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A proposal: give raw damage abilities and weapons a penetration value of not 0. Since lashes inherit the penetration of the base attack, they are very bad with raw damage abilities and weapons. e.g. Flames of Devotion with Reaping Knives is very bad due to the burn lash having 0 base penetration.

Hello, I only yesterday found out that if I use "The Long Night's Drink" + "Thick Grew Their Tongues" with full linger overlap as a Troubadour and wait until both phrases have hit enemies (so both debuffs are on them for 10+ secs) and only then turn on Brisk Recitation the durations on the enemies will get refreshed to the max all the time as if Brisk Recitation were still turned off - but every 3 secs instead of every 6 of course. This allows full coverage of the effects forever - but I can still get fast phrase generation. This is obviously not the case when I go in with Brisk Recitation because then the effect placed on the enemies are only 3 secs short. So my tactic now is to go in without Brisk Rec. and turn it on as soon as the enemies are affected with both effects (usually after 6 secs). I don't know why I didn't notice before - but I guess it's because I didn't play a ton of Troubadours but preferred the other subclasses most of the time - and when I picked Troub I went for Brisk Recitation right away (see Troub/Psion).

Oh I never thought this thing but that make sens, it is great! And because when the effect is refreshed ( it is still the first one effect ) that perturb the "maths" in relation to the duration, I think if you enfeeble the ennemy after some refresh, the +50% duration is calculated from the totale duration (not the first 6s) of the effects.

Nope, not misrepresenting. Sadly Idealism is not a tradable currency, but we all have our flaws... as for national identities, the world did just "fine" without them before the 17th century. People still identified as something, but it seems to have been things less abstract and closer to home. Didn't prevent warlords from rounding up the peasants and equipping them with pitchforks and wooden sticks so they could go out and bash each others brains in for the glory of their clan chief/tribal leader/feudal lord/whatever. Nationalism just doesn't change anything for the better. If anything, it enables the same thing on a larger scale and with more enthusiasm.

In comparison, Maoris All Blacks' Haka is a PL1 ability.

@Noqnmod that does show some AoE indicators is great. When you have a good and reactive healer in the group then you probably don't need Stalwart Defiance. But note that Berserker Frenzy's self damage scales much stronger than normal damage does. It's not too bad in the early levels, it will not kill you when you are at full health, but at higher levels it will def. kill you even if not one enemy touches you. Maybe with maxed CON, an amulet of Greater Health, regeneration gear and Tough (passive ability) you could still prevent that - but having either a healer and/or Stalwart Defiance is less of a hassle. When talking about the best single class Barb subclass it's always Furyshaper for me. The Blood Ward is so good for a party because unlike stuff like Old Siec (Chanter phrase) it drains health from all sources of damage, including DoTs (see Blood Storm, Bleeding Cuts, Panther's Leap) for the party (if they stand in the AoE of the ward). The only things that don't work with the Blood Ward are traps, wall spells and Priest seals (which very few people use anyway). It is very potent even for the Barb alone because in combination with Leaping in and using Heart of Fury and Barbaric Retaliation you will dish out a lot of damage, even a lot of DoT if you use stuff like Battle Axe + modal and Blood Storm, so that you will have a constant stream of healing for you. This takes a lot of stress from any healer because who's doing damage also gets healed. It stacks with Old Siec by the way (which his a lot weaker). If you use Dazing Shout or Driving Roar (I would since those two are the best active abilities a Barb can have imo) you can heal up quickly while doing dmg/CC that nothing's a real threat - as long as you can keep casting. If you want to use Barbaric Retaliation (it's great) I would def. use Dazing Shout. It drastically improves your sturdyness and has a huge damaging AoE around you. It only costs 1 Rage which can often be retrieved when having Blood Surge. And before getting to the Blood Ward you'll have the Frenzy Ward (stacks with every other speed buff) and the Fear Ward for your party which is also super useful. Just placing it among your backline will screw up rushers and leapers that want to come for your casters/archers etc. Getting one's wards destroyed is not s problem if you have a Priest: just withdraw the ward. It becomes untouchable but will still work just fine.

This Raw Pen Fix.zipshould cover all Attacks and StatusEffects that deal Raw damage and has 0 Pen. These are the Attacks with PenetrationRating = 0 and DamageData.DamageType=Raw, now PenetrationRating are set to 7: For the StatusEffects, these are the ones with StatusEffectType = Damage, OverridePenetration = 0, DamageTypeValue = Raw. I set OverridePenetration of these to 7, but idk if this property affects lashes or if damage through StatusEffects would even trigger lashes to begin with, so I think these would require testing. 7 Pen according to the game files so this should be fine as it is

Microsoft/Bethesda still need to remove GFWL rom Fallout 3 on Steam. Also, Shadow Warrior 3 is shaping up to be a good game.

@DarkpriestMaybe you want to ask Europeans or the Kenyans what they think: And last I checked freaking Bernie Sanders wasn't exactly Scoop Jackson-esque in his views on interventionism: Slice of life story: In anticipation of the upcoming release of the Eldar codex I was on my daily sojourn onto Reddit to see the new rules leaks, and the last image on post alone got an upvote from me.

would like to agree with you. ... have you ever as an adult had to deal with a large group o' kids: sports team, classroom, camp, whatever? takes no time at all for kids to begin developing us v. them politics. is not the teacher or coaches fault kids is capable o' spiteful, hateful and petty, with such instincts magnified in a group. we worked at a juvenile hall for a time and were a football coach and we saw same same cycle repeated. one goal as a football coach, to minimize the infighting and to make possible a dynamic whereby diverse people who would otherwise never interact positive with each other if left to their own devices, were to promote a shared team identity as Bears, Eagles, Cowboys, or whatever were the team moniker. almost every coach attempts to create traditions and esprit de corps and whatnot to establish a team identity as an effort to in part negate those horrible clique dynamics which undermine group efforts. such schemes don't come about 'cause football coaches is trying to create future mindless soldiers willing to die for imaginary national identity. is a reaction to the (in)human nature o' teens and young adults. we do change fundamental once our brain final develops in teens but as late as early 20s, but same approaches is used with adult sport teams... and nations. am agreeing they should not be underestimated, but in a room full o' judges, generals, diplomats and others, is all too often the serving staff and the odd third grade teacher is gonna be foolish dismissed. am not stating what should be. am recognizing what is an all too familiar failing o' the s'posed educated. HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear, am not suggesting the real problem is agriculture, technological innovation, human nature, or... etc. am saying the problems linked to nationalism is complex and is unlikely gonna be solved with a simple if improbable solution. get rid o' religion. get rid o' nationalism. from our pov, such solutions is impractical and far too big to address meaningful particularly as it appears is working backwards by trying to fix symptoms as 'posed to causes. start small. get rid o' oversized foam fingers at US sporting events. manage that and call it a win.

Problem is that in some countries we call it Nationalism and in others we call it Patriotism...

Trump praises Putin's 'genius' incursion into Ukraine Hold up here! What the hell did I just read here?????? Are you f---g KIDDING me? Did that son of a bitch just suggest we invade Mexico? As for Putin's "genius" I've always noticed how dictators stick together. I guess that includes wanna-be's. I'd wager in 1938 he'd have been praising Hitler for invading Austria. The similarities between this situation and that are striking.

+3s, it is meh Carnage Indicator mod by Noqn. Balance Polishing Mod nerf package does nerf Troubadour Don't hesitate to suggest some other nerfs. Vanilla Game stag carnage is an activable ability. Community Patch made it an actual carnage.

har har. again, zor is the guy who were bleating 'bout blix, but he made the mistake o' doing so with Gromnir in metaphorical earshot, 'cause we were in the freaking audience for the linked "mythical video" and we knew zor were talking out his arse on yet another issue. so 'course we weren't gonna let go o' zor's blix blunder as zor kept digging himself ever deeper each time he insisted on his silly and self destructive complaint 'bout Gromnir's wmd lies position... which, again, is just so typical zor. 'course zor don't wanna talk 'bout blix who explicit rejects his position in spite o' zor being the guy to use blix as an authority. is tough to gaslight the video, but he sure has tried. y'know, the genuine crazy part is six months from now when zor self embarrasses himself regarding some new issue he talks outta his arse regarding, he will be unable to resist bringing up Gromnir's take on wmd lies, and we will once again bleat (HA!) 'bout how his authority, hans blix, refuted another untenable zor position. weird. isn't any easier for a few folks to gaslight regarding their past bad week o' russian humping, but they will give it the old college try. on some level you gotta admire the tenacity and verve in spite o' the utter folly. edit: 'cause trump couldn't read the room and once again did his putin stooge routine, am recollecting a story from 2016 which @Guard Dog & @Gorthwould no doubt enjoy 'cause it does kinda make one wanna just get rid o' politicians. House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump doesn't look to be paywall blocked. if you don't wanna read story, just watch the brief video to get the gist. is timely to reflect on epic gaslighting efforts original revealed in 2016. our boardies is rank amateurs by comparison. HA! Good Fun!

I just tested Effort (with Hemorrhaging, of course) with a Darcozzi Paladini; the Minor Flame Shield, if it crits, will cause Effort's Hemorrhaging (and thus Avenging Storm) to happen even if the Minor Flame Shield is put on an ally. Of course, this isn't as flashy a use as those already mentioned, but it is interesting, nonetheless.

That explains a lot

It occurred to me that I had no idea who the hell "Lady" was. Um...that's a look. Anyways... Hey @majestic, did you know they just made a live action Komi Can't Communicate? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15100806/ Looks like a lot of fun for you, .

Yeah, it's clever, not strange. It can be optimized by using spells for luring the enemies (instead of using Sparkcrackers). This works just as fine as long as the enemies are already hostile (red circles) and spares you consumables. Sparkcrackers is the only thing that can lure neutral NPCs (blue circles, for example shopkeepers or enemies which are not hostile yet) - so I try not to use them as long as there's alternatives.

It's not strange, it's the best approach.

I tend to do a strange thing. There is a gunpowder barrel in the Arena. I sneak down to the tent in the arena (position super important) near the tent, hugging the wall. Then I use sparkcrackers to attract beasts near gunpowder. Eder uncloaks and shoot barrel, barrel explodes. Rest is fighting with tent as chokehold.

Henlooo it is I, the Forbidden Fist! +10 ACC with Helm of the White Void and the Forbidden-Fist attack, Torment's Reach, Stunning Surge or Force of Anguish. Large Shield stacks well with the maxed RES a FF wants to have and counters the Frenzy malus. Less accuracy but a lot higher survivability. Enfeebled from the FF attack prolongs hostile effects on enemies by 50%. Turning Wheel adds even more duration. Dispersed Sufferning from Frostfall stacks with all that nicely. Combine with Berserker and Footsteps of the Beast: get hobbled by your own drop traps for very short amount of times, get bonuses from being hobbled, get wounds and healing from the many, many short hobbles when they end, get bonuses from being confused, get wounds and healing from ending confusion. Do NOT use Rooting Pain because a confused Berserker/Monk will root-pain themselves (I know from experience ). Use Parting Sorrow and Barbaric Shout for the added engagement (and +10 ACC for the shaken effect) right before you are about to kill some enemies: more wounds because a dead enemy apparently breaks engagement (we just spre them the disengagment attacks out of respect for the dead I guess ).

Maybe he meant Kenya alone there, but I guess it still does back up his point to acknowledge the mostly insurgencies in Africa right now.

haha, that Kenya speech was hilarious. 'we would still be waging bloody wars these many decades later' bro, there are no more wars than in Africa right now. I am rolling on the floor

I started with this combination but it has too many seeds: So I switched to this combination which is awesome: Then I add in some mango: Then put in one peeled banana and top it off with milk!

I think my main grip is that they didn't go for an Active Time Battle system similar to Final Fantasy X, where everyone acts in sucession but where there isn't a notion of "round" that... well... round up or down all things linked to duration or time taken by actions. Basically a slow action cause to act later. This kind of system would have allowed much much smoother translation of RTwP ruleset into Turn Based. And I don't believe it is more complicated. Only a few adaptations would have been necessary. But well... people seem usually happy. Some like TB and play TB, and some don't like it or feel that the rules fit better RTwP and play RTwP. I think that there is only few people who absolutely wanted to play TB and felt disappointed by it to the point no mode satisfy them.

That's okay because it's Russia, not the West!

Not false. Could go slightly back with following imbue table : Imbue : Missiles 1 Imbue : Web 2 (because Energized could lead to similarly broken results) Imbue : Fireball 2 Imbue : Eora 3 Imbue : Death 3 Also I'm thinking about giving Hardy Companion the Hardy inspiration for 15s (healing would still be 6s), because I usually find pointless to go Heal Companion route for a pet-only Lay on Hand and a 6s inspiration.

Would you like some park to go with those deer. ...12-15 minutes walking to the park entrance, then you can walk around some short, flat trails near the river. These guys were obviously used to human walkers and I could get a few yards close before they'd look up and stare at me then sllowwwly start to saunter away a bit. It's almost all oak trees tho and by the time we left my skin/scalp (even under light clothes) was feeling all crawly-itchy with a little bit of tiny circular bump hiving here and there. Sigh. There's a reason I stay huddled indoors 90% of the time these days ... besides my asocial nature, I mean. Need more room filter units...old lady in a bubble...

Depends, did they accidentally cut the tables into hexagon shapes too?

Me: how bad can it be? Me 5 seconds later:

To help get things back on track...

am thinking there is some misconceptions about spellcasting. the angel and lich spellbooks are indeed powerful, and caster level does make a big difference in a few situations, but for a blaster, being level 30 as 'posed to 20 don't make much difference. your ability to hit touch ac is not gonna improve with 10 extra caster levels, and is so much gear for beating touch ac and sr that those hurdles is a non factor in any event. is a few blaster spells where dc's is important, but dc is also not based on caster level. caster attribute score and spell level is important for the would-be blaster. the gold dragon, now that is working, gives a charisma caster a big boost, transforms damage type to unresistible holy damage and ups the hd from what is typical d6 or d8 to d10, which am knowing don't seem like a huge factor until you do the math. is why those stacking 1-point-per die boosts from crossblood bloodlines or a few gear pieces is so devastating when added to hellfire rays and stormbolts n' such... though particular hellfire rays as you are talking endgame 45 hd worth o' damage. as noted, am gonna eventual go lich/gold dragon. yeah, is tough to compete with a few o' the mindlessly spammable lich and angel spells, but am not thinking we handicap self too bad by going with the gd route. HA! Good Fun! ps our blaster main were a sorc azata. am not gonna suggest azata is best for blasters, but is more than good enough to be managing screen wiping displays o' pyrotechnics. we went cold, which were a mistake 'cause o' what we assume is a bug regarding dc boosting feats and gear not applying correct to the azata spellbook, but even as a human instead o' half-elf, and recognizing we didn't take best archetype for a blaster, we were screen clearing opposition with impunity. zippy magic is a big boost for a blaster. we went arcane trickster and were satisfied with the results. but again, lich and angel is having many advantages o' blasters w/o needing work out the details o' a build or come up with a plan to take advantage o' capabilities. an angel oracle spamming storm of justice is not requiring schemes or plans or exploits. with storm of justice, enemies die... fast. entire screen o' enemies. will be curious to see how builds perform with the dlc. inevitables and proteans is gonna be foes 'stead o' demons. holy damage shouldn't be effective against non evil, but holy and unholy damage doesn't behave as one would expect in wotr. pps we mention proteans 'cause when we recent checked to see how many steam players had managed the secret of secrets quest, we saw the thumbnails for the new dlc achievements, and the "glimpse of truth" achievement sure has the semblance o' a pathfinder protean.

one less launcher is good thing, now lets kill ubisoft

Hello! Did you know that when you use Arkemyr Brilliant Departure you can keep enemies engaged even though you turn invisible? If had engaged enemies before and then "jump" very near to those enemies with ABD you will keep that engagement. This can be useful - for example an Assassin/Bloodmage with Persistent Distraction and some engagement slots can use Persistent Distraction to permanently keep enemies distracted. You can also deliver disengagement attacks with Backstab- and Assasinate bonus should the enemies disengage (because why not, nobody's there, right? ;)). I thought it is a nice "passive" effect for my unseen master of debuffs. There are also some items that have some special effects when you are engaging somebody.

GTA V - I had originally thought about starting a new game of Cyberpunk, since they had patched it recently. But then I started thinking about games that have done a better job of fully realizing a city, and realized I never finished GTA V. So now I'm rolling around Los Santos.

Mmm, cookie.

Thank you for your reply Boeroer! Btw I've read quite a bit of your posts on here and find them very helpful and insightful so thanks for that. Some of your character creation posts are clutch! Thanks for sharing your insight. I didn't save after picking her up and then I quit right away so it should be good. I'm going to start a new game and just go for triple crown solo with a cipher. Pretty sure I've gotten through the hard part with my chanter so it seems possible. If we're being honest I did abuse some summon exploits early on. Chanter just sucks after lvl 5 until dragon thrashed Tbh I'm returning to pillars of eternity after playing deadfire. I'm on a Mac and the combat in deadfire is just too laggy to make the game enjoyable even though I absolutely love the game. All graphics turned to low I still can't play the game.

Since I've rewatched JoJo, I've decided to rewatch some other shows as well. First is Cowboy Bebop, which really holds up well. Everything, and I do mean everything, about it works so well to deliver a show that is damn near perfect noir cyberpunk space western. Firefly is a cheap imitation, this show is the real deal.

I'd be fine with Netflix not trying to get me to watch "Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai", which it does like every time I log on. It also told me Komi Can't Communicate has a new dub now. That's going to fix everything, huh? Let's see what else is in the recommendations then. Steins;Gate 0. Nope. Designated Survivor, apparently a TV show where Jack Bauer plays the only person left of the US government after a terrorist attack, and apparently the Harry Potter films are on Netflix now. Okay. Heh.

That film never existed.

Chaotic evil, but amusing