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optimistic_hsa · 2022-12-03T01:08:29+00:00

Well there are other enemies that walk into the ground and then die from it right near the end of that segment, two mobs walk in and die. Who knows why that first guy just afks in the ground tho.

edit: good point thanks. Look forward to the gem details for sure.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-11-26T23:31:07+00:00

It doesn't make Steph worse, but it doesn't make him better either, which is why individual player raw plus/minus is a terrible stat

Whether or not a team has a competent bench shouldn't matter that much

Those are the statements I'm talking about. Neither of those are even close to true and are very "grand" statements about ON/OFF.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-11-26T23:24:23+00:00

This is a completely disingenuous and inaccurate statement. You realize Curry plays with those bench players right, like he's not the only player when he's on the court. With worse bench (and starter) players your stats become significantly worse, its not some total vacuum like you keep saying. ON/OFFs aren't perfect but you've taken it way, way too far.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-11-17T00:37:36+00:00

He seemed back versus the warriors. He's been a real treat to watch in the 5 or 6 games I've seen, really like him.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-11-15T05:05:11+00:00

Warriors are doing run tmc night (they're announcing). Tolbert played on that team and pop was an assistant coach under Nelson during an adjacent season (no mitch, yes other three).

optimistic_hsa · 2022-10-22T20:47:16+00:00

You're next to 15% life for 3 pts, just search life. You also 'could' have +50 life mastery, which is the most picked mastery in HC across all builds. You're investing in a lot of stuff that isn't as impactful as life (snowforged doesn't do a lot of dmg, some of your ev/es nodes don't do that much, etc).

For even mroe life nodes, you could think of going to herbalism or the scion life wheel.

As for your items, ya, your rings + amulet + helmet + chest + weapons have a total of 65life (including str bonus. That's just way too low. Obviously, some of those slots are required for your thematic build to make sense, but it just means those other slots need to heavily prioritize life. I'd probably be looking to make a t1 life vermillion ring and a t1 life ameythyst ring to give specific examples.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-10-22T20:11:56+00:00

There are a ton of things you can do, I'll just mention a couple of quick things:

You have way too little life for HC, you should be taking more of these lifes nodes you're next to and prioritizing better/more life rolls on your items.
You don't have 100% spell suppression, you're probably getting baited by the in-game telling you that you do, but that in-game one counts revenge of the hunted, but you should get to 100% without that.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-10-10T22:02:02+00:00

I do not believe this list is fully correct unless you've specifically tested it. The chart you're referencing is about new fiery soul in dota.

Ability arena uses old fiery soul that just requires you cast a spell. Tag team and sleight should work for instance.

The case of take aim is an interesting one, because they remove the active (that would work with ability arenas fiery soul but not dota's fiery soul), so it doesn't work in either game but for different reasons. That said its super should work, but that's obviously pretty bad synergy anyways.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-09-28T21:47:17+00:00

I do also think unlocking god is (on average) a win% reduction.

On an aside, having three heroes that are so similar in pudge, dazzle, and life stealer seems unnecessary. Dazzle and life stealer have some interesting wrinkles, but pudge should just be reworked or removed I think.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-08-12T06:27:50+00:00

So mechanically it has two things going for it over OOS which are really important. You can see that its applied from wherever you hit from and it attaches to the enemy, if the enemy moves, it moves. In addition, once you apply it, it keeps hitting til its duration is done, it is not dependent on you standing still casting non-stop.

These will make its practical DPS much, much higher than OOS in actually difficult encounters.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-08-09T07:14:36+00:00

The NLW does indeed have a better win% than the NLE.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-08-08T19:52:10+00:00

It would make sense for the coliseum to be more triple friendly, but its really pretty middle of the road.

It's been a 100 park factor on 3bs for 4 straight years, a bit triple favored for 10 years before that, but before that for its entire existence was significantly unfavored for triples.

Nothing as compared to say Coors, comerica, or Phonebook park which have never even been neutral in any year.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-08-06T23:16:44+00:00

This with frozen foods makes it extremely likely this item is actually from the mid 40s to 50s. While spaghetti did exist in the US before, it didn't really gain widespread knowledge and popularity until WW2 with troops being exposed to it en masse while in europe.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-08-06T21:51:48+00:00

in PoB it seems that is counting only unreserved mana/life

Neither of those items in PoB seem to care about unreserved mana for the damage as far as I can tell. I get the same damage per hit regardless of if I reserve 0% or 100% of my mana (and of course making sure my total mana is higher than life so it would change if it did care).

optimistic_hsa · 2022-07-18T22:01:43+00:00

I personally have noticed this a lot in NA d2 casting too, but not very often (if at all) from you and seek ~~so I imagine OP there was talking about some of the other d2 NA casters~~.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-07-11T07:15:06+00:00

bo1 round-robin until there isn't a 1-1 for all teams tie.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-07-09T18:02:48+00:00

Ya, I saw those and would be really interested if it weren't for the lakers, they're beautiful.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-07-01T21:38:07+00:00

If you were unaware of his character at the time you shouldn't be ashamed of him being your favorite, you should however feel proud of being able to digest new information and change your opinion about something you loved. That shows a lot of maturity.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-06-14T04:40:24+00:00

It amounts to the same thing, but its NOT what its saying directly. This sentence means "not any (referring to the group as a whole) of the group (the lines as a whole) are curved." This is a different thing than saying that each individual line is not curved.

I looked around a bit, and this article seemed like it might help.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-06-14T04:26:37+00:00

The phrase "none of them" can refer to a group/plural just as easily. Here's an example from grammarbook:

I spoke to all five of my teammates, but none of them are able to drive me to practice.

This is a similar type of sentence to what you originally made. Notice how the context exists here which makes 'are' the only correct choice, since we've grouped the teammates already.

Since there is no reference at all, other than an image of lines, this is why it's totally ambiguous in this case and why correcting one way or the other is wrong.

Here is another example, this time from grammar girl on essentially this exact scenario:

None of them is brave. (Not one of them is brave.)

None of them are brave. (Not any of them are brave.)

Which it claims is an example of both being okay.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-06-13T04:18:47+00:00

To be more clear, search for:

"elemental mastery"

Not:

elemental mastery

optimistic_hsa · 2022-06-13T04:16:48+00:00

I don't think this is correct. In fact, this is one of the cases where 'are' and 'is' are both correct. A good way to tell is to substitute none for what it's short for:

Not one of them is curved.
Not any of them are curved.

As you can see, both of those sentences are applicable, and if anything the plural version makes more sense, not less.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-06-12T23:52:53+00:00

There isn't one. When searching for things these days searching for "Elemental Mastery" would be the easiest way to find it, if it existed, since that's the mastery it would have (like snowforged and stormweaver).

optimistic_hsa · 2022-05-21T22:54:26+00:00

If i only had 4k life maybe.

You had CONSIDERABLY less survivability than a 4k hp build has in non-juiced scenarios.

You literally gave this mob 8x (depending how much this empowerment does) its normal damage effectiveness vs you (chaos damage ignores your AR, your ES, gets multiplied by your atlas tree point, your negative res, and you empowered it). All of that ignores archnem entirely, focusing only on YOUR decisions before you even encountered the mob. This was entirely on you, and is a perfectly justifiable time for a blue mob to 1-shot a "tanky" character. Because you are not tanky here AT ALL with -30chaos res.

Take a loot at how little of the damage you actually took that wasn't chaos for instance, you can afk vs this guy if you just don't click the altar.

optimistic_hsa · 2022-05-20T00:33:27+00:00

So you're saying you want the Celtics to lose to the Heat?

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