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Grateful for the Twitch R buff

@Thewazooh @ScripeWoW @PreachGaming @FF_XIV_EN Does it still have 2s gcd, positionals and static rotation

@ScripeWoW @PreachGaming @FF_XIV_EN Tldr huge changes to gearing, more midcore content ( third difficulty for savage etc ) and the combat totally reworked and way more job identity. Expectations not only met but exceeded.

This is WILD @FF_XIV_EN just not only shook the MMO boat, they shot at a cannon at it. It's hard to even process also, what is Evangelion?

@Omen_Bear Now make him do the 67 hands

Waow he has a head now. Ts is gonna take a while :sob:

@AkiShihoWhen @smalluglycat @v2TokyoGhost Erm that's an appeal to authority☝️🤓

@smalluglycat @v2TokyoGhost First of all, if you watch the whole series T1 should’ve 3-0’d but greed a Baron in G2. Secondly, LOL Esports themselves think T1 choked

LMFAOOOOOO new generational gif just dropped holy fuck this is definitely going triple platinum

@WarcraftLogs It still has all the privacy concerns no?

A version of the Archon App that only processes and uploads logs is now available. archon.gg/download

@MaizenaPower @Wowhead What do you think that is gonna achieve, you can't do anything with the damage meter

@Wowhead Bring Recount addon back, please!

As we continue evaluating the impact of addon changes in Midnight, it's become very clear that Blizzard's built-in Damage Meter leaves a lot to be desired. #Midnight #Warcraft wowhead.com/news/the-in-ga…

@GrahaTia6 @SBGComix @Wowhead It has everything to do with wow. All that details can do is skin the blizzard damage meter. And the blizz damage meter is ass

@SBGComix @Wowhead Them don't use them? That has to do with the addon developer, not wow.

@4HeadLOOOOL @jdotb They could have won this race and last with the slightest bit of rng. Ansurek it was very clear that Liquid played leagues better than any other guild. Then Echo obv had their fumble on Mug'Zee. But arguing that they're on a big decline after the last 2 races makes no sense to me

@jdotb Weird their last win was sneak.lua fyrrak, and before that was raszageth and blizzard tuning timings. Maybe their decline was even longer than the 4.

unenviable spot for echo. the last couple tiers have been a literal coin flip where they just got unlucky, but 4 losses in a row will be hard to stomach. have to start examining all parts of the guild, have some tough conversations

@mykill6669 @LiquidGuild sneak.lua

gn cya soon gamers

@von_wordup Feel like it'd make sense to buff lava lash itself no

I appreciate getting buffed (even though the ST is still gonna be beans especially in keys); but I have to question buffing the AoE spender significantly more than the ST one when Enhancement is struggling in the latter FAR more than the former

@Xppottt @Erradicgaming That is just the target frame. Don't know what addon, but you could make it look like that with UUF or some other addon

@Erradicgaming How did you get your boss nameplate at the top like that? I neeeeed

It’s a common misconception that Commander Kroluk’s Bladestorm damages his adds and that you should kite him through them. It doesn’t. You should generally kite him away from the adds to avoid unnecessary damage. That said, the fight would be a lot cooler if it did.

@RiotPhroxzon Do away with the visual ranks and go back to elo + hard reset the entire ladder (every single account) with league next in 2027

Apex Ranked Followup Thank you for all your feedback about the changes last week. I wanted to give some explanations on what we're seeing and why it is how it is right now; I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind, but I hope being transparent will lead to more constructive conversations with everyone Feedback we heard 1. The ladder has less meaningful breakpoints to strive for, now that the LP gaps between Master, Grandmaster, Challenger and Rank1 are really wide in a few regions (NA, EUW, EUN mainly). The gaps between tiers can feel exhaustingly large with low feedback and satisfaction on the journey from say low masters to high masters 2. It also makes comparison to previous season benchmarks lose meaning (1k LP, 2k LP, etc.) 3. Many are calling for an Apex Ranked reset; I'd love to know more about exactly what you mean by this (more below) 4. The ladder already felt grindy, like you had to play a lot of games to get to the next tier, and now it feels even more so 5. The top players getting +30/-10 even if their MMR is high feels unfair if a new or lower account can't do that; there are feelings of “how can I catch that” 6. Depending on which patch someone played, with the same winrates, their LP outcomes can be quite different, which is frustrating On who is getting +30/-10 and who is +/-20 - There have been a lot of discussions around who is getting good gains and who is not - We agree it feels unfair right now for the top of the ladder to be getting +30 while others are getting +20; I just wanted to explain why this is - This is because the weeks many players spent eating +10/-30 from the soft cap is being repaid; essentially for every game that a player played a +10/-30LP game, they will get paid back with +30/-10LP ones and this will grow the top of the ladder (similar to how the max LP on the ladder grows early in the season) - Once the ladder stabilizes, 95+% of the ladder (including the top of the ladder and including masters entrants at the bottom) is intended to get +/-20 - This means the only way to climb the ladder is to have a >50% winrate - If you have a 50% winrate over a long period, then you’re probably in the right skill level and are not in a climbing state - I also want to state this very clearly as a response to folks saying they should roll a fresh account to fight the Challenger LP gains. There is no advantage to running a fresh account up the ladder to try and hit an Apex rank, it will always be better to start with a pre-existing Apex account - I know it didn’t work like this in Seasons past, but it does now (and has for the past season or two) and this is to further disincentivize smurfing, something many players on the ladder had mentioned as a pain point - The only way to climb from this state is to improve skill level - I can guarantee that a Challenger player will be able to climb just fine with +/-20 given enough games, because they will have a very high winrate through Master and Grandmaster, but this leads me to my next point On ladder grindiness - We hear your concerns on needing to play too many games to climb up the ladder - It is true that older accounts that played their accounts up to challenger will be advantaged in Season reset races with the way we currently do soft rank resets - We do this because we want to make camping spots less effective of a strategy, dissuade smurfing, and encourage people to play on their main accounts - If the legacy accounts are not advantaged, there is no blocker to just running many fresh accounts through the Ranked ladder to hit Challenger; I think most players would agree that would be a worse experience - Secondly, as soon as Challenger players run into negative LP gains, many will stop playing on their Challenger accounts and move to smurfing, which is bad for match quality and queue times as well - We believe the high LP values are a better alternative to negative LP gains, but they are both not ideal - Additionally, we have daily game requirements and cap the max LP gains at 30 so that players don't camp on their spots without playing so that others have more opportunities to overtake them - In a world where a new Masters account has a 75% winrate through the Apex ladder (ie. is probably a top 10 player), that is 300 games to get to 3000LP from 0LP - If you are starting from a legacy account, it will be significantly less games than this - We don't believe it should be possible to be able to get to Rank 1 from a fresh account in less than 2-300 games. That makes smurfing, running up multiple accounts and maintaining them too attractive of an option - For one of the premier competitive games, we don't believe it is too much to ask for a player to play 1-2 games a day (between 3-700 games a year for the highest skill players in the game). Genre expectations to reach the top in many other games (including other MOBA’s) can be orders of magnitude higher than this and often require full time grinding - On the flip side, we acknowledge that there's a sweet spot on how much a player needs to play to not perceive it as too grindy, many people have to study, have jobs, etc and so it needs to be achievable for them too - We want to balance all these considerations; reducing incentives to smurf, how grindy it feels to achieve/maintain a rank and how legacy accounts are treated On why the LP is so high - I saw a comment asking whether the gap between Iron and Master (2800LP) is really equivalent to the gap between Master and Rank1 Challenger (2, 3, 4000LP) - In some regions, the answer to that is yes, in others, it's not quite as large, but still close - Players have gotten significantly better each year, especially with how often the top players are boot camping, taking a shot at Pro and learning from it, and pushing each other to get better - This is one of the reasons why the LP gaps between tiers are so high and the existence of the soft caps in previous years ended up suppressing the observed top LP's by some amount, so the gap looked lower than it actually was - Factually, there is a huge gap in skill between Master and Grandmaster and again from Grandmaster to Challenger so amount of points between them has to be reasonably large - This is a very common pattern in long running games, for example in Chess, Magnus Carlsen vs any random Grandmaster has close to a 90% chance to win - As League goes on, the gap between Rank1 (say Showmaker) and Master 0 LP is going to continue to widen; there are so many things you can do to influence the team in small but meaningful ways that aren’t super noticeable individually but have a huge impact over the course of a game, like pinging, shotcalling, soaking pressure, getting vision, etc. - But there's a fine balance here, we can agree that progression between tiers can feel daunting in the current tuning and there is a lacking sense of progression. This is why we’re considering adding additional tiers to break this up and create more “checkpoints” On Matchmaking Quality - There are some expectations of being able to have full challenger lobbies, all duos balanced, all role parity (on-role vs off-role), low queue times, all equal LP, remove autofill at all times of day - I want to set an expectation that this is not possible with only 300 Challengers and 700 Grandmasters in many regions - Players need to be autofilled, especially at the top of the ladder for us to make queue times reasonable, but we can at least try to make those autofills balanced in role - If a game is unbalanced in one of the axes above, we try to balance it out in another axis, but we are sometimes going to have to grab some Masters players to fill Challengers lobbies (hopefully not during peak time) - Especially with the new role parity algorithm, we believe we are making very fair games (close to 50% chance to win) in >90% of situations, with close LP between teams, duo balance, role parity - We believe the new algorithm is already significantly better than the old one, even though there may be some rose tinted glasses about how much better Matchmaking was before, which we don't agree with. We are still improving it Why do Challengers get +30LP, even when there are 200 LP masters in the game - LP gains are given based on how fair the match is and mentioned above, over 90% of matches have 50% chance to win - The reason why the Challengers are getting +30 for these games is because of the repayment of debt in the points above; this will resolve itself soon and the players will quickly go back to +-20 - If the match itself is 50% chance for either team to win, then the performance of the various people in the game is already baked into the LP gains (ie. the 200 LP master is expected to play worse, the Challenger is expected to play better) - There will usually be something offsetting this LP imbalance (whether it’s an extra duo on one team, someone playing secondary instead of autofill, etc.) - As I mentioned above, we believe >90% of our games are fair; it can be hard to guarantee fairness in off-peak and/or in small regions Other things we're thinking about (nothing confirmed) - [Agree] Many players are calling for better feelings of progression and progress in these tiers - [Agree] Reductions of grindiness (eg. more decay game banks, increasing max LP gain past +30LP, lowering distance between tiers, adding new tiers) - [Agree] Better reasons to maintain and play on Challenger accounts, rather than Smurf - [Uncertain] Adding more Grandmaster/Challenger slots to regions that have high numbers of players (which would bring the points between tiers down) - [Uncertain] Reducing how much advantage players get on their legacy accounts from start of Season (eg. capping at +25LP at max, instead of +30LP), but this will also further incentivize smurfing and increase feelings of grindiness - [Agree] Lower the amount of resetting at start of Seasons (eg. maybe start the Season at Master 0LP) More on Apex resets - To get a better understanding of what y'all mean by ladder reset, some possibilities are detailed below, - Not committing to any particular action or if we would even do any of these, but we want to better understand your intent when some of you ask for a reset. We definitely are far out from talking about a “when” at this point - If we went forward with any of these we would only reset a few regions as the vast majority of regions have had a normal season - We will be doing some research in the affected regions to help inform a call one way or the other - We would only consider a reset if we are confident it would result in an improved overall experience Option 1: Hard Reset - Early matchmaking will be a cluster****. There would be no memory of previous season ranks in Matchmaking - This means you could have 5 exChallenger vs 5 Master peakers, and that would be considered a fair game in the system - Even if a player is Challenger, they might have a team of Masters and be unable to carry hard enough vs a pretty stacked team on the other side, making the climbing process feel very RNG - This matchmaking quality would go on for months as the ladder sorts itself out, which would contribute to a negative experience for a good amount of players - Early season this year was a bit of a taste of this as we did a bit of a harder reset, and matchmaking quality would be significantly worse than that. This would be the most extreme option - We still don't believe this is a good idea, but if y'all are still wanting to push for it given this context, then the team can continue to discuss it Option 2: Softer Resets - Soft Reset would keep some semblance of normalcy in matchmaking, but the best players will be rewarded for being high on the ladder with better position on the starting blocks so to speak. Previous challengers would get increased gains (+30/-10) well into their climbs - The softest option would be everyone keeping their relative positions in the ladder but would need to maintain their current winrate to prove they belong there and reach their previous LP value

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@sweggles1 Is not normally what

this sheilun's gift button is not normally

@TravelDolce @buckwindow Fucking clanker blow up

@buckwindow Honestly I get why people roll their eyes at filler like that. The Mecha Naruto episode right in the middle of such a serious arc felt so random! Online everyone still jokes about how it completely killed the momentum of the story.

Mind you this is Naruto filler

@aka_tpayne @luxthos Yes

@aescendance @luxthos Does it allow scaling windows too?

I just learned about something I needed 10 years ago. The AddOn NoAutoClose prevents windows from auto closing. If you combine this with BlizzMove (allowing you to move any window anywhere) you get a pretty good experience, especially with Professions and Auction House!

@Sheep_Esports x.com/i/status/19328…

Legendary jungler Diamondprox 🇷🇺 is set to join Bushido Wildcats 🇹🇷, currently participating in the EMEA Masters 🇪🇺, as announced by the player on his Telegram He will replace Elramir 🇹🇷 in the competition following a family medical emergency Details⬇️ sheepesports.com/en/all/article…

@Pyker_1 wow season starting in 1 week, level up and zone into raid with the boys

life is so boring without league I stopped playing 10 hours a day and now my days feel so empty what do people even do with their life

@xeigul @RiotPhroxzon Coworker humor

@RiotPhroxzon As someone who was in on the joke, that was pretty funny. I understand how some people got jumpscared though, haha.

Sorry, the Xerath change was a joke... about Phreak saying he was Xerath in a patch rundown😢 Please don't take it seriously 😭

@RaiderIO_WoW You gotta put EQoL on here

We hope you’re enjoying your Midnight experience so far! We’ve seen a lot of changes in the addon scene lately, and we’re here to help. We’ve compiled our list of must-have addons for Midnight Season 1: 📝 rio.gg/MIDNIGHTAddons PS: We've added a new Housing section! 👀

@DumbsYT @xxxpizzalover69 If it doesn't work, then your CPU has probably fried itself, google intel suicide chip

@xxxpizzalover69 it is 14 gen indeed I guess I can try the 53x haven't tried that

BRO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY PC I bought a 5090 and a new PSU, computer crashed a lot, mostly blue screens, crashed multiple times in a day Took 5090 away, kept crashing, not as much but still like once a day and no blue screen crashes TOOK EVERYTHING OUT, PUT EVERYTHING OLD BACK IN AND IT STILL CRASHES???? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HELPPPPPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE