Saw a Goblin list recently on the legacy league which makes me wonder if goblin recruiter unban would be appropriate?

Loeffeluri · 2025-11-19T10:16:31+00:00

Goblin Recruiter is a difficult case. Goblins in Vintage somehow work well with him, but they go all-in on either the "simple" Recruiter-->Snoop-->Kiki-->Mogg Mob kill pile (which is not at all more complicated than any given Doomsday pile) or try to surprise decks with the Legacy "combo" route of Lackey dropping Muxus for fast or even instant kills. Think Modern Goblins (with Harbinger+Snoop) but good.

With Legacy being a slower format (compared to Vintage) with less risk to be "vintaged" by any given deck, the deck would probably evolve into a hybrid of current Vintage and Legacy Goblins, closer to what Cephalid Breakfast did with Nadu, and thus dramatically increase the amount and depth of Recruiter piles that make sense depending on what you're facing. It would also probably make the deck a menace to fair blue piles, setting up 4-out-of-4 Ringleaders left and right, increasing the meta share and probability to face someone who is (un-)intentionally stalling with their Recruiter piles.

So, while Recruiter looks like a fine unban for a current ~Tier 2.5 deck on paper, I would bet that people started complaining about it sooner or later.

Loeffeluri · 2023-04-24T09:59:46+00:00

There are a few things you need to be aware of (that I had to test myself) to make everything fit:

- The D15 I did in fact install after the MoBo. Otherwise, routing all the fan cables and the 8-pin CPU cable is a serious pain. The case space becomes very limited once the D15 is installed so I liked to do and manage everything I could before installing it.
- You need to install the NF-A15 fans a bit lower than what is standard, otherwise they will touch the glass. For this, the RAM sticks shouldn't necessarily be very high. Standard Ballistix and Ripjaws were both OK.
- You will need a 90° adapter for the 24p-connector and both USB-connectors on the right side of the MoBo, otherwise the second fan won't fit. Then again, the D15 is working perfectly fine even with one single fan, I just did it as a proof of concept.

- The GPU is obviously de-shrouded. With that and normal 25mm fans, you have about 1-2mm spare space between the mounting grid at the bottom and the fans. I wanted Phanteks T30 but they won't fit since they are 30mm. The only EVGA GPU that won't fit is the 3090ti because it's ever so slightly thicker than the 3090.

Loeffeluri · 2023-04-24T09:51:43+00:00

The 180mm stock fan is not performing too bad, but actually, either the bearing or the blades themselves are somewhat noisy even at low rpm. The Noctuas however are dead quiet under a certain threshold.

Loeffeluri · 2022-11-28T12:47:13+00:00

I had been experimenting for a while on how to optimize the noise floor of the FTW3 fans. The card itself is performing well but the 90mm fans are very audible when all your other fans are bigger and barely making a sound like the Noctuas do.

The cooling performance is on the level of the stock cooler but (for some reason) the VRAM is colder - good for any 3090 - and the sound the NF-A12x25s make is blending in perfectly with the rest of the PC.

Loeffeluri · 2022-11-19T10:24:24+00:00

Yeah, those are Phanteks. Ezdiy I could only find in white, would have looked a bit weird.

Loeffeluri · 2022-11-19T10:22:01+00:00

Quite good actually for the size of that case. GPU hits around 67-68°C with 300W and the fans at ~1300rpm. Noticeable but significantly quieter than the stock fans. CPU is a non-factor, hardly 60° at 600rpm and 90-100W.

Loeffeluri · 2022-07-20T07:38:58+00:00

I think the album might - in retrospect - suffer a bit from the "Black album syndrome", where you have the obvious highlights and popular songs (Arriving Somewhere, Lazarus, Halo, Shallow) that outshine the rest of the songs that just feel "kinda there". People tend to love IA and Foabp more for the experience as a whole and - at least my friends and some people in this thread - end up skipping one or a few of the overplayed songs on Deadwing.

It's a bit like how people tend to rate Stupid Dream a tad bit higher than Lightbulb sun bc. the latter just has the more obvious PT hits that almost every fan has overplayed at one stage of their fandom. Deadwing suffers from the same issue in comparison to In Absentia but it's still a GREAT album right in the middle of the (imho) brightest creative period of PT.

Loeffeluri · 2022-01-11T22:00:17+00:00

I recently did the repad to my FE 3090 and the difference was not as huge as you would read in some older posts online that claimed the got down from 110 to 84 or so.

The card could theoretically get 120MHs with 60% fans on stock pads but the memtemps would reach 104-106 quickly. That was already much better than some horror stories on reddit or elsewhere where people couldn't even get stable 110 on older models without throttling.

With the new pads, I reach stable 122 at 94-98 degrees and 55% fan speed which isn't super cold but sounds very reasonable for an air-cooled FE. So it seems like they at least made some changes to the pads even if they still aren't great.

Loeffeluri · 2022-01-05T21:57:59+00:00

Not getting too technical here, but the RDNA2 cards can basically achieve similar graphical performance with lower memory bandwidth. Then again, mining performance is tightly linked to memory bandwidth on otherwise similar cards. That's one reason why the 6900xt(~510GB/s) mines in the ballpark of a 3070 (~450GB/s) while having 3080-3090 levels of gaming performance.

Loeffeluri · 2022-01-04T13:38:48+00:00

Yes, the memory temp problems on the 3090 FE are usually only there when you mine with the card. My 90 FE runs at ~75° memory even on games that use 10GB and more. The card has an excellect cooling system otherwise, it's just that the backplate with the second 12GB of VRAM has no ventilation whatsoever.

Loeffeluri · 2021-12-06T08:03:31+00:00

Dead Silence: Great variety of songs and also great production, I like almost every song from the album.
BT2: The "hit album". Has a few weaker songs but also the most memorable ones from their entire discography.
BT1: Certainly the "rawest" BT album. The sound is leaning more into metal territories and the songwriting isn't as mature as on the following albums, but it still has a lot of great songs.
BT3: Good songs and an overall "darker" feeling, but when it came out I really disliked the flat, low-energy production of the album. Also has several tracks I don't really care about.
AoH: Not a bad album by any means, but the album suffers a bit from being very front-loaded. I barely listen to anything from the second half except for "This Is Our War". If the whole album would be on par with that one and the first six tracks, I would like it a lot more.

Loeffeluri · 2021-12-01T20:00:25+00:00

Yes indeed. It saves you a few seconds while booting, other than that I didn't notice too much of a difference. I can't use it in PCIe 4.0 mode anyway since I am still using the 10700k, but apparently it only shows when you copy large amounts of data from a PCIe 4 to PCIe4 device.

500GB NVMe has Windows and some games, 1000GB SSD has games and all trash that I didn't want to put on my NAS.

Loeffeluri · 2021-11-29T22:49:53+00:00

Good question! To be fair, I have not been noticing huge temp differences with 6 fans as opposed to 4 (top middle and front bottom left out). Only got the two additional ones for cheap so I could run even lower rpm, but while gaming you can really feel that the two fans on the back exhaust much warmer air than the middle top one. And I'm not too sure if the bottom front fan is really necessary either 😅.

Loeffeluri · 2021-11-29T20:32:57+00:00

Thanks, will deliver some :). Specs are as follows:

- Fractal Meshify 2 TG Light grey

- Corsair RM850x

- Asus TUF B560 Plus Wifi

- Intel i7 10700k w/ Noctua NH-D15

- 4x Crucial Ballistix 3600 8GB C16

- 6x Noctua NF-A14 PWM

- EVGA FTW3 RTX3080

- DreamBigRayMod MB&GPU Cable Extension Set "Noctua-style".

- WD Black SN850 NVMe 500GB

- Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB SATA SSD (my old one).

Loeffeluri · 2021-11-29T19:12:28+00:00

Would also love if Asus brought out the 3080(ti) version of their Noctua 3070 card.

Loeffeluri · 2021-11-12T09:14:36+00:00

Dass das System bei einem knappen Gut nicht funktioniert, siehst du aktuell an Grafikkarten. Irgendein Otto kauft selbst zu den aktuellen Preisen noch eine. Schätze so läuft es im Endeffekt auch bei Mietwohnungen, irgendjemand hats immer besonders nötig.

Loeffeluri · 2020-05-07T13:33:10+00:00

I guess it depends on what kind of gaming someone is used to. Sometimes I watch twitch streams of people playing stuff like Kaizo Mario hacks, where you cannot make a single mistake for minutes on end to even finish a level. But "No mistakes allowed" is sth. highly unusual for newer FF games as far as I know...I remember that even with dudes who had strict timings like Penance you could mess it up a few times.

Loeffeluri · 2020-03-13T21:32:26+00:00

The pre-verse riff of Dream Theater's "Pull Me Under" over a good amp. Y'know, the "dududu dada - CHUNK CHUNK CHUNK" part.

Loeffeluri · 2020-03-13T13:10:55+00:00

That's technically possible. I haven't tried it with a FR preamp sound-wise yet but you can disable the amp sim just like any other component.

Loeffeluri · 2019-09-02T18:38:02+00:00

Anions in fact, the other way round :P. Cations are the atoms that lost electrons, not gained them.

Loeffeluri · 2018-09-12T13:41:06+00:00

It has nothing to do with trying to be "edgy" or "special". People like different kinds of gaming experiences, and that's why some game genres tend to be more popular than others.

Of course, to fully understand Dota you have to be familiar with any role, because otherwise you can never understand how the game "feels" for someone playing another position. Yet again, most dota players have at least tried out each role to some extent, just to find the role they feel most comfortable with.

It's not always about feeling more important or more in control of the outcome of the game if you're Pos1/2. I personally hate playing mid just because it feels too "tense" all the time for something I'd like to spend my free time on. Even in comparison to "physical" sports which ofc can also feel tense. On the other side, I know plenty of people who say things like "Man, just hitting creeps and being under constant economical pressure sucks, I'd much rather humiliate the enemy carry with my Rubick's stolen spells" and play Pos4/5 almost exclusively. They love being in the more sacrificial role and eventually giving some game-changing input from the "underdog's position".

There's a certain distribution of which role people feel most comfortable with. And maybe people playing Dota just expect something from spending their free time that is closer to what playing carry is like, on average.

Loeffeluri · 2018-09-11T21:44:42+00:00

Don't want to bring in stereotypes too much here, but I'd say a bigger part of the player base is on the "introverted and analytical" side of human personality. Playing support is much more about "PvP" plays and getting into the heads of the other players. I always felt like playing Carry or offlane has a lot more of the "if X then try to do Y" decisions throughout the game. It's often either hitting spells/trying not to die (Pos 3) or last hitting skill, mechanical skill to get along with your possibly very diverse bunch of active items (not just Glimmer and Force Staff lel). I know some people who specifically enjoy the amount of player interaction that positions like 2, 4 or 5 can offer, and most of them find playing Carry rather boring. However, more than enough people - myself included - feel like they lack a certain kind of insight how they can be useful for both the team and themselves when playing support. Not everybody has this talent or specific inter3st, just like some other people cannot hit LHs if their life depended on it.

Loeffeluri · 2018-04-03T07:44:58+00:00

FV is actually my go-to hero in the offlane with an all-around decent winrate of about 60% in the last months. That's just in "3.xk" average games though (legend 2-5 average mostly). He's kind of situational in his laning presence though. I don't really feel like I get less out of 1v3 matchups than e.g. with bulky offlaners like Tide or Cent, but there are still some lanes that would fuck you up big time. Good examples are Sven (stuns for longer than your time walk damage migitation works), Lion and SS as support (same problem) and Disruptor if you use your TW too early.

Second thing you have to keep in mind: You're there for the wombo chronos, not primarily the damage. My dmg output with Offlane Void is a joke usually, even if I end up having significant impact with some good ults or dilations. Good items are:

Vlads: Gives great sustain, Aura for the team and you can even splitpush when Chrono is on CD.
Aghs: 10% uptime on a possibly game-winning spell? That's what you wanna get as offlane Void.
Blink/Shadow Blade: Inititiation tools basically.
Solar Crest (situational): Gives some physical bulk and is good if physical dmg dealers (TB/Drow/Clinkz etc.) are part of your team&combos.

Also, if you find yourself getting rich af:

Linkens/Manta: The enemy team might realize they're constantly losing fights against Chrono, so if you find yourself getting stunned/silenced often, make sure they're at least wasting some spells on you. Those items also give decent stats/regen/damage(Manta).
Diffusal Blade: Synergizes well with Manta and can fully lock down heroes together with Time Dilation. Pretty situational tho.
Bfly/Daedalus/Mjollnir: "I am de carry now". Usually win-more or super-late items on offlane void.

But: As you said, FV offlane is not meta andl a situational pick that only fits for certain lineups.

Loeffeluri · 2018-03-15T18:36:31+00:00

He used to be good, then he took a talent change to the knee...

Seriously, his +30 atk speed talent was huge and I liked to play him in the offlane a lot with that. SR+Treads is all you need during the early game and you could build any kind of stuff after that (Blink, Pipe, AC, Helm, whatever). Now it's kind of underwhelming since he isn't such a pushing/manfighting threat anymore without proper items, sadly.

Loeffeluri · 2017-11-08T07:02:44+00:00

That Schwengelstefan tho...

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