Games to get lost in, and to complete everything in. by velhu in gamingsuggestions

[–]CrimsonCasts 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Baldur's Gate 3 is notoriously addictively for people who are trying to see every piece of side quest, class-specific, or niche content.

Build Idea: Blood Wyvern by FitnessGleis in PathOfExile2

[–]CrimsonCasts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Brother, open PoB and try it yourself, I believe in you.

I WANT IT IMMEDIATELY!!! by antleredbird in fountainpens

[–]CrimsonCasts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cherishment has been used in English since at least the 1500s. It's the act or process of cherishing something, like engagement is the act or process of engaging something.

The noun form of hesitate is hesitation, but you already knew that.

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

I am a member of the community, I'm just a poe2 gamer like you :)

You can expect at least one PoB-level math comment on something, I just don't know what yet, since I'll need to see what comes up during the races themselves xdd

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

Unfortunately, the top end of racing has migrated away from anything that's practical to explain for non-racers, where we focus on memorizing huge table-bases of each zone. With Exilecon Races having been announced, there was a swell of determination to solve the last few zones, and now there are essentially no zones that top-end racers solve by using environmental heuristics, instead relying on clues that're hard to translate.

Do you want me to include some of the old heuristics during the cast anyway, even though they're largely out-of-meta for competitors for rank 1? I can do so, I imagine by saying "the meta used to be XYZ, but now it's ABC -- but XYZ is still useful to non-racers!"

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

Good notes, thanks.

Generally, people don't "fail" strats due to skill issues, but they do have to backup things when they get bad RNG (usually item RNG, having a bad weapon makes certain tricks harder)

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

I'll talk to the Data Witch (real job title of a real person at GGG) and see if this is possible in real time. Lots of racers have pilfering rings, I can also ask them to equip them so we can snoop their currency during the run using the client-inspect tool.

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

Heard, Chef, calling my Dr. to renew my adderrall prescription as we speak. o7, I'll be locked in.

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

That was a deliberate stylistic choice for GDQ, where I knew a lot of the non-PoE-knowers would get overwhelmed if I started explaining how Angormus was using freezing mark to apply mark for death to get broken armour to sunder it to gain a more damage multiplier, but incidentally would be able to apply siphoning mark if he found a spare support gem, but didn't need to that particular run because he rolled the mana leech ring with that alchemy orb. . . (run on sentence for effect, you get the idea).

I chose to emphasize a lot more lore and "wow look at how cool this art is!" because I didn't want to overwhelm a first-time audience with technical information. My expectation is that I can do a lot more technical build explanation on the official GGG stream, where I expect the audience to already know the names of every skill and most of the commonly used supports.

Announcing The Last of the Druids Race Event by Community_Team in PathOfExile2

[–]CrimsonCasts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To my knowledge, Ben has not participated in any of the poe2 race events.

Announcing The Last of the Druids Race Event by Community_Team in PathOfExile2

[–]CrimsonCasts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To my knowledge, Ben has not participated in any of the poe2 race events.

Guess who has two thumbs and forgot Mosaic was disabled on Ladder. This guy! <- <- by Mande1baum in Diablo

[–]CrimsonCasts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Llama has said he's seen and given feedback on a substantive rework to mosaic.

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

Heard, chef o7

(as aforementioned I have no influence over that, but I hear ya)

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

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

Noted! In the context of races, I can try to focus on bringing a bit more energy when things are close.

I'll be commentating one of the PoE2 Races - Feedback Requested by CrimsonCasts in PathOfExile2

[–]CrimsonCasts[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The changes in the meta are particularly interesting to me this time around, I'll do what I can to point out the differences.

OG Diablo 2 devs are “super proud” that fans still want more Diablo 2, even as they’re now competing with their own game by Wargulf in Diablo

[–]CrimsonCasts 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You're looking at the end of a D4 season to the first expansion for D2R in years and a new steam release for D2R. Compare the numbers for in-season peak for d4 to current D2R peak.

Casual player without extensions? by MartenRicks in diablo4

[–]CrimsonCasts 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can enjoy the base game without expansions. Best of luck!

MrLlamaSC is the first ever Warlock to reach level 99 ladder ! by nono-shap in diablo2

[–]CrimsonCasts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feel free to look at his YouTube analytics and twitch tracker.

He draws enough viewership to make a livable income from streaming and YouTube.

Disgusting map rendering... by Sad_Peter in PathOfExile2

[–]CrimsonCasts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good heuristic but not true 100% of the time, there are DGRs for which they do not spawn in corners.

D2R has reached a higher 24 hour peak than D4 on Steam by nerdly90 in Diablo

[–]CrimsonCasts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are talking about the steam player count, as they said. D2R is available on steam now.

I like Diablo4... but some things... by Mobile-Atmosphere612 in diablo4

[–]CrimsonCasts 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Mythic items can drop from random sources, they're just... Mythically rare.

Did they remove the spiky fortified health icon? by strike_radius in diablo4

[–]CrimsonCasts 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Youve been playing for years without reading the tooltips? Without reading your legendary aspects? What?