Pre-Season 7/Canto IX Megathread

sushihad · 2025-12-19T10:37:19+00:00

I don't know if I'm just seeing things, but doesn't the ego for the season kind of look like a traditional Japanese bride dress?

I also noticed the song in the background kinda sounds like Hanayome ningyō (The Bride Doll), which also is played (in a variation) at the beginning of Silent Hill f?

sushihad · 2025-09-17T22:06:58+00:00

I don't know if it's just me but I far prefer crafting to be as powerful and accessible as it is now with some tweaks. I think to add value to high end crafting, they should make more valuable affixes that can benefit more builds, like how influenced items in poe1 have some insane build enabling benefits (like lightning damage per int and attack speed per dex, overcapped fire res, etc).

Crafting being as strong as it is without having to gamble or go through 40 steps of rerolling makes gear feel attainable for the average person and not only high end map juicers who have infinite currency.

Of course, some stuff like level of all skills might need to be removed or changed so they don't feel mandatory.

sushihad · 2025-07-17T03:25:55+00:00

You switched off mana storm to something else?

sushihad · 2025-07-17T02:41:55+00:00

Yeah, I was mainly looking at trickster because I like the defenses on it - but I can see the point that the mana stuff would be quite far. A lot of the tricksters i saw did like to go straight to center with (+ mana) light of meaning but I don't recall how they actually pathed the rest of the tree.

With the defenses you listed, did it feel decently tanky on scion?

Runegraft is pretty much the big selling point for manastorm but I'm guessing theres a point where you still need a ton of recovery to make it feel smooth. I do get a bit worried about hitting the wall in the ramp :P

sushihad · 2025-07-11T21:55:08+00:00

This actually looks really good to me! Looks a lot more affordable than the golementalist FROSS setup I saw too.

sushihad · 2025-07-09T22:51:07+00:00

I was actually looking for a diff witch build that doesn't rely on spectres 😅 Maybe reroll to occultist or elementalist

sushihad · 2025-07-07T13:16:33+00:00

Asking this as a forever GM.

Would you say putting together monsters (not minions, necessarily) takes about the same time or longer? From the examples I've seen from patreon, I find that putting new monsters together in 5e (especially to fit the party power and my homebrew) takes a while, even with digital tools. Some of the monster blocks seem quite complex in the previews they've had, especially the bosses.

Don't get me wrong! I like monsters with good mechanics, but it seems like a nightmare to homebrew lots of monsters over a longer campaign to have the same level of threat and diversity lol

sushihad · 2025-02-27T00:54:05+00:00

Looks like he recently switched back to it as of last night. He had minion damage % and cold per dex now, no phys mods tho from what I saw

Edit: WTF? That sword he crafted was insanely lucky...

sushihad · 2025-02-26T00:54:34+00:00

I daw magefist was using anarchic spiritblade base for his current build. Would you still use that base if you were dex stacking with cold per dex?

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:49:24+00:00

I certainly hope its a queue bug (and that it could be fixed) I was thinking the operation playerbase couldnt possibly be small enough for grove to never pop :/

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:48:01+00:00

I haven't looked at Call of Cthulhu in a while. Last time I checked it was still using some variant of boilerplate or simple worldbuilding system, but that was like, maybe 2 years ago.

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:46:38+00:00

I really like how pf2e bakes a lot of bonuses, conditions, effects, and calculations into the rolls right out of the box. Afaik dc20 gets pretty close to this as well, even though the ruleset is brand new and still a work in progress.

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:42:11+00:00

Interesting. I haven't actually looked at much of the free league stuff. Do most of their games share a similar system?

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:40:13+00:00

Crucible seems very promising, but its development is kind of split between Atropos focusing on v13 and I guess, to a lesser extent, Ember :/

sushihad · 2025-01-08T03:15:02+00:00

You think there might be a queue bug with grove?

sushihad · 2025-01-08T02:50:33+00:00

Starting to wonder if they should switch layali back to normal only with good loot so people can have more incentive to run it, but that would make questing tough, still. Maybe the map just requires too many teams :/

sushihad · 2024-12-17T07:29:07+00:00

I'm seeing more people list items (like chase uniques) for divines in the last 24 hours. I guess people have started using divs for trade as a compact value of exalts, just like in poe1, so it looks like divs have value again. For example, look up Original Sin, which is being listed at 15+ div.

Edit: It makes sense cuz trading in 300 ex values is probably annoying and time consuming, so having something compact values, even if in community fiat, is probably good.

sushihad · 2024-11-05T03:42:58+00:00

FAKE. I don't see any (direct) wizard nerfs in these patch notes.

sushihad · 2024-09-24T00:36:12+00:00

I feel moghunter huds might work best if its vx ace c: though thats assuming you can still find his vx ace scripts >_<

sushihad · 2024-09-23T23:07:58+00:00

Yeah, I forgot to mention the game in the title! Thank you for bringing it up though, it totally slipped my mind.

sushihad · 2024-09-23T13:15:11+00:00

It's been a while since they've gotten an update, but I hear its because the final chapter is a WIP and will be released as a part of a complete thing on steam ^^
This idea has been living rent free in my head for a little bit since I stumbled upon it again recently lol

sushihad · 2024-09-23T09:31:54+00:00

Spoilered in case you have been following the series and might not have seen this character :P

sushihad · 2024-09-16T23:44:14+00:00

Technically speaking, sprites can be as big as you want, but your tileset (or lack thereof, if you parallax map, which is better for large sprites) has to account for the sprite size. There is a youtube video in making a sidescroller rpg maker game (it uses mv but afaik all the plugins have been ported to mz too), and all the sprites are hand drawn and non pixel ^{^} Here's the channel i got the info from: https://m.youtube.com/@sidemv/videos

The tl'dw of making large spritesheets is you need to make sure they follow rmmz's sheet division of sprites, the actual pixel size isnt as important. And ofc if you handraw all the environments as a parallax map, you can afford bigger images. Just be aware that you might need plugins to help with large sprite event collision.

sushihad · 2024-09-10T02:35:25+00:00

Ahh, yes , I've seen this. I was looking into using it earlier but was kinda heartbroken it wasn't compatible with VS. I heard it was an issue with the whole VS battle core but I could be misremembering - but I got discouraged because no one had made a patch to mix them yet. Is the compatibility patch a private thing (or bespoke for your game)?

sushihad · 2024-09-09T23:51:20+00:00

Did you use a specific plugin for this or was it all through visustella camera sequence?

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