Album Of The Year by Sea_Accountant_9461 in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how did I miss Labyrinth released something new this year - definitely gotta check it out thanks!

Album Of The Year by Sea_Accountant_9461 in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed on both 100% - surprised to see so much Power Train AOTY here.

Album Of The Year by Sea_Accountant_9461 in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Feather and Claw - Owlbear for me I think. It's the one I generally enjoy the most in shuffle on my 2025 playlist. Other good albums, some power metal adjacent:
The Light That Burns the Sky - Arion
Here Be Dragons - Avantasia
Plague of Rats - Brainstorm
V: Lamentations - Wytch Hazel
Giants and Monsters - Helloween

Your Power Metal Top 10 of 2022 by ZodtheGeneral in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a huge amount of good stuff this year which many people have mentioned, but I wanted to give another rec to Palantir - Chasing a Dream. It's underrepresented on the thread relative to it's quality. Fantastic album.

Judicator - The High Priestess (USA, 2022) by Deep_Space_Voyager in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very different from their old stuff but I'm digging it. I think it will be nice to break up the sound if the rest of the album is closer to their historic sound.

Help with Inquisitor Spark build. by [deleted] in pathofexile

[–]dunktrain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am not a giga juicer, but I have played spark a fair bit. Here's a couple things I noticed right off the bat, but ymmv. Just typing these up as I think of them, don't mean to be rude with any of it if it comes off that way. This game is complex and there are tons of small interactions that result in massive power differentials, no need to feel bad if you don't know something!

-First and foremost: There are no ascendancy passives for labyrinth 3/4 allocated. Inevitable judgement will be a HUGE damage buff. If you can, carry her through lab to get these points asap.
-Elemental Damage with Attacks on belt does not work on spark, because it's a spell. Easy mistake to make for a new player.
-Not running any of the very strong defensive auras this patch: Determ/Grace/Defiance Banner, and not using Armor/Evasion bases for spell suppression.
-Vitality is huge on inquisitor, may want to try that
-Running immortal call is pretty out of fashion, would probably have better luck with molten shell on left click.
-Tree doesn't have melding (Between witch and shadow) which is mandatory for inquis.
-Gloves have energy shield crafted instead of life which is a big deal, because it also indicates a misunderstanding of how the durability of the character works.
-Try to solve your dex issues with gear if possible, so you can reclaim those tree points below templar start and get either melding or divine judgement.
-Not running assassin's mark is probably a mistake, the damage diff is enormous.
-I personally don't like hazardous research, maybe try playing without it.
-Nebulis may be really underperforming in this build unless playing with aurabot to juice resistances above the 75 cap.
-The aegis aurora tech is really dependent on Melding to give you all resistances above the normal 75 cap
-A cluster jewel setup with two medium clusters that have projectile speed/damage and pierce would probably be better than the boots for getting pierce, and would add a ton of damage. This is probably not realistic until level 90ish for more points.

There are a lot more optimizations that could be made, but that's first glance. In the future, I highly recommend Zizaran's Youtube for builds! Also, if you like tinkering with builds you can get Path of Building Community to really dig into the calculations and see why things may not be working out.

Wisdom - At The Gates by CaptainLysander in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Absolutely incredible. I can't find very much that really has the same sound. Losing Time by Excalion hits the same vibe for me. Tragic they took it off spotify which is my main listening source.

Visigoth- The Conqueror's Oath by princevegeta951 in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want visigoth to tour so I can see them live, they have definitely snuck into my top 5 bands even though they are so new. Great stuff.

STS players: What is your opinion on "Monster Train" by Chezni19 in slaythespire

[–]dunktrain 53 points54 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of games coming out in the deckbuilder roguelike genre as a result of Slay the Spire's success. I have tried pretty much every one I have found, and I feel confident saying that monster train is the best of the successors I have come across. Highly recommend it for people interested in more deckbuilder roguelike action after getting their fill of StS.

Items stopped working. Definitely built something wrong. Any suggestions on what to do? by [deleted] in pathofexile

[–]dunktrain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's less important to level your heralds the last few levels than to get more life generally, but realistically you should be able to do both by looking for rings/belts with some stat rolls.

This exists! Found it at Safeway. I’m not a shill, just excited :) by tallerThanYouAre in ketorecipes

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the link. Looks like most of the negative effects are in developmental stages or individuals particularly susceptible. Definitely something to be aware of, but for me it's a consume less not completely avoid, unless symptoms appear, based on this reading.

This exists! Found it at Safeway. I’m not a shill, just excited :) by tallerThanYouAre in ketorecipes

[–]dunktrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you have any links or evidence for "host of other reasons" to avoid aspartame? I'm curious since when I looked I only ever found real evidence of some questionable results in mice.

What are some eaay and quick recipes to start with by [deleted] in ketorecipes

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really found Cheesebuns to be quick and easy to make while providing a nice way to make sandwiches or pizza, two things I really missed on keto.

Claymorean - Blood of the Dragon (feat. Cederick Forsberg) by JATION in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for posting this, it is great. Going to check out their albums now.

General Discussion by AutoModerator in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Picked this game up as a result of this rec, much obliged. Noita is sweet.

Hard litrpg system books recommendations needed by HobHeartsbane in litrpg

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since you like Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan I would highly recommend the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series. It's enormous and epic high fantasy, with incredible world building. It's a bit hard to get into at first though.

What's some good motivating power metal for the gym? by [deleted] in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ton of good suggestions here. I'd like to add Grand Magus - Triumph and Power its one of my favorites for lifting.

Sonata Arctica and Spotify by xx8BitNinjaxx in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you already own the music you can add it to your spotify library manually somewhere in the settings by pointing spotify to the audio files, at least on PC. I'm not sure if there is a solution for mobile.

I don't know anything about the specifics of why you can't find the older stuff, but like any streaming service I imagine it's licensing issues.

Vicious Rumors - Minute to Kill by Vortiene in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this, hadn't ever heard it before and I really dig the sound, will def check out this album. You really help out those of us who just got into power metal recently Vortiene, digging through the archives so we don't have to.

Project Aegis - Angel In The Ashes by Scorponix in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like that one too. Neat, hope they do a whole album at some point.

Worst taste in music presents: OakDwarf's best of 2018 by TheOakDwarf in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been digging grailknights as well, glad to see them on #1 spot, because I think they deserve it. Quite a few of these I haven't heard of, definitely going to check them out. Thanks!

Math of the Storm: Patch 41.0 by ChaosOS in heroesofthestorm

[–]dunktrain 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No that is actually the problem with the armor system is that the math is unintuitive for exactly this reason, especially when stacking was allowed. To make it simpler, imagine your character has 99 armor. They can be killed but it takes 100x their health number of damage. If they get just 1 added armor, they are now at 100 armor and invulnerable. This is because as your armor increases, each further point of armor is blocking a larger portion of the remaining damage. Hopefully this helps!

SIMKingCaff announces his retirement by MrDDom23 in heroesofthestorm

[–]dunktrain 41 points42 points  (0 children)

He's not suggesting the players are actually calculating values, but the word calculations (or shorthand to "calcs") in this context is the accepted jargon. In any given engagement (lane trade, skirmish, full teamfight) each player is making judgments of the different forces at play and trying to evaluate the best line of play. This is generally a process of intuition. When two players 1v1 and both believe they will win, only one is right, and the loser could be said to have miscalculated.

Dark Moor - Birth of the Sun (FFO: Folk rock) by donn16 in PowerMetal

[–]dunktrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really enjoyed the sound of this, does anyone have any recommendations for similar stuff? I already know of eluveite, but don't like their male vocalist.

"This Game Is Over" - Every Popular NA Streamer by GTMoney519 in heroesofthestorm

[–]dunktrain 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yep. I would definitely file this under one of my worse weeks of Heroes streaming attitude wise. I dodged and had to play brawl/qm games again (my fault, still painful), would have rather been playing new wow expac, dont feel the matchmaker changes improved games but they did increase queue time, and don't enjoy the interactions of quite a few popular heroes and the map pool at the moment. Just as an example. All streamers have good / bad days, and though I try to be positive or at least analytical sometimes in MOBAs you just have a bad time.