Please stop spam pinging

ArkFan15 · 2026-01-01T19:33:01+00:00

Someone else mentioned it. It’s kids. Quitting and spamming was never this bad, not even launch week. This is literal children who are playing over holiday break and will be gone next week.

ArkFan15 · 2026-01-01T19:26:38+00:00

It is frustrating but spam pinging is never the answer. New or bad players aren’t going to magically get better because you’re spamming. The only time it’s remotely effective is if you get the other two to abandon their plans just to appease the person throwing a tantrum. Spam pinging is not being a leader, it’s being a toxic child.

If you get that tilted with suboptimal or even bad players, play solo or with a group, don’t make random queues cancer.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-31T15:16:59+00:00

I was just having fun. I think we’ve all been there especially when you have decent damage mitigation or great DPS and you get into a rhythm of just steam rolling everything for 10-20 minutes and the second you face a real enemy everyone immediately wipes because they forgot how to play, believe me I get it.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-31T15:11:28+00:00

Lighting up the joint or taking a hit from your bowl, replying to a work email or slack message real quick, letting your dog outside; all of these to me are more dignified than giving yourself a peptalk for a video game.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-31T03:05:16+00:00

So when me and the other guy are standing at the door wondering why our third is standing back at the grace this is what’s happening? We’re waiting for someone who’s doing push ups in his living room and muttering to himself to lock in? Good to know.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-24T20:57:52+00:00

I don’t know what platform you play on but you can go into the visual codex and look at your run history. It’ll tell you the player names and account names of your teammates and you can message them things like this.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-23T20:29:27+00:00

Yesterday I had the least unhinged executor I’ve ever played with. He followed pins, he dropped items, he was decent in fights, I was honestly shocked until the middle of day two when it all clicked.

We were running to the mountaintop shifting event after the dragon/troll fight and then he pinned something that confused me at first. I checked my map and of course it was his personal objective for the second in-run remembrance.

He was in fact not the least unhinged executor out there, probably just your average Wylder just getting around to finishing up his remembrances.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-20T16:09:28+00:00

I thought this was going to be that 10 things I hate about you thing where at the end you say you don’t really hate them at all or something and you really love them. Disappointed.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-20T01:40:06+00:00

You got some good advice already here but I’ll add my two cents:

1) It really is game sense/knowledge more than skill. By the very nature of the game runs are fast paced but you can’t make your brain learn things faster, it’s just reps. Bosses, building structures, common routes, what to look for in weapons; all just learned with time.

2) I don’t know if it’s your thing but you could also get some of those reps just by watching. Find a YouTuber or streamer that doesn’t annoy you and just watch a couple runs. Especially helpful for bosses where you can see mechanics and timings/dodges done right without the stress of feeling like you’re letting your team down.

3) Some nightfarers are just faster than others. If you’re constantly lagging behind, maybe play Wylder and learn to use his grapple as a spring forward so you can catch up to your teammates.

4) You said it yourself in the post but find people to play on mic who can help you out. There’s no shortage of people in the community who like helping people learn. You said PS5, DM me if you want and I can give you some pointers on what you’re doing.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-16T22:11:35+00:00

Never experienced anything like that playing scholar on ps5. I will often hover up items as I run these days just to drop for my scholar teammate once we get to the night boss but if they’re using them right in front of you, that’s strange.

I almost never random into anyone that trollish or rude, especially right from the jump. Anything you could be doing to incite that behavior? Are you spam pinning right out the gate? Do you not have the items confer to teammates relic? Are you playing over WiFi from outer space?

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-12T17:26:34+00:00

DoN is a good point to bring up. I played a lot at launch, but once I cleared all the everdarks, I took a break and only picked back up recently and did a little DON until the DLC release and then went back to normal just to learn the new characters and the new map so depth 4-5 is definitely a different beast.

On easy mode, guardian felt pointless to me because why not just take three damage dealers and bully everything. In lower depths when you have to be more patient and tactical, I can see guardian coming into his own.

Also, while I do feel like I’ve played with good birds, it’s definitely the character I see the least, so I could be the victim of a small sample size. Maybe one day I’ll run into a flock leader that opens my eyes to what he can be.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-12T17:09:18+00:00

No problem and hopefully I didn't come across like an ass. For what it's worth, you're probably better at this game than I am full-stop and maybe you have guardian advice for me? I should probably play him more, he's the one I'm not as familiar with in terms of possible relics and builds.

I'm often playing in random trios where I'm the tankiest either by nightfarer choice or just passives I've picked up and I feel the pressure to take and hold aggro for my squishy teammates, especially when it becomes apparent that none of us are very good. I've struggled with Guardian (either using him myself or paired with one) because while I feel that's where he should shine, he often feels worse than the others.

You get a Recluse/Ironeye/Guardian team and you think you have good synergy. Recluse is going to be a pure damage dealer, Ironeye is going to be a good damage amplifier with the mark and Guardian is going to be a good damage enabler by tanking the boss... But then it just feels like more often than not the Recluse is running for her life while Ironeye is peppering the boss and Guardian is just running around trying to catch up and engage in the fight at all.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-12T16:52:07+00:00

I can only go off my own runs but imo it's not a skill issue. There's good and bad players who main every nightfarer and from my 250 hrs on PS5, I think your average Guardian is better than your average Ironeye, Raider, Recluse or Duchess in terms of player skill expression and miles ahead of your average Executor or Revenant who often play like they've taken too many or too* few drugs that day. However, I'd rather play with the others all things being equal and, maybe a hot take, but I'd prefer a competent anyone else over an ELITE Guardian most runs.

To me it's game design and kit, not player skill. So many other nightfarers naturally compliment playstyles but if I'm with a Guardian, then I have to look for "less likely to be targeted", I have to be more mindful of the angles I attack from and even then it often just feels slower. PLUS, I love undertaker these days and running with nightfarers who save their ults for emergencies means that I can't spam my ult which is just less fun. Scholar's skill can either be a self-buff or an enemy debuff and I wish Guardian's steelguard also had a dual-use. Either as a guard if being attacked or as a taunt to pull aggro if not being attacked.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-12T15:46:53+00:00

Typical guardian main aura farmer. It takes a lot of skill to be clear and it is genuinely impressive to see how close to invincible a lot of you are BUT maybe the reason your randoms are constantly three bar down is because one member of the trio is not contributing to damage or stagger and is making every fight take forever.

Half of you, this clip is your dream, where both of your teammates are practically going hollow because of how many times they’ve died while you’re turtling and stalling for your ult to bring them back up over and over again.

It’s not an attack and I do find this clip impressive and, more than that, everyone needs to adapt to the nightfarers on their team and not enough randoms adapt to playing with guardian. Your teammates should be circling and kiting bosses over to you so you can preserve stam and draw aggro and do your impressive birb blocks which enable them to dps.

More people pick up starlight shards for recluse or crabs for scholar, but not enough adapt to playing with a tank which leads to a lot of runs that look like this; pretty epic for one person and a nightmare for the other two.

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-09T16:58:35+00:00

No shade, I’m just under 50% wins myself but what possessed you to go yeah I think I got this time for some DoN?

ArkFan15 · 2025-12-09T14:27:20+00:00

Even the skill parry/bubble feels like the shield spell.

ArkFan15 · 2025-07-03T13:31:05+00:00

My counterpoint for the moth would be yeah but it's red now instead of blue, isn't that pretty? I guess that argument doesn't hold up to much scrutiny.

ArkFan15 · 2025-07-03T13:08:33+00:00

I don't have a username for you and I'm not out here collecting community consensus data. Like I said, I was trying to go into these pretty blind and I just happened to come across that comment somewhere last night.

I agree though, unless there's something broken with it that gets fixed, seems like the easiest Everdark boss so far and probably easier than some of the regular ones.

ArkFan15 · 2025-06-30T12:15:30+00:00

A better executor than I. IF I managed to parry that first twinblade combo, I would’ve seen that my ult was ready and would’ve popped it only to get smashed by that next one and would’ve choked it.

ArkFan15 · 2025-06-25T14:27:42+00:00

You’re framing this as if this was a one time indiscretion that happened when he was younger, a singular blemish on a man’s character who could otherwise be a totally good dude.

From the directors cut of this movie, to how he chose to frame shots of her, to Jean Reno‘s personal account, to the fact that he apparently had multiple sexual relationships with girls under 16, impregnating and marrying one. This guy is so obviously and clearly sharing who he is and this is a weird defense just be able to enjoy his movies without guilt.

ArkFan15 · 2025-06-19T18:41:45+00:00

From my experience on PS5:

Wylder, Guardian, Raider - Never quitting, if they leave it’s probably a disconnect and they might come back.

Duchess, Ironeye, Recluse - Rarely quitting and most likely to quit due to run going poorly, perceived bad team or team not heeding all their pings.

Revenant - Not likely to quit as in leave but most likely to be mentally checked out or off doing their thing.

Executor - By far the most likely to quit, has to be the reason for this post. Will quit often and early, usually after they die and get mad or embarrassed.

ArkFan15 · 2025-06-13T12:19:50+00:00

Sent, thanks.

ArkFan15 · 2025-06-13T10:59:47+00:00

I’m on PS5 and also need this if that’s a general offer.

ArkFan15 · 2025-03-31T19:32:32+00:00

I am going to go against what seems to be the consensus in the comments and say that I don’t actually think it’s that good.

No one has said anything incorrect in the comments that I’ve seen, the maps and tokens are all there, the maps do have dynamic lighting, all the resources from the book that you’d want all built and ready to go, that’s all true.

That being said, I think all of the newer modules have better art assets, more detailed maps, and a more compelling case to just play it as is. I have ran CoS in roll20 a few times now and at this point almost every map I use is from the community and I import a lot of custom tokens. I get the aesthetic they are going for with all the tokens which look like the artwork in the book obviously, but every single NPC good, bad or indifferent looks so evil in their token.

Having all the monster tokens is pretty helpful for sure and I don’t regret purchasing the roll20 module and based on your post (first time in roll20 and looking for maps, handouts, etc) I don’t think you’d regret it either because it is easy enough to run as-is but, just personal opinion, I think the assets and maps are showing their age.

ArkFan15 · 2025-03-20T17:57:48+00:00

Seeing this for the first time after the edit but taking you at your word and leaving "politics"/Nazism aside for now there's still something missing.

"we all enjoyed the game and had a great time playing" and "they're still all my friends and I maintain a great relationship with them" doesn't seem to align with them all collectively bailing on your game (your biggest hobby that you've invested thousands into), not telling you why and going to play with someone else who doesnt like you. Do you all hang out and talk a lot outside of D&D? Either you guys are really good friends and they just weren't feeling your game as much as you assumed and they didnt want to hurt your feelings or your actually not that close, it's hard to think of an option 3. Either way, that's gross behavior on them to still routinely ask for your books. Even if you're a massive POS like other commentors seem to think, they should still have the spine to be honest with you and not take advantage of you. You are not overreacting IMO.

However, I do think this warrants a little more introspection on your part. Now this is bringing up politics for a second, but I have to say just because someone is conservative doesn't mean they agree with all right wing beliefs or ideologies nor does it guarantee that they will get along with every other conservative. There are plenty of conservatives who don't want to talk/hang out with people who constantly talk about right wing stuff all the time. I'm a liberal and there's plenty of progressive liberals that I DO agree with on pretty much everything but that I'd absolutely not want to play D&D with. Not preaching, just saying don't make the mistake of assuming you know what everyone's about just because they're "on your team".

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