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  1. ronne

    Path of Exile

    The more I stare at archmage the crazier it looks. Not having to keep the mana cost so high opens up a ton of options for just spamming spells. You can get what, 70? 80%? reduced cost from just the tree+inspiration? Plenty enough that the mana regen you'll get naturally from the mana nodes...
  2. ronne

    Path of Exile

    I very much doubt it's still competitive. It's certainly the best melee league start still, but again I ask, why bother? Just jump through a bunch more hopes and give up a totem or bloodrage or something to still have to hit bosses with a stick and deal with damage ramp? It was already a...
  3. ronne

    Path of Exile

    That's what I'm saying - the sockets aren't there. They cost something from totems/blood rage/molten shell etc. You have to make a concession someplace to fit in the new warcry support + lifetap. Unless you're implying you can just run a 4link for damage and use the 2 extra sockets for your...
  4. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Yes boneshatter was definitely good, but people really aren't fully groking how much of a problem the new warcry automation actually is. At minimum its one extra gem socket if you can somehow make the mana work, or its another lifetap link which is 2 sockets gone. You have to give up something...
  5. ronne

    The Fighting Game Community Thread

    His final tweet before dying was dunking on lowtiergod for being a plug pulling faggot what a chad
  6. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Bonezone is dead for the type of people that care heavily about their leaguestart or racing for whatever weird reason. It was the most competitive melee setup, and the warcry change pretty firmly nerfs it and the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. It'll still be fine if you're a random derp...
  7. ronne

    EVE Online

    Null is in a pretty stale peacetime currently, with all the big players seemingly happy to just farm their corners of space and get rich and RMT or whatever it is they do. Wormholes are pretty spicy with the upwell structures now, and ratting in C5/C6 holes is some pretty insane money. People...
  8. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Yea I mean the more I sit here and tinker with PoB the more I'm reminded just how cancerous ancestor totem gameplay actually is Witch has new voice lines this league so clearly it's time to go DD ignite like everyone else
  9. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Is that actually better? I haven't looked at the math on complex so maybe. But this still comes back to mana cost problems even if you don't want or need the 2nd totem.
  10. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Ancestral protector and multitotem support. A single warchief is giving up a metric ton of attack speed compared to the multitotem setups. You also need to lifetap the warcry or get twice as much unreserved mana cause it costs ~38 with the new support.
  11. ronne

    Path of Exile

    I was just looking at the math on warcry automation and I don't think it works. 200% multiplier makes each warcry cost ~40 mana, so you have to lifetap them if you want it to work at all? Where are those gem sockets coming from? Your totem links? Those aren't really optional, are you giving up...
  12. ronne

    Path of Exile

    I thought that too but my lord are you gonna be lacking damage. The thickness is there for sure, but tawhoa still sucks giant wang, and the 7-link ancestral is what, 5% damage?
  13. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Yea just for general QoL with boneshatter. Maybe the one mastery strike is enough? But I find that unlikely without being a slayer for their huge AE.
  14. ronne

    Dragon's Dogma 2

    Y'all are smoking some serious fucking copium if you think the rates of item acquisition in games is not designed entirely to accommodate the cash shops in these games The money doesn't lie - it works, and it works so big it warps the entire world of gaming as a result
  15. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Yea I'm not trying to frenzy stack on a jugg while also giving up rare gloves. Replica badge could make a pretty thick trickster though with 10 endurance charges, I'm just not sure what you do for damage without being able to use yoke or whatever?
  16. ronne

    Path of Exile

    I'm pretty high on the new fortify gloves. I'd wager they can roll up to +10 fortification? That means you can pretty reasonable hit ~35 fort without too much effort in that southwest area of the tree, resulting in some baller attack speed and an eventual corruption for more attack...
  17. ronne

    Dragon's Dogma 2

    To the whole 'just don't buy it bro/you find it all in-game anyway' crowd: The fact that the DLC exists poisons the well. They had the conversation about how to properly balance drop rates of these things at some point vs how much they would cost in the store, which means even if you personally...
  18. ronne

    Dragon's Dogma 2

  19. ronne

    Path of Exile

    yea but you're a crackhead that grinds 500 t2 maps a night on a 2000hp deadeye with everything but currency and t0 uniques filtered
  20. ronne

    Path of Exile

    1000hp icicle miner bossers in shambles Amazing change, make people interact with boss content instead of just sell it all
  21. ronne

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/03/19/xbox-game-pass-new-march-2024-wave-2/
  22. ronne

    The Video Thread

    Whole ass episode is worth it Finally some proper TV for 15 year old boys
  23. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Heh like 2009 or so? It was the Cimco2 facility in the south loop Chicago. We weren't direct Comcast employees but were renting a few rows in one of their DCs.
  24. ronne

    City Hunter (2024)

    Lol yea I was immediately like 'who on earth would remake a super obscure Jackie Chan movie' I had no idea this was some weeb nonsense
  25. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    How many of these fake interview people are pajeets? People have been massaging their resumes for years as job posting requirements got more and more ridiculous sounding over the years, but there are definitely some fucks out there that just straight up cannot do the jobs they apply for. When I...
  26. ronne

    The Crow

  27. ronne

    Path of Exile

    Hilariously enough if you go far enough back in time those flasks used to be +maxres, but they got 'nerfed' in to less damage taken And now here we are like 6 years worth of powercreep later and its time to 'nerf' them again back to +maxres
  28. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Bro I have no idea The first kid I interviewed with literally said 'the cafeteria is the best part of working here, it's like getting to eat at Applebee's for only 5$!' Like uh sir you are not selling this like you think you are I won't lie tho having a giant fuckin UN styled meeting room...
  29. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Oh thats just one piece of the place. They have a pirate section? And an entire castle? And they employ a few dozen farmers? The place is fucking insanity:
  30. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yea these guys are definitely the most absurd process I've been involved with yet. I should have probably known I was in for some bullshit when I looked up their campus and saw how LOOK HOW FUN AND QUIRKY WE ARE design Also their careers section is/was hiring multiple sushi chefs when I applied
  31. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This is primarily what I'm concerned with - that even if I do accept an offer I'm going to fucking hate working under their structure. The place is fucking MASSIVE too, EPIC health systems has a whole fuckin Google style compound up in Madison WI and like 10k+ employees, so it's even wilder to...
  32. ronne

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I haven't applied for random jobs in over a decade and am getting pretty fucking floored by some of the interview processes I'm encountering. I just got an email from HR at a large medical records company after a first round interview asking me to schedule a battery of 3 exams before proceeding...
  33. ronne

    The Beekeeper (2024)

    Crank 2 is easily top 5 movies ever made, just an absolute riot Extra super bonus points for the 10/10 Mike Patton soundtrack
  34. ronne

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Clone fight was double hilarious because they are both casting the wildest reality-warping shit that can think of it and none of it amounts to anything, which is probably why she doesn't bother teaching Fern any of it it in the first place. Just cast 'gun' really fast and over and over, it...
  35. ronne

    Argylle (2024)

    First half hour or so was pretty funny and clever, fell off a cliff afterwards. How the fuck did they let her do this movie with the body of a refrigerator
  36. ronne

    Fallout

    Sorry to be a hope crusher here but it'll be easier if you learn this sooner rather than later:
  37. ronne

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Skyrim was one the early progenitors of endless 'procedural' content soup. Everything in Elden Ring is hand crafted to be the way that it is. They are not the same.
  38. ronne

    Last Epoch

    They are fixing it if its not deployed already
  39. ronne

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    lmao have the AI reached our toxic little corner of the internet already
  40. ronne

    Last Epoch

    Can you upgrade base types of items somehow? This thing would be nearly perfect for my build but the base dagger is so shit it cucks my damage by ~30%