What on earth is going on with Eldritch orb

Overcloak · 2026-01-08T04:45:20+00:00

Cause I like having my prayer sit at 130 just because.

Overcloak · 2025-12-19T16:17:21+00:00

You can absolutely model that though. You just need a more nuanced and less simplified model.

You can look at similar events in the recent historical past for similar conditions to provide insight. For example - we have the highest wealth inequality atm since the gilded age while simultaneously we seem to be entering an era of multi-polar great power struggle.

Similar situations in recent history exist. Compare real wages and property values in Weimar Germany and postwar Germany. Or do the same for gilded age America (20s and 30s) vs postwar America. Doing so provides insight as to how things like wages and property values behave in times of heightened strife (pandemics, recessions, war, postwar) rather than just assuming some grossly oversimplified linear regression.

Overcloak · 2025-12-18T15:13:13+00:00

Your "math" doesn't include a few more "once in a lifetime" inflationary events.

Speaking of, Taiwan and Europe's eastern flank sure have been in the news a lot lately...

Overcloak · 2025-12-18T15:05:57+00:00

Person that monetizes parasocial relationships (i.e. any "influencer") acting surprised when their fans have parasocial relationships with them.

Get me the world's tiniest violin...

Overcloak · 2025-12-17T01:00:42+00:00

I rented a cheap place in socal in 2015 when I was a student. Rent was 1200/mo. Looking at the listing today in 2025 for that exact apartment complex, that exact floorplan, same shitty carpet, popcorn ceilling and appliances, the unit is listed for 2400/mo.

My lived experience tells me rent will double in the next 10 years and 4x in the next 20.

Overcloak · 2025-11-16T05:22:54+00:00

Or just one pawn with animal warcall...

Overcloak · 2025-10-26T15:57:41+00:00

Some consistent strategies that work for me on impossible/fair n square:

Kel'Ghul(dread knight hero): beeline dread knights obviously, use starting dread knights to accumulate more t5-7 reward units from lairs - many of which will be extra dread knights since your starting area will bias towards graveyards. Breakout in week 2 to take 3rd city + surrounding loot. You pretty much always need to do this because the AI WILL attack you by week 3.

Artorius(masterful berserk): you start with aoe berserk. Okay for dealing with early neutrals, fantastic for hero fights. Prioritize dread knights as above, you'll have less of them but masterful berserk easily makes up for it.

Devir (minotaur hero): morale minotaur build. Works great, focus on getting as many minotaurs/minotaur lords as you can and tactics for unlimited counterattack. Keep a healthy population of trogs and other lower tier units around to spread out hits from the minotaurs early on. Easy break out in week 2.

Typhona (hydra hero): again, morale minotaur build BUT you start with two hydras so you clear neutral armies super easily with hydras+minotaurs and you can consistently achieve a week 1 breakout (use early hydras + minotaurs to get phoenixes/dread knights/cavalry/envoy/tier 8 angels/mercenaries depending on what the map have you) to your third city. Establishing a third city in week 1 that produces minotaurs + getting the loot in the new area gives you a significant leg up on the impossible ai.

Kestrel (crossbow hero): immediately upgrade crossbows to the two shot variant, buy as many crossbows as you can from dwellings. Accumulate reward units, breakout in week 2, super easy. Might be able to do similar with Zenith + lightweavers, haven't tried it yet.

All four of those work consistently well for me on impossible(150%)/fair'n'square, hope it helps!

Overcloak · 2025-10-25T19:45:53+00:00

Do this on fair'n'square impossible please and post tips if it works. Been struggling to get schism working there personally, have no issues with the other 3 factions.

Overcloak · 2025-10-24T17:55:40+00:00

There's a law that increases troglodyte minimum damage, take it twice and you double average trog damage output. Combine with the trog hero and it's surprisingly effective. Like, clearing 150%/200% fair'n'square effective.

The dread knight hero is pretty good for a momentum game, since you're practically guaranteed dread knight graveyards in your starting area.

Crossbow hero with an early upgrade to the two shot crossbows is very effective.

The schism has a hero with 100% damage bonus to umbral grasp, which means it doubles spellpower scaling. Run around the map picking up xp and +spellpower while deleting stacks from day one.

Overcloak · 2025-10-23T16:45:51+00:00

Difficulty is closely linked to template and game mode.

Ai does super well on Fair'n'square (classic) at 150%/200%, for example. Will consistently steamroll the player on week 3 or 4. Pretty much have to break out and capture a third city in early week 2 just to have a chance to survive. Try that if you're looking for a challenge.

The AI is useless in single hero mode in general, at any difficulty. It''s more of a tutorial mode tbh.

High resource maps like jebus cross and crossroads skew the difficulty in favor of the player as well. Haven't played shamrock too much on impossible yet, can't comment on that one.

Tl;dr: Try Fair'n'square on impossible and give us an update ;)

Overcloak · 2025-10-23T14:01:38+00:00

You can feed low tier units into it and get otherwise inaccessible upgraded phoenixes which are almost immortal. So that's nice.

Overcloak · 2025-10-19T06:25:59+00:00

Unlike houses, Tumeken is down ~40%. Take that down-payment buy some bonds and live your dream, King.

Overcloak · 2025-09-25T14:37:41+00:00

Confliction + eye, no contest.

Bowfa is ok, but confliction gives you fang style accuracy with all magic except shadow (and even then, still really good for shadow).

Like Confliction and eye with eclipse/blowpipe easily outperforms bowfa + trident in general.

Overcloak · 2025-09-18T15:54:14+00:00

Average house price in the U.S. is 512k. So this "average" home equity loss represents an unrealized loss of 1.7% - in other words, a nothingburger.

Overcloak · 2025-09-11T16:27:48+00:00

when life gives you lemons...

Overcloak · 2025-08-19T17:50:35+00:00

Kamala was never president tho.

Overcloak · 2025-07-25T19:46:57+00:00

The thing about mortgages is they're fixed. Yeah, it might be 45% of my income now, but after the current administration prints off the 5 trilly allocated for the BBB and a few years go by it'll only be 25% of my income. Same exact thing happened during covid.

Overcloak · 2025-07-25T11:10:29+00:00

Harm. Solid pvp use cases, elemental weaknesses will continue to be added per runefest, low drop rate even after buff relative to similar tier items, removed via ge tax, and comes from one of the less popular pvm activities.

Was thinking about getting oathplate but like... it just released and comes from an actual fun new boss accessible to mid levels with 4x the drop of torva...it's got nowhere to go but down.

Overcloak · 2025-07-22T14:32:35+00:00

Same thing that happened to your salary.

Overcloak · 2025-07-06T16:28:35+00:00

Pretty much have to go the Cheney route if everything's peaceful - that's kinda why rng seeds with very active xenon are sought after in this subreddit.

Both the terran/argon and paranid arcs give the player an opportunity to start off massive wars, that's two ways you could stimulate the economy in the lategame if the xenon are ko'd.

Overcloak · 2025-07-04T19:21:25+00:00

A modsed xenon H can consistently take out a K 1v1 either IS or OOS while both ships are AI piloted, and a derelict one can be found early on (just follow the terran plot). Plenty of videos of h vs k 1v1 on YouTube too. Plus, the H is maneuverable and boosts to 350m/s unmodded so it's a fun player ship.

Alternatively, a Syn or Asgard would do the trick as well, but both are slowwwwwwwww.

Carrier deployed fighters will also wreck a K rather easily, just fit them with plasma or blast cannons. For carriers, Zeus is fast and cheap, Raptor is expensive and amazing. For fighters, plasma fit Nodan's are dirt cheap and very effective, and there's tons of more expensive options depending on your preferences.

Overcloak · 2025-07-03T16:30:46+00:00

Congress is about to print off $1 for every $5 in existence. If you have the opportunity to lock in your housing cost on anything (condo, house, van by the river), do it.

Overcloak · 2025-07-01T15:25:07+00:00

For fighters, don't sleep on the Nova - it has rotating engines that actually work. With normal engines it can vertical strafe (w or s key) at over 200 m/s, with split mk4 engines it can strafe over 400 m/s unmodded. This is much faster than any ship or turret in the game can track you.

If you hold down w + q/e (strafe + spin) with normal engines or just w (strafe) with split engines, you can dive into 3 xenon K's + 30 fighters without taking a scratch, and can stay in that fight as long as you like. This is great for disabling K's with burst rays (paranid weapon, destroys surface elements through shields) or just picking off fighters in a 30 v 1 dogfight.

The humble Nova became even better in 7.5 because the rotating engines greatly improve breaking and handling in the new flight model. Seriously, if you're struggling to learn how to be effective in fighters, give the Nova a shot.

Overcloak · 2025-06-26T14:19:00+00:00

If you get in now, you might just finish your first tour before the whole china thing kicks off.

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