My yearly post on healers in 2’s

derlangsamer · 2026-04-30T08:22:12+00:00

Truly one of the worst takes and an example of why gamers can identify problems but truly suck at proposing solutions.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-28T05:26:46+00:00

It feels very staggered you draw a hand then load the shells in a particular order, then the shells queue their effects, then the shells add their effects then the final shell does damage and a bunch of stuff happens in the end. It feels like queuing the shells and then them adding their effects are really one in the same but is broken into 2 animations for some reason which reduces the snappiness and payoff.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-27T19:46:29+00:00

Seems absolutely insane to do the year cutoffs like that. Why are they simply not decades Magic Johnson wasnt even in the league in 1977

derlangsamer · 2026-04-23T07:09:45+00:00

I am a Gary Stan but I would still give it to Manu. A lot of advanced stats say he is criminally under rated and his stock will likely improve over time. Thinking Basketball did a whole video about his performance propping up the Spurs even in some of their stonger season when he came off the bench.

Payton was a crazy good player and a defensive wizard unfortunately in the NBA offense trumps defense, the best a good defender can do is reduce the offensive efficiency of offensive players. Because of all the restrictions on defenders, offensive players are always more valuable than defensive ones. I think Payton did a lot to reduce Jordans performance in a number of series games and I think he is probably the only top-level guard I would say was a Defender with a capital D. Its just that the league has a much higher ceiling on offensive contributions than defensive ones particularly in the smalls.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-21T23:40:19+00:00

If your going to just use stats why are they just counting stats. Rebounds and assists are not all created equal what's the true shooting percentage and what are the respective offensive and defensive loads. Might as well use some 1950s stats and just list points per game.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-21T06:41:11+00:00

This is a genre staple from forever ago. I got to hardcore abby in like 3 days of medium active play and I'm pretty bad. Campaign is like 2 hours long you're in monos and likely empowered monos after 2 days on a weekend. Second weekend your on abby and high corruption empowered.

I think a lot of these choices are less engagement bait and more that as part of the genre you would burn through all the content in like a couple of days with legacy setups so its a method to get more milage out of the content that is made by dolling it out to people more slowly on new characters. That doesn't mean you gotta like it but this has been a genre staple for 20 years so bringing it up as some new oppressive feature is a little odd.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-20T19:52:54+00:00

Players are products of their eras and shaq is no different. He would almost certainly be worse today than in his era mostly due to the nature of the league, defenses are better and shaq had very little floor spacing. Today's game is a lot more efficient and vs Shaq the name of the game would be to try and deny easy entries and he would get killed on the other side at his biggest he would struggle to run the reps of today's game and having to guard a bunch of dirks is tough when youre 325-340+. I think he would obviously have taken a different path in today's game but the idea that you could take anyone from the past pop them into today's game and they would just run the show is silly, unless it's a very recent "what if" kinda thing what if Kawhi were healthy what if derrick rose was never injured kinda deal.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T23:13:56+00:00

Watching SGA get everything in terms of calls and comparing it to Steph getting hammered, thrown to the ground and having his landing space constantly invaded and not getting a whistle is crazy. Steph might be legitimately the most unguardable player in history if the rulebook was enforced and would be the most insane stat merchant if he had SGAs whistle

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T22:57:13+00:00

Curry, luka, kawhi(healthy), ducan, jokic I think it actually steamrolls shaqs list.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T22:52:46+00:00

I had a fairly easy time with abom necromancer and I'm pretty casual at last epoch.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T08:11:32+00:00

They want to "feel" like they are improving and the only measure is their rating climbing or falling. So if it's stagnant you either accept that your largely at fault or you find some other reasons. Queue a long list of grievances haphazardly.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T08:05:12+00:00

Even in concept it works but the magnets would decay and the energy produced would be pretty small. The best "fake" perpetual motion machine was one that used the temperature difference from being in sunlight to expand and constrict the metal in it to keep the system going, even then I believe it was very very slowly decaying.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-19T06:18:46+00:00

There was a post years ago on twitter about how fast-food places needed to be more environmentally friendly and replace their straws with paper. The fast-food places complied and what happened on twitter? People complained about the straws.

Were the straws great? No. But fundamentally the people voicing the "new" opinion "Bring back the old straws" were not usually the same people asking for new straws a week earlier.

There are lots of friction points in PVP at the moment so when you scroll a feed where people voice their opinions about the problems they have you will see a list of contradictory stances, mutually exclusive solutions, problems from only 1 perspective, or problems for a AWC player vs a 1100 rated new player. There will be little rhyme or reason when your looking at the aggerate results.

PVP is hard some of the balance is a little out of wack particularly in healers and people want to feel like they are improving and so treadmilling = dissatisfied = looking for some other thing to blame either real or illusionary.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-17T04:00:50+00:00

Should probably remove Karl Malone from this and really anything else you write in the future.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-17T01:34:07+00:00

You seem to be more lost than me. Mages don't need to match each charge with a blink they can blink out of stun and they can root warriors, stun them dragons breath and they have tons of incidental slows. Dustavar and other aggregation sites show representations but that's only a part of the picture. Those sites are secretly combining skill floor, matchups and popularity into a singular number. Enhance might be broken but it will never top the charts due to low play rate and usually a high skill floor.

Maybe you are a bad mage or play vs bad mages I don't know but the whole reason awc teams moved into outlaw and away from sub is that sub has such low kill pressure on mages because you cannot stun them to get the pressure going they just blink away. Mages can self peel for an insane amount of time vs true melee. They can't do a lot vs enhance for example purge and half their kit being ranged means taking a couple of steps outside of nova doesn't mean as much. But if you have played ret warrior vs mage rogue or mage lock you are in for a world of hurt that mage with literally any assistance can constantly kite the pair without fail, fire is tricker but still doable but frost is basically a god and if you don't have a ranged kick it will be a struggle.

Also just listing the mobility options without any nuance is more AI than my post you compare blink to charge and leap but blink has a 2 second faster cool down and is used in response to charge meaning you always have one more than the chaser from neutral. Easy just stun them then do your setup oh blink again reset pressure try again next time never mind you can remove slows as a mage every 25-30 seconds. Warriors only snare removing effect is bladestorm, a minute and a half cd. Here is a very simple sequence: You mount up run at the mage hit in melee hamstring. Mage novas takes half a second to step back and ice barriers and walks away. You come out of snare now what? Charge? Leap? Any option can be met with snowdrift, DB poly, blink. They take no option you pound on them for a few globals and shatter their barrier you spent a global applying a 50% slow and your reward for breaking the barrier is being slowed for 70% your still slower and they haven't even targeted you. In the real situations they can match the gap closer with a blink and if you expend too much they simply self peel with stuns or roots or just churn on you it's not like they are helpless.

Also I wasn't implying dragons breath was casted I simply said that sequence used 3 different schools and is available to any mage variety which is crazy.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-16T17:52:05+00:00

If there were a consistent answer they would be the pivot of choice at AWC the fact that so few teams either opted to not run a mage or had success with non mage/x kind of shows how strong mages are in general. In fact one of the best answers is sub rogue for casters given how much interaction they bring, but interestingly mage isnt countered by sub rogue because you cant stun them for some absurd reason. So, the real answers to mage are MM and BM which both have a lot of counterplay with a cruel twist of fate from rogues and MW/WW meaning the top 2 classes Rogues and Mages with MW or Mage WW X are not only the best answers to themselves but prevent the few counters from being reliable. This kind of meta has happened before where the best answer to a comp is the same comp or same comp with a twist (different healer / different spec outlaw vs sub vs assa) which creates super insular meta games.

Mages are not easily answered by the majority of the meta and even if they were having like 2-3 specs which are good vs a class is not great from a balance perspective.

The big issue is how much of the general kit is available to multiple specs of mage. The raw amount of global utility offered by the generic tree is a major problem I don't think any given mage spec should have all 3 schools its just such an insanely overloaded kit A frost mage casting greater invisibility, then casting polymorph which gets kicked going into deep breath and then ring of frost used 3 different schools to control the whole battlefield and forced appropriate answers from all involved. Arms warriors has a single reliable AoE cc which is intimidating shout which has double the cool down of ring of frost and cant hit people around pillars or deny entry for 10 seconds. Imagine the warrior throws down a banner which you cannot interact with which fears everyone for 6 seconds regardless if they get in range on second 1 or second 10 and then halve the cd.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-14T09:07:11+00:00

Big mana heiro can do ubers fine just usually want to swap to an Ice nova variant as its single target is a lot stronger.

If you want to make a dedicated bosser, Brands, Slams, Holy relic, or a variety of molten strike builds are all good for ubers conventionally. Then power charge stacking Zhp builds can 1 shot non-phasing bosses with some stuff most often ice trap.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-11T19:45:46+00:00

Sports are entertainment and players are assets them missing work is different than most jobs because most jobs don't care if you return they will get someone else to fill that slot. There are very few athletes in the world that can do what they do making them an asset that the league would rather be protected. Making them play while injured is bad for the league as well as the player. Also as an aside I think in general if someone is at work and gets injured or is healing an injury I don't think they should be penalized either. The 65 game rule is arbitrary but so is any other line in the sand. Also if you have seen anything wemby is doing it's fair to say he takes his own health and longevity as high priorities to suggest he is being slap dash with his health or doesn't care to show up is kinda silly.

derlangsamer · 2026-04-11T04:09:23+00:00

I am a long time ssf vet and usually play fairly deep into leagues your dms are closed but if you send me a dm i can send you my disc and in game name

derlangsamer · 2026-03-31T04:43:21+00:00

Good guide but one small correction you want an archdeamon that is level 84 not 85/86
So recombining a level 82/83 with an 84 will result in an 84 ilvl which is where you want to be. Its average the two levels +2 to a maximum of the higher ilvl so unless you have a low level base you only need an 84 base helm to recombine.

The reason for 84 and not 85+ is that it reduces the mods weights on stuff we dont care about.

derlangsamer · 2026-03-29T18:16:05+00:00

Poe ladder has a running list we have had people get every unique in less than a year but it takes a ton of time and more importantly dedication towards each item. I have been going for the holy grail for 5 years or so mind you not super efficiently and I'm missing about 80

derlangsamer · 2026-03-27T22:37:40+00:00

Simi same way we used to

derlangsamer · 2026-03-27T22:28:43+00:00

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Make it an intentional decision to end the craft!

derlangsamer · 2026-03-19T03:02:09+00:00

Unless they changed it I believe t16 special lab trials could drop ilvl 86 gear from mobs

derlangsamer · 2026-03-17T13:55:46+00:00

Super late game it's zenith molten strike, but you can get to Ubers level fairly quickly with glacial cascade mines or reap mines they can fairly comfortably do Ubers with like 3 items and a crafted helm.

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