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The question what is best comes very quickly down to the question if you play hardcore or not. Without hardcore you can argue with statistics that it is not very probably that you will be hit at 99% evade, 99% blocking and 99% parry. The chance that you are hit would just be 1:1000000. But hardcore you start with this 1 hit in one million cases. Sooner or later you will be hit. And to survive this hits, you need armour and hitpoints. So I normally do a 3 hits design. The character should be able to survive 3 of the hardest hits of an enemy or 3 of his own hits reflected back.. But this can fail at demon mage champs and or having x% life leech reflected from a boss. But it works well against 99% of the beasts. Your build is for the console. You can have 6 relicts but can't quickly change them like the 4*3 on a PC. So you can do 4 relicts, one of each type to have no damagetype without a protection and can use the other 2 tocounter the main damage types in your hunting area. But honestly, I haven't played console yet, and I have no play experience if the 6 relicts can replace the socketing of an artamark.

It is mainly used in a combination after a black hole effect. So you can often use it unmodified. I normally bring just the focus to mastery so I can modify 3 Combat Art's in this aspect: buff, dopplehanger and maelstrom. If I have the lore too and I can modify all 5 Combat Art's then I normaly go for the wider angle and reducing of attack speed. So I have a little better protection before I have enough souls to push up my defense.

The reason we search for a second tandem is that the twins are now too big being 2 and a half. So we put them now in a trailer. But our third is not fully recovered from her borelliosis so she can't do long tours. We did a tour on sunday and I had her in a trailer on my normal bike, while my wife and our oldest had the tandem and the trailer with the twins. The cost of a tandem has to be calculated versus: We don't do voyages to other countries. We have a lot of animals and 5 kids. So out of our experience: It is hard to find someone looking for the animals for 2 weeks. You have to relax a week after doing a voyage in summer breaks as parents of 5. In germany you have to be 18 to drive a car. Even my kids drive Porsche, Lamborghini and Mercedes as soon as they are 6, but that is on farm and forest roads which are forbidden for normal traffic. The Porsche has 18 horsepowers and the Lamborghini 11. Both tractors build in the 1950ties. The Mercedes is a Unimog, bought second hand from the army. But if our oldest has to bring our third to her vaulting training she has to use the tandem for 4 more years. The tandem with its 40 pounds is also light enough to be used as a normal bike. You can also place a basket for shopping on the front seat. On sunday we did a 40 kilometre round trip. We visited the town my mother grew up: Braunfels. It has a very nice castle: We ate some ice on the historical marketplace which is surrounded by nice wooden patchwork houses. At afternoon we visited a nearby animal park. They are specialized to show animals which lived in germany at the time of the romans: lynx, brown bear, wisent (european bison) ,elk/moose, aurochs (rebreeded heck-cattle),wildcats, otter, a re-breeded tarpan (an in 1909 extincted european wildhorse):

Now we have tadpoles too. Seems egyptian geese have a nest nearby. When I returned at 7am sunday morning after doing a walk with the dog I saw 2 geese doing a noisy shouting from the roof of our barn. Had to inform the bird watcher institute. They are a species which spreads more and more like a pest and isn't natural to our aera. While doing that I also phoned the other birds I found: 4 breeding pairs of kingfishers, compared to 5 last year. A pair of red kites is building a nest. The german name would be Roter Milan but in my area we name them Gabelweihe = forked harrier. Because you can easily differ them from the black kite by their forked tails. I found remains of a dead common bussard and a magpie. Looked like an Uhu (eagle owl) got them. There is a small population of eagle owls just 25 kilometres away. Also I found some mice spiked on thorns. Seems the red-backed shrikes prepare for their breeding. The german name for them is Neuntöter (killer of nine), because they often kill more than they can eat and spike the rest as reserve on thorns. The slang name for them is same as for tadpoles: Dickkopp, thick head. It has a large head compared to its size.

There was a discussion about life leech on consoles. I think consoles still show the pre 2.34 pehaviour. At display life leech damage is divided by 1000 and rounded down. So life leech 999 is not displayed, but a life leech 1000 would be displayed as extra damage 1. Not seeing life leech below 1000 made many people thinking that life leech won't work. Edit: Found the old thread

From wikipedia: We used the word Heizer(heater). At old steam locomotives it was the one firing the oven. Which is nowadays a fitting word on a Tandem with a step. I think Heizer translates as stoker ?

Ever tried to move a bed by leaning at a wall with the back and pushing it forward with the legs? The front (stoker) can do more power than the captain at the gears, stearing and brakes. So we often swap who is captain and stoker. I am at 1.92m 91kilogramm and my wife at 1.84 and 71kg. The higher position allows more control by moving the centre of gravity. What is a bit problematic is rough terrain, since the sight to the frontwheel is hidden for the captain by the stoker. So obstacles have to be noticed a bit in advance. Brakes 2 disc brakes front, U-brake back, all hydraulic. Only 14 gears, but all of them different, special made gearbox for tandems: Rohloff 14 gears. You can switch gears while standing uphill at a red light, very practical. It isn't boring for the stoker, since the heads are close, you can speak easily, even in a noisy town, better than on a normal tandem and way better than on 2 bikes. Remember on a normal tandem he wouldn't have control and wouldn't see. I don't think that we would have bought one, if we hadn't gotten it for that second hand price. The price is the problem we have now. The Rohloff gearbox allone would be at 800 euro. There is a do it yourself page to build such a tandem out of 2 normal bikes. But if you want to transport your kids: I don't trust this much in my teachnical abilities to build a SAFE tandem. The disc brakes have a reason: The loaden bike can reach easily 500pounds and is faster than a normal bike if we go full speed.

How do you define a scary movie? I am german and I don't know the exact translation. Is it a film which scares you and has to be a fantasy theme with some mystery, which you can't explain with nature laws? I am a bit older and not that easy scared by new movies, when I was young probably Wolfen would be in this category? Phase IV, which had a lifeform inside a human even befor Alien The Birds, the original from Alfred Hitchcock The best vampire film of all times in my eyes close to 90 years old: Nosferatu from 1921 Would Jaws disqualify because such a shark could theoretically exist? Or does it just have to scare you? Like the nature documentations when doctors in africa were pulling metre long real parasite worms out of the legs of a kid? So what defines a scary movie? I know what the most scaring moment in my life was, not collecting bodyparts as a volunteer firefighter. Our oldest daughter, then 2 was sleeping and I was doing some repairs in the house while my wife was at work at sunday in hospital. When I did my hour-ly check if she was still sleeping our daughter was gone. I searched the whole house, the garden, the barn, the forst a few 100 metres away, .... I couldn't find her, so I decided to get the dog and do an extended search and call the police. And then she was sleeping in the hut we made for our shepherd/st.bernhardt mix of a dog. The dog was curled around her and looking at me as if wanting to say, she is sleeping, don't be so loud. Years back I remember it as funny, but at that moment .... can't describe it... from total panic and adrenalin push to total relief .... was sitting in the gras for minutes

Your first question a few days ago was moved here. You can re-spawn bosses by creating free multiplayer games.

We bought a second hand tandem and a kids trailer (which could transform into a tri-cycle) last summer when our 3rd suffered from borelliosis. It summed up to like 1700 euro. The 2 older's had their cross country racing bikes with a frame as old as 25 years (guess who was driving them then). We added the trailer with the third on our tandem and put the twins in transport bags and each of us parents attached one of the twins to either the back ot the belly. We call the type of tandem Stufentandem, (Stufe = Step), picture is similiar but a bit older modell: We had luck that we got it with a wind shield,so we could put the twins out of the wind. The old owner had a handicapped wife who sadly diseased and it was modified that the front person could use the hand and not the arms adding power. We transformed it back, so that the front person can be in any size from 120 to 190 centimetres and can use normal pedals. We found some picture seeing how such a bike can be driven by 2 adults or by an adult and a kid, or 2 teenagers, ... Very flexible we thought When we drove on country roads most cars slowed speed and wondered about our caravan, without getting angry, mainly smiling. The trailer looked a bit like this one, you can attach a third wheel easily so that it will be a tri-cycle. And the child can add to the power in its own speed, individual gears for the chain driving the trailer wheels. When we found the picture we considered it a good long time investigation to buy such a tandem with a fitting trailer. As you can see both drivers can see the street, can easily talk with each other and can even kiss at low speed (proved ) So we considered to buy a second one , but prices at ebay exploded, and new ones cost about 5000 euro and more. Who told the secret that such a bike allows kissing? The second hand one we have is from Hase-Bikes in germany. I know that Bilenky in america builds something similiar, but in no way cheaper. We know people who own a Strada: But they are from flat netherlands and don't have the many hills. The Hase Pino weights no more than 18kilo. The Strada is nice, because the front person has not the frightening feeling and fear for the first drives that it will have no control over the bike. and sitting above the wheel. But too heavy Anyone knowing other manufacturers?

BUG? I just take magic coup as an example: mgr.defineSpell( "he_ar_magischerschlag", { ... entry0 = {"et_mult_weapondamage", 1200, 2, 0, 9 }, entry1 = {"et_AW_rel", 500, 20, 0, 5 }, entry2 = {"et_baseAW", 200, 350, 0, 5 }, ... I really wonder if nearly ALL weapon Combat Art's have a way to high hit chance. Now Regeneration per Hit is working so you can have a weapon Combat Art near or above the malus. With a mastered weapon skill at 200 you get like 378 base attack value. With magic coup at 100 you will get 3520 base attack value. It seems there is a factor of 10 wrong, if I translate it to 20+35/level. Currently weapon skills are not really needed once the combat art's are high. Or is the base attack value from a weapon skill too low? There is stuff which has +300 attack value at level 200. P.S.: The weapon damage multiplier has a flag 8 too, marking it as can't be raisen by equipment?

Compared with a weapon skill this seem to be really really high, or? Magic coup for example has: entry1 = {"et_AW_rel", 500, 20, 0, 5 }, entry2 = {"et_baseAW", 200, 350, 0, 5 }, it gives even a tiny x% attack value. About a year back, not knowing the spells.txt, I asked a developer in the GSF if combat arts would have a hidden hit chance. Because even CtH showed only 70% for normal attacks I was hitting all the time with my melee elf. They said, yes, there is a hidden chance. That was the time I gave up on weapon skills for my melee elves. I think that: entry2 = {"et_baseAW", 20, 35, 0, 5 }, would be a more balanced entry. Given that you can reach really high Combat Art-levels now with rph. The attack value at 200 weapon lore is less than you get with 20 Combat Art-levels. Hybrid Combat Art's: magic coup, archangel's wrath, shadow hand. There the attack speed is from the magic lore, no double hits possible, the malus from a too high leveled weapon doesn't count since it's useless attack speed and even the attack value doesn't matter out of the above reason. If you look at my visible astral lord, or at my lady in black, no weapon skill used anymore.

mgr.defineSpell( "boss_flyerbase_blitze", { ... tokens = { entry0 = {"et_duration_sec", 500, 4, 0, 8 }, entry1 = {"et_hits_persec", 1000, 0, 0, 4 }, entry2 = {"et_spelldamage_magic", 350, 175, 0, 133 }, }, ... mgr.defineSpell( "boss_crystal_explosion", { ... tokens = { entry0 = {"et_life_leech", 170, 85, 0, 9 }, entry1 = {"et_spelldamage_ice", 700, 350, 0, 133 }, entry2 = {"et_range_area", 300, 0, 0, 4 }, entry3 = {"et_spelldamage_physical", 700, 350, 0, 133 }, }, ... Duration and life leech damage can't be modified by anything, or? Could 8 mean that there will be no check if it is boosted by items? Hit's per sec and area range have blanc 4, another thing I have to put more thoughts in. Wonder what a 32+1 or a 32+4+1 will do with the buff. mgr.defineSpell( "enemy_spawn_sandpeople_grp", { ... tokens = { entry0 = {"et_summon_officer", 900, 395, 0, 8 }, entry1 = {"et_summon_soldier", 2500, 267, 0, 8 }, entry2 = {"et_summon_mylevel", 4, 1, 0, 4 }, entry3 = {"et_sacrifice_health_rel", 2000, 0, 0, 17 }, }, ... Other blanc 8's which can't be modified by anything. The sacrifice health is 16+1. Start to wonder what 16 might be.

Edit: obviously I was typing this while Meister Czevak was ansering already Since the calling of the spell routines is hard coded and can't be modified by editing a script: All you can do is: If you play single player/LAN: Modify exisiting spells in a way you like. That is what I did with horse combat arts for my daughters. I did a script they had to do before starting a character which was loading the changed spells.txt and creatures.txt: depending if they wanted to play with flame horses, unicorns or normal horses. Community Patch and hoping that it gets a real patch: You can only use and modify stuff which was planed for future AddOn's and unlock it or which is already in (but then it will be only bugs which would be fixed, no changing into different spells). Some set's, unique's, quest's.... You can edit the scripts of existing combat arts/ enemies if you think that they are really buggy. Combat Art's used in the dragon mage transformations Demon champ mage's, crystal boar(?), ... Cvevak invited me to join the community-patch team. If I would join the community-patch team I would have access to their documentation. But I won't do promises I can't keep. I don't know if I will find that much time in summer. If the weather is better there will be less playing/coding and nearly all the spare time on sunny days will be spend with family,driving the kids to their vaulting, hockey, soccer, bow shooting clubs, ...

Could it be that on console the CtH calculation is only refreshed when changing weapons? Tried to see CtH, then turn buff on, and then CtH, then change weapon and change back and then look again at CtH? Did you get different results this way?

Flags are yes/no answers. So they are normally binary. I learned flags when doing coding in assembler=machine language. Memory was small, and so you tried to store several informations in a single byte. You can put 8 yes/no answers in a single byte=8bit this way. Is it used in damage calculate: Yes/No? If it is yes you add 1 Is it used summed up with equipment , if Yes add 4 Does it have to be done first when executing a combat art, if yes add 8 Doing it this way you can alway rebuild the answers if you see a 8 bit number. 8 bits are enough to represent the numbers from 0 to 255 (2^8 -1) The numbers in the 4th row looked like if they could be flags when comparing several combat arts. Call it a belly feeling. Every number between 0 and 255, similiar spells sharing same numbers,... Because I am a technical mathematician and not a paid coder I hoped for a coding expert to jump on the train

Close to 5pm and leaving my fast internet at work: Speaking about a bike. I have to check our Stufentandem (english?) when I am at home. We plan a bicycle tour at sunday to visit Braunfels castle and the animal park there.

When I read about bangers: seems the name is because the british can't fry/roast/bake even a sausage? We call them Bratwurst. I normally take the pre-cooked variant with rough and not fine hacked meat. I serve them with mashed potatoes and either red cabbage, Sauerkraut or baked onions. Raw, not pre-cooked, sausages are tricky. You have to use them up the same day you buy them, so not the best for a sunday meal. And the inside may be still raw while the outside is already black. When I was at army I learned a trick from a soldier from Thurengia how to spray them with beer while having them in the pan. So the outside was cooled but not the inside.

But for melee block I reach numbers close to 200% if doing this. Which is probably a display bug. Else I would never be hit by melee combat when having my character optimized for shield blocking.

The Kubota is a bit bigger than my Lamborghini but smaller than my Porsche, the ones in my signature. I have no digital camera so I just searched for pictures of my ancient beasts/tractors in the web. Will have to look, but just 4 days and nightfrost. Don't think we have tadpoles already. Wonder if the nightfrost is because of the vulcano ash. My car was covered with it in morning. Seems you have added some goats to the pictures while I was editing. You seem to have an as big collection of animals as we have.

My wife uses speech magic. She has to document mainly medical diagnosis, so the number of used words is quite small. English is quite easy for voice recognition, german needs a WAY bigger dictionary = WAY more training. So here it is used mainly from doctors with a small medical dictionary. Perhaps you should fight the reason for your suffering? When I had my KTS , CTS in english, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, I was buying a real good keyboard and a trackball. The trackball had the most effect. No need to move the hand, just the fingers, helped a lot. I still use the trackball when I work with my notebook while travelling per train. I am used to it. Since it is wireless, I did even presentations with it, pressing it on my upper leg while I was recovering from the hand surgery. I can even do some playing with it, since my builds are normally very defensive in nature. When our then 11 year old daughter had an cast on her arm (goalie at soccer, and trying to parry a shot from a 15 year olf boy at close distance) she couldn't use a mouse because the cast was hitting the desk so that she couldn't grap it. A trackball was possible. CTS: I am not female, I was not pregnant, I am not a drinker... The reason I had CTS as an adult was a fracture of my hand when I was 12

Gogo, I think Geraardsbergen is in Belgium. So probably still a bit too early for big tadpoles? We have just eggs at the moment. We stopped collecting toads just 4 days ago. Collecting: do a plastic barrier so that they can't cross a secondary street and collect them in baskets and bring them to the lakes on the other side. The newts come out of the forest and don't have to cross the street. And for the garden, I wonder if the yellow fields may be rapeseed. The small bushes in rows I can't guess. Sorry that I am curious but my grandparents were farmers And I am even guessing which type of tractor worked the field, I think it is a small one. Smaller than my Porsche, more in the size of my Lamborghini, hmmm...

Well I think the english teacher was referring to the fact that my oldest learnt english on the street and not at school. When I was still at army and my wife studying we were living close to the living area of a big US garnison in germany. So she grew up with american kids and a ton of slang expressions. And she had to learn that most of the words she used were slang and not english, hard and frustrating job for the teacher.

And not knowing if the poster plays AddOn or Consoles: combinations use either casting speed or weapon speed... And consoles won't have left and right clicks

The correct german name is Kaulquappe. Local slang sword is Dickkopp ( thick head). Kaul is old german for thick head and quappe means, damn I lack the words, some slimy stuff (quabblig, quabber, schlapprig- german slang). Wasn't there a movie with Robin Williams with a similiar sounding title? Flubber? But our thickheads are less frogs, more from alpine newts. We have fish breeding ponds (from a fishing club) in our surroundings. So we always have some herons, cormorans and common kingfishers preying for the young fish and the thickheads. Sadly most of the nice colourful Kingfishers didn't survive the extremely cold winter, too much ice. I like to watch them preying and then diving. The main enemy for our thickheads in our small 1.50m*2m garden pond is however the larva of the dragonfly and the great diving beetle. The kingfishers learnt not to dive to near to gras, where most of the thickheads are. Currently the pond is covered again with an iron net, because our 2 and a half year old twins explore the area. Our Leonberger dogs are trained to do water rescue, but we want to be on the save side. The german word for witch is Hexe, quite similiar to the norwegian.