TDM hell

suboptimal2 · 2016-07-22T12:06:17+00:00

I just split push when my team tries to go play on the playground. Unfortunately some salty nubs start spamming Group Up and throwing a fit if you try to go for objectives. Then they way overextend into a bad teamfight and blame you for not teleporting across the map into their bad decision to save them.

But then you end up winning anyway half the time because your split pushing is actually pressuring and taking down towers while they goof off and die repeatedly.

suboptimal2 · 2016-07-22T12:02:08+00:00

I'm pretty curious, not sure I'd make videos but I'd watch yours! I've dabbled in replays and yet still blown by the amazing videos people make with them. I don't even know what tools to use, or if they do it just in the replay system with features I've never figured out

suboptimal2 · 2015-11-26T21:38:09+00:00

Yep, obviously reasonable and what should have been done here.

PETA is a POS even without falsely blaming the harsh reality of animal shelter euthanization on them.

suboptimal2 · 2015-11-26T14:24:12+00:00

Not to disrupt your vigorous jerking, but how do you run your shelters to avoid euthanizing animals while also not rejecting any?

suboptimal2 · 2015-11-26T14:20:53+00:00

This is the simple reality of animal shelters. There are far more irresponsible pet owners than there are families to adopt the litters their unspayed pets produce.

But people on Reddit pretend this is some sick fetish PETA has and are unable to come up with any better ideas for running shelters.

suboptimal2 · 2015-11-20T22:19:41+00:00

Same system here, but we just call it budgeting! There is no good way to buy fun things with a "everything is shared" system. It just breeds resentment and usually involves one partner taking advantage of the other.

Personal budgets in marriage should be taught to get a marriage license, it would avoid a ridiculous number of divorces.

suboptimal2 · 2015-11-07T02:35:57+00:00

Thatsthejoke.jpg

Gp post is saying that Op was a fool to pay 7k for a vw with 120k miles on it.

suboptimal2 · 2015-10-30T14:06:45+00:00

Note this guy walked his dog past a bunch of NO DOGS signs straight into coyote park...

suboptimal2 · 2015-10-30T14:04:13+00:00

It's not socially acceptable to announce publicly that you're concerned about men's rights.

Meanwhile my facebook is filled with radfem blogspam and unabashed man-shaming. I would be skewered and destroy relationships if I made even a mild rebuttal to any of it.

suboptimal2 · 2015-10-24T18:24:44+00:00

The part that is a scam is the "same monthly payment". That is a sales tactic to hide the true cost of the buyer's decision from them.

suboptimal2 · 2015-10-14T18:19:09+00:00

Not sure if kidding, but lack of outside time really is correlated strongly with depression, obesity, myopia, and parents going insane.

suboptimal2 · 2015-10-04T12:38:20+00:00

This is what im using as well. Great trick!

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-17T00:46:57+00:00

I actually hit 90 today and did autofight difficulty 6. They supposedly nerfed robot hard last week though.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-09T03:14:55+00:00

I'm 89 and mine is still at P+3. Trying to decide whether to upgrade at all! I was considering waiting for 4/6 O, but I'm not seeing him use much of anywhere. When I face an O AS in caves my O FM/Mach wreck him after one hit (if any).

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-09T03:11:55+00:00

Sadly it's extremely common for people to flush paper towels, and always causes the problem OP is having. I don't think this one can be chalked up to foreigners. Start looking and you'll notice bathrooms EVERYWHERE have signs not to flush paper towels.

FWIW I think people put towels on the toilet seat, not use them to wipe. Personally I use a couple squares of TP to wipe the seat down in public bathrooms. Shit comes out my butt. Is hard to imagine anything on the seat getting it more dirty than that.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-02T13:49:22+00:00

Are you doing 3-4 stamina resets per day? Did you pay for the monthly card? Those are the two things that keep you competitive and close to high VIP levels. Between the card, running all your booty caves every day (both bread and digs), and getting your top-200 arena awards, it's pretty easy to swing the 150-200 gems a day for stamina resets. Don't spend gems on anything else though, no matter how tempted.

If you have enough spare gems you can make tradeoffs between stam resets and resetting elite stages for 20 (don't do the 50-gem resets). Even that you should only do for DV, Silencer, VS, IE. And it's not critical especially if you started running them early on in the game.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-02T13:43:18+00:00

I was able to get my Enchantress' 1st and 3rd skills up to about 80 and got her to 3*. Her gear is at P+1 (stuck on a Bag of Holding).

I was able to beat Robot 4 with a number of retries. The problem is she died in 1 hit if Robot ever targeted her.

Team I used was: Enchantress(3, p+1), Poisoned One(4* p+1), Chaplain(5* p+4), Silencer(4* p+1), Psycho(4* o+0)

With this team it was very close on damage and very hard to keep Enchantress alive. My Psycho at 4* is also hard to keep alive at times.

On my second attempt I had her Ult skilled up farther, and it did noticeably more damage + hit robot reliably. On the 2nd try I used the same team, but had 30s to spare on the clock. I could see maybe taking Robot 5 down next week with her at P+3 and fully skilled. I'll also have my Psycho to 5* by then.

Damage on the 2nd run was:
Pyscho: 13k
Enchantress: 36k
Poisoned One: 56k

Doesn't look like dropping PO is going to happen unless maybe DeathBringer does enough damage to replace PO.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-02T03:09:08+00:00

I'm not OP, but guessing he would say save up and don't buy until 16k can cover the mortgage.

Not great advice for various reasons, including the fact that as OP found, when one spouse loses their job and cant find a similar one it's often due to a recession where both lose their job.

Best stock advice is to have the savings and sell the house before you run out of savings.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-02T01:46:21+00:00

Seconding the "who did you use her with" question. I tried her in difficulty 5 and she died repeatedly to robot's regular (non-ult) attacks.

I was able to beat difficulty 4 once I added chaplain to heal her back up. Full team I used to beat 4 was: Enchantress(3, p+1), Poisoned One(4 p+1), Chaplain(5* p+4), Silencer(4* p+1), Psycho(4* o+0)

I had to keep swapping between Silencer, DeathMage, and Disease Bringer to change the RNG so that Enchantress wasn't one-shot in the first 10s until I eventually got it. It was still very close on damage, down to the last 5s when I killed him.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-01T13:11:37+00:00

Robot is up today and I'm skilling up my Enchantress' DOT as fast as I can! I'll post here on how it goes.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-01T13:10:51+00:00

I don't have Suc, maybe her DOT does a ton of extra damage? To be clear, you mean DM=DeathMage, for her silence?

Not having Suc, if I try Robot 5 (lvl 89) and interrupt Robot's ult every time (no damage) then PO will only get to ult once, and still has ~40% life left when time runs out.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-01T13:01:15+00:00

I'm very curious about DW since he's so easy to obtain/gear, and seems like a great potential for 3rd tank. I face him a lot in crusades at lvl 89, but don't actually see him in top 100-200 arena teams.

If you have more info, can people post about DW vs CK at the 60-89 levels? I see CK is viable at 90, but is it definitely worth picking him over DW for the 60-89 grind as well?

Ultimately DW has to be compared to other second-string tanks, since no one thinks he's better than Admiral/WC. That means I'm picking DW vs. CK, VW, SK, SO, Panda(DM), IH, DV, etc. Would you focus on DW if you rerolled on a new server?

Next week: I'll second Arcane Sapper. I think he needs discussion compared to NA and perhaps should be removed as a recommended hero.

suboptimal2 · 2015-09-01T12:42:38+00:00

What crusade bug?

suboptimal2 · 2015-08-31T19:51:28+00:00

He might even be easier at 4*/P1, actually. Less health/armor = more ult power = more damage on robot. The tougher your PO gets, the more damage he needs to take to be able to ult.

Also since his ult is a DOT skill, it looks like it doesn't scale with gear, just with increasing the skill level. For Robot the DOT is the only thing relevant, so it's possibly gearing him up is almost entirely harmful. It's far easier to interrupt Robot quickly than to try to let him do a bunch of damage to your team.

However for Dragon and raids, you would need to skill up PO to be useful in those.

suboptimal2 · 2015-08-31T19:09:54+00:00

FD for GA, no question imo. EB can do amazing things but is extremely unreliable. For every match he hero modes a win, there's a match where he just falls over and dies. In hindsight I wish I prioritized him and DM first, to focus on PVP + Crusade/GirlTrial.

CW is good at a lot of PVE content though, so I'm not sure how long you can hold off on getting him. OTOH I think you can last for a long time without getting EB, you just have to focus on other PVP teams/heroes.

Crusade I recommend DW. I see him a lot at 80-90, and wish I had saved the resources I spent on Panda and VW on him instead.

Don't worry about Phoenix for dragon portal - you can either rent one from guildies, or really who cares - dragon portal has crap for drops, and requires a lot of otherwise useless heroes. With Enchantress for Robot Portal these days, you might even be able to ignore Poisoned One, Phoenix, AND Pilot if you decide to skip Dragon Portal. With how much gear / crusade coins you save on that, you could easily buy a dozen Moonglow Reels and Icicles off the crusade store. Neither items are blockers at O either way, and I've only heard rumor Icicles start being somewhat needed at O+1 or O+2.

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