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  1. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    If you're wanting to play ranked and think you can't get through gold without a meta deck then you're probably below average considering the win rate requirements to advance. It takes around 20-25 hours at around a 54-55% win rate to hit platinum starting from bronze. Almost all the precon...
  2. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Any pile can get to mythic with enough time meta or otherwise, but barring time investment and the desire to spend you can easily get to platinum with any mono colored aggro deck. I've done it each month since the only time I really play multicolor decks is with jank barring my r/g warrior dip.
  3. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Store redemption is down at the moment - APR 25 - In-Game Store/Code Redemption
  4. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Even getting mythic is a 20ish hour a week commitment. The game variance to stay in the top 50 is going to force you to play 40+ hours a week in most cases. Not worth it unless you're a streamer, unemployed, autist or some combo of all. I'm averaging an hour or so a day now since RNA set...
  5. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I popped 80 packs but my enthusiasm for making new constructed decks is pretty low with my rank climb being done for the month. Will probably bust out some sealed in the meanwhile. First time I really took a look at the cards though and I dig a lot of the art this set.
  6. Chimney

    Playstation 5

    I agree their exclusives are fantastic, but 1) I'm sick of exclusivity 2) the amount of money I would spend for 5-10 games tops over the life of a console isn't worth the $1k+ I'd end up spending. Luckily most of my friends that are PS only console people have PC for all the good multiplayer...
  7. Chimney

    Playstation 5

    Doubt it will be day 1 or even within the first year. The console exclusives aren't enough of a draw any longer when there have been so many cross platform releases to satisfy me. Plus with the ease and choice of playing PC at desk or with controller and TV these days makes my consoles...
  8. Chimney

    The Division 2

    Lame. Why the hell are there even 4 difficulties if they are basically going to be easiest, easier, easy, easy+? That ruins the fun for me more than the loot issues or anything else since you could already blow through content solo no matter the difficulty and even 4 man Heroic was only...
  9. Chimney

    The Division 2

    Did they nerf difficulty already? Played for a bit yesterday for the first time in a week or so and it seemed like things were dying way easier.
  10. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I will definitely be buying all of those alt art planeswalker to satisfy the weeb in me. Watching some of the prerelease streamers and they are demonstrating some broken interactions pretty easily with this set already. Going to be pretty funny once people have a week or two to mess around.
  11. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Neat bug since the patch, where the opponent rope stops at zero and the game never continues. Twice so far in about a dozen games and the only way out is to concede or just alt-f4 and you get to come back to a loss.
  12. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I got my white dye without even opening the ivory chest and my black dye is currently bugged to show up as white too. Getting hard to log in now that I am pretty min/max'ed and there being no point in chasing loot. Still got close to 200 hours before I stopped logging in every day which beat my...
  13. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Yeah I play Eternal as well for my other CCG, but I like MTG the best. I honestly don't mind aggro meta since games are quick in either direction, but when I have to play out 10-20 minute games that are basically hope I draw perfect and they draw poorly with absolute zero middleground it's Zzz...
  14. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I've swapped around between WW, RDW, R/G Warriors, Mono U, Mono G, Drakes and even a pretty basic Mono B aggro deck for shits and giggles and it hasn't made a difference. I also thought that deck strength wasn't part of ladder matching anymore so I don't even know if it matters. Can't even just...
  15. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Are you playing that pile in ladder or just normal? =O --- I've played over 200 Bo1 games this week and the amount of Esper Control or the Dovin's Acuity variation on ranked is too damn high. When I got to platinum I straight conceded 50 games in a row hoping to lower my MMR a bit and still...
  16. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I'm still enjoying myself because the game play loop is enjoyable and gear is pretty much a meaningless bonus rather than a necessity. I love playing ARPG's/MMOs and even then it's hard to get excited about loot unless it's to help with progression. If/when having min/maxed gear actually...
  17. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I think the psychological effect of not having 500+GS is weighing way too heavily for people when it doesn't matter game play wise since we are/should be chasing stat/talent rolls. It took half a dozen hours to get to where 500+ stuff was dropping. By the end of the week everyone will be 500+...
  18. Chimney

    The Division 2

    They stealth nerfed dialed in if you didn't notice I think in the last patch. I'm also using Sharpshooter primarily and because of it I'm either maxed or close to max stability with every weapon so it's a wasted talent at the moment. Same boat as you with around 140 played, but I'm pretty much...
  19. Chimney

    The Division 2

    Yeah that would have been the ideal system. Trash a talent or stat and then apply it to whatever. I don't know if they end up reworking the system, but it is worse than Div 1's by far so I'm hoping they do or that gear sets are just wear and forget so no one has to worry about brand crap once...
  20. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I think I have 20 items in my stash which is enough to replace each talent I would actually use, a few items with CHC of 10%+ and DTE of 40%+ and a copy of creeping death since I've only seen that one time even though I doubt I'll ever use it. Nothing is uncommon enough to worry about if you're...
  21. Chimney

    The Division 2

    The extra loot isn't even worth the time spent since it's so RNG based and unless you're a real life hoarder who needs 14 holsters with hard hitting on them then how could you run out of storage space. Keep high rolls of each type and a talent of each type. It's not like loot doesn't rain down...
  22. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I went from bronze to gold 2 this morning in b01 ladder and every single game I played was against esper control except for 1 rdw and 1 jund. So friggin tedious to play against repeatedly. Worse than playing bo3 for time spent. I pray my next session is just all wins straight to platinum so I...
  23. Chimney

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Unity is like working on a Honda. Frostbite is like working on an Aston Martin. -- Also lol @ MAKE US UNMEMEABLE! Yeah your whole game turned into a joke instead.
  24. Chimney

    The Division 2

    It's not that much worse than any other challenging mission when people don't know what they are doing. When you destroy both tanks, rush boat and you can end it without even having to kill the rest of the mobs. If I'm demo spec I can just kill the whole boat once the ramps drop solo and then...
  25. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Why?
  26. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I don't think any current standard decks with life gain are also running lava coil, even in sideboard, save maybe gates so taking out a rekindling phoenix is going to require 2 spells in the majority of cases aside from vraskas which also takes out planeswalkers so tibalt isn't safe.
  27. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I guess it gives another option, but if I'm going to bo3 with red then I'm likely going to play phoenixes since they are a lot more sticky and then start splashing in cindervines etc. Citadel looks like it'll do gross things in edh.
  28. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    FoilFungus - Premium Deathbloom Thallid ParallaxPotion - Premium Revitalize PlayAllegiance - 3 packs of Ravnica Allegiance PlayRavnica - 3 packs of Guilds of Ravnica ShinyGoblinPirate - Premium Fanatical Firebrand SparkleDruid - Premium Druid of the Cowl STARTERSTYLES - Arena card sleeves and...
  29. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Codes for freebies. SuperScry ParallaxPotion There will likely be more too since there are quite a few cards where alt art aren't purchasable. 5-0'ed the event with white weenie and then with a 14 land RDW just to see if I could get away with it. So many easy turn 3 wins.
  30. Chimney

    The Division 2

    The game will forever have factions fighting for control points and such. You're able to level them up by taking out linked objectives to make them more difficult and get access to new drops. And I hope their is at least another difficulty beyond heroic. Only reason challenging is difficult...
  31. Chimney

    The Division 2

    You get 3 per "level up" field cache too so just churning out fast exp they come quickly.
  32. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I got my parts all from outside of the missions since they weren't coughing up the parts. I used this as a guide - Division 2 Hyena Chest Locations Specilization points have been pretty easy to come by tbh. Between bounties, caches and dailies I maxed out two specs pretty quickly. Still...
  33. Chimney

    The Division 2

    I thought I read they are going to have invaded missions sporadically throughout further along as well as randomly in your world.
  34. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Cool let me know how many hands you can fold in MTG and still keep playing.
  35. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Steamkin by itself doesn't feel bad. It's when it pops off with experimental frenzy that it gets lame.
  36. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Oh I don't care on a personal level but it's still idiotic trying to promote a game with that kind variance as legitimately competitive. Top tier players are going to weed out the lucky ones more often than not it's just there shouldn't be a lucky player beating top tier players ever.
  37. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    Yeah then he also mulled to 5 in the final match of a tournament that pretty much guaranteed a loss. That shouldn't be able to happen in a competitive game ever.
  38. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I'll start looking for backers for the coin flip and paper, rock, scissors mythic invitational because that's literally competitive magic. All jokes aside we aren't ever going to have legitimate competitive magic with the RNG elements present in game and if we remove it then the "magic" of...
  39. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    I agree, but MTG will always be a shitty game to watch unless they fundamentally change the way the game works. Maybe not as bad as HS, but it's still awful and pretty unwatchable if you are hoping for something equivalent to poker/chess/go etc. 1v1 me bro, bo1 format.
  40. Chimney

    MTG: Arena

    No I did not I thought they were doing it similar to the player of the year event, but my point still stands that no matter how they do it the element of RNG in MTG makes for shitty games on a repeated basis.