JerekKruger

Agreed. The thing is, this pointless argument starts the same way every time: Sonic comes into a thread where there's even a hint of disagreement and spouts his nonsense. If he would simply focus on posting about the game rather than his idea that everyone's out to get him, and accept that people can disagree with each other without it being some sort attempt at suppressing dissenting ideas, then this argument wouldn't keep coming up. So the onus is really on Sonic to change.

No idea how powerful it is, but currently the Soul Blade subclass is getting a -5 Focus discount on all Cipher powers, not just Shred ones.

The Soul Blade's descriptions says that "Shred Cipher spells cost less focus", however the Soul Blade passive ability says that "Cipher abilities cost -5 Focus". Creating a Soul Blade and picking Whispers of Treason seems to confirm that the discount applies to all powers since in the spell hotbar Whispers is labelled at 5 Focus cost and is not greyed out when you have 5 focus.

Woo! Best thread ever!

Is action not synonymous with recovery reduction in Deadfire like it was in PoE?

The B.I.B. badge is separate to this. You might still be able to get it as an add-on to your pledge via the backer beta.

Or make it more similar to DaoM and, as well as +5 Dex, give it a bonus to recovery speed. It needn't be 50%.

Can you add a new poll so we can vote on whether to change the name.

Yeah but admitting that wouldn't fit with Sonic's internal narrative of being the oppressed lone voice of truth.

Caldera doesn't say what happens to fragments of souls that are lost, does Thaos explicitly say they can never be reincorporated into new souls? My criticism is that the time scale appears such that it would cause a noticeable decline in population already. It seems to be heading towards soul heat death much more quickly than our universe is heading for its own heat death. If there were an external source of souls entering the supply, like Earth had an external source of energy, that would make it more reasonable to me. Perhaps there is.

Flamingoes, definitely flamingoes.

Sure, I didn't mean they were so good you'd always pick single class over multi, just that they're good enough to make both options appealing, which is how it should be.

Depends. Take something like Sacred Immolation for example: I'd definitely think twice about multiclassing a Paladin if it meant I couldn't get that. Other classes have similarly very powerful high level spells/abilities, for example the Cipher has Defensive Mindweb which makes your entire party into tanks, Priests have Minor Avatar which allows them to spam their spells ridiculously fast, Fighters have Charge, a true hidden gem, and so on. We'll have to wait and see what power levels 8 and 9 bring, but I wouldn't write them off just like that.

This. It's easy to make a hard encounter, making a hard encounter that's interesting and not just bull**** is not so easy. I'd argue that stacking a bunch of high damage movement interrupting sirocco wind abilities on top of each other is on the bull**** side of things.

Do we know that for certain? I looked around for any official sources but couldn't find much. If so it seems a bit silly. Either that's an absolute tonne of unused souls floating about, or Eora's heading for a population crash and/or a hollowborn crisis it can't fix by turning off Engwithan machines.

Ah okay. I assumed you meant there was some history between the two. Yeah, I remember Sensuki.

Yeah, what I meant by them not mattering anywhere near as much was that, for example, if you see a character build which has Might 20, and you play it with Might 16 it's not going to be all that noticeably worse and you'll be able to beat the game (even on PotD) just fine. I didn't mean that they don't matter at all, a good way to see that they do is to compare Durance to a player character Priest with high Dexterity. The player is massively faster at casting which is very handy for a Priest. That said, Durance can still get the job done.

Context? EDIT: I know who Sensuki is, I mean with regard to his relationship to NC?

I'd be amazed if they don't. His stuff on PoE was not great to be honest. I haven't watched the Deadfire video (and at 2 hours I probably won't) but if your comments are an accurate representation I'd say it's not great either.

It's making me very jealous. I might delete my vote so I can vote again!

I miss PoE's DAoM

Cool. I'd guess they are people who are pro-giant statue Eothas given the name.

Conjured weapon scaling has been in since beta 1, I know because I tested it pretty much straight away and posted a bug report about the fact it didn't seem to be scaling properly with power level (which is where I was told it was intended to scale with character level). EDIT: oh, if you meant it's new to Deadfire (as Boeroer suggested) then my bad

Yep. The Hand Occult seems likely given Josh mentioned them in the latest Q&A thread. The hand holding a lightbulb might represent progress in the form of animancy perhaps, although that would be a little too similar to PoE I guess.

Blue upside down crown = Principi Crossed Cannons = Royal Deadfire Company Set of Scales = Vailian Trading Company The "ninja star" over waves = Huana Snake = mysterious fifth faction Not sure what the symbols above of the factions represent. The symbols below the companions represent dispositions.