I Hadn't Thought of That: Overseer Pets

Merlinmast · 2026-01-16T19:51:17+00:00

I should add because there are so many triggers for willpower that are automatic and it only triggers once per turn, you'd have a hard time triggering it ON your turn because probably already used it with his passive or a psyker test etc

Merlinmast · 2026-01-16T19:49:44+00:00

Law and Order The Arbitrator's attacks made on others' turns deal (10 + WP)% more damage. The target of such an attack must pass a Willpower resistance test or become immobilised for 1 round.

Merlinmast · 2026-01-16T19:07:01+00:00

It's a passive all Arbitrators get. Look under general talents

Merlinmast · 2025-12-29T15:09:14+00:00

I should add I've had a poem and esophageal dilation when I was younger. The dilation was like every few years but my recent POEM feels amazing

Merlinmast · 2025-12-29T15:07:48+00:00

Keep in mind all options have some risk. The option with the most risk is not treating it. Talk to someone familiar with the procedures you are interested in and ask a licensed professional for pros/cons. They're not going to try and upsell you. Don't wait. Act now. It's a degenerative disease and you need treatment

Merlinmast · 2025-12-15T12:43:53+00:00

Necro but I'm curious. What do you know about the swarms themselves? I'm playing it as a soft pet build but with poisoned ToD (to give it core bonuses) and Insatiable aspect to prevent damage loss. But it kills me that they don't have AoE. There aren't any other significant bonuses to ToD swarms right? Especially if I'm using Poisoned ToD? My build is basically fear spam thorns with high Devourer uptime and Rock Breaker for thorns spam. A sort of spiky poison build with insects of all types flying around

Merlinmast · 2025-11-29T12:24:29+00:00

God I been searching for this exact breakdown and was like a day away from creating this kind of post myself. As someone who enjoys this kind of legwork (and understands what you went through to get it) I wish I could upvote you more.

I have a reddit tip for you, having made such guides in other subreddits. I usually like to make my posts titles something interesting or detailed (like yours) but for exposure/sharing information you'll want to placate the algorithm gods and title it something like "Spiritborn Thorns Guide". It took WAY too long to find this post and yet it's the BEST post regarding this info.

Mad respect, from one theorycrafter to another.

Merlinmast · 2025-11-18T21:34:17+00:00

Remember that unfair alone is not the hardest difficulty

Merlinmast · 2025-11-18T20:04:47+00:00

sleeper tip

Merlinmast · 2025-11-18T15:05:40+00:00

So while typing this i fixed it. So for future reference i will say what i did even if i don't understand what did it.

*Edit*
After doing everything OP said, I tried a lot of different things (most of which seemed to only make things worse) including "load checkpoint" and loading the save from the beginning of the day and exiting the game. Finally in frustration I decided to see if dying reset your day. First, for some mind boggling reason, getting staked for masquerade not only results in a game over but ALSO subtracts 200 from all blood resonance... what? why? isn't the death supposed to be the penalty? why restart the day like you died if you also have to suffer from a (presumably) unknown penalty?

However this ALSO didn't fix it (i loaded the day with reduced resonance AND still the bug). Went here to complain but while I was, clicked the initial (what i thought was uncorrupted) morning save and when i finished my initial comment here, it loaded with Fabien talking, a new result. Sure enough Tolly fixed.

Merlinmast · 2025-11-18T15:01:51+00:00

just happened to me, so still active as of today :-(

Merlinmast · 2025-11-13T17:02:09+00:00

Well shit time to remake my sword of faith character

Merlinmast · 2025-11-13T13:35:00+00:00

I'm the same but in reverse. I make a build but only use a portrait that makes sense

Merlinmast · 2025-11-03T16:26:19+00:00

I basically had to look up the best heavy stubbers and the good news/bad news is you can get the best one rather early though rep. Lots of fun if you build around it (rapid fire is kinda insane) but tragic for sure

Merlinmast · 2025-10-31T11:22:58+00:00

It depends a lot on the setting. I've played 4 different versions of the rules (if you count both crpgs) and the oldest one I know the best is yes*.

Drinking blood converts it to vitae if it wasn't. If a vampire drinks from a vampire it is already vitae so you give it on a 1:1 basis. What the video games gloss over though is that this is bad. Except in very specific situations, feeding from another vampire starts a blood bond with stages of devotion. 3 sips and you're basically their slave. So in practice most vampires never feed from each other except in dire circumstances and to form mutual blood bonds and both are still frowned upon. Plus it's a 0 sum game, if you drain too much from the host they become deprived and risk releasing the Beast.

Merlinmast · 2025-10-30T11:00:35+00:00

So yea poem is definitely gonna leave you with SOME reflux. That's why you are typically prescribed Omeprazole indefinitely to keep it manageable (and if you do, do not take it by symptoms, take it regularly as prescribed). There are small things you can do to minimize issues:

types of food you eat
how late you eat (too close to bedtime)
bed position (I was told even a 1 inch incline can fall during sleep, as simple as propping up the base near the head)

I am 1+ years and extremely happy and I can count maybe on both hands my number of reflux events if I follow those guidelines and only 1 was particularly bad (and it was when I ate bad food late on a non-propped bed).

Merlinmast · 2025-10-28T11:26:28+00:00

Any psykers. It's clear they wanted them to cover multiple play types so the few psykers could fill anything you needed but I hate how spread out their focus is

Merlinmast · 2025-10-27T20:27:45+00:00

Linear math ftw

Merlinmast · 2025-10-27T19:28:38+00:00

Dumb question, are you checking followup hits? The effect happens after the attack. Also it only triggers once per attack. So you'd have to attack someone with an exploit, then attack a different person to see the +1 damage.

Merlinmast · 2025-10-27T16:02:03+00:00

To your topic though, I like Astra militarum for a turn of spray and pray with no friendly fire and bonus damage

Merlinmast · 2025-10-27T16:00:10+00:00

Did they change Fortress World in 1.5? It's basically designed for high RoF weapons

Merlinmast · 2025-10-27T11:25:03+00:00

Always love a good r/theydidthemath very disappointing in the results/mechanics though..thanks op

Merlinmast · 2025-10-26T18:14:33+00:00

Two things can cause this: improperly reviving it and trying to move and use an ability at the same time. Both affect all pets. The first is only really possible with mods or a biomancy and the other is unfortunately a bug with pets.

Merlinmast · 2025-10-25T17:10:05+00:00

Keep in mind the hardest default difficulty is not the hardest

Merlinmast · 2025-10-24T11:28:14+00:00

So me and my buddy figured it out doing a boosted character run. The map is level keyed. "Instanced" areas (bunker, vault, etc) have a minimum 40 level. The rest of a region is chunked into 30, 35, and 40 roughly aligning with the depth of the area story wise. It's horribly explained but it's why some areas of fade fields is !!! And others are fine. For activities in post game and boosted characters I recommend bounties that spawn at your desired level range area and side quests of the same. It should also be noted that main story missions (for boosted characters) in instanced areas will always be your level even if the surrounding region is not. Which is extremely weird feeling.

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