Echopixel

Sounds about the consensus I got from yours and others' build posts as well as other opinion threads... off I go! Thanks a lot, everyone.

This is good information! Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try these out. And I should be okay with Pallegina and myself as the tanks in PotD? Do I need the talents to increase engagement slots? I heard it's a lot less useful with the AI changes, but not sure since I won't be taking a fighter who would normally have the +2 engagement thing.

Yeah, the two builds in that post sounded fun, but neither have high numbers for all three of the conversation stats... that's where the tough decision for me comes from... Lose out of more fun build and get less conversation or get more conversation options and wish my chanter was more fun to play the whole game. :S Is there no good middle ground if I wanted to do PotD? Because I was having fun playing that difficulty before, but the paladin was a bit boring.

I've recently taken up wanting to play PoE again after many major patches. Before I had a file where I was a pale elf shieldbearer paladin, now I'm thinking of restarting with all the changes since 1.0... I also wanted to use the npcs for story. My current idea for a party was something like this Chanter tank Pallagina tank Sagani Aloth GM Durance I'm not sure what kind of build would make me feel like my pc is useful and fun while also giving me the conversation options I want (if that's even possible?) I'm assuming I need maxed PER/RES/INT, so what would be a fun build to go along with? I've looked at some guides and nothing really stood out to me, maybe you guys could help. I wanted to help in dealing damage, but I feel like that would be hard to do with this build.