Electrons are Eigenmetric Solitons

I actually did both for the same run, can't believe it worked.  I played as a guardian because of the extra health points and I'm using healing spells most of the time anyway.  The key is to prioritize leadership and mechanics at first and get 10 mech, 7 leadership after which you start getting some stealth to get through the mines and the [redacted] from the Northern Mine, and the Tinker's gloves from the [redacted].  Then you can go up and get the shaping gloves via the trapped path.  Wasn't able to get Girdle of Leadership because it was closely guarded.  Forgot where to find Soft Shoes but I didn't really need those.  

You can train your character many times by leading enemies to friends to kill them (Watchhill).  Also of course do all of the quests you can.

Anyway well designed game and I enjoyed the nonstandard playthrough.  It was challenging to dodge mobs and I did have to leave many areas behind.  I wouldn't do this on torment because of the instakill mechanics (leaping thahds).

Oh I stole Rakkhus' horde (Drayk Vale), and she didn't attack though she did warn when I went in there.  This is after I paid her to keep her pets from hunting me.  Is this a bug?

Oh would it be possible to have collection quests complete from the junk bag rather than having to dump my current items, move records/shaper equipment, turn in and pick up items again?  

I noticed that the rough crystals don't get sold to regular vendors.  Could this also apply to shaper records and shaper equipment as well so we could basically keep it all in the junk bag without accidentally selling the equipment?

He gives direct xp.  The xp decreases with level and then precipitously drops off a cliff near level 35 at which point the xp amount is only 60.  As far as I am concerned he is essential to use for torment singletons so that you can actually damage creatures.  Not sure for larger parties.  All party members get xp for that price.

On normal difficulty for instance I had no need of him with a singleton.

Haha? 

Have you done the New Formello murders and gotten the key from the body?

I collected a body for Oriathon in Hectar but he is now dead.  Is it intentional to have bounties whose recipients are gone?  If not I will report as a bug. I checked other places in Hectar and Shader and did not find Oriathon. 

By the way Jeff should add a Lightning Sword to fill-out the set of 5 :P.  Maybe that would be overpowered though.

You were able to wield radiant soulblade & one of the elemental swords?  Did Jeff remove the broadsword classification for the elemental swords at some point (v1.01?) then?  Even recently I was unable to equip both.

Ah yes, "behind" is a bit vague sorry.  There is another demon to the south.

It was a sick twisted joke.  Don't follow me into the abyss if you value your sanity.  But maybe you've already left it at the door?

I honestly don't know what the bug is or even if it's a bug because I'm having the same issue.  How many plagues have you finished?

Rentar will give you one if you attack her.  Someone else does as well.  I think the demon behind the giant's forge maybe.  There might be other places.

The laying and subsequent fertilization of unicorn eggs is no laughing matter.

I think with Vahnatai lore, sage lore and a few points of arcane lore I was able to get dispel barrier L3 in Khoth's lair.  Honestly you will be stuck with L2 for most spells atleast until near endgame when you get more points of VL.  Forget howl of terror though (has anyone used this regularly?  does it work well for large mobs?). 

For singletons I am a fan of having action point increasing items (here black halberd + quicksilver sandals).  I blink to the center of a mob, hit adrenaline rush and triple nuke them with divine retribution.  L3 DR is nice because I think it can also stun.  Cleanup is easy after that.  For gazers you can use divine fire/fireblast.

There is a steel halberd in a cache nw of poulsbo (east of Lorelei (sp?)).  Go up and get it asap.  Not sure what nature lore is required.  I like to start games off by getting the good items at the beginning as much as possible.  Carmine can make you a nice sword as well after you do the goblin/bandit lair (you'll have the 1000 gp by then).  You can also quickly get 4/5 stone circles if you want.  There is a steel shield N of appleton and a steel broadsword east of poulsbo on a body. 

The item index lists a steel shortsword N of Libras, into in the gremlin valley a bit hidden by the mountain wall..I verified it, it's there.

There are probably other easy to obtain items. 

Yeah the Xian rock lol.

Oh for future reference, not sure if this is a bug, but I was able to get the northern metal without the map.  You can do so quite early in the game

There should be another location albeit much later in the game.  You'll know when you are there.

Oh I see.  We need to wait until the unicorns are "otherwise occupied."  *ahem*

Is there something special I need to learn in order to hunt these?  Maxing out luck/nature lore doesn't seem to work.

It's probably a Vahnahtai corpse.

In this game more than the previous two in the series it does seem that the difficulty curve is steeper.  I was able to tackle the endgame at level 35 with a singleton (blink, adrenaline rush divine retribution).  This leads to a narrow level band where you can get kills without much difficulty and still get XP.  This may be something hard coded.  I've noticed that XP from monsters (1) seems slightly randomized by a few points around a mean and (2) comes in tiers which may be a function of the monster's level and the players level (or the level difference).  This is why I think it's hard coded and not in a script.

Beethoven's 9th is nice, as is The Mars Volta and Steve Reich.

Note that after stealing from the Anama "letsbefriends" didn't work after leaving Shayder and returning.  Perhaps I was doing something wrong.  Because of this I wasn't able to remove a dread curse.  The curse didn't seem to do much though and I was able to finish.  Black Halberd + Quicksilver Sandals!

One thing you can do as well is once the porticulli of the unslain slime pool spawners open, run (in combat mode) past the alien slime and kill them.  I think all of the porticulli open after 3 of them are dead.

Apparently the artifact in the Monastery is different from A3/E3?  A shield/armor instead of a recipe?

Is there a crafter for wisdom crystals?