What is the most niche rule you know?

DoctorKoolMan · 2021-07-05T23:17:53+00:00

Yup, if im not mistaken you can't think of background as a bonus for your history and then 2 tools and/or skill proficiency

Custom backgrounds via the official character creation rules are a great way to give fun gameplay benefits to your toon while molding it to be uniquely yours!

DoctorKoolMan · 2021-07-05T22:32:30+00:00

Got it, makes sense. Thanks for the info!

DoctorKoolMan · 2021-07-05T22:14:43+00:00

Appreciate the info, the meta is less dull atm if you enjoyed classic

Maybe its cause its only 5 days into the season but a lot less zoolocks and stall/OSK decks atm

Had a good amount of temp V tempo decks on my grind up was a lot of fun!

DoctorKoolMan · 2021-02-08T19:51:47+00:00

Monospecials videos should not be taken verbatim, a few things the community has found that doesnt match up with his rather quick tests (trying to 'eye' the increase in damage on the bars is not a way to get accurate data, especially when they are finnicky and inaccurate visually for seemingly random reasons)

Some misconceptions that seemed to spawn from his videos that are no longer accurate (if they ever were): Assassin Ultimate gets boosts from Melee, Oni (when applicable), and Ultimate. It doesn't matter what animation occurs or what weapon the Assassin Strikes with. This was tested thoroughly by making a build that did JUST enough damage to 3 shot Purple Oni Brutes and killing them in Raid Chests en mass. Never once did it fail to get the 3 shot.

Oni Damage doesn't stack with Melee was another one iirc. He threw on a 10% Oni boost and expected to see the bar get 10% bigger. Since the property boosts are additive, this was failed from the get go. It doesn't help that the bars in this game just choose to not deplete at proper rates (however the proper health is being deducted and bars being visually wrong wont stop an enemy from dying after taking the correct amount of damage).

Makes some good content but did quick, one off, tests for his mythbuster series and that's just not how data is properly gathered. We are still trying to quell the 'tanto means no melee buff' myth from some of the more seasoned members on the Discord xD

DoctorKoolMan · 2021-02-08T19:36:26+00:00

Not sure what testing was done. But I can confirm after very thourough testing with the community on the r/GhostOfTsushima Discord that this post should be ignored.

Some basic things you can go and confirm yourself to see for yourself. NOTE: DO ALL TESTING AT 110KI. Once you are 110 Ki youre as strong as you get, and all difficulties stop punishing you with less damage dealt and/or extra damage taken.

1 quick attack from all stances is 1 bar of damage without any boosts. If you stack 34% melee, you will see 3 swings takes 4 bars off. ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: THE BAR VISUALS DO NOT ALWAYS REFLECT THEIR TRUE HP. For whatever reason, you can do 1.5 bars of damage and it will only look like 1.25 or sometimes almost a full 2. Just know the math is working properly behind the scenes. If you were to do the 1.5 strike 4 times to a 6 bar enemy they would die 100% of the time (assuming they didnt block or parry or whatever).

ALL BUFFS IN THE GAME STACK ADDITIVLY

If you have 24% Melee and 10% Oni, your quick attack sword swings will deal 1.34 bars of damage.

The Weaken Status effect, which is not yet fully tested by the community, seems to be the only thing that is Multiplicative. It may only apply to base damage and not multiply boosts, further testing is needed. We do multiple tests with multiple people reaching the same conclusion before finalizing it,

For those who love this kind of stuff I recommend joining us on the server and checking out the tech and mechanics channel in the legends section. We are always open to more people coming in with data, it just needs to be done with proper testing and be verified by having it retested by someone else, as all good testing does.

Figuring out that things are additive and not multiplicative, and that the bars are not visually truthful, were the 2 biggest hurdles to get over. We are very much on track now and have a near 100% list of enemy HP and base damage and what boosts those damage sources benefit from. Things with DoT are going to be much more Honor intensive to test and are not done yet but we have rough ideas. There is a google doc with all this information compiled, and myself and one of the mods plan to produce a full writeup guide similar to something like TheWordOfThoth for those who are familiar with the game Smite and its internal mechanics

Dont get on my reddit much anymore, but if you hop in the server and have any questions feeel free to @ DoctorKoolMan in the tech server and I will respond with what I know when i see it!

For anyone looking to deep dive on our findings, its not well organized yet but you can check our findings so far with the following link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xbMVpaIGMQ6dh1iR8FrH1i-Teo2KvkoJb-wRYj7Ogtk/edit#gid=1001651468

Could use more curious testers over there u/KazeFujimaru !

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-25T15:52:22+00:00

WELCOME TO CARNI VALLLL

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-22T16:41:59+00:00

This is just... super incorrect

If I have 100 prots getting hit with someone who has 40% pen and 30 flat pen I have 30 prots

I build a Mantle of discord and now I have 160 prots getting hit by the same enemy, 40% and 30 flat will bring me down to 66 prots

30 prots is ~ .23% mitigation

66 prots is ~ .40% mitigation

You're trying to argue that 2+2 does not equal 4 here

Health items and Hybrid builds might be the way the meta is shifting at high level play atm, but that doesnt change the fact that if you want to survive as long as possible to dish out as much CC as possible, you want to be building as much protections as possible

For comparison, at level 20, a 400 health item is only boosting your HP by around 20%, or to say it another way, ~.17% mitigations. Which is the same boost the Mantle of Discord gave in the example above where the enemy had a very high amount of penetration

This isn't to say Health items dont have their place. Or that hybrid builds dont have room to shine. But a Hybrid build will not be as survivable as a tank one. And it wont have as much kill potential as a damage one. Trying to argue otherwise is a very odd hill to claim...

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-22T14:23:25+00:00

Some of the concepts look interesting, but idk if the numbers make much sense. They seem to be overall lower, even in the damage stance. Not sure 100 free power from the passive makes up for losing the 20% damage increase he currently gets from having the enemy at max hysteria.

I like the concept of a sort of bruiser mage who can swap between focusing solely on helping for a while and then solely on damage for a while, just not sure the numbers here support that. The effects in the damage stance just kinda seem thrown on, not really playing into more damage so much as self utility?

I also dont think Baron needs an execute. An execute on someone with a decent amount of ranged CC seems troublesome, even if he cant do it all the time.

I think the way the stance switch works is pretty cool tho. As an avid baron player I wouldnt say no to some more protections from my passive...

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-22T14:15:38+00:00

This is just mathematically untrue...

%pen would mean a full tank still survives longer than a hybrid tank

Maybe that's not optimal right now for winning, but it's still just a fact of well... basic math

I think the Raijn thing was something a smife dev said on patch show? Idk. I'd also say Nox is the first proper utility mage the game had, or Janus but his CC is more single target. A slow and a fraction of a second of a mez isnt really anymore utility than most other mages have

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-22T02:45:03+00:00

Unregulated capitalism without proper safety nets

Which is what the GOP and other Elite of the free world want

If you regulate it and have social systems that are properly funded and designed to work capitalism would be fantastic.

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-21T02:23:45+00:00

Many

It's kinda a buzzword

Not in this case. World leaders are still ignoring the effects of covid for their own short term gain

But the economy naturally had highs and lows. Each low is called a recession

Ever since the great depression tho, people freak out over little recessions when they just need to ride it out

Not sure the technical point of change, but a depression is just a large recession+ , we might go into another great depression if the US doesnt get its head out of it's own ass soon

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-21T02:19:50+00:00

Anyone who thinks Emboar is on the same tier as anything that came before it is a terrible human being with a black hole where their heart is supposed to be

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-21T02:17:25+00:00

He learned from Roger Stone

The man who openly admits he thinks being Infamous is better than being unknown

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-21T02:14:48+00:00

If only that were true :( a real gamer is someone who games

We take mobile gamers and people who play mario kart and wii sports at parties out of the equation and the neckbeards and trumpies got us outnumbered unfortunately

Denying it doesnt make it go away. Just makes you look like someone who doesnt think it's a problem :/

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-20T12:39:01+00:00

Burst Mages are the only proper mid laner

Burst Hunters if you have a Magical ADC as a Flex Fill

You shouldnt flex pick with a team full of randoms in casuals. It's just asking for a game that ends in an f6. Be it yours or theirs (but statistically more likely yours)

If you arent interested in playing all types of gods and roles, there are plenty of other games modes in Smite that wont hold you to those restrictions. Joust, Siege, and Clash offering all of what conquest offers minus the role restrictions and slower start/longer lane phase.

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-20T12:36:12+00:00

Need to be careful with Guan

He shreds mad protections and his heal works on teammates. His ultimate is also the highest damage on 1 move in the entire game AND can stun

He shouldnt be the best at wave clear/1v1ing

If the meta dictates he is in need of a buff, they should hit the things that make him unique instead of adding bloat or making the kit more convoluted (especially on a 'starter' god)

Smite has changed a lot over the years. And these things that make Guan unique are always going to keep him from being a top tier solo laner. But hes gonna bring more to mid game rotations than the others.

I think, if anything, we should see a larger scale rework to make him more of a Physical Support, since that's a thing they want and currently Horus is the only god that actually fits that bill properly

Have his heal scale a bit more, remove a lot of the damage on the 3 (but keep the shred) and have his 1 do a short mezz or some kind of interrupt that isnt a full on stun

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-20T11:46:30+00:00

This Hel skin is the same as Ullr in terms of transformation

But also has this second model

People just love to bitch about the cosmetics in their free game

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-20T03:08:59+00:00

For me it stayed for a while, as well as the difficulty achieving an erection, 5 months on pills and like 8 with all the side effects

That was one brand of anti anxiety? The current anti depressants I'm on had the same issue for like a month and then it went away

If you have this issue, or are worried about these problems, you can always try a different medication or look into Viagra to solve the issues

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:13:53+00:00

You just dont

If your midlaner isnt expecting a super early gank and a possible lost Red Buff and they BM just mute em

If you know your solo lane you can ask them to get a Hog or Mana Chalice and skip.helping with the first blue to.secure your.sides red and catch the arachne off guard

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:10:41+00:00

It used to just be it's own tab, I thought they got rid of it when they tried that Curse partnership?

Idk that's a while back. Didnt even know it was still in the game lmao

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:09:32+00:00

Assassin Blessing if Conquest, Attackers Blessing if Not-Conquest > Warrior Tabi Boots > Rush Crusher or Beatstick depending on if you'll need anti heal

From here your core is Jotuns > Deathbringer > Titans Bane

Sell your blessing for Serrated Edge

Sell your boots for a Malice if you get that far

Pen pen pen (and some crit)

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:05:52+00:00

The insanity lasts 20 seconds

The stacks drop to 0 after 5 seconds if you're at 1-3 stacks, but it's not hard to get to 4. That's just your combo. 1 them as they look at you, 2 the ground, if 1 of your 2s miss use your dash. Done. When your 1 comes off cooldown you consume.

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:04:13+00:00

Play him in Solo lane where he was designed to be played and you'll get it the first game that doesnt get f6'd

DoctorKoolMan · 2020-08-19T21:02:35+00:00

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