapon and Shield Style and use the Larder Door, you get a full bash attack and a full normal attack with a per encounter status ailment ability - which I've found going solo on POTD with a rogue is pretty decent.

I never played White March part I, so I had a quick question about soulbound weapons and didn't want to make a separate thread for it: can you bind more than one weapon to a single character or not? I'm playing solo as a rogue, and both Steadfast and Nightshroud look pretty useful, I wasn't sure if you could have both at the same time or not.

I think this guide is a little redundant, it's a role-playing game - you're expected to play it through more than once and so you can try different attribute combos on subsequent play-throughs. The only thing I was holding out on before completing the game (which I still haven't, hopefully soon) was a release without bugs which wasn't there initially; after the most significant v1 patching my laptop broke and when I got fixed I thought I'd wait for both White March releases so here I am. Point is, don't procrastinate. If you didn't notice, the game is combat heavy. I felt much more of an impact in New Vegas where there were many many different skill and attribute combos for dialogue, which is great - however I don't begrudge Pillars for not offering that. Needlessly putting off a game because you don't know how to optimise the dialogue options is a little pointless when most of the options achieve the same thing and it's really not the core of what the game is about. Besides, the game has been out for an age now in terms of modern games. No one is going to read this guide for beginners, as no one is a beginner anymore apart from apparently you - particularly with a crowd funded game where the core audience is aware of the game and has already funded/bought it on release. Sorry to burst your bubble.

If you're going solo, killing off companions is a great way to earn money because of this gear. Never really thought to do it until my last play-through.

Thanks very much for the comparison, it looks like mine will be slightly on the lower side. I guess I'll make a late level 10 save so I have the option to change it up later if I need to, having extra sneak attacks (the other thing I'd be spending my talents on more or less) seems like it'd be more general utility in most cases.

You could always use the Helwax Mold to dupe Resolution, you miss out on the endurance gain but I doubt you're building your Rogue to take a lot of hits anyway.

I got mine in Zolla's stash in the Endless Paths, not sure what day it was for anyone looking to replicate, I heard they changed the loot tables around with new patches so old info is likely incorrect. If you were looking to get yourself a pair, Caed Nua would allow you to easily rest until the correct day.

What is considered "good" for end game defenses on a solo tank? From what I can tell my end game defenses will be something along the lines of deflection ~130, fortitude ~120, reflex ~105 and will ~99. Are the reflex and will scores good enough for some of the big bosses (adra/alpine, etc.), with a little scroll buffing, or should I dedicate some talents to Snake's Reflexes/Bull's Will? I'm not a big fan of respec-ing (not disparaging anyone who is), and though I'll probably make a save close to when I want to take a crucial level where I may/may not get these talents (so I can re-load and pick different talents if needs be) I'd rather know now what the best course of action is to take. Thanks in advance.

Maybe I'll leave it at 9 then, thanks for the tip.

If you're tanking with your Rogue and on a higher difficulty (which makes sense if you're using Retaliate as you have to take hits), it's nice to have that steady trickle of damage and it allows you to kill weaker enemies automatically after a little bit of time. I'm still stun-locked by Phantoms on my solo play, but Deep Wounds and Retaliation kills them pretty easily - one of the many uses. On regular Rogue builds however you're right - it can be not overly great.

Probably a stupid question, but that's 13 without Gloves of Manipulation isn't it? I just found those bad boys, and I'm keen to start levelling stealth, so if I could just put one more point into Mechanics (it's 10 already) that would be great.

Pretty much the title, they're all covered by pink rectangles. Mac v3.01. Here's a save: http://www.filedropper.com/716516f73f374af18407189ec466766028634228crgholdtbluffs

I'm hoping to get 5 damage for Deep Wounds eventually, not sure if it's possible but I'll wait and see. I don't seem to have really suffered for leaving PER at the base of 10 so far, so I think the build is fairly solid, and the drop to reflex from low DEX is somewhat counter-acted by the Weapon and Shield Style which adds shield deflection to reflex. I'll try your shield choices and see how it works, currently I'm running Larder Door as I'm not even close to act II yet which is nice as it gives you an extra chance for your per encounter attacks to land. I'll also look into Bittercut, and some other of the physical damage spell items you mentioned. Would you say that Backstab + Shadowing Beyond > Snake's Reflexes + Bull's Will then? As I mentioned, my reflex is boosted quite a lot by using a large shield despite my low DEX and my will benefits from my high RES (to give you an idea of how much Weapon and Shield Style benefits reflex, currently my reflex and will are equal - with nothing else boosting reflex apart from an exceptional Larder Door) - so I wasn't sure if the resistance talents might be overkill. Backstab + Shadowing Beyond would also make something like the Silver Flash a beast. Would also you recommend me getting both Dirty Fighting and Vicious Fighting? 20% hit to crit rate sounds pretty beastly, which is why I'm interested. I'm not too bothered about Deathblows, it seems like too much hassle to get working (it seems like the main way is Shadowing Beyond + other per encounter, but my INT is super high so they tend not to last long), especially seeing as I attack so slowly. I'll give some a watch, thanks for the tip. What I've listed is pretty successful if you want to give that a try, I'm pancaking a lot of enemies right now due to Retaliation and Deep Wounds (the biggest pain is of course getting Hiro's Mantle - fortunately for me it was the first item Azzuro offered, then again he was the last dilemma I could get at Caed Nua, so I feel like I deserved it). As I said I'm mainly just looking to optimise now, hence the questions. High mechanics is pretty much a must early game for a Rogue, it allows you to get to Raedric only having to kill 2 people on the rooftop nearest the vines (thus getting XP even if you don't want to kill him) and do Buried Secrets (for the one Phantom you have to fight, you can use an Ooze to block the door and then hit him with a staff/ranged weapon so he doesn't stun lock you) fairly trivially. Once you're at level 4, doing Caed Nua isn't too bad. If you use Rymrgand's Mantle and a staff you can lure one Shadow to the left of the stairs blocking the path of the Phantoms, allowing you to tank hits from the Shadow and kill the Phantoms with a staff/ranged weapon as before (hint, kill Durance). Maerwald is easy by just luring him into one of the other rooms with all the monsters there, and once you hit Defiance Bay things really start to open up in terms of you getting much more XP.

So I've made a tank Rogue solo on POTD, using Riposte and Retaliation with Deep Wounds. So far it's going okay, Retaliation/Riposte with high deflection and Deep Wounds is a great means of crowd control with plenty of enemies dying from just attacking me - and Rogues have plenty of means to inflict conditions for a sneak attack and get good damage. All that said, I wasn't too sure on my final talents/abilities, here's what I have so far: 1 - Crippling Strike 2 - Weapon and Shield style 3 - Reckless Assault 4 - Vulnerable Attack 5 - Deep Wounds 6 - Deflecting Assault 7 - Blinding Strike 8 - Superior Deflection 9 - Riposte Now on 10 I'm definitely taking Cautious Attack, but what would your recommendations be for 11/12/13/14/15/16 be? I maxed Con and Might, dumped Dex and maxed Resolve - so I was thinking for the talents maybe just getting Bull's Will and Snake's Reflexes to shore up my reflex and will to the same level as my fortitude as well as getting Vicious Fighting for extra damage. Ideally I want to do as many of the horrible boss fights (Adra/Alpine Dragon/Kraken) as possible - so are there better talents to be taking for these two? For my abilities, I was thinking Withering Strike and Sap due to more sneak attacks as well as Dirty Fighting for extra damage, do these sound good? I wasn't sure whether to get Adept Evasion to get many more misses on attacks targeting Reflex, or if Feign Death can be used to get out of combat for situations where I've taken out about half a mob but want to take a breather - however I wasn't sure if the mechanics worked like that. Also, what's the best armor for going solo? Originally I was going to go Argwes Adra, but I noticed Second Chance took a heavy nerf so I wasn't sure if there wasn't a better option. I currently have Hiro's Mantle, but thought I might be able to wear the Coat of Ill Payment and instead use a different cloak/amulet. Laslty, what's the max mechanics skill needed to open everything up now? I'm not keen on spamming chests to find Gloves of Manipulation, if I find them I find them and if I don't I don't - but I still don't want to overshoot mechanics but a large margin pointlessly. Thanks in advance, if the character goes well I'll do a class build for it and make sure to credit any good suggestions I get here. Also if you think my current ideas are solid, feel free to say so and I'll carry on as is.

Sounds good, is him "visiting" different to him selling his goods then? Are they two separate events, one where he visits to trade and one where he visits to, well, visit? I also noticed, though I don't have a save for it, that other visitors didn't appear in the keep when they were visiting (I think it was the Saint's War Hero, not that it matters seeing as you don't need to talk to them again after their dilemma is solved, but I thought it might be related).

I think it's a good idea, it's annoying not only for the reasons of having to select the same options again if you want to keep your role-play consistent but it also kills the impact of said dialogue by hearing it over and over again (Maerwald is a pretty great example of this). A save just before the fight and right after the dialogue would be perfect.

I didn't solve his dilemma with copper, and I'm having the same problem. Here's a mac save: http://www.filedropper.com/716516f73f374af18407189ec466766025458943woodendplains v3.01. It's not a quest as in a quest that goes in your journal, it's just when he approaches you about his problem with bandits. That is what you're supposed to complete for him to start showing up at your stronghold and selling stuff, however it seems like he's missing in a lot of peoples saves when the stronghold log says he should be there.

You mean Heodan can't do that anymore? ... Never realised he could, lol. Will watch out for that in the future.

Just to confirm, there isn't a special way to complete his dilemma is there? I presume there is a money related option that would have been present if I had the gold, however I didn't so I went for the saying people should open supply lines. This isn't going to make him irritated is it, so he won't show up and trade? I've kept a save before he showed up in case this is the case and I need to go and get more funds. Took about an hour to get the guy to show up, me having a fully upgraded Caed Nua. Random event rolls are completely random every time (sounds like a stupid thing to say, but what I mean is if you save near the bed in Bright Hollow the rolls don't become fixed upon saving in a certain area, if that makes sense), so just save by the bed in Bright Hollow and get ready for the ride of your life as you ceaselessly rest again and again and again. It helps if you have a good amount of gold for your security's wages. Not sure what turn I am (it's not on the the stronghold feed with me chain resting so much, and I don't know what other way to check it) but I've only done about half the Defiance Bay side quests and only the first Defiance Bay main quest, so presumably not too high a turn.

Pretty much the topic, I've hung them both but they keep showing up at Caed Nua. It would be nice if they could be taken off the list of random people showing up after killing them, not only for consistency, but also to increase the likelihood of someone else showing up (I'm still waiting on Azzuro).