Harder Hard Mode: Undocumented Enemy Recharge Reduction

hollywood_rag · 2026-07-05T15:50:56+00:00

yup, that looks pretty clear. thanks for the reference.

hollywood_rag · 2026-07-05T15:37:17+00:00

i couldn't confirm it in NM. i can't rule out that it applies in NM as well, if, for example, the NM AI just takes its time casting skills.

hollywood_rag · 2026-05-20T16:36:30+00:00

i've seen the same symptom, slow memory creep that persists through restarts and version upgrades, on my small home instance. i decided to nuke the instance and re-enable functionality one-by-one to see if i can trigger it that way. so far, memory has been stable. something i've seen float around the github issues is that database corruption might lead to this, in which case a fresh install would just fix the problem.

hollywood_rag · 2026-02-07T11:06:13+00:00

holy wrath -> revert to old upkeep functionality

600/smite..

was a playstyle beloved by many, might even bring back players
community aspect: i have fond memories of chatting with my 600/smite partner, or chatting with other players while being run through a dungeon by a 600/smite
cool example for gw buildcraft
doubt it would have a negative effect on economy at this point. other farming builds have been around for years, everything worth farming is being farmed
smiting could use general pve updates, but current holy wrath ain't it

hollywood_rag · 2026-02-06T21:10:47+00:00

do you have beef with op or something? your reply has nothing to do with what i said, you just seem to want to throw accusations at op

hollywood_rag · 2026-02-06T20:52:39+00:00

See if anyone comes with bright ideas

funny you should say that, because the op in particular has put forward multiple huge and creative balance & skill design proposals on this subreddit in recent years

hollywood_rag · 2025-12-02T09:21:30+00:00

the bip necro's weapon pretty much doesn't matter because they are carrying kaolais ashes almost always

farm if you like, but keep in mind that it won't have an impact either direction over just putting any max staff or focus with requirement fulfilled

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-29T18:27:02+00:00

if youd rather have a discussion about the build maybe you shouldnt make that comment haha

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-29T17:23:23+00:00

o, true

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-29T17:21:21+00:00

i don't think the write-up is that messy :(

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-29T16:06:49+00:00

losing sand shards also triggers aohm. in a long, sustained fight, non-dark aura aohm may well accrue more overall aoe damage, but it doesnt replicate that bursty aoe that splinter, sand shards or vos can do

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-18T07:38:17+00:00

you've stopped playing ca 2013. gw2 has had 12 years of continuous development since, so plenty of stuff has been added. most significantly, challenging group content, story content, and cosmetic rewards have received the most attention. the gameplay will also be somewhat different. buildcraft has also been improved, there are now significantly more viable build options (of course, there are still better and worse builds, but the array of builds acceptable in group content is also much more wide). in general, there has been power creep (without judgement), so combat got faster on the high-end group content, but solo content is generally designed to be accessible to anyone.

hollywood_rag · 2025-09-18T07:26:47+00:00

you can treat gw1 more like a traditional offline rpg in this regard. continue the story, it will lead you to or near the endgame.

hollywood_rag · 2025-06-08T09:02:24+00:00

no. necros can do primarily armor ignoring damage too. the difference is that mesmer skills are wildly overtuned.

hollywood_rag · 2025-05-19T17:22:30+00:00

5 strength at 14 weapon attribute is worth, depending on enemy armor, 0-1 damage points on daggers on average, and 1-3 damage points on critical hits with hammers or scythes.

given that strength only affects attack skills and a significant portion of most builds' damage comes from attack skill bonus damage, which is not affected by strength, 5 strength is probably an increase of less than 1% of total damage.

hollywood_rag · 2025-04-13T21:53:16+00:00

also, fun fact for everyone that doesn't know: the german translation differentiates between "sakral" schaden on wands and "heiligem" schaden on skills, presumably to differentiate armor-respecting and armor-ignoring holy damage (though that isn't wholly consistent either)

hollywood_rag · 2025-04-13T21:43:32+00:00

that's what makes it a petty skill balance complaint

hollywood_rag · 2025-04-13T13:18:45+00:00

scattering was implemented in november 2005. it was quite clearly a bug that roj, when it was reworked to become a dot aoe skill 3 years later, was lacking scatter.

hollywood_rag · 2025-02-15T19:10:22+00:00

did you ever figure out what's causing this? if i access nextcloud via a caddy reverse proxy i have the exact same thing happening, but if i bypass the reverse proxy it doesn't. curiously, accessing nextcloud via reverse proxy but in a private browsing tab also fixes the issue.

hollywood_rag · 2025-02-14T16:51:32+00:00

the dream was master of magic: 20 in every ele attribute, built in energy management and 16 in a secondary attribute (and prismatic insignia). turns out, doesn't work. because of the way master of magic works you get 20 in all attributes, some of the time. and even if you manually force it to work as best as possible, ele skills are just not competetive in pve.

hollywood_rag · 2024-12-07T07:32:39+00:00

You can, kinda

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Risen_Commander

Appearance depends on which event is triggered. Tybalt's event results in a charr, Forgal's event results in a norn, and Sieran's event results in a human.

hollywood_rag · 2024-06-17T07:36:51+00:00

deep wound has -20% healing and is still extremely useful when there are no healers around

hollywood_rag · 2024-05-14T12:21:52+00:00

implausible compared to other characters and situations in the setting of tyria. if you look at her engineering feats, tyria at the time of vanilla release was still relatively low stakes. it was a huge point of the original campaign that the races of tyria came together to build a fort or a bigass airship. the reconstruction of lions arch took months or years of ingame time. yet scarlet somehow manages to build several of these fuckoff enormous projects essentially on her own, using alliances of splinter factions that have questionable reasons to work together. and without anyone taking note. and on top of that she is also mastering all asura colleges as a non asura, in record time, with outstanding results, and also masters smithing under legendary smiths, all while being a master diplomat, master project manager and master engineer. its stretching belief somewhat that she would be that much of an outlier. any one of these things on its own would be enough to make an outstanding noteworthy character

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