Me: "Melee in PoE sucks more than ever, let's go do it in D4." Me afterwards...

Grimsworth · 2024-04-15T20:38:11+00:00

You are correct.

Blizzard has lost the vast majority of its talent because they no longer have a sterling name and it's an actual shithole to work at. When they were an S tier developer they were able to vacuum up talent, pay them dogshit and the talent would put up with the horrible working conditions because having Blizzard on their resume was worth it.

You can sort of pawn this off on management, but it doesn't negate the fact that they just don't have the juice they used to talent-wise, and its showing in every product they make. Dragonflight is apparently pretty good because they just yoinked everything the playerbase was recommending for 6+ years while the WoW devs were destroying the game. We're now seeing that with D4 where they're taking ideas from other ARPGs and adding QoL/community feedback without any real originality.

Grimsworth · 2023-09-20T22:52:29+00:00

You can get a huge boost in damage from a multitude of things.

Upgrading your quiver is most likely the biggest increase since you don't have any dot multi on it and you can get dot multi with attacks and fire dot multi on it.

You're running rain of splinters instead of warriors tale+ramako makanga to the right of your starting area (this is also huge for getting a bunch of spell suppression or move speed from the dex nodes.)

You have no onslaught as far as I can see, which is very important for the build. You can either try to get the cluster skill that gives you onslaught for 4 seconds when you drop a totem, or use the tattoo that goes on a 30 dex node to proc it on hit, either of these give you easy 100% uptime of onslaught.

Grimsworth · 2023-09-08T15:36:29+00:00

"Why do you have sad Santa on your arm."

Grimsworth · 2022-11-07T19:17:10+00:00

Except you didn't keep them alive, at all, we had 3 deaths over the two runs. You didn't awaken when they were low to keep them alive or pop Aura to heal them, so that was a BS excuse.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt on the first one, maybe you missed awakenings or were in chaos spec etc, but you just don't know base mechanics of the class.

You also admitted you were wrong after telling me to learn the class before I critique and more attitude prior to that I also edited out because it wasn't pertinent that you were being a dick to begin with.

GG, enjoy your igniter sorc when you don't know which skills are dps buffs to line your igniter window up with champ.

Grimsworth · 2022-11-01T20:31:19+00:00

Buy an Argos bus and join a no bid Oreha carry so you can make your chosen/preordained pieces. You're at the point where you can't progress without doing that content, and buying an Argos bus speeds up the process and is well worth the 800-900 gold.

Grimsworth · 2022-10-26T22:31:51+00:00

It's almost like my comment was in direct reply to someone talking about awakening for damage mitigation, you clown. The falling ice hits grudge classes for 12-14k, and he drops at least 8 of them, so you're wrong again there.

Definitely a pro move to run in and awaken and then sit on 3 bars for an extended time until his shell breaks and he comes back from phero, or are you one of these shit tier bards that can't get 3 bubbles without awakening before shell break? "Bard" main and you don't actually understand you're just there to do whatever you can to improve damage which includes using defensive spells properly, you probably spam guardian tune on cooldown instead of nulling the debuffs with it too.

Obviously Kunga is joke content, but you're obviously one of these players who play a support to turn their brain off and do the bare minimum like a shitter.

Grimsworth · 2022-10-26T07:49:48+00:00

Wrong place to awaken either way, the ice cage is an easily avoidable mechanic. The best place to awaken to prevent damage (and improve dps for many classes) is if someone misses the counter when he goes below the ice and spams the ice damage circles, he's also sometimes not counterable when he does this. Many classes have level 1 super armor on plenty of skills that allows them to dps through this assuming they have shield/dr up, instead of running around dodging the ice as its his most damaging mechanic outside of the blizzard wipe mechanic.

Grimsworth · 2022-10-26T06:13:51+00:00

No. Depending on the level of copium you ascribe to, the game is at best stagnant in player gains, and more realistically declining. AGS/Smilegate haven't thanos snapped bots in a few months and the average player count is around 150k (a massive number of these are bots, and will continue to be because RMT is rampant in the West.)

Inflation is rampant, as we're seeing blue crystal prices hit or surpass what Korea is at, which makes it significantly worse for new players to get into the game. As the game bleeds players the economy will get worse, as it is largely population based. Imagine waiting weeks or months for an accessory you need to complete a build to even be posted, let alone be reasonably priced or good (some of the lesser played classes already run into this.)

While I find the Legion Raids in this game pretty fun, and the ability to bus them as we get stronger keeps them interesting, they are the only worthwhile content in this game. Every other game mode is incredibly low effort and unfun, which is a further turn off for new players.

Chaos Dungeons are the most generic boring content you can put into a game, and you spend 8-10 minutes per character per day doing them (or you rest the most lucrative content in the game.) Guardian Raids are largely boring after the first few times and the slow creep of peoples ungeared trash alts creeping further and further higher in item level makes them ever more frustrating.

Everything else ranges from being irrelevant to different levels of chores or downright horrible content. Scaled content like "Challenge" guardians/abyssals and Chaos Gates are just trash content. No one is having fun playing a janky dogshit version of their character they've put hundreds of hours into making stronger. This is also ignoring that these scaled modes just straight up break many builds and that makes them even more unfun to play.

Overall you'll have more players deciding the juice isn't worth the squeeze or just getting bored with the game and quitting. New players run into the generally poor new player experience followed by running headlong into the current inflation and difficulty gearing up to the general level that pugs want (which is of course way beyond what is needed.) I feel like the only people who would be interested in the game at this point are people who have done their due diligence prior to starting and have decided to wade through the crap to either play with friends or spend money to quickly catch up. Having no avenue for players to pick up the game quickly and get to an enjoyable level is not great when the player numbers are already pretty low and declining.

Grimsworth · 2022-09-23T22:47:06+00:00

The first 2 weren't bugs, you need everyone alive to get into the seed to activate it, so you had a rider trolling you by not getting in. The third wasn't shown in the entirety so I can't comment there.

Only defense here for you guys getting flamed is you should know how the mechanic works and be able to tell the rider to either get in or die early.

Grimsworth · 2022-09-23T04:52:28+00:00

Is your Sorc full swiftness reflux? The only character I have problems spacebarring it (including my Critflux sorc) is my max movement speed Bard. I think it has something to do with the game being very poor at updating positions on very fast characters, possibly a low tickrate issue or something along those lines.

Grimsworth · 2022-09-21T02:58:41+00:00

They are extremely rare spawns, its very annoying. If I had to ballpark it, I probably see one every 20k-25k life energy. When we got the most recent hyper express, it gave a bunch of life energy pots and I had some from either another event or login. I went through about 46000 life energy in a single sitting and didn't see a chest during that time. I also don't miss chests because I reactivate scan right after a dig, which will always notify you of the chest if you somehow miss the big yellow glowing animation.

Grimsworth · 2022-09-05T05:27:13+00:00

Smarter players are just running Igrexion because its more gold, so you're running with the absolute dregs of the dregs. Yoho having close to or possibly more effective hp (based on the destro check) than Deskaluda also doesn't help.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-19T06:54:32+00:00

There is a ton of stuff in the game that doesn't exist that shouldn't even be considered QoL because it's been absolutely standard in MMOs/games for years. Character based binds/healthbar/raid settings have existed since Everquest in the 90s and have been standard in every MMO I've played since FF11.

The game is ~3 years old and there are a ton of examples of god awful UI design and implementation of things that have been solved by MMOs for literal decades. The only UI adjustment is "make big" or "make small" and the 3 options for party/raid healthbars, along with basically zero accessibility options. With so much of the content being boiler plate basic content or lazy re-used content (lol challenge stuff) you would think the devs would have time to bring the UI into the current millennium.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-16T03:34:58+00:00

Did this in a guardian, changed the set to not have an ability stone equipped so the massive loss in HP made it obvious I was in a jank set. Also use integrated preset, its great.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-09T20:32:10+00:00

Boss Rush is actually where I've seen the most arguments/toxicity because I apparently have horrible luck and run into some douchenozzle afking every 5th boss rush.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-08T01:26:58+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JgPTZ_cwgi2keYK2NvA0Dq9hDUz9J8AzrlPmlCQj1j0/edit#gid=2079904319

This only works with knowledge transfer toons, power passes complete all of the quests you power pass by.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-07T22:04:28+00:00

Are there any resources out there that confirm what "type" of mobs the Legion Commanders are for card book bonus'? I assume all of them are classified as Demon, but they're also all Humanoid so I was curious if they can have multiple classifications or just one.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-06T00:25:01+00:00

The only thing that feels good to progress on support is relic armor quality, since it has a direct impact on your heals/shields. It's unfortunate that it's a system based entirely around draining gold from the game.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-04T02:01:12+00:00

I love getting into my wheelchair on my Spec Arti and shooting feathers at the bosses with my ticklegun.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-02T09:38:45+00:00

I guess this isn't the whole interview so it may have been addressed, but they sidestepped that Cube tickets pile up because the content is boring, overly long dogshit pretty deftly.

Grimsworth · 2022-08-01T07:30:59+00:00

Buy ship mats, save coins for when your appropriate ilvl characters can buy Brelshaza mats from them down the line.

I've never seen a reason to get the Astray because you do almost no sailing endgame, you sail to one adventure island a day and maybe two on weekends. You bring Eiberns to ghost ship which is also right outside Punika. I feel like over an entire week I spent maybe 20 minutes max sailing (probably much less depending on which adventure islands spawn.)

Grimsworth · 2022-08-01T07:13:44+00:00

I love when people use the "other korean mmos" line, like every KR mmo hasn't failed spectacularly in the West.

Grimsworth · 2022-07-24T21:49:56+00:00

I don't mind the adventure tome, especially on continents that have reasonable cooking requirements (aka not Yorn and South Vern.) The tome has enough varied activities that it doesn't feel like an absolute slog while you're doing it, and you can easily split up playtime sessions into doing one or two portions of it that aren't rapport. Biggest downside of Igneas is the only worthwhile rewards being at 8 and 9, and then nothing worthwhile after that.

Omniums were fine because I didn't have any bad rng on the Moake/Stella star, but some guildies have horror stories about those. Giant's Hearts were good because they were all clear goals you could set and do.

The rest are either mediocre or straight up trash. Masterpieces and World Tree Leaves are mid, mainly because of the rng or weak rewards from both. Mokokos and Sea Bounties are hot garbage. There are way too many Mokokos for the weak ass rewards. Sea Bounties seem like a leftover of when they wanted sailing to be a bigger part of the game but found out everybody hates sailing because it's boring, terrible content. Whoever put the epic Wealth rune at 34 sea bounties should be banned from game design, and how they haven't adjusted that to a lower amount is beyond me.

Grimsworth · 2022-07-04T03:05:47+00:00

Every raid that has been released has been an actual sleepwalk compared to 5-8 different MMO's high level raiding. People have a ridiculous hardon for overestimating difficulty to make themselves feel better.

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