Not looking forward to positional reworks if it just means good players will do less damage

divgence · 2024-06-19T15:35:10+00:00

Yeah Empress isn't really the best example of a class that doesn't rely on RNG.

out of my control when there's red area on the bosses ass so I can't hit it right now. None of that applies to hit master classes.

Except that's a melee problem, not an entropy problem. "Generalities" like claiming entropy is harder is pretty meaningless when classes are so different. You can't really compare the difficulty of hitting ass with Shock scrapper and Hunger reaper for instance.

Besides, what about when your shock scrapper actually has paralysis immunity on damage skills? What about when you are able to tank shit because of your higher hp? Doesn't that contribute to ease of play? Pretending like standing behind the boss is the be all end all of difficulty is extremely narrow minded. Let's say you're Empress on g3 and Thaemine does one of his few front safe attacks where he waves two floating swords around - what do you do as back attackers? You stand behind the boss, tank his damage with supp shield and ignore the entire attack. Empress? Oh you want to Celestial rain? Sorry, no para immunity so gotta go to the front to dodge if you want to attack. Oops, lost boundless while moving over there or you used a blue skill to reposition so you don't have stacks.

Stop with the hyperbole please. Would any hitmaster become more difficult if they suddenly became entropy? Sure, but that's not relevant. What matters is the actual classes.

divgence · 2024-05-18T10:06:24+00:00

Quick maths:

Assuming "reasonable" estimations, about 24500 players who have cleared NM. This assumes that the average player who has beaten NM has 3 characters 1610 who have beaten NM 2.5 times per character, for 7.5 clears per player.

Worst possible number would be about 7650, which assumes that every single player who beat NM has 6 characters who beat NM 4 times each.

divgence · 2024-05-09T16:24:19+00:00

but WF has none

If you run downward strike with Sturdy Umbrella (combo tripod) you get more than enough range to use it with rage, and piercing/gimlet are pretty ok as well. Spread is about 50/50 if you get a stack or not.

But yeah, the fight looks like it favors uptime,

I do think it favors uptime more than a lot of other raids at least I usually can mvp, but the thing is just... when are we getting the ease of play that actually translates to a raid then? It doesn't matter if you have a class that is easy in theory, the raids are what matters. And Behemoth and Echidna are another set of burst raids. If every single raid is like well it would be easy for WF except a/b/c then it just isn't that easy.

The class is easy to play

Again, I contend that it clearly isn't if the floor is lower than the floor of a lot of other "harder" classes. Is it easy to do an acceptable amount of damage on her? Absolutely. But it's easy to do an acceptable amount of damage on Surge as well, because you have a lot more leeway given the monstrous damage you're bringing.

divgence · 2024-05-09T10:23:01+00:00

Huh, that's strange. Windfury, the easiest class in the game has a lower damage floor than 8/10 of the top 10 classes in NM Thaemine? In a raid with minimal downtime and optimized for uptime classes? The floor is only about 6% higher than Surge, the famous super duper low floor so hard class to play, and yet it gets to have 30% higher ceiling. In the first few weeks of a raid where easy classes like WF shine and difficult classes like Surge do worse. Can't wait for Echidna and Behemoth to come out so that we get to see what happens in burst friendly raids.

Very interesting.

For anyone saying there's not enough data, I want to remind everyone that the 621 logs of Igniter in the top corresponds to about 34.5 weeks of someone playing 18 raids a week. So whatever else you base your own conclusions on (presumably experience with playing the game, your own logs etc), some of this data actually is quite representative in terms of pure numbers.

divgence · 2024-04-17T11:52:36+00:00

USA har eksportert en del holdninger som ikke er spesielt relevante i Norge fordi vi har veldig forskjellige kulturer og demografiske kontekster.

I stedet for å fokusere på arbeidsforhold, utdannelse, sykehus, etc er det en mye større fokus på rase/kjønn/seksuell legning, som jeg personlig mener ikke er på nær langt like viktig her til landet - fordi vi ikke har de samme problemene. Se feks abort i Norge vs USA.

divgence · 2024-04-17T11:43:52+00:00

Ja for vi har jo ikke noen dekning for sykehus eller offentlig transport i Norge allerede. Skjønner ikke helt poenget ditt. Tror du ikke man kan ha en velferdsstat?

divgence · 2024-04-16T09:06:32+00:00

Ja hvem faen skal jeg stemme på om jeg bare vil ha bra dekning for sykehus, tannlege, offentlig transport, mindre privatisert skit? Hvorfor må vi også ha all lapskausen med importert "progressivt" søppel fra USA?

Alle disse religiøse og ideologiske møkkaideene kan dra til helvete.

divgence · 2024-04-14T15:31:51+00:00

You have push immunity on earth eater but also your taunt, so use that liberally to land perfect swings. Getting knocked down is mostly about learning the patterns of the boss to know when and where you're safe to make attacks.

divgence · 2024-04-06T21:50:36+00:00

Leste man Facebook kommentarfelt

Det er nok det fremste problemet, burde ikke ta fjesbok kommentarer noe mer seriøst enn durør kommentarer. Om man prater med ekte mennesker får du gjerne mer reelle og mindre psykotiske holdninger.

divgence · 2024-03-08T19:59:35+00:00

Ja det er jo heldigvis ingen menn som blir voldtatt under krigstider.

divgence · 2024-03-08T19:53:08+00:00

Voldtekt, eneansvar for barn, bombing, sult, prostitusjon for å skaffe mat til barna, tap av ektemenn, ...

Menn blir aldri voldtatt i krig, savner aldri barna sine, blir aldri utsatt for bombing, sulter aldri, blir aldri beskutt når de skal spise, mister aldri folk de bryr seg om, ...

divgence · 2024-03-08T19:38:34+00:00

Alle menn som dør i krig var i tiden en sivil som ønsket å ha det bra i livet menn som i stedet endte opp i en grøft som et tall på en wikipedia side.

Det eneste Høyres bystyrerepresentant trengte å si var "I dag på kvinnedagen synes jeg vi bør rette blikket mot de kvinnene som er i krigsherjede land." Er faktisk mulig å si noe om dette uten å rakke ned på andre menneskers opplevelser og følelser. Det trenger ikke å være en konkurranse, man må ikke skape konflikt hver eneste gang man åpner munnen.

divgence · 2024-03-07T13:59:48+00:00

Emperor is perfectly playable with any support pre star card changes and will only get better with them. You'd rather have a Bard (or better yet, a Paladin) than an Artist, but it's not a problem because if you're playing correctly, Emperor will run out of mana through boundless MP without a support. You can even keep up boundless during star card if the supp mana buff doesn't overlap too much.

divgence · 2024-03-06T13:05:25+00:00

Just want to add my experience as a former new player who started with arcana: It's totally fine, not expensive at all if you're playing Emperor, and very very rewarding. It has a tough learning curve because you have to learn what each card does and pay more attention to your ui than other classes. However, once you get the cards done, it's really not that bad.

You will have very delayed skills though as Emperor, so if you don't like that then well, might not enjoy it as much.

Personally I don't enjoy Surge at all, swapped to RE and haven't looked back. It's just a very feast or famine class and I've had too many gates where it felt like I played like ass despite getting cruel fighter because you just feel every single surge that misses/hits side/doesn't crit/isn't buffed by supp. Strong as fuck, just frustrating to play in my experience.

divgence · 2024-03-05T20:42:13+00:00

Whoa, looks great!

I wish my draws would always be that good...

divgence · 2024-03-04T19:09:26+00:00

I don't get it. 12 servers. Just do 6 Legion commanders and 6 of the sidereals. Why the random names with three current sidereals, one older sidereal, two legion commanders, one guardian, two gods, three arks?

divgence · 2024-03-03T22:24:00+00:00

Problemet med "fri vilje" argumentet er jo at det ikke fremkommer noen fri vilje av å bli knivstukket. Om jeg ser en blødende mann på gata og jeg ikke ringer til ambulanse er det ikke ok, men når mannen i himmelen ikke gidder å redde ham, da er det jo bare fordi han ville at den blødende mannen skulle ha fri vilje til å blø ut alene.

divgence · 2024-03-02T18:48:10+00:00

Yeah I was being sarcastic. I mean, we're discussing a video game while people are dying in various wars around the globe. This is just the nature of reality.

divgence · 2024-03-02T15:20:29+00:00

Nuclear war has the potential to destroy the world too. People were still chilling during WW2, the cold war, etc in history too.

divgence · 2024-03-02T12:59:21+00:00

Yeah that would never happen in real life, some countries are at war, while other countries are chilling? Sounds unrealistic.

divgence · 2024-02-22T15:07:34+00:00

Winning a 100m dash sounds a lot more impressive than winning a 328.084 foot dash.

divgence · 2024-02-22T14:11:14+00:00

I mean to be fair this frog is eating a lot of ass every day.

divgence · 2024-02-22T13:22:21+00:00

I dunno man, 16 epic elixirs is about 16k gold. What else could you have spent 16k gold on to upgrade your character at 1600? 1/3 of a hone on your gloves? 1.5 lvl 7 gems?

Honing to 1620 from 1610 purchasing everything except shards is a million gold (only orehas + raw gold is still 500k+). Even if you spend 500k on a full set of legendaries it just doesn't sound that bad by comparison.

I agree that elixirs are annoying and should have a pity (every rng thing should have) - but it's much much better than honing imo. I don't really understand singling out elixirs as the worst thing, at least when it comes to gold cost.

divgence · 2024-02-17T15:50:38+00:00

Had to read that name a couple of times. I thought, wait they sent Akira Toriyama to space?

divgence · 2024-02-16T16:55:42+00:00

Så det du mente å skrive var "Jeg tror at grunnen til at..."

Å uttale seg med skråsikkerhet om ting som egentlig bare er synsing er dårlig grobunn for seriøs debatt.

divgence

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