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  1. James

    Path of Exile

    Well for one you're holding a shield and doing damage.
  2. James

    Path of Exile

    THROWING A GODDAMN SHIELD INTO THE FACES OF YOUR ENEMIES, Jesus what an obvious answer. How can you not be so hyped?!
  3. James

    Path of Exile

    I've never had more than one character I play at a time on HC.
  4. James

    Path of Exile

    Ziz builds tend to be really super expensive on HC, either by virtue of the Mathil effect or because Ziz is just that rich, but stats for HC class usage are always more varied/diverse than SC.
  5. James

    Path of Exile

    The most cost effective way to craft is to essence something (preferably shaper/elder items) and hope you get lucky. The next most cost effective way is to spam chaos orbs, which can be really demoralizing to drop 50-100 on something and get nothing out of it, but you might get really lucky...
  6. James

    Dark Souls 3

    I pushed him off a ledge and took the sword, but man Uchigatana seems really hard to use in this game, not like the first at all. I'm also concerned about stacking my stats for bleed if it's ineffective late game. I might just go straight sword + shield for this first playthrough.
  7. James

    Path of Exile

    But Chieftan looks pretty baller for it: https://web.poecdn.com/image/bestiary/Panel8/Chieftain.jpg
  8. James

    How to handle a bad VP

    Not being able to interact with the opposite gender appropriately in a work environment is a leadership failure issue, not a fundamental condition that needs to be managed around. Yeah all right, the top 10% of programmers are disproportionately guys, but the other 90% are disproportionately...
  9. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Before? Like in the tutorial?
  10. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Finally picked this up. Beat that first boss in one go and I was like, HOLY SHIT, feeling good and shit about it. The wife was like "wow yeah that looked REALLY hard" complete with an eye roll, so she rolled a character and tried it. Took her all night to beat it, but now she's itching to...
  11. James

    Path of Exile

    Dots will ignore armor since armor only protects against physical hit damage. Phys% reduction will reduce bleed dot damage, but not armor. Scorching Ray + Whispering Ice with full fire conversion would work I think...I'm not sure about Marauder as a good class for it, though, but I've seen a...
  12. James

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

    Dude, this is all they're allowing me to work with. I'm on the same exact page, though. We get our drawings to the shop by printing or drawing them on a sheet of paper and walking them over.
  13. James

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

    Boss has 8 spreadsheets he's gotta check to do a price update in our system (four types of spreadsheets each with a before price and an after price), ranging from 300k lines to about 1.3 million lines. He was complaining the other day about it taking hours to do a vlookup from one spreadsheet...
  14. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah, it's a separate sound setting iirc, there's definitely options to select for tabbed-out behavior, just look through all the options (might be under UI).
  15. James

    Path of Exile

    Bosses are not affected by flee on hit, it's basically a useless stat.
  16. James

    Path of Exile

    I'd be surprised if it wasn't, tbh, Viper Strike is ridiculous. Poison is still really powerful, it's just hard to play with currently.
  17. James

    They are billions

  18. James

    Civil engineering career thread

    Do you deal with structural drawings?
  19. James

    Path of Exile

    Yeah, but each fusing you used ate the quality, so you'd have to keep using blacksmith stones/armor scraps to get that extra chance. Now you don't.
  20. James

    Path of Exile

    If Steam goes down, you can't play Path of Exile. It's happened once as far as I can remember.
  21. James

    Path of Exile

    It depends on the wording cause there's a few different immunity options, but basically the two things that can happen is that Shock is applied but 0% effective, or Shock is not applied. Either way you're not taking the extra damage, but if something deals extra damage against Shocked targets...
  22. James

    They are billions

    I've stopped building ranger armies entirely on map 4 and just skip straight to spamming balistas. I made it to day 70 once, but even though I killed that wave I knew I was never gonna beat it so I just quit.
  23. James

    They are billions

    Haven't been able to play as much, but finally got map 3.
  24. James

    Path of Exile

    It doesn't 'hit', but it absolutely deals damage! Anything that works on 'hit' won't apply to RF, like Fire Penetration or Life Leech. EDIT: Also to further clarify, RF applies the "Burning" status. There are multiple sources of "Burning" that can stack with each other, but not themselves...
  25. James

    They are billions

    You're basically trading four workers and 5 stone/wood income for 10 more energy than 3 advanced mills. You'd need 5 regular mills to get 10 less energy than a power plant, so 20 workers vs 8 in that case. I usually build one power plant when it's available, it helps mid game growth quite a...
  26. James

    They are billions

    Yup, spitters wreck soldiers. Soldiers also cost iron and food, two things you might not have a lot to spare on some maps. Snipers cost a little more gold, but otherwise outclass soldiers in every area. I always build about 15-20 rangers, and then start pumping out snipers.
  27. James

    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Tidus is not a fayth himself, but a dream of the fayth. We find out in X2 that he was based largely on this dude named Shuyin that fought this big ole thing called Vegnagun and was in love with some singer that looked just like Yuna. Terrible story, but great combat.
  28. James

    They are billions

    Yeah, your expansion is pretty heavily limited by food in the later stages of the map, for sure.
  29. James

    They are billions

    They have a set amount of zombies in them.
  30. James

    Pets

    Oh hey the wife posted some:
  31. James

    Pets

    So we had a party one night, like 10 people over nbd, and at about midnight this cat walked into the living room. We gave it some tuna and a bath, and it fell asleep in my arms and I was like well god dammit I guess I have a cat now. Then we took it to the vet in the morning, and the vet was...
  32. James

    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Dream Zanarkand
  33. James

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Why? He believes in the product, and it is one of the few on the market with a solid, very well defined use case. I hope it shoots the moon, but who knows. Do the founders cash out for what they can get if it doesn't pick up soon, or do they ride it out and believe in their product as much as...
  34. James

    Path of Exile

    I'd just essence spam, tbh. I've done a lot of alt/regal crafting, it's not really worth it.
  35. James

    Path of Exile

    Doubtful, it doesn't matter. Tooltip DPS is never correct.
  36. James

    They are billions

    You lose the technology.
  37. James

    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    X remaster. XV is awful beyond words, avoid at all costs. The game was obviously designed for idiots.
  38. James

    They are billions

    Could you ask for a better start on map 3? I know I'm gonna fuck this up. EDIT: First mayor was bonus farm. EDIT: RIP, zombie slipped through.
  39. James

    Path of Exile

    Hmm, sounds pretty serious. By any chance, did you build your character so that it could survive lag/disconnection?