Gromnir

many fears expressed in the press do strike us as unfounded. for instance, the notion that saudi arabia would respond to relaxing nuclear program limits on iran by developing a nuclear program o' their own strikes us as comical. iran is hardly a world-striding technological juggernaut, but saudi arabia lags far behind iran. who in saudi arabia would develop their program? is not as if saudi arabia can import experts to develop a nuke program. short o' somehow buying nukes from other powers, we don't foresee saudi arabia as joining some kinda imagined middle-east arms proliferation race any time soon... am talking decades removed from even contemplating such a thing. so yeah, there is a few bogeyman being created w/o much basis in reality. regardless, if you thinks iran hasn't been working on developing nuclear weapons thus far, you are being naive. again, working on nuke weapons includes the "breakout options" as discussed in the linked RAND report. belief that iran will discontinue their efforts now that the coalition governments are committed to lifting sanctions and unfreezing accounts is laughable myopic. other than direct military force, the coalition governments abandoned what little leverage they had to discourage iranian nuclear weapons development. the kissinger & shultz article we linked above points out the myriad problems related to any kinda enforcement o' the terms o' this deal. wth, the US couldn't even secure the release o' 3-4 "hostages," as part o' this deal. am wondering if john kerry had to assume the position to broker his deal. regardless, if you ain't concerned, then you ain't been paying attention to the middle-east, and iran in particular. HA! Good Fun!

estimates we seen reported, such as the 2012 RAND studies, suggest iran is at least 1 year away from development of nuclear weapons, and that they could not accomplish such a feat w/o the US discovering their efforts to do so. that being said, iran's efforts have not been directed at creating an actual weapon but rather to improve its "breakout options." iran has been working towards shortening that 1 year timeline for weapon development, and improving the potential number of weapons that could be produced in addition to working on more mundane aspects such as delivery systems. the more obvious way to look at the scenario is that the current sanctions and multi-national agreements to limit the iranian weapon program has worked thus far. given iran's dishonesty regarding their nuclear program (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-25/iran-nuclear-talks-reflect-history-of-war-and-deceit http://security.blogs.cnn.com/?s=parchin) reasonable folks is gonna be suspicious 'o iranian claims. HA! Good Fun! ps found the rand linky http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2012/RAND_MG1180.pdf

What are you worried about? That Republicans if they win the election next year will change the negotiations terms...or something else ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emerging-iran-nuclear-deal-raises-major-concerns-in-congress-and-beyond/2015/02/05/4b80fd92-abda-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/arab-states-fear-dangerous-iranian-nuclear-deal-will-shake-up-region/2015/07/14/96d68ff3-7fce-4bf5-9170-6bcc9dfe46aa_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-blasts-iran-deal-as-dark-day-in-history/2015/07/14/feba23ae-0018-403f-82f3-3cd54e87a23b_story.html so, a number o' arab nations is concerned about an emboldened and enriched iran in the middle-east, and israel, the only dependable US ally in the middle-east (ever) is also concerned and angry. but hey, at least obama got guarantees that iran would not develop its nuclear capacity, right? no? so, we got what amounts to a capitulation to demands by tehran while playing hardball with Congress? huh? but hey, before the next election, oil prices is likely to drop and a new market will be opened up for a multitude o' american businesses. HA! Good Fun! But in this argument you are completely missing the most important part about the deal. This deal is an investment in the Iranian youth. dear lord. HA! Good Fun!

Hyperbole anyone? Your post is an egregious exaggeration my fine feathered friend Obama had to deal with a broken USA economy, 2 military ground occupations and loads of global animosity. Obama will be handing over a recovered USA economy, no more military ground occupations, an aerial military campaign and less animosity. Bush trumped him by far your obama appreciation is genuine, yes? the economy initial goes belly up 'cause o' a variety o' factors, including the failure o' other major economies. irresponsible and borderline fraudulent lending practices were, in our opinion, the most noteworthy mistake that contributed to the economic downfall and we can blame those failures on both republican and democrat Congresses over past +15 years. so, what did obama, as President, actual do to improve the economic situation? stimulus? gonna have as many (more actual) economists arguing that stimulus helped not at all and actual contributed to duration o' the economic downturn. so, what else? the economy did what it does and, for the most part, fixed itself as legislators and businessmen reacted after the fact and with disturbing listlessness. obama didn't make the economic problems, but neither did his predecessor (can field compelling arguments that if any President is to blame, clinton would be the guy) and he sure as heck didn't fix anything. other major domestic issues? well, racial tensions is, perhaps ironic, higher now than when obama took office. the thing is, obama's power to respond to such stuff is actual limited. yeah, he could be more vocal and use his non-Constitutional power to set agendas by being the most visible member o' the Federal government to change the national dialogue. perhaps to our benefit, obama has embraced a kinda limited response philosophy throughout his tenure. the President has been extreme cautious in handling race issues, which necessarily means that he has done very little. the root cause o' the racial tensions is economic in nature, and while obama weren't the 'cause o' the bad economy, he sure as hell shoulda' been aware that the economic downturn would hurt the poorest segments o' our nation. campaign promises regarding nsa spying on Americans? HA! obamacare? is honest far too early to say whether obamacare is success or failure. foreign affairs is where Presidents get far more impact, so is better to look at his legacy on foreign affairs-- accept that Presidents get far too much credit and blame for domestic issues. china... obama specific made promises that he would take focus off the middle-east and make bolstering alliances with asian nations a major goal o' his Presidency. so, how did that work out? obama were promising to shut down guantanamo. uh... well, am guessing you can say he kinda/sorta half-succeeded there. the average european citizen sees obama as less threatening than former Presidents, but our actual relationship with european administrations has cooled in light o' the various spying scandals. romney (not our favorite Presidential candidate) warned that russia were a genuine and emerging threat during a debate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/03/20/flashback-obamas-debate-zinger-on-romneys-1980s-foreign-policy/ obama dealing with russia has been embarrassing. (as an aside, you can let video continue to hear some funny facts 'bout obamacare promises... depending on how it loads for you.) the middle-east. *groan* am in agreement that getting out o' iraq were good. How we got out o' iraq led to predictable problems. am not joking just how predictable given various military reports on the dangers o' an accelerated withdrawal from iraq... but honestly, am not gonna once again go into how obama's dedication to a hands-off approach has been a complete and utter failure. but at least the US is still liked by sub-saharan african nations... right? no? ... sh!t HA! Good Fun! ps obama made numerous campaign promises to native americans before and after he were elected. many/most indians (the current pc term) is members o' bia recognized tribes: domestic dependent nations. is a legal fiction used to describe US relationship with native peoples, so is not genuine domestic or foreign affairs. in any event, the tribal law and order act as well as the indian health care improvement act has drawn as much criticism as acclaim, but am gonna concede that obama has done more than previous administrations, although not enough to actual improve conditions for most native peoples. the problems is too big to be handled without serious dedication and ther ain't no motivation for a President to fix indian problems.

is good points. we only went to the obsidian main page 'cause you mentioned the poll. can't recall the last time we accessed the main page. however, am not suggesting that our behavior is typical. that being said, there were a similar favorites poll on this board, yes? am recalling that the percentages and choices were similar. eder, at least, were the favorite. HA! Good Fun!

is not a problem for Gromnir, but obsidian creative impulses has gotten them into trouble in the past. making games is a business. traditional publisher and developer dynamic requires that the developer reach certain milestones if they wanna get paid. ... a creative endeavour that gots literal dozens o' folks working on bits and pieces over a considerable span o' time is kinda a wacky notion to Gromnir. our limited managerial experience makes us at least sympathetic to the problems o' keeping a group o' different persons and personalities working on the same project while needing meet uncompromising deadlines. am guessing that games is more like big architecture projects wherein your creativity better shine bright and big early in development 'cause thereafter the process o' realizing the concepts is dirty and ugly and requiring much toil and sweat. some guy on a big building project realizes halfway through construction that there were a better and more elegant way to do X? tough. is likely too late. you got schedules to keep and people to pay and many sleepless nights ahead o' you w/o even contemplating making major changes once the actual building is well under way. the thing is, obsidian, as is typical o' creative types, has a tendency to wana make their games better, and they seeming tend to underestimate just how much effort their changes is gonna impact their schedules... or they don't make sure they get changes in writing. am not doubting that obsidian thought that white march would be further along than it is, but keep in mind, poe itself were set for a 2014 release. the obsidians, in an attempt to make game better, add and change features and content and whatnot. those changes have ripple effects. given that there ain't no publisher or milestones to concern themselves with, we suspect that the obsidians is even more concerned with getting things right as 'posed to meeting initial target schedules. am not the least bit concerned or surprised that an obsidian project w/o a publisher is seeing some slippage insofar as meeting initial deadlines. let 'em take their time and add/change features that they believe will make the game better. we want good. a few extra months for good is a cheap price to pay. HA! Good Fun!

Baldur's Gate 2 tends to get a lot of praise, but I always preferred Baldur's Gate in every way except mechanically. And this includes the music. Damn I love that tune. That said, I do really like the music for PoE, for the most part, but I can agree that it doesn't exactly get you stoked. Design in BG tends to be rather bland. The City of Baldurs Gate was a inconsistend and thoughtless mess. "Hey guys, let's throw all things medieval and ancient in the mix!" Bland, maybe, but I kinda liked that. It felt more down to earth and not so out there. ... have no idea what that means. in any event, like bg or bg2 is a matter o' opinion, so is tough to attach value to such choices. however, we will note that the many differences 'tween bg and bg2 came about 'cause o' the responsiveness o' biowarians to feedback from fans. the party companions received far more development in bg2 precisely 'cause o' fan demand for more such interaction. largely empty wilderness maps were criticized with little opposition by bg fandom, and the biowarians listened. grandmastery and ranged weapons were too powerful in bg, so developers made alterations to those features in bg2. following the release o' totsc, we heard appeals for more robust locales and quests such as were related to durlag's tower, and far less o' the one-room encounters as were common throughout bg city and other villages in bg. etc. is opinions, but like or not, the biowarians listened to the opinions voiced by fans at the time bg2 were being developed. *chuckle* 'course, listen to fans is a double-edged sword. sure, fans managed to get portrait art changed and the dopey feralan kit dropped even after the biowarians had implemented or developed, but fans also made complete arses out o' themselves during the npc creation contest. HA! Good Fun!

well, it is possible for the least liked and most beloved character lists to be identical. durance and grieving mother, as examples, would appear to be polarizing characters-- folks like or hate. HA! Good Fun!

don't use it. if it offends, for whatever irrational reason you concoct, don't use respec. limiting the availability o' respec would defeat much o' its value. 2.0 will not be the last patch or the last change after all. in addition players, due to the rather endemic disconnect between the actual implementation o' talents, spells, powers and abilities vs. the descriptions o' such as contained in tooltips and the manual, will continue to reasonable rely on such false descriptions to their detriment. regardless, whether the role-play abrogation occur due to developer error or misapprehensions on the part o' the player, to have a role-play saving feature work as "a one-time respec upon loading a pre-2.0 save," would be utterly myopic. the only rational explanation we has seen for opposing the presence o' an optional respec feature is limited to resource allocation. the difficulties o' adding such a feature after-the-fact to an existing game could present significant resource costs. obsidian being more aware o' actual costs o' implementation than any casual observer, went ahead and added an optional respec feature that has absolute 0 potential to impact the gameplay or enjoyment o' any sane and rational player who does not choose to use it. HA! Good Fun! ps does anybody posting know how respec will actual work in 2.0, or is preemptive criticisms based on guesses?

http://www.henryakissinger.com/articles/wsj040715.html HA! Good Fun!

given the depth and breadth o' changes that is arriving with 2.0, this is a welcome improvement that maintains the integrity o' poe as a role-play game. we will not need have our player concept invalidated 'cause o' developer whim or error. have us need restart to maintain role-play or gameplay continuity, regardless o' the fact that we invested +40 hours into the game? as between burdening the developers so that they need add a respec feature, or burdening the player who has invested tens of hours into the game, am thinking the choice is obvious. good move by obsidian. HA! Good Fun!

you got a point. am honest not certain what mature means nowadays. am knowing that we don't want the average male 6th grader's notion o' mature to be the test, but am equal certain that our notions is different than the typical obsidian poster and the ordinary crpg gamer. a definition that is embraced by only a handful o' folks is not gonna be particular useful to the gaming community as a whole to be identifying games one might appreciate. arterial blood splatter and t!tillation o' prurient interest is not part o' our definition o' mature, but am gonna admit that making a crpg that meets Gromnir notions o' mature is unlikely to sell. throw in the towel and concede that mature is synonymous with the US tv rating o' MA? perhaps your favorite show gets MA rating. well, guess what? so does a$$y mcgee. HA! Good Fun!

How the heck do you complain about Will Smith, a legitimate actor with tremendous range, when Jared Leto looks like a keebler elf with a drug problem? will smith does show ability, but am curious about range. he has been playing variations on the same character for awhile now. when final credits roll, we suspect we will be saying to our self that we liked will smith's character better when thomas hayden church played it in the horrible spider-man 3 film. leto... well, heath ledger's joker is a tough act to follow. personally am not impressed with what we has seen o' leto's joker thus far, but part o' the problem is that we got nicholson and ledger in our head... and we got frank miller's tdkr joker as kinda our ideal notion o' the character. perhaps you think o' bruce timm and mark hamill's joker? doesn't mater. point is most o' us know the joker character already. leto has gone a different direction. good for him. do what folks expect is doomed to mediocrity, but that also means his likelihood for failure increases. leto were excellent in dallas buyer's club, so am gonna go into this with a relative open mind... as open as we can be given he is playing a character that has so much history in film and print. HA! Good Fun!

were never any question that short-term gains exist. drop in oil, particularly before the next elections, will make many folks happy. being able to sell coca-cola and happy meals in iran will look good on cnn news bites, but many other businesses in the west will be thrilled at the chance to get a piece o' the new market. that being said, it is tough to sell anybody on the notion that the current investigation scheme is anything other than bad joke. unfreeze assets, lift sanctions and oh that nuke program that is worrisome to israel, the west and other arab nations... well, we will actual help develop that program w/o any genuine method o' enforcement o' deal terms or investigation to guarantee that yesterday's threat ain't today's reality. given the stated goals o' the administration as recent as february, we cannot help but see the deal as more a matter o' capitulation than any kinda successful negotiation as bruce suggests. for appropriate obsidian board context, lando calrissian would be embarrassed for john kerry and his... deal. you are correct that the west didn't have much o' a bargaining position, but the influence o' the US in the region has taken a serious nose dive in recent years, so we have less sympathy for the tough position the administration were in vis a vis iran. "short term benefits to the iran deal is obvious. potential long term problems will be an issue for future administrations here and abroad. isn't particular fair to those future folks, but such is life, eh?" gonna stand by that observation. HA! Good Fun!

oh, there is no question that we believe this administration has been a complete joke insofar as middle-east/north africa foreign policy is concerned. you mischaracterize our responses regarding syria but am admitting that Gromnir has been highly critical o' the obama administration in its handling o' libya, syria, israel-gaza, and iraq. yeah, there is now a possibility that iran will be less hostile towards the US, but our relationship with regional powers such as egypt and saudi arabia has gotten worse. "As part of their investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme, IAEA inspectors will also be able to request visits to military sites. However, access is not guaranteed and could be delayed. Iran will have the right to challenge the IAEA request and an arbitration panel will then decide on the issue." --from bbc ... uh... so inspectors can request access, and such requests may be challenged. well, isn't that just swell? to guarantee that iran is complying with the terms o' the deal, we got inspectors that need request access and can be denied? tell you what, why not save those overworked inspectors headaches and leave inspections up to the iranians themselves? is gonna end up with functional the same result as self-regulation, so why the pretense o' inspections? sorry bruce, but unless there is details we ain't privy to, this deal looks like the most recent in a long line o' administration middle-east foreign policy blunders. but personal? is nothing personal 'bout it. HA! Good Fun!

You are clearly not able to able read and understand much "It´s ok old guy...i hate america and your free speech, which i clearly lack so please...BRING democracy and freedom and free speech to me..i beg you..firebomb everything here like you did in ww2, preferable directly over me and then cities so you can kill as much as you can, i beg you to...than you can come in as the saviour when the war is one by someone else and let millions of "german" war prisioners starve to death.. " Thats better? No? But i guess picking out one word that doesn´t fit your style is enough to avoid a discussion you can´t win anyway right? Yeah..thought so...glad you never thaught me with that kind of education, you can only fail. so, not the last comment? guess that is another bit o' hypocrisy from you, eh? and how on earth does that quote help you? it only makes more clear that you got deep and irrational issues. lord knows Gromnir didn't bring up ww2. ww2? ... the bizarre bit is that you think you are doing well. are you a luckman dopple perchance? HA! Good Fun! Oh thanks i´m doing very well. But i do have to give you credit sticking with that idiotic way you talk. I was thinking that was RPG, but god that makes it even more funnier. That was not a quote dumbass No i was bored so i switched right in, being flexible is good Oh but Gromnir has brought up Nazis, thus the conncetion was there, *patts Gromnis head* it´s fine, i know you are not that smart, you will understand one day little Gromnir" then why put it in quotes? makes even worse if you admit you pulled outta thin air and put in quotes. you know what quotation marks signify, yes? and we brought up nazis of TODAY, 2015, in the context o' free speech. YOU stated that USA free speech IS, today, no different than eu or austrian. we gave examples o' how austrian and eu free speech is different as o' TODAY. nazi propaganda is something austria censors in 2015. speech that would denigrate the islamic faith is also prohibited. is not ww2 era speech issues we are talking 'bout. Gromnir sure as hell didn't bring up free speech as it existed in 1930s-1940s europe. ... this is getting bizarre. is there some kinda wingnut award o' the day you are trying to win? HA! Good Fun!

What are you worried about? That Republicans if they win the election next year will change the negotiations terms...or something else ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emerging-iran-nuclear-deal-raises-major-concerns-in-congress-and-beyond/2015/02/05/4b80fd92-abda-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/arab-states-fear-dangerous-iranian-nuclear-deal-will-shake-up-region/2015/07/14/96d68ff3-7fce-4bf5-9170-6bcc9dfe46aa_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-blasts-iran-deal-as-dark-day-in-history/2015/07/14/feba23ae-0018-403f-82f3-3cd54e87a23b_story.html so, a number o' arab nations is concerned about an emboldened and enriched iran in the middle-east, and israel, the only dependable US ally in the middle-east (ever) is also concerned and angry. but hey, at least obama got guarantees that iran would not develop its nuclear capacity, right? no? so, we got what amounts to a capitulation to demands by tehran while playing hardball with Congress? huh? but hey, before the next election, oil prices is likely to drop and a new market will be opened up for a multitude o' american businesses. HA! Good Fun! Wow...those links are full of doom and gloom. But Gromnir maybe you are letting your dislike of Obama, or rather his policies , cloud your judgement on this development ? I noticed that very few of the American members on this forum seem supportive of this initiative. I predicted that as I know the general view of Obama on these forums and thats fine, we are all entitled to our views Now back to the links, yes of course Israel and the Sunni countries in the ME will be opposed to this. The latter are obviously concerned with the domination of any Shia power and I know Netanyahu's views. I don't know how accurate the first link is, I just know I watched several interviews with really qualified people who have been involved in these negotiations and they were all supportive of the terms and what Iran agreed to. We need to accept that the people involved in the talks weren't there just to rubber stamp anything Iran asked for because the intention is to ensure that the agreement does ensure that Iran isn't able to develop a nuclear weapon. So I believe they would have taken this seriously Also lets see the strategic picture in the ME. Iran is still very influencial in the region and there government does consist of hardliners and moderates. The West can understand what the Iranian moderates want and the reality is the sanctions have been very effective at getting Ayatollah Khamenei to at least consider the proposals because we know he dislikes the West. So this was the perfect time to reach an agreement. If the West has refused to negotiate what would that have done for the region...the moderates in Iran would become marginalized as the hardliners would have gained more popular support as they would have used the usual rhetoric " the West wants to destroy us ..down with the USA" and appealed to the pride of the average Iranian. Now you have a victory for the moderate Iranian view. This is a good thing Forget the links, whats your personal issue with this agreement ? has nothing to do with obama dislike or like. and we don't have a personal issue. as we noted, the short term benefits is obvious, but whether you like obama or dislike him, you gotta see the potential future problems, no? the articles we link is hardly the most cynical examples o' dire portents. iran's leaders has offered up rather alarming rhetoric as recent as a few weeks ago, and you not need look hard to find images o' "average iranians" burning USA and Israeli flags as recent as Days ago. again, the goal, s'posed, were to put the kibosh on the iranian nuclear program. that ain't what we got. to make the deal work, the President made a unilateral decision to end the sanctions imposed by Congress, and he had to know that his decision would anger our one actual ally in the middle-east: israel. am not certain how we view this as any kinda a victory o' diplomacy... 'less you are speaking from tehran's perspective. but again, there will be obvious short term benefits and the problems may never become more than hypothetical. however, given the history o' the region, that kinda optimism strikes us as dangerously naive. is not about like or dislike o' obama and am not sure what kinda personal stake you might imagine us having. HA! Good Fun!

we got a priest o' berath character that we stopped playing immediate after we cleared raedric's keep. in the beta, we went with mace as our weapon o' choice for priests o' berath, but justice is available early and tidefall is found not much later, so we were considering greatswords. m 21 c 9 d 13 p 10 i 15 r 10 our divine marks were getting reliable crits even at low levels. chose island aumaua for the +2 might and the extra weapon set. the thing is, we like the dialogue options that go along with high per, int, and res. yeah, we can use food and items and the right inns to boost one or maybe even two attributes, but we like to have all three talky attributes high. for our all-priest party, we did indeed have a priest that were a 2-handed weapon specialist. we like quarterstaves with their reach, but tidefall and mabec's morningstar is potential available much earlier than special staffs... and the speed mod is broken so the one early available unique fine staff is actually handicapped. in the end we went with a hearth orlan priest o' eothas wielding the morningstar, and casting dire blessing every freaking combat encounter. more stun weapons in our party is good. HA! Good Fun!

You are clearly not able to able read and understand much "It´s ok old guy...i hate america and your free speech, which i clearly lack so please...BRING democracy and freedom and free speech to me..i beg you..firebomb everything here like you did in ww2, preferable directly over me and then cities so you can kill as much as you can, i beg you to...than you can come in as the saviour when the war is one by someone else and let millions of "german" war prisioners starve to death.. " Thats better? No? But i guess picking out one word that doesn´t fit your style is enough to avoid a discussion you can´t win anyway right? Yeah..thought so...glad you never thaught me with that kind of education, you can only fail. so, not the last comment? guess that is another bit o' hypocrisy from you, eh? and how on earth does that quote help you? it only makes more clear that you got deep and irrational issues. lord knows Gromnir didn't bring up ww2. ww2? ... the bizarre bit is that you think you are doing well. are you a luckman dopple perchance? HA! Good Fun!

What are you worried about? That Republicans if they win the election next year will change the negotiations terms...or something else ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emerging-iran-nuclear-deal-raises-major-concerns-in-congress-and-beyond/2015/02/05/4b80fd92-abda-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/arab-states-fear-dangerous-iranian-nuclear-deal-will-shake-up-region/2015/07/14/96d68ff3-7fce-4bf5-9170-6bcc9dfe46aa_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-blasts-iran-deal-as-dark-day-in-history/2015/07/14/feba23ae-0018-403f-82f3-3cd54e87a23b_story.html so, a number o' arab nations is concerned about an emboldened and enriched iran in the middle-east, and israel, the only dependable US ally in the middle-east (ever) is also concerned and angry. but hey, at least obama got guarantees that iran would not develop its nuclear capacity, right? no? so, we got what amounts to a capitulation to demands by tehran while playing hardball with Congress? huh? but hey, before the next election, oil prices is likely to drop and a new market will be opened up for a multitude o' american businesses. HA! Good Fun!

so the austrian guy hates that americans think that their free speech is unique and he hates americans glorifying war heroes. want us to show a list o' statures and memorials in austria that venerate war heroes? am thinking we already went over the free speech stuff. " Point being..because you seem so..american..." and to you that is a criticism? HA! and which one o' us has the problem? HA! Good Fun!

lol! That's kind of a cross between Eder's intentional humor and Durance's unintentional humor eh? Alright, something I always wanted to ask is about Holy Radiance. I find there are some important exceptions to ability descriptions working as advertised, and this is one. The tooltip lists the burn damage of Holy Radiance as having no enemy type restrictions, but Frightened being only Vessels. I have only seen it do either damage or Frightened to Vessels. I have not seen it even damage non-vessels. In an early play through I took Brilliant Radiance, and I still didn't see it damaging non-vessels. Is this in line with your experience? Because you don't mention Vessel-only burn damage restrictions. It would be awesome if it burned everything, and it is awesome against vessels even though my priest is not my main, but in my experience it only burns vessels. yup, holy radiance has a heal aspect and a burn aspect, but the burn only harms vessels. a pc priest with fully enhanced holy radiance (even w/o brilliant radiance) does serious damage to vessels, and there is more than a few vessels in the game. am not seeing a good reason to ever take brilliant radiance however. HA! Good Fun

short term benefits to the iran deal is obvious. potential long term problems will be an issue for future administrations here and abroad. isn't particular fair to those future folks, but such is life, eh? HA! Good Fun!

Considering that the translation is pretty spot on and suggest you are teacher, it´s a pretty good assumption AND was a question, but i guess you can´t answer the rest so you took the easy way out Yes i was right, you are arrogant. Thats ok No point in talking with you then. has nothing to do with translations. you assumed that because we taught at some point in the past that we are a teacher? why? Gromnir worked as a roofer in high school. we had a job in a materials lab for one summer in college. we also worked at a juvenile detention facility. you make poor assumptions, much as you assumed you knew how USA free speech worked compared EU or austrian free speech. why do you keep making silly assumption based on nothing save ignorance? *shrug* you ain't considered that your patriotism and absence o' genuine knowledge has led you to make assumptions that don't have a basis in fact? Gromnir offered a reflection that we had a similar experience to danny elfman-- when we first returned from an extended time abroad, we were at our most patriotic. that patriotism, which were never all that strong, has cooled as did elfman's. is an observation o' our personal experience. we didn't actual bother reading your earlier post, but did you make the assumption that Gromnir is particularly patriotic today? *chuckle* am not sure how many times we has criticized the US on these boards and am pretty darn certain we mentioned how our initial upbringing colored our outlook o' the US. free speech is one thing the US does different and better. continued relations with domestic dependant nations (an odd legal fiction) makes us chafe a bit. list all the things we think US does wrong and we is gonna sound more like a revolutionary than a patriot. *shrug* you is gonna assume as best fits your worldview... colored by your patriotism? HA! Good Fun!

depends. paladin or priest? if is paladin, then you likely need a priest too. ok, right from the start we need make clear that player character paladins and priests are better than any joinable companion or adventure hall product. faith and convictions is an inherent paladin quality. IF you have at least 3 in your chosen order's favored dispositions, you get +11 to deflection and +22 to your fort/ref/wil saves. sparkly. for a priest, high values in favored dispositions offers increased powha for your holy radiance ability, which can be significant. the thing is, only the player character benefits (or suffers) from disposition alterations to abilities. paladins make decent secondary support characters, and they can also be a primary tank. am personally believing many folks tend to waste paladins in their attempt to build a perfect pure tank. you don't need ultimate deflection to be an effective and superlative worthy poe tank. however, a great tank with a handful of incredible support abilities is what distinguishes the paladin from other tanky classes... but your mileage may be different. poe is flexible enough that your way, chosen through whim, experimentation or ignorance, is not necessarily gonna be wrong. darcozzi paladini get an excellent support ability above and beyond what other paladins have available to them. there is a minor flame shield option for dp paladins which is meh, but the prize is inspiring liberation which is usable 2x per encounter and allows your paladin to free an ally from many debilitating effects while providing a +10 accuracy boost. zealous focus is an aura that boosts accuracy and stacks with a priest's inspiring radiance. add in inspiring radiance and you see impressive accuracy enhancements. dependable accuracy boosts without the need for spell casting is invaluable. highest attribute score for Gromnir paladins is always int as boosting that attribute will result in significant duration increases of our limited abilities. if you only have a few abilities, you might as well have them last through an entire battle, eh? it is our opinion that kind wayfarers have the best heals outta the paladin orders, but that isn't saying all that much. priests are closer to classic fantasy crpg heals, but there are a few differences to be aware of when getting started. there will be a suggestion or two to dump constitution as that is a kinda universal dump stat in the minds o' many folks. sadly, priests have the worst starting health possible and relative poor deflection as well. as a priest, you are fragile. dump con with caution. personally, we never drop con below 9. ... priests were the single most under-appreciated class during the beta. there were multiple MVP Class threads between august of 2014 and march of 2015 and only Gromnir ever claimed that priests deserved consideration as the bestest class. weird. a priest makes a relative poor tank (though we did create a dwarf priest to tank for an all-priest party and he were viable) but he/she can fulfill multiple other roles. dual wield clubs or stilettos as a priest o' skaen and you will get decent weapon dps in addition to having your excellent support and damage-dealing spells. perhaps you wanna keep your priest ranged? a priest o' magran with inspired flame makes an excellent gunner... if you spend the talents. however, to be decent with weapons you must need take your deity's favored weapon talent, plus a weapon focus talent and likely 1-2 more weapon related talents. that is a lotta talents. converse, perhaps you want your priest to instead sit back (you can't sit back too far as you have relative short range on your spells) and cast poe version o' heals and support spells? that works too. btw, don't get too worked up on attribute scores, regardless o' advice received here or elsewhere on these boards. we finished poe potd with three different characters: dps melee rogue, support priest, tanky paladin. all three of our characters had similar attribute spreads and all three were very effective. sure, we had to play to our strengths and choose appropriate talents and abilities, but it is our advice to choose attributes based on rp choices rather than a belief that min-max will give you a needed edge. you don't need perfect attributes because there are no perfect attributes and because all the attributes offer some value... though con and per is currently kinda weak. m 10 c 10 d 10 p 16 i 16 r 16 is approx attribute spread o' our three different potd characters. dps. support. tank. the min-maxers is not getting as much value from their efforts as they suppose. is a numerical system, so 'course there is gonna be advantages in finding an ideal spread, but your talent and ability choices is far more important. you will not screw up your character at level 1 by accident choosing the wrong attributes. nevertheless, if we were concerned about attributes, we would say, "it depends," when giving advice about attribute allocation. *shrug* it depends on what you want from your priest. priests have relative slow cast times, and we find that dex just doesn't improve cast speeds enough to matter much. is a bit similar in reasoning as to why we no longer take the gunner talent for gunners. for a pure caster priest, we would emphasize intellect followed by might, and then choose the rest to even out your saves a bit. however, for our aforementioned priest o' skaen who is dual-wielding stilettos, we believe high dex is essential to take advantage o' her fast weapons load-out. so, it depends, yes? armour is a personal call kinda thing. the second chance quality is great, but a choice 'tween heavy and light armours is gonna much depend on personal quirks and weapon choices. again (Gromnir opinion) your cast times is so slow that armour penalty adjustments makes little meaningful difference to most o' your spells, but, if you are gonna use weapons, your armour choice is gonna need take such into account. and no matter what, you should consider how relative squish you are when choosing armour. is a few clowns who choose to have their 3 con priests go naked into battle. 'course the first time the party rogue gets charmed and kills you with two hits, that particular wardrobe choice is looking less dapper, eh? ok, now this is the part 'bout priests that is overlooked, likely based on lingering misguided notions carrying over from the beta. the priest is an excellent offensive spell caster. no other class gets as much value from the scion o' flame talent as do priests-- take it. your holy radiance does burn damage and you got burn spells at early, middle and late spell levels. you wanna see the world burn? play a priest with high might and scion of flame. beyond your numerous flame spells, you also have seal spells (one o' which causes burn damage.) seal spells use hazard math to determine accuracy. a typical hazard is a wall of flame. hazards receive heightened accuracy, which makes sense seeing is how it is a stable effect that can damage friend or foe alike... kinda. priest seal spells get the hazard math, but they target foe-only. drop a searing seal down on top (beneath) your own party and only the bad guys is gonna get burned and blinded, and they will get burned and blinded. recommendation: use seal spells often. so, as a priest you are able to have a character with the highest possible accuracy with a weapon (a single weapon) and you are having the widest range o' party buffs, and your seal spells are providing you with a variety o' damaging and debilitating effects that have the highest possible spell accuracy in the game, not to mention an arsenal o' flame abilities that would make Gabriel weep with envy. general parting advice: paladins is great in support, but we don't like 'em as our sole support. however, working in tandem with a priest, they are fantastic. priests are all-round excellent, unless you want the tankiness that a chanter or paladin offers. we always have the urge to make a party with two (or more) priests. don't worry about attributes overmuch-- focus on talent and ability choices. read the talent and ability descriptions as Most such stuff works as advertised. interruption is still a relative weak effect. you can get use from it, but is largely wasteful to build a priest or paladin around the interrupter quality. 2.0 will change the balance of various attributes, abilities and talents. we do not know if there will be a respec function. if you can hold off starting play until 2.0 arrives, it might be in your best interest to do so. 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