You sir, are an idiot. You've unfortunately missed the whole point. It uses the same account for the forums as it does for my account, thus forum compromised == account compromised, unless I suppose, you use an authenticator - which atm I do not. Thanks for being patronising and putting the security reasons bit in quotes though. Nice touch. — kindascrewedbyblizzard5 mins ago
There is no such thing as anonymous posting on the Battle.net forums. They are not public forums. They are a deep-rooted part of the Battle.net system which requires you to have an active, paid Battle.net account in order to participate.
As for your "security reasons," the Battle.net forums cann...
It seems like whenever I will be farming and minding my own business, an enemy Furion's ult will come out of nowhere and hit me on the last bounce, taking a large chunk of my health.
When I play Furion, I know that I can cast it globally on any creap that I have vision of. Does it use this same...
Some items have the magical attribute "block chance x%".
Now, I haven't seen this attribute in any other item than in shields.
How does this work on other items? With or without shield?
I can imagine that it adds to the shield's block chance, but, what happens if I don't have a shield?
Sidenote: Every question that the dupe poster above has asked about diablo-3 has turned out to be a dupe. Should I ask him to put some effort into searching before posting a new question?
@Sterno I look at dupes that show no effort as basically, "I'm lazy. I'll just ask and don't care if it's a dupe." As an example, his above question was easily found by searching "diablo-3 block"
I understand dupes that use drastically different wording; I had a dupe question that did exactly that. But a question that uses basically the same wording shows zero research effort.
TIL the olympics start before the opening ceremony:
> The Olympic Games begin with a round of football matches on Wednesday 25 July, including Team GB's women taking on New Zealand in Cardiff, two days before the opening ceremony in Olympic Park.
@Sterno only the major ones? I have the highest score in every MMO ever made. Oh and when I watch people playing games I mimic their controller movements. Oh and consoles are just like computers right? Boxes full of games...
What are the requirements to achieve 2 or more stars on a level in Empire Defense 2? I've been looking but can't find anything. I've tried all sorts of things, but I get nothing more than 1 star as a result.
...I ask for Active Directory credentials from a client, so I can integrate Sharepoint into it for permissions.
I get a list of AD groups created for Sharepoint, with no specifications on permissions at all, and no credentials so I can actually attach Sharepoint to their Active Directory.
Tankwick (Warwick), could either start top or jungle. It seems like when he is built properly, he takes very little damage, while his Q does decent damage and heals him a bunch. Then he gets decent damage from his auto attacks as well.
Playing as a tank, he will out heal me.
Laning top he wil...
I was watching the a live stream of someone playing DayZ while he was going back to his tent and it showed a bunch of forbidden item such as the M24 Desert and AS50 TWS.
I could not see the server or his nick name since he hid it on the stream. However, I do know the location of his stash:
10...
@Ender If you need to drastically change the intent of the question to make it appropriate for the site, then you should close it. That question can be asked on it's own by someone who actually wants to know the answer.
But this leads me to another question, if a question gets closed due to not constructive, whats the policy of asking the same question reworded so it is constructive?
@BrianColvin I see your dilema, I'd open my own question, worded properly, and leave it at that. However most everyone in here is more experienced than I at the websites policies and habits so you'd be wise to get a second opinion
@fbueckert as of right now certain compositions for particular lanes seem to be most effective. IE: This formula works best, so he goes there, she goes over there, and we stay here.
@Fbueckert you dont hear of it referenced by name often. but , to keep things somewhat simple, pick a spellcasting mana heavy hero and take top lane and you will be flamed like a peice of kindling every game. almost everybody who plays knows of the meta. (i'm assuming we are discussing draft and ranked games, blind pick is a different story)
@Ender And that's one of the main things I don't like about LoL; meta knowledge is required to do anything, and there's no friendliness to help newbies learn said meta knowledge.
I feel like asking a question: "What is this meta game everyone is talking about?"
@fbueckert I really think you should now that you bring that up, considering most players have only loose knowledge of what it is by word of mouth and paying attention to others conversations. If it can be definitively answered (something i'm skeptical about) that would be very helpfull.
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What is metagame?
I have heard a lot of people tell me that your Meta Game is just as important as playing well. What exactly is the Meta game and how does one go about improving it, or even getting it to begin with?
If he fires an RPG or M203, which do not have silencers, does he show up?
What about knifing? The knife doesn't have a silencer, so does that mean knifing gives away your position?
@Ender But that sort of proves my point; every question and answer we get about league-of-legends is heavily influenced by the meta game. The assumption is that people will play according to the meta.
How the crap is someone supposed to learn the meta without getting flamed into pieces?
@Fbueckert some games are easier to learn than others, MOBAs such as LoL are famous for being difficult to learn, usually due to their highly aggressive\immature player base.
Unfortunately asking, "What is League of Legends metagame" will get closed as being too localized as this isn't a wiki, so the best way to learn is to find someone who's knowledgable and not an a** and ask
@fbueckert I learned the meta mostly by paying attention and asking my friends the questions that didnt have obvious answers. I suspect most players do the same. If you read up on patch notes, pay attention to tournies and follow the forums, you generally know most of what you need to.
@Ender You're still not really helping, though. :P A game is meant to have fun. Why would you play something that heaps that amount of abuse on you as soon as you do something "wrong"?
@fbueckert ive been playing with the same group of buddies since dota first game out on warcraft 3. thats more than ten years of moba fun, simply because its been an inside friendship team thing the whole time
@GnomeSlicE it's a ridiculously enchanting Mega Man parody called Rokko Chan. Plays Like MMX and Super Castlevania IV. By indie developer King, came out late last year.
While the other excellent posts on this topic has addressed mostly the skill issue I'll go into a little more depth about gearing for act 3-4 inferno:
The primary factors to consider for inferno is survivability. As a melee, if you can't last at least a minute against a group of white monsters,...
So one day, he tells me of this kid who was bragging he was so good at C&C 4 (this was a few years ago). So, he asked me to, and I quote, "crush his soul". So we played a 2 on 2, him with a buddy, me with a friend.
Turns out I didn't even need my friend. I steamrolled with massive amounts of zone troopers.
@GnomeSlicE I was there for several hours every Saturday evening. Dropped TONs of cash.
You haven't played multiplayer until you play it in the same room as friends.
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@Fluttershy I won't play the stuff in the bundle, so I am buying it separately + DLC - I know that I could get the other games for the same price, but I don't care for the other stuff. Weird Ashley logic is weird.
@Ender The owner of the LAN cafe talked to me the next day. "I asked you to crush his soul, not stomp all over it and piss on what's left!" It was amusing.
In case anyone was wondering, even if you have the strongest intentions to not speak in that weird baby-talk voice to your baby, eventually, it's going to happen and become your normal speaking mode.
I've been thinking to myself recently - why would you pick a champion who has no AoE abilities? What would be the point in picking a team of champions that were not able to deal significant amount of damage in an Area instead of just single targets. Surely, a team with Kennen, Amumu, graves, Wuko...
Many games (LoL, SC2, etc) have established metagame. Unfortunately, its sometimes difficult to pick up the metagame without being called a noob for the first many games you play. This often discourages people from playing games just because they don't have an understanding of how it works, and...
@badp I actually do that; when I play against someone who I know I'll win against, I try strange, oddball things just to see how they work out.
Once I filled the center of a Starcraft map with Pylons and Photon Cannons. Hit the building limit.
@BrianColvin That might be one of the reasons I don't like LoL; the meta game is seen as "insider knowledge", and it's extremely difficult to retrieve that knowledge in order to improve yourself.
If I ask "What is the metagame for League of Legends?" it will get closed, if every question asked about metagame must first establish what metagame is then we have alot of redundant information
The problem with LoL is the reciprocating cycle of abuse. "Well, I got flamed to pieces trying to learn this. Now that I know it, I'll abuse you until YOU learn it."
@murgatroid99 So what? Did we refuse answering questions about Minecraft because minecart boosters would have been broken at some point in the future, maybe?
My rule of thumb for what too localized in time means is it means "the past or the future". The present is never too localized. But that's just my rule of thumb.
@badp OK, I see your point. But should we have "What is the metagame now?" or "What is the history of the metagame?" or what? Metagames are not constant
@badp It could be that I have a limited perspective, since this article is the main one I think of when trying to understand what a metagame is: super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Metagame
Perhaps the best approach is to answer the questions about metagame for how it works currently and if it changes return to the question and fix the answer? With the prevalence of pushing new content to online games, many questions may have their answers change in which case its encouraged to go fix the answers, not close the question
Yeah, it either changes because of massive rebalancing of everything across the whole board, changes in design issues or strategy breakthroughs. None of those are so terribly common
At least that's what I think; again I don't play LoL* so I don't know the specifics and all I can do is wonder aloud pointlessly
I am confused. As far as I can tell, strategy refers to something like a particular playstyle and metagame is a description of commonly used strategies currently
more than about discussion, it's about bad subjectivity
or "How should I counter X?" "I do Y." "I do Z." "I do P." rather than "I do Y because A, B and C. It doesn't work when the enemy does T but then you can use K."
Some items have the magical attribute "block chance x%".
Now, I haven't seen this attribute in any other item than in shields.
How does this work on other items? With or without shield?
I can imagine that it adds to the shield's block chance, but, what happens if I don't have a shield?
What are the requirements to achieve 2 or more stars on a level in Empire Defense 2? I've been looking but can't find anything. I've tried all sorts of things, but I get nothing more than 1 star as a result.
Tankwick (Warwick), could either start top or jungle. It seems like when he is built properly, he takes very little damage, while his Q does decent damage and heals him a bunch. Then he gets decent damage from his auto attacks as well.
Playing as a tank, he will out heal me.
Laning top he wil...
I was watching the a live stream of someone playing DayZ while he was going back to his tent and it showed a bunch of forbidden item such as the M24 Desert and AS50 TWS.
I could not see the server or his nick name since he hid it on the stream. However, I do know the location of his stash:
10...
Possible Duplicate:
What is metagame?
I have heard a lot of people tell me that your Meta Game is just as important as playing well. What exactly is the Meta game and how does one go about improving it, or even getting it to begin with?
I was beasting on BF3 and there is this one match that I want to watch again.
While the other excellent posts on this topic has addressed mostly the skill issue I'll go into a little more depth about gearing for act 3-4 inferno:
The primary factors to consider for inferno is survivability. As a melee, if you can't last at least a minute against a group of white monsters,...
Many games (LoL, SC2, etc) have established metagame. Unfortunately, its sometimes difficult to pick up the metagame without being called a noob for the first many games you play. This often discourages people from playing games just because they don't have an understanding of how it works, and...
