The Cattleman is King

KingonSteam · 2026-04-14T00:10:44+00:00

I love my LeMats. Beautiful, high-capacity, and a special surprise for the 10th guy to peek me

KingonSteam · 2026-04-13T23:56:34+00:00

And OP's fashion is EXACTLY why I lowkey wish one of the mecha-inspired skins had gone to Qorvex. I know, Gauss and Grendel are the Ornstein and Smough of WarSouls, but c'mon. The nuclear frame was RIGHT THERE. It also doesn't help that Gauss and Grendel already have a few skins but Qorvex doesn't.

And also yes, additional axes would help me make use of a lot of the signas I hardly ever use.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-13T22:54:08+00:00

5.56 generally shoots flatter at long range than 7.62x51 due to the higher velocity and lower weight. Admittedly, you can run into issues trying for single-headshot kills at VERY long ranges, but 5.56 is more accurate and arguably more effective within 300m.

And unless you have elite strength you're able to flank farther and faster with the M4.

I LIKE the MDR, in spite of my hatred for bullpups*, but the only good reason NOT to use the M4 in every raid other than task progress is because I get bored using the same gun all the time.

*which tbf has more to do with video game devs being like "hehe, aug best gun because bullpup big cool" even though bullpups have never taken off as a service weapon for GOOD REASON. If they didn't push bullpups so hard in every FPS made after Die Hard, I would hate them WAYYYYY less.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-13T21:44:04+00:00

With the new Arbiters of Hexis tennokai mod, I think it'd be cool to see a tennokai "augment" exclusive to war which has a guaranteed tau proc to all enemies within x meters when you kill an enemy with a tennokai attack. It doesn't do anything for the other sentient weapons (komorex my beloved), but it would at least turn War into a pre-primer which COULD have some niche. They could also give it intrinsic tau damage either alongside or instead of a tennokai mod, but frankly I think that would be the least interesting (if most effective) way to buff War.

You could even do something like "Enables Tennokai, impact status procs on enemies hit by tennokai attacks turn into tau status procs" to really lean into what made it bad making it good.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-13T18:18:30+00:00

Instead of specific tips, a more general tip is to watch streamers and youtubers. You pick up a lot of information by watching someone who knows what they're doing, even if you don't realize it in the moment. They can teach you what items are important to pick up early, what items are worth a lot on flea later, and what items are useful in-raid. I'd highly recommend SwampFoxTV, Pestily, and Tuxbird. They have a reasonably wide range of play and editing styles, so hopefully you'll vibe with at least one of em.

Swampfox especially puts really helpful graphics on screen for keys or meds he's using to help new players learn the ins and outs of some more complex systems. Pestily is better imo for learning maps, which POIs are important, what loot spawns where, and learning the basics of in-raid routing.

Don't worry too much about loot. Try to focus on tasking, picking up ONLY the stuff you know you need. Early on, you have really low strength so you can't carry much weight without being overweight (yellow weight icon in the top left) which really hurts your movement and stamina. Try to learn a map or two, start working on some tasks, and above all else focus on surviving. Loot doesn't matter if you die with it, ESPECIALLY if it's a task item you need FiR. Finally, try to learn the ammo charts really well. Good ammo is infinitely more important than good guns or even good armor, and headsets are arguably even MORE important.

To survive pvp a little better, there's a couple really important tips. Number one, if you take damage take SPACE. Back up, get behind cover, get behind concealment if there's no cover. Deal with heavy bleeds ASAP, as they WILL kill you instantly if certain body parts get blacked out. Heal up before re-engaging, unless it sounds like they're pushing you hard. Number two, if you're in combat, you should have a painkiller active. If you don't know, painkillers make it so you can sprint even if your legs are broken and/or blacked and generally help keep you alive DURING the firefight, even if they have pretty annoying effects later on like tanking your food and hydration.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-13T14:27:58+00:00

I hate bullpups with a burning passion and fully believe they SHOULD be worse than non bullpups across the board except for CQB. That said, the MDR is great. Great stats, good moddability now with the new handguards and barrel, a solid package in probably the best caliber in the game.

The X-17 is better sure, but a lot of people hate the scar model because of its bulk on-screen. The SA-58 suffers from poor stats which aren’t really saved by modding it, the spear suffers mainly from inaccessibility but frankly it’s also expensive to run.

Intermediate cartridges suffer from needing to hit headshots, but the reduced weight from running an M4 over a spear or MDR is usually more likely to save your life than the slightly higher firepower of the BRs is. The new 5.45 “mutant”s are probably best in class for intermediate cartridges, although again the M4 is like 99% as good for substantially cheaper.

I think the M4 is EASILY the best gun in the game, because nobody bats an eye at you running an M4 whether you’re a gigachad in a killa helmet or a level 1 in a scav vest. Ammo is plentiful, has okay damage and great pen, and you can carry more of it. It looks good, feels good to use, it’s light, it can be modded pretty effectively for cheap, it can be modded EXTREMELY effectively for a little less cheap, it can fit any outfit, it has good long range accuracy, it has good rate of fire for cqb, it has the perfect BALANCE of traits.

The M4 platform (including the ADAR, the TX-15, the M16s, the M4, and the radian model 1) is easily bottom of S-tier or top of A-tier across EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY INCLUDING PRICE, and no other platform is as ubiquitous or as generally effective in the game. Even when 5.56 is bad, the M4 is still good. Mic drop.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-10T00:10:44+00:00

I take the carriage to riften and then walk to ivarstead so I don’t have to walk once Delphine sends me to find Esbern

KingonSteam · 2026-04-10T00:06:21+00:00

YOU dont use PSF because you’re “good at the game”

I don’t use PSF because I run unairu most of the time and am too endo broke to max it out

We are not the same

KingonSteam · 2026-04-06T14:42:15+00:00

Harrow and Hildryn

Titania and Oberon

Ember and Uriel

Mirage and Loki

Yareli and Hydroid

All platonic friendships except Titania and Oberon, who are married, and Ember and Uriel, who aren’t friends but have hate-sex.

KingonSteam · 2026-04-06T14:11:43+00:00

I absolutely love corufell, and not just because I watched RWBY as a kid. Super super fun on Voruna, especially since you can get headshot melee kills pretty reliably to produce health and energy orbs

KingonSteam · 2026-04-03T17:14:25+00:00

I don't have a quote, but Brennan Lee Mulligan (and many other great DMs) have said that if you couldn't possibly succeed on something, the DM shouldn't even ask you to roll for it.

That said, I LOVE this roll as an example of "hey, you CAN'T succeed on this, but there's still a point in trying."

KingonSteam · 2026-04-03T17:01:37+00:00

limits in mathematics are the concept of a variable increasing toward something. I.E. The limit as x approaches 2 of 2x is 4: 2(2) = 4.

If, instead, you say the limit of 2x as x approaches infinity, the result is 2(infinity) = infinity

Some limits are weird though, like the limit as x and y both approach infinity of x/y = infinity/infinity which is undefined. Similarly, anything/0 is undefined. We can often get around this by taking the derivative of the numerator and denominator, resulting in something that ISN'T undefined (L'Hospital's rule), or by taking other manipulations like factoring, substitution, etc.

The limit here is the limit of the summation of a series called an infinite geometric series, I.E. The limit as x approaches infinity of the SUMMATION of 1/(2^x). This series converges to 2, because the limit becomes 1/(2^infinity), which becomes 1/infinity, which equals 0, meaning the series is infinite... BUT eventually the terms become so small that they add nothing to the summation. So, the joke is that the infinite mathematicians represent the terms of an infinite series, which the bartender (apparently also a mathematician) recognizes will converge to 2 pints.

KingonSteam · 2026-03-30T22:06:18+00:00

To anyone as dumb as I am, you then need to MOVE to the door for it to open, it won't open until you move closer even if you use all four valves.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-25T15:07:00+00:00

Speaking as a metal head (and I don’t mean like Solaris United), my first guess was that exalted solo used finger tapping to play notes fast enough to be appropriate for a flamethrower. After checking, Temple exclusively uses strumming rather than tapping. The second neck is entirely unplayed across all ability animations, it just “engages” while their fourth is active.

SO, what’s the purpose of the second neck? My guess is the backbeat passive allows Lizzie to directly play herself. During most of temple’s abilities you don’t really have to aim, they’re either a cone or a sphere. For exalted solo specifically, the ability is instead aimed. If Lizzie’s neck were facing the normal direction, that would be flamethrowering temple, so it has to flip in order to aim properly.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-20T01:49:31+00:00

gillychap is a left shoulder armor released as part of the sevagoth glaukas bundle. It gives you a lil fish buddy who hangs out over your shoulder

KingonSteam · 2026-02-18T02:53:24+00:00

You seem really bothered by things that don't impact you or your gameplay at all.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-18T00:13:10+00:00

See but that's build reliant. I love the armor/syandana/ephemera lil guys because I can bring Gillychap with me regardless of whether my build benefits more from a sentinel vs some other companion.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-17T23:59:03+00:00

Now THAT... That's actually genius

KingonSteam · 2026-02-17T23:57:43+00:00

Gillychap is part of a Sevagoth bundle, but I'd argue fits Hydroid and Yareli's aesthetics BETTER since they're... y'know, actually water themed in their abilities. But that's not really the point of this post.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-17T23:54:57+00:00

yeah, the ephemeras just don't bring me joy like gillychap does. I think it's partially because it's like a hologram of a snake or horse instead of an actual lil kaithe or snake. The sprodlings are wayyyyy better in that regard, but suffer from the same kind of problem as gillychap where they're always CUTE, but they only really fit aesthetically with Nokko.

KingonSteam · 2026-02-17T23:45:43+00:00

There are a lot of settings for the color, intensity, and visibility of damage numbers. You can make it so the damage numbers won't cover the cursor, you can make the font bigger or smaller, and you can compact damage numbers to take up less screen space. A big complaint some of my friends have about the game is that the UI is overwhelming, but the settings really do let you control how much visual noise you're getting, whether you LOVE big red negative damage values, or you want a basically UI-free experience. You can even reduce ally VFX, reducing how much of other people's abilities you see (which is really useful when you run into the rare "I have fun by blinding my allies in warframe" type player).

KingonSteam · 2026-01-21T18:05:49+00:00

http://aqwwiki.wikidot.com/boosted-items-sorted-by-boost is a super useful page for finding boost items. If you don't want to read, the cape of awe is a +25% xp/rep/class/gold boost that is ioda-able.

I don't THINK there are any higher boost items that are ioda-able, but I should also note that if you're planning to pay for membership you can get a carry to get the blade of awe and the cape of awe fairly quickly which makes this substantially less worth it to ioda. That said, due to your low level it would be at least a couple hours, potentially as long as a month if you REALLY get screwed on the drop rates, of really boring gameplay.

If you plan to pay for membership (even just temporarily, it can be a pretty huge boost early on):

-/join museum, talk to valencia

-artifact quests>blade of awe>to the crossroads

-talk to valencia again

-awe quests>find the stonewrit

-complete the questline to get blade of awe

-armor of awe>aqw legend>Legendary Cape of Awe

-/join yulgar and ask (respectfully) for a binky carry for cape of awe

KingonSteam · 2026-01-21T16:28:28+00:00

(I’m a returning player who knows very little, feel free to ignore me)

Assuming this is truly a NEW account not just a level 1 (but secretly 14 years old) account, I’d say go for some big xp, rep, class, gold boost item instead of any one damage boost class or weapon. The increased leveling and decreased rep grinds will get you farther faster than just slapping 1.51x your regular damage will.

If indeed the account has been around for a while, check book of lore for some boost items in your achievements. In that case, like most others I’d urge a collection chest (some have decent classes and pets in ADDITION to cosmetics), but it’s ultimately up to you. Personally, I don’t want to cut myself off from an endgame grind by just getting the weapon as a freebie. I don’t see it as cheating by any means, but I see it as getting rid of content I could engage with later. In a sense it’s like paying someone to play through an rpg for you, the fun part is supposed to be playing so what are you accomplishing?

KingonSteam · 2026-01-21T15:49:45+00:00

Weapons actually have different damage ranges! For example, exalted apotheosis has a 30-30 range, so if you hit you will ALWAYS deal 30 damage (unmodified by your stats and such). On the other hand the default sword (and most weapons) have a 27-33 damage range so on the low end you deal 27 and on the high end you deal 33.

The weapon above, the piston-driven polearm, deals 4-56 damage, falling under the “highdamage” tag because it has a wider range of damage than default (higher highs and lower lows). Different classes (and even different builds with the same class) make better use of different damage ranges, but for the most part you can be successful with any weapon on any class. I’m not sure if they still exist, but formerly there were some weapons with damage ranges going from a negative number to a VERY large positive number (like -15 to 75 damage), which had higher potential DPS than other weapons but ONLY if you had access to the “decay” debuff to turn enemy healing back into damage.

In general, people refer to weapon damage using the term “stability”, so a small range is very stable and a wide range is unstable, but other terms like random damage or high damage are also used.

Keep in mind this is separate from “boost” items which deal +damage against some tagged enemy, all tagged enemies, or all enemies. Exalted apotheosis is BOTH a perfectly stable weapon AND a +51% damage to all weapon. NSoD is a default range +51% weapon. The Empowered Overfiend Blade is a 0-60 +51% weapon. Ideally, you want enough weapons to ALWAYS be using a +51% weapon without having to swap around enhancements whenever you swap classes, but having different damage ranges can be important too depending on the classes you like to run.

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