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I reached the village and it's gotten to the point where I legit might have to bump the enemy health down to basically nil, because the second more than one sees me, I'm dead. Hell if only one sees me there's a good chance I'm burning through bullets and item durability on any melee weapon I have. They're sponges that hit hella hard and then have the ability to literally teleport to you for an instant hit, making them honestly feel broken and in need of a rework.

Everything recently that I need to make requires a projection matrix. Which means I need to go to the blacksmith to trade in reinforced cable, which means I need to make more reinforced cable. Is there really no other way to get lenses or farm them? I'm running out of base materials just to make cables which I didn't think was possible, just to get lenses just to make projection matrixes. Is there really no good way to get lenses in bulk or am I just missing it?

One of the statements Eithan made about how it's lonely at the top and how he wants to prove you can walk the path to advancement together kind of stuck out with me because there was a theme I saw in the book and I was curious if I was the only one that saw it.

Whenever we get introduced to a character: Akura Charity, Fury, the Emperor himself, Suriel, Kral etc, they come off as very intimidating, very controlling, very "Oh they could kill you with a thought and you'd have to find a way to apologize from the afterlife for inconveniencing them in doing it."

However, as our MCs reach similar power levels, or interact with them more there is also the realization that many of them are just normal people. If they act like that it's just that: an act. They joke, they laugh, they get along with people.

It made me think back to Eithan's statement, and how a lot of that seems to mostly be from less powerful people. Like, the power they possess is isolating them from others, or maybe how it's just a cage where they can only really interact with people on their level.

What cemented this for me was the way Fisher Gesha gets introduced: powerful enough to stop an all out brawl just by her appearance and her constructs at the beginning...and then Lindon becomes more powerful than her and she quickly loses all character traits (Probably one of my only critiques of the book being how she ends up, I loved her snark.)

I recently asked some folks about heavy weapons and their viability. (Thank you all for answering, by the way!) I saw a few post here and there of folks suggesting things to improve heavy weapons and, I figured, I would like to throw my own hat in the ring there.

The big change that, I think, needs to happen is that Heavy Weapons need their own tree. While it's clear they can benefit from gaining points in the other two trees, I like the idea that they have their own as well that will reward you for focusing on them.

These are a few perk ideas for the tree in no particular order

Swing Speed increases at regular intervals. I don't think it needs to ever hit as quick as a 1-handed weapon, but being able to compete fairly in DPS is not out of the question.

Damage Reduction My first thought was increasing damage resistance per your hit, but to balance it out with a later perk, I think it should be the more YOU get hit the higher your damage resistance should go to a fixed point

Health Regen upon giving damage This is the perk that I think would balance out the damage reduction. Inspired by the Barbarian perk from another game, the more damage you dish out with a heavy weapon the higher your regen goes, balancing out the relatively slow swinging speed at the start against the annoying and quick adversaries within the game

Lowering the strength requirement Taken (Admittedly) from another post, but if you're going to give it its own tree, heavy weapons shouldn't have a strength requirement as high as it is, so this would make it a necessity for viability. Maybe not at strength 1, but at least like 3 or something.

Gibbed: I like this as a level 20 capstone perk or maybe closer to the end. Killing an enemy with a heavy weapon has a high chance to gib them so you get their goodies faster.

Allow blocking Not a perk, but I find it odd that you can't block with a two-handed weapon at all, to begin with (And that includes 1-handed) but with a heavy weapon it feels like a must.

Armor Bypass Certain enemies are armored in various places and a heavy weapon should bypass them at a high enough level, reduce their effectiveness or outright remove them.

That's just a few ideas I had, i'd love to hear your guys opinions and maybe even your own ideas of heavy weapon perks.

I bought "Understanding Power" and, honestly, I'm not enjoying it nor am I finding myself really really convinced by him yet. I figure it's probably because I started with the wrong book and I want to get your opinions on if there are any that are good for "dipping one's toes in" I suppose.

Let's go, got banned from r/comics for saying that not wanting to talk about politics shouldn't automatically make you a racist.

I have only recently gotten big into Riichi Mahjong while playing Doma Mahjong in FFXIV and watching people lay Mahjong Soul and I am...extremely bad at Mahjong... I've gone thirteen games in a row and only one of them did I come in second, every other one was fourth place and that was just today, I haven't had much luck the previous days either.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I try to stick with waiting for riichi and I lose. I go all simps and I lose, I try defensive and it feels like I give the person the exact tile he needs to ron me. I am desperate and in need of help, any help.

While I understand that this could very-much be just a fluff based thing or "Whatever you want it to mean" situation, I was just wondering why a summoner NEEDS an eidolon to be a summoner. Is it like a focus for their magic? It's certainly not there to help them summon as, I believe, you need to unsummon it to use summon monster.