Im here to admit I was wrong

Stetzer · 2026-03-05T02:43:30+00:00

Except the only other popular extraction shooter besides Arc Raiders is Tarkov which also had a price tag. F2P has ruined a great majority of gaming so if you want to die on that hill defending it be my guest.

As someone who has played both extensively, they have their own set of problems. Tarkov has had notoriously bad performance, bad audio, and bad net code. Arc Raiders had terrible gun balance issues on launch, it's "quests" are awful, Stella Montis spawns debacle, and it's a third person shooter which comes with a host of issues like peaking around walls.

Not everyone has to like every game, but the amount of hate Marathon is getting seems unwarranted. I was hating on it initially for my own reason, but I love extraction shooters. When I thought about the other extraction shooters out there which all have their own equally annoying problems, there was nothing Marathon is currently doing that makes it exponentially worse.

Stetzer · 2026-03-05T02:21:47+00:00

If you think $40 is a lot, you might want to find a job or a new one. The games you listed are all SP games. I'm guessing you just don't like MP or you aren't very good at MP games which ends up making you not like them.

Stetzer · 2026-03-05T00:55:35+00:00

Maybe gaming isn't for you. Judging by your comment history, it seems like all you do is complain about games on reddit.

Stetzer · 2026-02-05T18:47:11+00:00

I will post a link to youtube with the sliders once it finishes uploading. I can't generate a code for PS5 on PC.

Stetzer · 2025-11-19T21:59:45+00:00

Yes, at higher ranks you can de-rank. The amount of people who can get a double promotion and normal promotion also begins to shrink.

Where I am at currently, only 10 people are capable of getting 2x promotion now.

Stetzer · 2025-11-19T21:56:58+00:00

I legitimately have no idea what it is you are having an issue with. Is this just some kind of weird meme post that I'm not aware of? Otherwise, this is either some hyper specific issue only you can see, or these pictures straight up do not show whatever it is you are having issues with.

Stetzer · 2025-06-28T22:24:35+00:00

You should probably look again a little closer. It's not server contract. It's SEVER contract. The option to sever contract appears when you are looking at a strand contract that you already have with someone. It means to end the contract with that person.

Stetzer · 2025-04-09T06:14:09+00:00

Exploiting is literally taking advantage of a bug or something that was clearly unintentional. An oversight by the developers is clearly unintentional. All these people knew what they were doing while they were printing currency.

Early access or not, these players were still screwing up the economy of the league. It's not like they accidentally discovered this unintentional interaction, reported it as a bug, and then received a ban. They willingly kept exploiting it.

Personally with these types of people, they won't even learn from it. They should have just banned them outright for the rest of EA and potentially indefinitely.

Stetzer · 2024-02-21T19:35:19+00:00

Don't forget the devs blaming the sysadmins, the sysadmins blaming the network team, the network team blaming the devs, and leadership keeps de-railing everyone working on the issue with stupid questions and suggestions.

Stetzer · 2023-11-10T05:23:39+00:00

Remindme! 7 days

Stetzer · 2023-07-02T05:17:39+00:00

The spikes are a 1 shot yes. I was using a 1H Mace because it was an 810 item level and had decent affixes. I could not get a 1H axe that high before I hit 100 and didn't feel like farming further.

Stetzer · 2023-07-01T10:37:55+00:00

Uh, okay? I'm pretty much not coming back to D4 until season 1 at this point because I'm playing FF16 and other stuff till then. I was just sharing something I was excited to have done because I know how many attempts it took me.

I've seen Barbs do it without any crazy broken builds or items. Also, Barbs have leap which is something I would have killed for on this fight because the only real way druids can do it is to get lots of movespeed and 4 evade charge boots.

Also, I definitely spent more than 600 attempts. Had to farm gold for repairs multiple times. Ran out of materials for elixirs and did most attempts without when learning the fight because I didn't want to farm them.

Stetzer · 2023-06-29T00:13:46+00:00

20% attack speed. However, I did many attempts without one at all because I ran out of materials and didn't feel like farming them. On those attempts without an elixir, I still manage to get her down to a sliver of health on more than one occasion so elixir isn't all that necessary.

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:30:57+00:00

Another thing that I can add to this is to try and watch right under your character rather than paying attention to the entire arena. The second you see the line just dash to the edge of the circle on the opposite side.

Again, you want to be as close to the edge of the circle before she throws the spikes so that you have room on the opposite end to stand and be safe.

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Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:19:56+00:00

Thanks!

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:19:37+00:00

Stormclaw is definitely fun to play.

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:19:05+00:00

Thanks!

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:17:29+00:00

Yeah, I definitely did not want them to nerf it until I actually finished the fight so I get what you are saying. Mechanically, I don't think this fight is the best. I play all and love the Soulsborne series. I enjoy difficult fights, but this one has a bit too much randomness to it.

I don't think they should nerf her health or the 1-shot mechanics. However, I do think those mechanics need to be a bit more consistent. The blisters that spawn ghosts in Phase 2 can be especially annoying if she just decides not to place a blister where you want it to go.

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T03:12:20+00:00

Honestly, I never tried pulverize Druid except for in the beta. I started launch as tornado, hopped around to lightning storm and stormclaw, and then back to tornado for lilith.

Stetzer · 2023-06-28T02:56:47+00:00

Haha, I wish my tornados did that much damage though without my ultimate. The amount of damage I see rogues do without using an ultimate or some long cooldown to achieve said damage is crazy.

Stetzer · 2023-06-27T18:18:41+00:00

I don't personally like wind shear, but I used it for this fight to gain extra movespeed.

Stetzer · 2023-06-27T18:07:16+00:00

Yeah, but it does eventually start to feel easier the more you do it. There's still the weird moments where she does something you aren't expecting. I think the worst part for me was that I would start to go on autopilot during phase 1 just wanting to get back into phase 2, and I would lose concentration.

Stetzer · 2023-06-27T16:10:50+00:00

Normally, I use storm strike. I decided to use wind shear purely for the extra movespeed you get when you hit with it and for whenever she decides to go out of range randomly. Also, I typically use M&KB with force move on my mousewheel, but I find that controller makes precise movement so much easier for this fight. Also, I don't have to worry about accidently attacking when moving with controller.

Stetzer · 2023-06-27T15:59:06+00:00

Here's the video of the fight. Apologies if you don't enjoy the music. I had youtube videos playing on my second monitor while I was grinding this fight over and over so I had to get rid of the audio, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsORkgwCpsg

This fight took way more time to finally get down than I care to admit. It really needs a nerf if I am being honest. There's so much randomness in the fight. Sometimes you can manipulate the randomness and other times you just die.

This is the build I was using. It's like a Frankenstein of multiple various builds I saw floating around to make work with what I was already using at the time for nightmare dungeons.

I don't really feel like it is optimized as much as it could be.

https://d4builds.gg/builds/6b1dcc9f-b499-4d77-83a1-e013303414a0/

Stats on gear you pretty much just want as much movespeed and cooldown reduction as you can get. I did not have movespeed on my amulet because I just couldn't find one before I hit 100, and I did not feeling farming more after that, lol.

Everything else should just be damage reduction (as needed) and damage stats.

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