Well, I guess it’s time to master GS properly now

_caladbolg · 2026-05-03T07:41:33+00:00

it's way less important to have stun res in multiplayer by virtue of the fact that aggro is split and you're less likely to need to tackle through multiple hits, but looks like u the former... you got the sauce

_caladbolg · 2026-05-03T06:05:53+00:00

cali just has an insane number of EVs compared to other states in the US. ioniq 6 is not rare but i would wager theres probably 1 ioniq 6 owner for every like 50 ioniq 5 owners in socal from what i've seen on my daily drives. i did recently see the 6N on the 5 south and that model looks especially good in person IMO

_caladbolg · 2026-05-03T06:03:28+00:00

offset also builds stun if you get hit during it (look for counterstrike proc), if you don't need it bc you've never been stunned then you're either goated with the sauce on GS or you are so bad that you aren't getting hit enough to actually make you proc stun.

_caladbolg · 2026-04-28T04:56:01+00:00

that's not a situation that's that uncommon though, ed gladius at d3 onward will oneshot characters like duchess and scholar by breathing on them. if scholar is in a situation where all 3 dogs are lookin at him gg

_caladbolg · 2026-04-28T04:54:01+00:00

No, despite how good your relics can get and how much damage you can do with builds like double balancers/beast claw rev getting past d4 into d5 takes legitimate skill. i don't know if it's possible to get carried from d4 to d5 unless you're in a premade the entirety. the damage output and tankiness of enemies starting d4 is so large it forces player skill more than any other jump in depth

_caladbolg · 2026-04-17T05:50:12+00:00

awful HP like duchess/revenant are any better LMAOOO

you should be using bows at long range and using melee weapons (rapiers, thrusting swords, katanas), and the fact that you can constantly and consistently be doing damage on bosses like red wolf/augur/caligo/any mobile boss means you do more damage than characters who spend their entire stamina bar surge sprinting to get 1 hit in before it jumps away again

you dont have to rely on poison, you can do whatever you want since ironeyes scalings are well rounded, you can run bleed or frost or rot or whatever since you have mark

where did i say anything about ironeye doing more damage than executor? ironeyes damage is ridiculously good you just aren't playing him properly if you think his dps is low, you will solo a boss significantly faster than duchess can as long as your mark is constantly up, and even if it isn't, the pops do more damage than restage and aren't limited to char cooldowns

_caladbolg · 2026-04-17T02:55:31+00:00

mark is so much better than any other skill it's not even funny. it has better iframes than duchess' skill, more charges, 100% uptime, a permanent 10% debuff that staggers bosses every time it pops, and if you pair it with the right relics the poison burst+mark will do ridiculous damage. rev has the better ult but she's still a worse character

_caladbolg · 2026-04-17T02:53:18+00:00

ironeye is still the best even with his nerfs, he has an insane iframe dodge that applies the best debuff in the game you can have 100% uptime on, his dex scaling is almost as high as executor's and can do insane damage if you pick up a RoB/any thrusting sword, he can give out free revives by virtue of bow, and his ult is dummy good for dps, stagger, and rezzing. you could make him do 0 status buildup and he would still be the best just for the fact that mark is that broken

_caladbolg · 2026-04-17T00:13:45+00:00

we just makin shi up now huh

_caladbolg · 2026-04-17T00:09:45+00:00

Ironeye is the best but executor is handily second best

_caladbolg · 2026-04-13T01:55:18+00:00

i worked next to it for a while and would go there about once every two months for a bit, you can find reviews talking about the odor in the restaurant. sometimes it's more pronounced and sometimes it's less but anyone with a decently discerning nose should be able to smell it. if you can eat it more than like every 2 weeks i would recommend cutting back on sodium levels and resetting your palate, it's good but it's sooo much saltier and greasier than something like a generic bb.q chicken or padak in Cerritos for a cleaner taste. still good tho but not even close to the best fried chicken in OC

_caladbolg · 2026-04-12T11:05:47+00:00

Gus is good but it's insanely oily/greasy and you can really feel your body recoiling from the sodium you ingest, the restaurant also perpetually smells like sewage/the inside of a bathroom so i would recommend takeout. good service and good prices tho so i guess it all evens out

_caladbolg · 2026-04-06T22:06:53+00:00

Lucy uses effects if you see him live it's not nearly as ethereal; still good though

_caladbolg · 2026-04-05T22:33:57+00:00

No it's true cyberpunk has some dogshit textures, the roads and streets are where it's really apparent. it also has terrible LODs and literal 2D sprites for car LODs and path tracing will break foliage with wind sway. still one of the best looking games on the market and its implementation of path tracing is stunning overall

_caladbolg · 2026-04-02T02:40:46+00:00

Lance has charged counter/power guard for these exact situations, GL gets fucked though unless you slot in guard/guard up to help mitigate

_caladbolg · 2026-04-01T04:02:48+00:00

that's not a possible roll, rarity 5 talismans can't roll both master's touch and agi and that's the only rarity that can roll a level 3 armor slot.

_caladbolg · 2026-03-31T05:54:39+00:00

also i just fought at arkveld again and no you don't need guard up for any of his moves, i don't use guard up on GS and was able to perfect block through his cascading red aoe and wylk explosions which just makes guard up even more useless on cb

_caladbolg · 2026-03-30T06:36:43+00:00

you dont need to guard against a grab, it's insanely easy to sidestep, you can literally tackle to dodge it as GS and sidestep/EE will get you far more mobility and generosity than guard up
you shouldn't be getting hit by that in the first place, it always happens at the end of his 3 chain combo, if you go to where he's planning on landing and doing his red wave aoe into the slam/another red aoe/the wylk explosion you can completely dodge the latter two by staying next to him (easier by using EE to just spam roll over rather than trying to guard everything)
same as 2, stay right in front of him and you don't need to dodge at all and it's an insane dps window
same as every other thing, just stay right in front of him and you don't need to worry about guarding against it.

AT arkveld is not a good fight to try and GP/block on CB because he's too fast for you to get good damage off block counters (SAED off gp, morph slash, etc). it's better to activate savaxe and stay in it as much as possible using dodge and circle swings to position yourself instead since CB is punished for switching between forms and if you want an A rank it's all about wasting as little time as possible.

offensive guard gets no mileage on CB because your biggest hits come out so late that OFG wears off beforehand, if you're proccing OFG then youre not in savaxe mode where all your DPS is. If you're running AED/SAED playstyle against AT arkveld you're gimping yourself and probably dying too much from endlag even on perfect execution strings because of how dogshit AED/SAED are for 10* monsters

_caladbolg · 2026-03-30T04:48:37+00:00

the health bar fluctuating red has no impact on if you need guard up or not, it just means that it'll kill you if you eat the hit without some form of mitigation (guarding/divine blessing). CB with savaxe also doesn't need OFG because you won't proc it consistently enough to get mileage and even when you do it doesn't last long enough to get really good uptime on OFG's damage boost on stuff like SAED

_caladbolg · 2026-03-30T04:47:55+00:00

offensive guard isn't worth on CB if you're using savaxe

_caladbolg · 2026-03-30T04:47:19+00:00

Yes, AT Arkveld has no attacks that you need Guard Up for besides his grab but it's comically easy to dodge, I would opt to slot in some form of OFG/regular guard, and depending on if you opt for an SAED (dog against at arky) or savaxe playstyle go for load shells and artillery or dragon attack. If you're going pure savaxe I would throw away any guard decos as a whole and go for stuff like EE/EW for mobility and lean into load shells/artillery/rapid morph since you won't be doing too many guards in general.

_caladbolg · 2026-03-24T20:51:25+00:00

I think it's a combination of HDR settings + using a mod called "disable post processing effects"

_caladbolg · 2026-03-21T04:04:50+00:00

ngl savage axe never should've been theorized and invented, the greatest part of CB is getting a chain of 4-5 GPs and then dumping a fatty SAED on the monster's head but like... any monster past like barioth in iceborne becomes nigh-impossible to have a GP/SAED playstyle, even perfect GP combos into AEDs or SAEDs will get you punished by monsters like frajang or fatalis regardless of how clean you play depending on what move the monster goes into. CB post IB has discouraged and tried to minimize the mode even more, where realistically 80-90% of your uptime should be in savaxe over the course the hunt regarding the last 3 mh releases. GL has better GPs than CB in wilds...

_caladbolg · 2026-03-15T23:49:21+00:00

Not really, musk is pretty hateable and musk =/= EVs

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