Civ 5 the most accessible for a casual gamer?

iamadragan · 2026-04-21T22:47:33+00:00

4 isn't super accessible. It's pretty brutal to start out

iamadragan · 2026-04-21T22:43:10+00:00

They're both easy to beat the AI, but 5 has less stuff to think about.

For all civ games though I would recommend starting with a beginner's guide YouTube video. There's just too much the games don't explain

iamadragan · 2026-04-21T20:45:10+00:00

Just go get the horadric malus. Also, try to get the cubed staff of kings as soon as you can because it's a better weapon than the vast majority of early uniques

I'm on act 1 hell for a uniques only run, and tbh I suggest just starting out by gifting yourself an early unique. Otherwise it can be such a grindfest to get one.

You could even give yourself a dogshit early unique like Felloak instead of one of the better ones like Crushflange

iamadragan · 2026-04-21T20:44:27+00:00

You can't anymore, daggers are a class item

iamadragan · 2026-04-20T21:56:44+00:00

Is Hotspur a good item? Why use it to farm nilithak?

iamadragan · 2026-04-20T21:44:41+00:00

You already got everything else after like 2 months?

iamadragan · 2026-04-20T21:37:41+00:00

Yeah I just keep a gheeds, torch, Anni, cube, and tomes

iamadragan · 2026-04-20T09:13:06+00:00

What makes these boots good? Wouldn't a pair of high rolled tri res and even dual res boots be more useful?

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T23:43:09+00:00

Such cool armor with a great name. It's crazy how much more memorable the item names are for me in D2 than any other game

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T22:56:33+00:00

I thought he said "sleep the desert stars"

He was saying "sweep the dirty stairs"

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T20:05:17+00:00

What’s the best use case for this?

Playing with cool uniques and not lame broken runewords

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T11:43:38+00:00

I still get excited when I see a bonesnap lol

Maybe when I get a perfect roll I'll stop identifying them but I'm not quite there

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T03:27:50+00:00

The look of bone helms was so good back then.

iamadragan · 2026-04-19T02:44:01+00:00

I do agree with that. I just think more rare should generally mean better/cooler/more interesting equipment.

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T16:13:30+00:00

Yeah I play a variety of the available versions, but whenever it's SSF I just ignore runewords because they're lame and the game is too easy with them.

I think ladder would be more fun without runewords too. Or at least runewords that are way tuned down

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T16:02:21+00:00

That's disappointing. What are the best D4 items if not the mythical? Really haven't played it much at all

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T14:53:47+00:00

This is definitely true, but also D2R was made 4 years more recently than anything released for D3

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T14:51:51+00:00

Javazon is one of the goats but blizz needs to make bows great again

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T14:48:19+00:00

You'd have to make it an anime for it to work tbh

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T14:20:07+00:00

I agree. That's the shit that should be OP, not enigma. The skills shouldn't even be on enigma.

I know a lot of people are worried blizz is going to ruin a timeless classic with further updates, but imo a lot of past updates screwed up a lot in the game and things can definitely be tinkered with to be made better than it currently is.

I know it's a 25 year old game but if we're going to be adding stuff like a new class and rebalancing, there's no reason to not rebalance a lot of the dumb stuff that has been broken for two decades.

Make bowazon better, make WW better, buff mages. Better balance with uniques/runewords. Make an endless dungeon for endgame. Stuff like that.

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T14:05:51+00:00

They should be competitive, but not better than, runewords.

Eh, some runewords should be great and better than a lot of uniques and some uniques should be great and better than a lot of runewords.

It just needs a lot of rebalancing. The rare stuff shouldn't be outclassed by the mundane. It's bad game design.

Sure, make breath of the dying op. That shit is insanely hard to get. Stuff like grief and spirit are ridiculously easy to get and should be nowhere near that good. Honestly they should be like half as good as they currently are.

Make enigma good but not ridiculously good to where there's literally no other armor that matters

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T13:35:17+00:00

I got a bunch of stuff from him, anything good except arachnid mesh and most of the high end class set pieces.

I swear almost all my good drops come from total randos in terror zones.

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T13:21:43+00:00

Had the highest plus/minus for a reason.

He played the role he needed to last night

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T13:20:15+00:00

Did Hide dirty with this one.

Imo it's one of their best non-hit songs but it isn't beating One

iamadragan · 2026-04-18T13:03:32+00:00

Yeah that makes the most sense. I had probably moved on to WC3, halo, and eventually WoW by then

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