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Arcane Trickster, most builds for it, has plenty of feats. You can basically ignore spell DC feats, since your main damage spells do not need DC, and your CC spells scale off of Disable Device (Soundburst & Greater Shout). On my Trickster lives, I took 3x SWF heroic feats just for the HP, had...

I don't see this as "gutted", it is a slight haircut: Meter Swarm does from 1d3+1/1d2+1 x4 to 1d3+1/1d2 x4 (Ave 17 level) The feat tax is kind of a problem for some classes, especially for Druid, which gets no bonus feats, and casts multiple element spells. Not a problem for classes that...

I play Melee, Caster, and Ranged, and reading through the balance proposals, as they are worded now, here is how I interpret them: Melee: Major nerf to Dragonlord's roar. New clicky that buffs single target damage for THF. Vanguard gets a proper crit profile. Massive DR nerf to any build...

I 100% agree with you, it is not good. As I read this DR update now, I think it is even worse than that, and this would pull in all throwers and crossbows into the new "every ranged has to use longbow with 12 Ranger levels now" bucket (for Morphic, Metalline, and Aligned arrow secondary imbues).

There was a time when Pin could not be used in conjunction with Hunts End, I just used something like Sniper Shot instead back then. Both have changed, Pin is now an AoE shot, and Hunts End is standalone - it cannot be paired with another shot.

I agree, the DR changes seem heavy handed. As it stands today, DR is mostly ignorable outside of certain bosses. With this change, you would have to integrate bypassing every possible DR into your build. The ranged changes they have proposed seem to indicate they want to make more options...

I agree about AA T4/5 abilities needing some help. The low hanging fruit is pretty awesome though. And you can get AA on Darkhunter, or any other class, if you make it an Elf.

For Longbow it is super easy to bypass slash/bludgeon with 6AP in Arcane Archer, Morphic Arrows secondary imbue.

The Vanguard Crit profile changes look pretty good. It would also be cool if alternate stats would work with Shields. A CHA Paladin Vanguard has no way to use their main stat for shield bashing. A PDK Fighter Vanguard can get that only by something like 12 Fighter / 4 Sorc / 4 Bard. It would...

The new Bow / AA ranged meta has arrived.

This change seems like it will be a big proxy buff to the DR breaking abilities in Shintao and Arcane Archer trees.

You get the Acid proc with Meltfang, a good option if you don't have an Acid proc slotted elsewhere. If you have the acid proc on something else, Icefang gets another proc.

Thanks, updated my post

The first slot, scale, will not apply to thrown weapon attacks. The second one, fang, will apply to thrown weapon attacks.

It seems like the Treasure Hunter weekend bonus is kind of a PR tool, to throw a bone to the mobs when pitchforks come out. They did it a couple times when lag was a major problem. Recently, lag has not been an issue, seems to be a renewed focus on bug fixes with Tonquin's return, and the...

I found the Wilderness pretty easy to navigate, it is a fairly small area, and the quests are in a circle around the edge. Mob density is too low to make this a go-to for slayers, but the rares give sentient xp (legendary weapons), and the purple names are challenging.

I think that the quests are fun to play. As for Gear, Baphomet's Reign is pretty great, 15% legendary conditioning (Frees up feat if you normally take Titan's Blood), Legendary Deadly +3, Unstoppable Staggering Blow, Quality Sheltering +11, 3x Aug slots, 5x Filigree Slots. From the Catalysts...

I pulled the globe from The Pit on Elite, using a capped character. Note, it is the new chest off to the left, NOT the Muck's Doom chest.

Two reasons why I didn't bother with Sun Blade at level 6: First, It is kind of a weak weapon, aside from the strikethrough capability. Also, at that level, I did not have enough AP to have the CHA to hit/dmg + Warchanter goodies + Swash. I focused on Feydark + Warchanter at the outset. I...

36 Point Dragonborn 18 Bard / 1 Favored Soul / 1 Fighter I have been doing different Warchanter builds for racial lives, and decided to do one around the Null Blade, getting strikethrough with THF / SWF / Shield Mastery styles at cap, leveling with THF. I used a Two Hander from 1-10, used...