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You don't even need lone wolf in late game for aero-, geo- or necro- mages to dump 10,000+ damage (spamming skin graft and adrenaline, or even apotheosis) in a single turn. In your team of 4 there are always gonna be 1~2 person being completely useless besides consuming resurrection scrolls (most often the ranger). From this perspective you can say that lone wolf is an utterly positive buff.

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Essentially "easy mode" perk provided you have a basic grasp of the game's combat system. A lot of people here already talked about damage potential and AP yada yada. But a big benefit to lone wolf is how Dos2 handles turn order. Unlike most games where turn order is just highest to lowest initiative, Dos2 does something different. the Character with the highest initiative goes first, then the highest initiative character on the opposite team. It ping pongs like this until there's no one on a team left and then it's just simple high to low. So if one of your characters goes first an enemy is guaranteed to go 2nd and vice versa. This means when you have a party of 4, the 3rd and 4th members are guaranteed to act either 5/6th and 7/8th. So lone wolf is essentially bringing your damage forward in the turn, which allows you better ability to kill or cc enemies and thus deny their damage.

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I've went my first proper playthrough with this and... It's a bit mixed feeling.
You get 6 ap instead of 4. If you are playing 2 characters vs 4 that means you get 12 total AP compared to 16. You also get less total vitality and armor naturally. You cap out your skills faster and that makes you being able to run with more skills on same character but that also make you feel like you've hit a certain power ceiling sooner.
Now some clear bads:
1. If enemy is strong enough to kill/cc you, you are instantly only left with one character after their turn (and they often act first). Getting CC'd or 1turn k/o'd feels terrible.
2. Inventory management is more painful. You carry less, you can use fewer gear items.
3. Social skills/traits (pet pal) are limited, basically you are forced to have a lore mastery and either stealing or persuasion.
4. Fewer unique character quests you can do (naturally)

So take these into consideration when considering lone wolf runs.

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INSANE with summoning. Doubly so if you use "Permanent Summons" or "Constellations" mod. Raised on the cube if all 3 are present.

But, really, what an awesome fun way to play.

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I'm assuming this won't actually work, but I'd love to have a 4p lone wolf necromancer build. I already have a 2 man lone wolf build where one character (unstable) self-destructs asap to help fuel explosions and other necro effects. It would be much more potent if your lone wolf points were restored after your excess party members died...

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Im currently playing with two friends in online multiplayer, if I have this talent equipped will it activate when I have to fight them?
I was thinking about a respec just to be sure I can deal with them if necessary...

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Lone wolf is only more powerful in act 1.

Otherwise, it's simply a different playstyle. Full party would probably focus on CCing every turn, with room for support, lone wolves on DPS. overall, 4 party is definitely stronger in acts 3 and 4, as lone wolves have to use broken/exploitable mechanics like stealth or setting up battlefield, not to say it's any trouble to play lone wolf on tactician.

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if you got a 4 party and 3 die and the last one has lone wolf, does he get's the bonus?

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In my experience of 5 playthroughs Lone Wolf can actually be a disadvantage to a 4 man group. Long as you know what works the game is pretty easy either way. Tactical or otherwise. There's just too much CC and reliance in Armor / Magic Armor values. In the end you lose viable builds taking Lone Wolf. Builds that would function decent normally. Rogue for instance you end up more CC / Utility than DPS. Summoning is just off the table entirely and skills that don't scale with a stat are even worse than normal. Gearing / Inventory management is probably the biggest difference.

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"Only take if you are planning to have a small party/solo" ........Oh, word?

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Can I still use lone wolf with multiple NPCs in my group? Or can I only have one?

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weee game is difficult now weeee

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I don't understand the reasoning behind the patch on lone wolf. I was planning out a build and now I'm already capped at lvl 9 ?? Like wtf everyone was saying this game is so easy with lone wolf but I'm playing absolutely solo and It had a good strategic difficulty but now I can't raise my strength or retribution now cause of this patch and ruins any sort of lone wolf person now. I don't want one character with a thousand different abilities later on like this is stupid. I want to keep playing this game its absolutely stunning and awesome but this ruined it for me let me do as I please like the pc people did for so long. And to the people who say lone wolf makes it way to easy literally just choose a different talent ????

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Why did they nerf Lone Wolf? Level caps at 10??

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so in the definitive edition on ps4 combat ability cant go past 10. example say warfare will cap at 10 no matter what unlike the default game on pc where it can go to 20. not sure if intended or not.

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My two person lone wolf party:
I have a lone wolf wayfarer - Ifan. I'm level six or seven and have maxed out scoundrel and have put all stat points in to finesse. So far he has lone wolf and pet talk.
I added Fane, a rogue, as my second (I picked him because his fingers are lockpicks - turns out most things I can't open anyway so I just bash it down). I don't remember what his original skill was, but at level 3 I made him a lone wolf also.

Level 1-2 I used a lot of potions and a few res scrolls. Life was tough.

Level 3-5 Fane dominated the field the moment he gained lone wolf. He was probably doing twice as much damage as my wayfarer. I don't heal my characters during a fight. I use the restore boots for Ifan, I use poison puddles or use a skill ifan has to turn blood puddles in to poison to heal Fane.

About level 6, Ifan is starting to equal or exceed Fane in damage output - Fane can currently run 8.4 meters per AP, and gets a free movement every turn, and since the bow doesn't have huge range both characters tend to spend similar amounts of AP on movement.

I've only had one difficult fight lately (around level 6). It was against the chick with the blood roses. It was the only fight I've lost in maybe 5 levels. So I reloaded it, killed her, feigned death with Fane next to her while Ifan ran away from the fight. Next round I was able to fully loot her without breaking feign death. Next round I ran Fane all the way out of the fight - healed them up, and returned twice to finish off the rest of the rooms mobs.

Both characters do around 60-80 damage, more if critical. I kind of think the game would be harder with four characters to manage.

Plans - I'll probably get Ifan a level of Ranger at the next opportunity. I think it was Ranger that had a personal teleport that would come in really handy getting him up high during a fight, which will greatly boost his range and damage.

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Lone Wolf with Retribution maxed -> watch your enemies smoke themselves against you xD but, honestly, it gets kinda boring soon, too easy. Something definitely needs balancing in this game yet.

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" This bonus is temporarily removed while there are more than two members in the current party."
So why does it works with a 3 members party ?

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Does Lone Wolf stack? Like if a buddy and I were gonna play together, and both of us got it, would we get super buffed, or does it not work like that? Because yeah we would be missing out on other stuff, but stacking lone wolf would more than make up for it.

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Think Lone Wolf is too powerful for still letting you have two party members. On Honour mode, I've never even come close to dying and my Ranger kills everything in two shots with mostly crap gear (just a good bow and amulet with +crit Flame Rune). With summoning it's even more broken as you can get the Incarnate Champion by level 3 (2 points to start, +1 at level 2, and +2 at level 3 with All Skilled Up, then doubled from Lone Wolf for 10 points in summoning). In fact, summoner is insane with Lone Wolf as it doesn't count against your party size, and it allows you to easily spread your points after just level 3 when you already have the Incarnate Champion. On Honour, my party is Fane as summoner and Lohse as ranger, and this party is untouchable. Comparatively with a full party on Tactician (same as Honour minus the save restriction), I'm struggling through the exact same areas that my Honour party breezes through. Even on the boat fight in Chapter 3, Lone Wolves cleared the ship (and got the achievement) while the full party struggled to escape the fight (the other achievement for not killing everything). Lone Wolf is seriously overpowered and possibly the best talent in the game as long as you don't mind having less companions to worry about (gearing up, buying skills/having less skill books to sell if you just steal them, etc.).

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How does this work in online multiplayer? If i am playing and in my party i have only one companion but my coop partner is also in the fight just in his own party do i still get the buffs?

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Polymorph itself is not being affected, whilst the attribute point you get is affected -> you get 2 Attribute points, not 4.

Proof https://www.dropbox.com/s/3nyfjc2mey5g9co/Lone%20Wolf%20Polymorph.mp4?dl=0

Version was GOG 3.0.143.324

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summon doesnt count as a party member, so no it doesnt disable the lone wolf perk

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do anyone now or have tested, if summoning any creature/demon/totem etc adds to the party count when having lone wolf? say i play with a friend (party of 2) and i summon an something, do it count as a party of 3 now, disabling the lone wolf perk

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Has anyone tested to see if one keeps the attribute bonuses when in a party of 3+? Or are the attributes bonuses lost as well as the additional AP and health?

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Hey but all that being said... If our want to stress less about your character builds and farming/selling endless junk to support them... go lone wolf. Even tunes are in short supply and I couldn't make enough to equip 7-9 on all 4 characters, let alone with frames.. ha

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I just beat the game. took my time and wasted a ton of effort and time and effort camping vendors to gear 4 people up... truthfully.. some of these fights are incredibly difficult on tact even with most of the best stuff available.

That being said, I'm highly anticipating my next play through as lone wolf ranger/knight setups with summoning. Seems like the game highly favors physical builds ATM, cuz of resistances. Can't remember how many times my Pyro mage was sitting on the sideline.

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