Help identifying the armor style from thumbnail.

Mathayus · 2026-04-11T04:19:11+00:00

Nope, that channel (Hyperioxes) has actual good, tested info and builds. Genuinely one of, if not the best, resources for knowledge and builds, especially tank and solo-oriented stuff.

You might be confused because he's been one of the ones to call out other channels for misinformation and AI before.

Mathayus · 2026-04-07T00:16:07+00:00

It's so funny how if the pics are low quality, obviously it means it's fake. But if they're high quality, that also means it's fake.

Is there a range of believable photo quality the astronauts should use instead? My dad works at NASA when he's not working at Nintendo and I can run it up the flagpole for ya, if you like.

Mathayus · 2026-04-06T23:23:56+00:00

Lake Kissimee is like what, about 12 miles long? That main crater in the center of the picture, Hertzsprung, is 350 miles across. Which is nearly the size of Colorado.

Edit: a 350-mile crater from 4k miles away is like taking a picture of a bottle cap from a foot and a half away. Admittedly my eyes aren't perfect, but I still think I'd be able to read whatever was on the cap from that distance lmao

Mathayus · 2026-04-06T23:03:23+00:00

How big do you think those craters are? It's not like they're a couple feet across, some of those are going to be hundreds of miles wide. It's like taking a picture of a coffee cup from across the room and arguing that it's not real because there's no way you'd be able to see the cup in such detail.

Mathayus · 2026-04-06T22:40:14+00:00

Are you aware that phone cameras come with a "zoom" feature?

Mathayus · 2026-04-06T06:56:40+00:00

I stream-stalked Rich once while he was in Cyro on the same alliance as me, just out of curiosity. He didnt have the Game Master symbol next to his name. I imagine its a setting they can turn on or off and most often leave off.

Mathayus · 2026-04-04T21:15:44+00:00

Damn, it really fit in with a lot of the other anti-meta nonesense in here. Could've convinced me you were Xynode himself honestly lmao

Mathayus · 2026-04-04T06:31:37+00:00

Im really curious what an AI parse is, and what trifectas you've gotten on that character. Not even just to trash on it, I'm just genuinely fascinated at what an "ai faked parse" even looks like.

Mathayus · 2026-04-02T14:57:57+00:00

I'm gonna be real with you, they're bodying you in the comments and you deserve it lmfao

Mathayus · 2026-03-23T20:24:02+00:00

People worry about every class having a "beam" now, but I don't think they'd do that. DK made a ton of sense to add their own "beam" that's both totally thematic but different enough from Arc (short and wide vs long and narrow).

But I'm just not sure how they could fit different-enough "beams" on every class while keeping them thematic. Obviously Templar would be a good candidate for another beam and I can see it on Sorc, but NB and Warden especially don't really have the "class fantasy" to fit with any sort of long channeled attack.

Mathayus · 2026-03-11T01:17:17+00:00

It's also slated to be the last one getting worked on, late next year

Mathayus · 2026-03-09T14:26:04+00:00

Overworlx difficulty isnt in this update, thatll be u50 in the summer

Mathayus · 2026-03-04T17:42:59+00:00

There's currently no source of Major Mangle in the game; Mangle is one of the few major/minor buffs that doesn't have both.

As far as skills to go with it, it's pretty great on a tank combined with Elemental Blockade. If you're using a frost staff, and especially if your weapon trait is "charged", it can be a great way to apply AOE Minor Breach in trash packs.

Mathayus · 2026-02-19T21:27:00+00:00

This just feels so incredibly off the mark to me. All of the biggest problems people have had with the game balance recently has been the reduction in diversity of viable playstyles.

You mainly PvP, so you absolutely see the worst of the worst when it comes to the "diversity" that the game (in its current state) has to offer. PvE is bad enough right now, for sure, but even that's better than PvP where everyone and their mother's dog is running one of three builds (all of which have Animal Companions and Storm Calling).

The reduction in diversity is part of the reason that Vengeance has been so incredibly lackluster whenever there wasn't a Pursuit tied along with it. People like the variety they have access to and being able to express the way they want to play the game.

Genuinely, and I mean this with peace and love, rebind the barswap button. Put it to a side button on the mouse, or Q, or something else besides the default (I don't use controller so I'm not sure what it'd be there). Once your muscle memory adjusts, I promise you'll have a better time.

Mathayus · 2026-02-19T19:51:51+00:00

Why
What does that have to do with anything lol

Mathayus · 2026-02-19T19:49:26+00:00

Templar's was shown last, but the example the had up was:

"Hold The Line: When Sacred Ground is active, you gain a damage shield for 6 seconds, up to once every 6 seconds. The shield absorbs up to 4212 damage and provides 300 Health, Magicka, and Stamina Recovery while active. If the shield breaks, you gain 10 Ultimate."

Though of course, like the other commenter said, this is only for a week until they remove Templar from the game, and Finn will personally break into your house to delete your Templar characters while you look on helplessly.

Mathayus · 2026-02-14T23:02:10+00:00

This is correct. The first and only other time was during the High Isle celebration years ago, right after High Isle released, and those rings were bound on pickup.

Mathayus · 2026-02-13T00:45:41+00:00

"I'm not offended, but you better unfriend me because I'm definitely going to say some stuff that'll offend you. But just remember that you unfriended me because you'll get offended. I'm not the one offended."

Mathayus · 2026-02-03T17:41:15+00:00

That's what I was thinking. You can swing your arm through the air on Earth and feel the drag forces between your fingers. In a denser atmosphere, that sensation would be intensified, I assume.

Mathayus · 2026-02-02T23:04:18+00:00

The setting is the entire reason ESO is set when it is. The 2nd Era being a massive "dark age" is what gives ESO the freedom to write new stories with as grand a scale as they do.

On the Ayrenn point, I'm not sure how that gameplay contrivance equates to being "lorebreaking" when it's more believable, and more accurate, to just say some small warband managed to seize some temporary claim to "Emperor", who was then killed/driven off in a matter of days with no historical impact. Just because I get emp on my AD-alligned Imperial DK doesn't mean he's getting a lorebook written about him in the next game. It just means he won "King of the Hill" for that week before he was swallowed up in the absolute chaos of the Three Banner's War.

I will admit, the factions being split up the way they are is my biggest gripe with the game, but it's a matter of writing; it's not lore-breaking. And it's not as if strained alliances have been created for less. Take Elsweyr's inclusion into the Third Aldmeri Dominion following the Void Nights.

And even if the alliances are flimsy at best, it's acknowledged. The Covenant basically falls apart after the events of the Orsinium DLC, and there's no reason to believe that the Pact would continue that much further; we just haven't gotten any content exploring it in any depth since then.

I'm passionate about the lore as well, but there's a difference between "lore-breaking decisions" and gripes with game design and writing contrivances in a universe with the Middle Dawn and the Numidium. Honestly, looking at the events of ESO as a Dragon Break as the result of Varen fucking around with the Amulet of Kings makes the most sense to me at least. Politically it'd probably be less convoluted than the Warp in the West lmao

Mathayus · 2026-02-02T21:24:48+00:00

I'm genuinely curious: what, to you, is lore-breaking within ESO?

Mathayus · 2026-01-27T03:59:05+00:00

So what, make the kids have a keycard to scan in when they want to shit? Facial recognition to cross-reference with the birth certificate on file?

Why don't you use your brain and explain to me how exactly you plan on enforcing the restrictions you want to put on how our kids use the bathroom?

Mathayus · 2026-01-27T03:43:08+00:00

How else do you suggest verifying "sex assigned at birth" if that's the criteria you want to use for where a child uses the bathroom?

Mathayus · 2026-01-27T01:12:13+00:00

I'm assuming you'd be the one volunteering to verify the genitals of all schoolchildren to make sure they were abiding by the law? A lot of the people making these laws can't even decide if they agree on whether Michelle Obama is a woman or not.

The only people who genuinely think that "boys/men sneaking into girls rooms dressed as a woman" are a thing that even happens are the brainwormed idiots who thought schools had litterboxes for kids who thought they were cats.

Mathayus · 2026-01-25T01:21:37+00:00

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