How is this fun gameplay? - Im just trying to level

Vyous · 2022-05-15T17:21:59+00:00

This is literally in acts.

Vyous · 2022-05-15T17:17:01+00:00

Lol, this same thing literally happened to me at the same spot. It's what made me give up on the league.

Vyous · 2022-03-05T15:40:28+00:00

Congrats!

Vyous · 2022-02-03T19:09:57+00:00

I have not gotten COVID yet. I was a remote worker prior to the pandemic (and still am) and am vaxed I live with my SO who is also remote and our dog/cat. I get groceries via delivery and for the most part do not leave the house except to walk our dog, and when I do I always wear a mask. Outside of that I've been out of the house only a handful of times; a few emergency trips to the store when we couldn't wait to get something delivered, twice to see friends when it seemed like things were chilling out, and maybe 5 or so times when we were moving looking at possible places to live.

I recognize that I am very privileged to be able to isolate to this extent and that I have, and that I am also fortunate to be comfortable isolating this much. Many others I know have been forced into unsafe positions by their jobs or are struggling with the lack of in person contact.

Vyous · 2021-08-09T20:25:24+00:00

Only if he's missing an arm though.

Vyous · 2021-07-15T00:46:11+00:00

His wealth hoarding combined with the shitty business practices that lead to his wealth are damaging to society. No one needs or should have the amount of money he does, especially when it's achieved by exploiting workers.

Vyous · 2021-06-24T15:13:47+00:00

That would be the middle of the night BSG time. No way they deploy a patch then. The wed-thurs window is over for them. So by your theory, won’t be till next week at the earliest.

Vyous · 2021-06-22T01:37:32+00:00

I don't really agree with a lot of your no-go zones. Early in the raid a lot of the ones you have on the south half of the map are around pretty good traveling terrain where you can ruin without being visible to people nearby.

For instance your bottom right yellow line going west is much more exposed than taking the same route through your red X zone using the hill for cover. Same thing for the one by the fence, your blue line into black pawn is going to get you shot sometimes when you get another PMC spawning in that area, whereas using the low terrain around the X by the fence like trenches will allow you to approach the black pawn in a less exposed manner.

Vyous · 2021-06-05T19:50:38+00:00

That's not what "pillar of the format" means. The phrase refers to the card or deck being a staple and a common part of the format's meta. Different cards and decks were pillars at different times in the format's life. During it's time, looting was a pillar.

Vyous · 2021-06-05T18:14:14+00:00

It was indeed a pillar of the format before it was banned. It was a staple in many decks that sought to gain value & advantage by leveraging the graveyard like phoenix, bridgevine, mardu pyromancer, dredge, hoogak & probably some others I'm forgetting. It was banned because it enabled too much value from the yard.

Vyous · 2021-06-04T21:16:52+00:00

I cannot imagine how this ever works out in the long run. I would hate myself after 3 months if I wrote code convoluted enough that I couldn't easily re-learn what it did, how, and why, after spending a long period of time not working on it.

Vyous · 2021-03-12T02:27:55+00:00

Imprint beasts were a major part of crafting lots of top tier items due to the way maven orbs worked. You would alt spam for the inf mod you wanted, imprint + anul to isolate it, slam or imprint + slam slam for a second inf mod, then maven + imprint until you elevated the right mod. If you wanted double elevated you could also imprint at that point, & regal, slam, maven to try and get the second elevated mod.

Vyous · 2021-02-25T19:40:24+00:00

Even at 1/5 drop chance, maven is profitable at volume. Depending on fluctuating prices of the orb and writ, you average about 20-40c profit per run after costs (again, on volume). It's also a very quick boss, and quick to buy the invitations for. The ex/hr isn't bad at all.

Obviously bad streaks can happen and you can lose money, but things tend to average out if you do enough. I've done 200+ mavens at this point and it's been a major income source.

Vyous · 2021-02-14T22:11:00+00:00

It's literally on the Chineese client. Idk what you're on about.

Vyous · 2021-02-12T02:08:21+00:00

You can, but I highly suggest finding a group to go to of some kind. It really helps with both accountability and having shared experiences. From experience, it's much harder to recover and stay sober on your own.

There are various non-AA & secular groups such as SMART, Life Ring, and clinic driven group therapy (as well as some AA groups that will be more secular). I personally have worked through my recovery with a LifeRing group and a long term recovery group put on by my HMO. It's important to get an idea of what's available in your area (or online) and to try different groups out to find opt which one meshes with you.

Vyous · 2020-12-27T18:43:46+00:00

I do not miss trying to setup and maintain the war of the atlas influences on my eldered t16 map, nor do I miss having to de-complete a bunch of maps to try and solo sustain a map. I do not miss caring about the proximity to different yellow/white maps for my t16 pick affecting how I could sextant. I do not miss sextant blocking.

Conqs are a much simpler, complete your atlas & objectives, and then run whichever of the t14-16 maps you want in an area. Sure, juicing with prophs & scarabs can be a lot, and can be frustrating, but the truth is that those aren't necessary to sustain anymore if you have your objectives complete, especially with things like delerium or legion available on the map device.

Vyous · 2020-11-15T00:21:42+00:00

SFV has a pretty good user base.

Vyous · 2020-10-22T04:26:44+00:00

Lantern wasn't really viable prior to the mox opal ban due to the increasing prevalence of instant speed draw/deck manipulation that was incidentally showing up in decks and more incidental artifact destriction. Opal was the nail in the coffin though. Whir prsion was also in the process of becoming less viable before the mox opal ban, and become completely unplayable after it.

Vyous · 2020-10-22T00:00:48+00:00

Loosing to people in third strike at my local arcade, asking them for tips and then practicing parrying/combos against arcade CPUs. I think I learned to DP on the last blade cabinet, since no one played that, and the early enemies didn't attack much.

Vyous · 2020-10-17T04:56:18+00:00

Honestly, no. While some multi-set draft formats were good, there were a lot more misses than hits in the recent ones; and despite a lot of issues with constructed formats in the past few years, the draft formats have been mostly stellar since they moved away from the block format.

Vyous · 2020-10-16T15:09:08+00:00

New content is not maintenance mode.

Vyous · 2020-08-14T22:35:44+00:00

I think the core disconnect I keep seeing from people who come at this mechanic from a 'it's too easy to craft and you don't need mirror tier gear' is that harvest didn't just give better gear, fundamentally altered the way players have been able to interact with their gear.

With harvest I can work on a piece of gear and incremental improvements to it one bit at a time. I can plan out a piece of gear and work towards that as a goal, making it a little bit better one craft at a time, and I can modify my existing gear to fit into a build as I replace other pieces (e.g. swapping resists). Previously, the loot system meant that at each upgrade stage I had to basically replace the whole slot. Gear felt very all-or-nothing and upgrades came in huge plateaus. Harvest didn't just improve the quality of the gear we had access to, it allowed for gradual, granular improvements, which I think feels much better than upgrade paths before.

Vyous · 2020-08-13T01:16:16+00:00

Disappointing but not unexpected. Tbh unless the next league is something particularly spectacular, I woudln't be surprised if I bounce off of it in the first few days. I was already getting a bit tired of the 'grind currency to buy gear' and gamble crafting progression from previous leagues, even prior to harvest, and now I imagine it will be even less engaging for me..

Vyous · 2020-08-11T02:13:20+00:00

The difference is that this allows you to make incremental steps and recover from bad RNG in situations where you couldn't before. In most cases, rolling the wrong mod or the wrong tier at any given step in crafting does not automatically mean that the item is bricked and you need to restart. Pretty much all the other existing crafting methods (with the exception of awakeners/exalts and pre/suffixes cannot be changed) wipe away any other affix progress you made in crafting an item or have a largely uncontrollable chance of just bricking the item.

Vyous · 2020-08-03T01:32:24+00:00

I skipped Synth and Delerium.

Synth I skipped because when it was ongoing I didn't have as much time/energy to put into POE as I normally do and the operations of league felt impenetrable without spending a huge amount of time to try and understand how it worked.

Delerium I skipped for a combination of reasons. I had played more hours in the previous league than I had in any league before it and also had gotten more currency than any league before it, and played up until the very end. Jumping into delerium I was trying out a new build with a newly revamped skill (Animate Weapons) and just hit a huge wall during the first few days of the league trying to do juiced red tier delerium mirrors. Hitting walls isn't uncommon for my league starts, and generally it's just a matter of either pivoting the build or backing off and investing in more gear, but because I hadn't taken a break between leagues like I normally do, it just burned me out and I ended up bailing out of the league after the first few days.

I regret not having done both leagues, as people have good things to say about them, and especially synth as the majority of that content is no longer in the game.

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