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You can get 5 spectres easily as a necro without empower support. I bet 5 with full damage supports > 6 with gimpy empower support.

Off topic: has anyone dealt with Ubuntu 14.04 going LTS last week? We have some OLD docker containers that can no longer run because some of the packages are now locked behind a paywall. I'm trying to determine if the best method is painstakingly move the containers to Ubuntu 16 or....find the...

Yeah, been a while since I worked with those too ;) I've been on Python for a while now. I would definitely trust casting in a managed language much more than otherwise. @Noodleface you aren't worried about possible loss of information from the casting? I mean, I guess you're working with...

It's been a while since I worked with a language that supported casting, but isn't the concept in general frowned upon? I'm assuming you had to dirty up your code with a fair amount of ifdef usage.

I'm not going to pretend I fully understand ignite or poison calculations as both builds suffer from sustain issues, so I haven't fully invested myself into planning one out. My PoB experiment, for the ensaring arrow case, would be to make a dummy Divine Ire character that uses Stormfire...

That's a fair point, perhaps the question is a bit antiquated for Python. I don't think hex() is a builtin for C/C++, that's the focus of development at our company. Honestly, it's a warmup question. Sometimes we use "build an index", like the back of a book, out of a bunch of words. But...

If they didn't say you couldn't use builtins beforehand, that's their fault. The intent of the hex question is not to be some sort of gotcha, because of course you're going to use hex() 100% of the time. We want to see how candidates work through a problem. We give them unfettered internet...

Good thing it drops from Enslaver instead!

Did you watch the last twofourseven movies?

Some standard Python libraries trivialize typical interview questions. So you either have to say no standard library calls or make the question harder. Our first question is implementing string->hex number without calling hex(), which is a "builtin" for Python. After that, we ask them to do a...

Does enemy takes increased projectile damage affect ignite or poison? I thought those damages were calculated from the base unmodified fire or phys/chaos damage.

My instinct is that anything bow related is going to be expensive just because of gear similarity. However, the patch notes did kinda anti-hype.

I think it will be fine. It won't be racer-level optimal, but I think the cliche of not starting bows is just that, especially if you know what you're doing.

You can't use BA to level?

Honestly, these patch notes felt very reminiscent of older leagues than recent ones. Like, I really don't have much to think about honestly. Not saying that's a bad thing, but I expect I'll be waiting on streamers to promote new builds than try to cook something up myself.

Definitely starting Slave Drivers Necro. Enduring Mana Flask untouched...

Some of the buffs they teased at the bottom of the manifesto yesterday are meh. I'm pretty sure 3.8 Molten Strike does more damage than 3.9 Molten Strike due to the Point Blank changes. Arc and Soulrend changes might be interesting? At least they were mechanics changes and not straight damage.

You could be right, I was remembering the text differently.

Barrage + arrow nova support is a good idea to get around CoC crit calculation weakness. But, that seems like 1 too many supports needed for that kind of setup.

The playstyle itself is not rewarding enough to go "this is fun!". If you played traps during Incursion, you can get your mine throwing speed down to a comparable speed but it still requires manual detonation instead of relying upon Sab's Chain Reaction. Thus, you need to find something else...

That's not how I read it. My interpretation is that they are changing affixes that add a support gem and do something else are having the do something else removed.

Correct, it's mostly sustain. You get 15% of your life as ES at any point as EHP.

I was looking into this but but it sucks losing the block chance offering. Also, I'm lazy and love the desecrete - VMS - offering combo in a weapon with the trigger socketed skills setup.

Nerfing the skills in the balance manifesto doesn't address that.

Definitely, guardian will have to try much harder. I just want to figure out how necros deal with sustain. Probably going to start necro spectres, but I really want to play that DD CoC instead.

Lot of comments saying the spectre change will just force more people to run necromancer. I was using Wicked Ward on my guardian. What do necros use for sustain and ehp to match a guardian?

I don't see the point of playing whackamole with power leveling skills. Racers will find a new #1 comp and others will just copy them. The problem isn't that OoS, Lightning Spire Trap, Smoke Mine, etc are too powerful. It's that using them and then transitioning into your final build is too...

So, I tossed together a CoC DD Necro PoB. I haven't had time to playtest it as work has been busy(boy do I love setting up a fully-feature Postfix server as a noob...). It's overbudget on gem slots but whatever. Pick it apart, but that's not really the point of this post. What I can't...

Seems like your problem solved itself.

Textures on the portal look unfinished.

I thought Shaper beam was tri elemental. That's what the wiki says.

They're going to bring back radius scaling. I was discussing this with someone in guild a while back, @Kythik, I think. And we couldn't figure out a reddit post claiming they could sit in Shaper beams because Offerings and Necromancer. I think I figured it out last night: CoC. Is it worth...

What if the game was free and their cut of the RMAH paid for all costs associated with D4?

Do these women contact you before or after they find out about the forced christmas caroling?

They are? Scourge Arrow is getting a nerf/change and I don't think will work with most of the new support.

Streets ahead.

I remember giving you a bunch of red maps a few leagues back.

What @Caeden said. Enjoy your full priced plus mtx game. D4 has some high expectations on that alone and asking "idk, what do u think?" isn't a way to meet them.

You just needed the edit, nothing more ;) I'm not nonobjective of PoE's faults just because I play it a lot. Forced meta is definitely an issue with the game. Note I have a post in this very thread about how meta change can count as content. So, I'm not necessarily sure I agree that "games...

What part of "games as a service" has ruined PoE?