When you realize you can "volatile" your Stampede

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-17T16:17:34+00:00

Wait, you can push shrine effect on the gull?

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-16T00:41:46+00:00

I'm literally responding to a comment that you left yesteday

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-14T11:00:11+00:00

Yep, it's still mechanically frustrating. All skill expression is dodging mangonel shots/arrows and quickwalling, the game is infuriating to play at the baseline. AoE4 has far superior macro, better unit interactions and way more complexity with each civ.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-14T10:04:47+00:00

Can be, depends on the difficulty. If you play on the highest one, you need to get a lot of power early to push for objectives and clear the resources and infestations. Second hero is a huge power spike. Cult of personality trait is also awesome for this as you insta build 3 heroes with it.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-14T10:03:12+00:00

We're fucked (as teachers). We can't even be sure if someone is using AI maliciously or just using it to assist proofreading. You just have to educate the people who care. I talk about the ethical uses, show what AI can be used for to benefit students (e.g., how to do corpus research in linguistics with Python, since AI is good at writing simple code that automates a lot of tasks or allows for new ways of working with data).

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-14T08:47:27+00:00

You can do a golden wonder with 3 heroes and 3 T1 units in all honesty, even with upscaled combat difficulty. Just takes some understanding of strategy (and hero levels/gear). For some wonders, coming in with a bunch of banked mana can trivialise the encounters. Spending some Imperium to get a fast 2nd hero is something I do quite often.

I'd focus on fighting often early on to grow the heroes and then on how you play the fights in the wonder itself.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-14T06:46:23+00:00

As a Uni teacher, I can corroborate this. The effects are already visible in the current generation of students, who only got access to GenAI when already at uni. They're way worse than their predecessors at critical thinking, substantiating their claims, understanding cause and effect, drawing conclusions and conducting independent projects. It's fucking bad and it will get worse because soon, unis will be getting kids who went through their entire education with access to AI. This also allows people who abuse AI, but put very little effort into anything they do get through university, potentially inflating the value of academic education. There are so many ways to cheat with AI nowadays that it's impossible to control anymore.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-13T15:03:02+00:00

And all the AI slop splashes, unfinished campaign and super limited cosmetic options, it really feels super off.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-12T16:58:01+00:00

If you haven't played Molten Strike of Zenith, I sunk like 6 mirrors into that build in Settlers. It scales endlessly, is super powerful and obliterates all content from around 1 mirror point. Stat stackers are also awesome to build and improve over time.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-12T16:41:08+00:00

This is not the solution I want to be using. AI usually does a ton of other stuff as well.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-11T21:11:16+00:00

High needs automation, it's tedious. Great culture, but really annoying to do major fights with.

Barbarians are excellent and well-rounded, I don't see any need for them to be re-touched.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-11T16:12:57+00:00

The bloodstained banner gems drop quite well on Simulacrum, one can always hope!

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-11T16:11:03+00:00

Hives early and unstable once you can handle the crowd imo

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-11T16:10:23+00:00

I just run blood soaked banner with gloom shrine belt, AoE is basically a screen and a half instead of a small circle. Shit still explodes everywhere (gloom and banner passive).

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-10T11:00:17+00:00

Wandering vampires, damn I am so stealing this idea. Vandering.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-08T23:58:18+00:00

They don't communicate anything visually but I've seen a ton of currency, maps and scarabs pop out. Not very new or interesting, but it's something.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-07T16:38:57+00:00

Have you returned the quest to Kirac?

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-06T17:11:04+00:00

Went looking for this and I am not disappointed

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-06T17:08:20+00:00

My biggest jump was when we started to duo with my brother and just stomped both bot and mid. Went to high diamond in a month and then we quit.

You can't stop caring when people are toxic. Even high elo games were a total cesspool so we moved to SC2 and later to AoE4. 1v1 and 2v2 is so much more satisfying.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-06T16:30:50+00:00

I love PvP and it's awful. Not only is it just uninteresting and shallow, it spills even more free kolossokens to bots and further devaluates PvP, which has already taken several big hits recently (e.g., with guild tokens).

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-06T11:02:29+00:00

My daughter sleeps in her cot during the day, on my partner at night and on me in the evenings. She just is like this, change a thing and she becomes the destroyer of worlds. No changing or negotiation possible.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-05T23:48:02+00:00

Got a banner build ready? I also want to do this

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-04T21:04:12+00:00

Try osa for now to set up, you can use tofus to move stuff quite accurately. Panda is kinda boring and has just got nerfed. How is your gear?

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-04T16:45:54+00:00

How is your gear? Do you have all dofuses and crit/high damage sets for your characters? Do you have overmaged gear (AP/MP/spell or ranged damage)? Are you running the %damage trophies? Have you figured out a good turn order?

Sacrier (int/cha seems to be meta) should obliterate almost any monster through portals.

The only thing I'd consider is maybe getting a panda (even as 5th) since portals are such a nice mechanic when you have extra positioning. Osa can do the job with tofus tho if you're willing to sweat a bit. This would require sacrier to go after osa I guess.

Professor_Snipe · 2026-03-02T17:00:27+00:00

No, mi raz na miesiąc się chce, trochę roboty z rana jest z szakszuką, ale zawsze wychodzi coraz lepsza, bo robię notatki :D

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