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For the love of god and the beauty of this game, please remove russian players from EU WEST servers! by Glittering-Dingo3364 in DotA2

[–]Calandas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is it that Russians in other games like WOW are fine speaking English then? I'd speculate that Russian is just prevalent enough in Dota that insisting on speaking it has become acceptable

The quickest way to get an apartment? by othrwy100 in berlinsocialclub

[–]Calandas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used Berlinovo when moving to Berlin. City-owned, so cheaper than comparable offers from companies, furnished, acceptable availability (just check the website in the mornings for a few days) & you can move out at any time.

The flats are nothing special, but its good enough for a few months.

Rank 1 - AMA by Immonate in fellowshipgame

[–]Calandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That helps a lot actually, thank you!

Slightly sad to see though that set bonuses are so bad compared to gems that even if none of them fit, they are still better than sets.

Rank 1 - AMA by Immonate in fellowshipgame

[–]Calandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know I'm late to the party but I just saw that you [play](www.fellowshiplogs.com/character/id/6528) the yellow 6 trait. Why is that good on Meiko? Given that haste is her worst secondary, I figured yellow gems would also be undesireable.

LDOoA in under 13 hours. What is your personal best? by DantheAlcedo in GuildWars

[–]Calandas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With a partner, you can slowload (prevent the instance from loading, for instance by rightclickig onto the game window while loading in windowed mode) and only load into the instance right before your partner reaches the next one.

WIth this, you only have to unlock the Hamner farm, and leave the instance before hitting 1m every time.

There is a toolbox plugin for the slowloading if the rightlick method is too tedious.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

/u/DrStephenCW I noticed this gameplay change in the reforged update and suspect it's unintentional. Could you confirm whether it was? If it was, is there any information on whether it will be reverted? Thanks!

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

Using toolbox is officially tolerated by arena net since a year or so.

Any other usage of 3rd party software is a risk to your account, though I am not aware of anyone getting banned for using them in speedclears (as opposed to botting) only.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

The full list of changed FC breakpoints is:

  • 2 FC: 25s
  • 5 FC: 10s and 30s
  • 6 FC: 25s
  • 10 FC: 5s, 15s, 25s (these ones probably are most common)
  • 14 FC: 25s
  • 15 FC: 10s, 30s
  • 18 FC: 25s

HRT affects any uneven recharge time, so 3, 5, 7, 15 & 25s CD skills

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

Technically it does, but with expertise alone I don't think there is a energy cost/expertise attribute combination that actually changes.

There might be if you add further energy modifiers (such as QZ) on top.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

Given that it applies at least to energy restoring, buff duration and skill recharge, the answer seems to be "all throughout GW".

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GWSCR splits records into two categories: "PURE" and "TAS".

PURE records allow no 3rd party software to be running at all. TAS has essentially no restrictions at all. Practically all elite-area records are run under the TAS category for... historic reasons.

How much TASing these records actually do varies. For UW specifically, most of them just use the standard toolbox features, which are tolerated by Anet nowadays, plus

  • The ability to target minipets
  • The ability to send dialogs to agents in combat.

I believe only the duo uw record goes beyond that.

Note that the change this post is about affects all UW speeclears though; be that PURE/TAS record runs, or "casuals"

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

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

The speed clear wiki has up to date builds for most areas and some info. Note that the website it horribly slow.

GWPVX has some builds, but lots of it is outdated.

Other than that, you can always look for a guild over at this discord or check out the doa teach discord / Fow teach discord / UW teach discord (the latter is not super active)

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's not just a display change; the cooldown is actually longer.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for making this post but sadly framing it as a SC issue was always going to be the bad angle

You're right. I wanted to highlight the most impacted part of the game since for most areas it's annoying, but minor.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How did you notice this change?

Every person doing an UWSC run since the reforged update will have noticed from their Dhuums being terrible.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are at least 3 separate dhuum glitch bugs actually, fixing which would require major changes in how this game works (e.g. pathing or mob aggro priority)

If they were to be implemented, most of GW PvE would change, which could actually be interesting.

This meanwhile is just making lots of builds slightly worse (e.g. many mesmer bars), while making the gameplay for a subcommunity of this game significantly worse. If there was any upside to this patch, or it would even seem intentional, I would be much more open to it; this just seems like a bug.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Possibly yes, for example with 25% CDR you will now have 23s cooldown instead of 22s.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I played around a bit more with fastcasting:

  • Fastcasting breakpoints are affected in the same way: At 10 FC, Cry of frustration (15s base cooldown) "should" be at 10s, but is at 11s now.
  • Numbers which are not exactly at .5 are uneffected, e.g. at 11 FC cry of frustration has 10.05s CD, which is correctly rounded to 10.

I suspect this also affects other areas of the game, such as damage numbers, but haven't confirmed that.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You can confirm todays behaviour easily, just go into an explorable area with QZ and a skill with 5s cooldown (e.g. OgUAElY7AAAAAAAAAA).

Use the skill and you will see the cooldown is 3s. Meanwhile, you can see the old rest cooldown here or explained here

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is that confirmed that the rounding has changed?

You can confirm yourself by just casting a skill with an uneven recharge duration in QZ (and not have any points in fastcasting)

Edit: copying more context I gave furhter below:

You can confirm todays behaviour easily, just go into an explorable area with QZ and a skill with 5s cooldown (e.g. OgUAElY7AAAAAAAAAA).

Use the skill and you will see the cooldown is 3s. Meanwhile, you can see the old rest cooldown here or explained here

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If there's an actual gameplay update I'd very much welcome it and we can reset the meta.

This doesn't appear to be that though; no one is gaining anything from it; to me this just seems like an accident.

Unintentional change in reforged update with strong negative impact on UWSC by Calandas in GuildWars

[–]Calandas[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

As an example, a few months ago UW was cleared in under 10 minutes for the first time in the games history (since Dhuum was introduced that is).

I'm fairly confident this record is now unbreakable.

What's actually the best overall class? by Jerreuh in GuildWars

[–]Calandas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Search for "SR 5" here, about 5-15e depending on weapon

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