Lacrymas Quillon Sizzle
i just realized that the Blunderbuss' POWDER BURNS modal (makes a Blunderbuss attack a small AoE) but the downside is that it gives a malus of -5 PERCEPTION (among all the other stuff PER affects, this means a further -10 ACC)
and it makes the character FLANKED (the game establishes that the roar of the Blunderbuss is disorients the character and distracts them thus causing the loss of perception and gamifies it further by giving FLANKED affliction).
I was lookig at this shit and thinking, this shit is NOT optimal no sir NOT optimal AT ALL. And then I read this:
Streetfighter - Sneak Attack and crit damage increases when Flanked or Bloodied (<50% Health). Recovery is slower when neither Flanked nor Bloodied.
sooooooo....
I quickly tested it and yes, it does indeed mean that a Rogue-Streetfighter, dual-wielding blunderbusses with POWDER BURNS modal enabled on BOTH of them will yield a MASSIVE, MASSIVE amount of damage if done as an alpha-strike while in stealth or otherwise invisible to the enemy.
If you EMPOWER the MODAL you are gonna fucking decimate whoever is on the receiving end.
Multiclass that Rogue with a Ranger for one of their many ways to increase ranged ACC or PEN (be it one of their Ranger sub-classes or one of the many Ranger perks for this type of thing)
or
Multiclass that Rogue with a Priest of (sub-class) Skaen. Why you ask (question mark)...
...because Skaen Priests gain access to Rogue perks-abilities-feats
but as spells, and SPELLS have different casting and recovery times than abilities or talents and more importantly:
spells (most with a few exceptions, but most( increase in effectiveness in a linear fashion when EMPOWERED.
This means that after Alphastriking with the Rogue dual-wielding Blunderbusses using Powder Burns (he will then be suffering a combined -10 PERCEPTION malus as well as FLANKED affliction -- simply then EMPOWER the Skaen Priests
spell of Supress Affliction or Escape or whatever.
Need further testing of course.
Also for those interested right now I am finding that single-handed use of 1 single SABRE with off-hand EMPTY is the undisputed best way to deliver CRITICAL HITS reliably, as well as beating out almost every other combination or single-weapon currently in the beta in terms of DPS.
However the One Handed Style while not exactly broken is not the same as in PoE 1 and is not worth picking.