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Every time I play with Knight I'm impressed by how its abilities encourage a knight-like playstyle.

- Free Melee scaling with Armor means I'm throwing points into Armor and picking a weapon that scales with Melee

- With all that Armor, Spiked Shield is also viable, so I can easily wind up with a sword (or lance, mace, etc) and shield build, like a knight would have.

- The Attack Speed penalty means I'm going to favor the Armor/Melee scaling and with the available weapons my attacks will take ~1 second to cool down. So I wind up repeatedly charging in to hit (which isn't too scary because of all the Armor), back off, charge. Again, seems kind of like how a knight would fight.

- With the Harvesting penalty, if I want more resources, I have to earn them in combat.

Not my favorite tato or most OP but I think it's cool how it drives a different playstyle that is all thematically unified.

I've had a lot of miserable experiences with cyborg. Using the boost to Ranged is easy and feels awesome but turning Engineering into damage has been hard. Usually the second half of the round blows, or if I try to get weapons that scale with Eng then the whole round blows.

Nail fixes that. I also used railguns to try to offset that swing. But without elemental as a backup, what's your strategy if you don't get Nail? Access to structures is either dependent on wrenches or RNG for towers.

This did get me thinking about Engineering more generally. I think a way to make it more viable as a path is some more predictable access to structures in the shop. Like a weapon/item that increases your chance of seeing a structure in the shop, kind of like how quartestaff supports XP builds or pearl affects future item drops.

In yesterdays NWSL game between Bay FC and San Diego, SD is on the attack, BFC player takes a ball to the face, she has no time to react and her head whips back, ref stops play, SD coach apparently reacts disagreeably to the call. Couldn't see that part on the broadcast but obviously Koroleva could. Straight red to the coach who to his credit then leaves without further argument.

Stadium not happy, broadcasters very sympathetic to the coach. But she did the right thing to protect the player and refs. I appreciate it!

Ed: Katja not Katya, sorry I have a "Katya" in my autocorrect history