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    What is your wish list for characters?

    It's weird how ethical standards change when it's a fantasy setting. In real life, if someone tries to beat you up so they can rape you, it's still absolutely not OK to take their money or rape them if you win the fight. In this setting? Most things you meet in the wild are rapey. Presumably...
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    What is your wish list for characters?

    Functionally, that's pretty much all Corruption is. It determines how much of an asshole you are in dialogue. I guess charismatic villains aren't a thing in this world.
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    Ranking Companions by Combat Effectiveness

    You have to free her from the necklace she's trapped in. As far as I understand it, it involves characters in the fox den area and it's only possible for characters that have a dick. Never done it myself (and probably never will) so I don't know the full details, but I assume the wiki lists the...
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    Ranking Companions by Combat Effectiveness

    Brienne's been good, and being able to switch her damage between physical and magical has been useful. Probably my favorite character. Azyrran's very solid too, huge armor and various strong offensive powers. Guessing Arona's pretty good but I've never used her. Etheryn's the best healer...
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    Give me the bad ends

    I wouldn't think so, you just pick the clothes up and that's it.
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    Hexblade Weapon Help

    Shield Orb could be a defensive alternative to the Blank Scroll. It's got no Accuracy bonus and -10 Crit, but it also has +10 Evasion and because it's a Shield it makes you immune to crits, a major advantage when you're wearing low-armor Spellpower gear (and obviously the Tiran priest robe is...
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    By design, they're all pretty close. Personally, stats-wise, I'd probably pick the Sickle; it has a lower total damage value but has Raw damage, and Accuracy (which the two swords don't have) in addition to the Armor Penetration. But they're all roughly as powerful as each other and all viable...
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    Testing is always the answer. I remember expecting to see my Accuracy to be +54 on my character sheet, but it was only +44. I equipped and unequipped some weapons with no change, then I unequipped both my rings (+5 Accuracy each) and saw that I'd gone down to +34. From that point on I assumed...
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    Huh... Accuracy bonuses on weapons don't show up in the character's stats, so I always thought they only applied to the weapon itself when it was used.
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    Agreed, in general I'd think you'd want the Petal in the main hand. Even if you don't use any Ranged powers, the better damage type alone is considerable, and that Blessed buff is crazy good, certainly way better than 15% extra damage that only triggers on a crit. Sickle's a pretty good weapon...
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    Is it mathematically better to have two attacks at +0 than having one attack at +10 and one attack at -10? Admittedly here there's the additional issue of which item you want to crit more often. Both of these weapons trigger a special effect on a crit, and whatever effect you prefer should...
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    Dual Wielding vs Single Weapon

    There's no simple answer. Dual-Wielding generally gives you a bigger base damage value. For example, you can leave Hawkethorne at level 1 with 58 base damage just with a Short Sword and a Dagger, while even Two-Handed weapons that you get later in the game almost never get more than 50 base...
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    Charmer Build Advice

    Delicious information, thank you. Yeah, so many of these are At-Wills, and there's only one At-Will slot, and you might need that slot for something else (like Mirror Stance)... I like that it gives you so many options, but they're all so niche that I'm not sure I'd ever use any of them...
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    Icon Sharing Thread

    Bizarre. I've been making .png files around 120 to 140 pixels a side, and it seems like the game will either stretch or crush your image to about 120 or 124 pixels (hard to tell since the round frame "eats" part of the image anyway). Logically you wouldn't want to use a file with a lower...
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    Charmer Build Advice

    And if you learn all her abilities, you get a silver mask that makes those abilities stronger. I don't know by how much exactly (haven't made an unarmed combat build yet), but considering that that's all this head item does and how much time you have to put in to get it, I assume it's a lot.
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    Charmer Build Advice

    You're right to doubt the information. Turns out, the Codex hasn't been updated in forever (they're waiting until game mechanics have settled) and it's got the wrong info on that. Sexiness currently affects Tease attacks just like Attack Power affects physical powers and Spellpower affects spell...
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    How Would You Rank Our Current Female Companions?

    The point is, even outside of her sub path (in which she would do whatever the Champion tells her to regardless), she'd absolutely do it if it got the cage off of her. Brint probably doesn't want to turn into a girl, but a completely random magic suit of armor in a cave is all it takes. With...
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    How Would You Rank Our Current Female Companions?

    From context I believe it was plenty obvious that I was specifically talking about her physical body. And as the term "girl" in the physical sense falls within a binary sexual system, in that particular context it wouldn't be wrong to say that Etheryn is not a girl. I find "gender" to be too...
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    Breinne Too Late?

    Holy cow. Thanks for that highly important bit of information. On my latest playthroughs I was aiming to use Winter Knight Brint in Undermountain and then switch to Brienne afterwards... thankfully I only ruined one save file.
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    How Would You Rank Our Current Female Companions?

    Really... well that's both surprising and disappointing. But I suppose, in the end, what content gets added isn't based on what players want, it's based on what writers like. To clarify, I wasn't talking about her gender identity, I was talking about her body. Huh... I guess I'll be waiting...