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Ohh. Yeah I had a hunter on the game I gave up on, spear is very useful. I don't remember where I got the relic spear, but I bought one in a store that was better. More damage vs the relic which had bonuses that weren't essential.

Spears aren't two handed though. No two handed requirement on them. (doesn't make sense, but what does ?) So looks like you wasted a lot of points

I don't think the barbarian is best built as a damage dealer despite the damage bonus on low health, maces are pretty weak, only 20% critical damage. I'm going to build mine for dual wielding maces. I think you get an extra swing at dual level master, giving you 3 chances to apply the stun effect from the mace skill. Spending extra points on destinty to improve critical chances and complimenting the evade tree as well.

I noticed the statue outside between the tower of enigma and the elemental forfe has an inscription that says you should pray at all of them, 5 or 6 ? and finally return to pray there.

It would be kinda nice if all the regular foods you bought at the supermarket, I'm talking non deserts, contained the appropriate levels of salt and sugar. You migth not like it, but legislation like that could easily ad years to your lives with no extra effort on your end at all. Right now those levels are skewed, you get too much salt, which gradually poisions you, and too much suggar, which increases diabetes chances. Now, I'm not advocating banning either. You can still buy as much salt and suggar as you like, but as a cheap method of adding taste to processed foods, it's dangerous to your health. It's the trans fat debacle all over again, and most people have come around on that front, agreeing that it needed to be watched carefully.

Everywhere is the same if you don't have strong feelings about political borders and nation states one way or the other. Well, not the same, rather American identity doesn't belong to just Americans anymore. Globalization and everything. I know lots of people who go to superbowl parties and eat burgers and drink beer who have never been there and have only a cursory understanding of the rules.

I like it so far, but getting around is getting annoying now especially with the long load times. Why not have an unlimited number of gates or fast travel to the entrance of any region. There's also too much loot. I've got more gold than I could spend in two games and my mages are guzzling up loads of big mana potions on every quest. Normal difficulty is too easy and hard is too hard. Seems like they could have tweaked it to 4 difficulty levels without too much hassle.

You can hack the game so you can romance everyone, but you stil lose a romance if you cheat - which is recommended since the game will crash prior to the final mission with 5 or 6 active romances. They are all pretty laughable by the way. Except maybe some of the dialouge with Liara Tasoni.

and police brutality

No injuries

I think I have been thwarted by this game on warrior difiulty. Once I get deeper into the forest I just get slaugthered mercilessly. Good healing doesn't help if my guys die in one hit. I had better luck with my abandoned all caster party. At least they were making progress until their mana bars were gone.

Restarted with two mercenaries, a runepriest and a crusader. My casters were getting ineffective against enemies with magic resistances faster than I was able to increase their magic scores to compensate. It got to where I had no avenues left and had to spend all my money on potions. If you are using casters, best go the min-max route.

Only played femshep. Yeah... the ending was universally panned, with good reason. I get that the game is not supposed to be about a feel-good trip, but slapping you across the face by ignoring everything you have done so far for the sake of an "artistic vision" is a huge step back in this medium. This is also without getting into how nonsensical, quackish, and generally awful the writing that facilitates it all is. A collection of cool and touching moments, brought down overall by writer egomania. Certainly not the climactic finale it was set up to be. The MP was kind of addicting, though. You made the right choice the first time around, btw. Shoot the bugger in the face, then alt+F4. The ending was too structually perfect. Didn't think the whole organic vs synthetic warrented that much spelling out. It got tedious. Much better to have focused on your team menbers in the final mission like ME2. Making decisions, who lives and who dies. That kind of thing. Dream sequences with the kid were horribly annoying.

This baby just arrived. http://www.wacom.com/en/de/creative/cintiq-22-hd I was a bit worried about complaints about the quality of the surface coating on many wacom products and this one in particular. The anti glare goes produce a noticable shimmer, the effect is best described as the screen looking like it's a bit dusty. I'm happy to report that once I got going I didn't notice it at all. It's an awesome tool. I can drag the whole thing onto my couch, the cords are extra long.

Its a hedge against running out of mana. And also mana management. If I'm fighting single opponents I am just powerful enough to put them down without using spells.

Playing with an all caster party is becomming near impossible once I started going up against mages who could disable my casters and monsters with high resistances. I started putting points in mele for my two rune priests to compensate, they already had a lot of extra health, so I would have something when i ran out of mana. Probably too little too late.

It's kinda ugly for a PC title though. I suspect it was made with future tablet/smartphone ports in mind.

yes you do

How the heck do you not have anybody with some strength by level 4 or 5? There are spells that add strength, I'm guessing you must have a decent mage, go to the library and buy one. Why would I want strenght if I don't have any fighters. Points are better spent on mana/magic/desterity or even health. Gonna check to see if I have the rigth schools for the strenght spells.

Stuck in MM Legacy. Seems you need to break down a wall to get to the next level of the bandit stronghold which requires a minimum strength of 15-20. I don't have anyone with that in my party and I have no option to level either. I already killed every wolf and spider for miles around and they don't respawn. Don't feel like starting over. The square based grid leaves for plenty of situations where your ranged attacks are one tile removed from a straight line. Being 30 degrees to the left of your target means you can't shoot. Poorly thought out.

It's relevant if three bullets are aimed close to the black versus just one.

It doesn't improve accuracy of individual shots but increases the chance of scoring a hit. Probability math.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4e4QcbEZP8 Firing several shots practically simultaneously can improve accuracy if the successive shots comes before the recoil. That's the claim anyway.

The guy with the floodlights has a blog filled with masterfully sardonic emails I think, if that's the guy. Hilarious.

I dreamt Lenny Cravits and some girl was in a knife fight concerning the ownership of a Deutcher Rundfunk mixtape which was playing in the background on a small boombox shaped like a steam train (mostly upbeat electro I guess, but everyone thought it was the bees knees) , well actually it was scissors, but they were using them like knives and there was more yelling than actual stabbing. This was coming out of a steam bath, the girl was working at the ticket booth. You would find a place to sit among several different areas, no doors just increased heat and humidity (this is the steam bath) and there would be a natural history panorama kind of thing going on behind a glass pane so you would have something to observe while you were steaming. Both my bosses from work, the old job one and the new one were there and i was annoyed that they would just go right in and throw their clothes on the floor without bothering with showering. Unisex I guess, anyway it didn't seem to matter. All this was somehow a finale to a missing persons case we were working on (presumed dead, it was all very sinister and David Lynch) but the details elude me.