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I am mostly posting so Wormy doesn't think they killed the discussion - 16 hours without a reply... Since Underspace is now on GOG, I bought that. Since Wartales is getting tedious, I started Underspace. I finished the tutorial fights, including the optional storm chase. I think they seriously nerfed the serpent in the rift fight. That, or the demo I had played had been bugged and the NPC stormchaser had not been dealing damage back then. Now we made quick work of her and the rift. Took the optional route and docked at the anarch station, mostly to ensure I have the location on my charts. Now to decide whether I simply head back to civilization or turn to a life of crime and return to civilized space with a hold full of smut. Also if I buy a new ship here or on my return. I understand you are supposed to buy a ship at this point - all stations seem to be selling ¥26.000 light fighters, medium fighters, heavy fighters, and a transport. I have not enough time in the game to really check the difference between the corp and pirate ships. Considering the medium pirate fighter, since medium is usually something that doesn't gimp you in any category too badly. And the pirate ships are what's on sale here. Life's hard.

For the last slot I'd go for a support/healing Chanter.

Gotta love how the lore changed over the decades The Horus Heresy was a gimmick to explain why the boxed set had two sets of identical plastic titans in them (because GW couldn't afford more than 1 injection mold). It was a 2 line cast away reference in the manual, why imperial titans would fight each other. The Primarch names were all "invented" by a group of old guys in a drunken stupor in a pub. Completely no thought going into it, probably just a lot of laughter and thigh slapping... and so on and so on. It wasn't really until 20 hears later they started organizing it a bit better. Edit: I don't remember when the idea of legions appeared. The original 18 chapters later branched out and became a 1000 chapters, spawned of the original 20 legions and their 21 Primarchs (22 if you count Valdor as a Primarch, 23 if you also count whatshisname the leader of the original Thunder Warriors as one). Later editions introduced Astarte as the Luna geneticist, that created the Primarchs and their offspring, named after her (the Astartes Project). There was also another "mother of space marines" introduced the last decade, which provided the female chromosomes for the Primarchs (the Emperor the male chromosomes obviously). It's a constantly evolving background. No wonder they have ideological warfare going on both in the lore and the fan base Edit2: I suppose that makes the Emperor their father in the very literal sense of the word, even if he denies ever having had sex with that woman

I'm curious about a 2hander goldpact build so I tested this, both Enduring Flames's DoT and Tidefall's Lash has fixed duration now.

Weird the rabbit holes I fall into, but I had no idea that Quiet Riot remade Cvm on Feel the Noize. The singers even sound the same! Anywho, heres the og band Slade:

If you want the most effective party you should bring a Priest and give him Inspiring Radiance and use Devotions for the Faithful as soon as it's available. So Durance would be my pick although he's sluggish. But he has good RES and with a shield and weapon & shield style he will be a sturdy caster and not be bothered and shot at by ranged enemies a lot, which is good. That way he can go with light armor which can make up for his low DEX. Conselor Ploi or something similar is great for support, especially accuracy support for an individual party member. If you bring Wizard, Priest and Druid your party will be very strong from the mid to late game due to the abundance of strong spells. In the beginning it will be a bit harder because few spells per rest. Because of that I would use the 6th slot for a party member that is very good early on (high starting values) and still has a good power curve. That's a Monk for me. Monks require more micro management than most other martial classes but imo they are the best martial class. You can even build a very strong ranged Monk (see Witch Doctor build). You can use a hired adventurer and replace them later with Zahua (I like Zahua a lot). Alternatives would be a Ranger (additional body with the Animal Companion is great right away - and Saganis comes very early) or Cipher (Mind Control capabilities are superb at early levels, Grieving Mother can be yours rel. early if you make a beeline for her). Both require a lot more micro than a Fighter for example. Fighter generally is a good starter, but you already have Edér - and Fighters' power curve is pretty flat unfortunately. I really like Barbs but they are not good in the early game but become great lateer on (much like casters). So I wouldn'r recommend that in this case. A Chanter is also excellent if you play slow (PotD difficulty and/or playing more strategically - buffing, debuffing/CC, surgically dismantling the enemies rather than using a brute force approach). If you like to rush things though a Chanter will only pay off once he/she reaches lvl. 9. On the other hand the official companion chanter Kana comes very early - which is nice. Also a chanter can be extremely powerful in the early quest around/in Raedric's Castle - if you know how to use the invocation "White Worms" properly. Rogues start strong as well but are very squishy. If you can be patient with them and only let them flank once the enemies have settled arounf the tank they can work well. Or you use them with a reach weapon from the second row - or a ranged weapon and pick off casters and such. Also a flat power curve compared to casters and the Monk - but the advantage in the early game is significant if you can avoid getting attacked too much. If you want to power your party up even more you can use a second Priest. Give him Inspiring Radiance as well. It stacks with the one from Durance, giving your party immediate +20 all-stackable Accuracy. One can build a good melee "offank" Priest or even a melee dmg dealing Priest (use maximum MIG, Aggrandizing Radiance and at some point Minor Avatar and pick the Great Sword Tidefall. Its wounding lash gets boosted by MIG which turns it into a great weapon in this priest's hands). You can also use Novice's Suffering instead of a weapon and pick up the Sandals of the Forgotten Friar at some point, making the Priest a semi-monk. Novice's Suffering doesn't profit much from damage bonuses other than MIG. Superhigh MIG turns those fists into hefty weapons though - and they cost no enchantment resources. Not bad for a character who's casting most of times anyways and only uses his fists when all spells are cast. Anyways: your party composition is good. Make sure to stealth your backline before starting combat and only let the enemies see the tank (and offtank) first. Use the Paladin (and Monk or whomever is your third front liner - maybe a shifted Hiravias or an Animal Companion?) to catch enemies who run past the tank to protect your backline. Or use chokepoints if you can. Wizard's best spells in the early game are Chillfog and Parasitic Staff imo. Use Durance's Inspiring Radiance right at the start of battle (not as a tool for healing but for ACC buffing) so your initial CC/debuffing spells (see Chillfog) do have a higher chance of hitting. Insp. Radiance stacks with everything.

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You little perv you.... Edit: speaking of medical checks, I usually get checked twice a year, but the blood test etc. only once a year. I get a prefilled form (a requisition) from the doctor and take it to a lab of my own choosing at a time that suits me, so not too bad really. Crossing fingers and knock on wood, the results the last 6 years have been that of a healthy young man (despite me being anything but)

I had my annual physical last week and everything is looking good. I was even able to lower my cholesterol by 24 points by altering my diet and exercising. And fish oil, a whopper of a fish oil pill every day. Im also happy to report, that after ~7000-9000 years of human society, the finger is no longer the best tool in our toolbox to check the prostate gland. That test has been completely abolished and replaced with a blood test. HUZZAH! Now just to mail them back a box of poop and I can forget about it all for the next three years.

I went to a big BBQ/party at my sister's today. The weather did not completely cooperate, but it didn't rain enough to ruin the festivities. Obscene amounts of delicious food were consumed. The slaw I brought got wiped out quickly, so I'll take that as a success. Thank goodness I don't have to work tomorrow because I'm in a food coma and I'm not sure I'll recover by the morning. I ate enough to last me 3 days.

I've gotta kidnap this thread for a bit, because I can't figure out where to whinge about this where noone but Gorth will hear it Leman Russ went from the Chapter Master of the 4th founding chapter Space Wolves who had to be fitted with a cybernetic breathing apparatus after his lungs were damaged by acid and who wrote the Codex Astartes to a First Founding Primarch who had perfectly functioning lungs and opposed the Codex Astartes. The Emperor went from being entombed on the throne due to old age and the burden of running the Imperium to the whole Horus story. In addition, early works implied he still gave orders from the throne. Orks went from being marsupials who reproduced with pouches at the end of their life cycle to fungus who reproduced through spores. Daemon Princes went from being stronger than Greater Daemons to weaker than them. I dunno why it was changed like that to be honest. Squats went from being vassal client states of the Imperium in Rogue Trader to being a seperate empire allied with the Imperium in 2nd Edition to being eaten by Tyranids to being alive again but not aligned with the Imperium at all. Tyranids were slavers who enslaved multiple species, most notably Zoats. They were presented as less an all-consuming horde of beasts and more an evil but functional alien society reliant on biotech. The Black Rage originally came from the Blood Angels using the corpse of Sanguinius as a source of geneseed when recovering from their losses during the Horus Heresy and thus having their geneseed contaminated with his genetic memory of his death. Now its pretty much established as a purely psychic curse. Grey Knights went from having almost no psykers in their ranks to consisting entirely of Psykers. The Black Legion went from a small but extremely veteran group with mysterious, unknown motivations to by far the largest Traitor Legion and being pretty open about their plans to destroy the Imperium with the Black Crusades. Fulgrim went from trying to arrest Horus at Isstvaan only to be seduced by the pleasures of Slaanesh during a negotiation to being corrupted by a daemon sword. The basic Thousand Sons marine went from being a regular Space Marine whose armour was covered in arcane glyphs so he could act as a source of power for the Sorcerers he served into a mindless automaton who is nothing but dust in an armour. +add new; The Custodes now has Muscle Mommies. [Fanbase]