Frog Man

Monk monk herald. Going two monks three heralds. Or more heralds more monks. Single class monks. Whispers of the wind! Team setup: monk monk herald herald herald monk herald monk monk (single class) herald DESTROYS. Autopilot. Monk ! MERALD! HONK! MONKERALD. Single class monk.

<grabs a megaphone, clears throat, takes a big inhale> IT IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING AND I HATE YOU

Yeah in my mind Tekehu is the only companion that is flat out better than even created characters. Love having him round out my teams as he can fill so many roles (even within the same battle!), heals, blinds, stubs, shield cracks, even AOE nukes with storms plus upgraded Lord Darryns Voulge. PLUS YOU CAN HAVE SEX WITH HIM

Have you tried single class monk?

Hey dude what’s your address so I can mail you a bag of my crap?

Not much to critique. These are heavily optimized Meta power gaming builds. With little strategy you should be able to stomp the game easily aside from the mega bosses. I bet you’ll have fun! It’s generally not my taste to run with 5 Uber optimized adventurers like this, and unless using unity I just miss the companions so much. Side note, I keep telling myself I want to do an evil run but I can’t let my main bro Eder down! I did hunt and kill a whale and he’s still pissed at me about that .... To each their own though! I’d be curious to get an update on how your run goes. If it’s fun maybe I’ll try one like this.

Discover them yourself when you become active again instead of letting others spoil that fun for you! That’s not how the ‘character builds’ forums work, dude.

Their names are Ferranas, Rhygor, Arethan, Nilledemas, and Kronos.

Extremely thankful for the folks who have passed through and those who still contribute to these forums! This has been such a special place first for POE1, then all aboard the hype train and build up for POE2 (nearly 2 years), then launch, and patch after patch, and hopefully we’ll into the future. Appreciate all the regulars around here like Boeroer, Maxquest, Gromnir, Raven, Andrea Columbo, Baldurs Gate 2, Enoch, and so many more (even you Sonic Mage!) Happy holidays to you and yours, and thanks for being a constant part of my life! As a good friend of mine would say- HA! GOOD FUN!

Love it! Nice to see a new subclass multiclass build!

The two strangest names in these forums are ‘baldurs gate 2’ and ‘Star Wars’

Reach down into those leather pantaloons and give that furry thing the TUG of his life

Nice build!! I imagine this could work with Aloth as well you just lose the extra power level from illusionist.

I enjoyed it!

This is a cool ass video game

Cipher-Psion, I have not tested, a lot of people say he is suboptimal, but on paper he suits that, except the fact of Blood Sacrifice ia a damage that stops focus-gain. Just did a quick test and Blood Sacrifice does not suppress Soul Mind. That's consistent with my previous tests with other forms of non-hit roll self damage (destructive channeling, DAoM). Haven't tested Beserker self-damage (but I would assume it too does not). I agree that Chant/Troub and Furyshaper seem like good options as well. And wow -- that was my first BM test -- at high levels Blood Sacrifice will kill you dead if you aren't careful. Yeah I’ve been thinking of running a low might high per high int troubadour furyshaper. Focus on shouts, wards, and debuffs. Shield cracks and killer froze invocations.

Can anyone provide tips on sinking ships? I hear the benefits but I’m a terrible captain!

It’s not ****ing fair and its ****ing bull****!

I remember you from when the Black Isle forums switched to the Bioware boards in late 2001/early 2002, when we were both excited for Neverwinter Nights to come out. Even earlier than that, you'd become a presence in BG2's expansion, Throne of Bhaal. Why are you doing this with your life? What's the endgame? I remember deducing you were late twenties/early thirties then, so you have to be in your fifties now. What do these boards even still offer you? Haven't you seen enough of life by now to not bother posting here? Why do this ****? Let me give you an example from my own life. I've grown up with you. You and Karzak, Chosen of Shargaash were my first experiences with internet trolls back in 2002. Going back to newsgroups I now realize you must have had at least a 10 year advantage on me. Even so. You're still doing this. Since first encountering you I've obtained a bachelor's degree, a doctorate, and I've learned two new languages. But you're still posting in a fake orc dialect on isometric rpg forums. Who are you? What do you do? This keeps me up at night. What should keep you up at night is how you’ve become an insufferable, irredeemable pathetic jackass. You got two degrees (like a hundred million other morons In the world, hardly an accomplishment) and learned two new languages (who gives a ****), wow. And this is supposed to be an indication of success? Neither ‘accomplishment’ proves you’ve done a single thing of value in this world. These forums are full of extremely successful people, good fathers and mothers, business owners, Philanthropists, who all enjoy connecting over a game we love. Kindly **** off. #gromnirforlife

Damn Bo brought it today. Spittin’ Truth. I sincerely do have extreme appreciation to the folks in this forum. I’m a pillars junkie and like to replay it many times, and the wisdom and experience shared here increases my enjoyment of building characters by about a hundred. While I’m in an appreciative mood, I will say that we all have our nitpicks and maybe even straight out problems with Deadfire, however Obsidian 100% delivered on bringing us the most (or one of the most) replayable RPGs ever. Surely this is a worthy tribute to the Baldur Gate series.

Dude can you provide more info on your pistoleer zerker dps? Sounds awesome.

I’m having fun with my ancient so far. Those little sporelings are beefy!

Love it! Don’t have any other meaningful suggestions but corpse eater is MANDATORY. If you want a companion I understand that Xoti can go an evil route.

Yeah I reported that in beta 4.0.0.0018 (right when it came out, Furyshaper was the first thing I tested). I got a response that they'll look into it and now it seems with 4.0.0.0025 they fixed that issue. Like they did with Tactician's Interrupt-based refund of Discipline. The wards are damn squishy and the debuff from a destroyed Ward is hefty, but the effects are damn nice. Remember that it's still a full-fledged Barb! I didn't really play with this subclass (only tinkered around a bit), but I guess Furyshaper could become my new favorite Barb subclass. Going to include a Fury Shaper / Priest of ??? in my upcoming forgotten sanctum run. He’ll be buffing accuracy and then dropping fear totem (once my wizards had the chance to debuff the enemy), then jumping into melee to smash heads. Off tank/ support jack of all trades. Considering going fist dps with him for flavor. Tribal shaman kind of dude.

Feel free to include the new subclasses. I like to have a few distinct roles in my team and I could use someone who focuses on disabling enemies so that might nuker and dpsers can mess them up.