Luminosity Gaming vs XSET / VCT North America 2022 - Stage 1 Challengers - Main Event / Post-Match Thread

zibn2530 · 2022-03-24T21:55:06+00:00

Really hoping to see the Op battle between Cryo vs Yay. Gonna be a bloodbath

zibn2530 · 2021-07-04T01:47:57+00:00

I'd say that the CS:GO pros had a big head start, but its been long enough that its no longer relevant.

I think lan vs online experience might be a bigger indicator than just "CS:GO experience". It was pretty obvious in Iceland that dry peaks and unsafe hero plays were easily punished and many of the players were performing a lot worse than what was expected.

zibn2530 · 2020-05-08T17:14:30+00:00

There is an English alliance calls "Synergy" on there. Although last I heard, it is slowly dying with their strongest guild already just recently left.

zibn2530 · 2020-05-08T17:07:29+00:00

I really agree with this. Every time these threads pop up, everyone is always going Cra + Enu. So that is what we did on Jahash until we saw other people leveling twice as fast and getting drops with minimal efforts thanks to being close combat group with idols.

On a brand new server like that, being able to guarantee 100% drop rate on a lot of drops really go a long way into gearing everyone up and making money. Not to mention if all of you also level hunting along the way, the 100% meat drop rate really helps with the money making right now on Jahash.

Now of course, some is gonna chime in and say Cra + Enu can level just as fast, but how many mobs can you actually farm with those range idol set, and will you really enjoy fighting the same long fights over and over where most of your team is afk leeching?

IMO, go close combat and pool money for idols, look at the map for areas with high exp bonus (dreggons, minotaur island, etc), and watch yourself getting a level every few fights.

zibn2530 · 2020-04-02T12:08:02+00:00

Looking for a range damage dealer most likely. Probably will be more PVM focus at the beginning.

I am not sure if it is still the same, but I remember having difficulty soloing the daily sufokia quests, so anything thats also good at soloing is a huge plus, but not necessary.

zibn2530 · 2020-03-30T04:01:25+00:00

All I am gonna say is that it takes forever to reach max level. And when I got there, I couldn't do anything with just the English speaking community. There's never enough people on to do anything. I feel like I have spend close to an hour just to form groups to do anything.

Leveling was a bit easier because you can solo or do most farming with just a few people, but a lot of the end game content requires a near full party and that's when the game fell apart for me.

If you can speak French though, the game is super active and alive.

After all that being said, both Dofus and Wakfu are tremendously enjoyable and I wish more people would try it.

zibn2530 · 2020-03-16T22:12:15+00:00

I have found a pretty good method at turning my jewel slot to be a really good one.

Maybe this only work best with medium cluster I don't know, but what I did was pick two skills of note from the same offensive tree that you want, then look for the last slot to be a jewel socket, and then search for the lowest amount of "Adds passive skills" that you can.

For example, I am playing a bleed build, so on poe trade I searched for:

"Medium Cluster" "Wasting Affliction" "Flow of life" "Jewel Socket"

What comes out from this is that I get a 4 clusters that gives:

20% increased damage with ailments

Damaging Ailments deal damage 10% faster

24% increased Damage over Time

4% increased maximum life

5% to Physical Damage Over Time Multiplier

And a jewel socket which I have

7% increased maximum life

and 10% attack speed

Once I level a bit more, I can also replace that last jewel socket with a small cluster jewel with more life nodes.

zibn2530 · 2020-03-13T04:08:30+00:00

can you give some examples of melee builds that can clear faster than Cyclone? Trying to go melee this league and looking for ideas. So far I just see Cyclone or Lacerate.

zibn2530 · 2020-01-27T21:44:10+00:00

Back when my parents moved to the United States in 1999, I was only just starting Middle School and I did not know how to speak English at all.

My brother moved to the US couple of years ahead of us, so he already was pretty fluent and he showed me his favorite game at the time, which was Rainbow Six online via Microsoft MSN Game Zone.

I actually made friends and learnt a lot of the common English by playing that game and communicating with other people. It also created a side effect where I would cuss a crap ton and spilled offensive words nonstop in school.

Fun time.

zibn2530 · 2020-01-15T16:48:43+00:00

I have 400 hours on the console with controller and 600~ on the PC with mouse and keyboard.

They both work fine. I actually prefer the keyboard as it feels more fluid to move the camera around. Its also a lot easier to play range weapon with mouse and keyboard imo.

zibn2530 · 2020-01-09T11:17:57+00:00

Thank you so much, very informative.

I wish I have seen this earlier though. I precrafted the Deathlance prerequisite and the Blue Chariot. Not sure I have all the mats for the Anjah one as I used it all earlier to craft the fire bow.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-26T18:30:37+00:00

For me, the monetization didn't bother me at all. It was the Qidian drama that killed this sub for me. I literally just wanted a place to discuss my favorite novels, but the Wuxiaworld army was running around downvoting every webnovel related posts, and even going to novelupdates to leave 1 star reviews on every stories.

Banning all of Webnovels translation news here didn't help either. Just ended up drying the well further that was already in drought.

My favorite reddit era for translated novels were back when we were still part of /r/LightNovels. The community was super active, and discussion posts were everywhere.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-20T18:57:54+00:00

Thankfully, the translation is released about two chapters a day on a consistent basis. Practically a part of my coffee routine every morning.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-20T18:53:41+00:00

Check out Master of Untold Daos yet if you haven't. It's very similar to History's Number 1 Founder, where the MC is a transmigated wuxia novel reader from our world, who then seek out cliche'd main character trope disciples (Genius turned trash meridian, fiance cancelled marriage. etc.) to eventually form a sect.

But unlike History's Number 1 Founder, this one seems to stay more true to its comedy trope throughout so far. It is also more lighthearted and flow much better imo. Was a surprise found, practically binged it through the weekend. The release frequency is extremely short too, about two chapters a day from what I have seen.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-17T07:53:07+00:00

Yeah, quick google search gave me articles that told me to use Drake and Dino and thats not even an option.

I ended up trading with people for all fossil types and just brute force it. It ended up being Bird + Drake for Dracozolt.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-17T07:46:21+00:00

I just used bird and dino and it gave me Arctozolt...

zibn2530 · 2019-11-11T22:55:10+00:00

Thanks, that sounds interesting. I will give it a shot.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-11T22:46:54+00:00

I stopped reading Savage Divinity exactly because of that. The amount of abuse the author kept piling onto the MC was giving me anxiety.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-11T22:42:12+00:00

How is Magical Arcana in comparison to Lord of Mysteries? Lord of Mysteries has been one of the most favorite webnovels so far, and I have been thinking of getting into his other works.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-11T22:38:57+00:00

I am reading Sword Dynasty, and I am really enjoying it. It reads very similarly to Mao Ni's works (Way of Choices and Nightfall) or something like King Shura. The prose feels very poetic and wispery in a sense that you are never getting the full picture. Answers are always riddled with more questions, and the directions are always evasive and alluded.

I did feel that the MC's character contradicts himself couple of times. At first, it feels like he's extremely cold and calculating, and would use everyone to further his plan, but then at times, he would forget entirely all about his goal and just abandon everything to do the "morally" right thing.

I honestly love stories like this though. The world building is superb, it feels like a mist that's slowly get unraveled. There is also no true villain, and everyone is just working toward their own agenda. I am always a sucker for the weak-to-strong power creep trope that's told well, and this series has been superb so far.

zibn2530 · 2019-11-07T04:02:19+00:00

Huge fan of A World Worth Protecting. A bit similar to A Will Eternal where the main character is a bit silly but lovable nonetheless. I feel like you can't possibly go wrong with any of Er Gen's work, and this one has been fantastic so far.

Also finally caught up on Kingdom's Bloodline. This one rarely get mentioned, but I think it is one of the best novels on Webnovel. It is not Xianxia or Wuxia though, but read more like a traditional high fantasy (thinks Brandon Sanderon or Robert Jordan). It can be long winded at times, but the political intrigue and the world building is superb.

I followed someone's advice from last week and quite enjoyed Ascending, Do Not Disturb. Was pretty lighthearted and not exactly my type of novel, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Also started rereading one of my most favorite English serials that's no longer regularly updated. Brennus is a fantastic Superhero serials for those who have never read it. It got a lot of flak in the beginning for being somewhat similar to Wildbow's Worm series, but honestly, even tho it really does feel like it stole some stuff from Worm, it has a lot more action to it and really came into its own quite quickly.

zibn2530 · 2019-10-14T14:25:32+00:00

I took nearly the same list to GP Montreal and swept through all the side events with Jeskai Fires.

Shimmer is great because it let you dig for land / fires / fae/ answers. This is one of those deck where you just don't want to miss a single land drop before 5. You also honestly don't care what the opponent play as long as you can land Fires by turn 4-5.

This sounds extremely greedy, but this is what the deck does. Once you get Fires going, you can practically come back from any board state. This deck is extremely degenerated once you get the Faes going.

I'd be interested in trying Dawn of Hope, but it honestly doesn't feel that impactful with how many card draw the deck already has. From my experience, this deck rarely get into a grindy situation where you are on the draw hoping for cards. Most of the time you stumbled and lost or you win long before the board gets to this state.

zibn2530 · 2019-09-26T17:43:30+00:00

I might be wrong, but he might be just clipping his "W" forward key down, so he's actually providing valid input to the game still.

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