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LOL. Wasn't the pve mode the entire justification for Overwatch 2 being sold as a """"""""""new game""""""""""? This is a level of scumbaggery from Activision that's so brazen that I can't help but be impressed.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/overwatch-2-has-dumped-plans-for-their-promised-pve-hero-mode

I just take the days off to bum around at home or do stuff for/with family. Meant vacation as in "go to some foreign place"

Nah, it will be part of OW3 for sure!!!

Today my wife and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary, which is a pretty crazy landmark. It has flown by. We are heading to Morro Bay this weekend. I'm actually racing a half-ironman on Saturday, so it is more of a race-cation, but she seems to be onboard with it. I'll take her out to a nice dinner.

Patriot comes in a quad towed-TEL (transporter erector launcher). The military unit known as a battery can vary in how many such launchers it has. US Patriot batteries have either four or six launchers each (typically four), plus all the other pieces such as the radar, engagement control station, power plant, etc.

No idea who put together this list. Maybe the best female black actors just aren't "celebrities" (Halle Berry was the only name I recognized too)? Plenty of outstanding male counter parts though, that also achieved fame. E.g. Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover, etc. Edit: How could I forget James Earl Jones aka "Thulsa Doom"???

You could always go with blood mage (or another subclass) and just steal Fassina's summon familiar spell with the grimoire switching trick.

CIA started to recruit Russian on Telegram, they published two videos the Russian officials is going all crazy about it, and the funny thing is, that Peskov and Zakharova are helping a lot to spread these videos in Russia

Yeah it just seems to me like for a battlemage citzal's spirit lance is going to be better in like 90% of situations, and you'd mostly want to use fists before L13 so maximizing the power level isn't that critical. Don't think you need conjurer though, assuming they all stack, hot razor skewers + nature godlike + potion of ascension + stone of power = 6, but I don't think stone of power and potion of ascension stack. Tactical barrage instead of stone of power? Think those all stack. Ah I see. Using a 2-hander would slow down your attacks though compared to dual-wielding or using tuotilo's palm so probably not worth it from DPS perspective, unless not using the community patch where FF attack doesn't work right with anything. Woodskin is plant effect so won't this work on a blood mage (or priest)? Just get bloodied, trigger woodskin, wall o draining. Might be decent to carry the staff, cast buffs including llengrath's safeguard, then blood sacrifice down to bloodied to trigger lord of the forest and safeguard, at which point you refresh a WOD and summon a better weapon. Could probably get to +9PL actually. 6 from the above stuff plus 2 from lord of the forest plus steal summon familiar? Or empower weyc's wand with a regular wizard. Not too hard to get the tier 3 procs with regular wizard with least unstable coil. Well, it isn't hard for single class wizard. The lower tier spells that trigger LUC don't reliably proc all of them in my experience. I don't really like multiclass druids, mostly because avenging storm is so awesome and they miss out. I've been testing a SC Fury for an ultimate run. But I've been using Effort because avenging storm procs >>> +2 PL. Also Great Maelstrom just clears the screen which is fun. That is a cool idea with tanglefoot giving FF wounds, though. Some of my FF builds can't generate wounds fast enough, particularly a FF/streetfighter that intentionally uses FF while the curse is up to get bloodied. FF attack gets expensive when carrying multiple curses. I don't think streetfighter has anything like that that would give wounds though, besides maybe powder burns ripostes. Hmm...

Congrats! Never been on a vacation ever, hah.

Yes, they will have additional +15% dmg, +4 ACC and +1 PEN. Besides that of course all abilities will also profit from the added PLs. I didn't mean to spiritshift. I meant to hold the Lance of the Midwood Stag in my hands to get the +2 PL - which scales Transcendent Suffering up one step - but still be able to use the FF attack which does scale with Transcendent Suffering. So the Lance would indeed be a stat stick only that gives my FF attack +15% dmg, +4 ACC and +1 PEN. I just picked Druid for the most convenient unlock of the enchantment (you need to have a plant or beast effect on you). Woodskin and later Form of the Delemgan. It's also nice to gain wounds from your own Tanglefoot (also unlocks the enchantment - it's a hostile plant effect - but a plant effect on you nonetheless). The Lance also looks nice with a Nature Godlike and fits the druidic theme...

I would rather take a face full of bear mace-cation. Now that I think of it I haven't been on a vacation since the rona hit. Huh.

in case it isn't clear (i don't think it was explicitly mentioned here but it is a part of the grimoire imprint spells), but in addition to stealing the spell, the grimoire trick gives you infinite uses of that spell. so even spells you might normally want to pick up manually, you'd be better off stealing, if you want to use the cheese.

Yes Llengrath's safeguard procs on bloodied, but it is so good you should cast it anyway, and sometimes intentionally trigger it. I usually trigger it pretty quickly from blood sacrifices while going through buff routine, or just rush into combat and you'll probably trigger it pretty fast. It is definitely an exploit but stealing spells can be fun. It doesn't get to be super broken unless you steal high level priest spells with major grimoire imprint, which multiclass doesn't get. I like stealing escape the most. Lets you zip around the battlefield as it is an insta cast with no recovery. Beina has it, various other skeinites. What you do is equip a grimoire with minor grimoire imprint (aloth's is easiest to get). Do not memorize it. Cast minor grimoire imprint from the grimoire against a caster (druid/priest/wizard and some others like xaurip priests or rathun flamecallers). When you get a spell you want to keep, cycle to another grimoire and it will stay permanently. For stolen wizard spells they are displayed with your grimoire spells, but for priest and druid they stay in the hotbar, which does not wrap it just extends so you can only steal about 9 or 10 priest/druid spells before you can't see the new ones.

Normally I'd say congratulations but man What the hell? Worst cation portmanteau I have ever seen.

I think soapboxing has more of a lecturing connotation to it.

It's a political term used for the practice of traveling around and making speeches to different towns. It comes from the practice of standing on an actual stump in towns that didn't have a stage. That might be a bit of an apocryphal story, but the idiom remains.

Only in death does duty end.

Insufficient Adidas levels in that

Followup question to the last question i had. How do i go about to edit the description of the ability? I've found the description under Abilities --> GenericAbility --> Valorous_Echoes --> Description. Whenever i try to edit the description, I can't save the edit, it always reverts. And another question, as I've gotten quite ambitious with Apotheosis I know how to edit existing items and abilities, but have not understood how to create items or add new effects to exiting abilities (the latter I'm trying to do). I wanted to add a new effect to a already exiting ability (be it active or passive), this case Devoted ability for fighter. I found it in Abilities --> GenericAbility --> Devoted. Here I found under StatusEffects the "effects" the ability gives (e.g. Devoted_SE_CritDamage). How would I go about to add a new effect like these (for example +10% damage). I hope this is not to hard. I imagine i could use one of the already existing effects as a guideline, since they would provide similar effects. Thanks for all your help!

The idea behind bellower/priest is to equip Weyc's robe and wand, the Least Unstable Coil and Sasha's Singing Scimitar and use empower at the start of every fight to gain all tier 3 inspirations, Attuned Channel, Bellower bonus, Muse of Mystery and trigger Omnipotence for the party. After that you extend the duration of all buffs with Salvation of Time along with all your chants bonuses and Barring Death's Door. Now you can cast Eld Nary with +10PL bonus (or even more as nature godlike with Watershaper's Focus etc.) every 12s. Of course you don't have to refresh your ally chants anymore because they will be extended by SoT and, after you cycled once through all your friendly chants, you can switch to foe chants (you can have 3 at the same time). As a priest you won't use many spells because you will have to cast/recover SoT every 6s (Baring Death's Door, Salvation of Time and Devotions for the Faithful are basically all you need for the end game). Basically this character is a a chanter on steroids - with all chants effects active, gaining phrases like a troubadour with Brisk Recitation and +10PL...

Is it unpopular to hate on new but deliberately pixelated games? In any case, do I hate those things. It's like using rotary line phones in 2023, also if I wanted a blotchy, blurry incomprehensible mess on my screen I could simply take my glasses off.

Yeah, the era of the album is pretty much gone. They're too expensive to make and there is no audience for them anymore. The difference between how successful a band is live and how much their albums sell these days can be huge. I mean, Iron Maiden tours stadiums worldwide. But their most recent album sold nothing. Even the best-selling albums sell nothing these days: Taylor Swift under 2 million in 2022, Adele 1.5 million in 2021. The big change happened during the first decade of the 2000s, and I suppose there's no going back. I remember the time when record companies and the business in general was a huge thing (I also worked as a journalist at the time), but once the internet and free sharing really got going, the companies started to dwindle, and these days there's hardly anyone working at them anymore. I don't feel sorry for the record companies, but I think it's awful that the people making good music are not able to make a living out of it. The whole polarization phenomenon (i.e. the fact that nearly everyone gets nothing and someone gets nearly everything) can be aptly summarized by the fact that the Swedish guy who owns Spotify and whose artistic contribution remains at absolute zero is richer than Paul McCartney.

And in diplomatic news: Chinees envoy was told Ukraine won't accept territorial loss or freezing of the conflict. We will see if anything changes after the offensive or the NATO summit.

Thanks again for responding. Helps clarify things a lot. And always interesting to see what other people enjoy. Off to the races to try it out

Neat trick but I try to stay away from exploits agree though that does seem like the most convenient way to get to +3 Yeah this is prob a deal breaker for my build This sounds interesting, ive been thinking about trying priests in some builds recently Normally I choose pale elves for this exact reason but this time I feel like the PL is central to what I'm trying to acomplish with the build Yeah penetrating strike is definitely something I'd take if I had an extra point spare, and yes with the wizard spells I generally do the exact same thing, I switch grimoires if it's convenient with my spells and ability combos, I try to always make it fit comfortably into cooldowns, and with the grimoires I generally only use ones that have at least 2 or 3 spells I want to use, also I don't really like tactician thematically, plus devoted is pretty central to buffing both lance and fists I thought this defense buff only triggered after blooded? Didn't know this was a thing, sounds like an exploit but def a cool trick for maximising PL for this Thanks everyone for all the info, much appreciated

been stumping for denver vs miami in the finals, might actually get it

That would be amazing, thank you! I usually turn off anti-aliasing in all my games because I prefer the extra frames and don't mind some jags (and textures tend to look better too). Tweaking some other options to possibly make it so I can up my postprocessing quality would be nice too.

Just a suggestion to help untill the future patch drops --try putting a marker blueprint on each burr weed that you find. Finding them is annoying because it's half resource surveyor and half swinging blindly. Yet once found I can make it so much easier to chop down on the following pass because they have a marker blueprint on them. Wouldn't fill in the markers, personally, as they can be damaged and it's equally annoying to have a hundred markers on my screen. Just a thought. Hope it helps someone. Edit: After a fair bit of testing ... I now caution against placing marker blueprints on or near the bur weeds. Doing so makes them not respawn altogether. At least not in my game. Good luck, everyone. Wish they'd fix this already.

The reason why I thought about Conjurer etc. was to get to +6 PL, Tactical Barrage: +1 Stone of Power: +1 Conjurer: +1 Wellspring of Life: +1 Lord of the Forest: +2 But I tested the Lance and as I feared the Lord of the Forest effect (+2 PL) disappears as soon as you switch to another weapon set. So I personally would just use Tactical Barrage, Wellspring of Life and 2 Stones of Power to conveniently get to +3 in every fight. But the Lance gave me an idea for a Druid/Forbidden Fist.

I'm not an expert on this build and there are a lot of chanter abilities so sometimes you want one set of abilities and other times a different one, but this is what I'd take for the most situations. This is from a Bellower/Skaen build, keep in mind Skaen has some nice priest defaults I'd probably take otherwise (like divine mark, spiritual ally, minor avatar). I didn't take a ton on priest side. Also I don't have any summons because spiritual ally is good, also the bellower gets huge power level bonuses (which can be extended) on chanter side, the main thing you do is spam Her Tears, and once you get weyc items and least unstable coil you can spam storm of holy fire on priest side. Empowering Her Revenge or Her Tears can potentially give all six tier 3 inspirations, as can Storm of Holy Fire (though you can't get the empower point back with sasha's singing scimitar with storm of holy fire). 1 Thrice Was She Wronged, Come Soft Winds, Halt 2 The Thunder Rolled Like Waves on Black Seas 3 Arms Bearer (or whatever) 4 At the sound of his voice, Withdraw 5 Thick Grew Their Tongues 6 One Dozen Stood 7 Her Revenge, Dire Blessing 8 Ancient Memory 9 Bear's Fortitude 10 Its Crash Could Not Be Denied 11 Devotions for the faithful 12 And Their Fear Followed, Shining Beacon 13 Seven Nights She Waited, Barring Death's Door 14 Champion's Boon 15 The Bride Caught Their Ruse 16 So Singt Thy Biting Winds, Salvation of Time 17 Farcasting 18 Scion of Flame 19 Her Tears Fell Like Rain, Storm of Holy Fire 20 Set To Their Purpose It would actually be better to take more things like Tough, Rapid Casting, Practiced Healer, Bull's Will, and spec chants and invocations for specific fights, but this is what I'd take trying to grab as many useful chants and invocations as possible. If you wanted to take chanter summons the ogres are good, the wyrms are good, but once you're high level you'd only want the instruments of death (rare exceptions). Chant Ancient Memory + Thick Grew Their Tongues usually, could also take Mercy and Kindness at 20 and skip one of the chanter invocations, then chant Mercy and Kindness + Ancient Memory for a lot of healing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-posts-video-asking-russians-share-secrets-us-spies-rcna84595 "The CIA official said that despite Washington’s disagreements with Putin, “the United States and Russian people are not enemies,” adding, “We admire the courage and grit of so many Russians determined to maintain Russia’s values and ideals.”" Hope they don't put too much faith in the CIA to protect them.

Finding quill leaves and a bit of money is hardly "a lot of tax to pay" especially compared to the notion of losing access to two tiers of spells. Most of my builds are crit bulids. Particularly with the lance. Also with a blood mage / x I am always going to have up infuse with vital essence, so for me all tactical barrage gives is +1 PL. The other tier 2 defense spells that are nice are Arcane Veil and Mirrored Images, but you'd have little reason to cast both, and Infuse has a ridiculously long duration. I guess you could cast Arcane Veil twice, but you only need it once after getting wall of draining, and before that you'd probably prefer Mirrored Images for its longer duration. Crits are good for far more than just heartbeat drumming or whatever. Many spells interrupt on crits, many weapons have on-crit applications, etc., I find intuitive extremely useful on builds that don't have sky-high accuracy already. In this case the lance crush AOE interrupts on crits so 25% hit to crit is very useful Is he? He mentioned the lance repeatedly, I think he is wanting to use fists until L13 then the lance, but perhaps I misread something. Can always take barrage early I suppose and respec. Good point, though most of the buffs come from wizard side so it's still pretty useful. He has +2 PEN and +25% crit damage with fists though from devoted, so IDK why you think crits are no big deal, or that he is in dire need of stacking power levels. I've had no problems beating megabosses to death without even the devoted bonus much less nature godlike, conjurer etc. As a nature godlike all he needs is a potion of ascension, or stone of power with razor skewers to reach +3PL anyway. And you can get three stones of power very early. My point was just that conjurer is really really unnecessary for the bonus power level, it isn't hard to reach +3 as a blood mage, and the ability to regain spells is far better than what you get as a conjurer even ignoring losing evocation and illusion.

Thank you, that is lovely feedback Right-click the AfflictionComponent's DisplayName value, then select "Assign Entry..." This brings up a menu where you can choose an existing StringTable entry, from here you can find the "Smart" entry: Yep, the way you've done it is the exact right way to do things

Yeah, the one guy brought up the differences between race and nationality, and he was on point. The Egyptian comedian brought up Israel more than once, so it's pretty clear his anger on this casting is deeper than skin color. He also seems pretty concerned with Kevin Hart not building the pyramids. It's hard to take cries of "Stealing my culture!" over a Netflix documentary seriously when stuff like Rhodesia is in the history books.

"Nobody move, or the Kender starts telling a story...."

Stop that, it was entirely beneficial for the islanders to get exposed to some overseas cultures. Without my ancestors, they wouldn't have had a proper language, but still using that mix of grunting sounds and Latin they were using, not to mention teaching them some really important life skills like warfare and beer drinking! Don't get me started on the spiritual side of things, teaching those heathens some proper gods to worship, like Odin and Thor, instead of kneeling down before dumb rocks, worshiping tree stubs and praying to the sun

Seems to be a problem because there's no limit of how often you can hit in disengagement and that there's no cooldown. Reach doesn't seem to be the problem. That and the stupidness that you eat disengagenent attacks while you move towards enemies. Should only happen if your vector points away from them to some degree. Well whatever - it is what it is - and that's another reason why I completely ignored (and still ignore) engagement (except ogres') and all the abilities and talents around it.

I think they just forgot to properly implement reach + engagement. Why shouldn't I get disengagement attacks when somebody passes through my "threat zone"? It's quite inconsistent that I can pierce somebody with a pike from 1.8 meters, but not engage (in this case threaten to pierce) them. Well - now at least I can retrain and remove Defender altogether. Would have been nice with reach, but without it it's officially the most useless ability ever... Overbearing Guard will go into the trashbin, too.