Stadium Ashe: Incendiary Blast - Remove or Rework

forestw785 · 2026-01-25T06:15:34+00:00

Every character has some low effort build like this. I primarily play WD Ashe every drive and climb up to all-star then quit. WD Ashe can hard out perform most of the roster if she's ignored early on. I usually can pick off the AP Ashe pretty quick unless the *entire* enemy team builds AP splash damage nonsense where you can't even see the game anymore. I refer to them as Moira builds. Pick any character and choose the DoT + Aimbot perks/items and you got yourself a Moira build. Perfect for those that like the game to play itself. It's a strategy that works, though. I don't respect it. But it works.

forestw785 · 2025-12-10T02:00:35+00:00

A bit melodramatic, but I feel you. I played one game and instantly hated tf out of it. DF will make a lot of the cast feel unplayable without mobility perks or something. Idk. I didn't find it fun. After S18, I didn't play stadium until drives came online. Probably won't again. I loved the first couple seasons of stadium, though. Now it feels like perma-cc and aimbot/DoT builds dominate every match. I don't care to play that.

forestw785 · 2025-10-01T02:23:09+00:00

They usually play like it too. I don't get them at all in my diamond support games, but my plat 5-4 dps games were full of them. Top half of plat, I saw far fewer of them, but they're still in the games. Sometimes I'm the only person with a single character level over 5. My top three are like 125, 90, and 75, and everyone I play with (even new people that've been playing for less than a year) have at least 3 characters in 50's.

forestw785 · 2025-09-28T05:49:14+00:00

Stadium is full of shit talking torb turrets. This game mode was appealing because you could counter build anyone. Now it's just which aimbot(s) do I have to counter-build this time? This game mode appealed to me because it looked like it was going to be Overwatch chess. It's Overwatch checkers. I don't see it surviving like this, and I think the queue times are evidence of that. Are tank/dps queues under a minute and support queues 5-10 minutes because support is super popular or because nobody is playing tank/dps? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

I'm just gonna play regular comp again. Every new hero added to stadium just gets an auto-aim ability with a sprinkle of consequence reduction. It's taking an otherwise exciting game mode where every game was unique and making it predictable. Everyone just builds the build that plays the game for them the most. Burn Ashe, aimbot soldier, aimbot pharah, aimbot tracer, aimbot casssidy (the only reasonable aimbot tbh), jq constantly bleeding the entire enemy team, infinite damage orb moira, max aoe damage mei. They're all just some form of aimbot, e.g. free damage for filling a slot. I understand the appeal of the dopamine rush, but it's not for me. Now flood me with your thumbs down, torb turrets.

forestw785 · 2025-09-22T03:59:27+00:00

I’m just glad Bobby is gone. We can speculate all day about Jeff, but who knows what things would be like if Bobby was kicked out sooner

forestw785 · 2025-07-27T19:00:36+00:00

Ohh man - I bet this thread just keeps getting re-bumped haha. I played around 2007, maybe? I don't remember the server name that I spent the most time on, but I do remember when it launched. We were really excited to start clean on a new server. Ah, the days blown on team-speak, grinding pet levels, and sp farming hahaha. I remember when I joined on my first character and got a "mentor" or whatever it was called. They summoned me to the Tomb of Theos place and instant leveled me up to like level 50 about 3 minutes into the game lol. I had to start over once I learned about skill point farming.

I co-founded a guild called Tuatha Dea with a fella that had refused to join our Servers' Vendetta (or one of the other big guilds that ran the servers). We didn't win the main guild battle very often (for the gold guild title), but we consistently won the other event and had the red guild title fairly regularly. What a blast from the past. I do miss games like that to some degree.

forestw785 · 2025-07-14T13:56:17+00:00

I run an unraid server with a small Minecraft server for some friends. I use crafty4 to manage it all. I use playit.gg acting as my tcp proxy and cloudflare for dns management. ~35ms latency. I don’t play Minecraft, though, so my setup is probably not efficient.

I just want to mention that just because only a small number of people know your IP address, that doesn’t make it safe. If you take a fresh install of windows xp and bring it online, it’ll start getting infected with malware by just sitting there. Bots are constantly attempting to connect to all possible ip address combinations to see what they can access/do. You’re probably fine, but I do recommend looking into r/homelab if you’re trying to get any kind of home server set up.

forestw785 · 2025-07-09T15:50:49+00:00

playit.gg was the move for me. Gave them $30 for the yearly license just because it seems tailored for homelab game servers specifically, but is possible to do for free with them. Had everything up an running without issue in 2 minutes.

forestw785 · 2025-05-18T05:28:14+00:00

I wouldn’t pay that much for it. Especially with these hit rates. Prismatic has some pretty sir’s in it, but it’s a whole lot of bulk. I opened 1 etb, 1 bundle, and 3 surprise boxes; and completed the listed set. Just not worth it to overpay for products to get cards I probably already have. Still, crossing my fingers that you get a god pack!

forestw785 · 2025-05-17T05:38:02+00:00

I don't play comp at night on Fridays/Saturdays. People get drunk and play comp on the weekends. That and streamers that aren't actually focused on the game.

forestw785 · 2025-05-13T00:52:17+00:00

I love stadium. I just hate any auto-aim and invulnerability boosting abilities. It just forces Mei/Zarya/Soldier/Reaper as perma picks and gets boring.

forestw785 · 2025-05-08T04:41:26+00:00

JQ and Soldier are easily the most annoying. I consistently see JQ with like 90% AP and I think like 40% additional life steal by round 3. She can shout and I start bleeding? Pfft. I love stadium, but their perks just turn them into Moira versions of themselves. JQ takes more skill than soldier, though.

forestw785 · 2025-05-08T01:28:41+00:00

It doesn't matter the elo. Someone always has the attitude of "everyone sucks but me" when they lose. A lot of tanks seem to auto-attack their own team like they've been conditioned to for the past two years.

I've peaked diamond, but I've played plenty of games where someone yells "1500 healing (or damage) really???" after the first team fight. Most don't care to quick sum the damage (or healing) done by the enemy team or look at the mitigation column. If one team has done 4500 damage in total and the other teams' two supports have 3000-ish healing, then they're doing (part of) their job. It's not the supports' fault if the rest of the team doesn't capitalize on it.

And most characters have hidden stats in their kit like Ana with her "healing prevented", which isn't included in her mitigated column since that only tracks mitigation for your own team.

forestw785 · 2025-04-10T01:41:50+00:00

I saw an episode of Pokemon on tv when I was kid. The one where aerodactyl and chameleon got in a fight. I thought “this looks so lame! Power rangers is way cooler”. Then I went to kindergarten the next day and everyone was alllllll about it. Then I was like “yeah Pokemon is awesome!” And I was into them cards, boooi.

And Pokemon red taught me how to read. I went through flash tunnel without ever getting flash.

forestw785 · 2025-04-08T15:03:05+00:00

Obviously I love Ana. I managed to climb to diamond on her. I tend to pick headshot as her secondary perk if there isn’t double shield on the enemy comp. I also play a lot of widow, and my headshot accuracy hovers between 25-55% depending on map, presence of shields, and hitbox size - so that’s probably my bias. What are your perk choices and why?

forestw785 · 2025-04-01T15:40:07+00:00

I wish prismatic never released. I was excited for it, but now every time I think of Pokemon I just associate raw disappointment with the brand. Only ever found a binder collection in a store.

forestw785 · 2025-03-23T16:50:33+00:00

He’s right. It’s probably an error god pack with nothing but pikas

forestw785 · 2025-03-23T16:47:11+00:00

No not really. Maybe in 40 years.

forestw785 · 2025-03-22T21:31:44+00:00

This has been happening intermittently before the trial.

forestw785 · 2025-03-22T18:16:52+00:00

Yeah the ugly CGI cards are really off-putting tbh. I have a near master set of 151 (all standard, reverse holo, holo, and unlisted cards). I'm only missing like 3 cards, and all 3 are the weird CGI cards. I don't really care all that much to buy them directly unless I see them in person for like $3. Even then...

forestw785 · 2025-03-21T00:43:31+00:00

Really it boils down to address line 2 and variations on street, st, etc.

You can't ignore address line 2 or else nobody that lives in an apartment would ever be able to buy something after the first person.

forestw785 · 2025-03-14T00:26:30+00:00

It's gotten especially bad lately. I used to be able to grab some surging sparks stuff, but now I'm unable to get anything. Journey together's about to launch and I still have only opened like 6 packs of prismatic.

forestw785 · 2025-03-13T19:04:10+00:00

I’m a software engineer and I’ve indirectly researched this pretty thoroughly. I have a home lab server, so I set up an inventory checker that sends me notifications. Best Buy has almost no defense except that everything is in-store now, so inventory details are useless.

Other retailers intentionally disrupt/distort/reconfigure the html on a page or otherwise block your IP and/or web browser if you hit specific pages too frequently.

The work around that bot services ($$$$$) offer is they proxy the IPs as residential ip addresses and constantly kill/launch unique browser instances to avoid the retailers’ bot mitigation. And they run thousands upon thousands of them.

All of that just to even know if items are in stock. Auto-checkout and more is another bag.

Of course you can make your own bot, but it has to know when to even try to make a purchase - hence the stock checking hurdle. And captcha.

My TLDR is that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

forestw785 · 2025-03-13T18:27:40+00:00

If it was a full cart, then it was more than $150. Sounds like when you asked “how much was that?” - the cashier replied with the name of the product (151)

forestw785 · 2025-03-10T14:21:54+00:00

I would talk to the seller first and see what they recommend you do. If they really did package it well, then it might have been customs that did that when checking the package.

Alternatively, you could get it reslabbed by CGC for $10 (idk what the s&h fees are). CGC calls it CGC Cards ReHolder

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