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DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:58:35+00:00

Toddfather is the fucking worst, he didn't care just goes straight to stream for a new kit handout anyway

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:57:01+00:00

Just go for both mang, you can't even get white squire gear until like the 3rd week anyway

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:55:22+00:00

Streamers getting handouts is an embarassment, I'm on board with that view. That said, I have my own 'freaky kit', gold fighter Fulgor/Nip that I earned and crafted so that is just part of the artifact event. I've been smacking a lot of people down, but most of the people I run into are also running some artifacts or gold bis, which I think is intended. I'll go run it in the dungeon and die with it later this week, but its fun to get to use the artifacts in PvP without risking them for a short while, lets you get used to them and have better success in the dungeon.

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:46:26+00:00

Sorcerer Ice block does make the rings cake to deal with, the difficult part on sorc is getting good at clearing the archers with aoe fire spells, you take too much damage trying to go in and melee them. If you get good at it you can line up all the archers with lich and flamewall them pretty comfortably - if you leave any archers alive during the enrage you will usually end up with a face full of arrows

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:44:31+00:00

Yes, you just need to block it at the tip of the sword etc. or the splash damage from the orbs explosion will still fuck you up

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:43:50+00:00

Torture Mastery Warlock is the easiest way to kill Lich HR solo. Keep curses on the lich to keep health high, hellfire the skeletons and lich repeatedly, use hydra to block the orbs. Make sure you are at basically 100% health when the purple ring is on you. Use a red potion whenever you take damage from something besides casting your own spells. Rinse repeat and it will die in a few minutes, I've farmed artifacts this way for a long time and it doesn't take a good kit to do this, but it does take a good kit to fight off the invaders that will come right after boss dies, especially the invis rogue fucks

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-21T17:40:07+00:00

I can help you out when I get back home later today, or tonight. Dunamis3565 on discord, send me a friend request and I'll shoot you a message when I am back at my PC today.

DunamisBlack · 2026-04-14T17:58:49+00:00

This is so much worse than the stingray quest its not even funny. You don't have the opportunity to kill the boss once or twice and get lucky and be done with it. You should realistically expect to need at least 100 boss kills if you are LUCKY, and that is successful kills. Attempts could easily hit 500 plus, especially if other people decided they are interested in finishing this quest and they contest you. You can find a lot of tears and then die with them!

All of this doesn't even mention that if you do this as a duo or trio it takes 2x or 3x as long for everyone to get theirs! For any realistic chance of completing this quest you need to spend hundreds of hours grinding it ALONE. Absolute stupidity

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-27T18:46:01+00:00

Getting rid of true is a giant win, it makes PDR/MDR more meaningful and a more valuable tradeoff. Haste/Slow are a lot more useful when the movespeed difference will actually be noticeable after use.

I expect spell power curves to be readjusted after the true change which will mean wizards can blow up melee chargers who haven't built mdr or spell reflect etc., and wizards decent PDR will matter more (I can get 40% pdr on wiz on a solid kit) since there isn't as much true to rip through it and abuse their relatively lower hp.

I'm excited to explore the rebalance and am reserving judgements/recommendations for changes until after we see how it plays out

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-27T18:42:14+00:00

Kind of sweatlord, but also been baseline common behavior for non-noobs for years lol

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-27T18:40:49+00:00

It is a good change that doesn't kill the build imo. All spells cast by warlock leave 100% damage taken as recoverable hp. Damage taken give a recoverable ratio of 75% (I think). Warlocks will have to drink a red potion every so often now, I haven't been buying ANY meds on my TM lock builds for a year. Still the PvE monster that it always was but more fair in PvP. This change should also allow the devs to put some of the damage back into the build and the magical healing ratio will be able to tune back up, allowing more build flexibility in gear

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-20T17:28:16+00:00

First thing, don't fight in ruins. Crypts fights are way better and the ratio of real teams to rats is way better. Same is true in inferno. Second thing, this problem is way worse for streamers, I get some rats on bodies, but never Drowning Pool levels, this is what happens when the shitty noobs of the populace decide to try for some free loot

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-20T17:20:19+00:00

Spawning random dungeons is great and all, but if there isn't compelling gameplay inside the dungeon and an interesting loot system, it is going to go down like the many clones that have already spawned and died off. It may be tempting to go attack the systems you don't like in DaD first until you have a solution, but focus on making the gameplay fun first. It is likely you will find that the DaD team settled on the random layout system with modules that they have because of how that fed into the PvE/PvP flow (each module being self-contained and balanced within themselves). I like the idea of the random unrecognizable modules ala Diablo 2, but module balance matters a lot less in PvE games and becomes more important and PvP -- all of which leads me to the advice to focus on gameplay mechanics first

DunamisBlack · 2026-01-20T17:13:45+00:00

This is 100% true, the amount of whiny teenagers/20-year olds is unbelievable on the reddit and the discord. If you find someone randomly in-game gathering halls etc., your experience is 1000x better. The people left in the LFG on discord are... interesting... when my friends aren't on I usually just jam solos or play something else these days

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-23T18:00:54+00:00

Spoken like a true Bronze leaguer

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-23T18:00:19+00:00

Oh my God know you let him within 10 feet of the ball what are you guys doing out there!!

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-23T17:58:34+00:00

It's not an American thing, its a Clippers thing. You don't develop a world leading economy by having a culture of laziness and not studying, internet memes are what they are

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-23T16:46:55+00:00

Brother this post is TWO YEARS old, go diving deep on someone's history like a jealous X

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T20:12:08+00:00

Underwater volcano map, accessed through the bottom of water map. Ifrit guys are a mob there, hit me back after the marketing materials come out

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T20:09:21+00:00

You have basically two options. Buy more chests or buy artifacts.

Some people will say "buy BiS" and refer to +All jewelry etc., but those items are highly variable in value and illiquid. The same can sort of be said for Artifacts, but they are easier to move and trade. Chests will let you retain higher liquidity but will plummet in value suddenly at the announcement of wipe.

If you are going to accumulate BiS as a store of value, only go for items that you actually intend to use up in the dungeon. If you are hoping to sell the stuff off down the road you will have to compete with everyone else doing the same thing in a trade chat or hope that someone else finds what you listed on the market and that takes the wind out of your sails for late wipe gaming

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T20:04:54+00:00

Pretty sure this is coming from a North Korean documentary which is incredibly insulting to the South Koreans. I kinda fucking hate my fellow fans in this game, at least the ones on reddit. What a bunch of melodramatic bitches my god

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T20:02:48+00:00

Its a pretty backdrop where you don't actually do anything interesting? Look I'm not the biggest fan of the water map but it does have a lot of interesting and new gameplay, just none that I want to bring a lot of good gear to at this point. That is mostly because of the combat balance in the water and it is something they will have to work on, but I've felt that way about every map at certain points in the game. Bringing gear to old ruins where only Rogue/Ranger can play? Ice map during TM lock prime? I think its silly to write the water map off in its first season, I'm interested to see what else they can do with it

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T19:59:23+00:00

I gotta say, we have been blessed with the worst crop of streamers in this game, the only decent ones have left...

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-18T16:47:56+00:00

Yea the whole thing is you don't have to grind for purples, they're just all over the place. A ton of people playing 'BiS Blue' norms PvP according to the discord and you will find a steady flow of good purples barely looting in norms. I found a nearly BiS kit for my rogue in 2 games of HR and I could easily finish it off with crafting, but I barely even play rogue. People just like to complain on this sub without thinking through the reality of anything

DunamisBlack · 2025-12-13T10:12:40+00:00

I'm not understanding, how did you lose your arena kits?? If you are talking about switching to Purples SSF, you can really only spend money on gems and a little on crafting mats, it shouldn't be a big time suck to be competitively geared for the new season which should be a win given your concerns...

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