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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I feel like it's inevitable that we'll soon see a post like, "So I panel lined my kit and now a part is cracked."

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    * Changed the "Regenerate Shields when you inflict an enemy with Blast Status" Topaz Archon Shard embed bonus to no longer apply when Shield Gate is triggered.

    -An unintended degree of invulnerability could be obtained using this effect while continuously triggering Shield Gate, so it was changed to function similarly to Caliban’s Lethal Progeny ability, where the Shield recharge is disabled when Shield Gate is triggered and only resumes when the Shields begin to regenerate themselves.

    I mean, I knew it was gonna get nerfed, but I thought it would be making the trigger condition more difficult while still keeping its basic functionality of being able to restore shield (gate).

    Glad I only made one of these for testing on my Lavos. Back into the dumpster you go, Blast!

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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Dac wrote: »
    * Changed the "Regenerate Shields when you inflict an enemy with Blast Status" Topaz Archon Shard embed bonus to no longer apply when Shield Gate is triggered.

    -An unintended degree of invulnerability could be obtained using this effect while continuously triggering Shield Gate, so it was changed to function similarly to Caliban’s Lethal Progeny ability, where the Shield recharge is disabled when Shield Gate is triggered and only resumes when the Shields begin to regenerate themselves.

    I mean, I knew it was gonna get nerfed, but I thought it would be making the trigger condition more difficult while still keeping its basic functionality of being able to restore shield (gate).

    Glad I only made one of these for testing on my Lavos. Back into the dumpster you go, Blast!

    A topaz shard is still useful on secondary crit builds (as long as you're dealing heat damage).

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Both directions do a ton of damage. It's fine I didn't expect to make it as far as I did with this character. It was fun until I basically stopped being able to upgrade my weapon or buy new spells.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Yeah I don't have enough for the halberd but I did mess with the spear for a minute but it didn't seem to do any additional damage to the crystal golems so I decided against it. It's fine it wasn't exactly the most fun I had with a character. I did, however, kill O&S in one try which was pretty damn cool IMO.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Did a few rolls for Chevreuse, figuring I'd be content if Yoimiya showed up along the way. Wound up getting C1 Chev, and a random early Dehya. About time I finally got a constellation for her! Think I'm actually happier than if Yoimiya showed up, given that sets me up to get someone else I might really want.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I think my usual "fuck it, this build isn't working" option for Seath is leveling a pyro flame and clicking great combustion a bunch. Or at least, that's what I do when my build can't get the tail cut, I guess that'd probably run out of gas before actually getting the kill. Still'd probably chunk most of his lifebar before then, though.

    Anyway, frigid outskirts ended up not being as bad as I'd expected this time. Still frustrating for sure, for basically the same reasons I remembered, but it wasn't obscenely, "worst zone in the entire franchise by a mile" frustrating as I'd remembered it. Just "boss fight that takes two play sessions to beat" frustrating.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Dac wrote: »
    * Changed the "Regenerate Shields when you inflict an enemy with Blast Status" Topaz Archon Shard embed bonus to no longer apply when Shield Gate is triggered.

    -An unintended degree of invulnerability could be obtained using this effect while continuously triggering Shield Gate, so it was changed to function similarly to Caliban’s Lethal Progeny ability, where the Shield recharge is disabled when Shield Gate is triggered and only resumes when the Shields begin to regenerate themselves.

    I mean, I knew it was gonna get nerfed, but I thought it would be making the trigger condition more difficult while still keeping its basic functionality of being able to restore shield (gate).

    Glad I only made one of these for testing on my Lavos. Back into the dumpster you go, Blast!

    A topaz shard is still useful on secondary crit builds (as long as you're dealing heat damage).

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    I kid. I'm aware of the power of that particular bonus, but guns usually aren't my 'thing,' so don't tend to make a build around them to the point of investing archon shards.

    That bonus is wild on Tauforged, though. Full tauforged topaz secondary crit is like twice as good as Primed Pistol Gambit at full ramp.

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  • Anti-SeanAnti-Sean Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Alright, I was impatient and spent a bit of the plat I had laying around from my Switch days to finish off my Necramech so I could start The New War. I’m a couple hours in, and…





    jeezy creezy, DE… y’all are nuts.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Warframe has the feeling sometimes of a game that's trapped its devs, like they want to make something different but no, can't give up their only income, gotta just strap every new idea into Warframe.

    Which I guess might be better for players than the 'half-ass the money-maker people care about while we throw resources into a big hole in the ground' that some companies go for when they want to move on from their popular GaaS...?

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Kamar wrote: »
    Which I guess might be better for players than the 'half-ass the money-maker people care about while we throw resources into a big hole in the ground' that some companies go for when they want to move on from their popular GaaS...?

    coughbungiecough

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Anti-Sean wrote: »
    Alright, I was impatient and spent a bit of the plat I had laying around from my Switch days to finish off my Necramech so I could start The New War. I’m a couple hours in, and…





    jeezy creezy, DE… y’all are nuts.

    For profit

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited April 19
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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Carpy wrote: »
    I know this is on me but I was not expecting the Helminth to have it's own crazy level up process. I definitely do not have the resource reserves for this

    Fun thing is that railjack, after getting weapons you like, generates enough junk to toss in for most of it

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    akjak wrote: »
    After untold months of waiting more patiently than I'd expect, kiddo won the 50/50 for Raiden Shogun. He was at 50/50 because he got obsessed with Neuvillete (I mean, how can you not?) but I'm glad that he also got Shogun in the end. She was his very favorite in all the game right up until Neuvilette came on the scene, and actually they should play alright together.

    I use Raiden with Neuvillette all the time! I like how her E skill will trigger on things that you aren't close to, so Neuv can beam stuff from a distance and Raiden will zap away too, ideally triggering hyperblooms from the stuff Nahida left behind.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    edited April 16


    P-Bandai stuff tomorrow, I don’t think any of it is new though.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Renzo wrote: »
    I feel like it's inevitable that we'll soon see a post like, "So I panel lined my kit and now a part is cracked."

    Only if you are me and don't scream to the heavens in warning about DO NOT USE PANEL LINING ON ABS!

    Edit: now that I have a PG Exia, I feel the need to keep an eye out for the Repair upgrade kit... so that might be worth watching P-bandai for.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I just mulch them sumbitchin leafs right back into the lawn.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The pilot was fun. Fantastic sound design.

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  • SethTheHumanSethTheHuman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Checking out the first episode now. Wow, whiever wrote the episode descriptions did a shit job, huh?

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    You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Checking out the first episode now. Wow, whiever wrote the episode descriptions did a shit job, huh?

    My biggest takeaway from episode 1 was reminding me how much was crammed into Hawkeye, good lord. You had Clint, Kate, Echo, Kingpin, Yelena, yeesh.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I want to do more runs of Elden Ring, but as with Lies of P I'm hesitant to dump a ton of time into runs before DLC comes out.

    Which I guess sounds insane when I already have 1000 hours in Elden Ring from three full clears and a full two sets of save files, several of them parked in endgame areas, but still.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I guess I could scratch the itch by working on my 100% run. I use a map mod that marks everything in the game and for that character I'm just methodically clearing the map of every single one of those markers.

    It's not really challenging since it'll be so overleveled (at least compared to how I normally play, hitting ~150 off the final boss) and it'll take forever and I'm not strictly committed to a particular weapon or build, so...

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  • WyvernWyvern Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Carpy wrote: »
    What do y'all like in the even arcane shop? I bought a r1 energize and I'm probably going to grab some more Molt Augmented to rank it 1 or 2 but but sure what else is useful. Maybe a couple Aegis copies?

    I already snagged all the non-arcane possibly time limited stuff
    I, too, am trying to figure out what I should prioritize in terms of arcanes.

    Arcane Guardian is only 3 away from being maxed. I use this a lot to not get splatted in the first few rounds of Steel Path Circuit, so that seems worthwhile.

    I often use Rank 3 Arcane Grace alongside Arcane Guardian, but going further would be very expensive and I'm pretty sure it's not worth it. It does the job of keeping chip damage from accruing well enough as is and it's not something I'm actively trying to build around.

    Arcane Energize is also Rank 3, and as good as it is, investing the huge amount needed to get it to Rank 5 feels...not really necessary? 125 energy per proc just kind of seems like enough?

    Getting Arcane Avenger from Rank 4 to Rank 5 feels like a no-brainer. It's not that expensive and it's very versatile.

    I have zero Arcane Barriers and am not investing in it. I have a maxed Arcane Aegis if I want to do shield things.

    Past this point there are a bunch of primary/secondary/melee boosting arcanes that all seem pretty decent but I don't know how to prioritize them. I guess my gut reaction is that Arcane Strike and Arcane Velocity feel the most tempting out of this set? But then there's also Rage and Fury and Acceleration and Tempo and I don't even know what else.

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  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    An 800 sqft 1b/1b apartment of comparable quality is now renting for more than my 1,800 sqft 3b/3b townhouse's mortgage.

    I have no idea how this market is still surviving.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Feral wrote: »
    I dunno that US houses are higher quality, though. I haven't seen a direct comparison of housing quality in the US vs other countries that had any rigor. Just a lot of anecdotes, but those anecdotes suggest that American housing quality is generally pretty mediocre. We cut costs by using the cheapest materials that building codes will allow, and our cultural notions of what an aspirational home looks like are shaped by the post-WW2 boom when we threw up a lot of inexpensive bungalows quickly and cheaply.

    And though I admit I don't really rigorously know all of this, so many weird Americanisms can be boiled down to "we made [thing] worse so we could have it faster and cheaper" and I'm inclined to believe that's true for housing too. (Though because our housing market is horribly broken, it didn't turn out to be cheaper.)

    As I understand it the UK (and many European countries) have a lot of very old housing.

    It's not so much that the new housing that is being built it worse than the new housing in the US so much as it is that renovating extremely old housing is often an absolute nightmare and that's if you're even allowed to.

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Ok, Echo feels like a Netflix marvel show with some MCU spread over it, as opposed to MCU trying to make a Netflix marvel show.

    Only first episode in, but I think they are doing it. It’s rull gud.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Coin Return Admin Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 16
    Don't draw abs on my Gundam, got it

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Delzhand wrote: »
    Don't draw abs on my Gundam, got it

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited April 14
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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Not clicking the spoiler above, and not a criticism of you, reVerse... but I can't say I missed people being able to shotgun through a brand new series end to end, render a verdict, and then maybe a few days of discussion before everyone moves on.

    Basically if you aren't able to binge something, you don't get to participate in the discussion or let a show breathe/find an audience.

    The netflix model sucks IMO for prestige television.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    This late in the event I'd say buy the rarest arcanes, the rest you can fish for with vosphor packs much more easily.

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  • WyvernWyvern Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I don't have spare arcanes to dissolve and I don't expect to have them any time soon.

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  • AshtonDragonAshtonDragon AKA The Nix Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Early impressions of Chevreuse seem pretty good to me... depending on how you look at it. I think the situations where she is actually optimal over alternatives are very few and far between (like against the Hydro Tulpa, she's better than anemo options for a pyro DPS, because they can't swirl pyro in that environment), but the number of teams where she is competitive are high. I'm not certain that this will happen, but I can definitely imagine a scenario where a future 5* pyro or electro character could work extremely well with her.
    Kelor wrote: »
    Pulling endless amounts of three star weapons didn’t feel as bad until I played Star Rail where the four star banner characters are guaranteed every ten pulls.

    You can definitely still get 4* light cones instead of characters in that game, too. I think their gacha systems are identical, aside from their light cone banners only having one featured 5* (which is a huge improvement).

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Well, there's more stuff that drops them now than there used to be... what's the conversion rate on arcanes to vosphor to rolls like? Just throwing excess rep into vosphor rolls seems like an option.

    Edit: Bleh. Apparently the best rate is 42,500 Quills standing per roll. Of course, that's one of the easier ones to end up with buckets of tokens for, so...

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited April 14
    Phoenix-D wrote: »
    JonBob wrote: »
    If you lump absolutely all conversation about a show into that bucket, sure. But I really miss just being able to have a simple discussion with people and being on the same page, without absolutely every sentence being framed around fear of spoiling or being spoiled.

    It's gaining more freedom of schedule and immediate gratification at the expense of a community experience. It's fine to prefer that, and some portion of the market may have spoken, but let's not pretend it's objectively better.

    It just moves TV shows into the movie discussion model

    Except I can usually carve 2-3 hours out of my life to watch a movie, or make it a date night, etc.

    5-12+ hours is a much larger commitment, and while I do end up watching it all, I don't really get to talk about it in real time any more.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Well, there's more stuff that drops them now than there used to be... what's the conversion rate on arcanes to vosphor to rolls like? Just throwing excess rep into vosphor rolls seems like an option.

    Edit: Bleh. Apparently the best rate is 42,500 Quills standing per roll. Of course, that's one of the easier ones to end up with buckets of tokens for, so...

    Going for the 3 eidolons will net you a lot of cores and some arcanes

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  • scherbchenscherbchen Asgard (it is dead)Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    where is my Fantasy High? It has been the 10th since foreveeeeer...

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  • dporowskidporowski Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Wyvern wrote: »
    I don't have spare arcanes to dissolve and I don't expect to have them any time soon.

    If you regularly run SP, you are going to have so, so, so many spare arcanes. So many. So many acolytes throwing themselves at you like the same damn thing that happened last time isn't going to happen again.

    Edit: Also, "Oh look, another Melee Fortification."

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