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Wasn't there tons of political intrigue in the Witcher series? I gave up on 2 and 3 early because I didn't like the gameplay, but I remember 1 essentially being about political intrigue while you go kill monsters(and humans).

Why? Rich guy wants to do expensive and impressive stunts and you get to come along for the ride. It's like Adam Sandler and his movies except the result isn't you just watched his vacation and 2 hours of fart and fat jokes.

Thought you could just sneak that one in there, did you?

Close Combat is for the full damage bonus on targets that cannot be knocked back. Anything you get on other targets is just gravy. You want movement speed bonus during mapping.

Fair enough, I'll admit I'm likely being lazy in this matter. What are the fees for liquidating your investments?

Liquid assets for emergencies? I like to keep ~6 months of expenditures in cash on hand in case I get laid off. That's around $50k. I could probably invest some of that, but meh. I'm not really sure it's worth the hassle and fees having to sell shares in that situation.

Yeah, uber's videos are what got me interested. As in, this doesn't look that bad. They certainly don't look at retarded as HoAg's minion AI.

So you're saying your replacement can't read documentation? I wish it was easy to fire people. I just spent an hour explaining to one of my subordinates that since he gets sick often, maybe he should save more vacation time for sick time so he doesn't run out of sick time half way through the...

My build testing spree continues. Who here has played spectres? The new Slave Drivers look interesting. Do they pop legions decently? Or is minion AI still an issue? Are necros decently tanky?

I've been at this place a bit over 5 years, but I was promoted ~2 years into a managerial position. I feel like I still have a lot to learn in that respect. But, I think it's time to start casually looking.

Damnit, got a 3.5/5 when I wanted a 4. My boss says he rarely gives out 4s. Also said my predecessor, who'd worked this job for 8 years and at least 50h/week usually got a 3. It's probably 1% difference on my yearly bonus and raise, maybe it's not worth the monumental effort? And maybe I...

Reading your sex scenes is?

Definitely a sizeable increase for ED. The shield has a hefty reservation reduction and blood magic support nearly double the mana reservation cost. Essentially, you can't fit in some of those auras if you ditch the shield. And I have no open links on my boots!

yes, but then you lose that sweet shield. I've actually found that if you care about the damage of your blight, bows are overall dps neutral.

Just 13 minutes ago, one(of 3) of our git pipeline machines failed due to 3 damaged disks from the AC going out. There were people here and still damage was not prevented. I really don't see why they wouldn't use an automated shutdown routine once temperature passes a certain point. My...

My point is that with Cyclone, you're pretty much guaranteed to be on that 0.3s CD. If you use Rage support, you build your rage to max in ~10s. However, in your case, due to granularity of attack and I'm guessing not using Rage support, you're building rage only once every 0.4s, that's ~20s...

Don't know if our servers have that option. I know for certain some of them don't. We have ancient hardware because we build installers for some esoteric platforms.

@Kiki has the right of it. Alerts are not good enough, what if everyone is sleeping? Uptime is stupid, I'm not going to complain about my machines being shutdown if the alternative was them getting cooked.

Top right sector for the most part.

What's your attack time on Sweep? That may have been a bad choice for stacking rage and Blitz charges. Most people aren't complaining because they tried Berserker with Cyclone ;)

The gear and tree requirements for a CoC build is likely too high. You sacrifice too much dps for the tankiness gains. I tried a scourge arrow build for shits and giggles and gave up after 5 minutes. The archetypes I listed work because they don't have much scaling outside of a few pieces of...

The build is fine, I just couldn't get it to click in a cohesive zoom zoom manner. It felt like I was fighting fb in interaction more than benefitting from it. ED contagion suffers from similar issues, just not as severely. Think of the times you cast contagion twice and ED none. Or you send it...

They are probably better than those times. 15k - 20k ES seems more the "normal" but the addition of VMS probably more than compensates for the lost ES. On top of that, you now have access to 3 build archetypes with non-shit damage, because that's what RF/SR is. Frostbolt - Ice Nova with...

How about the time you told her you were a guild leader.

You going to give us the other two entries? This isn't enough to finish.

No PoB yet, I'm still working on it, which means playing the character. But here's an example of the stupid shit you can do with a mana guardian and a dps skill that doesn't require that much support. poe.ninja Things like Pledge of Hands FB+IN, HoAg, ED/Contagion come to mind. I didn't like...

I think it was @Xequecal that mentioned Memory Vault before the league. I'm going to have to agree, Guardian is look rather broken and I think it's just a matter of time before the meta catches on. I tried a Pledge of Hands Guardian, the tankiness is definitely absurd, I just didn't like the...

I guess I can understand if they wouldn't be strictly interested in doing that because it's not the "right way". But after almost a year of this shit, why not implement a failsafe that takes a week at most. Our test system already detects if the system is in a dirty state and has the power to...

You'll be amazed at what you'll put up with. I mean, I feel you, I get the same feelings too. We have reviews coming up soon and if my boss lowballs me again I'm out. But it's mostly going to be because our IT department is beyond incompetent. We had a server room meltdown last August where...

Jboots are slower too!

Oh, I macro fixed that a while ago.

Power creep is going to ensure that tuning an ability's viability via dps is the worst option. @Thregin what did they change last patch regarding leap slam and cyclone? I haven't been maining that build for a bit, so I might not have picked up on it.

It does, I'm over 80% crit chance with a diamond flask. I value consistency because it lets you develop a rhythm and muscle memory. Having your CoC trigger fail to proc any spells even once in a while can be dangerous because it can mean your sustain goes to shit, you don't freeze nor kill...

It needs nerfing for the same reason worb got dumpstered this patch: too much of everything in one skill. Now, I'm not strictly advocating for nerfs, but it's objectively harder for them to bring everything up to the level of 3.6 WOrb or 3.7 Cyclone than it is to nerf one skill. You can look...

Cyclone's dps is pretty low on "problem" list. Do you have a PoB showing it doing as much dps as a chaos conversion character? So, I don't understand how nerfing impale's interaction with cyclone actually accomplishes anything.

It'd be like Epic Meal Time but racist, misogynist, and transphobic.

Seems like a clunky way to limit the skill.

A big duh, but at least confirmed. Get your cyclone kicks befores it gets worbed next patch. And then really worbed the following patch.

How do you know it wasn't the last mob you killed that dropped the exalt instead?

Both sound unpleasant, I'm more trying to determine if it's worth just buying the rares rolled the way I want as there are a couple available for 4-5 ex, would just have to multimod then.