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Person's damage seems to add up decently enough... it's certainly less noticeable than other stuff, but the alch seems to do the hurt alright. Want to say at full stacks its total damage is about on par, maybe a bit more, than my marksman's main attack (just split between two targets). The double stun's p. nice, too, and while I've been going slower than you have, least where I'm at (lvl 5-6ish?), my alch's heal is only somewhat trailing my priest's (though part of that has probably been because I've been heavily prioritising healing stat wise). Pretty sure what your doing would be faster, heh, I've just been rolling real conservatively so far.

Basically the alch's been a sort of filler, though. Has some back row CC, which supplements the marksman -- between the two they can keep something out the back row for a good while. Can heal, which supplements the healer in case it's stunned or someone just got dunked on. Covers the other half of the ubiquitous status effects (this is so far mostly just to make the poison boss thing less annoying, since his poison trigger hits pretty hard). Deals relatively low single target damage most of the time, but hits two things, etc., etc. The critter's... mellow? I guess. But seems to do 'is job. Might just be that seeing "suppressed" with any regularity on my side of the screen annoys me

Though yeah, poison makes the worms way less annoying if you can't kill them fast enough to prevent the self heal. Very noticeable, heh.

Will have to try it, I suppose. I actually kinda' like the marksman, though. The damage is solid enough you can save the other abilities for specialty usages, the full party shuffle is excellent for disruption, and the non-CD thing makes it easier to fix crap when your own dudes get flipped around. CD reset just means you can be a bit more careless with your cooldowns or really drop a hammer on the entire enemy group, if you really feel like it.

... the bigger thing is probably that I really like position 3 and 1 to be priest and paladin (for conditional full party status immunity), and if there's an on tap source of poison removal besides the alch (which doesn't work all that well in slot 4) I haven't noticed it. So if it don't work in the rear most slot it starts looking sketchy. Priest could go there if you're okay with kinda' relying on the pallie for status blocking on slot 2, but... that's kinda' only if you want to limit the priest to more or less only healing. Which is doable but something of a waste, really. Dispelling strike has a pretty decent base damage, and the buff cleanse ain't bad.

Fairly unsure about the demon hunter, though. Think I'd consider it over gun if I happened to be running with a seriously baller alch? Main attack makes poison boom easier to kick off, and you'd still have repositioning (if single target). Ability to target weakest, too, for that matter. In between the assassin and mark, I guess.

Lance guy's unfortunate. Still have to see the dragon thing and augur, but if neither of those have a bleed clear I can't see row one ever being anything except a paladin. Too much stuff causes and interacts with bleed to be able to rely on the priest cleanse, and nothing else has a bleed cure, iirc.

Dungeon Survival... Darkest Dungeon without torches or stress, less RNG BS or a priori knowledge required, and added micropay.

That's a nice, easy description for once, isn't it? =D

This really is basically darkest dungeon with the more annoying interesting bits filed off. Or the more interesting annoying bits, I guess. It's not terrible, but it does turn out a decent amount of DD's gameplay depth and atmosphere came from paying attention to the irritating parts of it.

Still, for folks starting off a quick teamcomp recommendation would be anything (marksman or demon hunter, practically), priest, alchemist, paladin, back to front. Those first three will let you clear poison and bleed on demand, and sporadically render your entire team immune to status afflictions, once you have all skills active. The damage is kinda' sketchy, but it's alright and whatever your forth slot is will probably hit pretty hard, and since you don't have any long term concerns except health damage, being able to heal on three of your party members (and subsequently outheal most single enemies) means you functionally don't have attrition. Makes for pretty smooth sailing.

Never quite figured it out. Or tried too hard, for that matter. Just avoided having to be the one who cleans it up, made sure to give those that do respect, and occasionally had my mind scuttlingly withdraw from starting to consider what it's like where that sort actually live.

... also wouldn't that be able to catch vandalism charges if someone was feeling particularly vindictive?

Get off the computer and sleep :V Or go get laid or somethin', I'unno. Going into your defense as relaxed as you can manage is generally better than just about anything else you could do at this point, prep wise.

You'll do fine, anyway. _{Or you'll do better next time (year?). It's a master's, not a doctoral dissertation, they don't start eating applicants until the next stage. also no matter what your counsel/advisors say, if they start feeding you honey or dousing you in similar substances it's not normal and you probably need to start running you are no ninja turtle and tenured professors are far more ruthless than alien space bugs}

Not after better than two decades on the internet I wouldn't.

Huh. Kinda' makes me think letting it happen, but having any funds generated pointedly not go to enforcement efforts could conceptually be a thing. Rather than back into police budgets, drug bust (or whatever) funds would go into healthcare/education/poverty reduction measures, etc.

... or did for a few seconds, after which the illness haze cleared enough I remembered half(/some indeterminate percentage of) the reason shit's like it is is because "collections" efforts are assumed to be there when budgeting is happening, and all that would mean is said other measures would get shafted in funding and expected to make up the shortfall with bandit money, like police precincts already are to varying degrees.

I'unno, maybe it can all go into a universal fund, but to access the fund costs like... fingers. Every few (tens of) thousand(s of) dollars requires the sacrifice of a finger. From the police chief equivalent, whoever is head of their accounting, whoever sets the budget, and one random officer. No more than once per year, no more than available amount of fingers. So you'd have the money there, but you'd have a holy shit incentive to get your costing estimates right the first time.