I am having a blast! I took the bait and went gladiator retaliation and it is extremely powerful. Haven't bought a single piece of equipment yet and can blast through yellow maps. I am using two retaliation skills in parallel and that makes for a fun combo play style.

I like all the league stuff, the encounters have a cool feel to them and especially the beyond themed camps with their buff afterwards are fun. I also really enjoyed the small changes they made to the campaign although I'm sure I missed quite a few.

Looks like a massive patch, I am looking forward to it! Might even try melee with the increased damage and block chances, new flesh and stone, and changes to endurance charges.

On the other hand, warden ascendancy + the taming could give 1000% increased damage or 2000% with two of 'em. Hm. Wonder if that is going to stay like that.

A femtosecond is 10^-15 seconds. Tera Hertz frequency is equivalent to a period length of 10^-12 second, a pikosecond.

So with 156 tera Hertz a frame is around 6.4 femtoseconds.

Planck time is around 10^-43, so still some way to go until we reach the clock speed of our universe :)

Hope I did that right!

Und ich glaube deine pragmatische, moralisch-wohl-nicht-argumentierbare Position ist schon weitaus moralischer als es bei einem Großteil unserer Gesellschaft ist. Und ich erkenne mich auch bei dieser Beschreibung wieder.

Ich wünsche mir, dass so eine Abwägung eben doch bei jedem passiert und dadurch wären wir auch mem ganzen Schritt weiter. Und ich räume auch ein, dass die ganze Konsumlandschaft ja darauf ausgerichtet ist, das solche Überlegungen im Keim erstickt werden.

Danke für die ausführliche und ehrliche Antwort.

Ja da haben wir einfach eine andere Auffassung davon , was man von den Leuten™ erwarten kann und was möglich ist.

Das mit den 300.000 finde ich etwas sinnlos, aber ich stimme voll zu, dass Konzerne einen übermäßigen Einfluss auf die Politik ausüben, der nicht im System abgebildet.

Da Du dich mit der Thematik ja offensichtlich auseinander gesetzt hast, habe ich noch eine Frage:

Boykottierst Du denn Konzerne mit deren Praktiken nicht einverstanden bist? Oder lässt du es bleiben weil Du es als aussichtslos empfindest?

Ich persönlich versuche nichts zu kaufen, was mit meiner Moral nicht vereinbar ist. Alleine um meiner selbst willen.

Das sind alles valide Punkte. Aber letztendlich kommt das Geld vom Konsumenten und die traurige Wahrheit ist, das es die meisten einfach nicht interessiert, welchen Schaden sie durch ihren Konsum anrichten. Nestlé ist natürlich schon ein ziemliches Paradebeispiel an Bösartigkeit. Aber das ist ja auch nicht mehr wirklich ein großes Geheimnis und dennoch kaufen die Leute weiter Nescafé in Kapseln. Konzerne wie Endkonsumenten können sich ihrer Verantwortung nicht entziehen.

I'm in the same boat. For sentinel/ kalandra I actually would have preferred that the characters are voided but at the same time they really tune up the rewards. Just being showered in recombinators and mirror tiles would make for a fun mini league. Sadly GGG never goes to crazy on the reward side of things.

Minion instability will let it pop, but you will still need to manually resummon and reactivate the aura. Animate Guardian could work, the wiki states that there is some possibility with masked of the stitched demon. Maybe I'll look into that. I hope they patch it so that the minion can be summoned with the aura being active.

I read that as "I went on vacation for playing at league launch" :). I think the setting is pretty cool, it doesn't take itself too seriously and it's fun upgrading ones team even though I'm pretty clueless about it. Gameplay wise I can't really tell. Matches seem either way to easy or impossible to win. But I guess I just haven't figured it out yet.

When tried Generals cry with volcanic fissure it was also terrible in sanctums. The delay from the skill and the attack just caused it to miss targets all the time. Although I guess it was especially bad with volcanic fissure as the travel time of the fissure is added on top of the summoning time of the mirage warriors.

Controlled blaze actually looks pretty amazing, may have to play melee ignite after all. All in all the numbers of the new gems don't look to bad.

Not really, it's most likely a bad idea. I'm thinking converting most of the damage taken to elemental and cap out max resistances. I also contemplating doing full damage conversion to fire, since that stun as if doing 50% more melee damage node looks nice. In any case, it should turn out pretty tanky at least.

I am flirting with Boneshatter Chieftain, because what could possibly go wrong?

I would've hoped for some buffs to existing skills but oh well. Let's see how the new support gems are, I hope they have some use. League seems pretty cool and I really liked sanctum, curious to see how the new iteration feels like. Atlas keystones also look quite nice. All in all I am looking forward to dive in again in a week.

Hm! So do I understand this correctly? My supported minions provide the linked aura? Some major D2 vibes coming in. Very cool, hope it doesn't exclude triggers as it seems very convenient with cwdt. So far my favorite new support gem.

Maybe! Depends on the build I guess, but I am usually hard pressed for gem slots. As glau mentioned, maybe if you have some secondary skill like Frenzy going on it could be a nice augmentation. I am always happy to be surprised about the potential of things that I dismissed as irrelevant.

Seems a bit redundant since there quite a few recovery on kill mechanics in the game which don't require a gem slot?

I league start with my builds, I try to come up with something that can fund itself. For the most part it's fine, sometimes they are really nice even. Sometimes... Not so much. In sanctum I tried a Generals cry volcanic fissure berseker and that was not a fun time. I do the usual planning in pob and make sure the numbers look alright, but with new skills you just don't know how it is going to play like. I do love running this experiment though and it keeps the game fresh for me.

Usually I try to create a low budget build to do all the "standard" content: atlas completion, beating the league mechanic, all bosses, anything but Ubers really, as my janky builds normally aren't good enough for those. I guess that is what I'll do this time as well :)

Maybe I'll try the new chieftain, though I am not sure he is going to that powerful. Hopefully new gems and balance changes will create new build possibilities!