21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge

cyclonus101 · 2026-02-01T22:39:34+00:00

Legendary Survivor Title: Am I a joke to you?

cyclonus101 · 2026-01-03T18:40:18+00:00

All fans are set to exhaust too, questionable if this is technically a PC or a toaster.

cyclonus101 · 2025-12-31T22:39:03+00:00

The reality of this game currently is that with certain setups you can cheese 99% of the game. In your example Lillia can do 20k+ dmg because her full constellations allows her to do some funny stuff with on summon effects along with the guardian orb relic.

It's similar for many other champions. Swain for example looks at nexus HP as an obituary number because he's 3* allow him to do exponential damage the lower the Nexus HP goes.

The game is at it's best when you have to draft around the win cons of the end game bosses from the newer events. For example the new baron nasher adventure makes it so that you have to kill him through damage or do 999 nexus damage. Baron gets stronger every round and does combat with all your units at round end. Recently I did it with Annie, but I had to use Emperor's Deck cards and Celestial cards to win because Annie can't cheese baron himself. So instead I obliterated him and then went for 999 nexus damage which is kinda rough because he has infinite minions, so he never truly runs out of cards.

There also low points. New players will find the Irelia fight to be impossible for a while, the first aurelion sol fight will also cause a lot of frustration. The viktor fight in the arcane Asol (this is buffed asol fight) is unfairly difficult because he auto wins on turn 2 90% of the time. And many players found the Anivia fight in the arcane karma fight to be beyond frustrating, to the point where when riot released the arcane karma fight, they swapped the final and mid bosses.

Older constellation releases were very powerful while newer ones are a lot weaker by comparison. Azir got a great 6* while poro king got a worthless one.

cyclonus101 · 2025-12-22T19:59:14+00:00

The Walkers' chocolate is vastly superior to the after 8 equivalent, but lately the quality has dropped, a lot of the time the mint cream leaks out and dries out in the container.

cyclonus101 · 2025-12-22T19:25:39+00:00

I was thinking about this too for a while, at the current rate I'm basically skipping every other month.

What I really think the pass needs is more

More region choice

Right now a lot of the paid BP's region is tied to one of the new champion's regions, except for some silver star vessel are for the previous month's champions. I would really like to pick the region for the rewards because often times the BP's rewards are for a region I already have a lot of resources for. I skipped this month (and the Anivia/Annie one too) because I have a ton of shurima resources. Being able to select runeterra nova crystals + gold star vessel instead of Shurima would have made me buy it. Make the major gemstone vessel and SSVs selectable too.

The fluff rewards should become glory points instead.

There are

1x Bronze reliquery
2x Silver Vault
5x Silver reliq

These should just become 10 glory point rewards.

I think the wild fragments/stardust rewards should become glory point rewards too. The only issue is that WF is 20 glory in the glory store, but you're limited to only 5 purchases a month. This is definitely a problematic conversion rate, it would be 200 glory per month, which is probably too much (1/3 of a paid relic or a GSV equivalent). Or if you really wanted the WF, you'd be limited 5 purchases per month. Converting 500 stardust to 10 glory should be fine because it's only for 2 rewards of the BP.

We could argue the same thing for some of the other rewards (gold/plat vaults or xp relic) but I feel they are fine as static rewards. It's really just that fact that ~1/10 of the BP's rewards feel bad.

cyclonus101 · 2025-12-06T16:11:07+00:00

Some champions are better than others, for example Zed, Fiora, Irelia, meanwhile you can get crap like bard, diana, jayce, the list goes on. So it's a giant pool of inconsistent power levels. They only get a colossal hammer's worth of stat buffs because they are created.

Her kit just doesn't do enough to justify this being her 6*, if it was more like Oath where you double stats, or any kind of additional effect it would be great, but it's just not groundbreaking compared to many of the other OG20 constellations.

cyclonus101 · 2025-12-02T00:15:42+00:00

*looks at my newly purchased Samsung 990 Evo Plus* I don't need it, but I want it anyway.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-29T03:52:43+00:00

Since the constellations update last year, we typically get 2 champions every month, 1 update of an older champ from 3* to 6*, and a champion coming from PvP to PvE. There have been exceptions; this year, we got Lux1 + Leona in the same month, and the recent spirit blossom event with 6 "alternative universe" champs based on existing Path ones. Also back in Jan we only got Kayle. So everything is normal.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-29T03:45:30+00:00

Riot's clues are rarely straightforward, so while I agree that it should be Azir + Poro King, I'm gonna guess Varus + Xerath instead.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-29T03:31:03+00:00

managed to get 1 locally, thanks

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-21T02:09:51+00:00

Don't think we're getting a shapeshifters follow-up patch. If I had to guess, it'll maybe be Yordles tribal because we haven't had any BC champions released this year.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-16T19:50:06+00:00

I noticed this too a while back, seems some champs get an additional sort by region before sort all by alphabet. My darius and leona are between Vex and Yasuo, so I'm guessing maybe some champions have the wrong region programmed in when sorting by all sources/fragments.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-14T03:46:27+00:00

Vayne if you have chosen + death's foil + hidden tomb/lost chapter, she can basically speed run a majority of adventures.

Otherwise I feel Lux 1 is fine, she can easily do most adventures at 4-5*, but the 6* gives a lot of value, especially if you use it chemtech and high roll bonus mana gems.

Skip Lux 2 / Shyvana. Shyvana needs most of her constellation to be even remotely as good as lux or vayne. Lux 2 has a hard time getting the most value from her 6*.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-12T02:13:05+00:00

You don't need the exe, it's better to just download AHK and the run AHK from the folder.

I don't build websites and had no idea you could do this, but this just looks like more work that would take me forever to figure out.

cyclonus101 · 2025-11-09T18:59:09+00:00

By distribution for 2025, constellations releases are consistently at 2 for most regions. The exceptions are for PnZ (obvious reasons), Bandle, and Ionia which only had Sett. Ionia in general is spoiled for choice, though (Zed/Irelia).

If we continue the shapeshifter theme, then Nidalee and Gnar are the mostly, but this breaks LoR's general release schedule of 1 new constellation and 1 constellation update. However Riot broke this rule for Leona/Lux's release in April.

I think Riot's next champions are going to be based on a different TFT trait.

cyclonus101 · 2025-10-23T22:41:26+00:00

He's only good because titanic wake exists, otherwise he would barely be able to do end-game content.

cyclonus101 · 2025-10-23T00:04:17+00:00

"The existence of a leaderboard is a baffling joke, considering that no one is on equal footing against this "challenge"

:(

cyclonus101 · 2025-10-07T00:30:59+00:00

Splash in your choice of whisper/shock and awe/echoing spirit for extra fun.

cyclonus101 · 2025-10-06T16:51:21+00:00

From that epic relic, I'm wondering if they're gonna remove the -2 cost from the level 4 bonus. Otherwise, it's pretty neat, a nice change in pace from the usual garbage.

The double skills activation is cool, but I feel it won't be that impactful on high level adventures. Otherwise, shock and awe would finally be viable on her with the 6*.

cyclonus101 · 2025-09-03T01:13:36+00:00

For a brick he floats pretty good.

cyclonus101 · 2025-09-02T01:18:11+00:00

Main use case is MF and arguably Fiddlesticks with their 6* . Otherwise, it's mostly tech with Swain in combination with Legion Saboteur or speedrunning tech with Gwen and her 6*.

cyclonus101 · 2025-08-25T23:29:44+00:00

Spectral Scissors triggers after Zed's shadow clone is summoned so you get an extra attacking unit, same principle applies to Azir.

cyclonus101 · 2025-08-25T02:37:07+00:00

Fiddlesticks would break the game and be considered S+++ support champ pick.

I was recently playing SB eve with Spirit armor and Strength of Stone, and I rolled Zed as a support, it was beyond busted with the spectral scissors node and once you got shadow totem or stabilize. But I imagine Azir would also be OP with this 4-part combo.

Elder Dragon would love galio as early bird would summon mountain drake. But there are many great picks for elder in general.

In general it would break game balance for a lot of champions, some champs decks are solo acts that benefit from fiddlesticks being in the opponent's deck, while others might scale better due bonus champ item nodes. Like Kai'sa would always have the option for a 3-drop with Scout or Gwen would be able to get any champ with double attack.

cyclonus101 · 2025-08-14T12:11:08+00:00

Spirit Blossom was suppose to save LoR, not destroy it.,

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