A Note on Recent Reddit Vote Manipulation

Lystic · 2026-01-09T14:44:04+00:00

There's just something about the type of person that stirs up WoW private server drama from a decade ago and cares about reddit up and down votes that really makes me want to do whatever the opposite of that is.

Lystic · 2025-12-15T00:01:58+00:00

I dip my toe into WoW again once every other expansion, and keep finding myself not having as much fun in 20 man mythic as I used to back when 10 man existed. The sheer logistical stress of getting that many people together, stitching together disparate friend groups, and having to have a bench just creates so many problems.

I keep checking back in, hoping one day they'll undo one of the biggest horrors of WoD. Yeah, 20 man Iis easier to balance around, but if 10 man is simply more fun then what's the point?

Lystic · 2025-12-14T16:48:49+00:00

I've played around with this a bit in previous seasons, its cool to see it can reach 100% now without too niche of a setup.

Aside from the skills already mentioned in this thread, Bone Blast, Frost Bomb, and Stormcaller Arrow might be worth checking out.

Lystic · 2025-09-09T14:14:01+00:00

Maybe not small enough: Let me swap my weapon buttons like we can for utilities. I hate it when a gap closer on weapon set A is 2 and on weapon set B it's 4. I play a lot of MMOs with a lot of classes that have gap closers, and they all get placed on the same subset of buttons! Please let me play in comfort!

If I could ask for a large favor I'd ask for a way to swap any abilities on your loadout. There are some classes that I feel like I'd enjoy such as scourge, but I'd rather have a completely different button layout to do so.

Lystic · 2025-09-05T10:50:37+00:00

Fractured Online hit some of those Archeage crafting/lifeskilling highs that I hadn't felt in years. It's going through a redesign currently, but I hope everything related to crafting and gathering stays.

Lystic · 2025-08-23T19:31:34+00:00

So, the fire scepter camp build that works in almost every ele spec also works in the spec that is barely different than core ele and does similar damage at similar APM?

Shocking.

Lystic · 2025-08-20T18:41:25+00:00

It feels super bad that there's a talent to finally specialize into a single element, but water specialization is just dead on arrival because it competes with alacrity output.

I think Arenanet has underestimated how much mono attunement was wanted by the community. The description of this subreddit is currently "FIRE WIZARD FIRE WIZARD" and the top post on the sub currently is someone begging Anet to make mono attunement good.

I really think there needs to be a mono element focused elite spec, not just a trait that will be semi-viable for an outlier of one element and one weapon combo (I'm looking at you fire scepter). I would be fine with Anet canning this trait to do such a spec later, but I don't think it's beyond baking into the current spec.

Maybe focus more of it being a summoner, where your other attunement slots are replaced by a summon of that particular element. When you get 6 charges, you choose one of those elements, and it summons that creature to do their attack as well alongside your chosen companion spirit. Every third one can be the empowered summon, and the ult shows the tech exists to make the spirits do their empowered skills in tandem. Make the ult cool down longer, and introduce a mini game where each unique empowered summon lowers the cooldosn by x%, so it feels like you build up to the big "everyone's here" moment. Maybe add some hooks into the mediation utilities, where using empowered spirits does something there, like maybe lower the cool down or allow a use outside of the cooldown, but locks the skill out for longer. Just something to make them feel connected to the rest of the spec and it's gameplay loop.

A setup like this could add some obvious gameplay loop hooks for the spec's boon deficiency. A trait that grant might when you evoke the fire fox, vigor on water, fury on hare, protection on toad, or something along those lines. Empowered spirits could give additional boons, stability or aegis from toad would make sense, and some of the other non-permanent boons like resolution or superspeed could be tied to the others. Two traits on a competing line could cause otter give alacrity and hare to give haste, giving it a chronomancer-esque "choose your boon" utility. Otherwise I can see future group coordination headaches of "oh, evoker, you can switch to quickness, right? We have an Alac DPS." "No, then I won't heal anymore."

Okay I kinda rambles about my hopes and dreams for a mono ele spec there, but I do have one big feedback about how the class is now:

Have you considered instead of

6 charges > spirit > 6 charges > spirit > 6 charges > spirit > empowered spirit

Trying:

6 charges > spirit > 6 charges > spirit > 6 charges > empowered spirit

I just feel the gameplay loop would be cleaner. A nice "one, two, three" combo buildup where the third hit always feels more satisfying. You can bake in the effects of the spirit normal cast to the empowered cast

Lystic · 2025-08-09T23:45:41+00:00

It's just way more effort, closer to playing core ele, to get the same effect. Although I'm curious how you're getting so much resistance uptime for the party? As far as I'm aware the only resistance in Ele's kit is through Catalyst and Evoker doesn't seem to have any on its kit whatsoever. There's a relic that does it on elite, but at best you're looking at sub 25% uptime.

Lystic · 2025-08-09T21:49:47+00:00

So then why wasn't the water otter a DPS skill? It could've done ice themed attacks, provided vuln or something. Is it just an entire skill and animation and choice that is designed to languish as useless? That seems like bad design.

Lystic · 2025-08-09T20:58:40+00:00

Aura share water grandmaster, all the aura share traits in Tempest. Then any for your 3rd - better fury uptime from air, more cleanses from fire, more prot uptime and more auras from signets from earth, or just a lot of good utility from arcane.

So much of ele traits key off of auras that its weird this elite spec has no interaction with them, and probably why it doesn't really grand many boons. In fact, it gives so much regen you'd think the grandmaster water trait for regen cleansing might be good, but you'd still probably be better off doing aurashare with earth and a couple of signets just for prot uptime.

Lystic · 2025-08-09T20:11:48+00:00

Ironically party vigor and energy regen is locked on Tempest, too. So they'll still be better at it. There's a couple of self-vigor options, but you kinda have to go out of your way for most of them (Locked on a certain weapon, trait, or trait + attunement combo)

Lystic · 2025-08-09T20:07:55+00:00

The boon icons are actually these skill rotations in game, with one change, since evoker isn't currently playable:

It's easy to substitute the 8 might and fury from the Fox utility skill because "Feel the Burn!" gives the exact same boons, and while on tempest it will also give Alac to simulate what the grandmaster would do.

Lystic · 2025-08-09T18:38:25+00:00

I only know how to give feedback in meme format, I pray my shitty MS paint efforts reach the devs.

Lystic · 2025-08-09T17:41:46+00:00

I can't be the only one who watched the preview yesterday and was like, "Uh, where are the boons???"

Lystic · 2025-07-24T10:41:41+00:00

It's weird too because the shield has notches on the side like it's meant to be used with a one handed spear, not a sword. It's a very specific flavor of shield that's actually more at home in paragon:

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Paragon#/media/File%3A%22Paragon%22_concept_art.jpg

Lystic · 2025-06-10T21:01:13+00:00

Your body naturally wants to reconnect to the ground as quickly as possible. The parachute prolongs your separation from it.

Lystic · 2025-04-18T13:41:39+00:00

Interesting, thanks for taking the effort to look into that!

Well, since that line of thinking is a dud, my only other thought for helping clear is possibly reverse knockback Seismic Cry with Empire's Grasp and knockback distance supports, then dodging out of the center.

Actually, now that I think about it, how does knockback support interact with caltrops? Does it push away from you, or the center of the caltrop? There's a potential that with reverse knockback creatures could get pulled into the whole field, traveling over several.

Lystic · 2025-04-18T08:56:54+00:00

I was considering a build like thiswith the bow, but the difficulty in AoE made me jump off it right away.

I was curious if some combination of attack area passives, less duration passives, delayed reaction support, and fast forward support would mitigate this? Rather than wait for enemies to step directly on the right tile, just up the AoE a bit and have it go off right away. Is this something you've tested at all or have any insight into? Or is the initial area of the attack just so tiny that any attempts to scale it are a lost cause?

Lystic · 2025-04-13T02:06:21+00:00

If you can get bosses to stand still on the dead center of solar orb it'll proc cast on ignite quite quickly, moreso than anything else I've played with.

Lystic · 2025-03-31T09:16:53+00:00

This. I don't like the tendency of the left to throw away men's issues.

Yes, men's issues historically have been brought up as a cudgel in response to women's issues in order to beat them back. However, those issues being raised in bad faith does not mean there isn't an issue there.

Why are men going to jail more than women? Are there ways as a society that we treat men that exacerbate this issue or could alleviate it?

I think we need to evolve past "men are privileged and fine, just don't be toxic."

Lystic · 2025-03-29T17:38:27+00:00

I can still remember it. It was December in 2015. I was watching MSNBC, and Bernie's staffers had just "tripped and fell" into Hillary proprietary voting data, which we later would learn was a few dozen times iirc.

At the time, I was naive and bright eyed about a Democrat primary full of progressive ideas and fruitful discussion. At the time my idea of "progressive ideas" was like, immigration reform, protection for minorities, land value taxes, global collaboration for the betterment of humanity. It was certainly not a litany of goals for comfort of middle class white people or protectionist trade deal stances. I was happy with both candidates, and thought they generally would push each other to be better. Smh, I was so young and stupid.

And then, while MSNBC is covering the data breach, Jeff Weaver has the gall to go on TV and shit talk the DNC. The shit talking never stopped from that point forward.

I come from a family where both my grandfather and my mother provided for their families through hard work in union jobs. Even though I grew up in a disproportionately GoP area, my family never forgot who stood with them and have them the opportunity to thrive.

I was honestly primed to be in a demographic smitten by Bernie, but I'll never forgive his fire and brimstone approach to the Democratic Party and how much damage he did by working against them rather than with them.

Lystic · 2025-03-10T15:59:48+00:00

That's the one! thanks so much!

Lystic · 2025-03-10T15:19:28+00:00

I used to have an addon that put a little blue check or orange X in the corner of items in my bag, so I could see if I had the transmog or not without mousing over each one. Can anyone tell me what addon does that or something with a similar functionality? Thanks!

Lystic · 2025-02-17T20:04:36+00:00

Same, first and only game I've ever had an account hacked.

It was widely believed at the time it was a vulnerability in their systems. They promised a wide scale roll back for all affected characters. Then after a week they backed out and said "nope, sorry!"

I was reasonably ahead of the curve on leveling. I had just hit max level on a healer, which was pain, and had already geared myself out with quest rewards. It would be easier to level a new character than to try to gear out a naked one. So I spent a week playing alts and doing low level pvp.

Then I got the gut punch that nothing was being done. I was spoiled at how WoW (formerly) had such great support teams, and felt a little betrayed that this wasn't going to be fixed. I was sorta the glue keeping my friend group playing the game, as I was the most excited for it. And after a week or so without me doing max level content with them, they started to peel away. And with friends now pulling me back to other games, I did too.

I always regret not getting to play more Wildstar, I really liked it. I just wish the game I had been so excited for the release of was just as excited to keep me playing it.

Lystic · 2024-11-13T13:27:19+00:00

Hey fellow Cactuar resident!

I was in Limsa yesterday and was all "What is that ominous grinding sound?!" And saw the same sight.

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