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Fair question: Was "hax" screamed at you at some point?

Obsidian (or just plain cobalt, really) shields do prevent knockback, though. No getting knocked into said magma. e: Ninja'd.

Ah, there's no way in hell I'm getting or playing SC2. Not even interested in filching it

Partially because of my system's specs, but mostly because I've heard basically nothing but shit about how Blizz has handled custom maps for the game (And I'm completely uninterested in the vanilla game, yeah, outside of maybe a single campaign playthrough.). Between that and my distaste of how B's been handling certain other things for their new stuff, I really just don't want to give them any money. I've already bought Diablo, years back, and th'whole spread of RTS warcrafts. S'all they're getting, yanno'?

WC3'd be nice for setting up some lan stuff via hamachi or whatever, if I couldn't rustle up th'bloody keys.

Gonna' have to either find th'old CD case or a way around the CD key, first, heh.

Actually managed to dig the CDs out of my car (Have two RoC ones, for some strange reason), but gods only know where th'ruddy case is. Haven't seen it in years

Steam is JackThejil, though I'm not usually on. Only thing I've got on there that's multiplayer is Terraria, and the widescreen proggie for it bypasses Steam

This is... actually really tempting. I've got my old cd-keys sitting around somewhere or another (though I doubt the CDs themselves work at this point ) and a bit of an AoS (Note: Not fooking pansy ass PoS DotA) itch that the non-functioning LoL can't scratch for me.

Would also freaking love to try NotD: Aftermath. Tried many dozen times to get in an game last time I played WC3, but absolutely jack zero people hosting the damn map would let someone DL it and the crap I kept pulling off of map sites was never the right version

And a bunch of other old favorites, too. Need to look into this in the morning a bit more heavily, see how much effort it'd be to get WC3 up and running on this comp. That, and see where the hell I stuck that zip file holding that jackton of custom maps. I was balls at the vanilla game (Don't have the twitch to do RTS proper.), but absolutely enthralled by the custom stuff for a few years, off and on, and pretty solid with several types.

And giant bats.

Fun fact: Giant bats hit harder than anything the destroyer can do to you Also anything skeletron prime can do to you during the night. Only 5 points less than the twins second-form melee damage!

Defense is useless in hardmode. Bonuses > defense, but raise it as much as you can anyway for when you slip up and actually get hit.

Hahaha, total and absolute lie*. Even full (melee) adamantine + full-up warding accessories makes you nearly as tough as full molten does pre-wall. I haven't nabbed up the hallow set, yet, but that'd make it even better worse. Even limited dodging with minor potion use makes you basically unstoppable

For better raw numbers, melee hallow + 5 warding accs gives you 70 defense, which knocks 35 damage off of everything that attacks you. A ironskin potion knocks another 4 off, for 39. That just shy of halves the damage getting smacked in the face by a wyvern's head does, and reduces the damage from standing on the non-head parts right down to one. Clinger ranged damage? To one. Melee, halved. Laser snail lasers? To one. Corruptors? Damage ~halved. Unicorns, same. Chaos elemental! One damage! Destroyer! Everything but the head! Damage reduced to one! The head cut to less than half! *maddened, borderline invincible, cackling*

Don't want ironskin? Add four to some of those numbers. Still in melee addy? Add two. Anyway, you get the idea. Full defense spec is still pretty frakking incredible. You lose out on some damage (Fairly notable amount vs. a full damage spec, honestly), but... it's viable. To say the least.

*Well, okay, not a lie, but definitely not giving defense its fair shake. Let's run some numbers, shall we!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA