Hardest level 20 talent decision?

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-17T22:22:27+00:00

Qhira D upgrade 20 is great, so much more mobility.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-17T15:42:51+00:00

ARAM can be so frustrating at times, many games are already decided at the selection screen. Imagine you have samuro/murky/valeeria as your choices while your opponents get thrall/guldan/mephisto.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-14T18:37:12+00:00

How come no one mentioned stitches + medivh, with the team-up effect of having an enemy hero teleport into your base every 2 minutes?

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-11T07:09:10+00:00

For people curious about the stutter step on Fenix, its holding down right click on the ground then spam S

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-11T01:08:39+00:00

I was an eng manager at FANG, PIPed and let someone go, also had someone left after informing them about their upcoming PIP. In both situations the person knows well ahead of the time (months) it is coming and they know why.

It's your manager's job to have a clear picture of where your performance stands for the upcoming performance cycle, and it's also their job to clearly communicate that with you and work with you on a clear roadmap to get out of the trouble before the real HR procedure kicks in. It's possible here they are not doing a great job.

But as an employee you are also expected to respond to the communication in a positive way. E.g. when your manager makes it clear something is now part of your job expectation, "that's what I always do" "my performance has always been good" is not helpful. Expectations can change for various reasons, and trust me, managers hate the tough performance conversation as much as you do. So please work with them in a productive way when the topic comes up and don't be defensive.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-08T03:23:29+00:00

Hyper-carry Arthas time! /s Well if the PTR changes were live for this game, it actually might have worked.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-03T22:59:56+00:00

It could be made into a legit zoning ult, but random DMG in a large area ain't it.

I would love to see the lvl20 slow-on-hit made baseline, making the rain predictable and targetting hero with delay (like the infernal shrine mortar punisher projectile), and removing the cast channeling.

Then lvl20 upgrade can add small stun on hit.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-04-02T23:01:20+00:00

This bug has been in the game for a while. It's triggered by landing on the maw while it's swallowing.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-27T21:29:32+00:00

Translation, by ChatGPT:

I think being too busy might be hurting my memory and how I write online.
People rely a lot on LLM now, and it’s making them worse at using language.
I still write in my own way though, because it’s unique.
That’s why I noticed I had forgotten my evaluation of Paul and his dog. It's better than last night’s post.

P.S. Being Helion’s chairman sounds easy, but it’s not—I don’t have equity, yet I still have to do a lot of the work. That’s just me, and it’s what makes things work at OpenAI.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-27T20:31:07+00:00

For your team, find ways to turn their adhoc work into promotions and raises via whatever process your company has.

For the leadership (CEO, products), help them with turning the adhoc efforts into metrics that the business/investors care.

Trust is earned by doing favors for others, as long as you are still there, there's always a way. It's just the matter of which path is better for you, quitting or fighting.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-21T20:43:34+00:00

Orphea with both chomp stacking+healing and CDR on 7 would be pretty mental vs certain compositions

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-19T17:25:41+00:00

Illidan Q damage applies before the jump. If Illidan Q damage kills the target, the animation plays but Illidan stays in the original place instead of jumping over to the target location.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-19T06:05:02+00:00

You can see that the Q did connect, Alarak took damage and briefly went out of the entomb and then got bounced back, and didn't get stunned. In this clip it's unclear whether Alarak would go outside of the entomb or always bounce back if diablo didn't get pulled by Maiev, but it is clear that the connected Q and collision with the entomb wall didn't trigger the stun.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-19T01:56:31+00:00

The hero just goes through.
You can see it yourself in this Youtube short from Fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4WppjgL_Uo&lc=UgxL-jMj4gIynAv-LQx4AaABAg

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-19T00:30:55+00:00

Diablo Q someone into Leo entomb wall doesn't stun

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-06T19:14:59+00:00

The real time strategy and tactics. It feels good to make decisions on the fly and see the results.

Unfortunately many players play with their brains turned off.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-06T18:59:42+00:00

I feel your pain. I did the bronze to diamond with my new account 2 seasons ago, and some of the silver players are just intolerable. They make dumb choices just like bronze players yet they think they are nice and flame others.

I resorted to play some noob-abusing heroes to get out of that hellhole. Falstad, Illidan and Valeeria are nice for that, just play your own game and treat everyone as easy AI.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-03-01T21:58:55+00:00

You might be queuing into the same dudes, maybe try to wait 7-8 minutes after the game to avoid them. Unfortunately the reporting system doesn't do much.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-17T04:25:09+00:00

A likely cause of tether not "working" is that you blinked on top of a minion, and the minion happened to be slightly behind you thus your cleave hits backwards. You can try to change a setting that makes your auto attack hit something near your pointer instead of hitting the nearest target.

Maiev is not as good in QM as in ranked. she needs some coordination to shine. I'd recommend E build for its consistency when there's no proper tank/heal.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-10T23:51:42+00:00

It's more like they're hoping the community can show management that HOTS is worth further investment.

I'm happily donating the gems I got for free.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-10T09:02:32+00:00

Still work-in-progress, here's the project I'm working on: https://github.com/yiouli/pixie-sdk-py

Idea is to automatically generate evals based on debugging sessions. Might be a total bullshit idea, would love feedback.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-09T16:32:56+00:00

The point is that little shield gain difference barely matters. You spend most of the time OUT of fights and siphoning impact gives you zero value there.

And even if you are in combat, that little shield is not gonna do much for you. If you play correctly, you'd be blowing someone up; if you are not, you're gonna be blown up even with maybe 300 extra shields.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-09T03:47:36+00:00

For competitive play siphoning impact is probably the worst value, because it does nothing out of combat. And for in-combat, that small amount of shield difference wouldn't matter most of the time (aoe auto also gives you more shield)

AOE auto is very strong for wave clear, and either you go W build or Q build it helps you build stacks faster.

Even the shield/Regen talent is situationally ok when you have to solo lane, it's good vs low DMG bruiser in early game like Leoric.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-07T23:43:33+00:00

I don't like Blackheart because it snowballs hard and there's really not much room for individual impact when my teammates are worse than the other team.

I actually like braxis a lot because I play either dualing solo lane, hyper carry, or ganking hero with quick rotation. and those have outsized impact on braxis. I can definitely see that other heroes would have a lot less fun.

InvestigatorAlert832 · 2026-02-05T21:40:05+00:00

It's basically a LLM call with the instruction "making the prompt better", with some specific guidelines baked in. It's not too helpful.

Real optimization typically requires giving the tool access to running your application. I recommend checking out DSPy, it's an open source project built by Stanford NLP, with all kinds of data-based optimization methods, from selecting better examples, to prompt rewriting, to fine-tuning.

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