I noticed sometimes when I meet an elite (yellow name) in Diablo 3 their name reflects their affixes. I had found something on a wiki but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Can someone explain it to me please?
@pixel Nah, wasn't even tags, just an addendum (well, correction, really) to an existing answer by a new user. I told them they could suggest an edit, but then thought that maybe they couldn't.
@PatrickStalder Yes, well, LoL is not the most technically sound game anyways. :P
(Relevant example: Fizz's passive grants him unitwalk. This has the side effect of letting him walk through Anivia's wall, since it is made up of a very tight cluster of "minions")
@pixel (Related to this comment and the answer it's attached to)
@RilgonArcsinh Well, I just hate it when there is no resource of how they calculate/determine stuff. Maybe they even don't really have this and just decide on every instance how it should be handled. But for me it would have been obvious that a DoT always triggers Relai's because brands DoT's do too... That's just wierd for me. x)
@PatrickStalder Well, the usual test for "Does this apply Rylai's?" is "Does this benefit from Spell Vamp?"
Brand's passive does (and I have saved my ass this way in the past), Gangplank's does not.
The corrolary to this is "is this from a thing that applies on-hit effects, like Sheen/Lich Bane/Triforce/Mallet or Phage?", because they never apply Rylai's (since they can apply Mallet/Phage/Triforce).
@RilgonArcsinh but WHY is it that way? We actually only made assumptions right? There is no official "its because its only triggered from a passive, etc"... thats my point.
@PatrickStalder Because an ability that applies on-hit effects is considered an "enhanced auto-attack", and auto-attacks do not apply Rylai's, only abilities.
Basically things are divided into auto attacks/enhanced auto attacks and spells - the former benefits from Life Steal and apply On-Hit effects. The latter benefit from Spell Vamp and do not apply On-Hit effects but do apply Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
@PatrickStalder I believe that is the case, yes. Don't quote me on that, though - I pestered a friend to do the Gangplank testing for me (I'm at work), and he's asleep right now. :P
(I also don't own Pantheon so I couldn't test it even if I wasn't at work.)
@RilgonArcsinh Ok without testing I can't argue with you. :) But I can't do it right now anyways (I'm at work..). But it would be weird for a AD ability to trigger spellvamp/Relai's IMO.
So I'm staring at an Umbran crow right now, but I can't hit it. This is in chapter IV in a rainy square, while protecting Cervesa. Run at it, jump at it, shoot at it, I don't target the crow and can't hit it. What's the easiest technique to killing them?
What are the proc values (effect probability, e.g. for crowd control damage) for the different skills of the witch doctor?
Some are given in the Patch 10.4 notes:
Firebomb - Fire Pit: 0.067
Gargantuan: 0
Spirit Barrage - Manitou: 0.125
Zombie Dogs
Rabid Dogs: 0.1
Burning Dogs: 0.05
For the...
Cheap "off-site" is easy: Grab a bunch (3+) USB-connected disk drives, back up on them (rotating the use: first day Disk 1, second day Disk 2, third day Disk 3, fourth day Disk 1 again and so on), replace them as soon as they break.
@MartinSojka Doesn't "off-site" means "far away enough from your server farm that even if a disaster levels your server farm and company building to fine dust, you still have your data"?
if I had to name a cheap off-site backup solution I'd say "Dropbox" :P
Example: Could a fire hose really support the weight of a falling man?
It seems to me that this isn't really a question about movies or T.V. It's a question about physics triggered by a scene in a movie.
Movies and T.V. often require a willing suspension of disbelief, and questions about plaus...
@RilgonArcsinh Well, I just had to debug and fix a bug which happened in less than 0.01% of the cases (over 100k of actions done on the DB during the years, exactly one of them showed the problem)... :)
Thankfully, it was analytically discoverable and solvable; running the test case would take a few more years ...
@MartinSojka Oh I know. The clients to whom contingency in a <1% outcome are important probably already have geographically diverse server configurations and failover DNS and whatnot.
I do not think HURRCRAFT PVP SURVIVAL HARDCORE SERVER will be terribly impacted by loss of data due to a DC fire
@fbueckert We had to prove that it actually was happening that seldom first (and wasn't just being ignored so far), at which point we already found the cause and solution anyway. :)
@fbueckert Well, our NAS page makes no claims that it is geographically diverse from the data center, so they have no room to bitch that it's not, either. :P
If it is that important to them, they can get geographically diverse storage to back up to!
@RilgonArcsinh Acts of God are supremely rare. If your building gets smashed into itty bitty bits, chances are good it would take a decent amount of time to get it back up and running, anyways.
I would actually be interested in seeing the event that could harm the building we're in though, it actually used to be an old federal reserve building
Bulletproof glass on all doors on the first floor, earthquake spec (in a state with like zero historical earthquake risk), Cat 4 hurricane resistance, etc.
Our main telecom here has a building that is basically a double building; it's got an outer shell to protect it from most acts of nature. Such as tornadoes.
Of course, this is all hearsay from someone who works for the telecom company. I'm inclined to believe him, though.
I'd like to work for a business like that, once. Rather than having to struggle and argue for every penny to make sure stuff works. And make sure my equipment isn't from the stone age.
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By chance, I told him where I learnt chaos magic ( chaos covenant ), but I didn't learn all spells from him, is there any possibility to learn it somewhere else ?
There are many questions here on Arqade about farming xp to get ready for inferno difficulty; this question is not my intent. I am playing a level 60 character either solo or with a friend. In both cases, I/we are able to easily clear any Act in Inferno. I am currently running the entire Act 3 ea...
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@agent86's answer on the linked question needs a small update, but the general answer applies fairly well. Slot the best ruby you have, and then kill in the highest act you can, as fast as you can.
@fbueckert Disagree. The answer to "where" can include routes about high-density areas with elites or tons of other enemies. It involves picking the act with the most of those areas, where specifically to go within those acts, etc. The existing answer to the other question is just "go wherever is next". The answers are significantly different.
Sure you can answer this question by just giving a vague hand-wave and saying that's that.
But that's not a good answer.
That's not the kind of answer that question deserves.
It's an interesting question, and we shouldn't close interesting questions as dupes when they're not even already answered.
@pixel Certain areas are more densely packed than others. It's not all 100% random, it's within bounds.
@pixel Guidelines are fine. Routes are guidelines, not hard-and-fast rules that you have to follow or your account gets band and a Blizzard headhunter tracks you down and ends you.
@StrixVaria and you know what, I used to agree with this particular statement but it got beaten out of me and replaced with if question B doesn't answer question A then question B needs a more comprehensive answer
@fbueckert I don't disagree with this. I think that helping new users get answers to their questions is expecting more, however. Sending them on a redirect to a link we already know doesn't help is doing less.
@fbueckert I could not possibly disagree with this statement more.
No one should be required to add a bounty to get information pertaining to a new question answered.
I want to help people on the internet. It should not cost me my own internet points to do so.
Besides the answers you can give in some dialogs (where I imagine that a kind of "roll check" is performed to see if it succeeds / fails) what are these atributes used for?
Do they unlock special missions or items?
At some point during the personal story the game forces you to choose one of three orders:
Durmand priory
Order of whispers
Vigil
The wiki says that once you've made a choice, you can change affiliation "with a little effort", but doesn't give more detail.
How do I exactly change between ord...
Blah blah blah enormously hyped, blah blah persistant multiplayer yadda yadda battletag and built in chat client, I'm not going to bother boring you with things you already know.
Instead, I'm just gonna put it out there:
If you're going to be playing Diablo 3, and would like to play or chat wit...
Oh, I work. Also I develop games in my spare time. Occasionally I also play them (currently: L2, CK2, ArmA2, lurking on EU4 forums getting all excited and awaiting the train wreck of ESO).
@MarkTrapp And I was paraphrasing you. :P If you don't want credit, that can be fixed.
@Jonny Maybe not in the millions. Perhaps limit the max number of times an item can be upgraded, so you have to choose whether you want to risk another affix, or upgrade the existing ones.
The idea is not to have items that you can use from beginning to end, but that if it rolled decently, you can upgrade it into something really good.
@fbueckert Im not sure it would improve the gameplay, but it would make it interesting
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@fbueckert My position is more nuanced than that: there's a minimum standard of duty for new users, but the system breaks down for even ideal new users when we have an unanswered question that a new user wants an answer to. If high-rep users actually want to help those people (they don't have to), they can not by arguing we shouldn't close questions by new users, but by acting as proxies for them by offering bounties, revising questions, and such
@MarkTrapp The basic premise is sound, though. I absolutely abhor questions that go, "Yes, I know this is a duplicate, but there's no answer to my problem there."
user2334
@Jonny People get very heated about what they think is good content here, sometimes disparaging questions/answers in the process of their arguments, but they're talking about the words, not the person who wrote them. If you get caught in the crossfire of a discussion or argument about policy (which happens to pretty much everybody at one point or another), don't take it personally.
@Jonny Having a high rate of accepted answers is good sign, and you haven't had any down-voted or closed questions, which is also a good sign. Only suggestion I have is to not add parenthetical comments in question titles (like here and here).
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If something needs explaining, use the question body. For the Diablo III question, versioning is generally not good because the game is constantly updated. If the answers change with an update, the answers will get updated
@Jonny What exactly was so great about the Diablo 2 story? I don't recall it being substantially different than the one in Diablo 3.
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It was less Scooby Doo and more From Hell: rather than going on capers and unmasking Old Man McGee every act, you traced the path of the Wanderer and followed the story through the narration of a man driven insane by what he's seen
@MarkTrapp I have to agree. D3 had a lot more emphasis on story, but it was a pretty bad story. D2's story was minimal, and not exactly pullitzer material, but it was at least coherent.
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As a spy in SpyParty, I'm having a hard time contacting the Double Agent: it seems as soon as the sniper hears the words, he/she starts highighting everyone who is in a conversation and lowlighting the others, which makes the following of the game harder for the spy.
What are some basic tips for...
I have recently build a new slimefarm using the coordinates I got from the slimefinder.
The location I am building in has a lot of slime chuncks. I have choosen 2 chunks next to eachother to build the spawning pads, and used an non-slime chunk in front of them as the collection/lookout are.
I ...
I noticed sometimes when I meet an elite (yellow name) in Diablo 3 their name reflects their affixes. I had found something on a wiki but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Can someone explain it to me please?
So I'm staring at an Umbran crow right now, but I can't hit it. This is in chapter IV in a rainy square, while protecting Cervesa. Run at it, jump at it, shoot at it, I don't target the crow and can't hit it. What's the easiest technique to killing them?
What are the proc values (effect probability, e.g. for crowd control damage) for the different skills of the witch doctor?
Some are given in the Patch 10.4 notes:
Firebomb - Fire Pit: 0.067
Gargantuan: 0
Spirit Barrage - Manitou: 0.125
Zombie Dogs
Rabid Dogs: 0.1
Burning Dogs: 0.05
For the...
Example: Could a fire hose really support the weight of a falling man?
It seems to me that this isn't really a question about movies or T.V. It's a question about physics triggered by a scene in a movie.
Movies and T.V. often require a willing suspension of disbelief, and questions about plaus...
I've had some issues with unofficial dedicated servers when creating Left 4 Dead 2 games. Over the weekend when creating a game my friends and I would keep getting the same dedicated server which is configured to show a home page which appears to be designed to test my patience.
The home page c...
Please help.i want to send a message to my friend but I do not know how
I have recently build a new slimefarm using the coordinates I got from the slimefinder.
The location I am building in has a lot of slime chuncks. I have choosen 2 chunks next to eachother to build the spawning pads, and used an non-slime chunk in front of them as the collection/lookout are.
I ...
