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I had to respec for this reason. Went for a 10+ aps instant leech claw build and I can facetank a 4-man red map fortification now. It's still way more dangerous than the bosses.

I use F, with mouse2 as movement skill (skills A-G, potions Q-T. I like the home keys). If I put primary attack on my mouse I get tendinitis. =(

The packs are "ok", but only by comparison to the other insanity you list. They could always progressively lower prices in a controlled fashion with the release of new content, without devaluing the existing stuff. I refuse to believe that they wouldn't make tons more money if the cosmetic...

I guess they know what they're doing, but the MTX pricing in this game surprises me. $60 for a set of visual effects seems exorbitant. I have to imagine price elasticity is enough that they'd pull more revenue at half or even a third of those price points.

I just ignored delve until the main shaft capped out with leveling. It's more of a grind compared to when sulfite was raining out of the sky, and it was a bit shitty for the first few runs until I got to level-parity depth but it hasn't been that bad. All around, my approach has been to just...

I'd just settle for ever being able to interact with the guys in the safehouse.

Could I get a guild invite? Character name, right? EGDM_DoubleMin. Thanks.

It might be more about your internet connection/route than the skill. I just went through a massive headache with my ISP where I was getting high marks in bandwidth tests but deeper inspection showed intermittent heavy packet loss. Fortunately my provider is great and they spent weeks trying to...

I'm having a blast running a vaal double strike gladiator. My clear speed on maps through T8 is as fast as I can leap slam and attack once at 5 APS, and the single-target damage is absolutely stupid. I'm 85 right now and haven't had a boss fight (phase, at least) last longer than 6 seconds, and...

New crafting is nice. I had horribly unbalanced shit resists when I finished Kitava and was getting blown up on my first maps. A few alt worth of crafting later and it's smooth sailing.

For reference, Mathil's plans:

I did this after everyone here browbeat me into realizing that I didn't know shit about this game. It worked out very nicely, although the league ended before I could really take it deep into the endgame content.

+1 for KeePass hosted on Google Drive. I'm not quite so worried about security as to invoke all the protections Deathwing lists, but they're there if you want them. Sadly, also -1 for not wife-friendly.

According to the giant timer on pathofexile.com it should be Friday morning at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Light crossbows had at least twice as much draw force (>300 lbs) as longbows since you can use your legs or a winch, etc. They'd do in a target in chain but not plate. Heavy crossbows (arbalests) had 1000+ lbs draws and would deliver a bad day (though not necessarily fatal) to a target in plate...

This is why crossbows and guns were invented.

I'm doing this right now and I've been plowing through everything as fast as I can run through T7. Can't speak to the next patch, naturally.

If Chuck's broke it's his own fault. He made almost $5M in fight purses, plus whatever amount (likely sizeable) he made in endorsements. If I were WME I wouldn't want to shoulder Chuck's pension either.

I'd love for there to be some slightly intelligent pathing as well. The movement skills that aren't teleport-ish have problems with wide player hitboxes getting hung up on the corners of tiny obstacles. Rather than slamming me into the corner of the doorframe over and over, just assume that I...

Anyone interested in the history of chess computing algorithms and the psychology of high-level matches should read this. It's not current as of the bleeding edge of AI (~2015), but was very interesting none the less. Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov

I just started watching this and am loving it. Dead center in my sense of humor. I've got serious questions for whomever categorized this as a thriller, though.

Dunno. I'd be pissed too if the ref threw himself sideways into my leg with my foot stuck under me like that. If he'd tried to stand up without moving the ref there would have been a lot of lateral pressure on his knee. I'm paranoid about that because I've had a lot of knee injuries, though.

He's missing an important factor, too, which is 0.08 nanograms per what? Drug tests are usually reported in ng/mL. Humans have ~5L of blood, so if you're going to make the (still meaningless) comparison to kg you have to multiply that 0.08 by three and a half orders of magnitude. I know, news...

I experimented with a couple reave builds and everyone recommends having a stat stick instead of a second weapon for exactly this reason.

Well, I guess I should go revisit how I think about this game. I appreciate the patience, guys.

Totally honest question, just to be sure we're talking about the same thing. What active skill/abilty/resource use is there that comes at the cost of not being able to do it later in a well-constructed build? I don't mean the mechanical sense of "Do I attack now from this position or use my...

See, that's part of an actual discussion. If I was abusing terms (unintentionally, I assure you) and being vague over important differences, it's much more useful to point that out. Thanks. I was trying not to dump a massive wall of text on my first few posts with a paragraph defining every...

I do tend to gravitate towards meele. Perhaps I need to revisit some of the other styles that I haven't tried for a few patches. The rest of you, take note of Vorph. This is how you constructively disagree with someone.

Cool. I'm not impressed by the substitution of invective and hyperbole for actual discussion. All you've said so far is "Fuck you, you're wrong and stupid" and not made any points beyond angrily asserting that was I said isn't true. I'm sorry that I don't think the game is as perfect as you...

No, I'm arguing for a game that's less about meta-statistics and more about moment-to-moment player interaction. Perhaps not the best anaolgy, but sometimes PoE feels more like an ARPG skin on Factorio. If that's what you're looking for, great, enjoy (see post above this one - more power to...

That's a poor framing of the point. Giving players sub-optimal build choices is false variety. Everyone plays these games to attempt to maximize the potency of their characters within the game's design constraints. If the globally optimal approach is to automate your character, then no shit...

I appreciate the backhanded insult, but that's not really what I meant. Even watching "pro" PoE players, the solution to difficulty with a given build is always figuring out how to stack more life/resist/etc into it without losing too much damage output. It's essentially never "let me modify my...

They all are in a certain sense, obviously, but almost every build I've ever tried or seen in POE involves essentially one attack skill, one movement skill, and an entire mountain of passives and buffs that require no action- or decision-making from the player. In many other ARPGs, you have a...

I play SSF mostly because I don't find trading all that fun. It's virtually guaranteed that you won't find the items to enable your first character to experience all the content. If you're lucky enough to get good items (if you can even recognize what they are wihtout looking at a guide, given...

This is one of the reasons I have a hard time getting on board with the "PoE is the best ARPG" train. The learning curve is pretty high, and if you naively try to play the game like you would any other ARPG you'll find your character sucks bigtime. Also, IMO, the core mechanics of the game are...

They're fighters, not performers. There's an element of entertainment, but there are exactly zero combat athletes who get to and stay at the top of the heap by taking unnecessary risks.

That was pretty clear as soon as he started trying to set up the Lesnar fight. He wants a huge fat payday and then a retirement of fried chicken and coaching kids. Can't say I blame him. His body is probably held together with spit and glue after 20 years of wrestling and 10 of professional MMA.

They won't do an end-run around the NSAC if they ever want to do a show in Vegas again. Also, most of the state commissions have reciprocal enforcement agreements with each other.

Better than zero. Daniel Cormier admits injured hand ‘not 100 percent’ heading into UFC 230 title defense

Accepted also. I have a 1440p monitor and it looks like I'm getting upscaled 1080p (30 fps), but it's acceptable. Plays surprisingly well. Works far better than Steam streaming over my local network. Edit: With a little more time in, the framerate is on the bottom edge of tolerable. When making...