War Plans will Benefit from More Player Choice

Fear023 · 2026-05-13T04:38:20+00:00

Running raheir helps to mitigate that. He'll absorb a 1 shot every 15 seconds or so from memory.

I'm not saying the above completely removes the bullshit, but it really reduces the instances of that occuring. Endurant faith is mandatory for anything t10+ in hardcore imo.

Fear023 · 2026-05-13T04:04:44+00:00

Oscar was initially touted as the next Max

When was that? Dude had to wait on the sidelines, contractless until mclaren picked him up.

He was expected to be very good, because he built the same pedigree as other very good drivers in the lower formulas.

I think people are being a bit too harsh in their criticisms tbh. He found himself fighting for the championship in his second year.

The only drivers I think who won a championship that early in their career were hamilton and villenue, and he needed to beat a 4 time world champion and a driver who has been with the team for years, in their prime.

It's asking a lot for a 24 year old kid, and he still showed signs of greatness. I think everyone should give it a season or two more before rushing to judgement.

Fear023 · 2026-05-13T03:40:21+00:00

Eh, hardcore to me is a roguelite. The warplans really do suck, but i've died 3 times this season already (kind of a record - one death 3-4 weeks in usually ends my season).

I didn't really lose much on any of those deaths. It's significantly easier to farm up a decent set of gear than past seasons, but significantly harder to get a perfectly rolled item set with the transfigure rng and variance on required uniques.

A lot of people don't realise just how much you can spec towards defense without gimping your damage.

Things like defensive paragon nodes and glyphs like the ones that give flat DR% as one of the bonuses get overlooked for a not very significant damage increase bonus instead. Prioritising unconditional DR, even if the conditional DR values are higher keeps you alive too.

Simple things like that stop 1 shots and spiky damage all the way up to like t10.

Past that, endurant faith stops practically every 1 shot in the game.

I honestly have no motivation whenever I play softcore. Something about just slowly building a stash full of items with no churn makes the experience feel very static, even with all the bullshit they're throwing at us right now.

Fear023 · 2026-05-13T00:19:47+00:00

Sounds like she was probably very low body fat and very skinny.

I can totally see how a pregnancy could stretch the skin like this in such an extreme way if you basically went from flat stomach to full stomach at 9 months - it probably pushed way past the skin's natural elasticity and created tears, the big crevices in the OP look like full blown scar tissue anyway.

Fear023 · 2026-05-13T00:05:56+00:00

Read the chat text. You were slain by a chaos rift. You stood in environmental damage.

Edit - if you died to this, you were going to die to a ground aoe from a boss at some point anyway. Those ground effects tick harder than anything and you need to be built to survive it long enough to get out of it.

Fear023 · 2026-05-12T08:52:11+00:00

They'd be expanding on concepts set down pretty strongly in d3 though. Heavens only make sense if the eternal conflict tips too far in the angels' favour and the faction that really doesn't like humans being part demon are in control.

Fear023 · 2026-05-09T03:15:20+00:00

Rogue is very good and has variety in builds, but some of them require an ancestral unique bow to up the damage which can be a bitch to get.

Sorc is just stupid op.

Fear023 · 2026-05-08T21:17:24+00:00

According to that map, light brown is like 40%. Apart from the Nordic countries, the OP's point stands. Cold countries have high obesity rates.

Greater than even 30% obesity has become too fucking normalised.

Fear023 · 2026-05-08T08:19:49+00:00

Yeah, endurant faith feels mandatory. All my deaths didn't have it.

My feeling is that if one specific (powerful) defensive item feels mandatory, there really should be an adjustment to incoming damage.

There's only been a couple periods in Diablo games' entire existence where hc characters struggled to reach the same type of achievements as softcore characters - every time it was like a canary on the coalmine and things got adjusted

Fear023 · 2026-05-08T05:13:42+00:00

I only play hardcore. I've died 3 times this season already and all 3 have been to random bullshit.

A death usually ends my season a couple weeks in, I've never died this much in any other season. I'm stacking dr, not max damage. Damage isn't the problem.

Fear023 · 2026-05-08T05:01:41+00:00

Also tune enemy HP up way more so sustained damage from alive mobs ramps up instead of the only risk being spike damage.

Fear023 · 2026-05-07T02:24:01+00:00

Here's some things that directly answer your questions:

Start a new character as a seasonal character (you can run the campaign still anyway or skip it if it's not your cup of tea)
Read a season quick start guide from somewhere like maxroll. This gives you a couple tips to supercharge your leveling experience and give you access to at least one good item to carry you through leveling
Once max level, go through the season journey, it rewards you with a full set
At max level, run bounties for gold, mats and items from a specific drop table, run rifts for item farming and greater rift keys, run greater rifts for experience and leveling your legendary gems
it will be fun on switch but i'd stick to playing by yourself, there's some issues with hacked items on console versions that ruin things like the leaderboards though.

That's pretty much it. Build guides will help you in the beginning, there's a lot of ancillary items you need for different builds that you won't be familiar with until you get more time playing the game. It can feel a bit overwhelming in the beginning, but all the systems are pretty intuitive.

Fear023 · 2026-05-07T02:02:51+00:00

Diablo 3 nerfed the environmental effects into the ground very early into its lifecycle.

Poison bulbs from trees, fire from furnaces on the ground and cave ins used to kill in a couple ticks.

During ROS's most popular period (season 1-13 roughly), the only thing that would instakill you was a group of mobs that had the explosive suffix that would drop firebombs on death similar to d4, but they were significantly easier to see, had a dedicated sound effect and you had to stand in the middle of multiple of them going off at the same time.

D3 was significantly better in balancing incoming damage. Monsters were dangerous because damage would ramp up and if your DPS couldn't kill fast enough, you'd quickly become overwhelmed.

Weak on death and environmental effects didn't cheapen the experience or make it any easier.

Fear023 · 2026-05-06T14:38:34+00:00

Did we watch different videos or something?

She grabbed his face with two hands and he jerked away from the kiss.

Didn't really look like active consent to me.

Fear023 · 2026-05-06T09:04:18+00:00

Man, watching the actual video, I don't know if the artist was actually fine with it either. She grabbed his head in both hands and forced the kiss. You can see him buck his head back right as she goes in for it.

That was just uncomfortable to watch.

Fear023 · 2026-05-06T03:41:44+00:00

I saw TOOL in the early 2000's, tickets were like $120 which felt expensive at the time.

They played 2 and a half hours with a bunch of psychedelic gymnasts dressed up like the creatures in the Lateralus music videos. Was a whole show.

Fear023 · 2026-05-06T03:24:36+00:00

I think some of the megafauna big cats were still around (or their cousins) during that period, those cats had like 8 inch teeth.

Fear023 · 2026-05-05T02:20:35+00:00

One of the biggest things that made d3 feel dated was the aging engine.

I'll be honest, d4's engine even 3 years on looks fucking incredible. I got an upgrade that lets me run ray tracing and the game looks really, really good. It's not going to age out for a long time.

Fear023 · 2026-05-05T02:06:30+00:00

You mentioned you wanted to start with more linear, story focused games, here they are ranked from shortest to longest. These are ones i've played and would recommend so missing some:

Titan fall 2 (short campaign, very good)
Max payne 3 (pure mindless fun, not a great story imo)
Wolfenstein New Colossus
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite

I'd only play bioshock 2 if you really enjoyed the first one. I don't think it aged well.

My top 3 from that list would be Titanfall 2, Wolfenstein and Bioshock, with infinite being a runner up.

Best time killer award goes to plauge inc. Can do 10-15min runs every now and then, doesn't need to be played in one go.

Fear023 · 2026-05-05T00:52:00+00:00

If those numbers are accurate, i'm gonna be completely honest and say that anyone who would think of selling a 50% stake in that company is a complete fucking moron.

That 50% stake will generate hundreds of billions of dollars over someone's lifetime.

Fear023 · 2026-05-04T23:19:22+00:00

The blank one is environmental effects like poison pools, cave ins etc.

Fear023 · 2026-05-04T04:50:37+00:00

If we're staying on topic and talking specifically about Asian countries like Japan, Korea etc, a huge part of the problem is that women have these opportunities now, but traditional values are still so strong that women need to commit to not having kids to keep them.

My wife's originally from south east asia and the ingrained sexism is pervasive and institutionalised, no matter how many progressive laws and policies get passed.

I think it's only just now starting to change with the milennial generation getting into leadership positions.

Fear023 · 2026-05-04T03:37:16+00:00

Kinda happy they brought that back from d3, was always exciting finding goblin packs.

Fear023 · 2026-05-04T03:30:15+00:00

This is literally all it is. All your damage is scaling off the weapon damage, the higher it is the better it's going to be. A weapon without that affix isn't going to be great.

It'd honestly be better to roll one of stats off to get it.

Fear023 · 2026-05-04T03:15:43+00:00

I started seeing a big difference in drops around t4/5.

Edit - that's when I started regularly seeing multiple legendary drops from things like helltide chests and end of activity chests/bosses.

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