JerekKruger

Isn't there a limit on how many different mercenaries you can hire?

Surely in Stelegar form.

Yeah, the spell guide alone makes this build post really good. Even if you don't plan to follow the build it's a really comprehensive guide to all Druid spells that any Druid can use as a reference. Excellent work L4wlight!

Well it looks nice and has a good unique enchantment on it. At the time you get it it's probably one of the best pieces of armour around, though by the end of the game you'll have better.

Unfortunately I think in the current meta the answer is you don't really, well apart from role-play reasons.

I believe you need a particular attribute score or reputation for that to work. I save scummed ad nauseum to try every dialogue option and couldn't get it non-violently. It might be the case that you can get it from him before stealing the affidavit, I always forget to talk to him before picking it up. If you kill Penhelm without talking to him first Osric reacts badly and you lose a little bit of rep with the dozens. If you talk to Penhelm first you can't keep the breastplate. This I am sure of unless it was changed in a recent patch.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the existing options, but I don't get why my character can't say "sorry kid, I don't think you should have a White March dagger, you're too young" and not pick up an aggressive or deceptive rep as a result. Also if you have high survival skill you can teach him how to handle the dagger and he doesn't maim himself.

My method: steal Penhelm's affidavit, go to Dunryd Row and talk to what's his name, step outside and don't move. As long as you don't move, Penhelm and his buddies won't initiate dialogue. You then use a ranged attack to start combat and kill them all. After this go see Osric and say you killed them. He gets mad and you lose a little rep with the Dozens but otherwise everything resolves as usual (I think you can even do their second quest if you want). In particular you still get access to their shop. Strangely, if you kill Penhelm after he talks to you Osric is totally chill with it. The dialogue option you have with him is basically the same (something like "unfortunately some people had to die") but he somehow divines that you talked first and so doesn't get mad. This also means he takes back his breastplate. This quest, and the one involving the White March dagger, are always difficult ones for me, because I want the items but I usually play characters who wouldn't do the things involved in getting the items. With Osric's Breastplate I've recently taken to not keeping it because it gets superseded by better armours later, but the White March dagger is one of the best items for certain builds.

Yeah, auto-pause upon discovering a hidden object is priceless. it's the only autopause option I use (but I stealth a lot). That said, I always turn it off when coming to a certain chess-board like area in the tutorial dungeon...

Well another alternative would be to base it off my student days and go with 11.

Oh really? Huh, I'll have to try that, I've been avoiding it because of the bug. Thanks for the info.

I think Andyg10 would like to be able to keep Savage Attack without the double -5 accuracy penalty. Unfortunately I don't know of any console command to add accuracy directly.

Yup, I believe page 5 has the rewritten builds.

No because she's a companion and the rules for companions are different

I tend to stick the the rule of "all but one stat at 10 or higher, and one at 8" but that's mostly because I don't like completely dumping stats.

Deflection is easy to buff to the extent that the amount you get from resolve becomes barely noticeable. Endurance is, as Teioh says, a non-issue when you have good DR, and anyway the malus from tanking Constitution is not that big (similarly the bonus isn't that big for raising is). There's only really one class I value Con on and that's the Monk, since there I need to take damage and need a big health pool to avoid having to rest too often. But really Kingsman, the thing that should convince you is that plenty of people do indeed play on PotD with either 10s or 3s in Con and Res.

I tend to agree, although I think the real problem are powerful people using the masses belief in a God or gods to justify doing terrible things.

That could be, though another solution would be to have us rest for 7 hours rather than 8.

This is true, but at least when you're overpowered you can impose artificial restrictions on yourself. Avoid certain abilities, spells or items. Not saying it's perfect but it could be worse.

Huh weird, cause my current PotD character has 10 Resolve and 10 Constitution and he does fine.

How does Wounding synergise with Intellect? I had a vague belief that it extended the duration but the damage remained the same i.e. the time between the ticks simply increased. Is that not the case?

^ One of the nice things about PoE is even the weaker classes are still perfectly viable.

Barbarians are fine with 10 resolve so a stat spread like 15 10 14 14 15 10 will work fine. You don't need to max your favoured stats to do well.

Except quite clearly it can since it is being disputed.

Ashoka converted to Buddhism after his conquests, before that he was Hindu (well, there wasn't really such a thing as Hinduism but he would have followed one of the many traditions that the British would later clump together under the name Hinduism).