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by dezzmont
Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:14 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Guild Wars 2
Replies: 14
Views: 3731

Re: Guild Wars 2

Rustledjimm wrote:Oh well if you want to add me I'm Durandal.6123 I'm happy for any folk on here to add me. I'm only level 50 mind so I'm not anywhere near high-end level 80 content yet.
Sent you a request!
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:05 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Guild Wars 2
Replies: 14
Views: 3731

Re: Guild Wars 2

So how are we gunna link up?
by dezzmont
Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:32 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Guild Wars 2
Replies: 14
Views: 3731

Re: Guild Wars 2

I would be down to play, but I am not super experienced in high end content.

I play an earth elementalist, max level last I checked unless the cap went up.

Is joining a new server or playing with a guild on another server awful still?
by dezzmont
Sun Apr 08, 2018 8:46 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

I think that it is meant to help out even cost decks with consistency. It drawing your lowest should be seen as an upside because it gets you a known quantity. Even though your low cost cards aren't the strongest cards in your deck you put them in there for a reason, and any card draw that allows yo...
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:11 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

Well jeez I am retarded... what the hell was I thinking of? The Druid weapon?

That said, minion cheating seems to be a 'theme' of the set, so it is likely that Mage can do something with that.
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:49 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

I mean you just slap this and Aluneth in a deck together and the value is just nutso. I think it is good enough to be borderline auto include in all but the most minion lite decks just because it has such a flexible cost you don't generally see on value based minions. Especially crazy in elemental ...
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:04 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

I mean you just slap this and Aluneth in a deck together and the value is just nutso. I think it is good enough to be borderline auto include in all but the most minion lite decks just because it has such a flexible cost you don't generally see on value based minions. Especially crazy in elemental m...
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 5:57 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

That certainly is a card. And with the new draw 3 for 2 card you could turn 4 draw 3 or 2 cards and double them to go up 3 cards for 5 mana with a 2/2 high priority target on the board which is kiiiiinda nuts?
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 3:26 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

Considering they are pushing Shaman spell generation this set and aren't giving shamans any real power cards (which is logical as shaman can go nuts really fast as they have a weird balance point where its easy for them to go insane) its likely that shaman will be a dead class for yet another expan...
by dezzmont
Sat Apr 07, 2018 2:33 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!
Replies: 34
Views: 9939

Re: Hearthstone Witchwood is coming soon!

Highly unlikely to see play as its an 8 mana 6/6 without an immediate board effect in a class that already has insanely good tools for value generation. I am fucking retarded and read 'replay' as 'replace.' That seems like it would be insane in some burgle miracle deck. Fucking Yog 2.0 right there ...
by dezzmont
Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:15 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight new class
Replies: 119
Views: 35886

Re: Vermintide 2 - IT'S OUT

The lore of the classes is that each is a potential reaction to the events of last game. For example Markus can either stay a mercenary, be recruited as a knight for valor in combat, or get ptsd and try to recover in the wilderness he grew up in as a huntsman. So because she already was a fire wizar...
by dezzmont
Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:44 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight new class
Replies: 119
Views: 35886

Re: Vermintide 2 - IT'S OUT

One of my friends has been maining Unchained. The benefit to Unchained is that you can use blocking to dump heat, and then use close ranged staves like Beam's alt fire shotgun blast to just wreck people endlessly. He then uses a mace with stamina boosting to just CC everyone forever while the team e...
by dezzmont
Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:20 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight new class
Replies: 119
Views: 35886

Re: Vermintide 2 - IT'S OUT

I dunno. Its only 4 talents right? And the 85% healing was a bit nutso from what I understood as it effectively doubled the benefit of healing packs. Nerfing that makes sense considering that its modeled after L4D and those games don't work if resources are so plentiful there isn't an urge to move f...
by dezzmont
Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:32 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight new class
Replies: 119
Views: 35886

Re: Vermintide 2 - IT'S OUT

So right after I finished the 30 minute download and completed the tutorial to get used to the game to play with people, the patch hits, and now I gotta wait through a 30 minute download and do the tutorial again... Delightful!

Are people going to start playing now? Room for a total newbie scrub?
by dezzmont
Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:25 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight new class
Replies: 119
Views: 35886

Re: Vermintide 2 - Beta for preorders NOW

I now have this game, if there is some group people play in.
by dezzmont
Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:33 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone
Replies: 54
Views: 15609

Re: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone

Consistently reaching the end and trying to achieve hypersleek combo decks are not the same goal. For the latter a thin deck IS better (as long as you have the right cards). For the former a large deck can be consistent enough, while being far less risky to assemble, and far less vulnerable to mech...
by dezzmont
Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:17 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone
Replies: 54
Views: 15609

Re: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone

Thete's something to be said for big decks. No there... really is not. Not only is it just not good in a general cardgame sense of it making it dramatically less likely for you to have any given card you want on the turn you want it, but the way Darkest Dungeon handles combat (Where you need to con...
by dezzmont
Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:31 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone
Replies: 54
Views: 15609

Re: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone

Jesus Christ Cosmic you know your allowed to not take cards right? Like I am gunna do a big info dump in my standard overly repetitive style but the TL;DR is take WAY fewer cards. Like you generally can't possibly win a run if you take more than 30. As ironclad maintain as low a deck size as you can...
by dezzmont
Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:33 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
Replies: 1582
Views: 372101

Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode

Life Seeded is explicitly for the single planet challenge. It is not intended to be a viable civic for a more general strategy. While you could try to rush out something like habs or synthetic that is obviously not a good idea when you consider the math of it; being stuck on one planet the entire ea...
by dezzmont
Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:19 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone
Replies: 54
Views: 15609

Re: Slay the Spire: Dark Souls of Hearthstone

fuck the "you don't discard your hand" relic, it's a fucking trap, it means if you get wounds you keep those fucking wounds 5ever unless you have a mass exhaust, which I didn't It isn't a trap. Like most of the boss relics it just has a downside that rewards you for building your deck aro...
by dezzmont
Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:00 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war
Replies: 30
Views: 8765

Re: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war

The astral search spell always existed and was considered bad. Many strats required astral and astral 5 is arguably the most powerful path you can have on a pretender because it grants a generic path boost and three astral path boosts, meaning astral 5 is effectively astral 8, meaning you unlock doo...
by dezzmont
Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:21 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war
Replies: 30
Views: 8765

Re: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war

Keep the manual open durring design, understand how combat calculations work, and reference your nation's needs against pretender options. For example, if you understand how precision works you know Man archers are insanely good if they can get more precision, but their damage needs help for them to...
by dezzmont
Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:44 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war
Replies: 30
Views: 8765

Re: Dominions 5: The FANCY pissing war

Custom blessing is amazing. It radically opens up the nations and strategies. You never are saddled with bless effects you don't want, and can fine tune your blesses to your sacred units. LA Man Air Bless with extra precision and wind guide on Wardens is fucking insane, your sacred snipers basically...
by dezzmont
Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:53 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Star Trek Discovery
Replies: 43
Views: 10802

Re: Star Trek Discovery

Here's a question. In TNG there's an episode where the tellyporta turns Picard and a few other adults into children but doesn't ruin their brains. Eternal youth with no consequences? Nah. Most transporter accidents are the equivalent to epilepsy being cured when someone suffers traumatic brain dama...
by dezzmont
Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:27 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Warfarm :Bugs in spess electric boogaloo
Replies: 136
Views: 38250

Re: Warfarm :Bugs in spess electric boogaloo

I have it researched and can assist in gathering the required materials if you wish. Most veterans can bang that shit out with you in about 40 minutes. It is basically god damn nothing.
by dezzmont
Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:26 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Escape From Tarkov: The Not-Stalker MMO
Replies: 10
Views: 4110

Re: Escape From Tarkov: The Not-Stalker MMO

I wouldn't mind running in a crew. I am pretty broke right now but I generally just do factory runs and make 500k in a night if that happens.

Mainly could use a crew to bang out tasks if anyone is down.
by dezzmont
Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:55 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

Vigil may be good for sprint builds, but many killers didnt have synergistic perks, just perks for new killers that made the game play better. Franklin's Demise has little synergy with the BBQ Knockout combo and Huntress basically didn't get her own perks at all. Nurse Hag and Billy got perks. It ma...
by dezzmont
Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:15 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Here is the ulitmate issue I have with Gene Splicing. Take this all with a grain of salt, cuz none of us are Nostradamus here and self protecting agendas and alt-score methods always have been really hard to judge. Run as a trap? Its garbage. Like hot garbage. 3 clicks to deny the runner 2 clicks pl...
by dezzmont
Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:22 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Yeah. That said this is generally only a viable deck for Cerebral Imaging. The insane draw and utter lack of concern for remotes makes this work as you really rapidly get 3 Mothers from drawimg 7 cards a turn and then you just score 4 agendas out of hand.
by dezzmont
Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:17 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

You can trash a piece of ICE if you install in the same server. This lets you remove ICE that won't serve a purpose anymore to save on install costs, its why traditionally outside of my wacky megarich decks servers don't go more than 3 ice deep on average, because in general its better to replace an...
by dezzmont
Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:27 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Just run other ICE for your centrals and then as you draw into your unbreakables replace them via install?
by dezzmont
Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:35 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Forfeiting will never be a deck's main theme, but Weyland cards that allow Forfeiting are almost always meta and being able to charge them more easily is very potent. Even Jemison decks don't run more than 1/5th their deckspace, simply because the cards are dead before you can forefit and are ready ...
by dezzmont
Sun Oct 08, 2017 7:24 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

That feel when you recently prestiged like 3 survivors and all your dailies for the last 3 days suck. I literally got a ritual to open 5 gates on Nea... when I just prestiged Nea, so I have been locked pretty heavily into killer the last few days just to get Nea back up to 20. Bond is a solo perk, a...
by dezzmont
Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Harpsichord has anti-synergy with Echo Chamber as it is not an agenda that can be stolen, it is an asset that gives you 1 agenda point under specific conditions. These cards aren't as powerful as they seem, and I am struggling to imagine a deck that can make serious use of them. Unlike the runner, t...
by dezzmont
Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:33 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

I just checked and there really isn't much for anti-AI Only those and Turing from HB as far as I could find Wraparound and Swordsman are also AI ICE. Wraparound is probably the best. Without an AI its still a non-porous ETR barrier which almost always cost 2 credits to break, and it costs 2 credits...
by dezzmont
Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:48 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Skorpios tend to run barriers because they are the cheapest form of ice, are non porous, and are part of weyland. Also a lot of decks run 1x paperclip because its hyper efficient but high influence, and sniping a lone fracter wins the game for you. Some anti-ai and program trash ICE can also be spla...
by dezzmont
Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:54 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Yeah. It really fits a niche Jinteki needs its ICE to do. The entire point of Jinteki is not to keep runners out, but to make it painful. Kakugo does this by eternally being taxing even though its cost to break (like most Jinteki ICE) is really poor. For your traps to do work you need the runner to ...
by dezzmont
Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:26 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Chrysalis is great when you need more trap density in your hand. However it is rather non-taxing as actual ice goes. It is a great card, but it definitely is something you should look at, rather than something you should always toss in. That honor goes to Kakugo.
by dezzmont
Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:29 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Netrunner LCG
Replies: 126
Views: 38101

Re: Netrunner LCG

Successful meta shakeup was successful. Usually when a non-cycling game suddenly cycles its really shitty but having a new core set was really really smart and made a lot of shit better. For example runners can't as easily just smash the corporate's game and basically tell them they can't play, and ...
by dezzmont
Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:22 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

You're boring. You're making me write fifty paragraph responses because you keep bringing up fifty topics in one post for no reason. The reason is that the game is more complex than "Bluh bluh bluh its not fair that I can't rescue people from the basement when the killer is standing right ther...
by dezzmont
Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:49 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

Camping is bad gameplay rather than possibly the most interesting exchange in DBD. At higher ranks the inability of the killer to stop an unhooking despite literally facecamping it was causing killers to leave the game in droves. I enjoy no longer having a 20 minute wait time for survivor games whe...
by dezzmont
Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:43 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

Its not hard to survive against a nurse when you deserve to survive against them, because her patrol is so garbage. Blink means that chases are brutal, but nurse has no detection and terrible patrol. Just never heal another survivor or even yourself, and always focus on keeping an eye on her while h...
by dezzmont
Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:44 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Actually good, free DLC edition

New killer is Leatherface! No new survivor to go with him. It is really interesting how they kept him distinct in play from the Hillbilly. He is a lot less about suddenly running people down out of the blue and is much more about absolutely, brutally, horifically punishing survivors who play "O...
by dezzmont
Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:19 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead game series
Replies: 113
Views: 29892

Re: Dead game series

Remie Richards wrote:fuck hl3 I want portal 3
I just want a good level editor. The reason they wouldn't do another portal is that a sequel would just be a level pack and a memey story. But its a physics based puzzle game so your userbase could literally just generate infinite content.
by dezzmont
Sat Jul 08, 2017 6:06 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead game series
Replies: 113
Views: 29892

Re: Dead game series

If Valve really wanted to just print some money from HL3 they would have done it a long time ago and made the half life series a yearly game installment. But they didn't, because Valve is a weird as hell company and don't care about things in the same way traditional companies do. I think they held ...
by dezzmont
Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:56 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)
Replies: 181
Views: 45587

Re: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)

Lepper is better for pure damage, bu lt crusader has better utility, especially if your team is highly positional due to the radical awesomeness of Holy Lance.
by dezzmont
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:02 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)
Replies: 181
Views: 45587

Re: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)

She can be a good dodge buffer for serious runs as well in a combo with man at arms, but yeah she is mostly for getting trinketd via campfire and increasing loot when she opens objects most of the time. But dont underestimate her, antiquarians are surprisingly good when comboed and early game she ai...
by dezzmont
Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:42 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Titanfall General, or "That game only qbopper plays"
Replies: 88
Views: 22084

Re: Titanfall General, or "That game only qbopper plays"

new patch adds war games aka the best map from titanfall 1 I am not going to lie, I actually stopped playing for a bit because the maps weren't as good as wargames. The maps opened up a bit to try to make the grappling hook more useful but that really removed a lot of what was enjoyable about titan...
by dezzmont
Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:40 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)
Replies: 181
Views: 45587

Re: Vomit Induced Heart Attacks (Darkest Dungeon)

Try waiting until your heroes begin to crave blood, and farm up blood. The curse is easier to handle than one thinks. It is also easy to cure everyone just by doing a boss rush, and you eventually get the ability to cure people at will. The curse is also very similar to fugnus from SMAC, it starts o...
by dezzmont
Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:51 am
Forum: Video Games
Topic: Dead By Daylight
Replies: 503
Views: 200662

Re: Dead By Daylight - Bill is here... uh ok

Wraith is seeing play in high end matches because now starting a chase real close is actually helpful in finishing a chase, rather than completely worthless. He isn't broken, still countered by keeping good awareness, but it is just so damn delightful, even for a player like me who enjoys escaping b...