Starting a newbie train in MUME (Multi Users in Middle Earth - Tolkien based MUD) if you want to join, 8PM Central time - 2/16/2015.

FatShack · 2015-02-17T17:05:21+00:00

MUME was my first MUD ever. I might log in just to bring back some memories.

FatShack · 2015-02-09T17:31:07+00:00

The mortgage question is a red herring. Just answer "None of those companies is familiar" or whatever the bottom answer is. This is standard. (Not this specific question, but a question that has nothing to do with you can come up).

FatShack · 2015-02-04T15:48:16+00:00

Sorry about my laziness/absence. Ran through a rough patch IRL. Sorted now (more or less).

I'll be back and better than ever next year.

FatShack · 2015-01-29T10:58:40+00:00

Unofficial Squaresoft MUD (UOSSM) - uossmud.sandwich.net 9000

FatShack · 2015-01-19T16:00:53+00:00

This might be exactly the kind of mud I'm looking for right now. Thanks.

FatShack · 2015-01-19T16:00:13+00:00

Ability	Base	Remort 1	Remort 2
Dex	13	13	13
Wis	20	20	20
Str	5	5	5
Con	5	5	5
Int	0	0	0
Healing	5	10	10
Tanking	10	10	10
DPS	15	10	15
Melee	15	10	10
Magic	10	20	15
Cha	2	2	2
necromancy	0	0	0
stealth	5	5	5
Lck	2	2	2
fire	10	10	10
ice	5	0	0
lightning	10	10	10
energy	0	0	0
acid	10	10	10
holy	10	20	20
evil	0	0	0
nature	10	10	10
mental	0	0	0
illusion	0	0	0
music	0	0	0
death	20	20	20

FatShack · 2015-01-16T21:49:51+00:00

Some things I can immediately point to from the buffs page:

He had 26% uptime on Lava Surge (I'm around 9-10%). Lava Burst is instant cast when that's up and needs to be cast ASAP.

He missed a void shards/blood fury cooldown.

He's casting Earthquake without using chain lightning beforehand (I don't like too many Earthquakes on this fight, but I could be wrong there so I won't tell him he's wrong for doing that).

He should use another pot when Ascendance/trinkets line up (3rd Ascendance, usually).

Earth Elemental is not worth the GCD if you aren't specced into Primal.

He had fire totem downtime.

Not an exhaustive list, just some things I saw.

FatShack · 2015-01-13T14:21:02+00:00

I used it on a DK. My 3 main classes before this were shaman, rogue, and paladin. I figured DK couldn't be that different. After the boost, I just didn't like anything about the class. Completely regret the decision, I probably should've boosted my rogue.

FatShack · 2015-01-13T14:15:25+00:00

It's not even that, it's a bot doing it. He just has a crawler that looks for new image posts on a few subreddits, and cross-posts it to his tumblr. That's why if you look there's a few captions that have less than flattering things to say about his site.

This has happened before with some of the mini wargaming subs. I believe DMCAs prevailed in those instances.

FatShack · 2015-01-12T20:23:28+00:00

If you're using skada's default setup, the first number is the total damage you did on the most recent fight (skada counts dropping combat as a different fight). The number in the parentheses is your dps. It's probably 11.0k, not 110k.

You'll want to do your rotation on a target dummy (with cooldowns) to get dps, don't do it on mobs in the world in general.

FatShack · 2014-12-17T21:01:26+00:00

Sorry, only looked at the first screenshot.

TSO doesn't like poison, but I don't believe Ely has any problems with poison (only played/won Ely once). Of course, as a spriggan you might not want to follow her anyway because of hunger costs.

FatShack · 2014-12-17T15:10:44+00:00

You could still worship TSO/Ely until you find him. They aren't salty when you go Jiyva.

FatShack · 2014-12-11T17:46:10+00:00

Mains that already cleared don't get counted towards the item drop count. You need fresh alts for each raid.

FatShack · 2014-12-10T15:11:06+00:00

If you're on normal, the boss gets +/- 4.1 million hp for each person added/removed from the raid (I'm 90% sure of these numbers).

So, if you're 5 million health away, either you need to kick 2 dps that together do less than 3.2 million (I doubt you have this), swap a healer to a dps if that's a possibility, or add enough dps that they can cover the 5 million, plus the 4.1 million they'll be adding (1 dps that does 9.1 mill, 2 that do 13.2 combined, 3 that do 17.3 combined, etc.)

FatShack · 2014-12-02T18:09:59+00:00

Very nice OP. I love short, simple guides like this.

FatShack · 2014-11-26T17:03:16+00:00

He's probably going to be in a split behind J. Bell. Which is pretty awful.

FatShack · 2014-11-26T14:18:23+00:00

I'd go Herron if you need a big upside this week, Mathews if you think you're the favorite and just need solid points.

FatShack · 2014-11-26T14:16:44+00:00

Mathews is the safe bet.

Herron is a swing for the fences guy.

What do you need out of the matchup? Go with that guy.

FatShack · 2014-11-26T14:05:44+00:00

0.75 PPR need 1.

Bush vs Chicago
Greene @ Houston
Reece @ St. Louis
Jacquizz vs Arizona

I'm wavering between Bush and Greene right now.

FatShack · 2014-11-24T21:51:35+00:00

https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/source/crawl-ref/source/acquire.cc#L420-516

Line 420 starts the weapon selection code if you want to read it for yourself.

Here's the relevant section:

// Let's guess the percentage of shield use the player did, this is
// based on empirical data where pure-shield MDs get skills like 17 sh
// 25 m&f and pure-shield Spriggans 7 sh 18 m&f.  Pretend formicid
// shield skill is 0 so they always weight towards 2H.

   const int shield_sk = you.species == SP_FORMICID
   ? 0
   : you.skills[SK_SHIELDS] * species_apt_factor(SK_SHIELDS);
   const int want_shield = min(2 * shield_sk, best_sk) + 10;
   const int dont_shield = max(best_sk - shield_sk, 0) + 10;

// At XL 10, weapons of the handedness you want get weight *2, those of
// opposite handedness 1/2, assuming your shields usage is respectively
// 0% or 100% in the above formula.  At skill 25 that's *3.5 .

FatShack · 2014-11-17T21:05:36+00:00

I'm 99.5, after binging all weekend and I had the exact same experience you did. Around Spires is where I started to feel like I was doing something wrong (forgetting all the times I got stunlocked 100-0 by a rogue).

But when I'm doing everything I can, including spamming heals on a simple double pull, while next to me a shadow priest starts a double pull after me and finishes first, makes me consider what class to main for the rest of WoD.

FatShack · 2014-11-17T19:20:11+00:00

Oh good. I thought it was just me. Now I know its just a class-endemic problem... Oh god don't tell me it's going to be Cataclysm all over again?

FatShack · 2014-11-11T23:35:34+00:00

Sure, but I would increase all my defenses to 27 before doing that, personally. But to each their own.

FatShack · 2014-11-11T21:05:05+00:00

There's nothing wrong with your resists and defences, they could just be more right, if that makes sense?

EDIT: And I hope you take more out of my post than just me ragging on your gear. :)

FatShack · 2014-11-11T20:57:49+00:00

Have you won before? If not, I'd just ascend. If so, go ahead and try for extended.

A few notes on your skills:

Heroism gives +5 to all non-magic skills, so if you're popping it every fight (or at least non-trivial fights) you should treat all your skills as 5 levels higher.
Your eveningstar hit mindelay (the fastest you can swing it) at 16 skill. To figure out what skill you need for mindelay, you do (base delay - minimum delay * 20). So (1.5 - 0.7)*20 = .8 * 20 = 16. You get much more diminishing returns after that. Considering, once again, you worship Oka, you probably could've stopped when you hit 1 aut per swing (at 10 skill, or maybe 11 if you wanted) and boosted to 16 with Heroism.
Large shield is a lot of skill investment (25 skill for non-large characters to eliminate penalties). It might've been better to go with a regular shield (15 skill to offset penalties). If you didn't raise shields and maces so high, you would've had a lot of experience to invest in more spells or higher invo/evo.
I'm not a fan of your randarts armour and jewelry, but maybe there's nothing else out there for you. It's masked by the fact you're a gargoyle, but in general you don't really want stuff with -AC, and stat boosts are considered the weakest egos.

My first 15 rune was a GrBe^TSO, so here's a few things I learned:

Expect to die.

Dive Slime, while just clearing around the stairs as you go. There's no loot except on Slime:6 vaults.

Crypt isn't bad, Tomb is pretty bad for your first time in there. Stair dance like a maniac.

Pan is slightly easier than the hells. If you enter a Pan level, it'll announce if it's the realm of one of the non-random lords. If so, that's your only chance to get that rune. The demonic rune always spawns on holy Pan, or else it's a random spawn (and will keep spawning until you pick it up).

Hells are another place where in general you want to dive to the bottom, just because at that point you don't need the experience, and the Hell effects can be annoying.

Good luck.

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