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Can snooping help me with the mines/trapsNo. As the feat describes, it only helps you clear Perception thresholds for finding secrets in the game. If you need additional trap detection, the most effective ways to go, from most to least effective, are:
Okay there are few less obvious steps that people often fail.You can confront Mordre no problem. You even get the chance to let him walk away before you reveal he was the killer, and that still allows you the best outcome state. All you really need to do is make sure you have all the evidence and make a rock-solid case.
Lenox Pierce : Do not confront Morde yourself, not ask him about anything for that matter. Best is to skip him completely so you do not make a misstep. You do not need his insignia.
Or give pistols chance to counterattack.Full gun kata! Give pistols a bonus to dodge since clearly they're best at melee range
I am currently working on my second build so i am fairly new to the game. I wanted to play as a kind of melee/rifle user that focuses on mid to close range combat. Can you give me any tips on which weapons i should use, where i should put my stats and if i should use psionics?You won't have enough stat points to have three stats be good enough to carry you through the game. You can get enormous benefit from psi with only 3 Will and 80 skill points. As long as you don't mind the health pool reduction (and it's not really all that bad) then sure, go ahead and play around with psi. Put 55 real points into Temporal Manipulation and 25 real points into Psychokinesis. That'll get you psi haste, psi slow, the cooldown reduction ability, and the force field. That's a huge set of additional capability to be toting around. Sure, you won't be landing any hits of any significance with your psi, but what you'll be able to do is use psi to make your rifle and melee all the more deadly. Plus, very early on when it's difficult to afford ammo, even your weak Temporal Distortion will be enough to get you zero-cost kills on stuff, and it'll let you handle turrets without blowing through your ammo reserves.
It's not optimized, and I know it's not optimized, it's supposed to exploit all of the mechanics I find fun first, but is there anything glaring I'll regret not taking/investing too much in?Learning psi requires base skill, not effective. There's no sense at all in going 73 into Temporal Manipulation; and with 3 Will, no sense going deeper than 73, either. Stick with 70 if you plan to use Stasis, otherwise 55 will be fine.
This is how I'd do it if I were in your place.No Premeditation on a high-Int psi-capable build?
I wanted to ask if there are any changes you would recommend with regards to the aforementioned build?I wouldn't play that build in Expedition. You've got psi haste, so you don't really need Blitz; you've got Precognition if you go deep into TM so you don't need Dodge/Evasion or the associated feats and thus the Agility; you've got higher quality components than Wildan could have gotten back in early 2016 and you've got more need for crafting in general so you don't need to invest in stealth, which leads to the next point; Junkyard Surprise no longer can give +2 INT like it could back when Wildan wrote that post so you're going to either have to wait a lot longer to craft stuff (you won't get Hypercerebrix nearly as early as you can get JyS) or else you're going to need to go deeper in INT - which is what you should probably do.
I feel Sprint would help me even more tha Fancy FootworkPersonally, I always get a lot more use out of Sprint than Fancy Footwork for my melee characters. However, for lightly armored builds that are good at quickly killing targets and having enough AP left over to go kill more, Fancy Footwork certainly has its uses. If you open a fight against a group with a well-placed grenade, FF may let you zip all around the battlefield finishing off the injured, like some sort of wire-fu action sequence
Just a query, you start with 15 mercantile but then it shows zero in your level 4 and 8 builds etc....do I have to start over already....?Hm. Shouldn't. I just went back and double-checked those links again and the character progression links all appear to me to keep the Mercantile investment. I did drop Thought Control in the level 4 links, because I wanted to show that if you needed those points for something else, you can get through the first 4 levels no trouble without investment into TC or TM.
