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Tried the last GR with Arachyr Firebats but found it hard even on T10, tried GR50 and it was impossible. The build requires you to do too many things at once for me to be able to play it. So I tried the Jade Harvester build: one practice on T10, then GR50, then GR55, finished with about half the time left... I'd avoided it because I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work, still don't quite understand it but it's super-powerful even though not fully optimised.

I won't be getting the necro straight up, I've still only played 3 of the classes to level 70, so plenty to do before spending more money. If it looks fun and is a decent price then I'll get it after a patch or two and the inevitable balance issues have been fixed. I'll probably play the wizard and/or DH in the next season.

Yeah, I reckon I can do those GR55s, I just need to learn the builds. My first attempts at Arachnyr and Jade sets failed horribly, but that was probably 100 paragons ago. Up to now I had still never read any game guides and was making up my builds myself, which is fine for mid-level play, but I've now looked some up and will have another go.

I would really like to do boss mode because it would be fun to do something that isn't just plugging away incrementally until you get to the goal. I'm picking up a new computer tonight, which should reduce my load times. I didn't spend £750 just to do this one conquest, but I might have spent it this week to do it... 

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Kas might be able to correct me, but I think it went something like this (BTW Tory = Conservative, like GOP = Republican):

* David Cameron was a fairly moderate leader of a centre-right government. Most moderates on any side of the political spectrum were in favour of remaining in the EU, including (at the time) the now-PM Theresa May.

* Cameron was under-pressure to change the relationship with the EU from the right-wing of his own party plus the even more right-wing UK Independence Party (whose sole reason for being is to leave the EU). These Euro-skeptics were given political weight by the insane right-wing press who dominate the media here and were able to whip up the unthinking masses who consume their bile (this was basically the same as the Breitbart-InfoWars-Fox-Trump effect, i.e. "foreigners and educated elites are the reason you don't have jobs"). Note it's not just the right-wing who are against the EU: Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the centre-left Labour party, was also in favour of leaving for ideological reasons related to trade unionism and class war, and he only grudgingly supported the pro-EU side because his party as a whole were on that side.

* Although he was secure enough not to need to do it, Cameron decided to appease these people by holding the referendum he was sure would be firmly in favour of the EU.

* The media fury went into overdrive, and certain pro-EU Tories (Boris Johnson, Michael Gove) campaigned for the Leave side because they thought a narrow Remain win would weaken David Cameron enough that Boris could take over as PM. Yes, these fuckwits actually used a referendum on constitutional issues and international agreements on trade, security, etc. to further their personal ambition and play internal party power games. Theresa May was pro-EU but kept her head down so she wouldn't be tainted no matter what the outcome.

* University students and other young people with the most to lose didn't turn out to vote, but old people romanticising the good old days did. Leave won. Cameron said, literally, "why should I do all the hard shit" and resigned. Johnson and Gove turned their knives on each other. Squeaky clean May was the only viable option for party leader and PM.

* The country descended into a few months of acrimonious bickering and insults between Remoaners and Brexshitters. May moved from a pro-EU position to hard Brexit (i.e. cutting all ties, soft Brexit means keeping some arrangements like tariff-free access to the single market and visa-free movement of workers but in turn having to comply with some EU laws without now having a say in making them). May also went full dictator and decided she could unilaterally decide everything to do with Brexit, but a court case went up to the Supreme Court that forced her to get the consent of parliament (a formality, but the fundamental basis of democracy). The Daily Mail newspaper, which supported Hitler in WWII and has the largest readership of any media outlet, called the judges who made that decision "Enemies of the People".

* She eventually triggered Article 50, i.e. formally told the EU that the UK wanted to begin the process of leaving, which must be concluded within 2 years. At this point the Conservative party had a large enough majority to push through whatever they wanted to do.

* Meanwhile, analysts had realised that whatever the outcome of the Brexit negotiations there would be a period of poor economic performance. The next scheduled election would fall right in the middle of these doldrums, and the ruling Conservatives would be guaranteed to get hammered. Theresa May called a snap election to push back the next scheduled election into what would hopefully be a period of recovery so the Conservatives might be able to win it. Again, a fuckwit put the national interest at risk for party political gain. This was sold as "wanting to increase her mandate", i.e. win an election in which she was the leader instead of being promoted into the role, and also increase the number of seats held by the Tories to make passing bills even easier.

* At that time the polls suggested the Tories would gain up to 100 seats, but May ran the worst possible campaign revealing herself as a charisma-less robot and Labour ran a positive campaign and their leader Corbyn found some previously unseen political leadership skills. The Green Party sacrificed themselves so as not to draw votes away from other anti-Tory parties that had a chance to win. The press continued in their revolting ways, but fortunately it seems like there has been some returning of the senses to the voters. Also young people realised they were going to get screwed over and actually made the arduous walk to the polling stations.

And so we're in this mess.

Well it was pretty much the result I was hoping for over the last week, would have preferred those Conservative gains in Scotland to either remain SNP or go to Lib Dem or Labour so that a left-wing government was more workable. I expected and was hoping that the LDs would have gained vote share and seats instead of losing more ground.

I think Brexit is still inevitable, but at least now we might stay in the single market and keep freedom of movement and not fuck the economy completely. I'm hoping for a Norway-style resolution, if the UK doesn't back down completely.

May surely can't stay on, but it will probably still be a Conservative government so Boris Johnson as PM??? Jesus Christ!

Quote from: SideSBob on May 19, 2017, 07:29:08 AM

Quote from: TheMikrobe on May 19, 2017, 07:14:03 AM

Which potions do you all use?

The Potion of Amplification (healing from all sources) is my most typical potion to use.

I always use Amplification.

I can see why there are times you might want something else. The one that gives you resource seems like it'd be useful at times.

I've never actually encountered a guide that made a recommendation about using a specific potion. Just the same as they never really say which follower is better for solo play either.

I first used used Amplification on a whirlwind barb where it's great, you never stop whirling and life per fury kicks in a lot. Some other characters I've kind of thought that often if you're healing you're also often trying to run to a safer spot so less chance of additional healing and it's better to use something you know will work. Some like the leap-quake barb I've played around with (may not be the standard build) have super-high toughness and relatively low healing so again I think Amplification might not be as good. I've looked at the one that gives you resource, but it only works if you're <50% life, so won't work if Kormac has just healed you.

Which follower (and different ways to set them up) is also a good question! My favourite is Lyndon and I have used him quite succesfully but normally Kormac's healing wins out for me.

I've only got 3 pieces of raekor, the game's been stingy on that set so far, so I'm probably going to do IK with the same whirlwind build as wastes, just replace ignore pain with the ancients. Actually I don't know the raekor builds and don't really like charge, so will only do that if I like the WD ones less!

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