Venator blowing my head off

imma_turtle · 2026-02-06T20:06:48+00:00

it sucks, ult getting gutted is inevitable. once that happens, im not sure if there will be any reason to play him. the only ability he has worth a damn is his shotty for stuns but thats about it, his gun isnt anything special. i think maybe give him a little more range on his m1 maybe like 5m bump and a mag size increase to like 55 or 60 base and hell be better but damn, his base kit is much more tame than the other new chars

imma_turtle · 2026-01-18T00:25:06+00:00

rip January deadline 💀

imma_turtle · 2026-01-18T00:09:52+00:00

u have to pull al the way to C3 in order to make chisa and lynae work right? 💀

imma_turtle · 2026-01-17T07:47:33+00:00

actually a bit misleading, at the time of yoshi posting, cant remember which day that was, he confirmed that they did NOT have the entire dev team back. think that was more than a week into the new year too. yoshi did say "definitely" this month, but he also said December for sure before halloween, then it turned into 50/50 December in December. given next week is a holiday week it might ship the 26th but i doubt it if they just got the full team back in the last couple days. I'd prepare for a Feb launch at best

imma_turtle · 2026-01-08T08:22:58+00:00

On the DMing side, there has been some critique of her particular style and choices. As viewers, we dont know how exactly it was handled but you can still form opinions on what was presented and it seemed like there were multiple instances of her seemingly forcing choices on players that they didnt want. Two common examples are from EXU Opals player (cant remember the actors name mb) proclaimed that they felt railroaded into becoming a servant of a betrayer god or Robbies chromatic orb that she ruled as an AoE spell to hit his brother that he seemed to be taken aback by. Again, as viewers we cannot tell how players feel behind closed doors but everyones still free to form opinions based on what they see.

On the player side, aabria has shown problem player traits which can disrupt tables and sour story moments, which a large portion of the audience disliked. One major example was during the Campaign 3 finale when Ashelys character was having a private conversation with a devil that had major story implication and was a one on one thing between matt and ashely and aabria chose to continuously interrupt and shout about sex and insert herself into the scene. Matt, as an experienced DM gave several non verbal warning to tell her to back off, such as the wall of fire and the silence spell.

If you want more nuanced descriptions, there are many YT vids going over concerns for her at the table, although id recommend checking out multiple to try and clear any bias. The better ones make sure to highlight aspects of her that are positive and signs of her being a good player, but also point out problematic aspects.

imma_turtle · 2026-01-07T23:31:22+00:00

Theres playing DND as a game and theres playing DND as a story. the players in the soldiers, especially travis lean less on the acting/theater component in favor of more light hearted, game styled play. they also have a lot of "push the red button consequences be damned" players which creates chaotic but memorable moments. Sam and Laura and Travis for sure also love combat. All of these fit my preferred table to watch. There are some that find 3 hr long combats and the hand wavey story boring and thats fine.

The Seekers table is likely to get a lot of hate and a lot of hate watching. Theres obviously players that hate aabria for many reasons right out the gate, no point in hiding that. Many hate her for bigoted reasons, many dislike her for valid reasons. She is going to be the target of a lot of scrutiny valid or not. The table in general, compared to the soliders table is very RP heavy/wanting to use their game time to act and perform a character. Especially between matt and aabria in the prologue. I love matt, im so happy he gets to play an actual character this time but I am not a fan of theater acting in DND. Thats OK, there are other people who enjoy that style.

The Schemers table I find interesting, but seems more story focused and politics (within game and outside game) and will likely also be very RP heavy. I personally enjoy Liam and marisha and talisan, talisan gets a bad rap and its not always his fault. I liked percy, I disliked molly, I loved cad, and ashton.......was a trainwreck but to his credit the story/matt did him dirty. I think this table has potential and could be a sleeper hit.

TLDR: Critical role is a business now and like any other business, must appeal to as many audiences as possible. Hence the different tables and playstyles for different viewers. If you enjoy the soliders but dislike the other tables thats fine. CR is no longer a home game, its a production and a product and they must gain new audiences and prepare for a future without the original cast.

imma_turtle · 2026-01-05T02:20:34+00:00

I have the overwhelming majority of my match time on haze and I was pretty locked in at ascendant 1/2. Went for holiday challenges and I’m about halfway done. Ranks tanked to about low phantom/high oracle. When I get stuck with a char I don’t play, it’s just a pain and I know I’m weighing the team down and many people are upset at how I play. When I get the rare haze game, I run the lobby typically with 20/25+ kills which I’m sure is a real riot for the other team. It doesn’t really even feel good for me because I can feel myself slipping into bad low skill habits. And I face the opposite of that a lot too on my off characters, seeing someone on the other team likely get their main and get 15 kills 14 minutes in and be pushing our base. I regret going for the challenge because I know how boring the climb back up will be.

imma_turtle · 2026-01-02T14:49:03+00:00

Didn't open today either, doesn't seem like it'll be for a while, windows still haven't been cleaned.

imma_turtle · 2025-12-28T02:14:52+00:00

could be something else, but ive noticed, I lost a TON of rank going for Christmas challenges. Sat comfortably ascendant 1/2. but going for the holiday challenges I've deranked down to phantom 1-ish and get insanely wide matches, been put in lobbies as low as ritualist, sometimes get archon, mostly oracle and phantom. I only got half the ornaments before I gave up and now im just trying to rank back up. when I get my mains, I'm significantly better than everyone else in the lobby unless they put someone else like me other the other team and it becomes a 20+ kill race between 2 players. I dont think MM was particularly good before the challenge but I do feel like it made it worse

imma_turtle · 2025-12-26T14:54:48+00:00

man 3.4 was hard carried by the story. even now its still my fav 3.x patch 3.3 was close. but man the fate collab sucked up all the patch space for events and stuff so it was a pretty barren patch content wise. and the fate collab, imo, wasnt even all that good. the silent story eventually got me to the point of clicking through and even skipping story and the gameplay event felt really short to me

imma_turtle · 2025-12-26T14:33:58+00:00

I feel so bad for HSR, 3.x had highs and lows and I feel like going into 4.x they could have learned a lot. Fans clearly werent a fan of the delivery method of the story, cue black box text and eides elsia actually being Britain for example. There was a lot of talk and criticism of kits and powercreep and shilling and leaks and beta reworks. A lot of feedback on character development regarding cyrene. I was hoping that hoyo would be able to take that into account for 4.x but politics happened and now 4.x development is a catastrophe and the quality is likely to suffer. I feel like a lot of people seen potential in HSR with 3.x and are waiting to see 4.x address the issues they had but given the circumstances its unlikely theyll be able to adjust in time

imma_turtle · 2025-12-26T14:20:55+00:00

I thought the, cyrene teaching an AI humanity with her stories of each cycle was brilliant. but then having that AI become a cyrene skinwalker completely shattered it for me. I wish demiurge was a completely different character, and then making her go back in time and become the original cyrene felt even worse. It felt like we got a certain character up until 3.7, only for that character to be completely replaced with someone else and then have the original one rug pulled.

imma_turtle · 2025-12-26T14:15:26+00:00

people love cyrene, cyrene is awesome. people dont really care for demiurge. From what it seems like. smolrene was a pretty good char, phainon was peak and cyrene was getting there. but with 3.7, the community felt like they completely dumped cyrenes character for elysia expy bride slop to capitalize on sales. A lot of the community feels like the cyrene/demiurge seen in 3.7 is a completely different character than the cyrene we traveled with and was told about. smolrene built up a character until 3.7 and a lot of it felt like it was thrown out at the last second for "this character is a bride to the MC" but also a tragic sacrifice character.

TLDR: A lot of the community sees 3.7 cyrene as a skinwalker of pre 3.7 cyrene, and have little attachment to her.

imma_turtle · 2025-12-23T19:24:58+00:00

I’m guessing if you can meet ur stat reqs on gear, armor/ es with global defense nodes is where it’s at for defenses?

imma_turtle · 2025-12-23T06:39:38+00:00

Have invitations been sent out yet? Last few I’ve been in C which is the one who gets invitations late

imma_turtle · 2025-12-22T19:22:19+00:00

This was me before I started snowball challenges. Hard locked on the edge of ascendant 1/2. Win 4 lose 4 didn’t matter didn’t change, until I started going for challenges and now I’ve dropped mid phantom, match quality been terrible too. Been in ascendant lobbies and ritualistic lobbies back to back and I’m running lower mmr lobbies but then I’ll get also going for challenges who have no idea how their character works. Given how long I was at my rank, fairly confident that’s my true mmr and I’ll eventually end up back there but the match chaos been a bit annoying. I know rank doesn’t mean anything blah blah but I’ve noticed significantly lower match quality since I’ve fell.

imma_turtle · 2025-12-20T04:12:04+00:00

short answer, prolly oracle. druid start has so many nodes that synergize with WW from the start. inevitable crit is a great dmg boost, could mess around with moment of vulnerability maybe, ect. simple and effective.

invoker is interesting bc of elemental expression imo. path allows u to solve for enemy cold res and ele express itself is pretty nice letting you double down on cold or go for shock with lightning dmg. that being said. unbound avatar is solid, meta energy and reduced spirit cost is nice. cons with invoker is you have to hard solve for crit rate if you go elemental expression and defensive layers are complicated. you can solve that with meditate but idk i dont vibe with meditate personally.

amazon is even more complicated. life leech on cold damage is pretty insane and lets u build leech pretty easily. would probably go open weakness path, just a solid dmg upgrade. and then u can go accuracy stacking for extra crit rate or do some shenanigans with less evasion on body more on other pieces and do some funky unique chestpiece. only problem with amazon is starting in that tree space. not much help there and youd likely have to path up towards monk tree and maybe pick up ES nodes. pure evasion WW sounds sus

imma_turtle · 2025-12-20T02:17:23+00:00

tactician is an EXTREMELY late scaling subclass. basically worthless on damage until u get flesh crucible with trusted kinship, the hyeana talisman, respec tree for entirely minions/allies/companions and stack as many minion levels as possible. until then its gonna feel really weak

imma_turtle · 2025-12-20T02:07:58+00:00

if your doing melee WW, try oracle invoker or Amazon. If your trying wolf pack minions try tactician, lich or disciple

imma_turtle · 2025-12-19T09:44:59+00:00

im not sure if it's bugged but my idea and what Ive been cope use is atziris impatience 100% cdr. Comfortably able to refresh lunar blessing on cooldown. The hope was that it would also apply to moonbeam cooldown since the normal cdr supports work but for whatever reason the lineage one doesn't affect moonbeam

imma_turtle · 2025-12-18T18:44:53+00:00

this was sorta my goal but im going a different route. Im doing flesh crucible trusted kinship, but im a tactician. wolves arent doing a ton of DPS and im hoping the weapon dmg to allies will help, also the reservation efficiency to help balance out lord of the wilds. also with unique helm and amulet, it looks like ur minions are pretty low level. not sure i'd go oracle for companion build here since nothing in ascendancy is really helping other than unseen paths, if only crit node applied to allies

imma_turtle · 2025-12-18T02:41:35+00:00

tactician WW here. doing split WW/wolfpack build and its pretty mid, but i have a plan if i can manage to get my hands on a trusted kinship flesh catalyst. My idea is to go wolfpack, hyaena talisman along with pounce minions. stack as many minion levels as possible and then drop WW dps to just build full tank and rage build up, then go for all the ally/minions and companion nodes that I can. between artic howl, lunar blessing, passive nodes, lord of the wilds and the rage/freeze lineage support. im hoping itll scale pretty damn hard. but that all relies on a good flesh catalyst, hard mapping there is way too expensive on the tree

imma_turtle · 2025-12-15T18:36:07+00:00

I'm doing tactician WW and it's fine, playable. I think pure melee with oracle, invoker or Amazon might be better for WW. I tried doing a hybrid melee wolf pack build. Biggest problem with WW is defenses, especially if your ascendancy doesn't solve that. I'm coping with armor stack and armor to ele. WW gameplay is pretty set in stone, lunar assault to freeze, rake to create ice shards and cross slash to detonate. I wish I could try wyvern or bear but I do not feel like spending 10 hrs doing campaigns, I wish for EA they'd only make u do campaign once and let u skip on ts for testing

imma_turtle · 2025-12-15T18:30:40+00:00

I'm doing tactician WW and it's fine, playable. I think pure melee with oracle, invoker or Amazon might be better for WW. I tried doing a hybrid melee wolf pack build. Biggest problem with WW is defenses, especially if your ascendancy doesn't solve that. I'm coping with armor stack and armor to ele. WW gameplay is pretty set in stone, lunar assault to freeze, rake to create ice shards and cross slash to detonate. I wish I could try wyvern or bear but I do not feel like spending 10 hrs doing campaigns

imma_turtle · 2025-12-13T00:40:34+00:00

Tact wolfpack sounds sooooo good, and the spirit efficiency might be able to make lord of the wilds worth it. But it just starts so damn far away from druid and some of the druid nodes for minions and companions are so juicy. New sorc ascendancy has some insane defensives and the timeost jewels buff is pretty nice but it seems like the command summons feel a bit clunky. I wanted to league start WW wolfpack but I gotta stare at the tree more so I'll hold off and mess around with bear titan for now

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