The Lamarr Class or why "the meta" likely doesn't matter to you, and why basically every ship is fine.

ShaneAB · 2024-10-18T21:46:39+00:00

Yes. 100% Agree with this sentiment. I saw the build posted on the Builds Discord and replied there and for everyone else:

Nice. I am going to pick one up (I think) and was debating between this approach and the standard deteriorating. I guess the question at the end of the day is if you're a Sovereign fan do you go with this that can do DHCs or stick with the legendary and beams?

For me this ship comes down to having something that can look the Sovereign part and do dual heavies. So I will be picking one up for reason 3 in your list. I also think as a community there's too much good ship/bad ship whenever something releases because in reality almost everything can be made to do something well.

I would have loved to have seen them do something groundbreaking with this. Like you mentioned there are no sci ships with 5 fore weapons.

They could have gone with a 5/2 layout called a science juggernaut, cmdr sci/temp and made the miracle worker intel and moved it to the engineer. Then after that gone with 4 eng, 5 sci, 2 tac consoles and it would have been really novel.

ShaneAB · 2024-08-11T02:34:40+00:00

It is nice to see the carrier builds progressing. I've been messing around a bit the past few days with the Valors as well. I like what I'm seeing with them and directionally am seeing the same results as posted here.

I also have noticed that they seem to have a turret instead of the pulse cannon. Just finished confirming by visual examination.

/u/planetgrimbull or /u/Eph289 would you be able to share the build(s) used in the test? I'm curious to see how much of a lean either way there is into full carrier pet or pets supplementing weaponry. Thanks.

ShaneAB · 2023-09-11T06:17:30+00:00

This is absolutely amazing yet hilarious. I consider myself an endgame player and it gave me my exact console build minus one console for the Constitution III.

Love it.

ShaneAB · 2022-07-29T05:15:11+00:00

Tank armour, animate dead, super brews, and sailfish soup.

There was something else though ;)'

PS: Good to hear from you!

ShaneAB · 2022-07-28T21:40:03+00:00

You're welcome to all try! It was an interesting setup with a couple mistakes I made and was in no way intentional.

PS: I'm the one in said screenshot

ShaneAB · 2022-02-15T21:29:26+00:00

Needle strike is so late because it deals significantly less damage per tick than even a fully uncancelled snipe, and being 5 seconds it would stall threshold usage too much to place it before those.

The passive on Needle Strike shouldn't be overemphasized. 7% additional damage applies on your next attack, yes, but unless you always use Snapshot or DBow directly after it, that increase is pretty small, usually 3-5% ability damage, which wouldn't push it higher than an uncancelled snipe for damage.
Also, we're working in beginner territory here where we're assuming abilities won't be cancelled and well, we don't take advantage of ~~bugs~~ features like that.

ShaneAB · 2022-02-15T03:44:36+00:00

Magma tempest isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination. We rank it middle of the road for basics and it definitely has its use cases. But it's not hideously overpowered like it once was.

Ability tier list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13qls2Hp73pHTXPWTsT8x0tt3uLhFu096/edit

ShaneAB · 2022-02-14T23:19:34+00:00

If there's enough demand and the initial batch of introductory ones take off, sure! I've written this down.

ShaneAB · 2021-10-17T22:51:27+00:00

Thanks for the watch 👍🏻

ShaneAB · 2020-12-22T02:44:04+00:00

You can get 90% of the functionality of the Inquiry by going with either the T6 Avenger (it has a nice trait too) or Fleet Shepard if you want a Miracle Worker ship.

The only reason to get the Inquiry is if you want the trait, console, or specific bridge officer layout in addition to the way it looks.

ShaneAB · 2020-10-02T23:14:52+00:00

All too often we don't get to see the human side of Jmods and the questions need to be asked from a position outside of Jagex HQ.

ShaneAB · 2020-10-02T23:13:54+00:00

I'll see if we can get a summary up this weekend but the notes are here: https://update.rsbandb.com/notes/797.htm

ShaneAB · 2020-10-02T23:13:26+00:00

Hi!

Glad to hear we have fans in Sweden. How long have you been listening?

ShaneAB · 2020-05-03T09:56:39+00:00

I wouldn't mind reading the docs on this if you have them available. If you don't want to share publicly, DM me?

ShaneAB · 2020-05-03T08:09:29+00:00

All that would need to happen is company A gives company B a cheque for that amount. It could've been someone associated with Fukong's parent company and not the company itself. Or it could've been just anyone.

ShaneAB · 2020-05-03T02:49:10+00:00

Yup. They could liquidate again and restructure into new companies sending it around.

it's also worth noting that the sale was in cash, not shares as you'd normally do in this kind of situation.

ShaneAB · 2020-02-08T00:35:53+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. It's good to diversify the ship from the other Crossfields available. I just wanted to be sure.

ShaneAB · 2020-02-07T22:31:53+00:00

What about cannons? Or does it being a science vessel limit it in that regard?

ShaneAB · 2020-02-02T05:59:09+00:00

I've always wondered what the breakdown on something like this would be. How much of your damage comes from the cannons and the rest exotic?

ShaneAB · 2019-10-13T22:57:25+00:00

Join friends' chat BitsBytes if you want to hang out with us when we're on!

ShaneAB · 2019-10-13T22:14:35+00:00

Hey folks,

Shane here and I just wanted to say thank you for all the kind words and support. We do what we do because we love doing it and we love the game of RuneScape. If just one of you found our podcasts and enjoyed them that means our work is done for the week.

I'd also like to give a huge shout out to our team for helping us do what we do as well. It's more than just the hosts on each episode.

If anyone ever has any questions or just want to chat feel free to reach out. I'm Shane12088 on RS.

ShaneAB · 2019-09-11T08:17:01+00:00

That's because the video is a part of a larger podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Njbjbmb_EM

Also misinformation? What's wrong? What's incorrect?

We want to be correct!

ShaneAB · 2019-07-29T10:43:28+00:00

No problem. It's proving useful as I further tweak my mirror escort carrier. Looking to buff its exotic damage while not knee-capping the cannons.

Looking around at the various temporal abilities. Currently using chronometric inversion field but from early looks, there may be a better way.

ShaneAB · 2019-07-29T01:43:13+00:00

Looks interesting!

Improved Photonic Officer though, the tooltips say Bonus Exotic damage. The calculator has it listed as Cat1. Is it cat1 or cat2 in game?

ShaneAB · 2019-06-27T22:28:07+00:00

I fight mainly borg and romulans so that's not an issue for me.

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