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I strongly recommend always getting the skill, because otherwise your first stunlock will result in your death basically 100% of the time.

Yeah, just learned this firsthand with the loss of another promising run to two Equimax. The first stun let the second get in range, and even though I was an AV-focused run I was stunlocked from 65 or so HP to death. I was actually a bit speechless because I went from "no worries I'll pop a Witchwood bark and sprint away" to "aw geez" in the span of a few seconds.

Qud is a harsh and fickle mistress. Sometimes there's thousands of drams of honey in your first Sultan lair and sometimes you lose your way and get dropped right next to a Legendary Seeker in the salt pans. In my most recent run I had opened up the cudgel skill tree and then found a Gaslight Kris right afterwards at Red Rock 1, and since I have nearly equivalent STR and AGI I'm considering just switching over to shortblades. Then again, maybe I should go for a dual wielding hybrid... endless options, but the principal matter is living to fulfill them 

Currently running an attempt at a mutated gunslinger, picking up teleport and multiple legs for maneuvering around and kiting enemies. To get rid of the rest of the mutation points, I picked up kindle and nightvision, which have been a bit underwhelming. Nightvision is nice but I figure I could have gone for fur or something and just used a glowsphere in my offhand, but I suppose it's nice to have a secondary weapon for melee. It was also nice in the early game when I was yearning for more slugs, but that problem was solved once I got to Grit Gate and bought all the slugs from the entry merchant, since he seems to always carry around a thousand.

My character feels pretty good right about now. Leveled up multiple legs gives great movespeed, which when combined with constant pistol barrage is surprisingly effective. I was very hesitant to do Golgotha since I felt a bit under-leveled (I was about level 10 when I entered), but I decided to just sprint through the vents instead of getting caught up fighting a flood of chutecrabs and gells. The Slog fight felt tense but I realized it couldn't really catch me, so in the end it was a done deal. I did end up getting Glotrot (for the first time actually... it's super annoying), and come to think of it kindle did help me light a canteen on fire to help cure the Glotrot, but then again I could have just used a campfire. I also used it for clearing a few paths through the Golgotha ooze, so overall kindle definitely seems like a mutation that rewards creative use. I still mostly just use it as a mediocre, close-range version of clairvoyance, though.

As for now, I'm gearing up to do Bethesda Susa, which I've never done before. I figure I should aim for at least 25+ cold resist, but who knows. It's interesting to debate which current equipment I have is worth sacrificing for cold resist, but it seems like this mostly depends on what you find. Nevertheless, I'm going to focus on tinkering to hopefully get an upgrade to my borderlands pistols, and also try to get weathered from the endurance tree for Bethesda. Seems like it's time to farm the caves a bit.

Edit/Update: Just electrified my pistols, and I think that elemental mods, or at least the electrical mod, is bugged and not working on borderlands pistols. Unless it's simply reporting the extra damage as normal damage, but I'm unsure.

The biggest hit to evocables in 0.19 was decks becoming invocation-based and only used by Nemelex, and Pakellas being removed. As well, rods were pretty much phased out but I'm not sure when this happened. While these are undoubtedly nerfs, I think the reason for the Pakellas removal was the design philosophy of not wanting 'no-brainer' decisions. That is, if you wanted to seriously use evocations, you'd go Pakellas, and his abilities basically removed any thought from the process of using wands, since you could effectively endlessly charge them up and so any decisions about how to use charges and what wands to recharge became irrelevant. As far as the decks go, I think they just wanted Nemelex to have a more unique identity and for cards to be solely his thing, to make him more attractive as a god choice.

All this being said, I think evocations is very strong in 0.20 depending on the character. Sure, a MiBe or MiFi may care less about them b/c it's likely they can just tab through any challenges, but for a vulnerable stabber/mage a wand of acid or wand of iceblast in the early dungeon can change the game. Wands also scale better with evocations in 0.20, and certain wands are very strong. In particular, wand of clouds and scattershot wands are disgusting, and finding either or early encourages training some evocations, because they scale so well and can trivialize dangerous encounters if used well. At high evocations, and once a character stacks up multiple items, evocations is great. Fighters without access to magic can turn encounters around with misc. evocables like lamp of fire, lightning rod, and phial of floods. Boxes of beasts can be very strong as well.

Well that's one way to identify a potion of mutation 

Is there a recommended amount of skills to train at once? I've been playing a ton of Kobold Enchanters recently and feel like I'm spreading my skills out too much.

I don't watch much anime or read much manga, but I've gotten into HunterxHunter recently and I must say, it's fantastic.

Man, so looks like LoL has changed a lot again. Can anyone tell me some of the biggest new changes? I haven't played since around the Azir-era.

Oh, indeed that is a change that affects the play-style immensely. That's the thing about TF2, seemingly small changes like damage ramp-up and etcetera lead to huge differences, it's nice.

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on June 22, 2014, 04:28:21 am

It's becoming increasingly clear that Valve isn't willing (or able) to change anything of major gameplay value in TF2, but really doesn't want to give up their support of the game just yet;

Hence, hats, videos and other graphics.

...changed the basic behavior of the primary weapon of the heavy in a way that completely changes his gameplay...

Oh, what was this change?