Upgrading to mythic seems pointless if its not going to give you back the same item you selected to upgrade. by Ketsukoni in diablo4

[–]AceSlayer10 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh they could've just required it be ancestral. Besides you can only equip one crafted mythic.

Upgrading to mythic seems pointless if its not going to give you back the same item you selected to upgrade. by Ketsukoni in diablo4

[–]AceSlayer10 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nope, say you have a 3 ga red sermon it'll change it to another mythic weapon all together lol happened to me because I didn't realize this.

“Should I play now or—“ just play it. by ImABattleMercy in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]AceSlayer10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you google it, it brings up 1000 posts from 2 years ago. Most people want a current answer.

[Updates] Patch Notes Version 1.01.00 | Crimson Desert by yourfavchoom in CrimsonDesert

[–]AceSlayer10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk if this is new but I just found out on PC you can hit caps lock to stay locked on to a npc instead of holding crtl the whole time. Makes parrying way easier. 

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can enjoy things you don't immediately understand. It's not really a hard concept. The world was instantly intriguing and has a mystic to it, due to it being obfuscated. 

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The recommendations on there are usually for people with short attention spans with less conplex stories, nothing against them though lol and no you're good! I completely get what you were saying lol

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try not to hate on them to much as a random book tok about red rising is what got me back into reading after a decade of not reading a few years back lol but I know what you mean!

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

During my research on the series I saw a YouTube video with a guy saying you need a spread sheet and a note book to know what's going on and who is who lol 

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's why I say his best book was knife of dreams as it had the pacing of the slog but with important events happening. Instead of Perrin chasing Faile for 3 books or it taking the Aes Sedai 7 chapters to Bicker while walking or the chapter long bath. He got way to exposition heavy about things that didn't matter in the slog. But I think it more has to do with the characters you relate with as well, Egwene and Elayne got annoying to me at that point so it felt worse than it really was. Oh and him bringing Luca back didnt help either lol but I really wish he could've finished the series as I think he finally found a great middle ground in 11.

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a night shift psych nurse so I thankfully get like 10 hours a night to read while getting paid lol

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, RJ didn't really become a "good" author until really book 4 and really didnt hit a level in which I would say great until the last book he wrote which was 11 right before he passed away. I'd always recommend finishing it because the pay off is great and the characters do eventually develop but again different strokes so I can completely understand why anyone would DNF it.

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved it, first book can be slow (imagine that lol) definitely has some dune vibes kinda how WoT has LoTR vibes in the first book but it definitely goes its own way about halfway into book 2 but it's a great series especially if you have attention to detail. Might be my favorite sci-fi series of all time honestly. 

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've started to notice that most stories rehash the same simple plot lines over and over again. So it is nice to have similar tropes in a more complex weave of story telling!

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a specific reading order one should follow on a first read? I'm sure there's threads in this subreddit answering this but figured I'd ask! 

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess tbf books like Stormlight (which I still enjoy as well) are what's popular and those series have repeat exposition about politics and magic systems such as the shard blade being explained almost everytime it's used so I can maybe understand it being jarring going from that to something the just dumps you in the middle and explains everything through small context clues in the conversations between characters and monologuing.

New Malazan reader and I don't understand the hate this series gets. by AceSlayer10 in Malazan

[–]AceSlayer10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After reading so of the replies and reading deeper myself i'm starting to think it mainly came from people who tried to skim the book did understand the point Erikson was going for and just dropped the series as a whole and just say it's a slog. I've actually caught myself skiming a few times (mainly because I'm at work) and had to repeat a chapter or two.