| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 06:50 pm in Screenshots from GuildWars 2 Beta
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 Giant Red KoopaThe HTML Wizard  Karma: 100 Posts: 64/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Never played a guild wars game. I'm in the middle of a second Witcher 2 playthrough. I'm trying to make my way through most of the games I've bought during sales before I start buying more.
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 07:35 pm in Screenshots from GuildWars 2 Beta
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 65/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by binaryatrocity I just can't justify getting into a MMO lol. @fallenelf86 how is Witcher? I've never played either of them but hear awesome things, I'll have to keep my eye out for a SteamSale. The first one is fun, with a great story, but kind of meh game play. The combat is pretty weak as well. The second game, imo, is probably one of the greatest games I've ever played. Completely revamped the combat system, you have magic, light attack, strong attacks, bombs, side weapons, etc that you can use pretty quickly and makes Geralt fight exactly how you want to. You can't fill your entire skill tree so you need to pick a path fairly early on. The story is fantastic, pretty dark, and the choices actually have a large impact on game play. Some decisions will close off entire "worlds." The Enhanced Edition is fantastic as well adding lots of new content and a fixing a bunch of bugs. Highly recommend!! |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 07:40 pm in Carry Tiny
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 66/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Title says it all. I've been wondering why we don't see a semi-carry Tiny played more often. I've only seen one pro game (I think it was Na'vi) who went complete carry Tiny with an Agh's Scepter, Treads, AC, etc. He ended up having well over 3K HP and was hitting for about 350-400 damage per hit. I was playing a game last night where I went Agh's and it was pretty much over. Tanking towers is ridiculously easy. Just wondering why we don't see this very often, especially since Strength carries get the benefit of strength items giving health and damage. A little agility boost for attack speed makes this a viable build unless I'm totally missing something?
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 07:42 pm in Screenshots from GuildWars 2 Beta
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 67/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by binaryatrocity Posted by fallenelf86 Posted by binaryatrocity I just can't justify getting into a MMO lol. @fallenelf86 how is Witcher? I've never played either of them but hear awesome things, I'll have to keep my eye out for a SteamSale. The first one is fun, with a great story, but kind of meh game play. The combat is pretty weak as well. The second game, imo, is probably one of the greatest games I've ever played. Completely revamped the combat system, you have magic, light attack, strong attacks, bombs, side weapons, etc that you can use pretty quickly and makes Geralt fight exactly how you want to. You can't fill your entire skill tree so you need to pick a path fairly early on. The story is fantastic, pretty dark, and the choices actually have a large impact on game play. Some decisions will close off entire "worlds." The Enhanced Edition is fantastic as well adding lots of new content and a fixing a bunch of bugs. Highly recommend!! Thanks for the in-depth explanation, I think you sold me. I've seen many a poor soul spending hours on this game (*cough* Edit: Don't mean to hi-jack the thread. GUILD WARS 2 w00t! Hi-jack complete. Yeah, wholly single player, but you'll need to play it through 4 or 5 times to see everything and try out the different builds (there are 4 or 5). The added a new difficulty as well with new items and weapons specific to it. Gotta support CD Projekt Red too, super awesome company. |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 08:46 pm in Carry Tiny
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 68/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by Love is Dead I'd argue that late game he can be shut down easily by heroes of similar level. He has two abilities with a finite amount of damage, and his right-click is really slow. He can only cast avalanche+toss once per fight and I'm not sure but I don't think it goes through Black King Bar. He can be used as a tank, but he can't hard carry like anti-mage or faceless since his right-click is too slow. He's most useful as a ganker with an advantage in levels. Although perhaps a mask of madness would solve the right-click problem, giving you fast attack speed + cleave with aghanims scepter. I played this build the other night and threw a mask of madness on Tiny. I was able to get both sets of racks before it cooled off. I definitely understand how he can be nuked down in the late game, but wouldn't having a heart, AC, ags, MoM, treads help his survivability? |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-01-12, 09:21 pm in Carry Tiny
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 69/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Ah, all really good points. I was being a bit short sighted and not really thinking of team comp.
I guess it's a good idea to go scepter and AC if you need strong push in the midgame or a way to get racks pretty quickly. Getting a scepter and MoM up quickly isn't that hard either, esp if you have middle lane. |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-02-12, 05:53 pm in New HUD/Item Icons
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 70/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by PerfectAverage I posted on the Dota dev forums furiously after this update. All in all - I love it. However I do have some gripes, comments: * Lion: LOVE him. The old Lion did not match what I envisioned for his Lore. An overgrown Smurf with a creepy grin just wasn't nearly as threatening looking as he should have been. THIS Lion rocks balls. * The Shop icons for the most part look good except for Urn of Shadows - which should be zoomed out a bit on the artwork. I have no idea what in the hell the new Satanic is supposed to be. Elven boots look like bracers. It's dumb. * The HUD is too crammed in the lower right corner. They need to move K/D/A and LH/D back to the top-right corner. I hate having to look and squint down to find this information when I SHOULD be able to just glance quickly. * Thank GOD for the new courier status on the HUD. Now there should be no excuse for stealing courier.... yet people still do it. At least now it gives me an excuse to yell at people.  I totally agree on most of these points. The Satanic too a while to grow on me. After staring at it for a while, I realizing it's supposed to be a living scythe with teeth on the outside to steal health. Still, too much going on in too little a space. The glyph, while larger and easier to see how much time is left until you can use again, is also a pain. Too many people don't hot key the courier and accidentally click it. Hot keys people, use them! |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-02-12, 05:55 pm in Words that irritate you.
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 71/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Sometimes speaking with my younger sister (4 years younger) is painful. When she's with a group of her friends, my ears tend to bleed quite profusely. The hellas, likes, omg and other IM speak that for some reason they use in proper conversation is astounding. When any of my friends say lol or omg out loud, I lose it.
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-02-12, 06:11 pm in Hello and good day my sirs/ladies
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 72/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Playing with you the other night was super fun Fuzzy!
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-02-12, 09:03 pm in Last Hit Contest Sign Up Thread
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 73/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Are there any other details surrounding the contest (i.e. using certain heroes, what time, posting anywhere else)? Happy to help out any way I can.
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-03-12, 11:51 pm in Helloooo
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 78/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Hey man, great to have you here! Jump on Mumble for some games tonight!
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-04-12, 07:41 pm in Last Hit Contest Sign Up Thread
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 79/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
So is this actually happening?
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-05-12, 01:43 am in If I were a father:
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 80/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
*When I am a father.
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-08-12, 10:59 pm in Hey-o
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 81/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
When Uno plays supports we win games!
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-11-12, 01:44 am in New, thought I'd say Hi!
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 82/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Come jump on mumble! Someone is almost always on!
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-15-12, 03:50 pm in Diablo 3? Who's down?
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 83/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Is it everything you've been hoping for?
I'm going to pick it up eventually. |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-15-12, 09:59 pm in Diablo 3? Who's down?
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 84/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
I remember D2 being pretty long, especially with the LoD expansion. I remember leveling every character to the max at some point or another. Hopefully D3 is just as long.
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-16-12, 02:12 pm in Diablo 3? Who's down?
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 85/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by djlenny_3000 I had no problem connecting and experienced no lag. they guys who were in my group needed to reset occasionally to fix their lag problems. I guess I'm lucky Troll Level= 1,000% 
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| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-16-12, 09:09 pm in Counter-picking notes (rev. 1)
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 87/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
Posted by PerfectAverage Ursa < ShadowShaman / BeastMaster / Lion These are all heroes with long stuns (with relatively short cooldowns) and it is really the key to shutting Ursa down: You want to reset his Fury Swipes, and interrupt his Overpower the moment it is activated. The idea is that the moment the CC is activated from one of these heroes - the rest of the team focuses this bear down. Additionally, BeastMaster's stun goes through BKB. He can use his summoned hawk to scout Rosh (which should be done every time the spell is up) which can be critical to shutting down Ursa: Preventing him from getting Aegis. Tidehunter, and Engima are also worthwhile picks - however their CC options are on such long cooldowns that they should not be considered good counter-picks. Shadow Shaman is a great counter to a lot of carries as well. His hex and shackle coupled with a Eul's (core for me) makes him the ultimate chain stunner. Hexing, then shackling, then eul's, rinse, repeat until someone has killed the target. It just ward trap him and do it yourself. Edit: I also think a BKB is core if you're using him to target a specific carry. |
| fallenelf86 |
Posted on 05-18-12, 02:37 pm in Happy Friday! Pubstomping anyone?
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Giant Red Koopa The HTML Wizard Karma: 100 Posts: 89/1317 Since: 03-03-12 Last post: 3571 days Last view: 2724 days |
I should be able to squeeze in a game after work (around 6:00 EST) before having to meet up with a few friends.
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