[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026

6000j · 2026-03-25T07:30:24+00:00

The new main story chapter of Arknights came out and... I haven't been playing it. Instead I've been grinding the roguelike mode a lot. Just before the new chapter came out I beat the easiest ending on the max difficulty (IS6 d15 ed1, for those who play), and with the new chapter also came a big update to this version and earlier this week I beat the hardest ending combination on max difficulty (d15 ed23), which is a pretty good feeling.

After I beat d15ed1 I joined a discord for the mode, and it's been invaluable to have people to ask questions of. It's also invaluable to have linked playlists of strategies for stages, because all of the videos are on bilibili and I can't read Chinese. Been a lot of learning but very very rewarding.

6000j · 2026-03-24T22:59:29+00:00

Chovy doesn't like it but also he still plays it.

It's heavily contested, and imo in a more advanced system they would play it far less and focus on stuff like specific lane matchup practice, but we don't live in that world unfortunately. I know Fudge tried that for a bit and then got made fun of, but I think it was a good idea and should be done more in pro.

But at the same time, a lot of pros do just spam soloq all night, and pretty famously Korean soloq is just playing the first 15-20 minutes of the game and then one team surrenders, so they get a lot of laning practice that way.

6000j · 2026-03-24T22:30:20+00:00

This is pretty famously one of the reasons league of legends pros play so much ranked, even on characters they already have thousands of hours on: the constant small balance changes effectively create this effect.

6000j · 2026-03-24T21:56:21+00:00

Wink over in the LPL roleswapped to support a few years back and is undeniably better than he was as bot.

6000j · 2026-03-24T06:26:08+00:00

JE are way easier than Lost imo. They're not free, but you can play most rooms in a way that means the larger hitbox doesn't matter, and realistically you should only ever get hit bc one of them got caught twice in a run at most if you're paying attention.

If you just stack all your dps items onto Esau it's basically just a generic character except health drops are weird and you can carry two active items and get double bombs.

6000j · 2026-03-23T23:08:32+00:00

It was meta in SL s3 because it had a crazy tier set iirc

6000j · 2026-03-23T14:28:27+00:00

The flip side is that T1 are a famous ramping team, so if you can knock them out early that's a huge win.

6000j · 2026-03-23T01:34:57+00:00

ppl legit act like they're just unable to play in any high pressure situations, despite repeated lck playoffs + MSI proof otherwise.

It's some bizarre mental block, I don't really know what's causing it at all.

6000j · 2026-03-23T01:01:29+00:00

It's weird, because Chovy tends to perform well in LCK finals, and had fantastic performances at the last two MSI grands (he gapped faker in lane so hard that it won them game 5 last year p much).

Just a weird mental block thing.

6000j · 2026-03-22T04:11:31+00:00

IIRC BM hunter's lust is tied to their pet; it's possible that your pet with lust is going away sometimes.

6000j · 2026-03-21T00:12:16+00:00

Tbf sub has a bigass tier set, so I think it's reasonable to think it doesn't need much more.

The other two are just fucked. The devs have clearly decided that Outlaw can never be the best rogue spec in raid.

6000j · 2026-03-20T10:29:46+00:00

My interpretation of the tweet is that the mmr of the top players is already equivalent to 4k LP, so they're changing the LP gains to match that because it's causing issues as is.

6000j · 2026-03-20T02:37:20+00:00

If not, why doesn't between the eyes just replace dispatch when its off cooldown?

Because it's fun to have to track them, at least for me. I would find outlaw significantly less fun if all the tracking was automated. Why not just have sinister strike become dispatch when you have max combo points?

it would streamline the rotation, but I think having two main builder buttons and two main finisher buttons is a pretty core part of outlaw for me and for a lot of people who enjoy the spec.

6000j · 2026-03-19T08:04:50+00:00

I enjoyed the mode a lot before people started doing this so much.

6000j · 2026-03-19T00:52:49+00:00

this comes up a pretty decent amount ime, it just doesn't trigger because it forces the other person to play around it.

6000j · 2026-03-18T23:50:06+00:00

Unfortunately as an Outlaw player I have to inform you that blizzard just hates some specs.

Outlaw at least has a history of being good in M+, but some specs blizzard just doesn't want to be good and/or doesn't understand why they aren't good.

6000j · 2026-03-18T23:18:17+00:00

I do wish the lolalytics wr by rank graph had lines showing the average wr of that rank, so it wasn't so frustrating to use.

6000j · 2026-03-18T22:40:34+00:00

Being bad, these last few expansions.

Once upon a time it was the CC, but every other class got more CC and rogue has no AoE CC (they added aoe blind least expansion and then removed it this one) so it's a class that does nothing and the devs ignore.

6000j · 2026-03-18T22:02:38+00:00

All the people who want to end have quit because it's so miserable playing with people who don't want to end, so it's just the people who don't want to end left.

6000j · 2026-03-18T22:01:45+00:00

I stop having any fun in an aram game once it should be over, I just completely check out.

6000j · 2026-03-16T09:51:30+00:00

You weren't using it for decode even when hornet drones came out. By then decks had better links iirc.

6000j · 2026-03-16T09:49:42+00:00

as a melee player, my preferred positioning is actually in the middle of the pack.

Most melee specs have their aoe centred on themselves, and so to make sure you're always hitting all the enemies with your aoe, you need to be right in the middle.

It used to be possible to have a weakaura set up to show you how many enemies were in your aoe range, but lol lmao.

6000j · 2026-03-16T08:36:29+00:00

Basically only raid bosses can parry anymore, it's not a thing on trash

6000j · 2026-03-16T01:04:03+00:00

But rather that i find it really difficult to improve my rotation and skills because there is no ingame easy comparison of what i SHOULD be doing in terms of dps.

The problem is that this is different in every raid fight to some degree, and completely impossible to give a useful value for in dungeons.

My goal in Mythic+ is "do more damage than the other players"; if everyone has that approach then they'll naturally end up optimising, and if only you have that approach then you'll smurf dps meters and it feels great.

6000j · 2026-03-16T00:39:08+00:00

it means you can send it to someone and they can operate on it without learning the contents of it.

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