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Khal Drogo is an anagram of krood ghal, which is homophonous with crude gal, which may refer to Aeldys or any other potty-mouthed woman in Deadfire. As you well know, no matter how much you **** around before actually going to Eothas, you arrive just in time. This is because he amuses himself with his many crude gal lovers available on the sea while waiting for you. The Magran riddle will solve itself for you if you think about it. Further proof: The adra dragon fed upon the souls within the adra statue. Thus, Eothas indirectly fed her by electing to not take over the statue while she had need of it. He is therefore also indirectly responsible for her having offspring. Eothas is the Mother of Dragons.

I'm not surprised. There's no mainland in an archipelago

Proof. Further proof: Eothas is also "the Unburnt", suffering no harm from Magran's volcano. Let's join our sharp minds together and strengthen the conspiracy beyond all skepticism!

Another Durgan's Battery, yes please. Not another Endless Paths where half the levels were just trash tunnels.

Bump. I'm not trying to hold datamined information against you, but currently there are only talent rewards for evil acts; two from PoE1 and the mutiny one - if you somehow can't feed your crew you can take them off duty in Neketaka long before they mutiny if you have an ounce of compassion in you. Furthermore if you ally with the druids near Sayuka there's this ceremony that really sounds like you should get a talent, a blessing from Galawain. As it happens, Savage Cunning sounds and looks like a perfect fit (Galawain and +survival match well). From a game design perspective it also feels appropriate with a reward like that since doing their bidding is nothing short of a declaration of war against the RDC. Nobody seems to know what the benefit for aiding Woedica at the end of PoE1 is. Soul-Power seems made for this. I realize that without the datamined talents, very few would realize things might be amiss here, and neither do these probably-bugs break anything, they just make a few decisions less rewarding. Still, a "They're available and working as intended but you're not getting any clues ;)" or "They're bugged but it's a really low priority fix for now" would be far better than continued silence.

Here's what it does. I don't think nature godlikes can get by without having it unless they are druids or rangers.

So you're not only a heartless psychopath who would consign an innocent ally to a horrible death for the sake of a little bit of power, you're also RUDE? There are limits to my civility, good sir.

I think George was joking about the fact that Maneha's personal quest leads her to a pool, and if you advise her to step into it someone will indeed feel no guilt, but that's Maneha, not the Watcher.

There isn't supposed to be a power advantage to importing because it's an antiquated design idea and would just result in players fabricating saves while cursing Obsidian. Of course there's sentimental value to importing a save instead of using the history generator though, even if the same choices are used. It'll feel like a "true continuation".

They won't leave your party (mercs have no opinions), but yes their defense bonus will be smaller. I did something similar. 2 paladins with Deep Faith (improved Faith and Conviction) 1 Shieldbearer 1 Bleak Walker Dispositions: 2 honest, 2 diplomatic, 2 benevolent, 0 cruel, 0 aggressive As you can see these dispositions are good for the Shieldbearer but bad for the Bleak Walker. And still, their defense bonuses were +14.1 for the Shieldbearer +11 for the Bleak Walker So it seems they will still have stronger defenses, no matter how you behave. But sure, they mix poorly. P.S. Helps if you avoid [benevolent] acts as they piss the Bleak Walkers off for no benefit to the Shieldbearer. P.P.S. Just realized what a terrible piece of advice that was for someone who wants to play a good character :D

I would like it if we would stop calling it unavailable content. Quests are content. Locations are content. Dialogues are content. Watcher talents aren't content These are datamined talents that the game dialogue suggests we should be receiving at certain points, for example Savage Cunning from the druids near Sayuka. I'm seeing two points that I feel should have a line between them. If the devs say indeed they should but they currently don't, that is a bug. If they say nope, you've datamined something we ultimately decided against giving you, that's the end of that. I'm not asking them to defend any decisions. I'm just asking, are we supposed to be able to get these buffs, because it seems no one is getting them right now, and it makes some dialogue sound odd. It also makes the game feel weird for currently only rewarding evil acts with talents: Gift from the Machine for absorbing souls for power, Effigy's Resentment for sacrificing a companion for power, and Infamous Captain... if you've tried getting the achievement you should know how much abuse you have to give your crew before they mutiny.

32 characters for anyone wondering. Already spotted the 2^5, no nerd points available for pointing it out

Aren't the ones that help you the ones you most recently recruited? So if you pick up all the story companions first and then hire mercs...?

Welp, the devs went through several pages of threads in the support forum yesterday but mine went unanswered. I guess we're not getting any help from them here

My fighters and paladins are off tanks (when they take off their shields), and it's a satisfying way to play them. Yet with other melee it feels like I have to open a bag of tricks every time a dragon left clicks them. I'd also like to give a more nuanced picture of how aggro works in those games. Under PoE standards aggro like that would mean you could indeed play one tank and four glass cannons, because the AI only knows how to give one target their undivided attention, other than supporting their allies or hitting the maximum amount of targets with AoE. You can have pulsing unavoidable AoE that means everyone needs to be healed (and have the health/defenses to survive until heals can land), you can have evil single target debuffs that aren't automatically used on the "aggro target", you can have manually avoidable damage zones. It seems a popular answer is to CC the **** out of things, but there's too much "maybe" in landing offensive abilities in these games for me, so I believe I'll stick with pumping defenses and healing. ^^

COMRADE IMPS STUPID. NO LIKE PINEAPPLE. BUT LIKE OFF-AL.

On all my characters I take a liking to Stalwart and want it to prosper as an against-all-odds thing. So it certainly feels ****ty to kill a dozen of its number in that event, but it's obviously also weird that a bunch of lumberjacks think they can take you on. I think it wouldn't be so hard to justify not killing Harmke right there and then, so let's say you told DoC whatever you deemed necessary to restrain her for the moment, intending to mete out justice with more subtlety and discretion at a later point. Harmke however realized what was going on and fled before you could slit his throat in the night, and you felt it was too much effort to track him down. You then convinced DoC of the impracticalities of continuing her vendetta and had her give up on chasing Harmke, assuring her he probably froze to death in the wilds anyway.

I suppose it could be good for clearing charm/domination from allies. Actually for clearing lots of bad stuff if you manually attack your allies. Hey, I need this in my life.

A start would be to cut down on the arsenal of per rest cooldowns. I groan every time I read "per rest". It's not necessarily because I play no rest, since the groaning happens before I begin that ritual. Per rest is only a limitation for no rest tactic, for everyone else it's: By Eothas! To use this again I will have to rest and give one party member a bite of hardtack or a sip of water? Preposterous! Shift the per rest stuff to per encounter, and nerf it if need be. Perhaps a total amount of per encounter spells permitted to be used in a single encounter? Not counting class abilities now, but item powers and the likes. As for a fatigue solution to no rest: Unsure. Imagine there's this tough fight and you really want the right inn bonus and a soaking in the Luminous Bathhouse for it, then it takes two days to sail to your nemesis and you're fatigued when you arrive, or the game made you sleep on the boat and you lost the bonuses. I propose instead the following compromise: - For the first two days, the rest bonuses are invulnerable and will stay unless you replace them - After those two days have passed, the rest bonuses will stay unless they have been present through ten or more encounters - If they haven't been through ten encounters yet, they will stay through the remainder needed to reach ten - After a week they will fade no matter what; resting or not resting, fighting or not fighting, after a week they're gone either way

UGLY STINKBALL EAT WHAT ARKEMYR GIVE HIM. INCLUDING DUNG.

I think rest spam is stronger than no-rest, but it's also a hell lot more click intensive. There's an overwhelming amount of per rest item cooldowns you can just throw repeatedly at fights. No-rest is damn good for passing skill checks however. +3 to your Watcher's skills. +2 to to the party's skills. That's worth another 1-5 to the Watcher's skills through Party Assist. As someone who repeatedly plays healbotting herald Watchers, permanent Dawnstar Blessing is great though, perhaps indeed superior to rest spam. Especially considering I use empower almost exclusively to replenish class resources, and later on I just don't need to do that anymore. We could use an update of the original post: - Add Alchemic Guile and Alchemic Wit - Make a note that Good Food, Better Friends might not be part of this outside bugs, because it seems nobody has been able to stack it except you OP, and your theory for how you did it doesn't hold up - Add Sigil of Pain Wardstone - Maybe also note that Sigil of Death Wardstone (protects against Sigil of Mortality, don't know why the different names) can only be found in two specific locations (Drowned Barrows and off the skull in Sandswept Ruins), so nobody wastes as much time as I did reloading on burial sites

My very first party was five island aumaua. There weren't many situations for the racial to shine so I didn't do it again. But that's how it worked at that point

Outside combat, everyone moves at the same speed so the party doesn't split . Even a group of five island aumaua will be slowed in slog zones. That said, I've read about some bugs with slog zones and exiting combat... are you having the problem in combat or not?

Savage Cunning: This sounds like something you should receive when the druids near Sayuka give you Galawain's blessing. Currently that doesn't happen. Love the doge icon for Spirit Maw :D

Pearlescent Rhomboid Helstone is sold by Una, vendor in southern Serpent's Crown. Captain's Favor is an enchantment available to Shining Bulwark, a large shield on a weapon stand at the top level of the Crookspur fort interior. #contributing BTW, the mutiny talent is hilarious, considering you get the achievement (and thereby also the talent) when the fight starts, not when it ends. So the mutineers are immediately terrified :D