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Has that decklist done well on ladder? I feel like Dead Man's is the one deck that really needs a Skulking Geist or it can't beat Jade.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Seattle's West Coast, too!
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

He might. There was a random 8-man tourney this afternoon involving him, Firebat, Kibler, Ant, and several other pros, and he made it to the finals before falling to Kibler (when your lineup counters Jade Druid and Kazakus Priest, you really don't want to start running into Handbuff Paladins and Bearsharks >_>).
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Your win rate versus Warrior in The Arena was 100.0%.
you don't say.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

LeonhartFour posted...

augh the official English release of the ReLIFE manga is only up as far as the anime! I did enjoy a few bits that got edited out of the anime though.

I guess I might have to settle for a fan translation of what hasn't been released yet because I can't find a release date for the next volume of the manga. I don't even know if it's finished yet! I guess I'll find out.

I feel like I should mention that the fan translation of ReLIFE is pretty bad; you might be better off simply waiting for Crunchy to catch up (I'm assuming they're doing a chapter or two a week, or something).
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I randomly ran into FD in the Arena at 3-2, and got completely blown out by Archerus Vet early on, and then Primordial Drake late.

I then went for a salty runback Druid. Got:

Innervate

Acherus Vet
Glacial Shard

Druid.Swarm
Power.Wild
Volatile Ele

Deathspeaker
Elder Longneck
Imp Master
Squirm Tent

Bite
Daring Reporter
Infested Tauren
Kooky Chem
Mire Keep
Polluted Hoarder

Fatespinner
Living Mana
Spreading Plague
Starfall x2
Tomb Lurker
Webweave

Defias Cleaner
Moonglade Portal
Necrotic Geist

Malfurious

UI x2

Mountain Giant


I wasn't expecting too much. Double UI and Malfurious is awesome, obviously, and Innervate and Mountain Giant are both great with the UIs, but a pair of 2/1's doesn't make up for only having three 2-drops and just a Mire Keeper for ramp. Got to 12-2, and picked up a Sindragosa in the pack~
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Oh god random DGS2 quote not a spoiler but I'm putting it in spoilers anyways the point is Leon read this:

Iris: My? What's a ladder doing here?
Naruhodo: ...
Iris: Hm? What's wrong?
Naruhodo: Nah; it's just, I thought you called ones that could be folded in half "stepladders" in English.
Iris: Yeah, English can be strangely specific sometimes. The language winds up laying the seeds for so much strife.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

It actually caught me off-guard because it seemed too obvious.

Rip >_>
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

LeonhartFour posted...

Man, waiting for the DGS channel to sub these DGS2 videos is torturous. They've only completely finished one video so far.

Don't get me wrong; I get that it's a long and difficult process, so I'm not complaining about their lack of effort or whatever. I just want to know how the first case ends!

stop tempting me.

it won't work.

I CAN SEE THROUGH YOUR PLOTS LEON.

(also what LotM said)
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Other than the various guilt trips, no.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

my problem is when someone takes something they're struggling with and, rather than either choosing to get better or deciding that it's not worth their time -- which is fine! -- they decide to blame the game.

but whatever.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

The fact that top players get 10+ wins consistently more often than one out of every twenty tries flies in the face of your reasoning. As does the rarity of unskilled players making double digits.

You are starting with a conclusion -- that there is no skill in Arena -- and are throwing out pretty much meaningless numbers and stats to back that up. Heck, Blizzard playing with the numbers reduces variance: if cards that heavily impact win rate (both favorably, like Bonemare, and unfavorably, like ancient Watcher) are less likely to show up, then draft luck is less impactful on your overall result.

But that is irrelevant. Draft variance has always been a thing in card games, and always will be. RNG variance in terms of e.g. draws has always been a thing in card games, and always will be. If this bothers you, perhaps you shouldn't be playing card games.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

MariaTaylor posted...

THIS IS WHAT THE CURRENT CHALLENGE RATING CURVE LOOKS LIKE

50/88/87/50/50/91/50/50/50/89/50/50

where those high numbers are arbitrarily placed and could just show up anywhere on the curve. sometimes you'll get fewer and will luck into a 12 win run with a mediocre deck. sometimes you'll get more and will luck into an early run termination despite having a really good deck.

This is simply wrong. Variance does not affect the mean.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

So while I do not have specific numbers, it is generally accepted that illegal immigrants are a net boon to the government's coffers. The reason for this is that they pay taxes (e.g. sales tax, property tax either directly [from owning a home] or indirectly [some of that rent check is going towards that], payroll taxes if they are not being paid under the table [happens a lot -- an employer can honestly say "Well I had no idea he was illegal" because they chose not to ask the question and get away with that, but if they start dodging taxes, Uncle Sam's not gonna be too happy]), but do not have the ability to receive any benefits (as a lazy example, you can't get Social Security without a valid SSN).

As for roads, this comes down to economics of scale. A road takes more wear and tear from one winter than it does from a year of cars, for instance, and having more people does not increase the amount of roads necessary by a proportionate amount. There will always have to be a single well-maintained road through the desert no matter how many people live in the surrounding areas, for instance. While that may seem reductionary, there's a lot of open space in this country punctuated by spread-out population centers, so that's a really large percentage of the roads.

And I should probably stop editing posts a hundred times but YOU CAN'T STOP ME.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

That's such a devastating nerf to Warrior.

Does the class even have anything else it can use as a 2-mana weapon?
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

don't do it xp.

THE MIRACLE NEVER HAPPEN.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I still have hope that the greyscale operation will backfire somehow.

I probably shouldn't though.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Janus5k posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Oh hey the four color theorem

As far as I know it was the first theorem to be proven mostly by computer.

that was the only question I got wrong

I swear the way they drew that picture it was two

It actually is; they screwed up the question. Any map can be completed using at most four colors, but obviously you can create ones that only need fewer.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

but didn't he have stealth AND a whole lot more?
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

xp1337 posted...

IIRC, my experience with the 3rd quiz minigame was that the last/hardest difficulty was actually easier than the previous one. The last one was generally "meta" questions that you needed outside information to answer. The level previous was stuff that was technically in-game but was so ridiculously obscure it was crazy.

Agreed 100%. The meta questions were super fun, imho.
Mac Arrowny posted...

actually kinda surprised you didn't go with the fan translation

Is it any good? I know it's an unfinished version that got leaked, or something along those lines, which generally doesn't speak well for quality.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

SeabassDebeste posted...

Johnbobb posted...

I will admit, this was probably the thing that frustrated me most this season

I think you would have enjoyed this topic much more - I know I did - before 7x05. The battle in 7x04 had (some) people thinking this season could be among the top. The one-two punch of 7x05 and 7x06 really let a *lot* of the wind out of those sails, I think.

Yeah, I was in that boat. The first four episodes were flawed, yes, but I enjoyed them -- and it's been years since I've been able to say that about this show. Then everything plummeted.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

bng_mmmk posted...

ah, neat.

Kibler commented in one of his recent rexxar videos how swamp king dred is a hard counter to quest mage. It's so true, and somewhat hilarious.

can confirm that I have lost games to this.

it is the most miserable thing ever.

Also hooray for more modes where Ultimate Infestation is OP.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

On a similar note: if they hadn't gone with this plan, what, exactly, was the Night King's plan for getting past the Wall, anyways?
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Was it?

was Dorne really important to the story?
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

that question was easy. It's super relevant for a number of fights, how big the field is. Plus, the game immediately tells you if you got them wrong or not, so you learn as you're going. Here, all I was told was "you got at least 7 right" at the end.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I loved those quizzes. They were easier questions than that; the biggest difficulty was that, because I can't read Japanese as fast as I can English, I was a bit rushed.

But here, like, another one of the questions was "What music CD was packaged with such-and-such release of the PSP version of Trails of the Sky SC?"

and I'm like.

what do you want from me.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

so i grabbed Zero no Kiseki Evolution.

I don't really have time to play it tonight, but I started it up, and the game went "Hey there's a quiz for series fans, and if you do well there's bonus stuff!" So I went for it, obviously.

Question #7: In Trails in the Sky The 3rd, in the sixth layer, when entering the hanger from the Black Arc, the Capua Family appear to block your way. Now, including their employees, what was the total size of their forces?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Dorne, full stop.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

While I've never done it myself for the Gamecube, I've heard it's decently simple.

That said, it does involve having a Gamecube available to use, which I'm going to go ahead and assume you do not >_>
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

LeonhartFour posted...

how do you emulate a game without downloading it

like I said I'm not really up on how emulators work and all that stuff

You can make a ROM/ISO dump yourself -- you have a legal right to make an archival (i.e. backup) copy of any computer software. Alternatively, with games that are on CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays, you can just stick the disk in a PC's optical drive and run it off that.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

LeonhartFour posted...

you're technically allowed to emulate a game if you already own a real copy right?

Emulating a game is always legal. Downloading a game off the Internet is not, regardless of whether or not you own a copy.

That said, I would argue there's nothing unethical about it so >_>
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I liked it!

The animes are more hit-and-miss, though... But on the bright side, none of the side stories are required watching/reading for V3 (though I think there's spoilers for them in the intro cutscene?).
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

There is only one right choice.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I'm pretty sure "Well that was stupid" aptly sums up everything I could say about the episode.

Like.

Littlefinger: I'mma go randomly make the Stark sisters kill each other now, despite my stated affection for Sansa being the only possible believable motivation for me at this point.
Bran: You know I know everything, right? Except for who married whom because that shit's boring.
Littlefinger: No one talks to you, cripple. Now excuse me while I don't have you murdered while you're sitting in a secluded space all by your lonesome.
Bran: Thanks, bud, but you're gonna regret that in exactly 183 hours.
Sansa: Hey Littlefinger guess who I talked to last night?
Littlefinger: Well fuck me.

There was no rational way Littlefinger's plan worked. We only expected it to because that is the quality of writing we have grown accustomed to.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

With mage, not sure if I was just weirdly lucky or not, but he wasn't casting any spells while Frostmorne was in play. Gave me plenty of time to set up the combo.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Camden posted...

I'm trying to cheat out Counterspell on turn one with only a single copy of Counterspell. Not working so well, and I'm not about to spend dust on this.

oh god that's brilliant.

Please tell us if that works :)
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

it's a challenge. A puzzle.

That you want the reward without solving the puzzle is your problem, not the game's.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Random spoiler-free DGS2 quote:

"So then, Sir Holmes. Have you come to understand anything about the case?"
"Good heavens. Patience, young lady; we have been in this room for a scant five minutes. Hardly enough time to decipher much of anything, save perhaps the truth.

I've missed you, Holmes.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

velocycloraptor posted...

one of the creators of the show literally said themes are for 8th grade book reports

they don't get the books or the characters (remember when they thought arya/needle stuff in bravos was about revenge?) at all, and the show is so popular that of course many viewers are huge morons that need everything spelled out for them constantly and want their hands held.

wait what

is this true?

OliviaTremor posted...

“If the show was struggling, I’d be worried about those concerns, but the show seems to be doing pretty well so it’s OK to have people with those concerns.”

...Whelp, I guess that more-or-less answers that question.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

pjbasis posted...

I imagine people normally dreamed in color before that too then.

I guess the advent of television and film has just been that influential.

This is correct. Only the generation that grew up on B&W TVs dreams predominantly in black and white.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3353504/Black-and-white-TV-generation-have-monochrome-dreams.html

Turns out idiot box was rotting their brains -- just not in the way they thought!

all the cold steel spoiler bars make me sad. I need to start on Zero soon and just power through them all.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

That whole storyline just feels like a D&D campaign to me. Been getting those vibes since that scene with Gendry and the two guards. Now you have the idiot players going off-rails on a ridiculous plan, causing a TPK, and the DM having to bail them out. Except he's mad about it so he comes up with a way to make their lives miserable in the future when they have to have the final boss fight.

I couldn't hate it if I tried.

...I can't argue with this.

God dammit I want to, but I can't.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

Okay. Let me see if I've got all of this right:
--Team Idiots, despite launching from the literal Obsidian Mine, did not bother to equip themselves with obsidian weaponry.
--Team Idiots is at least a 24-hour walk from the Wall. Presumably more.
--Team Idiots spends 24 hours surrounded by the entire Army of the Dead. During this time, Gendry runs all the way back to East-watch-by-the-sea, a raven is sent to Dragonstone, and Dany somehow flies all the way back up north.
--Dany somehow finds Team Idiots in the middle of hundreds and hundreds of miles of indistinguishable tundra.
--I literally could not tell who was getting hurt because literally everyone on Team Idiots looks the same to me because they've all got black hair, beards, are white, and are wearing the same clothes. I couldn't even make out the redness of Torgen's hair, the colors were so... saturated? Is that the right word? Whatever. Admittedly, that one's on me, but still! You could at least let the Red Priest wear red!
--Team Idiot's glorious leader, Jon Snow, is immune to cold now or something. This is somehow one of the least stupid things this episode.
--Despite our already having established that the Army of the Dead is LESS THAN 24 HOURS FROM EAST-WATCH-BY-THE-SEA, the characters still figure there's sufficient time to get to King's Landing, convince everybody re: Impending Doom, put all of everyone's armies on a bunch of boats, and sail north.
--And because of the writing quality of the show, they're gonna be right.

On the bright side: at least Team Idiots paid for their idiocy by giving the Night King a Blue-Eyes Wight Dragon in attack mode.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

MariaTaylor posted...

bng_mmmk posted...

Dead Man's Hand is so cool that it almost makes me want to play warrior.

do you mean for constructed? I think Savjz came up with a pretty decent C'thun list recently that makes use of Dead Man's Hand for a control warrior. I can't vouch that it's actually good but it seemed fun to play and he was using it at Legend ranks.

The problem with Dead Man's Hand is that the mirror is literally a 30-minute guaranteed tie.

it is, however, one of the few decks that actually really, really wants to run Skulking Geist >_>
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

...Euron, lame? You can accuse him of being many things, but I don't think "lame" is one of them.

I do agree with a lot of his complaints, though people need to stop writing essays on Twitter. Just link to them on some site that makes it not physically painful to read.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

XIII_rocks posted...

See I actually thought "now it begins/now it ends" was added in by TV because it seemed such a Hollywood line. Weird.

The biggest change here was in tone: In the show, Ned sounds badass, rather than mournful.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

!!!

They updated ninjhax for the old3ds! And it works!

*dives into DGS*
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

maybe 5% of people are playing shaman. who cares.

As for druid: in my experience, you generally don't care.

Shaduln: I feel like your early game's gonna cost you a game or two, but that late game... :)
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

I'm finally getting in some arena runs myself, and... Man, I really underestimated Deathspeaker. It's only a 117 on the Lightforge, and I have to assume that's a function of the dearth of 2-drops because it feels insane right now.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

data reaper's live data is kinda worthless, since it takes all ranks into account (unless there's an option on the spreadsheet I'm not seeing).

also I'm pretty sure Raynad made a video all of yesterday complaining about Invigorate but >_>
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius

He does get ridiculous, but Druid is also stupidly good right now. Literally 40% of the top ranks are Druids.
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Nonsense. "Testing" is for when you're still guessing--and now, I have no need to guess. -- Agatha, Girl Genius