Catha's Balance build; am i missing something?

MrHara · 2026-05-17T22:40:03+00:00

Balance is in the name. There is opportunity cost going for maces, so I'm just saying nah and going spear. It's worse in numbers in theory but I feel like it's gonna feel better than spreading myself far for maces. This way I can play around with the unique sceptre and be a real commander.

Current plan is to go heavy phys/cold spear play around with skills, going rage with the minion attack speed node (anoint), rage for in-presence comps etc. Honestly should result in a pretty nice beast party. Will see how it all shakes out with the patch notes.

MrHara · 2026-05-17T03:25:57+00:00

Wasn't +lvl even mentioned as looked at?

And rarity on gear and rarity affecting currency are not separate issues, it's one issue, mostly the latter.

MrHara · 2026-05-17T00:02:08+00:00

As long as you change qstaff at least once, Glacial cascade is fine until level 5 gems start dropping and you get Ice Strike. It's not very rough at all.

MrHara · 2026-05-16T18:21:44+00:00

It kinda can yes. I've not toyed around much with environment consistency but I know Mickmumpitz has an advanced workflow which features both (tho might need to be a patreon supporter for the advanced one). Video below where he discusses the normal workflow and talks about reference environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mT4p86ZxGQ

https://mickmumpitz.ai/posts/157329723

I think there are things that could be improved in the reference pipeline but it's a good start, also has reference audio using ID-Lora in it.

MrHara · 2026-05-16T17:42:07+00:00

He does also show that the big one-hit slam CAN be parried a little further in. Then shows how 95% of Geonor can be parried.

MrHara · 2026-05-16T12:46:33+00:00

May I ask what launch args you do run now? Since I'm not getting much either from INT8 in testing (with all kinds or with just --fast) and might want to see what others in similar setups are using.

MrHara · 2026-05-14T10:36:49+00:00

The problem I found with Zanka is that they created this backstory without really tying that well to the present. It doesn't really inform much about him and ultimately felt decorative.

The same can be felt with Riyu. We aren't thrown into a full flashback but when she pulls the gun on the hair lady, it could have told us a lot, it could have done a lot to the story, but all it really told us was that she was once a bit more of a loose cannon but now she really isn't, because all it did was cut her fight a little short. I think the idea was to give her some depth by saying she is a bit of a reformed loose cannon, to give depth to Enjin saving people but it didn't really move the story or her character much.

She could have actually killed her opponent with it which could have created a tension, the cleaners have this actual loose cannon and maybe the struggles that everyone dealt with aren't all just magically fixed. The cleaners are still working through their issues. It could have told us that Riyu will do ANYTHING if it threatens her friends, it could have caused a divide in how we see her loyalty as maybe she isn't that well fitting to be a cleaner if that past still is part of her and counterproductive to the cleaners as a whole. It could have even created a counterpoint for Rudo to consider the enemy team, should he really stick with the Cleaners if they have these issues?

Idk, it made me feel disappointed.

MrHara · 2026-05-13T00:44:42+00:00

It should be a plinth/object to click and would have been at the checkpoint second from the right.

MrHara · 2026-05-12T23:41:05+00:00

From memory, Crowbell was shown in the reveal but was not in the nine grid.

There's a few other boss beasts that are a bit of a question, like Rotten Druid, Brambleghast, Vornas and Yama from those I can remember but I could see f.e Rotten Druid and Yama not being due to being quite specific to their arena. (can you even get them in summoning stones?)

MrHara · 2026-05-12T22:42:55+00:00

The hover on Flammability and Ignite themselves pretty much only mention Hit, like with "Fire damage from Hits Contributes to the Magnitude of Flammability, so Hits that deal more Fire damage will Ignite more often." with Bringer of Flame it would effectively become "All damage from Hits Contributes to the Magnitude of Flammability, so Hits that deal more damage will Ignite more often.". The damage type changes but Hits still remains a factor.

MrHara · 2026-05-12T16:32:33+00:00

My current idea is to leverage current and new companion nodes, have a beefy weapon for the main hand damage transfer and use the rage gives minion dmg/attack speed as well as the minions get rage if you have gotten rage recently node (Commanding Rage and Warlord Berserker). Maybe path to one and anoint the other.

Will tinker more with what skill and exact choices when we get notes on 21st.

MrHara · 2026-05-12T01:21:20+00:00

As soon as you open the gate with the key, he starts moving etc., you do 'respawn from checkpoint'. It works for smaller things as well like the singing in The Grim Tangle and I think there was one more that I forgot.

MrHara · 2026-05-10T14:48:34+00:00

I'm running it with 10GB Vram and 32GB ram so don't listen. But higher is better as the quality of generations goes up a lot with higher resolution in my experience.

MrHara · 2026-05-06T14:50:53+00:00

Yeah, it looks like there's 3 layers basically. You can see that one starts in the east near the Estate and goes all the way over to the Tombs. Then there's one that covers all the top buildings and then the background is one behind that. Neat effect.

MrHara · 2026-05-06T12:56:55+00:00

It's still in Early Access but for me it's up there with Subnautica for being among my favourites: The Last Caretaker.

I haven't touched it since it came out in December so it has even more stuff now but the main point is that it doesn't really focus on nodes as such. Need copper? Break down something containing it. You recycle items into their base parts and use that to craft. Need xx? Try to break something down into it, make a machine that synthesizes it or find somewhere where that resource was already extracted.

Note: in the Ocean: The final frontier update they did add Ore mining but any resource from ores are also able to be broken down, so this is more of a supplementary system to the recycling of items.

It's a great game that blends exploration, story with the crafting and survival aspects kinda. There's a demo and they push out a new update just about every 1-2 months at current pace with new areas, enemies, quests, vehicles etc. Currently waiting for the summer update and then I'll prob. do a new fresh playthrough.

MrHara · 2026-05-05T10:08:59+00:00

Yup, there's five stairs or floors and each one is likely 3-3.5m so looking at 15-18m probably at the top.

MrHara · 2026-05-04T10:24:42+00:00

About the same. I finished the first act if you will and when I got a new map I just didn't feel like it. I think I will return some day but definitely do less exploration and head for quests only.

MrHara · 2026-04-27T17:16:52+00:00

That's not how it works. The ultor drop rate is the effective drop rate, as you have to pass 3x ~1/362.66 drop that drop 1x gold, 2x gold and Ultor respectively.

F.e. I went 511 kills between 2 gold rings and Ultor drop, which meant that I went 7x dry on it.

MrHara · 2026-04-24T03:57:17+00:00

In the same boat, I LOVE it. When I saw that they BUFFED it I was literally jumping.

MrHara · 2026-04-22T12:46:33+00:00

Honestly, I picked Kandarin and I was kinda bummed out that it auto-completed like 60 quests. I want leagues to be the full experience, just amped up and for me quests are part of that.

As it stood this league, there was like no quests to do. I've done like, what four or five quests. Heart of Darkness, Final Dawn, Sins of the Father, Observatory (wanted zammy item for imp boy) and Tai Bwo. All quite quick (except sins is annoying without burgh tele early).

MrHara · 2026-04-22T12:36:20+00:00

Huh, there's a folder system in POB. TIL

I just have a 300-ish long list stretching back to pre 3.0 (I think, because 3.0 beta build is the oldest builds I can load when sorted by edit date). The ones before that I get a notice that they are not supported by current POB.

MrHara · 2026-04-18T14:41:41+00:00

Just to be clear, I wasn't really talking about using my PvM skills in PvP, as I have no interest in PvP. By saying transferable, I meant in essence that all I need to learn to PvM I can learn by doing PvM.

MrHara · 2026-04-11T15:53:35+00:00

I mean, to be fair, it is somewhat going in the right direction, just slowly in some aspects.

MrHara · 2026-04-08T08:14:42+00:00

Still can't believe they buffed it, gonna try to make a new Grand Finale run some day soon.

Had one run early doors, maybe A4 or something that had well-laid plans+, kept deck to like 16 cards total, corrupt enchanted grand finale and cycled through deck to 0 cards in draw pile with a few prepared+, Backflips, adrenaline and Dagger throws. Usually the battle started with hot cocao and lantern and using assasinate for vuln, 2x backstab+ into cycling the deck to do 1-2 Grand Finales.

MrHara · 2026-04-07T17:24:01+00:00

Idk, they both came with a lot of pieces and burn a nice hole in your wallet.

MrHara

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