Allakhazam

[Spider-Dan]

I think GameFAQs is a perfectly good resource for, you know, game FAQs.

Particularly walkthroughs for old RPGs where I don't remember WTF I'm supposed to do next, and move lists for fighting games.

[Brill Weave]

Gamefaqs is good for console games, not MMORPG's. The faqs are handy and codes are nice if they are available.

[TybudX]

I think GameFAQs is a perfectly good resource for, you know, game FAQs.

Particularly walkthroughs for old RPGs where I don't remember WTF I'm supposed to do next, and move lists for fighting games.

Icewind Dale II @ GameBanshee

[Cadsuane]

you cry a lot about someone using the term 'decreasing returns' for what i said to be fiction. as for the use of theorycrafting without verification, i have no idea what you're talking about. maybe you mean theorycrafting without parsing? yeah no shit i believe in that... if parsing could control as many variables as theorycrafting, do you think anyone would ever theorycraft? sure, you need to ground everything with parsing, since you can miss stuff in your theorycrafting that has to be accounted for... but you certainly don't have to parse every little thing.

it's sad that you don't see how hung up on me you are... it's also sad that you think me saying so is a sign of arrogance or "hey i'm a forum celebrity guys, pay attention!" i'm telling you this because you can't get over the DA thing, and apparently some other thing i don't even remember (which makes me wonder if you're e-stalking me or something).

as for not caring, in this thread it serves a very distinct purpose to note my apathy: *i'm pretty sure everyone else shares it, and you would share it too if you weren't butthurt*. hard to accept that someone who thinks they're as smart as you do could be acting with so childish a motivation (the emotion called "butthurt"), but you are. it's embarrassing.

i do mention that i don't care pretty often though. maybe because there's so many things that make me think "i don't care". or maybe i'm trying to be cool:D. maybe if you argue hard enough with me, i'll send you a PM and we can talk all about the real me and become lovers.

It's more about questioning the damage formulae written down at oldwiki that form the basis for those theories.

For instance, I remember being in sky with bsphilar one time, and we were talking about DRG subs. I mentioned how it didn't seem likely that /war would beat /sam under any circumstances. So Bsphilar told me, that as mob level increases attack has a greater effect on cratio. For instance in the case where the target is level 90 and you have an attack/defense ratio of 1, adding 25% attack will double cratio from 0.25 to 0.50*. And I was all like, oh shit, he's right. Even though I think he's a gigantic tool.

Then I got confused, because I'd tried to predict the range of damage I could do on an angon'd and dia III'd kirin on my DRG with double minuets applied, and came up with numbers much lower than I was actually getting in the game. There was no way to explain 110 damage normal hits on kirin with 503 att. Thing is, level correction was changed for 2h as well as STR and DEX bonuses. It was right in the update notes. For some reason, the new level correction function was never found and 2h is still calculated like 1h. So far as I know, no one cares enough to do it still, though Araelus seemed to be trying for a bit.

It only takes a token effort to find predicted values and figure out that they don't match reality. How much other theory is bullshit because no one's ever bothered to verify it? People laud you like dickless cheerleaders for information that's grossly overrated seeing as how some if it will be based on a damage formula that I know for a fact is incorrect, and others which might be suspect.