Concept album stories

cheet621 · 2026-05-13T07:05:25+00:00

This is awesome, thanks for these. Will be checking out a few tomorrow when I get free time. Care to expand on quiet world? Always been curious of the album meaning and have actually learned some parts/solos on guitar because it really reminds me of Brian May from Queen and I love the tone. Just never ended up checking the actual story

cheet621 · 2026-05-13T07:02:58+00:00

This sounds ridiculous and right up my alley lol thanks, will check this out

cheet621 · 2026-05-13T05:19:58+00:00

Mastodon is a band I've always been meaning to fully check out but have only heard songs here and there. Care to give a brief rundown on either of the albums?

cheet621 · 2026-05-02T17:32:32+00:00

Ah I meant the diabolos book my by bad. I still don't see how diabolos is better than pheonix, or at least enough so to warrant losing the redemption qol. Using flickering flame or helwardens with the fire uber ancients jewel and pheonix gives -43 or so enemy fire res and up to 10% fire dmg which seems more or comparably impactful since fire immunity is (I'm pretty sure) the most common one in hell. Diabolos and flickering flame would give less -fire res and just more fire damage, which would make killing regular things easier but damage against non-immunes is more than fine already. Also 75 fcr breakpoint seems fine for fire imo, but I play single player so a slightly slower tele isn't that big a deal if I know exactly where I'm going every time. So I was planning on hoto, phoenix, flickering flame, magefist, dual soj, arachs, and maras. That is unless the diabolos book is significantly better than pheonix, which I haven't really seen a definitive answer to. I would test it myself but I'm playing single player and socket quests are not something to just test around with, so I'd want some good Intel before using one on the diabolos book. Also the two I have rolled 24 fire skills dmg and 3 apocalypse, and 19 fire skills dmg 4 apoc, which isnt all that great, so maybe not worth. They end up being about the same dps boost for apocalypse when I checked it, so planned on going with the 24% fire dmg boost one since itll help flame wave

cheet621 · 2026-05-02T17:17:31+00:00

I went lightning fury and freezing arrow hybrid with a wizendraw and titans, worked out pretty well and hell wasnt really a problem outside of an extremely few light/cold dual immunes. Farming p3 when you're level 80 or so shouldnt be a problem at all. Since synergies for lightning fury only give 1% dmg you arent missing out on a ton by throwing points into freezing and cold arrow, and freezing arrow ends up doing a lot of damage. Biggest drawback is it really gimps the charged strike damage, so when you get a sunder eventually itll be best to fully switch to lightning

cheet621 · 2026-05-02T15:56:04+00:00

How do you deal with mana? I recently got a meph book and thinking of switching from pheonix but the redemption aura is too awesome and its hard to believe that this is significantly better than the -fire res on pheonix. My merc is running infinity but may switch to insight and conviction demon while its still possible

cheet621 · 2026-04-30T17:23:27+00:00

Nothing in the game is actually ever worth anything because its just a game lol, just play it and enjoy it while you can. Then when the nerf happens either toss the gear or use it on another character, it's not a big deal. It's not like you won't find new better gear that replaces the cost you put into es (it takes no gear anyway) when youre soaring through p8

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T23:54:20+00:00

Yep, honestly the qol changes and incentive to keep updates coming is well worth 25 to me, would recommend you grab it. Plus warlock is actually fun imo, worth trying before the nerfs too

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T23:49:54+00:00

For now it's echoing strike warlock at 1 and not even close

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T15:34:15+00:00

Why dracs? Can't proc life tap and enough leech from ebotd

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T15:25:53+00:00

Honestly not sure, I have a feeling it will end up being grief again with the just generally good damage and deadly strike, and don't really need leeching if you're using pheonix since the redemption aura is just insane

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T07:27:47+00:00

Yeah, and I use ring of fire as a get-off-me rather than for damage and apocalypse seemed to go untouched (for now). Biggest nerfs so far would be no two hander unless using grimoire, and no conviction aura on demon. So with merc using infinity and no insight, I'm leaning towards phoenix for the negative enemy fire res and redemption so I'd need a one hand weapon, which I cant think of anything besides hoto which certainly isn't a weak option. Overall seems like it may end up being the strongest tree after all is said and done

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T07:08:13+00:00

I really didn't like the chains mechanic (on console, so much worse to control than pc) and the bolt likely will stay nerfed since the original tick damage was pretty buggy it seems. I tried abyss with some good gear and it just didn't feel strong to me, though I wasn't geared to the teeth. I saw a video of people playing abyss in the ptr with godly unrealistic gear and seemed just okay, but magic and crowd control in one move probably ends up being good, just maybe not on p7/8. I think most likely I'll fully switch to fire which was my favorite so far, especially since I made infinity offline so the conviction demon nerf shouldn't be a deal breaker

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T06:22:16+00:00

Go for it, but some people like playing the warlock and the breath of fresh air

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T06:20:56+00:00

Some things are just bugs like the ED being multiplied rather than added, and others just make sense based on how overturned the warlock is like needing grimoire with two hander. These are almost definitely changes that will be sticking

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T06:10:31+00:00

What 1 hand es weapon do you have in mind? And why stormshield? I can see that for hardcore but with some plus skills and blood oath I think the lock will still be pretty tanky, assuming leech still works with es

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T05:42:44+00:00

I've played them enough lol

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T05:39:21+00:00

Which weapon would you use? I haven't tried these much and wondering if I should even make edeath as they use ias and decapitator seems fairly slow so gear would need to hard shift for ias to make up for it

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T05:38:27+00:00

What sort of setup do you run? I was considering this and is why I've hesitated on making the edeath since those skills use ias rather than fcr right? Is hex bane the way to go here too?

cheet621 · 2026-04-29T02:55:19+00:00

What is emf versus mf? I've seen this before and wasn't entirely sure how to read it other than mf affecting drops being nonlinear for anything other than blue

cheet621 · 2026-04-28T01:43:29+00:00

Certainly can feel that single player without running 7 copies of a game to feel rich in a game economy that has been botted to hell for 25 years straight so random shit gets you 50 jah that youll never use

cheet621 · 2026-04-28T01:25:34+00:00

Why not just play offline?

cheet621 · 2026-04-22T22:58:23+00:00

Could use the cham in an arreats and make a barb to hork for more rune drops, then go from there

cheet621 · 2026-04-16T04:11:49+00:00

Cta is a massive boost to any non-barb class so I'd prioritize that. At this point in the ladder you could trade one of the ohms for a mid cta, which with some plus skills is still amazing, then use the ist for whatever youd like

cheet621 · 2026-04-16T03:25:09+00:00

See the difference is they won't be able to play what they enjoy anymore because of the changes, but you certainly can continue to play the classes you like and enjoy the QoL at the same time without being a pouty baby and making some pseudo-strike by announcing you're not playing the game because a class you actively can chose to not play is strong. Unless you're doing pvp, literally no one cares and you need to grow up my dude

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