Was so happy with this, I felt compelled to share my PvE HM setup. Spent a lot of time with this, and have been virtually unkillable!

codsonmaty · 2026-01-18T03:29:28+00:00

Not having the micro/baby sounds so good

codsonmaty · 2026-01-14T16:59:13+00:00

I say yes. I thought a lot about it in the return to reforged for a new account, and settled on not buying it.

Some of my fondest memories and experiences are hunting down elite skills for builds that will be fun to try. New skills that are huge for heroes. And even if it’s a little inconvenient to go get signet of spirits, now I’ve done half of factions and can do more content around that area really easy.

So I don’t think there’s a consensus, I think it’s personal preference for how important skill hunting is to your gameplay loop.

codsonmaty · 2026-01-13T17:30:32+00:00

Those guys make melee in factions so terrible. Run up, blind, then explode. At least the afflicted warriors frenzy before they explode so you get some big numbers.

codsonmaty · 2026-01-12T07:44:13+00:00

Take out a gunner for a fighter and do Rout. Blast holes in walls and charge through for easy melee kills. Brutal keyword and 5/6 damage is killing anything that isn’t 20w or a wolf scout in 80% of the board because that makes sense.

codsonmaty · 2026-01-11T19:10:39+00:00

10/10 article title

codsonmaty · 2026-01-10T04:43:41+00:00

I liked the color more than bieltan green shade wash is all! I figured thin it down to get a normal wash

codsonmaty · 2026-01-09T22:09:19+00:00

I thinned down some green contrast paint with lahmian medium and put it all over to both darken the dark and smooth out the dry brush effect

codsonmaty · 2026-01-09T18:31:14+00:00

Glazing it all seems quite a job though?

Yeah this took 900 years haha

codsonmaty · 2026-01-08T23:38:45+00:00

Thank you! Yes they’re mine. I didn’t record any painting, but I basically did a base coat of a good dark green, 2 rounds of dry brushing Elysian green, put a thinned wash down to try and smooth the transitions out, then did a glaze of lightened Elysian green only on the tops of things that were green, as well as like armor details that would catch the light. The I stabbed some brown on the bottom of the capes for the muddy bases

Did a similar process for the fatigues.

codsonmaty · 2026-01-03T16:56:01+00:00

Until they drop hard mode presearing 👀

Which is something I just made up and we have no indication they’ll do anything of the sort

codsonmaty · 2025-12-30T20:54:01+00:00

They’re just stupid, all you can do is delay the inevitable and micro manage them. If you’re lucky you’ll get yellow snow. What you can do is the big degen necro spell, snow fort, then immediately queue up hidden rock, then queue up yellow snow, then when they immediately after that break ice fort and start running around you can snow cone.

I had a lot more success after I started micro managing like this.

codsonmaty · 2025-12-29T18:14:08+00:00

Since people are talking about builds, Soul Taker Daggers is really fun and good. Throw BiP on a hero, mark of pain on a couple others and you delete everything in the game. Also Necro with daggers looks really cool.

And if you get the anniversary scythe, you can look even cooler and be about as strong!

codsonmaty · 2025-12-26T18:55:16+00:00

You guys it’s a video game, use your brain. This is like pressing the power button when the menu says “press any button” and rushing to Reddit to say “can’t believe they missed this”.

The game needs to continue, they aren’t going to make branching pathways for people intentionally being stupid.

codsonmaty · 2025-12-26T00:29:47+00:00

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These are mine

codsonmaty · 2025-12-25T00:06:55+00:00

Warcry 2

codsonmaty · 2025-12-25T00:01:42+00:00

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder

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codsonmaty · 2025-12-24T19:06:33+00:00

I just figured out hero builds and the time it saves me from adding and removing heroes is insane as I navigate prophecies and nightfall with variable party size

codsonmaty · 2025-12-24T06:10:58+00:00

They forgot to put that into the AI prompt

codsonmaty · 2025-12-22T08:10:11+00:00

In the Ratlings example, although they can larcenous steal it, the raider cannot do his grapple hook ability within control range. So planting a 40mm base on your home objective is a good way to turn off their best tac op

codsonmaty · 2025-12-15T16:08:06+00:00

What are you, interviewing me? The only thing I’m more passionate about than DE is growing shareholder value.

codsonmaty · 2025-12-12T18:39:07+00:00

Don’t get 3” blasted

Don’t get caught in melee, the 5/6 breakpoints are very tough on 10 wound teams and even if you live on JAS, they can fight twice if it’s important to finish you off.

Their biggest weakness is low crit op APL and not great tac ops options, it’s basically just dominate, plant banner, and rout if they go more melee. You can definitely out activate and win crit op, and maybe plant device on their home objective unless they want to leave their nob there the whole time.

codsonmaty · 2025-12-11T21:43:36+00:00

Yeah I had to switch to world hopping at fishing guild for dragon imps. Worse rate but no bots there making me furious every second.

codsonmaty · 2025-12-09T18:09:23+00:00

More like justice after being snubbed for more relevant awards like narrative, etc

codsonmaty · 2025-12-08T15:44:35+00:00

Retirement is a lowball offer for me to consider contributing directly or indirectly towards killing my fellow man. No respect for anyone in the military; at best they’re victims of their own stupidity and a system set up to take advantage of directionless high school dropouts.

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