@Svorai should never go unsaid. @Xuli is great. @Lazal is cool too. Most if not all of our entities are pretty awesome.
<div>Message #2062 Sent By: (imperian) Received On: 1/20/2018/2:59</div><div>"Antioch has filed a bounty against you. Reason: Raiding Antioch and stealing Bina, being a right</div><div>ass, and not belonging anywhere near Antioch till he grows up."</div>
Your body grows extremely dense and heavy as the mass salve infuses your skin.
def+ density
H:472/472 M:331/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24 rt oh god, please come to Antioch
[R] Celestine: Oh god, please come to Antioch.
H:472/472 M:324/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
You may apply another salve.
H:472/472 M:324/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
Mathiaus enters from the ether. [Lifevision]
He is followed by a massive skeletal songbird, a sketch of a Hunter, a sketch of a Renegade, and a sketch of a Runeguard.
[AL] Mathiaus - here
An elite Muamrite archer slices Mathiaus's neck with the taut string of his bow.
H:472/472 M:317/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
Mathiaus concentrates briefly on a sketch of a Runeguard.
A sketch of a Runeguard moves in to engage you.
Mathiaus ceases to play a massive harp.
Mathiaus drew a Broken Statue and a massive shield.
Mathiaus flings a heavy statue to the ground and watches as it breaks into numerous pieces, creating piles of rubble everywhere before the slim figure of the statue picks itself up and crawls back into Mathiaus's arms.
H:472/472 M:317/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
A massive wooden bolt flies in from the southwest, impaling Mathiaus directly through the chest, lifting him off his feet.
Mathiaus leaves to the northeast. [Lifevision]
[AL] Mathiaus - northeast
H:472/472 M:311/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
A cannon ball races in from the southwest and streaks northeastward.
A cannon ball races in from the southwest and streaks northeastward.
A cannon ball races in from the southwest and streaks northeastward.
Mathiaus has been slain by an elite Muamrite archer.
H:472/472 M:311/336 <eb db> B:0 T:22:36 X:1.24
You see a huge rock flying in the skies above you.
You see a huge rock flying in the skies above you.
You see a huge rock flying in the skies above you.
You see a huge rock flying in the skies above you.
You take 1 redshard, bringing the total to 23. You begin focusing on the power of Moradeim, the moon of Change, and the air around you is suddenly filled with noise. H:467(100%) M:524(94%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:56 You feel your density return to normal. [Defence]: density- H:467(100%) M:528(95%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:56 The crackling of energy reaches its peak, and as it subsides, you find yourself standing next to Celestine. In a dark sand tunnel. This has been marked as holy ground. There are 2 short-horned desert locusts here. Lady Celestine Stark is here, a scintillating aura of light surrounding her. She wields a kite shield in her left hand and a curved sabre in her right. You see exits leading southeast and southwest.
[Cut to...]
H:467(100%) M:547(98%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:57 You cut off your emanation of the word of power. [MS]: Healing+ A chorus of music rises up from the corpse of Celestine and you feel a sudden surge of vitality. Your faith increases as Celestine falls by your hand. A beatific look of bliss appears on Celestine's face as her ears begin to harden and turn to pure marble. The marble quickly spreads over her face and down her neck, turning her entire form white. After her entire body has been completely transformed, a fine skein of thin flame wreathes over the chest of the statue, imprinting a short passage onto it. You have slain Celestine. [Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ] [Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ] [Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ]
[And finally...]
You have successfully gained control of the monolith.
If at first you don't succeed, die many times after and get lucky :P
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I heart The Blade Itself. After reading the Heroes, it's neat to get to know some of the legends of the universe, even if it is weird to see Dow not referenced as Black Dow.
‘Least I won’t have to carry it no more. You see how bloody heavy it is?’
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
Includes mentals. I haven't set anything yet to revert decisions. Any advice as to applying that? It mostly tailors to search for the most prominent afflictions that may have been cured and reapplies them first in the affliction queue before any of the filler afflictions. With mage, you don't really have a huge list to guess from, but I'd like to apply it with other classes.
That bat fits together so well with my nerf-brainmelt one. We should get together and collaborate.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
As aff-based instas go, ciri is inferior to brainmelt and superior to enlighten, IMO. If you screw them up you get nothing but the disdain of your teammates (whereas with brainmelt you'll generally always get some kind of decent damage). Enlighten is worse since its easier to dodge the madness than most affs you'd likely see for the other two by a considerable margin and is easier to turtle against I find.
That's really a problem with aff based instas in team settings in general though: anything one aff class can do solo two can do exponentially better. That said, the same goes for damage (two druids, two templars, two summoners). I throw a tantrum as much as the next person when Iniar/Zith ninja enlighten me off the other's madness, but that's how it goes. Arguably, brainmelt and ciri are also considerably nastier as you can cure around enlighten far easier, but that's pretty much theorycrafting and isn't really going to be viable if there are other people hitting you as well (although the option being there is definitely good).
I don't personally see that big an issue with affliction routes being viable in the primarily damage dominated team metagame, but I'm definitely one of the minority who enjoys that stuff.
Personally, I think the affliction list bein so broad and based on toxins any class can apply is the issue (compounded by the speed of twinshot). Ciri IMO is greater than BM because of this since BM afflictions don't have as much overlap with every class. If I were to classlead it, I'd likely ask for a reduced toxin or greater aff threshold, and maybe also something that requires more interaction with the pred. Maybe a mechanic similar to hunter blood poison where they would have to raise the ciri level to 4 or something before kill or could burst it for some amount of damage at lower ciri levels. Think this would certainly still be viable in solo/teams. My opinion only based on so-so knowledge of the class.
(Edit) afterthought, preds are also quite a bit more tanky than any hunter. So that's something to consider with the speed of kill too.
Just make twinshot hit rebounding and see what happens. Even in a 1v1, twinshot is too fast - it's like taking cake from a Diabolist baby. Ciri is just the end-demonstration of how insane twinshot is, though arguments around affliction stacking are valid.
E: I kinda missed everyone's point but I'm hung up over twinshot speed because... well.. because go buy an L3 sheath, go Fast and come back and tell me you didn't just drive Imperian's Bugatti Veyron.
E2: Ok, ok, it's like... Wytch is a Ferrari Enzo, and L3 Twinshot is a Bugatti Veyron.
Did Cassius just claim Brainmelt has less or little overlap? Magick's synergy lends itself in spades to Brainmelt.
<div>Message #2062 Sent By: (imperian) Received On: 1/20/2018/2:59</div><div>"Antioch has filed a bounty against you. Reason: Raiding Antioch and stealing Bina, being a right</div><div>ass, and not belonging anywhere near Antioch till he grows up."</div>
You cannot balance an affliction kill around groups. It just cannot be done. There is no feasible 1v1 affliction kill that cannot be completed far faster and far more easily by a group of people who coordinate their efforts, and it DOES require coordination. Much more coordination than, say, two druids just opening up on somebody and flailing somebody down, which is just as certain a kill as Septus and Shou working a cirisosis combo.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
I just think it's hilarious it took this long. What was it like two or three betas ago I remember Iniar and I testing in various statpacks and with various levels of darthsheaths, and finding in vae-sant as fast with l1 sheath you could get the same aff rate as a fast knight with I believe a 240 or so sabre, but again without dealing with rebounding. I told @Shou this when I was in AM and I believe his answer was something to the effect of 'Why would I play a predator that's all about sitaras and stuff and just be throwing darts?'. It is good to see change, of course.
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You take 1 redshard, bringing the total to 23.
You begin focusing on the power of Moradeim, the moon of Change, and the air around you is suddenly filled with noise.
H:467(100%) M:524(94%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:56
You feel your density return to normal.
[Defence]: density-
H:467(100%) M:528(95%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:56
The crackling of energy reaches its peak, and as it subsides, you find yourself standing next to Celestine.
In a dark sand tunnel.
This has been marked as holy ground. There are 2 short-horned desert locusts here. Lady Celestine Stark is here, a scintillating aura of light surrounding her. She wields a
kite shield in her left hand and a curved sabre in her right.
You see exits leading southeast and southwest.
[Cut to...]
H:467(100%) M:547(98%) XP:52.02 (0) <eb db> [NH] 6:57
You cut off your emanation of the word of power.
[MS]: Healing+
A chorus of music rises up from the corpse of Celestine and you feel a sudden surge of vitality.
Your faith increases as Celestine falls by your hand.
A beatific look of bliss appears on Celestine's face as her ears begin to harden and turn to pure marble. The marble quickly spreads over her face and down her neck, turning
her entire form white. After her entire body has been completely transformed, a fine skein of thin flame wreathes over the chest of the statue, imprinting a short passage onto
it.
You have slain Celestine.
[Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ]
[Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ]
[Slain]: [ Celestine KILLED ]
[And finally...]
You have successfully gained control of the monolith.
If at first you don't succeed, die many times after and get lucky :P
Septus says, "Not Ashani!"
Septus says, "Not Ashani!"
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
‘Every sword’s a weight to carry. Men don’t see that when they pick ’em up. But they get heavier with time.”
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."
Secretly, neither did I
I hope you haven't been looking forward to it too:(
As aff-based instas go, ciri is inferior to brainmelt and superior to enlighten, IMO. If you screw them up you get nothing but the disdain of your teammates (whereas with brainmelt you'll generally always get some kind of decent damage). Enlighten is worse since its easier to dodge the madness than most affs you'd likely see for the other two by a considerable margin and is easier to turtle against I find.
That's really a problem with aff based instas in team settings in general though: anything one aff class can do solo two can do exponentially better. That said, the same goes for damage (two druids, two templars, two summoners). I throw a tantrum as much as the next person when Iniar/Zith ninja enlighten me off the other's madness, but that's how it goes. Arguably, brainmelt and ciri are also considerably nastier as you can cure around enlighten far easier, but that's pretty much theorycrafting and isn't really going to be viable if there are other people hitting you as well (although the option being there is definitely good).
I don't personally see that big an issue with affliction routes being viable in the primarily damage dominated team metagame, but I'm definitely one of the minority who enjoys that stuff.
(Edit) afterthought, preds are also quite a bit more tanky than any hunter. So that's something to consider with the speed of kill too.
"On the battlefield I am a god. I love war. The steel, the smell, the corpses. I wish there were more. On the first day I drove the Northmen back alone at the ford. Alone! On the second I carried the bridge! Me! Yesterday I climbed the Heroes! I love war! I… I wish it wasn’t over."