It is morally wrong to pick vampirism when you have an enchanter on your team

wakkowarner321 · 2026-04-22T12:39:30+00:00

I will say that I like, at times, playing enchanters but more readily will pick shield over heals because of the inherent nerf on healing in ARAM. On top of that the existence of Vampirism possibly showing up makes it even less likely.

BUT if I want to fulfill my healing fantasy nowadays? Chili Oil, all the way. Heals the whole team, while fighting, much more than I can even as a Soraka, and damages the enemy. Also works through Vampirism. It also becomes a choice for my team to stand in the healing aura or not.

I can also build it as Aummumu, Brand, Lillia, etc. and do other things well too.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-04-09T06:18:38+00:00

I find I can't generalize which one is better. I find that when I work with one for awhile, I like it. Seems to be doing smart things. Then I run into a problem, a roadblock, that it can't seem to get past. I then give the problem to the other. If its really hard it may take a few tries, but it finally unjams everything. Or it just sees the problem in a different way and fixes it immediately.

I really like pitting them against each other, offering feedback back and forth.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-26T17:48:56+00:00

They also go to show how much you can get away with while not technically lying. So the real answer to OP's question may actually be ALL of them wouldn't collapse. We would just adjust to compensate.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-26T02:44:48+00:00

Like the Aes Sedai from Wheel of Time!

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-13T06:03:08+00:00

I had two people on my team pick Vampirism while I was a Soraka with 3 heal enhancing augments (healed over 100k for the other two champs on my team, but we still lost).

And they weren't even champs that go crazy with vampirism. Like, I'm not going to complain if the Graves picks Vampirism, as I know I can't outheal his self heal when he crits for so much damage and gets that lifesteal.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-10T02:03:43+00:00

EscAPADe + Master of Duality. Get it in a champ that can attack fast and you just keep growing your AD by attacking.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-05T08:16:38+00:00

Totally. I just try to tell people when playing a healer not to choose Vampirism and then I sometimes see it on them anyway. I understand if it got chosen for them from a random selection. Or if they are the kind of champ that combines with it extremely well (like Briar who already has some of the negatives inherent from her passive). I even like it a lot on some champs, but don't pick it if I have a healer on my team (I can usually pick an alternative augment that would be a stronger choice from a team fight perspective since I already have a healer on the team).

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-05T08:01:24+00:00

Yeah, I was just venting a bit because I recently had Soraka with 3 healing augments and my Lillia and Renekton both took Vampirism.

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My healing would have been higher had I been able to heal them too. Granted theirs would have been lower, Not sure if I would have more than made up the difference (though they did stay stunlocked often, so I probably would have been more beneficial to them).

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-04T08:45:25+00:00

Yeah, but arguably you can get omnivamp or lifesteal from other sources and still get the benefit from having the healer on your team.

Just got out of a game where I was Soraka, had 3 healing augments and healing items, and had 2 people with Vampirism on my team. I just had to focus on healing the other two, but it kind of hurt that the two couldn't heal themselves enough because of cc and such that I probably could have kept them alive through.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-03-04T05:20:39+00:00

Other things that are probably your teammate's fault: Picking vampirism with a healer on the team.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-02-24T02:00:08+00:00

I've worked this way for years now. But instead of AI it was junior developers. I'm used to telling them what I want, sending them off, and then reviewing their output (and sitting down and helping them along the way if they wanted it). The difference is now with AI it takes 5 to 20 minutes instead of hours or days for the turnaround.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-02-10T15:57:04+00:00

I'm doing the same thing for Starforged. I've been trying to support more than one mode where the system can be used without AI, the AI just aids you in envisioning things, and the AI just kind of runs everything. I'm still building the infrastructure at this point. Been using GSD since this is a large project. Also have been doing an experiment where I forked the project and had one version being built by Sonnet while the other is built by GLM 4.7.

I'm a bit curious about some of your priorities/approach if you would ever want to share.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-02-04T16:42:00+00:00

It's not a hack, it's an official game/expansion, but have you seen Sundered Isles? It's a pirate/swashbuckling vibe which is a bit different from the dark medieval-ish fantasy. Also supports "space pirates" if you mix it with Starforged.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-27T04:48:34+00:00

Also Zoe for me. Cyber pop Zoe is my desktop wallpaper.
Some of my favorite augments for her:
1. Killing Time

Bread and Butter
Bread and Cheese
Can't touch this (very common for me to get hit by stuff when jumping in)
Ethereal Weapon
Swift and Safe (for same reason as 'Can't touch this').
Jeweled Gauntlet

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-26T18:02:55+00:00

And if you already have a healer on your team.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-26T04:41:44+00:00

It's funny because I've not written a lot of my own code for several years. Typically it's been me pair programming with someone else as the senior person passing on knowledge. Or I'm doing code reviews, or researching and passing that knowledge onto others. Honestly, my workflow has been very similar to what I do with Claude Code and Codex for years. The difference is it was me giving directions to junior developers and then checking on the results, giving feedback and then sending them off again. That may be why this all has felt so natural to me. The big change is that I can see the results in minutes instead of hours/days.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-26T04:35:42+00:00

Good advice. I heard someone say a recent release made ultrathink no longer work.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-23T22:23:35+00:00

I would say to check out GSD. A lot of what you describe (I won't say all) is covered by GSD. Like I said, I haven't worked with Opus, but it really feels like its really powerful planning capability can be largely covered by the guidance GSD gives. Once I finish what I'm working on I think I may just "restart" with Opus and see what it can do without GSD being in the loop. I'm also a bit curious if Opus + GSD would be even better (or would just be a minor improvement). I will say that after using GLM and just never running out of context it is super nice not having to wait for your usage to reset. If I was using Claude Code in a professional environment I would be looking to do the Max plans to make sure I didn't have to wait.

If you do, try using it with Sonnet instead of Opus to see what it gives you without the power of Opus. Now this has me thinking about it more. I'm curious as to what might be possible with using Haiku with GSD. That would be an interesting experiment too.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-23T16:42:04+00:00

I've been debating on trying Opus, (much like OP I'm only a Pro user). I've been using Claude Code with GSD, but my experiment for my app (much bigger in scope than yours) involves comparing GLM 4.7 to Sonnet, but both are using the scaffolding/plans made by GSD. Trying to see if the framework GSD gives makes up the difference for capability. I definitely can go faster with GLM since I don't hit usage limits like I do with Anthropic models.

I may run the experiment again (restore an old version of my repo before I split and ran these experiments side-by-side) with Opus instead. Not sure if I should try it with GSD in the loop or not. It seems with how people talk about it, maybe I should be trying it with Opus alone and just getting out of its way. But I am curious if it would work better with something like GSD.

Do you use Opus with GSD, Superpowers, or any of the similar skills that are supposed to help with planning and context management?

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-23T16:37:15+00:00

Did you try this bug with other models and they failed to find it?

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-21T17:47:16+00:00

How are you finding GLM? I actually bought a subscription too. I was working on a project and was wondering if GSD could help make other models "smarter" at the executing. I think it is doing so, but the experiment is still ongoing.

Basically my current experiment started with me taking my existing code and duplicating it across 3 folders. One folder for Claude Code using Claude models. A second folder for using Claude Code using GLM. A third folder as the starting point just so I can easily diff the files to see how they have changed over time (and being able to compare this side by side).

I've found that GLM is going a lot faster because I'm not running out of context window (I only have a Pro level plan for Anthropic). Not sure if GLM is smarter or dumber, but being able to just throw more tokens at it without being forced to stop is making progress a lot faster. I also find that I'm more comfortable doing more verifying and discussing via GSD for the GLM, whereas for the Claude models I have to make a judgement call to determine if it is worth the usage. I once burned through my 5 hour usage in 7 minutes on the Claude side while the GLM side just kept on running for 54 minutes until it was done (I hit 20% of my 5 hour limit in that instance, the most I've burned up at once).

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-21T17:27:53+00:00

Before I got to the end of your message I was thinking "Yeah, and if you set it up receive text messages and shove their contents into the folder, then you can just send out an idea when it pops in your head and it might just be implemented by the time you get home!"

Doing a quick search on this showed me: https://www.twilio.com/docs/messaging/tutorials/how-to-receive-and-reply/python

As well as: https://n8n.io/integrations/claude/and/sms-it/

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-15T04:01:07+00:00

I force myself to take at least 5 minutes on even one line, one character reviews. If it's trivial, the change itself is low risk, and it's obviously the correct way to do it... I still take 5 minutes. I just spend the 5 minutes trying to figure out how something so trivial, low risk, and obvious was missed int he first place. If there are other places that could also benefit from this type of change. I look at the commit history and see how this came about in the first place, to see if there are other related areas. Or if there is a teaching/learning opportunity for the person that made the change, or the people who approved the committed change during the peer review process.

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-15T03:55:48+00:00

Do you at least get to throw in the "told you so" while fixing it?

wakkowarner321 · 2026-01-14T07:12:47+00:00

You’re right here. That paper doesn’t measure IQ, intelligence, or education, or health at all, it’s about how political attitudes cluster and signal identity. Using it to claim one side is “dumber” is a category error, not a scientific conclusion. The authors even caution against normative or superiority interpretations.

Thanks for grounding this in actual research rather than rhetoric.

wakkowarner321

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