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Yeah, come Mists of Pandaria Blizzard decided that tanks were not having fun actively trying to hold aggro and moved towards giving tanks a massive bonus to threat generation. First along the lines of +300% and then later much, much more to the point of it being a complete non-factor. The new tanking was supposed to be active damage mitigation with having "lots of buttons to press, because pressing LOTS of buttons is fun!" That approach led to increasingly ridiculous things like Paladin tanks stacking haste. In reality of course simple "fun while tanking" was far from the only motivation for Blizzard, they were desperately trying to fix the damage caused by Cataclysm and failed so utterly that it kind of became hilarious. While I stopped truly actively playing WoW with the Dragonsoul patch of Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria just made sure that I had no regrets leaving. Although I have kind of been tempted to see how the game is now that ghostcrawler can no longer mess it up.

The stat overview of each item is updated with all available enchantments. The base armor type of The Saint's War armor is scale armor (as noted in the description) which has a base piercing damage resistance of 5, not 8. It's the same thing with the dagger.

8==D I hope everyone here now feels properly harassed by my cyber-exhibitionism. *pose*

Care for some cheese to go with that whine? Nothing, really, it wouldn't be the internet without whining.

L-l-l-ook at me buy-buying thththis immediatly. :D

Wings of Liberty ranks highly amongst my disappointments in gaming. Not because of the gameplay but because of the story (that little there actually is). I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to turn one of the most badass characters in the history of RTS into a mewling, alcoholic emo clutching a picture of Kerrigan and whining "Sarah I MUSS U SOOOO MUCH!!!!" into his drink. Sheesh. Of course Blizzard managed to top even that with retconning the Zerg origins in Heart of the Swarm, but then again, at that point I no longer expected anything better. Getting drunk after your lady love became a genocidal alien monstrosity also responsible for the death of at least one good friend is a reasonable reaction imo. I was more annoyed by Blizzard need to do a 'Have we mentioned how heroic Jim is today?' every cutscene. Ah, uhm. No? Raynor knew Kerrigan for a handful of missions before Mengsk abandoned her on Tarsonis. Raynor's dialogue was retconned in that Wings of Liberty cutscene so he talks about leaving *her* behind (whereas he was pissed off at Mengsk for leaving THEM behind in the original). Also, well, there is this intermission in one of the final Brood War missions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcnd1WJVCo Yeah, sounds just like SC2's Raynor. Except for the part where he wants to put a bullet between Kerrigan's eyes and virtually everything else. Eh, I don't know. There is so much that doesn't make sense including a lot of the retconning and some character design. Brood War left the Dominion battered and broken, with Mengsk having to call in a lot of favors to even make a final stand against Kerrigan - and failing utterly. Yet, here we are, four or so years later where Mengsk spends trillions looking for Raynor. Who is sitting in a bar getting drunk on his old colony Mar Sara, pining over his lost love who he wanted to put down like the rabid dog she is only, well, four years earlier. Said Raynor who is easily found by his old friend Tychus who just got released from prison. By Mengsk. Yeah. Makes sense in the "not" way. Then there are all these choices that always end with Raynor being right, even if it makes no sense in context. If he trusts Nova (for which he has no reason what-so-ever) then Tosh really is the psychopath she says he is while you go on and liberate the wrongly imprisoned rebellious heros if you don't. Oh, and yeah, Ariel or whatever her name was goes from praising Raynor for cleansing an infested refugee station to actually flipping out over cleansing Haven. Why? Because screw characterization I guess (oh, and again, Raynor is right whatever he does, man that must be hard never making mistakes). Also, what's up with Raynor fighting his friends, the Protoss? He's a large part of the reason why they still exist after the Zerg invasion. There is no way that Raynor couldn't at least reach a compromise with the Protoss regarding Haven. Then there's the prophecy crap, the Overmind sacrificing itself so the Zerg can be led by Kerrigan with free will (well after Kerrigan is cleansed from her infestation by an artifact so ancient it can't possibly have been built to combat the Zerg, which are relative newcomers) and whatever else hell there happened so that Valerian Mengsk and Raynor end up working together. Okay, time to stop ranting. There were good things in Wings of Liberty, like the atmosphere and the presentation in those in-game cutscenes. Blizzard did a good job at showing, not telling, but the things they showed us were a disappointment for me.

Wings of Liberty ranks highly amongst my disappointments in gaming. Not because of the gameplay but because of the story (that little there actually is). I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to turn one of the most badass characters in the history of RTS into a mewling, alcoholic emo clutching a picture of Kerrigan and whining "Sarah I MUSS U SOOOO MUCH!!!!" into his drink. Sheesh. Of course Blizzard managed to top even that with retconning the Zerg origins in Heart of the Swarm, but then again, at that point I no longer expected anything better.

Except he said nothing of the sort, and certainly nothing of it was in the past tense. Varana's translation is servicable enough, as far as that snippet goes, because that is exactly what he said. That they [not necessarily Germany alone] would fight them [ultra-nationalists, inferred most likely to be people like Le Pen or Orban] with whatever options they have at their disposal.

Oh, nice, finally a thread that I can derail somewhat by mentioning that I want to strangle BruceVC every time he messes up their and there. Which is, quite frankly, every time. *sigh*

I don't know, the end of the Trooper storyline was plenty climactic - for both my keyboard and my desk, that is.

I think I'll be having nightmares for a while.

I think it's finishing a quest that always counts as a turn while journal updates generally have a chance to do so.

The first thing I played on Linux was Quake (not counting the solitaire-like games that came with every window manager), but that was a long while ago, almost 20 years now. Not sure Loki was a turning point - when they went belly-up in 2002 it almost turned out to be the nail in the coffin of AAA games running on Linux.

DS9 certainly had the best character development of any Trek series and it had the advantage of having Robert Hewitt Wolfe (whom I would say is the MCA of sci-fi writers) working on it for a while, and a noticable dip in quality after he left at the end of Season 5. TNG had some really, really good stories that easily rival the best of TOS but it is all wrapped in a lot of filler and sprinkled with some damned awful stinkers that kind of dilute the experience - for every Drumhead there are two Shades of Grey...

Oh, I'm all for diversity and choices, please don't get me wrong there and I would love to see Linux succeed as a viable alternative in gaming - if only because it means that the current chokehold on game development is broken up a bit. Look at how Vulkan made Microsoft streamline DirectX for the first time in ages - DX12 is so much better than the past decades of improvements they made. I just don't share the opinion that Brandon Adler's comments are harmful towards Linux gaming or that there is any major migration going on - and even if SteamOS succeeds on the market, it might just be used in the way consoles are these days with the remainder of its capabilities as fully formed Linux distribution lying fallow. Time will tell, but it is really far too early to play a requiem for Microsoft.

TOS is campy, over the top and has all the production charm of a 60ies TV show, but the quality of its content (= sci fi storytelling) is no better - or worse - than that of any other Trek series. But I guess graphics are as important to TV shows as they are for games, right? Right?

Yeah. Going back to DOS games via GOG.

Legacy provides the basis for Inquisition. So if you plan on playing DA:I and only want to get one of the DA2 story DLCs Legacy is the way to go - but Mark of the Assassin was more fun (but much less relevant to the lore of Thedas). Plus it had Felicia Day voice acting which is always a huge plus.

I like the creative number interpretation that's going on. Sure Microsoft has lost some ground recently and Windows Phone has a hard time on the market (which I personally find rather sad because after having used iOS, Android and Windows Phone I can definitely say I like WP the most) there is absolutely no data to indicate that there is any large scale migration towards Linux going on. In spite of all the privacy issues, Windows 10 has, a mere month after it's release, three times the desktop market share that Linux has. Just let that sink in for a spell. If anything, casual users tend to use their tablets or smartphones intead of PCs these days, but none of those are likely to actually care for games that much. Aside Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga, obviously. So perhaps Steam OS will shake things up a bit, but honestly, it's not the opinion of Brandon holding Linux gaming back, it's the lackluster support of certain companies regarding drivers that will REALLY be a problem (or already is one) - even for Valve and Steam OS. Can't quite shake that much up if half the graphics card market decides that they don't want to play ball. But yeah, whatever.

I think DA:I could have profited a lot by having more areas like the Frostback Basin and Emprise du Lion. They were nicely done and focused on a particular quest with a few sidequests here and there but none of the utter inanity that some other areas turned out ot be. Somehow all the low-levle content is kind of... bad. Bland. Oh, and boring.

Not liking Voyager or Enterprise isn't a real reason for such drastic measures. Not liking TOS however screams for more than just a divorce.

Oh, I totally forgot that Trespasser came out today and with it being set two years after the main game it only makes sense for not being able to go back. Guess that means I'll be playing DA:I again this week.

That depends on your level and what you mean with moving the story along. Jaws of Hakkon is a bit more difficult than the base game, there's a reason it drops gear and crafting schematics that are leaps and bounds ahead of everything else.

There is at least one scripted interaction that only checks your character's stats and equipment - the very first one during the prologue.

Oh my, why do people get butthurt so easily these days?