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Can we get some close votes on this,a nd then have it deleted?

Grace Note

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Q: Does anyone other than PopCap sell Alchemy?

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I know that PopCap sells some of their games through third parties, such as Steam, for example. Does any such third party sell Alchemy?

alchemy

and then I forgot to post the question.

Hey guys. Quick question, is asking a question for a game in a closed beta alright? Not entirely sure.

game doesn't have an NDA or anything

@Klokworkk There's kind of conflicting opinions about that.

9:03 PM

Oh oops. My bad.

Some people feel that as long as other people are in the beta who can answer definitively, it's okay, some people feel it's unfair to those who aren't able to play the game yet.

@FAE It is the Smite beta from hi-rez, currently a $20 buy-in. Should be open beta soonish

@Wipqozn Already have VTC'd

Just flagged to merge alchemy and skyrim, but meant to say enchantment, since alchemy still exists on that one question I posted about

Added a VTC

9:05 PM

I guess I'll just post the question. I can always delete if enough people aren't okay with it? =X

Go me, I listed a high DPS weapon on the auction house and forgot to set a good minimum bid

@Rapida you had 5 minutes to cancel it :P

He was busy eating

true story

@Krazer True, but I didn't think about it at 4:00 am last night when I listed it

@Rapida what weapon is it? I'll help you jack up the price xD

9:10 PM

@Krazer he on phone

give em 1 sec lol

Loyalty Ruin (698.3 DMG, 142 STR, 158-340 Poison Damage). Currently rocking a 52K bid

what's you ideal min bid then? I'll see if I have enough gold :p

A: Can you have children in Skyrim?

The nice thing about untagged is it's questions are normally well written.

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no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

@Krazer Ideally somewhere around 300-500K.

@Rapida What are the specs on the weapon?

9:15 PM

Rare Spear 1-handed btw. Wouldn't want to jack up the wrong auction. Loyalty Ruin (698.3 DMG, 142 STR, 158-340 Poison Damage).

@Rapida I'd be surprised to see it get that high

Yeah that won't sell for 300k.

xD I can probably do 100k at best, I spent all my gold on bling

Most 700dps are at 500k starting bid

It's a decent Barb weapon but the DPS is not high enough.

9:15 PM

So went 200k under that

I got a 750 dps weapon for 30k this morning.

That was a steal from someone who didn't know what he was doing, probably, but still.

Yeah, market still all kind of flummoxing. I got a 800k one for like 250, but it was blue

@Rapida You on Americas or some other region? I haven't seen weapons like that go for 500k on Americas

I can't even find a Monk weapon I want at all, irrespective of price.

@Sterno Yeah US, and just searched the AH and that was going price

9:16 PM

Huh.

I have an 800k budget to buy a weapon for my Monk and I can't even find anything.

Lowest I see is like 200629 for a 695 dps

I'm going to be pretty picky about it, though, because I'm managing to solo Act 1 Inferno with what I have so far.

I see a 200k 771.6 right now

Blue or yellow?

9:17 PM

I'm really starting to wonder if people in the same region see totally different results

I do have mine narrowed to yellows

blue

That's probably why, I think blues go for less

yellows price higher but I'm not convinced anyone actually buys them

Agreed

@Krazer If you bump it send me a FR and I'll refund you whatever

9:18 PM

Unless they're awesome yellows with Life On Hit and whatnot

@Krazer But I won't be heart broken if someone gets a good deal

@Sterno I really need some life on hit, I still can't handle act 2 inferno as a barb

but if I get can a 700 DPS with 150 STR or a 800 DPS with nothing for half the price, I'll take the 800 DPS

@Rapida Same problem

@FAE so uh do I need to wait til tomorrow to play Swords and Sworcery again or something?

@Rapida I'm at 9k armor, ~900 resists, 44k health, and I still get creamed. My DPS is only like 11k though and I have no life on hit

@Sterno A barb I take it?

9:19 PM

@Rapida yeah

I mean, white mobs are fine, but elite packs destroy me

well, and sometimes whites if I'm unlucky, like belial's minions during the finale fight

@Sterno I'm at ~500 resists, 30k, 7k armor, and 20k dps

@badp its gameplay is tied to real time kinda, yeah

@Rapida I'll see if I have enough left, I haven't been farming enough~

@Krazer Don't worry about it, be a good learning experience for me and minimum prices

And posting auctions at 4am

@Rapida I saw a guy with 30k DPS and about the same resists/armor/stats as you who rocked it out. So I'm wondering if I've got too much defense and not enough offense

9:20 PM

@FAE I wonder if today was the correct lunar phase to start under or whatnot then!

oh well

of course, he also had 1k life on hit

That's the major thing I think

What skills are you using?

A: Building Barbarian in Inferno

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Strength/Vitality gear, though it got you through Normal, Nightmare, and probably even Hell just fine, won't cut it anymore. You're going to need armor and resistances. And a defense-oriented spec. The advice below is geared towards Act 1. I've managed to slog my way through Act 2, but haven't go...

You should post your build there. Someone put a bounty up looking for more options

Assuming yours is different

I guess it's changed a little... I wrote that in Act 1

but it's pretty close to that other than I keep trying different passives

@Sterno us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WSVRkP!UVe!accZcZ That's my build

@Rapida Pretty close. I've been eyeing relentless but waiting until I have a bigger health pool

9:23 PM

Relentless is really strong, keeps me alive while revenge procs

I might swap out Wrath of the Berserker... it's just not helping in act 2 like it did in act 1, with my crappy DPS

The whole no fury cost aspect is wasted, but I don't mind that for the survival

I'll probably keep wrath, I really like the damage increase. I'm not sure if I'm keeping the insanity rune though

I've been eyeing charge w/ dreadnought or overpower w/ revel instead

charge work out pretty well, I take it?

Yeah, it breaks jail so you can get off desecration

ooh, nice

You should definitely write up your build on that question

9:25 PM

You can also time the charge to not be frozen, apparently you can't be CC'ed during movement

I've managed that with leap once or twice

I was using leap for a lone time and ground stomp

I sorta miss ground stomp, but at this point the yell is mandatory

Yeah

@Rapida :( mandatory

I know I should look at something besides Leap but I just love taking shortcuts way too much

9:26 PM

Although on my Monk both Serenity and Breath of Heaven are pretty much mandatory.

Well, revenge is also mandatory for me. If I had tons of life on hit I might be ok

How do you have 500 resists?

Yeah. Unless you've got crazy gear, Revenge and Warcry are mandatory. As well as at least one armor passive

What kind of resist all numbers do you have on your gear?

With my Monk stacking +resistall +coldresist and one with everything I don't even have resists that high.

@StrixVaria I won't even buy it unless it's at least +50

9:27 PM

@Sterno What's the high end you've seen?

I'm at about 600 from gear, +50% from War Cry

444 is my lowest resist

with 568 being highest

@StrixVaria I know I've seen 70s

Q: What do the Neutral Jungle Creep Buffs do in SMITE?

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Smite beta just opened up this week and I've already managed to get a few games in. Along the mini-map I noticed several icons that are for neutral creep camps with buffs and I was wondering what each buffs did for the player or team.

smite

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Q: I keep having to unlock the same things over and over again for battlefield3

i was playing battlefield3 and my friend said that he lost his progress and some unlocks when i left the game(he didn't leave early) i laughed at him because at the TIME it wasn't happening to me.NOW i am really close to leveling up to level 24,but every time i leave at the end of the match im ba...

multiplayer battlefield-3 leveling glitch online

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Q: Desura pre-installed game activation wrong harrdive?

So, I've been attempting to activate pre-installed games on Desura. Which is possible in the application. But there's a problem. Apparently it doesn't register the games you have installed on your other Harddrives. I.E. Games on my D drive isn't being registered. Except only games installed on...

pc mods amnesia-dark-descent desura

I think almost every piece of my gear has like +40~ resist all

9:28 PM

The highest I actually own is 62

@Rapida are you saying you're 500 buffed, or unbuffed?

@Rapida What percentage of your gear would you say you've found yourself vs. purchased?

@Sterno That's buffed. my resist aren't nearly as high as yours

Same question for you @Sterno

@StrixVaria 3 pieces. 5 if you count stuff other people on the run with me got

And I'd say they're my weakest pieces

@StrixVaria The majority is from co-oping the game with 3 people. I think I'm wearing 3, maybe 4, pieces bought from the AH

9:30 PM

I'm about to start doing Act 1 Inferno runs and I'm trying to figure out how worthwhile that will be.

I hit a wall last time I tried in the spider cave place, so the plan right now is to start the act fresh and get as far as I can each time, hopefully gearing up enough each time to get a little bit further.

I suspect non-barbs will have an easier time of gearing up in act 1 so long as they have decent DPS

My run for act 1 is: wp to the cemetary and check for a rare. wp to festering wood and clear the hill event and each temple. Usually this nets me 5 stacks. WP to the northern highlands and run to the watchtower, this almost always contains a resplendent chest. Then go kill the warden and butcher.

Why is that?

@StrixVaria I should have said non-melee

And mainly because they can kite

I mean, yeah, you could make an axe-throwing barb I guess...

@Sterno Yep, heh. "Oh crap... runs"

9:34 PM

Monks can kite if you build them right.

@Rapida I typically just start at Leoric's Manor and go through to butcher

Although your talk of a resplendent chest intrigues me

Mantra of Conviction can give you a constant 30% slow around you, plus deadly reach.

@Sterno I usually sprint through the halls of agony, the monsters there can't kill me

I only stop for treasure demons

I've started farming Oasis on act 2for those "Vault" dungeons that have really easy-to-reach resplendent chests

The three crappy blues I got for killing Hell Diablo last night left me feeling very unsatisfied. |:

9:35 PM

@TimStone I killed Hell Diablo this morning with 5 stacks and got 5 crappy blues and 2 crappy yellows.

@Sterno I'll have to try that, I'm in that awkward position of can't really improve much from Act 1 drops but get destroyed in Act 2

fredley

Redstone: non-deterministic? Possibly

@Rapida Pretty much the same. I can get 5 stacks in act 2, but only by skipping about 60% of the elite packs and dying 2-3 times on most of the others

shielding = fail, extra health = fail, molten + plague or fire chains = fail

And oh god invulnerable minions

Illusionist = yes please

9:37 PM

@StrixVaria Let's shake our fists angrily at bad drops

@Sterno The very first champion group I saw when I first started Inferno was Molten Plagued Arcane Enchanted Vortex.

I still have nightmares about it.

@TimStone @StrixVaria Feel free to join me for Act 1 butcher runs if you see me online.

@Rapida I don't think we're friends yet. Are you on the spreadsheet?

Yeah I recently added myself

@StrixVaria Since I already have to stand next to them, they just skip the Vortex part for me and add Extra Health

9:38 PM

I was trying to think of the worst combinations when I was going through Nightmare but the game does that way better than I could.

Fast Fire Chains Teleporter Jailer

Will make a note to add you once I get home. I just reached Inferno last night, so I still have some growing pains to overcome I'm sure.

@TimStone That's fine, what class are you running?

I have 2 characters in Inferno, which is why neither one has finished Act 1.

hrm, 1100 DPS 2-hander for sale with 771 life on hit

for 600k

@Sterno 2-handers are slow, though, so the life on hit isn't as good.

9:40 PM

@StrixVaria Might get me over the hump on the Belial fight though

Good one-handers are like 15 mil :(

^

@Rapida DH

@Sterno How much gold do you have?

@TimStone I might have some spare DH gear, I know a windforce dropped for me recently. What dps you got?

@StrixVaria 650k

I just dropped 1 mil on some shoulders

Short of a crazy bargain that I have a 10 second window to snag, I really can't upgrade anymore for <~800k

on armor

9:42 PM

@Rapida ಠ෴ಠ

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You found a Windforce.

It isn't that amazing, only like 750dps

It's a Windforce.

I know, my mercenary loves it

I never did get one in D2 so that was neat

9:44 PM

The choice between farming Inferno and making money and gearing up vs. leveling another character to 60 is a tough one.

@StrixVaria Solution: Flip a coin.

@Wipqozn I think it might depend more on whether I have friends trying to farm Inferno currently online.

Q: Is increased movement speed required for higher difficulty levels?

9:58 PM

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Boots have increased movement speed on them as one of their possible affixes, and there are also a few skills that increase movement speed. Does this become more important in later difficulties, especially when elites have three or four abilities that drop area effects everywhere? More importan...

diablo-3

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Q: Level Requirement Reduced on item only

Does item with level requirement reduced affect only the item, or it affects all items?

diablo-3 items

OrigamiRobot

@Wipqozn 36 more rep

No, Blizzard, I don't want maximum duration reduced, I want minimum duration reduced!

10:18 PM

@Sterno As you suggested: gaming.stackexchange.com/a/71532/3015

minecraft minecraft-redstone

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Q: Is redstone deterministic?

In circuits not using pseudo-random 'dice-roll' type randomizers (i.e. a fast clock that the player stops to produce a random state), is the output state always the same for the same input state?

10:35 PM

I think I'm about to set the record for greek letters in a post

is that something to be proud about?

@badp What are we looking at?

fredley

somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/guide-minecraft-3.php

@GnomeSlice cp_junction, annotated

@badp Annotated for what?

since the maps uses A, B, C for control points and I used digits for routes, I had to resort to greek letters for other points of interest

10:43 PM

I see a bunch of arrows.

Q: How to capture the last point in Junction?

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Some areas in TF2 are just horrid to attack. Two come to mind: Egypt, fourth point and Junction, last point. This question is about the latter. There are five ways to approach the point from and they all suck. Let's take a look at the map from top-bottom: Please forgive my greek. You can: A...

team-fortress-2

@GnomeSlice those are the attack routes

Ah, I see.

leapmotion.com

Only $75 to pre-order?

Humble Indie Bundle 5 is disgustingly good.

How are we not going nuts over this right now?

John

@Mana I KNOW.

@Mana Whagh. A new one!

10:47 PM

We're talking Psychonauts, Amnesia, Limbo, Sword & Sworcery, and Bastion in a pay-what-you-want package.

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like, what.

John

@Mana DOUBLE I KNOW.

I have most of those, but not amnesia or Sword and Sworcery.

@GnomeSlice Sword and Sworcery is worth it for the soundtrack.

fbueckert

@fredley accept the Steam invite for your Ship key

@Mana Diablo

OrigamiRobot

10:49 PM

Hi @John!

@Mana I think I already have the soundtrack, actually.

John

@OrigamiRobot Hi!

also I already had the better games of the bundle

@badp there are "better games" in that bundle?

@Mana Psychonauts, Bastion, and to a lesser extent Limbo

10:50 PM

@badp screw you, Sword and Sworcery is amazing

@Mana TWEET THIS?

@badp well-played

Mind you, I did enjoy the 17% of the game I've played, except for the first fighting sequence where I was mashing left and right mouse buttons to attack and defend

whereas you must click on the icons instead

we'll see if it can keep me interested over time though

@GnomeSlice wat

10:53 PM

@badp What wat?

@badp I was just talking about the EXP bar in here yesterday.

@GnomeSlice what is the red arrow hinting?

@GnomeSlice I must've missed that

@GnomeSlice indie but

@Mana (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

Q: How to capture the last point in Junction?

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Some areas in TF2 are just horrid to attack. Two come to mind: Egypt, fourth point and Junction, last point. This question is about the latter. There are five ways to approach the point from and they all suck. Let's take a look at the map from top-bottom: Please forgive my greek. You can: A...

team-fortress-2

Fredy31

crashes through the ol' ball game.

►

10:56 PM

@Mana I don't think anybody else got it.

@GnomeSlice it wasn't a very high-class joke so they probably got it but chose to not laugh, as is the appropriate reaction.

indieroyale.com

AIRMECH STEAM BETA

Rahhh indie music bundle 3 is adding a Zircon album soon.

Ashel

whoa, really

might have to get in on that

@Ashel REALLY MAN, REALLY

Also, frozen synapse has a set of DLC out now, adding new units, gamemodes, features, etc.

Red expansion pack for Frozen Synapse.

11:04 PM

@GnomeSlice got

bbl

@badp Oh ye?

Burhgelf, stop buying things, me.

I probably could have just weaseled a Steam code out of the devs anyway...

Bah, I changed my mind, anyone want to buy an indieroyale bundle from me for $5?

@GnomeSlice Stolen

@James ...Stolen?

@GnomeSlice (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

@James If you mean I copy-pasted it, then yes...?

James

11:13 PM

@GnomeSlice No, I mean I copied and pasted it into my ascii.txt file :D

@James chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…

James

hahaha (•‿•)

There

added in my middle fingers one :D

@GnomeSlice Thanks :D

ლ(ಥ益ಥლ)

James

ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)

@badp indiegogo.com/expbar