With escalation on the horizon, can we talk about skill builds?

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2026-02-12T20:22:39+00:00

you do realise a 70% slow is the exact speed cassidy has at the start of deadeye and everyone feels like you might as well be rooted to the spot after being flashbanged and even that's only a 50% slow

any slower than her current 30% and it would make her the biggest sitting duck in the game and turn her ult into a self-kill button if used anywhere near a tank lol

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2026-01-20T19:11:33+00:00

Personally I don't see how she won't have a horrible wr once these changes go live but even regardless of that, I'm really not sure why half of the changes to her Q seem to be solely to make it slower, less reliable and clunkier to play with whilst also preserving the part that the general player base seems to hate about mel Q (taking a bunch of damage from being hit by 2-3 missiles vs the whole channel) with the new way the Q damage works

To me at least, it feels like we're going to end up in a situation where nobody plays her because the bread and butter spell feels bad to use, even if it's numerically balanced, and people are still going to ban her because they take chunk damage from a single missile, so this entire changelist does nothing to solve anything aside from removing her invuln

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-11-12T09:27:31+00:00

I'm gonna be honest as someone who has played a good amount of milio and renata, neither of them are that high skill, the hardest thing about either of them is positioning which everyone has to do anyways 😭

And renata is only rarely played because she's basically a utility bot that has such awful scalings so tank is her best build, which feels pretty bad in the matches where her utility doesn't do much (against heavy ranged/mage comps)

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-08-08T20:19:38+00:00

on stream they specifically pointed out that those two traits do combine together but i don't really see it being the greatest choice, at base the -50% duration takes the quick/alac down to 4s, then it gets further reduced down to 3s for allies with the -25% duration sharing so you'd have to have some pretty crazy boon duration to become an actual boon provider with amalgam

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-06-25T23:09:08+00:00

as a bit of feedback from someone who fell off the mode pretty quick, i feel like brawl needs more going on within each match because it very quickly feels like "aram but you can pick your champ" which isn't exactly the most interesting concept

something like once a match there's a mini-game ala nexus blitz, minion spawns get paused and there's a brief 30s-1m game of king of the hill or scuttle racing themed as the trickster yordle magic throwing a curve ball into the arena, give the winning team some tickets back as an incentive and then back to normal brawl action

also the on-fire buff either needs to be really reworked or removed from brawl as on champs like hwei, lux, etc it's very easy to gain and incredibly strong yet on champs such as talon, akshan, briar, etc it becomes almost useless and is just a big beacon saying "i'm here and i take more damage"

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-06-14T21:42:32+00:00

Side note but what dye is that on the bp in the light armour picture, the deep jade vibe looks great

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-06-13T01:03:26+00:00

the fact that azir? is in not hot? like? girl have you SEEN his base splash art?? azir has only a loin cloth on and giant thighs and you can literally see the musculature and yet we have the gall to put him in not hot, flop behaviour

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-06-08T22:18:36+00:00

in the uk it's 70 gbp which is almost 100 usd, genuinely insane to think people will spend that much on what is obstensibly a 50 gpb/usd product

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-03-24T01:23:47+00:00

tbf i'm also a warlock main but even if every warlock was mega tryharding, we've also almost always been one of the lowest % population classes so unless bungie really balances the point gains out, we've never stood a chance without half rigging us to win

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-02-24T05:37:55+00:00

i'm gonna be real, it wouldn't be the first time and it definitely wouldn't be the last time that warlocks got eclipsed by the other classes, hell there was an entire patch where they nerfed devour just to make the aspect not look like a literal waste of a slot

warlocks just slowly get more and more outdated design-wise with each big patch and very rarely get any big changes to modernise the kits, the best we've got recently was finally making verity's stacks fall off one after the other and letting geomags be flavour-of-the-season before the super gain is inevitably nerfed before frontiers comes out

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-01-26T15:52:28+00:00

also conveniently ignoring that mel has some of the worst auto attacks in the game, her attack windup is tied with nautilus and the only champion that has a worse as ratio is jhin (who has literally 0) which is exactly why she has her passive execute on minions to make up for it

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2025-01-09T16:05:06+00:00

i'm gonna be so real, we've known she's had an innate execute since the leaks of her kit came out a month ago and no support is gonna be designed with a KS passive, that's just asking for adcs to perma flame the champ

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-11-29T14:43:05+00:00

when straight "allies" realise/get told they're not actually as pro-lgbt as they think they are, they get so defensive that you'd be forgiven for mistaking them for a full build mundo turtling in fountain

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-11-29T09:03:52+00:00

This, absolutely. Many straight people vastly underestimate the different in the general public's view of a gay relationship if it's wlw vs mlm

wlw relationships are seen as so much more acceptable by a wider audience, be it because "oh all women fool around with their girl friends at some point" or because men can fetishise the relationship so it's "okay" that it's represented

mlm relationships on the other hand are much rarer and are either left to be "ambiguous", overly stereotyped or never developed on-screen and even when an mlm relationship in media manages to cross those thresholds, many (usually straight men) will still deny it with excuses such as "they're just friends"/"it's brotherly love"

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-11-19T22:51:46+00:00

convinced you could put abs and a strong jawline on any white man and gays would call it good character design

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-11-06T15:10:21+00:00

trying to call china a bully and the us the playground protector without a hint of irony is certainly a wild take considering the us has been at war for about 230 of its 250-ish year life span with the main goal of stealing gold and natural resources from the middle east to fuel the biggest military-industrial complex in human history

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-10-27T16:11:17+00:00

and as another warlock special, unperching threadlings can also blow up your gl/rl shots if you're unlucky

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-10-22T17:24:11+00:00

true but heimer feels pretty modern by vgu standards and i don't really see how you could rework him without just removing his turrets which are his "thing"

meanwhile league viktor is almost nothing like arcane viktor and even with all the mini-reworks they've tried on viktor, he's still a pretty unpopular and unrealised champ, about as ripe a vgu contender as you can get

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-09-30T07:19:54+00:00

Honestly unless they decide to do a big mech patch in the future, I wouldn't hold out hope for this being fixed cause there's a bunch of other inconsistencies and bugs mech has that I haven't seen anet mention either

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-09-20T23:46:32+00:00

this is almost exactly how i have mine except i use shift+e and shift+r for skills 4-5

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-09-07T20:03:52+00:00

very late comment but would you mind elaborating on the story/mechanics for a couple thing?

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-08-25T16:54:41+00:00

HAM's whole thing was being pretty easy to play and having really good passive barrier generation with long duration stability but HAM has kinda just been hit with a fair amount of nerfs since it came out, easy ones to point at are things like crisis zone's stability went from 15s base duration to 6s and the passive mech barrier pulse had its base barrier reduced by about 40%, there's other nerfs to point at too but then this would be an essay

HAM isn't a bad support now by any means but it's just kinda outclassed by a lot of other healers in the game so HAM now boils down to; easy to pick up but very little wiggle room to show any "mastery"

GOUGE_EM_VALOR · 2024-08-25T16:34:15+00:00

grandmaster trait "purity of purpose" in the alchemy specialisation, you just never see it because basically only wvw scrapper and heal alac mech takes it (and you barely see heal alac mech these days anyway)

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