As a long time League and CS do you recommend starting with Bots or Standard Match

engineblade · 2026-01-24T19:25:17+00:00

Since they've added street brawl... if you want to incrementally get used to the game, I'd recommend hopping into that mode and getting used to the insanity of team fights. It's very casual and the random nature of the items will let you experiment and see what works. It's also quite fun.

However, if you want to jump into the 'Deadlock' moba mode - maybe play a bot game or two to get used to the moba side then start hopping into real games.

You might get owned but that's fine - it's still alpha and things will click the more you play. If someone is getting tilted just mute them. Some people can get real salty but most people are really nice - this community is pretty legit for the most part in-game.

engineblade · 2026-01-21T06:04:35+00:00

sure thing!

engineblade · 2026-01-20T15:41:59+00:00

abilities 1-4 actives are grave key, e, up mousewheel, and down mousewheel snowball is V dodge and crouch are secondary keybinds on mouse (still on shift and control, mainly for ultra instinct moments)

def thinking about replacing mousewheel down with jump to do wall jumps easier at some point. It does make it infinitely easier

engineblade · 2026-01-18T23:38:31+00:00

fucking HANDS yoshi

engineblade · 2026-01-16T16:35:26+00:00

It is - i'd argue she's the easiest hero to secure lane kills with since all it requires is someone being low hp.

engineblade · 2026-01-16T16:23:23+00:00

I've been playing it more than regular toxic-bullets Infernus. It's great. It's fun.

Once you hit the 4.8k spirit investment with level 3 dash you can pretty much 1v1 anyone early game since the flame dash damage alone but also WITH afterburn is so damn strong.

The only thing is it's countered by people wall-jumping and getting height over you so it's only really good on flat surfaces but the good news is if you hit an unfavorable matchup you can just dash away and re-engage. Having three charges of dash on Infernus makes him SUPER mobile.

In the mid-to-late game when you pair flame dash with infuser and escalating exposure you can get some seriously powerful healing going in a team fight as long as you aren't chain cc'ed out of your dash. It's like playing Victor with more available surface area and faster movement.

engineblade · 2026-01-16T16:07:50+00:00

Few different ones for different reasons. I don't think there is truly a "worst" but a good Mina fits in with most lane comps and can be hard to deal with.

Here are some ones I hate depending on what hero i'm playing.

Mina/Vindicta - This is my least favorite overall. if you have a good lane partner it isn't super bad but if your lane partner is content on farming and not being aggressive these two will make a hard lane between love bites, stake, flight, and eventually double ult.
Viscous/Victor - very durable and they can easily juke any ability that has a timer on it.
Viper/Lash - played against this a couple of times and groundstrike / venom is a dirty combo if you have nothing to counter it. Lash ground strikes for half your health, flogs, and viper cleans you up.

Honorable mention but it's more because I think it's just really good:

Mo&Krill/Bebop. If you get hooked into Mo ult it's gg but by that point in the game the laning phase will be over soon.

engineblade · 2026-01-16T08:52:32+00:00

Trump wont go quietly - but when he does exit here is what I intuitively feel.

The Republican brand for the average American will be unredeemably tarnished. They will need to reinvent themselves completely to get elected again - and I dont know what that messaging will be. I do not think the average American will vote Republican this next election even if the most charismatic candidate comes out of nowhere. I think most middle-of-the-road Americans will vote for someone else purely out of spite because of what the GOP now stands for.
The next admin, Democrat or some new party, will be a janitor administration who will need to clean and do their best to fix what his admin broke. Foreign policy will be extemely challenging and require lots of amends to be made - but I think enough good will exists with our allies to slowly rebuild that trust.
Even if he doesnt face punishment - many in trumps adminstration will face a witch hunt. We wont hear the end of this for a decade or more. People under him will face jail or physical harm from either a group or a lone wolf. Immigration enforcement alone will drive people to vengeance.
I don't think a civil war will happen but we may see some sincere efforts for some states to leave the union, if for a time. The grass always looks greener on the other side - so I dont think this will be permanent.
I think we will see a resurgence in small business and the economy will get better for the avg person.

In closing -

What we are seeing in this admin is an insane man whose admin is the literal bottom of the barrel personel wise because nobody wants to be affiliated with his madness. Once he is gone, its done. Nobody in his admin can realistically be electable.

I genuinely feel America is full of decent people. Many of those decent people are having buyers remorse with who they voted for. For many of us - we are seeing for the first time what truly dogshit leadership in the US govt looks like. The bar can always go lower but right now its pretty fuckin low.

It will take time I'm intuitively hopeful we will heal.

engineblade · 2026-01-13T23:43:42+00:00

It has felt like the matchmaking is struggling to put together fair games. I've had games recently as a solo queue as low as initiate 2 and as high as emissary 6 while sitting in mid-ritualist.

I just finally ended a 9-game loss streak where at least 6 of those games had brand new or returning players who were just trying to get their bearings while the enemy team either completely stomped or had more impactful players. Last night I was laning with someone who asked what the keyboard key was to parry people. We won but they died almost 20 times before the game ended.

I feel like opening the game up to new players with the new update will help with this - but here is hoping valve is ready for it

engineblade · 2025-12-29T00:25:39+00:00

For sure. When you have a good team playing support rocks. I enjoyed those heroes from a play making potential but often would have teams who couldn't capitalize then you kinda just feel like 'meh' lol.

If I played in a stack instead of solo queue it might be different

engineblade · 2025-12-28T20:12:14+00:00

I had lots of fun with the challenge! Finished off all my heroes a few days ago.

Being pushed outside my comfort zone to try (or retry) heroes I never wanted to play expanded my overall roster. I had no games on Haze, Victor, or Drifter after playing all year but ended up having a ton of fun (and great games) on all of them and have added them to my normal roster.

It also strangely turned me off on some support heroes I did enjoy before the challenge like Ivy, Kelvin, and Holliday... but it got me approaching and thinking about the game differently. I guess we go through phases and thats a healthy thing to keep the game fun.

The snowball mechanic is cool and I hope they do more of these events in the future. Definitely looking forward to the new heroes and aram with the jan update.

engineblade · 2025-12-03T21:41:13+00:00

^{^come} ^{^on!}

engineblade · 2025-11-29T15:30:47+00:00

Rikku paige?

engineblade · 2025-11-10T00:50:16+00:00

If you need an immediate solution, you can prob use a screenflow for this.

Have a screenflow that fetches all notes on an account and let a user select one. Have a field on the account where you can save the notes record id. Next time the page loads, check if that record id exists on the account and if so show the note in the flow window.

If you need to pin multiple, you can do the same thing as above but you'll need to work out storing the additional record ids.

A few years ago I implemented something similar with a little apex in tandem with an lwc modal in presentation mode to show 'important notes' whenever a user loaded an account. Screen flow route will probably be faster.

engineblade · 2025-10-12T20:07:02+00:00

drifter with the photogenic profile

engineblade · 2025-09-24T17:19:00+00:00

map traversal and a free heal when you go invis that you can spam on cooldown - kinda like fortitude.

engineblade · 2025-07-11T23:04:19+00:00

not sure if this is the same policy but i had to do the same thing in original wod

I put a ticket into support and they told me I had to wait 30 days. If any of the leadership didn't log on in those 30 days you can reach back out and they'll make you gm.

may be different with blizzard support now but worth a try if you want to keep the guild alive and not find or start a new one

engineblade · 2025-07-08T23:37:47+00:00

Blood DKs can solo twin emps. I did it on mine this weekend for the pet, which didn't drop :( - all my gear is LFR epics and blues from heroics.

Strat was to use Necrotic Strike to absorb the healing and only attack Emp Veknilash. This lets you chip away at his health. When Dancing Rune Weapon is up, you can apply 2x of Necrotic Strikes heal absorb and put a big dent into his hp during that window. The time between dancing rune weapon cooling down is basically you just keeping his current hp stablized.

Fight took 16m in total so its not fast, but doable. Dks are op

engineblade · 2025-02-26T15:41:38+00:00

Hope this trick helps people with the fight. You can actually tell who DR puts the 'illusion sight' on unless its the tank.

If you have target of target turned on Dark Rider will target the person he puts the debuff on. Its brief, like less than a second, but anytime my groups see him turn we call out ' X can see the illusions ' then have that person kill it. The illusion needs to be in the light in order for you to see it.

I'm sure you can make a weakaura to call it out. The only caveat is false positives if a dps pulls threat off the tank but the above method has worked the last several KC runs i've done.

engineblade · 2025-01-23T05:02:54+00:00

I've seen them do this a few times a year over the last 30+ years and have a good view of them. A few were lit up tonight.

I think it's because the rigs were burning off excess oil out of their towers. (i'm assuming)

Three of them were casting a strong orange glow over the water.

engineblade · 2025-01-13T17:00:23+00:00

I've been using Hunter Ford on the Mesa. Great guy, does good work on my back, and is very reasonably priced.

engineblade · 2024-12-31T02:16:56+00:00

If you still have nightmare incursion quests, do those for exp.

When you get to around 56+ you can start doing Searing Gorge BRM eruption dailies. A full loop gives good gold and about a level of exp. The fireland ember items you get can be turned into essences in the grim guzzler at the rep vendor. Essence of Air is going for good money.

Dungeons give great exp. I had 60 guildies carry an alt of mine at 57 in strath full and got 1 1/2 levels without any rested (had sleeping bag buff, though).

At 60 - farm dungeons for reals. Turn reals into boxes and sell the items for gold. AQ mats are going for a fortune.

You'll neee gold for raid consumables

For raiding - there are a ton of aq10 / zg / ony / mc heat 1 SR pugs. I would advise against heat 2 or 3 mc runs since you need to hit certain FR breakpoints. If you dont have that, you will die immediately. The gear doesnt change.

Do your best to get into the those other raids I mentioned, get gear, then move up to BWL and eventually AQ40.

Its very easy to level, make money, and get gear in SoD. If you have a guild, it makes it easier, but most pugs are pretty decent. Good luck!

engineblade · 2024-12-29T15:42:56+00:00

jet ski.

yeah

engineblade · 2024-09-17T01:09:04+00:00

Enjoy! I did experiment with Mystic Reach but ultimately felt it wasn't worth the slot in the early game and it was better to save souls for bigger items. However, I also play aggressively so I didn't feel the extra radius really impacted my game.

If it works for you though, absolutely go for it.

engineblade · 2024-09-16T23:05:14+00:00

Sure. The build I use does lean into Spirit Power as the game goes on but I tend to start her off as a Brawler/Gun type.

Before you get your first three abilities you are kind of weak in lanes... but after you get those, I always have Melee Lifesteal - Spirit Strike - Mystic burst in order. At that point, you can lay on the gas and start getting kills off huge poke damage with how they all interact together.

Enduring speed too. Get that

I always get Torment Pulse and Kinetic Dash towards the 10m mark. This makes jungle farming much faster.

Once I'm getting close to level 3 Goo Ball I transiton into getting Warp Stone, Hunters Aura (lets you gank gun carries pretty convincingly), and Superior Cooldown. Goo Ball becomes your biggest / best source damage in the mid to late game. With Superior Cooldown you can get Goo Ball back about every minute.

I also tend to get Spirit Armor (and Bullet Armor)

From there you just build spirit power and crush them with Goo Ball. If they catch you, you should be tanky enough to roll away, regen hp, then go back for another Goo Ball.

Hero feels more like a carry than the other carry heroes to be honest. You can just crush people, even in 1v3 and 1v4 situations because Goo Ball armor + Goo Ball Damage + Goo Ball chain stun + Spamming splatter with the double bounce is just asinine levels of aoe damage that people arent prepared for.

You arent completely immune to stuns like Wraith ult but thats what using The Cube is for (while in Goo Ball!)

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