ChipMHazard

You can easily create a wizard who can go and more than survive duels...maybe not tank exactly (someone who gets mobbed and live for a long time) ... ...btw cone spells are still not a bad idea. It is easy (and they will still work surprisingly well) to turn the cone away from your party, but still hit 2-3 baddies... ...unless you disable the visual cone ofcourse...then you might have some trouble:) Did I state that you wouldn't be able to do so easily? It will be higher maintenance and will almost certainly require you to use more defensive spells than if you were to use a reach weapon and stay out of engagement range. Unless you opt for using potions/scrolls more than you might normally do. Relying more on party buffs will of course also make it easier to survive engagements. It will obviously depend on the situation at hand, won't it?... If you're standing behind your front line tanker and they are in the way, then cone spells probably aren't a good idea. If you're more on the flank or if the tank is surrounded, then yes... Obviously. I'll grant you that there aren't many occasions where it's not possible to wrangle your cone so you only hit the enemy.

You can definently create a flanking wizard. The thing is that, that kind of wizard isn't much different from a normal wizard in that you simply choose the best deflect spell you have available at the time for when you might get targeted... Otherwise you stay in the back and use your reach weapon while improving your aim. You may also want to use non-cone spells if you're behind your companions. A wizard that will be able to handle melee duels with enemies is going to be far higher maintenance, even if you don't go full tankiness. It will require you to pick more defensive spells over your damaging ones and perhaps even picking some of the draining spells as well.

Heh. You're right. That does seem like a completely arbitrary damage value

There are definently too few portraits to pick from and there are also ways to increase the selection manually. Both statements are true in this case.

There's a reason why I asked the devs about what tone they were referring to as having been their supposed reasoning behind the request to change Firedorn's memorial. We will probably never get an answer to that and of course some people don't want an answer. We knew, those of us that had checked, that there were argueably worse memorials in the game than Firedorn's.

Well he has the lowest amount of health, endurance and deflection. Pretty sure that's what's attracting the buggers. Or maybe it's his ill mannered roommate

Agreed. They should at the very least give us the option to choose if we want them leveled or have them be level 1 when they join.

I was wondering the same thing wen I read it. Since the description seemed a bit exaggerated (Typo?) I opted not to use it.

Here's a thread with the new stats, if you're not getting those then there's definently something wrong. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75175-companion-attribute-changes-in-103/

No, over a single tweet that may or may not have ever existed.

Did you start a new game? Because sadly the changes to the attributes only work if you start a new game.

Oh, eh no you're right. Heh.

And worst of all, his verse doesn't scan. Excuse me? Doesn't scan?

Well it's different in that this might be a hoax or the tweet was removed. No one can find it.

Oi! Not all of us have a patch to download yet!

Aye what I found from my own test build was that I was forgoing most of my damage spells just to stay alive in melee. The wizard could still deal out some impressive damage, but again it's high maintenance and requires resting quite a bit. It can be done for those interested.

rekoolno na fo evitcepsrep eht morf, sah ti tcepxe dluow I seY It would be the most logical choice at this point.

Why would people start by assuming that it was fake? Was the bull**** anti-tombstone movement fake? No one can find the tweet. So it's either a fake or it was deleted. Either way it's not an issue at this given time.

Here you go: http://poedevtracker.net/

"Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed. He once was alive, but now he's dead. The last women he bedded, turned out a man And crying in shame, off a cliff he ran."

Actually, since Steam got rid of the "Don't update this game" setting it's impossible not to update, unless the game offers older patch levels under the Beta settings You're right. When on earth did this happen?

There might not be anything to worry about at this point.

At this point it would probably be best to wait until we know if there is an actual tweet about this or if it was deleted/a hoax.

I hope that this was just a hoax or that the original tweet was deleted. Either way we wouldn't have to deal with that nonsense again.

We don't know if it will escalate into anything more than it is now. It's entirely possible that all the steam was lost after their first "victory". If it does en up getting picked up by other sites then we can start worrying about what damage that might cause Obsidian.