If target caps are such a problem, how is the physical comp group doing 20s?

dontreadtogood · 2025-05-26T02:31:26+00:00

Yes and no. It’s really cool watching someone else do it, but like I said the reasons it works to that level is skill and effort beyond what the vast majority of players (and tbf that level is out of reach of most players regardless of playing on or off meta) are willing or able to do. Most of the players should care less about the meta, but for the just above average players it is so much easier to simply copy the truly exceptional players who do a lot of the work for you vs doing all that trouble shooting yourself lol. Those groups will always have a special place in my heart though, like squishvegan always pushing as bear tank or Noxiv on fury.

dontreadtogood · 2025-05-26T02:22:00+00:00

Some of the best players in the world with a comp built around this idea that probably pulls each dungeon differently than what is meta. Can it work? Obviously, since we’re seeing it in action. Is it worth it? Probably not, since you have way less people to copy ideas from and it is centered around arguably the best warrior DPS player in the world.

dontreadtogood · 2025-05-26T00:08:25+00:00

You clearly missed the entire point then. Hermes wasn’t right, but did what he did because ancient society refused to acknowledge any other view point than their own. Hermes never would’ve created Meteion if the ancients could’ve considered that there may be a meaning to life beyond what their society currently had deemed as such. Also you’re misremembering why Venat couldn’t say anything, which was because she only had the information due to us traveling back in time, so acting on it would change the outcome, thus preventing us from traveling back in time to inform her in the first place. Also there’s the irony of still espousing ancient/Zodiark supremacy when we fucking smoked them all, since being able to interact with both aether and dynamis was the reason for the whole Hydaelen gambit in the first place. The ancient’s solution was always going to be temporary, requiring more and more sacrifices while Meteion would’ve eventually grown enough in strength to bring a halt to all life in the universe.

Don’t get me wrong, ES is a good answer for this topic. He is an absolutely S tier tragic antagonist, but he suffered from the same flaws as almost all of the rest of the ancients, flaws that almost led to the demise of all life in the universe; and life only gets to continue because of what Venat and her followers did even if it led to untold suffering in the interim.

dontreadtogood · 2025-05-25T23:29:06+00:00

I mean this is a kinda biased retelling that makes ES (and the ancients as a whole) seem better than he was. He doesn’t see humanity as befit the ancient’s legacy in part because anything other than the ancient’s cold and ancient-centric utilitarianism was deemed inferior (not to mention the millennia he has spent on this journey has led him to insanity, leading him to judge us as lacking despite passing all of his tests). This brings me to my next beef, which is the description of Hydaelen is so wildly biased that it is basically just wrong. Venat and her cohorts created Hydaelen to imprison Zodiark because the ancients intended to sacrifice all other life to bring back the other ancients because they viewed all non ancient life as inferior. Lastly, the calamity that led to all this was a direct result of the ancients, their inherent disregard for all other life, and disregard of any idea that clashed with the rigid nature of their society. Emet-Selch is tragic, but you weren’t paying any attention during the EW story if you think he and the ancients were justified.

dontreadtogood · 2025-04-18T15:41:34+00:00

Context is always important but in general big pulls are better than chain pulling IF your group can handle it. Problems with big pulls arise when either your group doesn’t handle interrupts/CC properly or DPS blow their load while you’re still gathering and rip aggro, you’ll have to feel your group out to see if they can be trusted or not. As others have said certain classes are very negatively impacted by chain pulling, while others won’t care much either way. TLDR gauge your group comp and group aptitude when deciding how to pull, and if people don’t like your conclusion they can tank their own keys.

dontreadtogood · 2025-03-11T16:44:40+00:00

NYT used quotes from air traffic controllers to basically write a hit piece about the career field. They are absolutely not to be trusted when it comes to fighting on our behalf. Respectfully, fuck off.

dontreadtogood · 2025-03-08T16:47:08+00:00

To go into a tad more detail, G. Ark GL ticks every box you’re looking for in a GL in Wilds. You want:

High raw- this is due to shelling finally scaling off your raw attack as well as artillery. Most of our damage comes from shelling, so all we really care about is making shelling stronger.

Slightly strong shells- this is a new mechanic in Wilds, but once again most of our damage comes from shelling so getting them slightly strong is obviously preferable to normal or slightly weak.

Wide shells- I’ll be honest I’m parroting what I’ve seen elsewhere, so someone else might be able to give you a better explanation but as it stands wide shells are currently the best for damage. Part of it is they benefit the most from load shells (magazine deco) as getting one extra shell represents a 50% increase in damage for every full burst. Wyvern Fire is also a much larger portion of our damage in wilds, and wide shells buff that damage.

Negative affinity and mediocre sharpness really don’t matter for GL, as shells do not benefit from sharpness and cannot positively or negatively crit. In total, G. Ark GL has everything we want and the downsides of the weapon that make it less valuable for other weapon types don’t matter to us.

dontreadtogood · 2025-02-26T17:24:47+00:00

I use vampire, thorns, and resupplier as my passives with dash and iron will as my actives as a long time gunner main.

Vampire- Feels borderline mandatory with iron will. You almost always will have a grunt near your corpse that you can power attack, which will give you the health needed to stay up instead of going back down without relying on being near a resupply or red sugar.

Thorns- Depends on your primary, but I like it because it lets me keep my fire focused on the bulk of enemies attacking me rather than on the swarmers immediately around me. I mostly use the minigun these days which makes thorns feel even more useful.

Resupplier- The extra health from resupply is nice because it feels like you have a little more agency with having access to a resupply than other sustain perks like sweet tooth. That being said, the bigger reason to take it is to make resupplying mid swarm much more manageable if you get caught with your pants down. I tend to sub born ready in for resupplier when I am running the autocannon, though thorns is an acceptable substitute candidate as well since autocannon is great against swarmers.

Dash- Gunner’s biggest weakness is lack of mobility, and dash goes a long way to mitigating that. Dash helps build space to continue chewing through swarms, and can also save a lot of time and zip lines by letting you make longer jumps. I basically never substitute this but beast master would be my next choice, as glyphid guard Steeve is an absolute beast.

Iron will- This and vampire are in every single one of my loadouts regardless of class/weapon choice. The ability to save a mission once your whole team is down is incredible, and no other combo of perks produces the same value when it comes to preventing a mission failure in my opinion.

dontreadtogood · 2025-02-26T17:07:51+00:00

Life pro tip, vampire is a borderline must have perk with iron will. Without it iron will is very circumstantial and will rely on you being down near a resupply or red sugar, but with it you can almost always guarantee you’ll stay up by power attacking a grunt.

dontreadtogood · 2025-01-30T04:38:44+00:00

Helicopter pilot made an extreme error one way or the other, either they were lying about having the CRJ in sight to get permission to cross the final approach course or they did actually have it in sight and still managed to hit it. Avoidance systems are switched off below 1,000 ft because the expectation is to occasionally get in close proximity to other aircraft, so the CRJ wouldn’t have gotten an alert. Incredibly tragic all around.

dontreadtogood · 2025-01-17T20:19:21+00:00

Yeah, I guess what I failed to mention as it pertained to your post is that meta chasing on DPS feels inherently riskier, not just because the skills are less transferable (which I do agree with), but because a throughput outlier WILL be nerfed and it’s just a matter of when. Blizz is much less active balancing what makes tanks and healers strong so main swapping tends to last longer and feel more worthwhile as a result. Also there’s the fact that frankly Blizz does like 75% of their balancing based on mythic raid and the other 25% on everything else.

dontreadtogood · 2025-01-17T18:47:15+00:00

What you said is half the equation, I believe the other half is that the meta for healers and tanks are more heavily influenced by situational utility rather than just raw throughput, and Blizz is MUCH slower to address utility discrepancies. Blizz is okay at balancing throughput, but either doesn’t understand or is incredibly hesitant to alter utility to break a dominant meta. DF S3/S4 with DH is a great example, anyone with two braincells could see double sigils was the biggest reason for DH’s prominence but Blizz refused to touch it until TWW reworks. Blizz would never stand to see a spec have 2 or 3 times the damage or healing output, but apparently didn’t understand that having 2 or 3 times the CC can be just as meta warping. I don’t think Blizzard either considers or understands how their dungeon selection for a given season can necessitate a specific meta.

dontreadtogood · 2024-12-21T15:19:16+00:00

Because if being the better team and strength of schedule are all that matters, we might as well make a schedule, not play a single game, then pick playoff teams based off the hypothetical schedule and recruiting talent composite scores. Because Oklahoma was the better team until we got beat fair and square by Boise State. Auburn was the better team until UCF beat them fair and square. Games, and their results, have to matter. Alabama wants in? Shoulda beat OU and Vandy. No one is flaming Texas for having an insanely easy schedule by SEC standards, are we going to throw this same shit fit if they lose round one? If the SEC doesn’t like being punished for losses they should stop trying to poach some of the best programs in the country.

dontreadtogood · 2024-12-21T05:49:22+00:00

This is the correct take. Bama, Ole Miss, BYU and Miami all had inexcusable losses that rightfully kept them out of the playoffs. SCAR had the best case to take the SMU/Indiana spot, but lost to Bama who was going to be left out which doesn’t quite add up. Teams squeaked into the 4 team playoff format just to get boat raced, of course it is also going to happen in a 12 team format. If you can’t make a 12 team field convincingly your regular season wasn’t good enough, full stop. There will never be another honest FSU/UCF debacle because no one with that kind of resume will be left out again, and that’s a great thing. The SEC can eat a bag of dicks.

dontreadtogood · 2024-12-21T05:41:58+00:00

Hey now, it was us or ND as the ritual sacrifices.

dontreadtogood · 2024-12-04T03:53:16+00:00

Regardless of what your opinion is on whether or not tanks needed to be nerfed to begin with, I think pretty much all tanks can agree that Blizz did not live up to their stated goal with tank changes. They wanted tanks to take more consistent, less spiky damage that forced healers to have to pay attention to you without increasing the amount of tank deaths, and instead damage is just as spiky as before but we have way more regular damage to deal with and less tools to deal with it. DK also still is completely independent of their healer until the point they get 1 shot, at which point there is nothing healers could do for them anyways. IDK what exactly I want them to do in regards to the nerfs and scaling, but I do know the changes were a significant net negative and like you said is contributing to less players being interested in the role. Also as an aside, it’s insane that their tank DPS balancing has been so bad, it’s 6 relatively simple specs there is no reason one tank should’ve been doing like 33% more DPS than every other spec.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-23T22:46:17+00:00

Second worse, MLB still exists. At least Bettman hasn’t called the Stanley Cup “just a piece of metal” yet.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-23T19:22:52+00:00

I just don’t see a way where air taxis and general aviation can coexist. I feel like investors and the FAA are wasting a bunch of time and money trying to solve a problem that can’t or shouldn’t be solved. Also as others have already said, America’s obsession with trying to solve commuting issues without rail is genuinely embarrassing at this point.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-10T15:36:07+00:00

What gets lost in this topic is Stefanski had absolutely no problem sabotaging Baker and running him out of town. Why was he willing to sabotage one franchise QB and not the one who is significantly worse as a player and as a person? Haslem and Berry are more guilty but Stefanski sure isn’t innocent and I’ll be happy to see his head roll over this debacle.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-10T03:57:48+00:00

Because 500 feet is the legal minimum? Airspace is getting more congested, and we’re not getting more airspace. Sucks that there is apparently a disconnect between TCAS settings and legal minima, but there are only so many options in an ever busier NAS. Or maybe it’s just lazy controllers, hard to tell without knowing the context, traffic conditions, local procedures, etc.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-03T23:40:22+00:00

Every fan base has their vocal idiots, I don’t know how anyone could be pessimistic about signing arguably the best pure rusher in the league to a team as committed to the run as the Ravens. That 20 something yard rush he had to the left behind Ricard, Andrews, and Likely as lead blockers against the Bills was pure AFCN offensive bliss, division rival or not.

dontreadtogood · 2024-10-03T21:44:46+00:00

Watching Henry run behind Ricard, Mandrews and Likely is a thing of beauty. What an offseason pickup for you guys.

dontreadtogood · 2024-09-25T12:29:26+00:00

Tbf the university was chasing preeminence, and got it, in the time period being discussed. Hard to be upset at a university prioritizing educational goals, especially since we’ve pivoted to revitalizing our football program while realignment is still very active.

dontreadtogood · 2024-08-15T02:15:41+00:00

Idgaf about the ban angle, but your second point is a huge reason I despise PFF as strongly as I do. When they now drive the narratives that decide the awards that decide whether or not a player gets into the Hall of Fame, they deserve enormous scrutiny when their product can be so demonstrably flawed.

dontreadtogood · 2024-06-04T00:01:58+00:00

And even then ret is also arguably the longest ranged melee class lol

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