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Jun 22, 2018 18:48
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What happens to itumaak if Sagani accidentally falls in to the blood pool
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Jun 22, 2018 18:49
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Digital Osmosis posted:this user was banned for being mean to a chill fictional dwarf lady And rightly so
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Jun 22, 2018 18:53
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can you thread the needle as a bleakwalker as a light-hearted sociopath that will still kill people for the slightest inconvenience but is otherwise not all doom and gloom? i'm kind of imagining The Boss from Saint's Row 3/4 where you're still an amoral killer that doesn't value kith life, but you also love to get blasted on uppers and party with biki-clad people of your preferred orientation in a hot tub. murder, but playful murder. maybe a sense of poetic irony in your methods
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Jun 22, 2018 19:05
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I joke all the time, unless violence will get me results quicker.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:06
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Freaking Crumbum posted:can you thread the needle as a bleakwalker as a light-hearted sociopath that will still kill people for the slightest inconvenience but is otherwise not all doom and gloom? i'm kind of imagining The Boss from Saint's Row 3/4 where you're still an amoral killer that doesn't value kith life, but you also love to get blasted on uppers and party with biki-clad people of your preferred orientation in a hot tub. Bleakwalkers are mainly mercs that believe in no mercy. Outside of their job they can be pretty fun people i imagine. I mean they arent sociapaths as a rule, they just can be. They are paladins so they might just do cruel and agressive acts because they believe them to be the swiftest and most effective way to peace.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:28
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My understanding is that the historical model for the Bleak Walker is General Sherman. quote:Having succeeded Anderson at Louisville, Sherman now had principal military responsibility for Kentucky, a border state in which Confederate troops held Columbus and Bowling Green and were present near the Cumberland Gap.[43] He became exceedingly pessimistic about the outlook for his command and he complained frequently to Washington, D.C. about shortages while providing exaggerated estimates of the strength of the rebel forces. Critical press reports appeared about him after an October visit to Louisville by the secretary of war, Simon Cameron, and in early November 1861 Sherman insisted that he be relieved.[44] He was promptly replaced by Brigadier General Don Carlos Buell and transferred to St. Louis, Missouri. In December, he was put on leave by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, commander of the Department of the Missouri, who considered him unfit for duty. Sherman went to Lancaster, Ohio, to recuperate. While he was at home, his wife Ellen wrote to his brother, Senator John Sherman, seeking advice. She complained of "that melancholy insanity to which your family is subject".[45] Sherman later wrote that the concerns of command "broke me down", and he admitted contemplating suicide.[46] His problems were compounded when the Cincinnati Commercial described him as "insane".[47] quote:The careers of both officers ascended considerably after that time. In Sherman's case, this was in part because he developed close personal ties to Grant during the two years they served together in the West.[55] During the long and complicated campaign against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the "army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard [Grant], whose confidential adviser [Sherman] was a lunatic".[56 quote:General Grant is a great general. I know him well. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always. quote:Like Grant, Sherman was convinced that the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological ability to wage further war needed to be definitively crushed if the fighting were to end. Therefore, he believed that the North had to conduct its campaign as a war of conquest and employ scorched earth tactics to break the backbone of the rebellion. He called this strategy "hard war". edit: the quote I was looking for, when he ordered the evacuation of Atlanta: quote:"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.[...] I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for anything. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter."[10] The conception being that war is hell and you are bringing it because anything less just prolongs the suffering. quote:Just a week after the election, Sherman’s high-spirited army of 60,000, hardened by months of combat, began its 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, and the sea. Loosed from its own supply lines, the army would forage for supplies off the countryside. “We cannot change the hearts of those people of the South,” Sherman explained to Grant, “but we can make war so terrible… [and] make them so sick of war that generations will pass away before they would again appeal to it.” Major Henry Hitchcock, an Alabaman on Sherman’s staff, fleshed out his commander’s rationale for the operation nicely when he wrote that if the “terror, grief and even want” the army was about to inflict on the people of Georgia “shall help paralyze their husbands and fathers who are fighting us … it is mercy in the end.” So yeah, you could be a bright and cheery upbeat Bleak Walker. So long as nobody got in your way. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 19:38
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Any good source for vithrack brains? I got a bunch of equipment that needs them for enchanting.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:14
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I've only found them on the merchant in the Wahaki village.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:22
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Bleak Walker is great because you can finally use all those amazing [Attack] dialogue options. "There's only one unreasonable savage on this plateau, and he stands before you" *turns the Wahaki into a collective fine red mist*
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Jun 22, 2018 20:22
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Satire Forum Mom posted:Any good source for vithrack brains? I got a bunch of equipment that needs them for enchanting.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:22
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Freaking Crumbum posted:can you thread the needle as a bleakwalker as a light-hearted sociopath that will still kill people for the slightest inconvenience but is otherwise not all doom and gloom? i'm kind of imagining The Boss from Saint's Row 3/4 where you're still an amoral killer that doesn't value kith life, but you also love to get blasted on uppers and party with biki-clad people of your preferred orientation in a hot tub. I don't see why not? In real life evil people do good poo poo all the time. It's not like the Koch brothers have never donated to good philanthropic causes, for example. I think one of them iirc has donated a good amount to cancer research, albeit that was likely 99% because one of them at one point had cancer. Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else who had that situation. Anyways, point being, evil people still usually have some humanity.
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Jun 22, 2018 21:50
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Entropy238 posted:What happens to itumaak if Sagani accidentally falls in to the blood pool reverse ghost heart: ghost dogg
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Jun 22, 2018 22:03
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Iretep posted:Bleakwalkers are mainly mercs that believe in no mercy. Outside of their job they can be pretty fun people i imagine. Theoretically, it's possible to separate your horrible job from your private life. Practically, I can't imagine anyone staying with the Bleak Walkers for long if they're not a fully fledged sociopath.
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Jun 22, 2018 23:01
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So how is spellblade? More particular, how is Aloth as a spellblade. I've seen people make the case that his battlemage multiclass can be good, but I haven't seen much about him as a wizard+rogue.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:30
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I was going to make a joke about if Batman acted more like a Bleak Walker then there would be less dead people in Gotham but that's basically the Punisher I think. Of course if Bruce Wayne was a Kind Wayfarer then that would be better.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:31
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marshmallow creep posted:So how is spellblade? More particular, how is Aloth as a spellblade. I've seen people make the case that his battlemage multiclass can be good, but I haven't seen much about him as a wizard+rogue. I haven't tried it myself but what I've read is that spellblade rogue is basically the only way to build a real riposte tank. Because riposte only triggers on miss, not graze, you need to get deflection crazy high to make it work, and wizard spell buffs are the only good way to do that.
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Jun 23, 2018 02:40
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marshmallow creep posted:So how is spellblade? More particular, how is Aloth as a spellblade. I've seen people make the case that his battlemage multiclass can be good, but I haven't seen much about him as a wizard+rogue. I didn’t use aloth very effectively as a spellblade in my last game. He didn’t have the health to really take a beating and his defensive spells helped, but ultimately weren’t enough to push him to high enough deflection to heavily mitigate damage. Maybe if he used a shield it would be better. His damage output also seemed worse than either a pure rogue or pure wizard. That’s not to say spellblade is hopeless, but I found it finicky and really micro heavy. It does have a strong synergy at higher levels — citzal’s spirit lance applies rogue strike debuffs in an aoe, meaning you can nuke multiple enemies with dots, or grind a groups’ deflection into dust with confounding blind and some spells that hit multiple times. But a two handed spec looks pretty awful on rogue until then, because all of its abilities are full attacks.
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Jun 23, 2018 04:37
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I don't remember Lord Darryn's Voulge doing so much shock damage to my teammates during my first playthrough, and the description on the item says it'd only do that to foes that have been hit with static charges.
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Jun 23, 2018 07:21
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Posted about that issue a few pages back. here's the fix Grimoire posted:Well now, that was fun. Blew my own brawler with Darryn's Voulge, despite it supposed to be foe only. On the plus side, 30 minutes of learnin' and lookin' at the datafiles, and wouldn't you know they're just JSON. edit: it's in the attacks bundle iirc, win path will be something like (look at local files through steam here)\Pillars of Eternity II\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\exported\design\gamedata\attacks.gamebundlethangs Grimoire fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 07:38
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:So yeah, you could be a bright and cheery upbeat Bleak Walker. So long as nobody got in your way. America, land of the RPG, where you can have any alignment you like, as long as it's murder  I like doing all the bounties, which makes me as complicit as Maia. Berath frowns on passionate or benevolent choices, although I'm fairly sure I get a pass for murdering Woedica priests. It's my ornery kith nature. Don't get me wrong, I like Sherman better than Grant. He and Forrest would have made an interesting pair. Except for the KKK thing. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 07:55
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ewe2 posted:America, land of the RPG, where you can have any alignment you like, as long as it's murder Berath is fine with benevolence, it's cruelty that's disfavored.
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Jun 23, 2018 08:25
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marshmallow creep posted:So how is spellblade? More particular, how is Aloth as a spellblade. I've seen people make the case that his battlemage multiclass can be good, but I haven't seen much about him as a wizard+rogue. Wizard does have synergy with Riposte and Streetfighter, though. I think Riposte is bad and one passive definitely isn't enough to plan a build around. Streetfighters are nice and benefit from all Wizard buffs but that of course isn't relevant where Aloth is concerned. The Rogue also does very little to aid the Wizard side of the multiclass. Escape can combo well with some spells (Death Ray, Dimensional Shift) but eh. That's more fun than it is powerful. Fighter/Wizards on the other hand can utilize Wizard CC very well thanks to Barrage alone. Making Aloth anything but a pure Wizard is kinda annoying especially when you first get him because he starts with blasting spells only. If you make him a Rogue/Wizard and Edér a Fighter/Rogue they also both start with Crippling Strike which is not ideal when they're supposed to focus down enemies together. None of this is meant to say that Rogue/Wizard is bad, but I think it's the weakest class choice for Aloth.
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Jun 23, 2018 11:16
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Riposte build wizards/rogues were good in the beta. But then riposte, which was already pretty bad outside of this combination, got inexplicably nerfed more in the main game, so, yeah, now they're not worth making either.
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Jun 23, 2018 12:46
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Grimoire posted:Posted about that issue a few pages back. here's the fix Thanks; trying this.
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Jun 23, 2018 14:41
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How do you all make tekehu work as a nuker on PotD? I find his spells have a lot of trouble hitting, and if they do, they never penetrate. At level 14 he can go through his entire repertoire against equal level opponents and not bring a single enemy past half health. Maybe I just picked the wrong spells, but I have him mostly casting his unique spells and summons and they mostly do nothing effective at all.
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Jun 23, 2018 16:35
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Heithinn Grasida posted:How do you all make tekehu work as a nuker on PotD? I find his spells have a lot of trouble hitting, and if they do, they never penetrate. At level 14 he can go through his entire repertoire against equal level opponents and not bring a single enemy past half health. Maybe I just picked the wrong spells, but I have him mostly casting his unique spells and summons and they mostly do nothing effective at all. for PotD I use Druids for their healing spells and Chanters as beckoners for the wurms summon so far, most spells will fail to hit because of high defenses, that's just the way it goes I did a custom party to make a Lifegiver Druid to tough it out these situations in PotD
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Jun 23, 2018 16:41
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Druids are a lot worse on the new PotD because they have trouble breaking armor. Maybe a Fury getting multiple elemental passives can do well but I doubt even that. But yeah, Druids are the best healers. Chanter healing got nerfed pretty harshly so there's even less competition for Druids now (although Moonwell got nerfed as well). Maybe their summons are alright as well? I 've honestly never used most of them but it probably doesn't really matter anyway because summoning items are obscenely overpowered. Tekehu in particular struggles with damage more than other Druids because he's cut off from a damage type and raw damage spells but Foe AoE Chill Fog and Blizzard are still useful since you can just drop them into any melee for some damage and their debuff effects. He also has a spell that does crushing damage which is by far the best damage type against most enemies worth worrying about, although it still doesn't always penetrate.
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Jun 23, 2018 17:23
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I found Tekehu's main use in PotD was as a healer and a Chill Fog dispenser since his doesn't affect allies. On PotD he just doesn't have the penetration to be a nuker and he misses out on some of the better spells for that anyways. I honestly feel like he's best as a Druid/Chanter in PotD due to the relative inefficacy of his higher level spell slots.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:06
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I'm still running my Druid through Poe1 and there might be another patch by the time I'm done but y'all are making it sound like I should go Lifegiver once I get to Poe2.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:09
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Is Resolve still used for dialogue mechanics in PoE2 like it was in 1? I'm a couple hours in (haven't even fixed the Defiant yet), but Resolve's old function of persuade/threaten/etc. seems to have been largely absorbed by the new skills of the same name. I haven't seen any dialogue checks for Resolve yet. If it's not used for dialogue checks anymore, is there a way to respec my character's stats? I'd like to put some points into Perception instead, since Resolve isn't really useful for the Pure Class Wizard I'm running. The inn only lets you redo everything after 1st level, though.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:37
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Ginette Reno posted:I'm still running my Druid through Poe1 and there might be another patch by the time I'm done but y'all are making it sound like I should go Lifegiver once I get to Poe2. if you give a poo poo about PotD yeah I guess so
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Jun 23, 2018 21:09
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Cirosan posted:Is Resolve still used for dialogue mechanics in PoE2 like it was in 1? I'm a couple hours in (haven't even fixed the Defiant yet), but Resolve's old function of persuade/threaten/etc. seems to have been largely absorbed by the new skills of the same name. I haven't seen any dialogue checks for Resolve yet. Yeah I wouldn't tailor any of your main stats for dialogue purposes. Samuel Clemens posted:Open the console and type Iroll20s and then OpenCharacterCreation. That should allow you to recreate your character.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:14
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Cirosan posted:Is Resolve still used for dialogue mechanics in PoE2 like it was in 1? I'm a couple hours in (haven't even fixed the Defiant yet), but Resolve's old function of persuade/threaten/etc. seems to have been largely absorbed by the new skills of the same name. I haven't seen any dialogue checks for Resolve yet. There's a small number of Resolve options, but I wouldn't really pump it specifically for them.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:21
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Do I have to recreate my character from scratch with that command for changes to take or can I just, say, increase one stat by X amount and lower Resolve by the same X amount with the AttributeScore command? This thread details how to make more granular tweaks, though I admit my google fu was too weak to find it at first. Oof, and it looks like this disables achievements too, like with the last game. I understand with Steam and everything there's probably a lot of pressure for this kind of failsafe, but it still stings. Oh well.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:35
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Cirosan posted:Is Resolve still used for dialogue mechanics in PoE2 like it was in 1? I'm a couple hours in (haven't even fixed the Defiant yet), but Resolve's old function of persuade/threaten/etc. seems to have been largely absorbed by the new skills of the same name. I haven't seen any dialogue checks for Resolve yet. Resolve comes up a few times, but less as a dialogue check you take and more of how you respond to certain actions that happen in dialogue. After you fix your ship, you'll meet someone who will read your mind, and resolve lets you resist it; this is entirely about flavor and not having resolve doesn't gently caress you over. There's also at least one unique item that requires a higher than middling resolve to get. There's also at least one dragon you can use a resolve check with. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 21:50
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Wizard Styles posted:But yeah, Druids are the best healers. Paladins are the best healers in my opinion. They can cast Lay on hands more times than any healer can cast a heal per fight. It has some range but your front line is going to take the most damage. It can be upgraded to give the target a +5 cons buff. Priests are better than druids mainly since their buffs are just amazing. Open with Circle of Protection, Watchful Presence, Triumph of Crusaders, and Blessing. Let your guys get fully healed from the buff. They still have Holy Radiance, Iconic Projection, and Minor Intercession for spot heals after that. If you get them to the end levels you can then throw the symbol of your god down to explode rooms.
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Jun 23, 2018 21:54
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I played a bleak walker in PoE1 and should finish that file and port it over later and I agree with the Sherman thing. Also how did "Vancian Caste System" not wind up as the thread title!?!?
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Jun 24, 2018 00:36
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So how is druid×paladin? Flaming Bear Claws of Devotion!
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Jun 24, 2018 01:16
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Shifter/Bleak Walker is pretty nuts, tanky fast frontliner that stacks multiple lashes with average to high attack speed to shred through things fairly fast, while also having a lot of support via Paladin stuff and Druid spells. Like every Shifter or Shifter/X though, it starts strongest and gradually loses power as the game goes on. Never bad, I'd say, but ultimately Shifters are kind of just underpowered compared to other similar melee strikers (monk, rogue, etc.)
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Jun 24, 2018 01:31
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