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Afaik, nope. She also has no special Talents from her Paladin Order, Frermàs mes Canc Suolias, and like all C/NPC Paladins, gets no modifiers to Faith & Conviction. She does, actually - Elusive Target gives her +10 Deflection against ranged attacks, +3 perception while at <50% Endurance, and some other thing I can't remember at <25% Endurance. o_O Yeah, it's almost like the kind of ability we were promised for Godlike! I take that and respec her to a tank-monk with Soul Mirror.

I'mma blow your mind. DR is universal. Those other types are exceptions, meaning they supersede the armor's normal DR with a higher or lower number for certain damage types.

Padded armor and robes are useable for particular enchants, but all things being equal, cloth (or the weirdly unique Berathian robes) is a better choice.

not my experience. only times any of my characters got close to unconscious on hard mode, it was because of melee attackers. early on phantoms, ogres and the ocasional uber kith, later on high level fampyrs and things like... dragons. I can't recall any time my characters were getting a lot of damage from physical ranged attackers. oh, and traps. got knocked out by traps a couple of times. Wasn't talking about physical ranged attackers. Was talking about "distant enemies" that target deflection or reflex with spells and debuffs. I find that the best way to deal with those is to get them into melee range, though. Moreover, on characters for whom deflection matters, Reflex tends to be sky-high due to shields. Not saying Wood Elves are useless at melee range, but ... I dunno, if you're looking to go defensive, Pale Elf is probably better.

"It's like if someone called you the Attractive Priest, Durance." I just figured he had a crush on Iselmyr XD

For context: The CIA is headquartered in Langley, Virginia. MI5's main office is at Thames House, in London. Intelligence organizations are rarely, themselves, secret. It's what they're doing that's hidden from sight. There's actually a lore-book suggesting this is the case with Hadret House - some people believe that Dunryd Row is, itself, a decoy.

With respect to moon godlike, I think you're looking at it backwards. On a tank without self-healing, Might is an opportunity cost - Constitution, while not actually good, is still the better Fortitude-boosting stat. But on Fighters (due to Constant Recovery), Moon Godlike, and Retaliation/Drain tanks, Might directly increases survivability, and so comes leaps and bounds ahead of Constitution.

It's too bad it's a fast weapon, though. Said ability would be a lot more useful with higher base damage.

or saws... which cut.. Man, if you want to get technical, slicing/sawing is a whole different category of destruction than slashing and chopping. It is absolutely not worth getting technical, mind you. But if it were!

What kind of monk are you looking to play? Heavy tank, or light DPS offtank thing? oh no you didn't

Could a first-level barbarian ability allowing a limited version of Carnage to be used at range (and possibly locking out melee Carnage) be balanced, or would it almost certainly be too good? I've been pondering the fact that barbarians are only usable at melee range. At first, it seemed like a natural consequence of what the class is all about, and I'm not sure it isn't, but I do wonder if there isn't room for ... I dunno, shooting through a guy and into another guy, or ricochets, or something like that. Barbarians have started to interest me in the same way that Ciphers interest me, and I'd like to know what other people think about this.

Generally, yeah. Poleaxe is preferable for a barbarian, since warbows don't pack carnaaaa... I gotta go make a thread.

Yes, I know. Just like my response. But Poe's Law applies, I suppose. I guess I need another color for jokes, irony, and ribbing. Neon green?

We don't NEED it, but it'd sure be nice. This has been an irritation for me since the IE days. Apparently other people sympathize. I can't see the harm in addressing that.

Hi thar! Can I get a citation for this?

I found any spell or ability that mind-controlled or confused enemies highly irritating.- They run around my whole party, not neatly in front of my tanks any more. - I can't use half of my spells on them while they're friendly. - If I cast any buffs, I buff my enemies. Stupid. - I have to manually order attacks and keep a close eye on everyone's timer for it not to run out while standing next to my wizard. If only a few of the enemies are affected, it's useful. If the majority is, I found it quite annoying. Very much agree. If I throw down a Ringleader, suddenly I find that I can't hit them with Mind Blades or Silent Scream. It's lame, and unless you're fighting a very large group, it makes Puppetmaster orders of magnitude more useful than Ringleader.

Ah. Thought you were referring to the OP, finding the secret stash and whatnot. Good to know!

So talents in PoE are mostly pretty lame, right now. With a small number of significant exceptions have your basic boring-but-good talents (ex. Two-Handed Style, Weapon Focus), your interesting-but-bad talents (ex. Brilliant Radiance, Ancient Memory), and why-would-I-ever-take-this talents (ex. Field Triage, Unstoppable). I think this is a regrettable state of affairs, and I wish it were different, so I thought we (the board) could come up with some examples of talents that we think would be interesting, or of fixes for existing talents. I'll start - this is not a super-exciting example, I'll admit, but I think it could be interesting. Demanding Presence - As long as you engage an enemy, they can't make disengagement attacks against your allies. In addition, whenever you and an ally have both engaged an enemy, that enemy is flanked, regardless of your positioning.

... Mechanics.

If you kill them both, Raedric still comes back to life as a vampire (I refuse to call him a "fampyr"). The reputation bonus and penalty to Gilded Vale cancel each other out, so you end up with a net bonus to your Defiance Bay rep for killing Kolsc and nothing else.

It gets worse. If you give him the dagger, and persuade his father to let him keep it so that he can someday become a Crucible Knight, one of the town criers later says that he's lost several fingers. The only happy resolution is not to get involved ... which I guess makes sense, since you're giving a knife to a little kid. Now you're just making trouble.

It's like ... meta-trolling. 11/10.

Well, as is, poleaxes serve mostly as an off-weapon for the estoc. IMO, the fact that Adventurer contains both makes it the best two-handed weapon class. ... although that would still be true if it were a reach weapon, so ...

Who's outlawing it? Was the law involved at any level? The internet's tools for public shaming do not amount to a legal compulsion. Those who satirize should be aware that satirists are usually taken much more seriously than they intend to be taken (at least in their time, see: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal). Bowing to outrage is not a mark of shame, but one of self-awareness and humility - and neither is persisting against outrage, if the point was being taken too seriously in the first place (and it sometimes is, see: previous example). An artist first creates, and only then learns how the world is going to see their creation (sometimes to their great frustration, see: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451). They, as the artist, have to decide what the rational response to that is. Obsidian and the author of the limerick, together, made such a decision. You may not like that decision, but that doesn't mean anybody behaved shamefully. It's not, but the suggestion of committing suicide because one accidentally has intercourse with someone of the same sex is ... troubling, on all kinds of levels. It can be humorously troubling, ala Dave Chapelle and "grape drink" Don't you mean "purple drink"? Grape drink - it's got sugar, water, and purple!

It's not, but the suggestion of committing suicide because one accidentally has intercourse with someone of the same sex is ... troubling, on all kinds of levels. It can be humorously troubling, ala Dave Chapelle and "grape drink" (which, according to the author, was the intent - it was meant to mock homophobia/transphobia and the extremes to which it goes), but it can also be offensively troubling. Ultimately, the author doesn't get to decide, regardless of their intent. Only time and the audience can be the judge the work, and it seems like a fairly large audience did take it as offensive. The fact that they did is not necessarily anyone's failing, so much as the collision between intention and reality. The more I learn about the primary actors in this situation, the more I think this is the story of several good, well-meaning people, who were not initially on the same page, coming to accord and enraging the mob thereby. Which is crazy, sure.