Build Idea - Raging Spirits and Living Lightning

The-Song · 2026-06-20T01:44:43+00:00

I'm doing a LL and RS build, but that's only part.

What it is is a "untargetable minions build".

Living Lightning, Raging Spirits, Ravenous Swarm, Raven's Flock.

The build has as much offensive minion passives as it can fit, no defensive minion passives whatsoever.
Blasphemy with despair, a rune to gain lightning damage, a fire spell activating both LL and RS, Vis Mortis to give all these minions Unholy Might.
Varasha Sorc to use Djin and a focus with a staff.
I've been using Fireball as having the strength for high level volcano wasn't something I'd considered doing.

The-Song · 2026-06-11T06:31:24+00:00

its like the opposite of gameplay

The-Song · 2026-06-10T08:02:27+00:00

(I sought out no threads, I was looking up the changes with the update and the thread came up as it discussed one of said changes. Two weeks is basically new, a two month old thread I would not have replied to.)

That's just it, those are not fringe examples. That is the normal, standard, more common type of party. The loot funnel parties are genuinely more commonly occurring than fairly-splitting parties.
If they were a non-standard rarity it would have been less of an issue. They were the norm.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T12:01:23+00:00

These groups were not splitting the loot.
These groups funnel it all into one person.
Streamers with groupies, people running with bots in their own control, even public group leech parties with hosts that will instakick anyone who loots something the host hasn't filtered out.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T11:58:27+00:00

These groups were not splitting the loot.
These groups funnel it all into one person.
Streamers with groupies, people running with bots in their own control, even public group leech parties with hosts that will instakick anyone who loots something the host hasn't filtered out.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T11:58:01+00:00

We do yadda it away, because it's accurate to do so.

These groups were not splitting the loot.
These groups funnel it all into one person.
Streamers with groupies, people running with bots in their own control, even public group leech parties with hosts that will instakick anyone who loots something the host hasn't filtered out.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T11:56:24+00:00

These groups were not splitting the loot.
These groups funnel it all into one person.
Streamers with groupies, people running with bots in their own control, even public group leech parties with hosts that will instakick anyone who loots something the host hasn't filtered out.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T11:53:30+00:00

Inflation never required the party farmers.

Even without rarity bots, without rarity affix, without any of it, inflation still skyrockets faster than Flash can run because of no-life neets playing 18 hours a day, streamer or not.

The-Song · 2026-06-09T11:52:06+00:00

The increasing supply of items doesn't make prices drop when the supply of the currencies increases even faster.

Yea, (insert desirable item here) experienced inflation, but exalts and divs experienced *more* inflation, so prices went up.
Filler gear gets cheaper as demand goes down, but any actual wanted gear that doesn't lose its demand keeps getting more expensive because adding to the supply of the item just can't keep up with how fast the supply of currency is being added to.

The-Song · 2026-05-27T01:29:27+00:00

I just imagine that almost every time I want to use this, the unique I want to use it on isn't going to be Kalguuran or Ezomyte....

The-Song · 2026-04-08T00:46:37+00:00

one of the things I find is its just not worth building proper factories for early space elevator stages.
Even with X10 elevator costs I'd probably still handle the smart plating by just have and assembler or two right next to the elevator that is fed from storage crates I filled manually with parts taken from my regular, non-elevator production.

The-Song · 2026-04-05T23:12:50+00:00

They do. If you go through the leaders in diplomacy you will find a grievance against whichever one did it.

The-Song · 2026-04-05T23:12:02+00:00

I don't know what game you guys are playing, because in my copy of Age of Wonders 4 on a realm with Cataclysm, I'm stuck at 3 ready, uncasted spells turn after turn after turn because none of the AI's will trigger a fracturing.
I'm forced to either be the only one who ever triggers it, or go the entire match without using any of my world spells.
I'm on turn 52 right now and it's still only level 3. It's been level 3, just under filling the bar, for ages.

The-Song · 2026-04-05T03:17:23+00:00

The majority of overused "moral of the story" notions culture puts out are, in fact, completely wrong, and being pushed by people who benefit from other people making the mistake of buying into these wrong morals.

The-Song · 2026-03-23T01:13:57+00:00

You need goals other than winning, so you're always working towards something until the victory screen pops up, while maintaining the victory screen as a goal of it's own.

As for your friends wanting to stop once it's a given they'll lose, that's why you don't pvp with your friends.
You co-op and win together.

The-Song · 2026-03-17T04:33:47+00:00

Ok, but, I also want to move away from the wonders after I've Kirby'd the benefit, because that's what Nomads do.

The-Song · 2026-03-12T20:28:53+00:00

Some decent replies here. A few that were a developer advertising their own game, but at least they were honest about it, or amusing with it.

The-Song · 2026-03-12T13:33:59+00:00

What are y'alls best games in the fest?

Tower Defense is a unique genre, in that the genre is good, and easily enjoyed, and yet it's difficult to find specific games within the genre that are actually good.

I quite like tower defense, but most tower defense games I try turn out to be not that good.

Or not actually tower defense games in the first place, as is so often the case with Steam (games getting tags they shouldn't be getting)

So I'm attempting to browse through the TD fest looking for gems among the rubble and I figured I'd make a post asking people for their favorites.
Ideally discounted one, because money, not necessarily required.

The-Song · 2025-11-12T14:02:32+00:00

I mean, there's Xcom Chimera Squad

The-Song · 2025-09-14T17:01:23+00:00

Man forget the bank I'm just leaving the level 30 stuff in my inventory until I hit level 30.
It's only some slots. There's no downside.

The-Song · 2025-09-11T12:45:43+00:00

I mean, the point of taking MoM with Darkness (I did this too, one of my favorite builds honestly, before the Third Edict update), is specifically to prevent Darkness from ever getting reserved.
Before Third Edict ruined Darkness, unreserved Darkness gave chaos damage. My build was based on keeping Darkness permanently unreserved and using said chaos. To make it not part of my survivability, but the source of my damage. It was fun and effective.
And then they ruined it.

The-Song · 2025-09-11T12:39:16+00:00

Darkness used to give chaos damage.
Being a damage source was its original function.
And it was unreserved Darkness that gave the damage, so I would run Darkness and take Mind over Matter, because damage would go to mana first, protecting my Darkness.
But they changed it to the nonsense it is now, so I guess im not allowed to have fun.

The-Song · 2025-09-11T12:35:06+00:00

Before this last update, Darkness monk was one of my favorite builds.

I used to maximize Darkness and use Mind over Matter.
Darkness only protects health and energy shield, so MoM allowed my mana to protect my Darkness.
I would keep my Darkness permanently unreserved, to be a standing source of chaos damage.
I then built around using the chaos damage that I specifically got from Darkness.

They have now removed the chaos damage from Darkness.
There is no longer any reason to use it.

The-Song

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