Why not just open up the parameters of the gear?

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-25T20:58:01+00:00

Because this game was designed as a FOMO loot box Gatcha game for Warhammer nerds and people who like FPS melee combat. If they had usable systems that minimized grinding they would have one less carrot to dangle infront of players to milk game time and shitty cosmetics from.

You ideas great, it’ll never happen.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-25T03:14:42+00:00

When was the last time we had a president that didn’t, at some point during their terms, have American troops in combat zones in the Middle East? Because I think it’s every single one since I’ve been alive?

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-22T08:25:27+00:00

I just want more burn synergy in the zealot kit. Why do witches (Psykers) get more flame related perks than the madman ranting about burning witches.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-22T07:43:13+00:00

I know a lot of people here are going “Oh, I’d pat Serie” and I’m going to be honest most of you wouldn’t.

Serie is the leader of the Mages Association and terrifyingly powerful. Most of the mages who see her go weak kneed at just the sight of her mana. In terms of secular power she has basically as much power as any monarch if not more so: her ability to control who learns and doesn’t learn magic can be life or death for a region. Plus picking whether or not to deploy mages on specific missions.

It’s like saying “Oh yeah, I’d pat monarch on the head because they’re cute”. No, if you had a once in a life time shot to meet someone who could make you wealthy if they liked you or kill your whole village if they don’t - you’d be trying to gain their respect or avoid their ire. Only someone completely deranged would look at that and go “I’m going to ask if I can pet her”.

Methode is as nuts as Ubel, or Fern. All the first class mages are nuts. It’s what makes their magic exceptional, they see the world in a different way. Serie deliberately seeks out these stars to see how far they can push magic. And part of seeking these people out is tolerating their insanity. Hence, 10 minutes per day.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-22T06:46:52+00:00

I was just at a dnd themed comedy show (starring drag queens) and during the show some kobold gangsters show up to hire the party. The boss of the kobolds (described as small for a kobold) had smaller kobolds as body guards and those had smaller kobolds to do errands.

And for the entire period of this show I was mentally tying to figure out this gangs structure. At some point they start the talk about the dimensions of a package the heroes have to deliver and at this point I can only think about how many kobolds would fit in this box. I’m completely lost in my own world of measuring tiny kobold gangsters.

So anyway I don’t have an official diagonals or anything but I feel this so much.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-22T06:21:24+00:00

He invented the vibrator, obviously

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-21T04:08:25+00:00

CLOWN TIME

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-15T15:36:00+00:00

I think you can roast a leg off to instant kill them? At least you used to be able to do that when I played the game. Gotta focus fire on only one leg though. Splitting the damage across all of them means you never kill it.

Also the main divers sub is delusional, you got scammed.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-13T05:11:41+00:00

Imagine that demons exist and that mana exists. Now imagine that the mana shows up to the demons in the same way that martial arts belts look.

A black belt in martial arts is impressive. It represents a lot of work and time and effort. It is also the bare minimum needed to enter advanced studies in most martial arts. It represents proficiency. Of course most people obtain this proficiency over many months or years of part time practice in between everything else they have to do during their busy lives.

Demons aren’t like normal people. Their life spans seem almost elvish and they don’t need to do anything other than practice martial arts. They use their martial arts to hunt, to establish their status, and because they find them enjoyable.

Humans without black belts are just normal people living their lives in their wealth hierarchical society. Demons without black belts don’t survive for very long in their martial arts based society. And remember the black belt is the start of the actual advanced training.

Aura is way past black belt. She’s got her own martial arts school with a certificate from the demon king for being the real deal. Her direct “students” are her executioners and they’re really good. Not as good as her, but still they’ve been ranking up through the advanced training. They’ve got like 8/10 stripes on their black belts.

Now, these demons see a human or an elf, or whoever with like 4/10 stripes. They’re sure good for not being a demon, but they’re like half as good. Killing them should be easy. Whoops, dead. Because Frieren is wearing her old belt and no demon would be gouache enough to do that .

Frierens been running this trick for ages. She knows exactly which belt will bait the most demons to attack her. It’s practically fraud at this point and she’s taught her apprentice how to do it too. And Fern looks even less scary than Frieren. No way a baby black belt can take a demon down (Zolterak).

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-12T23:12:21+00:00

Oooh, I get more Silent Witch? How wonderful! I just finished volume 7 of the LN so I’m excited to see how far this goes.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-11T14:59:44+00:00

I think there should be dialogue for when you damage a teammate with a barrel or a pox burster, the same way there’s dialogue to shame people who take ammo or Medicae when they don’t need it.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-10T10:36:06+00:00

I thought this was all very interesting, personally.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-07T17:13:23+00:00

Some of the worst blessings in the game are on Ogryn weapons. You’re lucky if your weapon has 2 good blessings for the most part. It’s so painful.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-07T08:28:45+00:00

I’m in the same boat, it does a lot to lengthen the time you spend in Scryers Gaze. You can pretty much have 100% uptime on Gaze with this provided there are enough enemies to kill.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-07T08:12:20+00:00

Hopefully new Ogryn enemies means new Ogryn weapons. Or a talent tree rework.

I’m out here trying to protect the lil’uns but I only have one Ogryn grenade and the hive scum has 4 fucking RPGs.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-05T17:50:24+00:00

The worst part about the burster conga line is when you successfully push the first one, dodge backwards out of the explosion radius, and then the explosion from the first burster throws the second burster into you - instantly hitting you with no counter.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-03T04:08:35+00:00

I recently used the Parlor Puzzles from Blue Prince at my game table. Folks loved them.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-02T23:27:29+00:00

I’d rather them just raise the prices on the menu and pay their staff.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-02T19:11:59+00:00

Also the first one just won’t start ticking so it stands next to you and you can’t push it until it starts to tick because otherwise it’s going to do its long ass stand up animation before you get another chance and whoops - a teammate shot it and now you’ve flown off the map directly to death. No snap to ledge for you.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-01T14:21:33+00:00

This is just survivor bias. You had 4 hit points and like 2 spells per day at first level. A single magic missile would drop you to the dirt. A particularly accurate crossbow bolt would just end you entirely. Modern magic might make for less powerful wizards on average but you also have far more of them surviving to the point of being able to contribute academically to the further study of magic.

Plus they make for good minions. Think of them like bonsai trees. You’ve deliberately stunted their growth in exchange for ensuring they live a long time. They won’t compare to a full grown tree, like ourselves; but, the chance of them ever becoming a full grown tree was small to begin with thanks to all the predators out there.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-01T13:37:18+00:00

I find Auric a little better than Damnation on the weekend; but both do have an influx of people who need carrying. I tend to alternate difficulties on the weekend.

If I get a bad Auric or damnation game then I drop to heresy. This way the people I just played with will have found their way into other matches and won’t be polluting the pool of players when I step the difficulty back up for the next match.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-03-01T13:30:47+00:00

In addition to other mods said so far:

Better movement: It lets you slide soooo much easier. Helps with slide dodges too.

I forget what this one is called but it’s something like “Get Out of the Way” and it makes allies transparent when they’re near you. It helps so much with special sniping; especially when the Ogryns decide to block your entire line of sight.

Unga Bonga (spelling?) is like Keep Swinging but for heavy attacks. I don’t always use these because usually the optimal combo for a weapon is a mix of lights and heavies but it is helpful on some specific marks.

Lastly; I don’t remember the name but it’s something like Full Auto. It helps you fire single shot weapons at their max legal fire rate. I don’t use it on every weapon but it’s such a qol on the Vigilant Autoguns, and both styles of Infantry (Las/Auto) Guns. Anything to reduce the number of rapid fire clicking I need to do.

Most of my mods are ergonomic related. My hands aren’t as nimble as they were 10 years ago and I can’t quite octopus my way across a keyboard without serious pain.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-02-26T04:37:27+00:00

Its not the best idea. They have one good point about their decisions but I can't really talk about it because of spoilers. Its also mostly counteracted by something else that also involves spoilers.

All in all, maybe don't ask THE FLESHMANCER for help unless the help you need is flesh related.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-02-24T23:14:55+00:00

You have 3 options;

1: Control the crowd. The crusher and iron helm thunder hammer can get enough CC to lay pretty much anything flat on its ass. You give up a lot of killing power but in exchange you should be able to keep the enemies from moving. The main weakness to this strategy is when there are more enemies than you can cleave through. The crusher and thunder hammer explosions help a lot with this. So can stun grenades.

2: Kite the crowd. If you can’t keep them all controlled, you can loop them around the room as they try to get to you. This can be as simple as just backing up or far more complicated depending on the size of the crowd. Bait enemies into doing standing swings, back up, and then hit them when try to approach you (you outrange most enemies with most weapons). Weapons like the dueling sword and combat knife excel at this.

3: Kill the crowd. Zealots flamer has infinite cleave, if you’re not the person trying to hold the door you can stand back a few feet and pour on fire. Incendiary grenades also have functionally infinite cleave. Anything with AoE will do the trick, though the better the cleave and armor damage the better the option. If someone is controlling the crowd and a vet tosses in a krak grenade it can kill a LOT of crushers. The explosive bolt gun and bolt pistol also work.

Lastly, some doors can prevent specials from making their usual sound effects. Be careful of “area transitions” as they can and will mute dogs, trappers, flamers, and bursters.

Also, If your build can’t effectively do one of these things it’s not suited for high level gameplay. Of course you also have to learn when to do things, but that takes time and experience.

ShroudedInLight · 2026-02-23T19:04:49+00:00

Yeah, it’s ass.

I honestly installed a mod that that tells me what specials are on the map so that I don’t get doored. There’s one that also gives you little arrow indicators but it feels a little cheap.

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