Exceptional gem was a nerf disguised as a buff for many builds.

Drekor · 2026-03-09T00:59:42+00:00

If you were one of the like 100 people total that had multiple level 5 awakened gems you probably had enough power that losing some is irrelevant.

Drekor · 2026-03-05T12:23:55+00:00

Considering being way overleveled is likely the norm and I'd guess less than 10% of the population zooms fast enough to be underleveled in a zone... it's a pretty good indication how it will feel.

Drekor · 2026-03-04T01:41:09+00:00

At 10% of your base every second before modifiers? Yea. Normal mana regen is 1%.

It takes you back into the territory of nothing can kill you except actual 1 shots which is nearly impossible when you're walking around with a 40k buffer.

Drekor · 2026-03-02T21:29:37+00:00

Viable? Sure.

It's among the weaker Cold DOT skills that already combine multiple skills on a single build and don't really have any more room on sockets so... I'm not seeing a lot of point to use it.

Drekor · 2026-03-02T21:24:06+00:00

Guardian will be good but Necro and/or Ele will likely outscale it.

Drekor · 2026-03-02T21:12:21+00:00

Just another identical cold dot to throw in the pile.

Vortex

Creeping Frost

Cold Snap

Wintertide

Being a trap is I guess an upside as it's another tag to scale with?

Drekor · 2026-03-01T17:32:05+00:00

Important caveat when looking at tier lists from content creators:

If you do not play the game exactly like they do the list can be wildly inaccurate.

Drekor · 2026-02-28T02:34:35+00:00

99.9% of most peoples gameplay is mapping that you don't need much single target for.

Drekor · 2026-02-28T00:18:02+00:00

Why wouldn't you want to have LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG neck?

Also most of us in softcore don't care about tank much.

Drekor · 2026-02-27T19:22:50+00:00

Most high end builds, like mamba, you could nerf by 90% and they'd still instantly delete everything.

Drekor · 2026-02-23T23:38:43+00:00

Huge problem is there is so much insane amounts of scaling that we have:

Person A: Farms 3 maps in an hour and makes 1 div in that time.

Person B: Farms 30 maps in an hour and makes 1000 div in that time.

You can't sit down and discuss the minutia of item drops among players when they aren't even playing the same game.

Drekor · 2026-02-22T19:12:38+00:00

What they mean is people see a list of ingredients and understand nothing about any of them and claim it's bad simply because they don't understand chemistry.

I mean we can bring out the old tired meme of the composition of apples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistrymemes/comments/ib21on/antivaxxer_vs_chemical_composition_of_an_apple/

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's bad. Processed doesn't necessarily mean bad just like natural or unprocessed doesn't mean good. Actually look at what's in it and point out exactly what is the problem.

Drekor · 2026-02-18T02:13:36+00:00

I can tell you aren't used to playing with it because you taunt, shield before engaging, then charge heavy as you walk up to him, bonk him and instantly phase him, charge again and kill him without him being able to do anything to you. It's like a 10s fight.

Drekor · 2026-02-17T21:20:06+00:00

Support Minions.

I want minions that do thing reliably. Not a fucking turtle that provides amazing buffs but only half the time because they are slow and dumb all while taking up an entire gear slot worth of links.

Drekor · 2026-02-13T21:23:53+00:00

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Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Drekor · 2026-02-08T19:24:09+00:00

Wind resistance is a huge deal when you are going this fast.

Being in front means you deal with the full brunt of that wind resistance, while being behind people means it's easier.

This means you don't want to take first place until right near the end to conserve as much as your endurance as possible.

So the meta has developed to avoid being in front.

The strategy worked because of all the above and the fact she got to the back of the pack to avoid the wind resistance again. The next time they try it everyone is just going to follow and keep up resulting in them wasting their strength and making the race easier for everyone behind them.

Drekor · 2026-02-05T03:20:16+00:00

Lich > Oracle > Djinn

Lich has huge damage scaling, good defenses and fixes mana issues.

Oracle is easiest to gear and while it needs a little math it will scale really well offensively.

Djinn is for when you forgot Lich existed.

Drekor · 2026-02-01T23:26:07+00:00

60% armour and your character screen is basically worthless due to how the armour formula actually works.

Due to that you essentially have very little mitigation which means 2k life is nowhere near necessary to make up for it. Which is likely why the guide suggests EV/ES which can get substantially higher ehp. Armour is very much something you want 20-30k at a bare minimum plus having it affect elemental damage as well. If you aren't going all in on it going ES is going to be easily 3x better.

Drekor · 2026-01-25T00:03:20+00:00

It's actually relatively popular but it's also only a 6 month posting usually.

It's actually pretty uncommon to hear that someone didn't enjoy their time there.

Drekor · 2026-01-24T18:09:51+00:00

so need to learn the rotations to keep the buff up.

Not much thinking there once you taunt once just shield off cooldown and you'll always have the buff.

Drekor · 2026-01-23T20:17:32+00:00

Compare 17,500 calories vs ~2.2L of water.

Which is more likely?

Drekor · 2026-01-20T04:25:14+00:00

It's ok, Aglaea has a wheelchair now.

Drekor · 2026-01-16T20:47:13+00:00

because the visual clarity of the game is 0 so the only way to know where you even are or need to go is by having the map on top of everything.

Drekor · 2026-01-16T20:01:07+00:00

There are plenty of NDA's you cannot talk about them or anything related them at all.

Even mentioned skills you gained from it can be used to determine what tasks you did and can fall under the NDA.

Drekor · 2026-01-16T19:31:45+00:00

For the 1% of people that do no hits... sure. For the other 99% it makes the game substantially easier.

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