And don’t forget to pick up the two pairs of boots that make you immune to falling on ice for your frontliners! As an Ice Storm fan, I find these to be very important in my team.

I’ve outlined some of the pieces of equipment in my comment about my Ranger/Rogue build. I haven’t been able to verify if the sword and bow apply to all attacks, or just attacks with those weapons, however.

I have a few different ones going on, but so far I have to say that my favourite has been a Ranger 2 / Thief Rogue 10 build that has really come into its own thanks to items.

Ranger 2 for medium armor proficiency (not relevant until Act II), fighting style, and Hunter’s Mark.

Thief Rogue 10 for extra bonus action, sneak attack dice, evasion, uncanny dodge, and feats.

This turned into a crit fishing build, and so we must turn off automatic sneak attacks. Change it so the game asks every time, and then only apply it on a critical hit, or the last attack of the turn if no crits happened.

Notable equipment includes:

• Covert Cowl to increase crit chance
• Armor of Agility to get his AC to 22
• Knife of the Mountain King for increased crit chance and Advantage against targets in the dark
• The Dead Shot for increased crit chance (and its other effect works amazingly well with Sharpshooter)
• Surgeon’s Subjugation Amulet for an auto-paralyze on a crit
• And finally, for your second melee weapon, anything Light with Finesse will do but if you want to destroy spellcasters I highly recommend Sussur Dagger.
• Elixir of Viciousness for big battles, to increase crit chance.

The crux of this build is to have as many possible chances to hit/crit as possible, and to attempt to get an extra Sneak Attack each round thanks to your Reaction. I took the Mage Slayer feat to give myself an extra chance, but Sentinel will also do. I was just building specifically to fuck up Cazador.

With one of those two feats, if you are in melee you should be able to trigger a reaction attack each round. Now, these reaction attacks are programmed poorly, and you seem to get both a main-hand and an off-hand attack on them, doubling our chances to get a hit/crit. You also get Sneak Attack on this if you have an adjacent ally or Advantage on the attack.

Additionally, a hit with the Sussur Dagger silences the target for two rounds, making casters unable to do much of anything except bonk you with a stick.

With this build you should be critting on a 17, getting Sneak Attack twice per round and hopefully applying it on a critical hit, be extremely hard to hit (add Cloak of Displacement to make it even harder,) shut down mages from casting with ease, and just generally a menace.

He isn’t.

A lightning specialist, I assume?

I guess I just kill her too effectively!

The bit of text about Ethel offering an out surprises me: I’ve done that fight around eight times and she has never once offered me the option.

None of what we speak today is “proper English.” Languages are constantly evolving.

I didn’t even know that you could do a quest for him the first time 'round, because the trigger to start it is so easy to miss. I only found out because a friend told me.

I was reading that they fixed this in a recent patch. It also happened to me.

I make Gale an Evocation wizard every time, and spend almost all his spell slots on Shatter, Fireball, and Ice Storm. He mops the floor of a crowd very efficiently!

There haven’t been any issues, so I don’t see why development is needed.

SMS/MMS do not count toward data usage here. They are free and unlimited.

You say that as if I don’t already know it. But what am I supposed to do, abandon every friend who prefers it?

Many people do use Discord as a messaging app. I am really only using it for private messages when I am on data.

I only have two Signal contacts, and no group chats. Video is set to download only on WiFi, but I do need to be able to see images.

Photos use a decent amount of data regardless of what app you’re sending them by.

Because SMS is inherently feature-lite. But it’s free and unlimited, which is kind of the whole point of using it over a feature-rich app that uses data.

If I wanted a messaging app with advanced features, I wouldn’t be using the SMS app that came with my phone.

I’m really not. 75% of my data this month has been used by Signal and Discord.

Not everyone has a large data plan. I am very aware of how much messaging taxes my data plan: the entirety of my data is already used by it.