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Pretty sure it's just a Tuesday. Which are like the end times, I guess, but not quote actually them, yet.

Though yeah, somewhere around that point is when I'd just be going home or whatever. There's not much useful to be done when you're being cooked.

Well... shit. Workplace is currently intending to open to the public at regular hours starting the first. Remote work is difficult/non-viable for some of the key things I do, and with living with folks in their late 80s and early 90s, being around when folks are actively coming in and out isn't something I can do in good conscience. At reduced public hours + curbside/phone stuff it wasn't as much of an issue -- I just didn't work the days we were open to the public. There aren't going to be any days we aren't.

Case count for our county has just about doubled in the last two weeks. In the face of that schools opened to in-person classes last week, with attending students already testing positive and getting sent home since then. In the face of that, well, of course, full public hours again in a week and a half.

Talking with the boss a bit to see if maybe there's something we can work out, but... right now I'm probably going to be putting in a letter of resignation sometime in the next few days. If there was fucking anyone reliable I could trust to handle some of the care my grandparents need I'd consider just moving out until the plague blows over, but there kinda' ain't, so... shit. Don't really need the money right now, but I've liked the work and co-workers well enough so far

Just... fuck florida's response to the plague, seriously. Sacks of shit directing most of the response in this state are literally worse than useless.

Yeah, techter or something like that as a subclass. It's the wand class with support-y stuff, also literally the only class I saw with an unconditional passive PP regen skill, heh, which was my entire reason to choose it, everything else is just sorta' extra. Beelined for 10/10 PP regen, then grabbed resta boost and some of the support AOE up stuff, so far... currently investing in light focus to see if it ups the effect of resta or not. My heals are not exactly great right now (80 or so per cast), but they do what I got the skill to do (top off between fights).

I've been avoiding the perfect stuff so far, mostly because I cannot be arsed at all to try to do the timing involved with it. For attacks it's just ~more clicking~ and for guarding, like... half the time it could conceivably be relevant I'm in a bloody mosh pit of bodies swinging crap at me and it's hard to even tell where I am, much less which attack to try to block right

... and the other half I'm too busy spamming fulcrum swing to try to make a boss/big enemy dead to do it, too, so...

I'm certainly weaker for it, but the effort involved in leveraging the stuff is just more than I want to deal with if I can just not, especially when the play is so much smoother without the awkward timing crap. So far, working out pretty okay, ha. Be a while before I give much of a hoot about the end-game crazy raid stuff.

And yeah, noticed guard stance is, well, a stance. Had assumed it was a toggle right from the start, and you apparently have to toggle it to get benefit from the fire/poison purge effect... which is super unfortunate and not at all expected -- I figured going in those skills would just render you immune or periodically auto-purge the effects and nope, happens when you turn it on (or off, I think). Still kinda' helpful, but not nearly as much as I thought they'd be.

I mean, I literally haven't talked to anyone in game yet (Level 34!), so I haven't engaged with the meta, like... at all. Gone hunter for potential axe (so far actually just mono-lance in practice) and tech-thing, uh. Mostly for the passive PP regen (it's led to some silly situations  where I've straight up planted my butt in front of a giant mob of fellspawn and spammed the starting whirlwind throw thing until they all died) and so I can easily heal up minions/myself between battles. Have been building guard stance just so I don't have to, like... play as carefully. My HP bar reads like 700, but my functional HP with full mate inventory is several times that and most stuff that hits me just doesn't hurt super bad, gives me more wiggle room.

I'm only up to hard on some things, and I can't solo most event quests if that's a thing a meta build is supposed to be doing at this point, but so far nothing kills me even if I run out of time and I'm clearing content out pretty much hitchless outside the event quests.

I guess I just don't know what high damage is, exactly. Up to against level 40 bosses my swing does between 6.5 and 16k-ish damage per use if every swing hits (depending on where it hits, of course, with the swing, uh... not being easy to aim, ahaha), so. It mostly keeps stuff aimed at me instead of the AI minions I bring along, at least...

Quote from: ChairmanPoo on August 15, 2020, 02:22:59 pm

No. It doesnt vary by region. The virus is there and as soon as you reopen it starts to spread. And the cost offsets any transient benefit

I can promise you it does. The US is very big and, statistically, there are parts of it with no ongoing cases. Not "no known cases", but no cases.

I mean, I just checked. It's theoretically possible -- near as I can parse from the data the CDC seems to be using, exactly 23 out of 3144 counties in the US have no confirmed cases to date reported. That gives you about a 0.7% chance of being correct if you can trust the competence of U.S. plague data collection.

It also means chaircritter is roughly 99.3% more correct than incorrect, at a minimum. Personally, I'd be assuming the sub-one-percent of the country without confirmed cases just hasn't found their infected yet. Pretty good odds you'd be right :V

Mushroom beer does actually exist, though, apparently. Seems to be mostly craft stuff from a quick google, but it looks like there's a few brands on the market, too.

... man, I solo'd the falz arm thing, but I'm definitely getting the feeling I probably should have found extra bodies for that fight

Half mate burned through a full ten stack of mono and a couple di, and the whole time I had like... zero feedback I could notice if I was actually making progress. It worked out, but yeesh, what a mess...

E: Success!(?) Auxiliary is more or less as tall as my actual character. Could have fiddled with the hat to make it straight up taller (counting the hat, anyway)...

E2: Holy hell, daybreak province is a nightmare. Not because it's hard or anything, but because there's goddamn giant things everywhere and you can't see shit half the time because your screen is literally full of giant demon ass.

Possibly the worst thing about it is the enemies themselves are actually pretty neat looking. They're just too goddamn big, and too numerous.

... also the level is legit too friggin' bright, just as a general thing. Probably the worst level design I've seen from PSO2 so far, made worse by having some of the more interesting set pieces, just tuned poorly. Argh.

E3: so that's what a 6+ group descending on Appos Dorios looks like

3 peep kill was sorta' reasonable (not actually a threat or anything, if nothing else the thing functionally couldn't hurt me and I think I was drawing a decent amount of the fire), but that second go was like a plague of locusts falling upon the poor bastard. Poor critter didn't last long...