Gromnir

your loss. you too mighta' learned something. keep in mind, the specific euro observation were that the US should "allow" more than two parties. is a frequent claim by americans and foreigners that the US has a two-party system. is nothing which prevents 3p from being successful at the local level save familiarity and custom. at the national level is similar no impediment or systemic limits. curious enough, is a state-level issue 'cause most (not all) individual states has winner-take-all grants o' "electors" (or whatever is the state vernacular) and this has led to 3p success at the national level becoming prohibitive difficult for President and a smidge less so for Congress. etc. and then we explained the whole state v. national aspects and constitutional prohibitions and limits am not gonna once again get into 'cause one person were too lazy to read. US literal can't do anything to allow... and the follow up where an american indicated he were 3p were precise our point, 'cause most americans don't recognize the issues any better than does ordinary australians or germans who get all their political info from the intraweb. education is always the first step. am here to help if you let us. next, if you wish, we can explain how poor understood and misapplied is the occam's razor principle. HA! Good Fun!

aside, am thinking even if dems manage to win both the nevada and arizona senate contests, georgia is extreme important. am guessing IF dems do win nevada and arizona, and those victories is hardly a certainty at this point, then the person rooting most aggressive for herschel walker in the runoff is krysten sinema... and that is only slight hyperbole. the other senator from arizona, who has been identified as the most disliked member o' the senate by a number o' recent polls, is only relevant these days as a spoiler who appears curious committed to wall street. manchin is troublesome for democrats, but he has displayed a willingness to work with his party to advance key legislation and he is at least arguable representing his coal loving constituents. marginalizing sinema with an additional senate seat would be a major boon for democrats, and for the people o' arizona. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* have no idea if trump woulda' eventual become embroiled in ukraine following a russian invasion. we didn't claim a trump administration would have perpetual avoided. am also having no idea what point you see in bringing up serbia as somehow relevant to the specific issue o' how US policy regarding ukraine would be different under biden than the former guy. 'could also have told complained to us 'bout US foreign policy regarding pakistan. if you got a wild hare up your arse regarding serbia or pakistan, then no doubt you see such as debate worthy, but neither is touching specific the differences 'tween a biden and trump administration response to ukraine. can't believe am responding, 'cause this is a level o' obvious difficult to fathom. (edit... and done with this. pontius pilate moment arrived)'cause of course trump woulda' been working with ukraine and nato allies pre-invasion, sharing intelligence and quietly attempting to impress upon them the threat the US intelligence agencies (agencies which trump did not trust and routine ignored) were observing? and when invasion did happen, no doubt trump's first reaction would have been to get other nato nations to commit to defense o' ukraine, as 'posed to a whole lotta bluster and ridicule directed at nato leaders and the press and hillary. is no way the trump and biden response to ukraine is similar. consensus building with nato by trump? serious? whatever. am so no going down the rabbit hole any further. perhaps this is one o' those situations where pre invasion opinions is preventing any meaningful chance to reevaluate. @majesticwould hardly be the only person paralysed with pre-invasion opines, but we don't know as have been avoiding to a great degree. regardless, equivocating as to whether the US response to ukraine would look different under biden as 'posed to trump is... silly. HA! Good Fun!

as difficult as it may be to believe, the laughing cave encounter is easier today than at release. that said, w/o meta knowledge is doubtful you would see the vavakia vanguard as having been nerfed in any meaningful way. pre nerfing it were fair to ask why the two wotr vavakia vanguards didn't overthrow deskari and baphomet and then set their sights on the entirety o' the abyss, 'cause their powhaz were potential army shattering as well seeming tailored to overcome most demonlord defenses. 'course asmodeus and mephistopheles wouldn't have fared any better, so war 'tween the fiends were all but over as soon as the vavakia vaguards made an appearance. as to secrets o' creation, am admitted confused by the replication o' content from enigma and secrets. @Agielsuggested backer contribution were at least in part to blame as a backer were the one who demanded an all puzzle quest. for whatever reason, owl cat went full infernal or bottled genie, perverting the backer wish so as to become a curse... or so we assume. edit: am mostly finished with act iv. a few things has changed with act iv. we got jumped by a bunch o' slavers which hadn't happened previous, but were such minor encounter am not sure why it were added or fixed. am also seeing how the hand no longer tops off your spells and daily abilities when he heals you, but resting works curious as our meal bonuses don't appear to expire as one would expect. rooftop remain dangerous for a party with many critters and embiggened companions as we inevitably set off traps when our oversized party is crammed into rooftop space. gonna finish off the quasit and then move on to the mines. HA! Good Fun!

@Guard Dogdoesn't even need be here for people to try and use the i was keeding defense, eh? if Gromnir makes an off-color joke 'bout trump or antifa and somebody calls us on it, we would look kinda stoopid if we claimed that this time we were joking. got some rando who has a posting history o' years trying to pretend he is just keeding, this time, eh? is no reason you need pretend as if posters has never posted on these boards previous to making their "joke." as for @majestic suggesting that maybe biden deserves some credit for a shift in policy toward ukraine, am admitted confused 'cause it didn't appear to be meant as keeding. like him or not, agree or not, biden responded to russian buildup much different than woulda' the former guy, and act dismissive as if nato posture and US contributions maybe/possibly could have been different with 45 is the sorta hyperbole another poster, after the fact, pretended were keeding so... but while is admitted not fair, am gonna get resist becoming involved in a nato/ukraine debate, save that am thinking it ain't actual debate worthy to suggest nato posture and US response to the russian invasion o' ukraine would look quite different today, but for biden. is hardly a trivial change. even so, were so much gaslighting and pretending as if january and february ukraine posts didn't happen on these boards that am so not gonna deal with further ukraine punditry at this time... and for the foreseeable future. HA! Good Fun!

evidence o' that gop infighting we were talking 'bout moments ago, yes? trump's favorite "newspaper" is staking him out like the goat from jurassic park and is hard to imagine he exits as the gop leader anymore quiet and dignified than he did when he lost the Presidential election. january 6 didn't convince republicans to jettison trump, nor did any o' his legal issues. is almost insulting to think lukewarm mid-term gains could be what ends the gop collective genuflection at the mar-a-lago altar. for democrats, the best scenario is for the trump base to rally around their guy and prevent trump's fall or at least make it take as long as possible. am thinking democrats need trump far more than does the gop. HA! Good Fun!

as we said, your ignorance is ordinary and no worse than what we has come to expect. am not expecting an admission from you, but am gonna continue to provide corrective info as required when we see you get it wrong... again. euro and canadian preoccupation with american politics in spite o' most such individuals having only the most surface level understanding o' US issues and the systemic limitations to change is hardly new btw. many decades past we went to teach in europe and at the time we were a liberal Cal graduate who had a whole lotta anger directed at the US government. being around europeans on a daily basis for ~18 months is what turned us into a moderate conservative. and is not as if we were teaching law neither which mighta' explained why our students were so willing to opine on all things US. were literature students for chrissakes. y'know, we don't even feel confident speaking 'bout maryland politics as the US is extreme diverse and local issues is more relevant than national for most voters. prop 30 were getting significant coverage here in california and am suspecting that water is gonna be an increasing important issue with each subsequent ca election, but taxes subsidizing electric cars and water hardly make top ten o' the most important national issues and am suspecting maryland top issues look mighty different than california. we don't feel confident opining on maryland, but what euros and canadians glean from the intraweb makes all too many experts on US? *snort* aside, am marginal confident warnock has an edge in a runoff. as with the 2020 georgia senate runoff(s), placing the senate majority in the balance will overcome the one hurdle democrats always face when is time for elections: indolence. is more registered democrats in georgia than there is republicans. if democrats vote, then they should win. also, herschel walker is a terrible candidate and with the expected post midterm gop infighting/finger pointing, is hard to believe mr. walker won't become representative o' the seeming divide brewing in the gop. finally, mr. walker is a train wreck and is hard to imagine new stories won't come to light in the intervening month which make walker even less appealing to the few fence straddlers. HA! Good Fun! ps (edit) prop 30 is actual a decent example o' the kinda local issue politics which is gonna lead to euro and even non californian confusion. am suspecting most non californians would be shocked by how the prop 30 issue went down 'cause 'course tree hugging and woke californians wanna tax the rich to make more electric cars available, right?

*chuckle* our explanation shows how hyperbole is less than helpful as the issue is more complex than suggested. also, your last few posts indicate the kinda ordinary ignorance o' the US political system we has come to expect from most europeans and all too many americans. am gonna take at face value unless we see evidence which suggests another explanation. HA! Good Fun!

isn't what you said though, is it? and we explained why a magic wand approach to fixing your perceived problem is not a solution. is numerous libertarian and green party elected officials in the US, but is all local level positions. even if we get more than 50% o' americans to agree it is bad that there is gonna be not but the most infrequent 3p candidate running successful for Congress, and no chance whatsoever for President, then individual states need make changes similar to nebraska and maine. would be unconstitutional for Congress or a fed law to change the individual state voting schemes, so you need some high % o' the remaining 48 states to advance a change to what has been the norm for more than 100 years. so again, more than two parties is allowed in spite o' your claim, and the solution has already been implemented in two states. is no real impediment to change save that americans don't want it in enough numbers to alter the current situation. ... am not gonna need once again explain how representative democracy works, yes? HA! Good Fun!

... am wondering if these two recognize the disconnect. *shrug* find any mention o' political parties in the Constitution. am gonna wait while absolutely none of you bother to look. ... ... nobody who didn't look found anything 'bout parties, right? we explained all this once when @Guard Dogwere going on one o' his soap box moments 'bout how 2016 national vote totals represented a new era for third parties, but it never sticks. there is no US prohibition or codified limit on 3rd party participation at the state or local levels, 'cause that would violate first amendment and whatever 'cause most people ain't even read this far so am talking to maybe three people anyway. the thing is, for fed level elections in particular, is near impossible for third parties to develop a following because most states, on an individual basis, award electors/votes in a winner-take-all manner. if a libertarian and green party candidate each gain large % o' votes, but not more than the republican or democrat candidate, then they effective get nothing. have 25% o' people vote green party for a fed office candidate and the payoff ends up being nada, zilch, zero. the third party candidate needs an outright win over established parties to make inroads and that is a tough call. teddy Roosevelt ran against woodrow wilson as a third party candidate for President and lost in spite o' his national popularity and the kinda name recognition any modern third party candidate is unlikely to replicate. he failed as has every 3p Presidential candidate since the mid 1800s. is why we keep telling gd that libertarian ack jassery as they flush money down the toilet every four years on Presidential candidates is unforgivable 'cause they got real chances to win at smaller local levels, but is the national stuff which in spite o' no mention o' a two-party system anywhere in the Constitution or fed laws makes it well-nigh impossible to win. ok, so there is no prohibition on 3rd parties, but let's for a moment assume most Americans were to agree that the current scheme so disadvantages a third party that something should be done to fix the problem. now what? what is your solution? will wait for responses am already knowing is not forthcoming 'cause at this point is maybe two people reading and am kinda talking to self. blah, blah, blah. ... nobody? the obvious problem is even if you got a national better than fifty% consensus that two parties is bad, the fed government don't have any power to change the situation and if they did try, such efforts would most certainly be declared unconstitutional. see, it does mention in the Constitution that states is in charge o' running their elections for fed offices, which is what led to the loggerheads situation 'tween trump and raffensperger down in georgia, yes? potus were trying to lean on a state elections official in the hope the he could change national results. trump showed time and again he were willing to break rules and laws, but for elections, there just weren't the fed apparatus necessary to steal an election. even trump's january 6 scheme were predicated on individual state legislatures overturning the results o' state election totals. furthermore, is not as if the current scheme is denying a person any other fed protected Constitutional right and it ain't as if ordinary people in kansas or california is prevented from changing their voting scheme if they so desire. in fact, is two states (nebraska and maine... go figure, eh?) which do not use winner-take-all, so is proof o' the possibility The People may choose other than the current scheme which favours two parties. the US does not have a two party system in any meaningful sense. is no national apparatus or scheme o' laws which favour two parties over three or fifty. what we got is a situation wherein 48 states has decided, individually and beyond the scope o' fed interference, to adopt a winner-take-all and in so doing those states has collective made 3rd party national candidates somehwere 'twixt improbable and impossible. didn't stick with gd, so am hardly optimistic anybody else has their misunderstandings corrected. regardless, it is possible at least one german could learn something today. call it a win. HA! Good Fun!

if it were genuine an indefinite long-term prediction, then immediate republican wins is irrelevant so... the reframing effort were kinda a cheap dodge regardless as you can always pushback the timeline for change w/o ever needing be wrong, yes? didn't mean this year, or even this decade, but eventual? prove it can't happen eventual? *snort* HA! Good Fun!

a shocking % of americans don't understand how the US fed system works, so is hardly a surprise when euros and kanadians get confused. 'course for four years, many o' us who know how the fed system is designed to work would lament that trump and/or barr couldn't do _________. they did anyway. past Presidents, with the exception o' a few infamous examples, voluntarily adhered to customs o' behavior and avoided illegal and unConstitutional actions. the previous administration showed us obvious flaws in the system, and those flaws remain as the gop has been largely resistant to closing loopholes. that being said, Congress is designed to need overcome procedural gridlock to achieve meaningful results. the founders were afeared o' tyrants only a smidge more than they were o' athenian democracy. ... nevertheless, predictions o' paradigm shifts 'cause o' republicans retaking the House is curious given that for the last two years democrats had a majority in the House and an effective majority in Senate as well as a President o' the same party. considering all the legislation democrats has not been able to successful make law these past two years, predictions o' a republican authored fed abortion ban is... curious. democrats has for decades been unable to advance national abortion protections in spite o' frequent majorities in Congress as well as a friendly chief executive. a belief this midterm election somehow heralds a major political upheaval is bordering on the obtuse. however, assuming gop retakes the house, there will be an unending flood o' investigations into all kinda stoopid which will make for at least a couple years o' gruesome tv and radio as various media outlets cover such "news" with their unique spin. fox will portray far different than msnbc. can't imagine how americans is becoming increasing polarized, eh? HA! Good Fun! ps am almost certain republicans take nothing o' value from their failure to achieve a red wave. in spite o' historic inflation and traditional mid-term realignment, gop is looking to make minimal and underwhelming gains. in a normal cycle, the gop would reflect o' success and failures o' the midterms to reassess their platform which admitted is non existent save as a list o' grievances. instead am anticipating a reflexive double-down.

if you say so, but while you distinguish iron man as a function o' time or desperation or somesuch, you seeming ignore thor: ragnarök's thor. thor fans got more demanding as time went on and needed their own personal best version o' characters with multiple iterations to be adhering to a specific interpretation? doesn't explain the broad approval o' taika waititi's initial thor effort, which represented nowhere near the first thor mcu offering. if for every new exception you need a new explanation, then your generalization don't have much merit, yes? you are making more complicated what looks like general superhero fatigue which is no different than what happened with westerns or biblical epics or any other sub-genre. these kinda hero movies is always gonna be popular even if the trappings change, but eventual we see a saturation point. producers and directors face the quixotic as fans is simultaneous unforgiving when the formula is abandoned while at same time they is rejecting the newest iteration if is just same or too similar to the previous offerings. is there some group o' hank pym fans who require an overt display o' domestic abuse for them to embrace the character, 'cause otherwise is fracture... or somesuch. doubt it. just as with westerns, creators o' superhero content is gonna be increasing frustrated as they are unable to predict what degree o' original is gonna satisfy fans w/o alienating 'em. same bat time. same bat channel. HA! Good Fun!

... y'know, this ain't actual wrong. is not schrödinger per se, but at least one explanation o' quantum mechanics suggests that is not an either/or but rather that every possibility does happen-- in one universe, the cat lives and in another the cat dies. so assuming the drawing is indeed random, and random don't necessarily mean what folks thinks it means, then yeah, every potential winner is indeed gonna win in at least one universe. so... congrats? HA! Good Fun! ps with infinite universes n' such, Gromnir, who has not purchased a lottery ticket since the late 80s when we did so once and failed to win, did in fact purchase a powerball ticket in 2022, and won. so, you don't even need be a ticket purchaser to be a winner?

it isn't difficult to condemn violence (admitted stoopid and petty violence) even when it is directed at folks you don't like. y'know, if the media hadn't told us that musk implored his followers to vote republican, we woulda' never been aware. we figure musk followers is either 1) people who already share musk values and were gonna vote red anyways, or 2) the highway accident rubber necks who, knowing musk has asperger's and lacks a social filtre, is just waiting for him to say something asinine so they can laugh or roll their eyes. is difficult to imagine either o' those two groups changing their votes based on a musk request. the rest o' us find out 'bout musk silliness 'cause the media tells us which bits o' business news and train wreck quality social faux pas is worthy o' being documented and memorialized. we decided to not buy one o' musk's cars after initial making a deposit. we cancelled the purchase 'cause o' musk views as 'posed to our opinion o' the auto. amounted to an effective + 68K fu. ain't much more need be said 'bout musk from Gromnir. HA! Good Fun!

you could be right. we active avoid media stories and reviews regarding shows and movies save from those limited sources we trust. am recalling it were difficult to find opinions regarding captain marvel which weren't at least as much 'bout politics and social concerns as they were reflecting on the quality o' the movie. am not doubting such is happening with she hulk. too bad. HA! Good Fun!

legend leveling is misunderstood in part 'cause o' owlcat description o' fast leveling. misleading. took us more than ten hours o' gameplay to get from 35 to 38, so final two levels... maybe more than an hour. admitted we play mostly tb. even so, is perhaps not as described. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking you are serious over analyzing based on your personal knowledge as 'posed to the ordinary mcu fan. what % o' viewers knows all the jen walters comic stories... or cares? *shrug* am not a fan o' she-hulk though it started ok... and the suggestion by some that the problems o' the show is just masculine knee-jerk to feminist content is a cheap dodge in part 'cause she-hulk is a terrible vehicle for feminist issues. the show started ok. sure, once again we saw the almost reflexive subversion o' the damsel in distress schtick. jen were instant overcoming the need for a male authority figure or teacher, which ain't a complaint 'cause abandoning the introspection and the obi-wan/merlin tropes advanced the plot and for a sitcom it woulda' been kinda tedious to need deal with incremental overcoming the hulk curse. jen became a hulk and yet unlike the majority o' her comic book iterations, she rejected the hulk stuff 'cause she already had a meaningful existence. as a successful attorney, jen saw the hulk stuff as nothing more than an annoying obstacle and she weren't gonna let bruce or her own hulkness interfere with her life. good on you jen. good on marvel for not going with the stoopid "mousy" jen walters who graduates suma **** laude from law school but nevertheless gets her powers after she is the accidental victim o' a mob hit aimed at her father, the la county sheriff. mousy is in quotes 'cause such is how jen walters is described in the comics in spite o' being a successful and attractive woman. tv jen knows her own worth and that value ain't dependent on being a hulk... at least for one episode. %$#@ gonna avoid spoilers, so apologies for being vague, but jen suffers some career setbacks 'cause o' her hulkness which makes her want to be a hulk even less, but then she gets a new job offer, but more important, boys. *groan* got an intelligent, successful, funny and attractive woman who rejects sooperpowers, but then... boys. somehow unable to find a date in la without becoming a 7' viridian centerfold straight out o' a teenage comic geek's wet dream, jen embraces her hulkness... to get laid. %$#@ and %$#@ anybody who tells us our criticism is 'cause feminist something or other, 'cause that is a terrible direction for a s'posed feminist show to take. oh, and the show somehow managed to get worse from tinder she-hulk, but were ok 'cause blame it all on formulaic mcu writing as the real bad guy o' the show... or something. and yeah, there were funny moments we much enjoyed, and yes we did like tatiana maslany, ginger gonzaga and tim roth, 'mongst others. dare devil were a nice addition. but tell us she hulk were disliked 'cause o' men not getting feminism is as cheap as were the she-hulk ending. the show had an actress we saw as more than capable who were a positive female character, right up until boys. squandered talent and opportunity to try and bait and switch feminism. shame on mcu for hand waving at feminism with their cheap schtick while indulging the same old stereotypes and tropes. ... guess you could say we were disappointed, and had nothing to do with our comic book expectations. HA! Good Fun!

started out as a half-elf dirge bard 'cause is the best potential intimidator in the game if you go strength and/or charisma routes. unfortunately owlcat changed guarded hearth to a competence bonus so our bard songs became useless during boss battles. decided to make the switch to skald 'cause our backup plan o' court poet were a fail for us once we saw azata believe in your self spell and the court poet inspiration did not stack. *sigh* so now we got a human crossblood sorc (1 level) and skald build which is a bit different than our kindred half-elf dirge bard save for the enchantment focus. sixteen levels o' dirge bard + thug and some demon slayer were the plan, but owlcat's guarded hearth fix altered the plan. hideous laughter + best jokes is working exceeding well for the bard and am certain overwhelming presence will work even better when we get next level. incredible might should offer additional individual and party benefits. reckless stance, unlike lethal stance, stacks with guarded hearth, so am seeing excellent boss battle numbers and 'tween ember's beast gift and all the skald beast totem rage powers our animal companions is doing more than their fair share o' work. is a compromise build but it is an effective compromise build. HA! Good Fun!

got a canine family member who is unwell. our current schedule has us sleeping when the dog gets something approaching sleep, but we do not follow any kinda normal schedule save for when we provide meds. pre fall back, we did meds at 8:30 and 20:30. now we do meds 7:30 and 19:30. even before the dog were suffering cushing's, he were kinda a d!ck 'bout his feeding times and as he could not read a clock no matter how many times we explained little hand and big hand positions in the most simple and straightforward manner, he did moan if we did not feed him at the right time every morning at crack o' dawn. were similar to when we were taking care o' human family with round-the-clock med needs or when we had a major case. daylight savings affected us not at all 'cause schedules were defined by patient/client needs as 'posed to traditional clock-in and clock-out considerations. has been decades since daylight savings impacted us to any meaningful degree. we do recall a time when losing an hour were a major blow to our sleep schedule. those were the salad days. HA! Good Fun!

observation: not everybody is a completionist. the games is designed so that more casual players may reach a level capable o' dealing with endgame content and that needed to be the case pre dlc. content is not optional side-quest material if is needed to complete the game. the game, for economic reasons, need be beatable by folks not wanting to invest +80 hours into the experience, yes? problem should be obvious. am getting how level cap is a frequent complaint and a valid concern for players, but most solutions cheese off players more than the current situation. example solution: make all xp quest based and do not provide xp for optional content. sure, you still receive all the 1007 rewards from doing optional content, but if only the critical path provides xp, then completionists and critical path players is gonna finish with same levels and same xp totals. now imagine the howls o' outrage, eh? (edit) am recalling the pillars of eternity developers thought they had broken the code. pillars utilized quest-based xp, which gave obsinaties an advantage over wotr developers in managing level grants. josh announced, pre release, that the pillars developers had created new tools which allowed 'em to track and customize xp grants so they could achieve a perfect calculus-- level cap would only be reached by completionists a bit before endgame, and critical path players would not be punished by treating optional as optional. sounded mighty certain. and how could he not be certain? surely at least one tester had completed a run wherein they did all available material, yes? ... we never did get an explanation or apology from the obsidian developers regarding their xp fails in pillars. criticism is easy and is the right o' every purchaser. unfortunate, solutions is hard. HA! Good Fun! ps is possible to add in a difficulty slider option which limits xp rewards-- make the/a solution optional. however, keep in mind the unfair players is already exploiting schemes to reach levels 2 through 20 asap.

seeing as how you already finished ember's quest... HA! Good Fun!

we did the playful darkness encounter and it were anticlimactic. thought we would need to rest before the battle but decided to give it a shot with a depleted spell arsenal available from having cleared near all o' the fane and in spite o' having no pillars of life slots memorized. we took a round to dispatch the spawned shadows and sacrifice bismuth to playful, 'cause w/o pillars we had to get rid o' the shadows the old fashioned route: brute force. other than the trike there were no casualties and lann effective killed playful solo in one round as following greater dispel efforts by main character skald (effective) sosiel (effective) and ember (fail,) as well as a mark o' justice from seelah, a ki strike salvo from lann archery + his celestial velociraptor with 10 attacks downed playful w/o much fuss. had ab over 75 for the raptor and that were w/o any touch of good or true strike bonuses. didn't even do fortune hex + cackle exploit. nothing special. we invited all the usual suspects to the party including guarded hearth and the nobility domain insight boost as well as the skald rage bonuses. actual mvps might be the rest bonuses from demon slayer soup and conflagrant taco as such resulted in an additional straight up +5 attack bonus in addition to resulting in a couple point bonus to both guarded hearth and mark of justice. as such we got an effective +9 bonus to ab (+11 for the raptor 'cause the dino's smite stacks with mark of justice) we ordinarily do not see when doing the playful darkness encounter. do not fall asleep on the benefits o' rest bonuses. having access to all recipes and the ingredients earlyish in act iii is kinda broken. ... downside: am serious gonna need consider alternatives to divine hunter for lann if owlcat ever gets around to fixing the unlimited smites for celestial animal companions. rip bismuth... rip. HA! Good Fun!

our first ember build were necromancy/evocation and it were highly effective. from our pov, the real issue for choosing an ideal caster is less a matter o' spell selection than it is o' gear. is good spells in most o' the spell schools and with the mythics you may focus on a select handful o' spells to achieve excellent results. however, there is a large gulf in the availability o' gear which enhances the effectiveness o' particular casters. why does our sosiel often take a level o' crossblood sorc for water and either white or silver dragon... and then likely a second white or silver dragon bloodline through mythic? 'cause o' a relic shield which allows us to add 1 point per die o' cold damage. arcane casters typical cannot use shields, so along with the hide armour o' elemental carnage, am able to do serious extra cold damage on hellfire rays, stormbolts and the like. meta. 1 point per die don't sound like much until you add all those points from hellfire rays-- 45 at cl 15. an extra 4 points per die = 180 extra damage per cast o' hellfire ray and 80 points for the spells which cap at twenty dice. is also a comical amount o' gear which boosts fire damage. is fantastic for ember, yes? is belts and gloves and rings which all enhance fire damage. if you wanna build a dc inflating caster, then enchantment and illusion is arguable your best options... 'cause o' gear. is no way you know 'bout such gear unless you use a guide or have already played the game. even so, is possible to build an extreme effective necromancy focused ember just so long as you ain't playing unfair. there ain't enough dc boosting gear to make necromancy anywhere near as good an option as enchantment. meta. HA! Good Fun! ps 'cause o' curious owlcat implementation, there is a few disproportionate effective spells. among those op spells is creeping doom, scirocco, hellfire ray, grease and glitterdust. @Gorthmentions snowball, and for same reasons is grease and glitterdust on the list. conjuration spells ordinary ignore sr. the thing is, you should most assured not be able to selective spell grease.

gotta admit am pleasant surprised with our enchantment focused azata skald. allows us to have ember devoted to evocation (am thinking we should use loremaster to add scirocco to her spell list) and hexes. with our skald am able to serious pump up the dc for hideous laughter and other enchantments while also spreading the wealth with reckless stance, inspired rage plus all the beast totem stuff. 'course the new dlc makes things go a bit smoother as am having access to demonslayer soup and conflagrant taco... in act iii. am current in the midnight fane and we got both taco and soup active simultaneous. as such our current nenio-less party is viable on hard difficulty. once we get the incredible might super power, the skald is gonna be adding another useful contribution particular with the grave singer axe and the free pounce ability from beast totem, greater. no complaints. angel casters, similar to lich, also kinda make nenio (and a few other must haves) superfluous as they destroy the ordinary difficulty considerations. if you really want all the groovy illusion spells, then go feyspeaker angel and take one level o' loremaster for weird... and if you really wanna play unfair, feyspeaker is a way to get a leopard at level 1. ... gotta admit how if we didn't genuine loathe camellia, we would be more likely to have her in a party than ember... or nenio. given our gameplay style, we would say the top three most useful companions is sosiel, seelah and camellia, but if you focus on casters as 'posed to mounted weapon-havers, am suspecting best companions shift a bit. regardless, the one thing 'bout not having nenio in party whica we do miss is her ability to craft caster level scrolls which our raptor and other umd party members may exploit. is never a shortage o' transformation or legendary proportion scrolls with nenio in the house. aside, the thing which bothers us most 'bout enigma is not so much enigma but rather owlcat reaction to fan frustration. owlcat appears no less committed to their questionable design philosophy (trial and error puzzles + filler combat + backtracking = win?) and their reaction to near universal fan complaint is a kinda weary amusement. enigma inspired vitriol offers owlcat a teachable moment and so far the developer is failing. HA! Good Fun!