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Been riding 76 hard - finally moved into plat at 2530, getting about 50sr at a clip. Been on a tear lately, I think my last 15 games is probably 10-2 with 3 ties. My season win-rate on him is 65% over 43 games. The games at 2700 on my smurf seemed quite a bit harder than these 2400ish games, so...

I finally got a box and it was the Horus Ana skin. Fuck off.

QP can be good practice for mechanical stuff, but it really doesn't force any game awareness or synergy out of you. I found that QP reinforced a lot of bad habits that I had, specifically not grouping up, over-extending, and being more concerned about medals than positioning and staying alive...

Yeah, it was a KOTH that went 5, so a bit inflated.

Can't get a skin to save my life. Must have gone through 40 boxes already. Insane luck. Finally up to 2350 or so on the main account, from 1400 to start the season. The last 300 or so SR have all been on the back of Soldier/Pharah. It's just way easier to climb this way. Just finished a crazy...

Was analyzing a play on 76 last night that I think lost my team the game. I'm on defense on last point on Gibraltar, team is fighting on the ramp and I'm further back on high ground. Their Rein/Hog/Ana/Lucio trying to push up when I see their Pharah (who wasn't very good), start trying to fly...

Yeah, I run permanent mute as well. I still will do text calls occasionally but I don't listen to anything. I've found in general that it's just a much more enjoyable gameplay experience. People who tilt or ask to switch for no reason etc just take me off my game. If something isn't working, be...

Well done. I'm almost 32 and thought that was a crutch for a while, but I've climbed tremendously since S3 began and it's really a satisfying challenge at times.

As someone who used to play a lot of tribes, Pharah on CTF is bringing back some memories.

You can even see it if you do quick mouse circles between the two monitors - the 144hz captures way more of the mouse movement. One note - you'll need a Display Port or a DVI-D to make it work - HDMI can't handle it. Just mention because I had to run to the store after getting it because I only...

Something is going totally haywire with my system, cannot figure it out for the life of me. I've mounted a thing for the PC to be right next to the window, so I've got the GPU temp down in the high 60's low 70's again. In QP, while maintaining 175+FPS, my entire game was graphically suttering to...

Hadn't really thought about this before, but it looks like the 144hz option in Overwatch draws a bit more load on the GPU. My GPU temp at 144hz has been hovering at 87c, which is causing some stuttering and other issues. I'm running this on a Asus ROG laptop with all the settings on minimum...

I was at UMass Amherst from 04-08. Riots were occurring so regularly that they would have state police horses and tear-gas at the ready for divisional round games. Hell, there was even a riot when we lost our football title game to Appalachian State. Most of these 'riots' were just huge masses...

My biggest problem with playing support is that they can't do anything to control positioning. Soldier 76 decides he's on a solo flank mission or can't stay behind the shield? Rein Anubis A charge mentioned above? You almost always end up with 5v6 because of this stuff. Supports on the other...

Is Zarya out of meta or something? People seem to resent the pick - although I assume its because no one is willing to pickup Rein and they'd rather me switch to Rein.

First comp game of the day, 3 of the guys start running troll picks halfway through set 1 of Lijiang tower. Tank switches to torb and makes a turret in our base, healer goes hanzo and the pharah is just dancing around in one of the houses. Mind you, this wasn't a 3 stack or anything, 3 random...

After seeing that video, I've realized much better how D'Va's ult works. I always just assumed it inherited your momentum, but it also inherits the remaining time on your boosters in whatever direction you were facing. So if you boost for a split second and ult, your suit will continue boosting...

The 144hz has really made smooth tracking way better. Can stomp with Zarya's beam now, played about 6-7 games with her last night and didn't lose any. Zarya at this level feels stronger than Rein in a lot of ways. A lot of players in gold don't seem to have any desire to use Rein's shield for...

Haha, he makes a reference to being hooked to point 2 on Illios. Awesome.

Definitely seeing a big difference being able to track on 76 with this 144hz. McCree was np, but guys with tacking like 76 and Reaper play a lot better, for sure.

I feel like Overwatch takes avoiding KB's as a statistic to an extreme. I just finished some random QP game (single map) with Widowmaker at 70% scoped accuracy, gold elims with around 20 and 17 killing blows. Got beat on cards by a D.va with a 15 elim streak and a Mercy with 18% healing. I'm...

Have a 144hz g-sync monitor on the way. Really interested to see how this plays compared to my current 60hz that's a decade old.

Not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but I've managed to climb almost 300 points on my normal account in a day, and none of the matches really seem even hard. At 2100 now after 10ish wins in a row.

I do wonder if I'll ever be able to have as much disposal income in my 30s being married and eventually having kids as I did in my 20s being single. Sure salary goes bananas, but I think worrying about spending that on a mortgage and saving for college, etc, are going to seriously put a damper...

I was just stating that I've played with a handful of diamond guys at this point, not that I'm in, or close to diamond. The mic question was in regards to climbing without mic. I never considered it much of an issue at 2000, but I'm wondering if/when it eventually becomes one.

I'm worried that I may be reaching a level of play where I actually need to un-mute all my of teammates. I've been running 100% mute for the last few weeks and it's made the game a lot more fun for me. Anyone know of people who play this way into diamond and masters?

You mention Velk being 1 grouped late in game, but isn't that making the assumption that people have gear from the raids that you've removed? The glory days of difficult and satisfying group content would be hard to reproduce in an emulator. I've found it's mostly a function of not having very...

Woot. Just finished my placements and landed at 2615. Surely beats my season high on my other account of 1905. It'll be an interesting experiment to see if I can hang/progress at this level. I've played against a handful of Diamond guys and mechanically I'm not seeing an incredible difference...

Yeah, I've been playing Rein as well. Problem is moreso that I can follow the positioning set by a good Rein, but knowing where to position the team effectively at any given time in Rein is more challenging.

I'm not even sure what to do with myself right now. I've started placements on my smurf account and after 2 games I'm playing with diamond players. I tried to play skill classes in one of the matches, but frankly my accuracy etc doesn't hold a candle to these guys. I've just defaulted into...

Having a smurf acct makes this game so much more fun

I think nearly all of NTOV outside of Vyemm and Vulak were done without heals or pots. I'll give Vulak a try later today with just pots and let you know how it goes ;) The no heal comment was more of a function of the DPS; most of these were fights that only lasted maybe 2 minutes or so.

I think I'm going to just keep chugging with the Wiz until I hit whatever that wall is. Becoming another War Shaman Rog/Monk/Zerk combo just seems really boring to me. Edit- Hit 65 on all boxes (War Dru Wiz) with between 550-350aa on all. Seriously flattening Velious bosses without even...

It's pretty crazy how much DPS my wizard box does with basically no gear. Maybe it's just because I haven't had a true DPS box prior, but these 10k crits at 60 are devastating.

Haha, I tried doing exactly that but without a DPS box, he was just hovering around 96% and it wasn't going anywhere.

The Hole is insane exp now. Getting like 5-6 AA a pull using my Earthshaker to clear out the temple on my war. Cleared all of NTOV last night with my level 60 War Cle Shaman combo, but Vulak ate me alive. Going to beef these guys up a bit with AA's and give it a try later on this week.

Boxes all 60 now, have most of the 65 quest done. Been a fun ride so far. Phara Dar was a pain in the ass, but otherwise not so bad.

The out of era cleric ward spells at 50 and 57 are insanely OP here. My cleric just gathering mobs significantly out damages the rest of my group combined.

Been chugging along here, mid 50s on all boxes and really enjoying the survivability of the combo so far. Haven't really died at all this entire run and the DPS seems fine.

Anyone have some twink stuff lying around? I went warrior shaman cleric here. Wanted enough staying power to be able to easily clear whatever I wanted.