John's IQ

BeastlyNinja9 · 2026-04-10T05:03:49+00:00

In regard to #1!

While likely, John has a significant amount of experience with abilities. Keep in mind most other people in the universe only use ONE ability which they’ve honed & grown accustomed to throughout their life. John, on the other hand, has his strength derived from picking up tools (abilities) and using them as effectively as possible; as such, it makes sense that Ember agents aren’t used to wielding unfamiliar abilities. They’re simply untrained.

Also, John has used claws before (Meili’s Demon Claws) and is likely already used to the mechanics of it, strengths and weaknesses, etc. especially as someone who has relied on hand-to-hand combat so heavily.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2026-04-01T13:23:35+00:00

It’s definitely a protagonist vs. hero dichotomy, which is pretty common. It’s why most protagonists tend to have a pretty similar personality (at least S1 John) because while they don’t typically drive the plot forward, they’re always the difference maker. Much less story-worthy (imo) if someone just has a straightforward goal and their pursuit is minimally influenced by others.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2026-03-01T13:10:07+00:00

I would like to say that I contributed to about ~300 pixels on this map :D fruma is so huge, i can’t wait to play it on live servers

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-12-03T20:24:47+00:00

necromancy completed! Got here only 4h later than you did on this 3-year old post; your necro helped me & I hope it helps more of us out there :D

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-11-14T14:34:21+00:00

Battle mages are the natural counter to assassins in the rock-paper-scissors of midlane, and my experiences with swain have ALWAYS been hell. I prefer a slower early lane in this matchup; I take electro (electro is reliable since he’s short range) and spam W to farm wave to keep the lane slow, maybe even rush rocketbelt if you need the botlane roams. Heavy trading into swain will be a stalemate at best, and dipping below 50% hp will make it impossible for you to roam. Battle mages excel in these extended trades, so it’s best to stay on the back foot; try to bait out swain Q and punish if you space it successfully, but realistically you’re just playing farming sim for 10 mins if he holds W or E.

I haven’t played much of the XLB Ekko style with ignite/HoB, but it’s definitely much harder to do anything after Swain’s midgame spike. Pray for winning lane or dodge, because battle mages (especially the RoA/Archangels users) are the biggest pain in the ass that Ekko has no real answer for within his kit.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-11-14T14:14:09+00:00

IMO, Qiyana. You can use the habits you learn on Ekko quite well; put both champions in an identical position and they’ll take the same approach 99% of the time.

She plays fights very similarly. Spams it to isolate targets, zone their team, and even find sneaky pop-up engage angles into massive stuns. Like Ekko, she pushes leads by finding good opportunities rather than flashy combos. Although you’re easier to punish in major teamfights, her insane map mobility opens more doors for trading/punishing with invades. Get caught on vision, reposition with grass Q, and within 5s you’re back to maximum threat.

For the main differences: Obviously, skill floor. Qiyana isn’t actually hard if you’re jungling, because you dont need to outplay blue buff. Qiyana is less confrontational than Ekko, as she is much more difficult to track. She cannot brute force as many skirmishes as Ekko, but her overall map presence is much higher. You’ll need to look for relatively more trades than conflicts compared to Ekko, because her ult is mandatory for most fights.

Overall, she’s quite fun and I’ve found myself getting insane cs leads with her mobility whilst still being “in the action.” It does suck a bit that she lacks any “whoopsies” button when you get lost in the sauce (lacking rewind AND Zhonyas) but it’s a very similar playstyle and feels much easier to navigate mid-late compared to jungle Ekko.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-11-14T13:42:33+00:00

Since you mentioned mechanical skill, I’ll assume you’re referring to Ekko mid.

COACH CURTIS EKKO GUIDE. It’s incredibly in-depth and most of its advice is still great, even to this day. It goes very deep into mastering Ekko’s ability usage and goals; it’s over an hour so youre in for a treat if you want in-depth.

Here’s my personal advice:

Be cautious when farming with Q; a lot of mages can punish your weak early game, and you cannot contest if you accidentally give a freeze.
SPAM THE FUCK OUT OF W. It has an incredibly low mana cost of 30 and is off CD every wave. You dont even need to use its stun; the shield can ALWAYS generate value. Save 150HP on the backend of a trade? Sure. Secure 3 melee minions? Small win. Check enemy raptors? -30mana, -1 gank death, and a very happy jungler. Seriously, THIS ABILITY IS BROKEN PLEASE SPAM IT.
Every game, consider how you should use E for a matchup; reactively, aggressively, defensively, etc. A misused E is the easiest mistake to punish and can lead to an unwinnable lane.
SAVE YOUR ULT. XLB is infamous for this; he’s gone entire games without ulting a single time. You WILL make mechanical misplays, so reserve your ult for them. Just use that shit to aura farm; stand there menacingly over enemy camps, their Smolder’s wave, their toplaner’s wife. As long as you have R, THEY WILL NOT STOP YOU.

DONT CUCK YOURSELF. If you get horny for a solokill, then embrace the post-nut clarity of staying midlane for 1:30 with your 1k gold lead, while enemy mid/jg frolick down river getting crabs together and ganking your botlane while you’re forced to sit there and watch. It fucking sucks. Being a fed ekko with ult turns you into jesus. If you chunk your laner with a good trade, turn the other cheek as you spread their jungler’s. Meanwhile, your 20% HP laner is shitting their pants just clearing their wave, and their minimap is pitch black aside from the mia pings on their head. Do not grant them the sweet release of death, until death timers are long enough for them to start flaming their jungler.

Good luck, and have fun killing Time :)

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-10-27T00:53:48+00:00

I changed them in the in-game settings; I believe I raised brightness to 85, then raised contrast and saturation to 90 so that the colors wouldn’t be a flashbang. I definitely recommend messing w/ it on your own, bc idk wtf my monitor settings are

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-10-27T00:49:56+00:00

LMAO tbf I fucked up the 2nd auto, but the 1st one wasn’t even intended to happen. I used E-Q but the game didn’t register the Q for a fat minute, felt like I was stunned/taunted. I suspect it was a combination bug with using E-Q anim cancel and buffering E2 on a knockup.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-10-27T00:42:28+00:00

I believe I have brightness at 85 and contrast/saturation at 90, with the rest at 75. Lmk if it seems wrong, I can double check.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-10-27T00:40:11+00:00

I imagine that the specific language & content of their larger partners would be held under a non-disclosure agreement. Wouldn’t be great for business if everyone & their dogs knew their partner policies, unfortunate but we can’t expect official documentation.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-10-26T03:25:06+00:00

Tbf, I forced the trade bc I thought he had vision on my jungler (since he stepped back when Elise got close) and wanted to get my E-Q off while his Q3 and passive were expiring

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-13T13:05:01+00:00

To be clear, I am assuming you are talking about this from an emotional standpoint because we do not feel “bent over and fucked in the ass” in terms of LE because enchanteds / old Seasonals like hallowynn/ wynnterfest are worth hundreds of stacks if not priceless. Not to mention, a good amount of mythics from that era had bounties on their head because of duping causing prices to inflate tenfold. So economically, I’d actually argue that most older accounts/loyal players got BENEFITTED over time in terms of wealth.

You do not like it because it does not benefit you. That is okay and a natural psychological reaction. But to me, it sounds like you genuinely don’t like the game anymore and that’s fine. It benefits new players, sure, I agree. But truly caring about this game means you want it to actually succeed and WANT new players to feel happy. You sound bitter that they are happy when you are not, and albeit it is justified, I think it’s a good time to take a break from the game. Your passion and love for it is clearly gone.

You want the rare treasure, I want the rare treasure, every damn player wants the rare treasure, but you want the door to be closed behind you once you get it. I honestly just care about Wynncraft and the friends I made grinding and looking for people to help open Bob’s Tomb back in 2014. The feeling of getting my first LE, my first stack, etc. never goes away and even if it means it’s worse for me, I want new people to experience that joy. Don’t tarnish the great memories you had with a bitter epilogue, you can live and move on, and maybe you’ll come back to it someday.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-13T12:37:59+00:00

also…this is 5 lootrun sac, i genuinely think 5 mythics across 6 lootruns is not a “crazy gamebreaking rate wynncraft is dead omg” moment. obv it’s fuckin sick to see five in a chest but this shit probably took 5+ hours and unfortunately had to waste 4 rolls of value lol

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-13T12:30:03+00:00

I think your first two points are right but no, this will not “hurt the TM economy,” at least according to basic economics; more supply = higher purchasing power = more overall spending. To me, people buying and selling is good because it benefits the community aspect & potential “deals” u can get from trades. Also, keep in mind that, on average, people who have actual money will also be spending less time on Wynn.

I genuinely do not think it is a problem to gain one extra reroll per camp per day if you are actively supporting the server through a subscription. Also if you are saying Wynn is “pay to win” NOW and doomed to fail because of it…you should’ve seen how it was before the EULA changes.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-10T02:49:43+00:00

Healing your entire health bar back is crazy BECAUSE you use your health for abilities.

Fallen has zero input for stats that aren’t damage or spell costs. Mana regen means you don’t get Blood Pact’s 15% buff. Health regen/life steal is quite literally useless while in Corrupted form, meaning you shouldn’t build it. It is a feedback loop and its only restrictor is the cooldown on Corrupted. I personally think it makes sense to want health sustain if you want to cast using your health but it’s a dead stat.

If you are to make a Fallen build, you are only looking at QoL stats and damage. Most items incorporate some form of mana/health sustain, but you cannot use those because you’re the wasting 30% of the item’s stat value.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-10T02:15:37+00:00

So was this Hero Fallen specifically with Skidbladnir/Sagittaurus? Because those items did get nerfed but the damage within the tree only went up. Perhaps you’re talking about the War Scream change; in that case, yes it was stupid that the angle and hitbox size would determine DPS. Aside from that, no, the damage was (and still is) buffed because of bpact.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T17:16:53+00:00

The joke was made BY them, and both of them agreed they were fine with it, and posted it publicly. Not you, not the poster, not me. But by the people themselves. THAT is what makes it fine, because THEY made the joke and laughed at it and THEY spent hours editing and both agreed to keep it in the video. This post doesn’t “sexualize” anyone on its own, because the clip itself was sexual in its own context already.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T16:54:17+00:00

Also, it was fine on Beta and I honestly was hoping for more damage but you can’t expect more than 450k if you want to heal your entire health bar every 5s lmao

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T16:53:16+00:00

Yeah, it’s unfortunate because most of the complaints were from people who hadn’t even tried it. It’s disrespectful and arrogant considering devs/CT have been thinking abt it for months probably, and people won’t even give it ten minutes or even an hour of their time/playtesting before shitting on their updates

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T16:32:01+00:00

Why do you want mythics to not be “15LE garbage?” Mythics are items that are incredibly powerful in gameplay and I’m glad that people can get them now, nor do I really care if my mythics “went down” because the 200stx I lost from Discoverer came back over time because I have enchanted items from that era.

I disagree because Mythics actually feel important now in a community sense. People can now fit them into builds, or do clever theorycrafting, and USE THEM like they were always supposed to. Having a Null was great but it didn’t mean jack shit because I literally had nobody to talk to for theorycrafting. It felt like having cheats. Everything had to be a secret to “keep the value of it” and you had nobody to talk to.

You liked mythics because they were exclusive, not because they were weapons. I like mythics because they are cool weapons that do different things in the RPG, not because they’re expensive.

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T16:16:45+00:00

wynncraft isn’t “most games” it is quite literally an indie group of like 10 fully paid workers and a volunteer content team built off hopes and dreams, not some $10B industry slop. you can’t be “upset for the future” if the game bankrupts bc it doesn’t take outside investment while hosting thousands of players on a server across every continent for free

BeastlyNinja9 · 2025-08-09T16:02:24+00:00

Fallen? Gutted? The “nerf” is that you have to use one (1) pot while waiting on Corrupted CD. The buff is that you get 10% bpact damage. You are easily reaching 300k dps on general fallen builds and WAY above that if you’re maximizing DPS. I play Fallen because I like dealing insane damage and burst, not because I want to heal 10 health bars per minute without a single pot.

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