KalChoedan

Completely agree - I was responding to someone who expressed surprised at anyone playing Ranger at all. The Gloomstalker build is certainly overshadowed by the swords bard build, but it’s still a very strong build and perfectly viable in tactician - as you know, it just isn’t that tough. And while swords bard is stronger, it too is overshadowed by Sorlock EB rider-stacking builds which are in turn completely ec;lipsed by simple tavern brawler zerker throw builds.

All I was saying is that it’s not completely unreasonable for someone to play Ranger and while it’s certainly not the best it’s still a very strong build and perfectly capable of destroying tactician.

Gloom 5 / Thief 4 / Battlemaster 3 leveraging hand xbows is very strong.

So long as you don’t progress past the Mountain Pass into the Shadowlands you can go back and do the Underdark no issue, and you can still go back and hit the underdark even after that (all the way until Act 3) though you will miss some quests that way.

I crash practically hourly in dx11 but haven’t had a single crash in Vulkan. Performance seems about the same. Annoyingly, HDR calibration is completely different in each mode so you have to redo it when you swap.