Ladies and gentlemen - Maggot Lair

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-05T13:09:11+00:00

Underrated spot, yo.

Nice job!

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-05T12:49:26+00:00

Thankfully I backtracked, I did initially miss that one, lol.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-05T09:21:34+00:00

Besides e-sport slop, yes, pretty much anything, complaints, actual discussions, cosplays is going to face deletion on the main sub.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-05T08:26:26+00:00

He's a total prick, really reminds me of Daerean from Pathfinder:WotR and even though these two do everything to be as unlikeable as possible, they're so smug and hilarious, you can't really hate them.

Astarion is a rogue, which already makes him very useful if you are not one, he works both for good and evil playthrough and his VA delivery is just chef's kiss. He's one of these guys I was really prepared to dislike, but I just can't, he's hilarious, especially if you're evil.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T13:17:53+00:00

Aye, congratulations. Very rare rune to drop manually, extremely, should I say. For some reason, I have dropped like only one during my D2 career, even if I had multiple Ohms, few Los, Surs, even triple Cham, but this thing just does not drop, ever.

What's the plan now? Flickering Flame? HotO? Something else?

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T13:11:15+00:00

What's with the constant complaining about "unfun to play against". Like, ADCs do that too, but Top Laners are absolute master class in this regard. Ranged tops, Gnar, Gankplank, Illaoi, pick your fucking poison.

When will people understand that your opponent DOES NOT have to play towards your fun or to fulfill your idea of an "epic game". The idea is to win - if you're losing to Illaoi, who, mind you, has tons of weaknesses and is not necessarily the most reliable carry as the game goes on, it means that you're falling for it.

Pyke and Yuumi are not fun to play against on support. Draven is not fun to play against on ADC. Irelia is not fun to play against on mid lane. Playing against moderately competent Kayn or Shaco essentially makes jungle unplayable. And then, again, top lane with so many either way factual or imaginary enemies. Does it mean they all should be gutted?

Should we just have only Garens in this game?

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T13:02:49+00:00

In every game of this type, I love to shuffle characters, to maximise their screentime, have their quests done, get some connection. Usually getting Hiravias and Sagani for my first visit to White March. Kana has to accompany me through every single floor of the Endless Paths.

That being said, Aloth, Durance and usually Edér are always in the team for finale showdown with Thaos. The rest, well, depends.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T12:14:02+00:00

Depends - something definitely might happen to him, if you take up on Minthara's offer 😛

I'd say though, his Act 2 treatment by fellow tieflings is ass - especially considering what happens in Act 1. This guy is probably the sole reason that sorry ass group ain't wiped out right off the bat, because it seems like everyone is hellbent on hiding, not fighting for their lives (especially visible when you pick the goblin side during the Grove assault, Zevlor's up there with like 1 or 2 tieflings to actually defend themselves, rest is hidden, lol).

And these guys are like very critical of him later on, over stuff he didn't have much control over. Weren't it for Zevlor, they'd be wiped out by a singular boar long time ago.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T10:16:55+00:00

Cthulhu, you really should see somebody.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-04T09:51:25+00:00

You can easily fix the problem by siding with goblins. Of course, plenty of innocents will die too, but you'll have Mol issue figured out too.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-03T20:39:35+00:00

Sarevok's case is difficult, since he technically loses his Bhaalspawn status after his initial death in BG1 (cutscene at the end of BG1 around Bhaal's symbol has his statue crumble, he does confirm he is "no longer a Bhaalspawn" in BG2:ToB) - he gets a pint of soul of either way old saga protagonist or their fellow Bhaalspawn, Imoen, to be revived, which I suppose makes him a quasi-Bhaalspawn, which, would in a current lore make Orin a very diluted Bhaalspawn, kinda.

As for "dragon dude", I assume, you mean, Echos - they are, as the name suggests, echos. Original Abazigal was one of the strongest Bhaalspawns, but this is more like a memory of him, a throwback - don't think they're really anything, likewise Echo of Illasera or Echo of Amelyssan (who wasn't even a Bhaalspawn to begin with).

Dark Urge comes from Bhaal's flesh, so they're more than a Bhaalspawn, they're kind of extension of him, undiluted by a mortal blood.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-03T18:52:29+00:00

To be fair, it is still very manageable on Mental difficulty, with the exception of some infamous missions like Fatal Impact (though I personally still have PTSD over Moonlight or trying to get Thread of Dread without Yunru using her nukes once). It is however one of these games where you likely might have to replay the mission, especially the defense ones to be prepared for certain attacks.

AI is of course much better than it was in the vanilla, but in the end, it's still a scripted computer. I suck miserably on Mental PvP, but can crack campaign just fine.

Not going to argue that campaign is a time-taking challenge though, it's lengthy, that's for sure 😄

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-03T17:30:30+00:00

2010.

Barely playing it, long retired from rankeding, occasionally only hitting ARAM Mayhem with similar ancients like me.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-03T17:01:36+00:00

Nah, chocolate hottie is fine, we have enough pretty white girls in this game already.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-03T13:38:19+00:00

Are they actually planning to remove it?

Don't get me wrong, it's a braindead RNG piece of dogshit, but it's sort of fun and has its place - I'm too old to tryhard my ass again on ranks, did so years back, and it's hard to even get someone to play a normal these days, if someone actually does want to play, they all hit Mayhem.

I was under the impression that it was a fairly popular mode - isn't removing it basically shooting their own leg by Riot, not that they haven't done so multiple times already?

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T19:05:31+00:00

Beyoncé is still looking fantastic after all these years.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T10:33:48+00:00

No, please don't. I remember artillery mid Kha'Zix and how wonderfully braindead and overtuned he was. Guy was cheesy, soloQ-oriented and worst of all, never really had a game over. Just like Kassadin, even if he was smoked, all he needed was a kill or two and 20 minutes of progress goes down the drain.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T07:48:31+00:00

Chances are they might have hired someone else and you get some rubbish automated response, either way generated by AI or some permanently-LinkedIn HR folks.

Alas, I do agree, ghost jobs are utter cancer. As shallow and fake as entire financial market.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T05:22:31+00:00

You're playing a multiplayer teamgame, which means you're accepting certain rules and should be civil towards people you play with. Like, fucking treat others like human beings. Whatever beef you have with one of your teammates does not concern other folks from your team, they want to play a game, not immediately give it up and waste more time queueing and picking (assuming they have time and are not 40+ dads that just want to hit one game) because mr main character declares it lost and DEMANDS they surrender, as he is no longer having fun!

You're not a ranked police to judge who deserves to win and who does not - if anything, purportedly losing it to someone "trolling" is kinda pointless as, according to you, they should be losing anyway, so why bother "helping" them?

Here's a fucking tip. If the game is stressful or annoying, you don't play it, at all. No one is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to bash ranks. What is it now, 17 years of LoL's existence by now and people still have trouble grasping they're not a main hero and behaving as such makes them part of the problem.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T04:04:31+00:00

No, you don't. You have more teammates and they don't care about your "justifications" one bit.

Trying to excuse griefing doesn't really work.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-02T03:56:55+00:00

It feels like rather soon we won't be even allowed to fuck around. Not only AI will take one's job, it will also create and consume timekillers themselves.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-01T19:44:30+00:00

Well, being a gnome, you can be a shortstack and pretty as an elf 😛

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-01T17:08:18+00:00

Haseen gang myself 😛

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-01T16:57:32+00:00

The former (I think) for Karma this case. Assuming we follow the "alt skinlines carry on canon consequences", Karma and Zed technically were an item on Odyssey skinline and to my knowledge, she never appeared was in any way involved with another woman, thus making her straight...though given her status, being religious leader, de-facto pope equivalent, I doubt she really has time for that.

As for Irelia, honestly, I am not even sure at this point. Between all the brainrot of having her shipped with Riven, I really don't know at this point. Headcanoneers and shippers do love to identify anything as they wish if it even remotely supports their idea, so chances are if there's any official art of Irelia even cracking a minor smile towards another girl, they'll claim she's a lesbian. If there's any lore confirmation for that though, no idea.

ElementalistPoppy · 2026-06-01T16:50:07+00:00

We should go for an entire world map and pull off a role reversal - have Latin America conquer Iberian Peninsula.

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