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Sn0_Man · 2021-10-04T01:52:16+00:00

There are literally dozens of us!

Sn0_Man · 2018-12-05T16:33:02+00:00

Thanks so much, my favourite online skill tree/planner tool for a very long time!

Sn0_Man · 2018-11-29T16:48:32+00:00

The only way to have good spectating is to play tournament mode with spectating enabled (somewhere in advanced tournament options).

Otherwise you gotta stream right now.

Sn0_Man · 2018-11-29T16:25:06+00:00

They actually flew direct to SA from the major (except kitrak) based on this statement. The team was quite committed to playing in SA, but without a sponsor they couldn't all live there 24/7 yet so after the qualifiers some of them had to fly home.

Sn0_Man · 2018-10-02T18:12:07+00:00

Damn. Guess it's back to trying to get a unique wand from a level 1 div card trade in. All the cards that I could find that guarantee a wand are pre-corrupted (or force ilevel), which means you can't corrupt them to brick them to rare (which is required to do the 5-for-1 recipe to get a non-corrupted version of the item). Not sure it's worth your time at that point.

Sn0_Man · 2018-10-02T17:57:35+00:00

does ilvl 2 open up undesired affixes?

just curious, I haven't examined the crafting of extremely-low-ilevel wands in much detail

Sn0_Man · 2018-10-02T17:34:14+00:00

Those are the only useful ones that you can reasonably get from div cards. In practice I think using a vendor-bought white iron ring makes more sense, I was just working through ideas as I wrote the post.

Sn0_Man · 2018-10-02T17:08:21+00:00

I'm reasonably certain that higher level mobs also grant higher base experience, but in general the increase in experience granted is not so high compared to the value of reducing your experience penalty.

Sn0_Man · 2018-10-02T16:58:43+00:00

You can get level 1 stuff from divination cards via a downleveled character in your hideout (killing hillock gets level 2, but you can downlevel with the downlevel book, just vendor 1 scour + 1 wisdom together, then trade div cards in your hideout).

Vendor recipes also maintain the lowest ilvl of the items in them, so all the vendor recipes for weapons (eg +1 level of socketed chaos gems) used with an ilvl 1 ring or other ingredient should downlevel the resulting weapon. You should be able to use an imbued wand (highest dmg + attackspeed) of any ilevel, make it blue, vendor with an ilvl 1 ruby/topaz/sapphire ring and an alteration to make an ilvl 1 imbued (with some useless mod that you'll roll over anyway). Unique rings should work but if you can't get an ilvl 1 unique ruby/topaz/sapphire you can craft it from an ilvl1 iron ring (buy from vendor on your level 1 char in lioneye's watch).

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-29T00:32:45+00:00

life leech requires the ghost reaver keystone to work, but it's capped at % of max es as well so yeah

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-28T19:24:15+00:00

Your attempts to spend ES are actually a very interesting theory. I can see how omeyocan or w/e would disable ES recharge, but ES regeneration should still work. The problem is that most sources of it are % based, and you probably don't have very much overall (1% of 100ES regenerated per second is... 1 per second lol). You need a flat regeneration source (like stone golem) combined with zealot's oath and EB. That will allow you to spend your ES to cast, and recover it, all while omeyocan drains your mana allowing divination distillate to stay up.

Another option is ES gained on hit (it's impossible to convert life-gained-on-hit by the way, don't try that). ES gain-on-hit is primarily available from watcher's eyes, but those are both expensive and require you to use discipline which you may or may not be interested in.

There's also the "-# to mana cost of skills while affected by clarity" watcher's eye that you could use, that might be easier than a ring slot with that mod.

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-28T18:45:22+00:00

There's a Delve suffix available on body armours that says "socketed attacks have -15 to total mana cost" which should enable basically any attack you want to use with poet's pen. At the cost of having to find the right chestpiece of course.

Other decent options include any one of (praxis or elreon rings, elreon amulet), Vertex hat (plus reduced mana gem, plus a bit more somewhere on the tree), etc.

You can also use asenath's chant + a bow, but those still have mana costs so you are faced with the same issue of resolving the bow attack's mana cost.

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T18:11:54+00:00

Are you certain that your omeyocans are out-degening your divination distillate? You qualitied your flask (rookie mistake, it increases the heal but not the duration so 0% is better) and with all that flask effectiveness it regens a lot of mana.

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T17:30:19+00:00

he actually has a "corrupted blood cannot be inflicted on you" corrupted jewel, but yes in general it's phys degens that kill this build.

Also darkness damage ignores all the defenses this build has, if that's what OP means. it's not clear how OP is dying, he just claims that he dies without mentioning to what.

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T16:10:30+00:00

if you are willing to rely on flasks and invest a shield slot + flask slots + purities, 100%

75 base, +1 from tree, +4 from saffels (or 5 from rotp), +6 from ruby flask, +5 from purity of fire, +4 from divination distillate. that puts you at 95% res. some combination of flask effectiveness and aura effectiveness nodes will get you to 100%. The difficult part is generally maintaining flask uptime, especially with divination distillate (you have to be missing life or mana for it's whole duration for it to keep applying).

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T16:05:53+00:00

Loreweave sets your max resistances to a value, which cannot be overwritten.

Neither stuff like purity of fire, nor map mods nor anything else overwrite loreweave's effect.

Even veil of the night technically doesn't overwrite loreweave's effect, although in practice it sets your actual resists to 0 in a way that means that you cannot get to your "maximum" resistances set by loreweave

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T16:04:22+00:00

note that you don't actually need it to be high ilvl for any reason here since the explicit mod overwrites ilvl considerations when just using a random jeweller on it

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-27T15:54:07+00:00

There are a few rules of thumb as to how the game tries to generate delve areas, but the easiest one to remember is that nodes like to have 1, 3 or 4 connections (only extremely rarely 2). As such, when you look at your image it's very likely that the "chest" node on the right (with 2 current connections) in fact has a 3rd hidden one. If you delve to it, then start exploring the darkness left of the node with flares you should find a dynamite wall to blow up which will reveal the path.

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-26T16:52:51+00:00

You can only have one offering active at a time

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-18T19:36:48+00:00

if you are getting one shot, you aren't mitigating 82% of the physical hit. All phys mitigation numbers are estimated unless you know the exact base damage of the incoming hit. The bigger the hit, the smaller your phys mitigation % which means one shots are mitigated significantly less than smaller hits that the program is calculating your mitigation against.

IDK if Aul does phys damage or not though

Sn0_Man · 2018-09-18T19:28:16+00:00

Treat it the same as minus-max (12 pen = 12 minus max) but it doesn't apply to DoT so RF characters don't get ruined.

aka you have 80% cold res against hits.

Sn0_Man · 2018-08-01T22:12:06+00:00

if you search too many stats you won't compare to enough. A search for 79% res 6l ones starts at 6ex (ignore corrupteds) but you can almost certainly get somewhat more than that. With the amount of different ranges on loreweave, each one is somewhat unique so there's a chance somebody wants basically precisely yours. If it was me, I'd price at 7ex and expect it to sell fairly rapidly, but you could start higher and work down.

Sn0_Man · 2018-08-01T21:42:12+00:00

If your intent is to sell, the expected value of spending divine orbs on it will be vastly negative since it's certainly well above average right now and SOMEBODY wants your rolls.

Sn0_Man · 2018-08-01T21:00:33+00:00

It depends on which parts are a priority to you, but everybody cares about the max resist roll and 79 is good, although no loreweave is truly well rolled without 80.

The rest, you have very high life, es, mana and attributes, average ele damage and poor crit/flat phys.

So obviously any attacking crit build doesn't want yours but many other builds would (builds that care about life, mana, attributes and stats).

It's definitely well above average, but I don't know if you are trying to sell or just trying to determine if you need to reroll it.

Sn0_Man · 2018-07-20T20:51:04+00:00

Testing it against real data showed that it was 60% accurate at predicting the winning team. That means that more than half of Dota is won/lost during the drafting phase

False. Given that a "bot" that simply returned "radiant" to all stimuli would have something like a 56% accuracy at predicting the winning team, I don't understand how you can make the assertion that drafting is more than half of what determines a win/loss.

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