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Weird, I was certain that consecrated ground actually showed in status effects even when not healing. I guess I was wrong. Sorry

I'm attaching a savefile, maybe we can check if it works for you? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dHeGMWmfiBqYYcB3KqYyEA3bJ7_WO7Nf

And yet, it's also not shown as affecting him, so maybe it fires once and doesn't work subsequently?

It should still show up in the status effects. And I've just tested it, and it doesn't work even when there is damage, as you can see in the screenshot. The priest should be healing, but isn't

I always get the weird bugs. In the POE beta, the key to the door that led to Wymund refused to spawn, so I never got to complete the quest.

No, it appears in the VFX, as you can see, but it doesn't actually affect anyone

I cast it at the start of combat, so yes

It worked for me before, but now I've started a new game with a new build (Soulblade/Devoted) and it doesn't. Tried starting a new game with that build twice, spell consistently doesn't work both times (as you can see, it doesn't even register in character status effects mouseover screen)

The Mercenary Priest casts it successfully, but it does absolutely nothing.

But if you didn't have a save, then a post-story DLC wouldn't have changed things for you anyway? You'd still need to start over

You get nothing, but they're working to fix that

I tried a Soulblade/Berserker, as it fits my PoE Watcher both narratively and in terms of gameplay, but it was meh. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good melee class to pair with soulblade?

Maybe finding the codes can be your very own scavenger hunt :D EDIT: You found them

There is already a thread about it. In fact, it's right next to yours

Yeah, I explicitly let her choose on her own. Besides, the Kind Wayfarers are a better fit for her. She's far too good to be some nobleman's errand girl. The ducs don't deserve her.

Yes, but if a soul is merely an imprint, then suppressing another's soul should not give you control over their body, and yet that is exactly what happens when Thaos possesses people. Here's another case for you- the Devil of Caroc. If the soul is merely a collection of imprints and memories, how is it able to animate the golem with the original personality's intact?

Thank you!

If the souls are "just something that biology and environment leave an imprint on" then how is Thaos able to override the personality of whatever body he's in? It would not be possible under your model, but very possible under mine.

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*ahem* https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder Explain Thaos, then. Or Iselmyr, for that matter.

Actually, it seems to be the opposite. Aloth gained an entirely new personality just from his soul Awakening. In our world, split personality usually occurs due to psychological or neurological reasons, but in Eora, the soul Awakening is enough to cause it in an otherwise healthy person. Likewise, Thaos is able to retain his personality, no matter what body he is wearing at the moment. So, the soul is what drives the personality, but this personality is erased each time the soul is reborn, and is shaped anew by the body and the environment (which is why I guess the hollowborn with animal souls went feral- the souls were born into animal bodies and formed animal personalities, and the transplantation process messed something up)

So, by that reasoning, it would have been ok to take the essence of someone in a coma, since they are also "mindless" and unresponsive? Souls aren't mindless, since they are a repository of the personality and memories, but they are usually unconscious for the final transition. Not always, however- see lost souls, spirits, fampyrs, Iovara, etc. The Forgiven, too, since they do the Watcher's bidding and slow his or her fall. So it appears that removing a soul from the body does not render it into "mindless essence," as you claim it does.

It's a bird! It's an animated crossbow! No, it's my priest turning invisible for no apparent reason.....

No, I think that it's made clear that souls are destroyed when they are rendered into essence. Children were part of their mothers, too, once upon a time, but you wouldn't blend babies and feed them to their mothers, would you? And while souls are not conscious until they are reborn, they do carry the memories and personalities of past lives, as numerous Awakenings demonstrate. It's literally the Sacrificial Bloodlines quest all over again, with you acting as Simoc. I don't see how you can oppose him, but also do exactly what he wanted to do, except on a much greater scale.

I do not know; neither do I know what reason you could have to debase someone's writing as "masturbatory fantasies". Because it's basically what it is? The series is pretty terrible, and I've never been able to get into the Witcher games because I've had the misfortune to read the books before the games came out. I'm still not seeing any elaboration on what makes the series terrible or "masturbatory fantasies". They are infantile wish fulfillment fantasies with one dimensional characters, and every girl falling for Geralt. It's only prominent because the fantasy genre didn't really exist in Poland when the first stories came out in the late 80s