dunehunter

I feel that you didn't consider the factor of critical attacks here, low pen high dps weapon has more potential than high pen ones when critical attack. So I think high dps weapon's overall performance is better than it is in the sheet.

Exactly! By the way those "talents" I called for have never been very powerful in the first place. It's just nice to put some flavor onto your melee single class wizard (specialized on summoned weapons), your defensive druid - whatever. I'm totally all in when it comes to more and better abilites for the martial classes instead of making weak stuff like Two Handed Style their "own thing". How I praised Charge when it came out because it was/is a nice, interesting and also powerful ability for a fighter. Not Two Handed Style or Weapon and Shield Style - pah! Yeah and I don't want to multiclass into fighter just because I want the weapon style to expand my play style.

Sounds more like is not intended to me! But yeah monk/fury + high lash on spell can be fun.

Load a save game from world map and then enter an area, animal companion is disappeared.

Quarterstaff is better than Poleaxe for engagement currently because the larger weapon range. And quarterstaff also has passive modal to give them 20 defense(does not stack with mage prot spell currently) to help fighter defense.

Eh? In PoE mages have like the best defenses... With deflection over 200 they aren't so "easily butchered" Yeah I'm just kidding, you get the point, if the mage have such high defenses, it's hard for Mage Slayer to touch them, so Spell Disruption is kinda pointless until u can dispel mage's protection.

Because compare to spell it's almost instantly casted and Berserker's Frenzy gives tier 2 Might/Con Inspiration not tier 1? Remember we are talking about Berserker Frenzy here, not weak barbarian frenzy

I feel 6 engagement is a bit pointless, because unless u use a quarterstaff, your weapon range is small, in that small weapon range I doubt you cannot hold that many enemies. This is just my feeling haven't test it in game yet. PS: just did a quick test with an Unbroken/Wael Priest with quarterstaff, even with the range of quarterstaff when u are engaged with 3-4 enemies it become very crowded and other enemies will just pass by and because they are out of range, you cannot engage them. So I feel a maximum of 4 engagement is ok, anything more that is pointless.

Maybe also something similar to Metamagic in D&D?? Empower Spell which take higher level slot for more power level, or Quicken Spell to shorten cast time.

Yeah kinda agree that stalker is weak, the 5 defense + 1 armour rate bonus is negligible. And the animal companion has way too low accuracy which makes the animal boost talent useless. Arbalest feels really powerful tho, the Prone attack does not have save throw check. And crossbow/arbalest has high penetration than firearms but also get benefit from gunner.

My bad, thought devoted will work on ranged weapon, but still ranger's subclass feel a bit lackluster to me.

GoldPact Knight + Tricker, I did this combo today and it seems pretty fun for dueling. Proficiency weapon picked battleaxe + medium shield. Talent picked Brand Enemy + Gouging Strike + Riposte. With Deep faith + Medium shield block + Mirror Image enemies can barely touch you, while u riposte them with axe, causing bleed damage. And with Brand Enemy + Gouging Strike, these two will DoT the target til the end of battle. Pretty sweet to look at target try to touch u but bleed/burn to death :D Soloed Skulking-Terror on PotD barely get touched.

Didn't get your point here, Shadowing Beyond turn you invisible, and then u can just attack with ranged weapon and do backstab.

As topic, I took a screenshot of this. Neither damage or accuracy bonus is applied to ranged attacks.

It's not the log delay problem, the flame of devotion actually didn't hit or damage enemies in this situation. You can see the white flame heal triggers properly but hit is not, which means the ability didn't hit enemies. And this only happens when the enemy has Sworn Enemy debuff, and the character has White flame talent.

As topic, use Shadowing Beyond, and attacking mobs with arquebus apparently does not trigger Backstab. Didn't test other ranged weapon. Melee weapon works properly.

With Devoted, Disciplined Strikes and weapon style + stance, I feel my ranged fighter is superior than my ranger :/ I feel that ranger really didn't offer that much on ranged side, even its ranged subclass feel lame to me compare to devoted. Anyone have the same feeling?

As topic, Shared Flames is not working right now.

The +accuracy for holding a 1h weapon was never part of a talent. Everyone has that feature starting from level 1. The one-handed weapon bonuses was converting 15% hits into crits in POE1, but converted 10% misses into grazes in POE2. Yeah the change is stupid because its a fighter talent but fighter already have talent to make them graze, its kinda weak/pointless compare to other weapons style.

Yeah using Shadowing beyond and attack enemies with a melee and a ranged. Melee weapon triggers backstab correctly, but ranged doesn't. I tested on both just attack and skills. Neither works.

I remember that post too, but now it's not happening. Maybe this will be added later to replace the POE1 graze system.

Everyone knows that the true Bleak Walker is the gun-adin. +1

Attached a picture to this bug. From the picture you see my flame of devotion only heal myself, but didn't does damage (not even hit or miss).

Totally agree with @Climhazzard, if the combat speed is designed to be slowed down, then movement speed must be slowed down to be synchronized with other slow down changes. Currently only cast time and weapon speed is changed, but not movement speed. Which result in a lot slow attack to miss(out of range) because object move too fast.

Well if you play on PotD there's nothing called high deflection, every mob has much higher accuracy and deflection.