AndreaColombo

In a bout of frustration, I must say that updating this game and installing the expansion is a retarded mess. I've spent more than 30 minutes installing both the patch and the expansion only to find out that absolutely nothing had been installed for some reason. I then reinstalled the patch, ran the game to ensure it was installed (it was) and now—of course—the PX2 installer says current game version is not supported. Bottom line: I must now spend north of one hour to uninstall and reinstall everything. By the time I'm done, I won't have time to run the game. Brilliant.

^ Nope. Notes are incomplete. Not the first time for a Pillars patch—they fix a thousand bugs and add a thousand features, so it's hard to keep track of everything and compile comprehensive change logs.

There are many ways to cheese this game, young padawan. It is time to master the others (appropriately star-wars-themed hieratic emoticon.)

Looks like someone will need to submit a bug report /groan

^ it's explained in the post above yours.

Fairly sure this was in the known issues section of the latest beta patch notes.

Description's inaccurate, but still a badass item.

My thanks know no boundaries.

Enkeli, my answer was entirely for Inspector. I wondered how your asking the devs what the optimal level would be for TWM pt. II would render your commentary of Act III level scaling invalid. Because it doesn't. I would love for an optional scaling that cranked Act III and IV all the way up to level 16. Completionists will easily be able to approach that level by the time they get there (maybe make Elmshore and some of the tier II and III bounties level 14-15) and they'd still be able to get a challenge. As it is, if you're a completionist and/or like to optimize your builds, you inevitably end up ROFLSTOMPING everything in sight by the time you get to Act III. Basically you stop having fun the moment real fun is supposed to begin.

You can only do it if you have enough enchantment slots available for the enchantment you want. In this case, you'd have to have 4 slots available even if the upgrade would effectively only eat up 2 more. Silly, but that's how the system works. TWM pt. II increases the enchantment limit to 14, so you should be able to do this upgrade then.

I always have a Priest in my every party and cannot conceive a party without one. Whenever other players ask for advice, I always take for granted that they'll have a Priest in their party in my answers.

The deve specifically asked for feedback on Act III scaling when the beta patch was released. Commentary is fair. Not sure how his request concerning appropriate level for TWM pt II areas comes into it.

I didn't exactly keep track of that, but the day TWM pt I came out, I recall getting home from work and being able to download it from GOG right away. Must've been in the neighborhood of 6 P.M. GMT+1.

Their office is in PST time zone. Conversion table: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/pacific-time/convert

Garodh's Chorus looks good with the Coat Of Ill Payment.

^ IIRC in the current beta build you need to enable that quest via console if you want to go through it. Should be unlocked in the official release that drops tomorrow though.

It's part of the new Stronghold quest line from patch 3.0.

The one for Argwes Adra gives +3 RES and the one for He Carries Many Scars gives +2 Athletics and Preservation. The others weren't shown but the one for Sanguine Plate is cheap so it won't do wonders, much to my dismay.

No Priest, no party

You may want to use the Gauntlets of Swift Action instead and try to get your recovery down to 0. If you pack +65 Accuracy excluding the bonus for single weapon, Superb enchantment, and Weapon Focus (that's another +30) and 50% hit-to-crit conversion, you'll hardly need another +5; attacking faster is better as you'll get more crits in.

I'm doing a lot of it with my Lady of Pain build. If you want to take it to the extreme, after maximizing the bonus damage from scoring a crit: - Hearth Orlan with 21 starting Perception; +1 Hylea's Boon; +1 Song of the Heavens; +1 Effigy's Resentment: Sagani; +3 Lilith's Shawl; +3 resting bonus from Caed Nua; +10 Champion's Boon = 40 Perception. - Durgan weapon + Dire Blessing + Hearth Orlan = 50% hit-to-crit conversion - Devotions for the Faithful + Scroll of Valor = +35 Accuracy

^ I'm fairly sure they meant 11 A.M., not P.M.. Nobody's in the office to "push the button" at 11 P.M..

You could as well console in that very item and start testing

You can enable scaling via console at any time. Search the forum for the codes; they were posted by BMac.

Interesting to apprehend that DR remains the same.