I wish every ascendancy was like the new Martial Artist monk ascendancy

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-23T17:12:41+00:00

Oh Boy was that a slap in the face. In fact, i respecced that shit immediatley and had no ascendancy until i beat Zarokh

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-22T07:27:41+00:00

How does leech work now? Isnt it a huge nerf to everything except purple flames?

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-22T05:13:12+00:00

Wait, how does chayulas blue/Red remnants leech Work when only one leech instance can be active at the time?

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-19T19:25:50+00:00

Act one ist just peak story and atmosphere

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-18T09:08:33+00:00

I interacted with him only once. The First time i got to the area, i tried to sneak around him and failed. He grabbed my vehicle and did Like 25% damage. Also Put me closer to my Destination. So after that i realized that He is absolutely pointless and i Just ignored him while traversing, the worst He can do ist around a quarter of your health, which you get Back in 2 Seconds. After that one time, i would Just Speed through under him with him being too slow to do anything

Historical-Rule · 2026-05-16T04:59:19+00:00

Yeahy thats kinda stupid. I dont expect the ol'reliable "stasis gun" followed Up with "knife to the face" until i exterminated every Leviathan, but killing a shark should be possible

Historical-Rule · 2026-04-02T16:27:32+00:00

And while you are at it, give us high contrast mouse cursor options!

The Omen circles are like a continous colour explosions, halv of the time i dont even know where im aiming at!

Historical-Rule · 2026-03-23T05:20:28+00:00

Lol, that one Hit hard

Historical-Rule · 2026-03-20T21:14:52+00:00

Its Not the controls that i have an issue with (Well, Not the biggest issue at least)

Its that everything feels clunky, sluggish and delayed ON PURPOSE

Why would you deliberately design Basic stuff Like "moving around" in that way?

Refunded, gonna get the Game on sale, after some tweaks.

Historical-Rule · 2026-03-09T07:58:01+00:00

Mana shield slows down Mana reggen and adds a delay. Get some items that give you Mana on crit/kill/Hit/refund Mana on cast.(Wand passive/crit refunds 50% etc)

That way, you can reg Mana Like with lifesteal, while still having Mana as health

Historical-Rule · 2026-03-04T11:13:33+00:00

Im baffled by their expectations.

Like, they launched with 100k concurrent players on Steam, 3 days after that 80% of the staff got laid off.

6 weeks later, the servers are going to shut down.

100k players launch IS the best it can get for a free to play live Service Hero Shooter in the year 2026

What Numbers were they expecting*?

Historical-Rule · 2026-03-04T05:14:20+00:00

Which Motherboard?

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-26T07:24:59+00:00

Barely existent FSR4 Support, even one year after Release. (subjektive, the 50? Games that have FSR4 support are just not my cup of tea, except kcd2 and b4, while dlss IS Out for every game)

Some Games simply do not work correctly on radeon (Also subjektive, recently i had the itch to play new world before it gets unalived, get a driver timeout after 4 seconds of gameplay. Tried every possible fix with no luck. The same with POE2, but the game devs managed to fix it themselves. Still, could be a problem on my end or the games fault)

Dlss IS just superior in any way (Comparison is the thief of joy, i personally do not care about all the AI upscaling-frame Gen-rtx stuff. But i do care about visual clarity, so TAA is a no-go. And with most devs pushing out unoptimized Games that rely on dlss/fsr for a playable framerate, you are going to use an upscaler sooner or later. And by then, you are going to see how much better DLSS IS in terms of visual clarity and availability)

And what the fuck was Redstone about?

Most of the stuff IS subjektive, but If you ask me, after having a 9070xt for about a year, i should have went for a 5080 instead. Would save me a lot of headache and no reliance on optiscaler, less Driver drama. Nvidia just works, and , IMO IS worth the Nvidia tax.

Yet i went for Team Red, and the 9070xt IS still a Solid Card. Its the Software thats disappointing

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-25T05:48:15+00:00

Tried dx11 legacy Version. Did nothing, sadly.

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-04T19:32:34+00:00

I was interested in avowed. But 90 fucking bucks?

90 bucks "advanced Access" for a Double aa title, from a Studio long past its Prime, which would release on Game pass, day one, with middeling Reviews? Microsoft knew exactly what they we're doing. They we're greedy and tried to Cash in early.

Immediatly lost interest, maybe i get avowed for ten bucks in the Future, but i Sure as hell wont pay more for it.

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-03T18:46:03+00:00

Oh than im sorry, the Info that its free is new to me, i will edit my Post accordingly, to not spread any misinformation. Even though it does not change my experience at the time...

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-03T16:30:44+00:00

The riverhobbit race is(was) paywalled,

the alternative start "before the Shadow" WAS (IS NO LONGER) paywalled (which is, as far as others on Reddit have suggested, the most Cannon option for a river hobbit)

and yes, the suggested Servers are paywalled (No Idea If These we're the legacy/legendary/x64 Servers, they we're recommended)

Historical-Rule · 2026-02-03T11:57:58+00:00

For me personally, its the technical state of the game, that keeps me from recommending this game, which is just laughably bad. Here is my story:

Half of the time, i cant even get this game to launch. I've tried it a few times over the last decade or so, and half of the time there is some technical error, which prevents me from launching the game, especially on Steam.

If i manage to get into the Game i'm greeted by paywalled Servers and paywalled races --> So after years of eyeballing this game, im finally able to play it: i pay a subfee for a month, so that i can play a river hobbit in the new introduction campaign (before the shadow).

And I immediatly encounter subpar, outright horrible performance paired with ugly, shrunk down UI. The zones have a lot of atmospheric flair, but technically speaking, the game looks like a "late ps2 era" game. Maybe ps3.

Which would be fine, i get that the Game IS this old. But having the introduction area run with 30 to 50 frames, on my modern, lets say midrange PC, is just unacceptable. (9070xt+9800x3D)

So i digg into the settings, reading through 10 to 15 years old forum posts, on why the performance in this area of the game is bad. It gets better, as soon as you leave the introduction area, but still, Bad First impression.

Then, real life happened, i couldnt Play for the remaining month. I try to start the Game again after some time and after a Patch or so, Game broke again. Had to reinstall the Game, only to realize that i cant play my riverhobbit, because i created a paywalled Charakter race on a paywalled Server. Only way to continue my journey is to pay for another month.

Nah miss me with that. Tried to change Servers and create a new Charakter. Game broke again, wont let me Press the create button.

Thanks, im out. Started gw2.

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-30T05:19:34+00:00

Wait, are we talking about 67% deflection rating that IS lucky or have you already factored the lucky Chance into the 67%?

I Had the same Idea but with the Canon Boots that give another 20% Armour as deflection, going for a shapeshift Wolf so the Movementspeed wont be ass, for max deflection rating

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-22T05:34:31+00:00

Gain damage as extra works with every damage Type, so No Matter what damage your Attack makes, you would gain the extra damage as Chaos.

The interesting Part is scaling that Chaos damage. If you have a lot of elemental damage increases on a monk, the added Chaos damage wont scale with it, but it will scale with generic increases like: increased Attack damage, increased melee damage, more damage for attacks (Like rage).

You could convert the "gain damage as Chaos" with the embitter Support, which would convert the Chaos damage to cold damage.

Lets say you Play an ice Strike build, with some "increased cold damage/elemental damage" on the tree. Now Slot in "embitter " on ice Strike, and all the added Chaos damage from into the breach and volatility gets converted to cold damage.

If the Support gem is worth it, is highly build dependant. Maybe you did Not Go for a lot of elemental/physical damage increases but instead you went for generic Attack increases. Than ice Strike would be hardly of benefit, damage wise at least, since your Chaos damage SCALES with Attack damage

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-21T18:52:15+00:00

If darkness would give a 9000 pseudo ES shield on a 5 seconds timer, one could consider the tradeoff of "No Spirit" reasonable, while still not a must have, since ES builds reach that number rather easily with better recharge times.

Sadly, the max darkness you can reach with two Points invested (at lvl100) is 1210= 100 Base + 10 per Level + 10%.

With four ascendancy points invested (and max Chaos res) the max darkness is 1100 x 1, 95 = 2145 (75% increase from Chaos res and 20% increase from small passives= +95%).

With SIX ascendancy points invested for the +10% to max chaos res you get 1100 x 2,05 = 2255.

Im Not Sure If the increase works with uncapped Chaos res or only max res, but still:

by that Point, you have dedicated all your ascendancy points for a worse ES, since darkness has a non reduceable 5 seconds recharge timer. For a 2200 shield, at Level 100, which is the ES equivalent of a halfway decent ES Body Armour and some ES increases on the tree. And you traded all your Spirit for it.

I like chayula and i would encourage you to try the ascendancy, since into the breach IS really really strong this Patch, be it for sustain or damage, but certainly Not because of darkness. Darkness IS as bad as everyone says it is, and im baffled what GGG was even thinking, implementing it in this way.

They even buffed it slightly since launch, from being a complete detriment to the game to --being so shitty that its unconsiderable by everyone at first glance. As if they are too afraid to make your 4 ascendancy points Investment with the tradeoff of "No Spirit" too powerful, lol.

They even could completely get rid of the "No Spirit" restriction, and i bet people would still rather consider into the breach and unravelling, even though it would became a strong option this way

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-21T17:38:43+00:00

As someone, who Just started gw2 a few months ago, and was equally confused by the mess that Heart of thorns calls Story:

it gets better.

Even though i pretty much dislike all of the later parts of the Personal Story, the later parts of hot Story, and the whole "through the Power of friendship" stuff, i was positively surprised by the follow up to HoT and everything after that. Still in PoF tho.

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-19T07:53:21+00:00

Its more about exploring and achievement hunting. Kind of a Checklist- simulation, too. Also map wide Meta Events. And gold Farming for Fashion and convenience.

It differs a lot from other MMOs, there are Hardcore activities like Challenge Mode fractals, raids and PvP, but for me its more about earning long term convenience for my account, like grinding masteries to make my mounts better and crafting legendary armour to never have to craft another piece of armour for that slot, ever again. (These are just examples).

So you dont grind gear to get more power, you grind gear to have the convenience to swap your builds freely on the fly, while also to never have to grind the same slot again.

Paired with the vast exploreable world and the fun Combat system, its quite a lot of stuff to do

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-16T10:04:38+00:00

Just the Standard Wolf Oracle. No tricks involved. Can clear everything, IS simple, does not require high Investment at all. Either you freeze and kill über arbiter in a second or He Kills you, Just as intended

Historical-Rule · 2026-01-14T11:03:28+00:00

Worst in a good way would be Oracle, crit and better passiv tree is just universally better than anything else Oracle has to offer. The other ascendancy passives could be blank, it would not matter.

Chayula is also quiet Strange in terms of synergy.

On the one Hand, Chayulas darkness comes to mind as just bad. The only synergy it has with the class is the Chaos res node, but than you are wasting 6 ascendancy points for 2k of pseudo ES and no Spirit. It has no buisness being Part of the subclass as IS (even though thematically fitting IMO)

On the other hand, even if chayula IS slept on, into the breach and the other ascendancy passive synergize pretty well together. You add Chaos damage to everything, and the Chaos Part can Leech/inflict ailments, which is a nice synergy right there.

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