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This Wednesday? That's great, I had assumed it was a way off. Hopefully the beta then.

Beta before Christmas or, perhaps, the extra content for Pillars of Eternity seem most likely.

These weapon modals are a nice addition. Am I right in thinking they are the replacement for the old +6 Accuracy for having a Weapon Focus?

That's over half a year of play time

Oh, I meant one-handed sword. There are plenty of good Great Swords and Estocs.

I'd like a good damage dealing sword that's available before Act 3.

Awesome!

I don't think there has been any explicit indication that we're expecting a beta announcement soon. That said, Josh did post this tweet about a week ago and it was also recently announced that the first play tester has completed a full play through of Deadfire fairly recently, so I could imagine an announcement could be coming soon. Fingers crossed.

One of the class combos I'm considering is Monk/Wizard, probably Shattered Pillar/Illusionist.

There are any number of explanations for this, but perhaps the simplest is this: strength and size is nowhere near the most important attribute to success evolutionarily speaking, and even less so when it comes to the success of civilisations (Romans were, on average, smaller than Gauls for example).

My favourite dragon fight is still my first time killing the Adra Dragon. My entire party, apart from Sagani, was wiped and I noticed that the Adra Dragon was rather slow to I kited her around for about ten minutes, taking the occasional shot, most of which were misses or grazes, until she finally succumbed (I assume to boredom).

It's a portrait by Jason Seow. Not sure if he did some of the portraits for Pillars, but the ones on his site fit perfectly with the art style of the base portraits.

As someone said in another thread, at the moment the Wizard subclasses seem most appealing to multiclassing characters. The restrictions aren't such a big deal when you're already picking powers from two skill trees, and the 20% bonus to your favoured school goes someway towards making up for the multiclass penalty.

I'll wait and see how it feels in the Backer Beta, but two restricted schools does seem a lot. Of course subclasses bonuses/penalties aren't set in stone, so hopefully they'll be tweaked during and after the beta.

Aloth, Edér, Maia Rua, Pallegina, Serafen, Tekēhu and Xoti. That's seven full companions. On top of that there are four sidekicks, for a total of eleven NPCs who can join your party. Of course twelve person parties are ridiculous. My point was to show the flaw in kanisatha's argument in favour of six person parties by pointing out that it actually favoured even larger parties. Agreed, with the caveat that I'd say it would have to be pretty terrible to warrant the change since such a big change would involve a huge amount of rebalancing work and would likely hurt the game balance of the final product. I misspoke or, more accurately, misstyped. I should have written "Most people don't seem to actually understand the fallacies, but many claim their opponent is using them nonetheless, and treat that claim as though it's the ultimate trump card." Many might still be a bit too strong, perhaps some is the better word. My evidence is simply that I see them brought up a lot more often in online debates recently than I used to. Of course there are all sorts of flaws with that evidence, most notably that my sample is not at all representative.

Oh well if you want chicks to dig you you definitely don't want to worship Skaen. I hear Hylea is quite popular with them these days, Magran too if you're into fiery ones.

Sorry, the hats are mandatory. I mean, we could form a Skaenite cult to overthrow Skaen's tyranny regarding the hats, but we'd have to wear the hats for that one at least.

Why stop at praying. Let's start an underground Skaenite cult and form an effigy to overthrow the tyranny that is cycling.

The worst thing that happened to internet debating, in my opinion, was the propagation of the idea of logical fallacies. Most people don't seem to actually understand the fallacies, but claim their opponent is using them nonetheless, and treat that claim as though it's the ultimate trump card.

As an example where dwarfs are a subrace of humans? Definitely not. In the far past of 40k that was the case for squats, but squats were long ago retconned out of existence and it has never been the case in Fantasy.

Personally I have no problem with smart Barbarians, but I agree that the benefit Intellect brings the Barbarian makes it feel like a requirement rather than an option. Of course, as Boeroer and dragubaba say, you can build a perfectly viable* Barbarian with lower Intellect but I can understand why it might feel like you're hurting your build by doing so. *Not just viable, good.

Priest of Berath armed with Tidefall can work too.

I want Citzal to be in the game, mainly so I can get a hold of his/her grimoire and obtain Citzal's Even Better Spirit Lance

As far as I know no, but hopefully this means that there will be one announced in the next Feed of the Director update.