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I hopped between the merchants with my lvl 15 shopper without success for an hour. I then set her to lvl 20 and tried again, thinking maybe the min level requirement for the mod to appear on rare rings got changed - but still without success. Is it maybe drop only in EE or even higher level requirement?

Ah I see only on rare or better items, is it!? That explains the scarcity. In that case I'll resume the shopping grind porting back and forth to the starting island, looking for rare rings then. Thanks for this piece of info Flix! It's always nice to come back to the game and forum meeting you and everyone, especially when welcomed back like this! 😀

I'm currently playing the latest S2EE version and got a shopping toon to level 15 to shop for some early game rph items. However, none are appearing in the merchants inventories. Is level 15 too low, is the mod unavailable in merchants inventories or does EE in some way restrict the mod? Cheers

I remember that Dryad, I also considered this cheating to be honest haha. I'm very fond of the community patch and EE mod so it's most likely I'd play those. There is also the Shadow Warrior with Frenzied Rampage, with dual wield and an armor set the SQ could theoretically come close to 75% chance for double hit with Frenzied Rampage. On the other hand the CM Pelting Strikes with BFG has 4 hits but since the shooting animation is very quick it can be spammed pretty fast (although I'd probably prefer a different build with very high hits/time).

6 per single attack, given that 100% double hit can be reached, sounds amazing! Would you consider BFG with pelting strikes a close second, since it shoots 4 (or5?) projectiles or is there another combination that may exceed this?

Hello friends, I'm wondering which class can achieve the highest number of hits in a given time with weapon based damage (non spell CA), using any skill, stat and item combination available to them. Would appreciate your input. Best regards

Thanks Any skips, glitches, legit teleports, quests etc works as long as the game does not have to be changed through an additional mod or using the character editor. That's a good one, I haven't made use of reloading the game, although I suppose possible only in single player mode? Making use of balloons and portals is definitely on my list. Another thing I've been trying to see if it can help are those teleport-boats on the islands on the way to Carnach. Cheers

Hello friends, I just remembered that it was possible to destroy The Great Machine with ranged LL% weapons. Was that fixed in CMP and/or EE? I don't seem to be able to do it, if it's still possible, how is it done? Cheers

Hello friends, Thinking of any% speed runs in other games I'm looking for shortcuts for the campaign (primarily light) in the form of tricks, glitches, quests etc that could help finishing the campaign as quickly as possible.

Kudos and a big thanks @idbeholdME and @Flix for this Ancient Magic mechanics deep dive and validation. I'm sure this will help everyone in deciding whether or not to take Ancient Magic in their builds.

I assume since the DM is mostly non-weapon based Mealstrom CA really comes in handy for him. Or do you have additional suggestion for DM to reduce enemy armor? Since enemies do not often have phys mitigation, would Ancient Magic mastery reduce their phys mitigation into negative values and thus increase physical damage additionally?

True, against physical damage mitigation only Ancient Magic (AM) mastery at skill level 75 comes to mind from the top of my head. But this makes Maelstrom CA a very powerful CA with the 'Grind' bronze mod as most of the DM's Elemental Magic Aspect is around physical damage CAs. Are there any other sources of negative physical damage mitigation that could stack with the AM mastery?

Then does the modded Maelstrom CA actually set enemy physical armor to 0, effectively negating phys armor?

Thanks chattius! Looking at Maelstrom CA if modded with 'Grind' bronze mod on level 1 it would reduce physical armor by 100,5 % but I doubt that would set enemy armor to 0. Do you know how the calculation works for this physical armor debuff? Cheers

Thanks Flix! Based on the skills.txt can you say which mod combination would get the most bang for the buck for the "min-maxers" out there in terms of basic damage on the CA overall?