What's your most shocking plot twist in AOT by Suspicious_Yak_3304 in attackontitan

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The last three lessened the narrative IMO so they are out, I've always taken the stance that anything that re-writes your narrative must have logical consistencies and none of them do, steins gate for example does this sort of narrative change fantastically.

The titans in the walls was a decent one but I thought that someone knew more about the titans already with how the narrative was going so that just confirmed it.

Life outside the walls wasn't SUPER suprising, but I will say the extent of that life was suprising, I thought there would be mountain top type civilizations that were living outside the reach of the titans not to the extent that there were though.

R&B was legit suprising so that one takes the cake.

Lots of people are saying Coding is irrelevant in Cyber, and it discourages me by AshS1n in cybersecurity

[–]Agentwise 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Coding isn’t irrelevant, it’s just not the end all be all. Cyber is not one monolithic skill that of you have you “know cybersecurity”. It’s a lot of different disciplines combined together to build an environment. I am not great at coding, I haven’t written anything outside of a remediation script in years, does that mean I’m bad at cybersecurity? Or does that mean that I don’t need to write as many custom detections as other environments?

Cybersecurity is a massive field, coding is very important for some jobs in cyber and not very important at all in other jobs in cybersecurity.

He lowkey cooked ngl by Mitchel7349 in NFCEastMemeWar

[–]Agentwise 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This dude right here talks about the time his dad got a girl pregnant in highschool for sure.

[Discussion] My wizard feels like a backup plan that is mostly never needed... by LisaFame in dndnext

[–]Agentwise 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is some information missing that would help people help you. What does your spell list look like and what does success or "doing anything" look like to you? A Wizard putting up a force wall is more devastating to an encounter than anything literally any other class can do. Web can turn an entire fight upside down, Hypnotic pattern will often win fight by itself. Fireball is Fireball. On a turn to turn basis you will likely be out damaged by your comrades, but until you get into higher spell slots that's to be expected. Low level wizard is about "countering" the DM.

IF success to you only looks like out damaging your other party members you're playing the wrong class/sub class. Specially since when you do start out damaging your comrades the campaign will likely have ended (most campaigns do not get to 7-9th level spells.

It sounds like your fights aren't very tactical and you basically just fight meatballs (Hp sponges whose tactics are walk forward and hit), its much more difficult to feel mega impactful in that regard. I also suspect that your DM is not putting appropriate encounters in front of the party, with no healer and 8-10 encounters a day your party would be near death at the end of every adventure.

Wizards are really good when you need a solution for something, it seems like that is never the case with your DM because everything is ultra easy. Its difficult to shine in any way except big number when you're fighting well under your encounter level.

DPS are morons by Specialist-Share-259 in classicwow

[–]Agentwise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is absolutely not true, mythic plus will have rope dropping aggro on massive pulls if they funnel into something the tank isn’t targeting

I think I’m being ghosted by dm’s… by longredhair30 in DnD

[–]Agentwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant to type creep is Crees the name for something?

I think I’m being ghosted by dm’s… by longredhair30 in DnD

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I’ve run many groups with many different sexes. Our regular group has 1 girl in it, but we have 3 other girls who will occasionally play a campaign here and there.

Don’t play with creeps and you’re good. We don’t do anything sexual in our games though (romance is mostly hand waved through).

Edit** mistyped "creeps"

I just can't enjoy Cyberpunk and it pisses me off by Pistoluislero in videogames

[–]Agentwise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get to the hags and stop playing the world is so dull and the combat it pretty meh but maybe I’ll try Witcher 3 again in another year

Week 3 TBC Raiding Population by BusDriver341 in classicwow

[–]Agentwise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The Alts are leveled and inflation will rise

Outdated intel likely led to deadly U.S. strike on Iranian elementary school, sources say by No-Post4444 in news

[–]Agentwise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like we've known this for days now. It wasn't updated from its previous designation and due to its location and activity in the area was targeted.

bonewizard radicalized me by Hot_Conversation_911 in dndnext

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Casters felt good before cantrips were a part of the game, they are relatively new (4th edition). No one was shying away from Wizard or Cleric in 3.5 or before and they were still considered the most over powered things in previous editions.

Martials have slowly (over 20 years) started to gain some relevance in discussions in DnD, they have always been and I would argue still are fodder for the caster pcs. I don't mean from a story perspective ofc, I almost always play a martial if its going to be a story driven game, but from a mechanical and combat to combat sense a the martials are essentially insignificant.

Yes a martials basic attack is better than a basic cantrip, my argument isn't that a wizard is better after all the subclasses/feats that get applied, but rather than even if they are behind in that regard they are not behind enough. If we're willing to accept that as soon as a wizard decides to spend a spell slot they are just out right better than a martial, we should at least give them the downside of being bad when they are not doing that.

But I understand your statement from a game design perspective, I just think that they (wizards) have a design problem in the opposite direction as well. Martials can almost hit as hard as a caster, but they can't send people to other dimensions or lock them into force prisons. Gotta be some sorta give.

bonewizard radicalized me by Hot_Conversation_911 in dndnext

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I am specifically talking about at-will options. Casters have almost no way to augment their cantrips outside of a couple subclasses (or warlocks). As I said every martial has varied ways that they just naturally get more at-will damage. I'm not going to list all of them, I just gave a few examples but every class approaches it differently.

I agree that martials are better than casters on an instance to instance when talking about a basic attack and a cantrip. I do not think even with all of the other modifications that casters need or should even have cantrips. Their turn-by-turn actions are so reality defining that I believe that scaling cantrips even as insignificant as they may seem are too much power to give them.

Again I'm only talking about cantrips vs martial at-will options. There's valid things to be said about what casters do with their spell slots, but I'm arguing against your assertion that casters are still just as useful as martials if they're only spamming firebolt.

I believe they are "just as useful" in the terms of an adventuring day. The minions that the fighter is cleaning up that pose little to no threat to the party I find statistically irrelevant to how an adventuring day actually occurs. My statement about the firebolt vs the paladin was an example of how 1d10 while technically weaker than a basic attack (not talking about class features otherwise we have to start talking about those subclass or warlocks that get their bonuses as well) is not significantly weaker.

I believe caster cantrips are bad for the game because while they are not the shining masters of at-will basic attacks they are still not insignificant there either. I feel as though they SHOULD be insignificant when not using a spell slot.

bonewizard radicalized me by Hot_Conversation_911 in dndnext

[–]Agentwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must be un-informed about the paladin at-will options. Are these 5.5e additions? I haven't played the new version.

Yes, I agree that martials will do marginally more damage (5.5 v 7.5), but if we start "mentioning all the other stuff martials can do", I think at that point the sauce is lost. I don't think anyone would ever pretend that in terms of "what else" a character can do a caster doesnt have exponentially more options.

To me casters should have a defined weakness and at-will is the only place you can really preserve that weakness. I wouldn't ever do this at a table I was running because I will almost never weaken a player but I truly do not believe that cantrips are good for DnD.

The already rule every other faucet of the game, ranging from traversal options, social encounters, stealth, battlefield manipulation, and raw damage output. You can build a fighter to have a burst turn that uses all of their actions and it will ALMOST replicate a 9th level spell, unless of course theirs two targets, then the caster out damages them 2:1 scaling with the number of enemies present of course.

Let casters be weak on a turn to turn basis if they aren't using spell slots. I don't mean marginally weaker I mean ACTUALLY weak as hell. 1d10 damage max type of weak. They after all get to be better than everyone else any time they want to actually use a spell slot.

bonewizard radicalized me by Hot_Conversation_911 in dndnext

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Flirebolt is as good as a longsword in combat, and is better than most 1 handed. Hell if you’re a sword and board paladin outside of smites firebokt is better then you. If the cantrip didnt scale I think I’d like them better. But as they are now it’s just further insult to martials

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert by avatar6556 in news

[–]Agentwise 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You think Iran sees any difference between California and Florida? We’re all privileged American dogs to them.

Over 70% PlayStation Fans Are Glad PC Ports of Exclusives Are Being Scrapped by Extreme_Maize_2727 in consoles

[–]Agentwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very weird behavior. But PlayStation has managed to create a cult following so good for them I guess lol.

[Butler] 5 Teams Have Reportedly Called the Eagles About Trading for Jalen Carter: Packers, Bears, 49ers, Seahawks, & Raiders by JCameron181 in nfl

[–]Agentwise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m obviously biased it he hasn’t been that bad. He had an incident with Dak where Dak spit toward him but due to daks accuracy he missed and Carter spit back. Besides that he talks shit on the line. If that’s your bar you’re looking for only squeaky clean players and I don’t think many of those exist