This game still makes no sense to me no matter how long i play

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

I dunno man, I asked a question there you might be able to help with.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

PS Die.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

I'm not a native English speaker, and should probably be the last one to critique grammar mistakes, but using "could of" instead of "could've/could have" is a very common mistake I see A LOT and it makes no sense to me.

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I think it's because of how it sounds when spoken. Could've when spoken sounds a lot like could of and so for some, it gets engrained as could of rather than could've. Once they've made that connection, it's hard to undo when you get around to writing it.

I'm not defending it; just describing a path for which it might happen.

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As usual, it's the responses that grant the GD thread something worth discussing!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-worse-than-coulda

Some people think it's a recent phenom, but nope -- this one goes all the way back to the 1700s. That said, for most of the time it's appeared in print, it seems to be done with the intention of portraying someone with a limited intellect or education level.

Now we all know C-Doggy is anything but that, being one of the more verifiable POE galaxy brains around here who is also a native English speaker, so it's best to assume it's a deliberate affectation to put you off-guard. I have seen her type perfectly well more than once, so yeah, it's an act. You probably didn't need to be told that, but there it is. She is not making a mistake; she is projecting a persona.

Unless two extra keystrokes are that important to her...I suppose that's also possible. Y'all Exiles are all about Eile über alles.

In which case 'coulda' is even better: three keystrokes saved!

That all said, I have caught myself typing 'then' rather than 'than' even when writing 'properly' when the fingers overtake the brain so I think it's possible to make 'verbal' typos even with typing. Probably just from seeing so many people make that mistake (and confusing then and than is absolutely a mistake). Garbage In, Garbage Out as they say. I really should spend less time on the less erudite corners of the Internet but eh, how else am I going to look in the mirror in the morning and not see nothing but an overgrown child prodigy?

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I'm not so mean as to say 'if your tank died it clearly wasn't tanky enough' because if it served as a tank in all other ways, then it's probably on the game -- but I am curious, and I think I asked this before: why even have tanks in a game where avoidance is entirely the way to win? This is a pretty worrisome (there's that word again!) thing to ask of an ARPG, don't you think? Especially one as purportedly dedicated to giving players a diverse and creative set of build/play options.

But then again, I wonder what tank even means in PoE. When you have this many vectors of damage and damage mitigation, you're less a 'tank' and more a complicated network of defences on legs. Think about it: a tank. Big hulking chunk of metal with a big fucking gun. Slow to aim, fairly easy to avoid, hard to kill with anything that isn't designated a 'tank killer' (fucking love the A-10, as an aside). The whole point of a tank in any game is to survive more damage than you deal, but ideally to deal enough damage to kill anything before it can kill you. That's assuming you're solo; in a party, tanks only have to deal enough damage to keep the threat off the glass cannons and the supports.

In the current state of the game, and here I'm asking directly for answers from anyone more knowledgable than me with PoE (i.e. anyone reading this), what would you have to do to create a character that satisfies the abovementioned condition of being an all-purpose 'tank'? Preferably, include Sanctum and its Resolve mechanic.

Failing that, do you think the game should have outright tank killers if it still hasn't figured out to have outright glass cannon killers?

OR is trying to apply these simple terms to a more complicated game like PoE an act of futility?

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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RitualMurder wrote:

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xjjanie wrote:

"but just now defiled cathedral map boss [Removed by Support]"

Funniest thing I've read all day. Can Support please remove more pesky map bosses? ;)

i described the way in which i was murdered with a word that began with R and ended with 3 letter word that is a type of primate

that is frowned upon

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Yeah, I reported it. It is an extremely ugly word that has no place in public discourse outside of discussing the actual act itself, which is to my knowledge impossible to do in this game (thankfully). It is not, despite what you've said here, a synonym for murder, and the fact that you seem to think so is a little worrisome to me.

At any rate, there are dozens of ways of saying what happened to you that don't require words like the one removed. As the former First Lady said, be better. :)

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Back on topic: I suppose it's testament to the devs' genius that they can make boss/map combinations that can baffle and wreck the shit of even a habitual 40/40 player.

That or maybe collecting all 40 achievements doesn't require encyclopædic knowledge of a game that likes to change its rules every so often.

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Kinda sensitive though, being triggered over a word or prohibiting its usage. But tbh the world is kinda oversensitive right now and ppl are quite weak minded

To OP, u can check ur combat log to fix the hole in ur build ;)

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

I'm not a native English speaker, and should probably be the last one to critique grammar mistakes, but using "could of" instead of "could've/could have" is a very common mistake I see A LOT and it makes no sense to me.

I think it's because of how it sounds when spoken. Could've when spoken sounds a lot like could of and so for some, it gets engrained as could of rather than could've. Once they've made that connection, it's hard to undo when you get around to writing it.

I'm not defending it; just describing a path for which it might happen.

As usual, it's the responses that grant the GD thread something worth discussing!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-worse-than-coulda

Some people think it's a recent phenom, but nope -- this one goes all the way back to the 1700s. That said, for most of the time it's appeared in print, it seems to be done with the intention of portraying someone with a limited intellect or education level.

Now we all know C-Doggy is anything but that, being one of the more verifiable POE galaxy brains around here who is also a native English speaker, so it's best to assume it's a deliberate affectation to put you off-guard. I have seen her type perfectly well more than once, so yeah, it's an act. You probably didn't need to be told that, but there it is. She is not making a mistake; she is projecting a persona.

Unless two extra keystrokes are that important to her...I suppose that's also possible. Y'all Exiles are all about Eile über alles.

In which case 'coulda' is even better: three keystrokes saved!

That all said, I have caught myself typing 'then' rather than 'than' even when writing 'properly' when the fingers overtake the brain so I think it's possible to make 'verbal' typos even with typing. Probably just from seeing so many people make that mistake (and confusing then and than is absolutely a mistake). Garbage In, Garbage Out as they say. I really should spend less time on the less erudite corners of the Internet but eh, how else am I going to look in the mirror in the morning and not see nothing but an overgrown child prodigy?

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I'm not so mean as to say 'if your tank died it clearly wasn't tanky enough' because if it served as a tank in all other ways, then it's probably on the game -- but I am curious, and I think I asked this before: why even have tanks in a game where avoidance is entirely the way to win? This is a pretty worrisome (there's that word again!) thing to ask of an ARPG, don't you think? Especially one as purportedly dedicated to giving players a diverse and creative set of build/play options.

But then again, I wonder what tank even means in PoE. When you have this many vectors of damage and damage mitigation, you're less a 'tank' and more a complicated network of defences on legs. Think about it: a tank. Big hulking chunk of metal with a big fucking gun. Slow to aim, fairly easy to avoid, hard to kill with anything that isn't designated a 'tank killer' (fucking love the A-10, as an aside). The whole point of a tank in any game is to survive more damage than you deal, but ideally to deal enough damage to kill anything before it can kill you. That's assuming you're solo; in a party, tanks only have to deal enough damage to keep the threat off the glass cannons and the supports.

In the current state of the game, and here I'm asking directly for answers from anyone more knowledgable than me with PoE (i.e. anyone reading this), what would you have to do to create a character that satisfies the abovementioned condition of being an all-purpose 'tank'? Preferably, include Sanctum and its Resolve mechanic.

Failing that, do you think the game should have outright tank killers if it still hasn't figured out to have outright glass cannon killers?

OR is trying to apply these simple terms to a more complicated game like PoE an act of futility?