Kana

[Shunso]

What's his deal? Whenever the party is out of combat he decides to chant and his chanting goes on for a while.. even when there is no enemy around. Is this a bug or a feature. Also what talents should i get for him?

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Sounds like a bug - which I've never read before. Outside combat, chants are inactive. You can select the current chant and check its AoE, but the chanter doesn't recite any phrases.

Originally posted by Hector Gwyn:

Also what talents should i get for him?

Talents? Abilities? Phrases? Invocations?

A lot depends on what role you give him. It's a complex class because they can give support, cast offensive invocations and summon better aid then the other classes. Chanters can be made quite defensive due to starting with high base Deflection, but they suffer from low Health and very low Endurance. Kana's CON 12 doesn't change that much.

[Shunso]

Outside of combat as in we've just defeated some enemies and there's clearly no visible enemies around

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

You could try to reproduce it with Party AI turned off. Chanters really, really cannot chant anymore when combat has ended. Unter special circumstances, combat ends no sooner than when the duration of remaining hostile afflictions has counted down to zero.

[mooreshawnm]

I believe thats your summonned stuff going away after combat.

[SimithWA]

I've had the same thing happen with not only Kana but also custom built chanters. No enemies left on the map. AI was set to support. I tried stopping their AI (After it started) and they kept chanting. Only thing that stopped them was having my party kill them. I just reloaded a previous save and kicked them out of the party before combat. I won't have chanters in my party anymore.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Wow. That sounds bad. Chanters are probably my favorite class in this game - but I don't use AI at all. Maybe the issues are related to AI.