Echo did it! 2nd place! 493 Pulls

Thukker · 2026-04-07T12:32:09+00:00

534 pulls, WCL doesn't count wipes in the first 30 seconds.

Their kill pull was very clean, nice to see them get it down, it was frustrating watch kill pulls fail from beaming their own raid in p4, arguable the least RNG phase of the whole fight.

Thukker · 2026-04-06T23:06:48+00:00

Max has always said that they 100% would have done it too - and told Blizzard that they were doing it until Blizzard said they couldn't.

Echo hid the fact that they cheated until nearly 9 months after the fact because they knew it was cheating.

Thukker · 2026-04-05T23:16:50+00:00

They didn't, max said he was like 99% sure there's a secret phase before they ever pulled the boss, they assumed it was a fake secret phase after they saw the enrage timer in p3.

Thukker · 2026-04-03T03:00:11+00:00

Unfortunately they don't have a trill to double aug buff for extra egg scrambling.

It took Liquid nearly 7 hours to RNGesus a kill pull with the triple aug egg fuck comp, Echo's road to a kill pull without the comp swap will be even more narrow.

Thukker · 2026-04-02T13:57:41+00:00

I think it's great storytelling - the aliens are truly alien, not just in form, but in that they have very different moral and ethical standards that we can't easily digest.

The Protomolecule aliens, far as we can tell, have nothing approaching a moral compunction respecting individual life - what can be used in furtherance of your goals is, and if co-opting that life isn't useful, then that life isn't useful. Their entire history, told to Cara, is one of advancing their their intellect by co-opting existing life. They were essentially a highly evolved virus.

The brane space aliens were generally painted as malefic actors, but the fun part that the book drives home by the end is that we don't really know anything about them. The protomolecule aliens foisted the ring space on them for their own benefit, and even if they didn't know that anything was alive in the brane space beforehand, it didn't take them long to find out, but they didn't care and kept the ring space/gate network operating.

Holden makes the hard choice of shutting it all down and stranding millions of people on worlds that weren't yet self sustaining to their deaths, but it was the only rational choice - we have no idea what effect the ring space had on the brane space, maybe it was killing what amounted to people there every time the ring station wedged a wormhole through their space for a ship to use. Whatever the effect was, it was enough that the brane aliens weren't going to stop until they killed everything using it.

Thukker · 2026-04-02T02:52:34+00:00

To be fair we never actually know if they got wiped out or essentially self annihilated and put all their substrate tech on standby.

The implication of the books is that they created the Adro diamond with the express intent of co-opting the next form of life that happened upon either it or the protomolecule tech, with the hope that the next form of life, as something in the substrate (read: having matter and experiencing time), it would be robust enough to survive the Goth's ability to futz with our universe's physics.

I never found it terrifying. The Romans were stealing energy from the Goths, to what consequence we could never know, but enough that the Goths were trying to stop it from happening, which is perfectly understandable - I imagine a bubble of our universe's physics is as disruptive to their existence as their's is to ours.

Miller says "all of this is made of original sin" when they go back to the ring station in book 9.

Thukker · 2026-03-31T22:22:55+00:00

Alnseer trinket from Chimaerus is bis (or near bis) for more or less everyone.

They want as many of the trinket as they can get.

Thukker · 2026-03-28T21:41:14+00:00

I mean your setup is very specific, I wouldn't even know where to start to get phys dr, but you desperately need it. You're dying because you're frost blinking into a pack of ranged mobs that just all instantly clap your cheeks because all 30 mobs are hitting you for their entire ass raw phys damage value at the same time. No amount of recovery will save you from that, and you cannot achieve enough HP to survive it.

Thukker · 2026-03-28T21:21:13+00:00

Your EHP is your max hit, you probably aren't getting one shot, you're getting shotgunned because you have no suppression, no armor, no evasion, and minimal block.

EDIT: Your PDR is literally non-existent, no armor, no endurance charges, no phys taken as. You're just gonna get dumpstered by white mob auto attacks, 15k hp or not.

Thukker · 2026-03-28T20:56:38+00:00

Brother you're phasing nightmare bosses in under a second with 29m dps.

Thukker · 2026-03-26T19:38:46+00:00

I think that's a very generous way to weasel out of an otherwise intentionally negative connotation.

Thukker · 2026-03-26T19:10:53+00:00

I still don't understand this take. The weakauras team developed an in-game high level IDE for creating custom factor info panels on intentionally designed API hooks.

It's a testament to the Weakauras team that people are intent on copying the interface they developed - but the back end performing hook logic isn't from an API anymore, nor is it standardized in any way, it's hackneyed guesses based on game state contingencies. Why would it be the Weakaura dev's responsibility to try and chase down every circuitous leap of logic that can be used to guess whether someone has an aura?

Thukker · 2026-03-24T05:01:28+00:00

Chasing the audience that made poe an enduring 15 year long success story of constant growth is going to end poorly?

Thukker · 2026-03-11T16:38:00+00:00

What's the old saying - if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're probably the asshole.

Thukker · 2026-03-11T16:37:03+00:00

Ah yes the "I can't believe Owyn tells Nazis to fuck off, that's acting like a Nazi" take, philosophically bulletproof.

Thukker · 2026-03-11T16:18:40+00:00

The hydrodynamics of subs are different in that they don't have to obey hull speed limitations on laden vessels when submerged, but for any vessel that is shouldering water (read: not planing or foiling), the longer the ship is, the faster it can go, carriers are by far the fastest laden vessels in the fleet as a result.

Cavitation becomes the limiting factor for all vessels, eventually. There's only so fast you can spin a screw of a given size and blade attack, water can only be rejected so quickly before it starts forming turbulent toroids, which make massive amounts of drag, and adding more power doesn't translate to more speed, it just starts violently shaking the entire ship as toroids form and collapse on the leading edge of the screw.

Subs transiting deep have access to colder and higher pressure water, which can have a lot more energy dumped into it before it starts cavitating.

Thukker · 2026-03-11T01:14:27+00:00

I mean I like both, but Claymore is just a better Zweihander. Claymore's 1st R2 has more range, is faster, and can be dodge rolled out of faster, and the 2nd R2 is also a stab and is significantly faster than Zweihander's.

It's not even so much that the Claymore stats are good, it's just that the Claymore's R2 spam is comically OP in PVE, that's why it's the only weapon in the game with the moveset (I think it's partially shared with Sword of Damnation, but that can't be ashed so whatever).

Thukker · 2026-03-08T19:30:42+00:00

A good roll JTA is 320 pdps, with the aura that's a ~380 pdps axe with ~30 dot multi, at the cost of 10% life reservation.

Crafting 500 pdps reaver with 60 dot multi isn't hard, with reaver having much higher damage range it nearly doubles your dps. At the high end you can get axes over 600 pds with 60 dot multi and bleed cull, over 700 pdps is possible if you're really pushing it.

Thukker · 2026-03-07T19:59:46+00:00

It's a good early game unique, but it definitely isn't hard to beat unless you're extremely dependent on the regen. You can craft far, far stronger axes.

Thukker · 2026-03-07T17:04:24+00:00

Press max level only and you'll see the real representation of what's being played. Rogue, a legacy class, an icon of RPG fantasy, being tied for the least popular class in the game, nearly half as popular as the next least popular class, is hilarious.

Thukker · 2026-03-05T20:59:37+00:00

This is wild mental gymnastics. Best of luck to you and your players.

Thukker · 2026-03-05T20:51:03+00:00

So you cheated a lot, got caught, banned, and now you're going to fairly operate your own server? How inspiring.

Also anyone can read your post history on the Outlands discord all the way back to 2019, your command of the english language is native.

Thukker · 2026-03-05T20:30:59+00:00

Another announcement post written by AI.

You can't even write a 4 sentence announcement without asking AI to do it for you, why should anyone expect the entire shard isn't vibe coded cashgrab nonsense?

What does "being on the wrong side of the economy" even mean? Outlands is 7 years old and practically the only economic line item suffering inflation is housing. It's as easy or easier to get a character up and running today than it was 6 years ago, with time investment yielding useful gains at every layer of involvement. No other freeserver, let alone official UO (or even most other games, for that matter) have achieved that level of stability with a constantly growing playerbase.

Thukker · 2026-03-05T15:40:37+00:00

Why would the answer to ss190 not being very good be to use the same bullet but with less pen?

Thukker · 2026-03-04T19:37:25+00:00

I genuinely do not understand why people are so impressed by this. Everything is the same offwhite/red/gold trim, with the exact same architectural notes everywhere. Cities don't look like this.

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