User talk:Shas'o Kauyon

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If, most likely via mistaking me for another user through some baffling process, you reach this talk page, feel free to leave any "feedback" or just anything else you'd like to mention. I'll gladly respond to anything that's even remotely interesting, provided you use proper grammar and spelling...

ReverT Wars
Do not be afraid to have a revert war if it is vandalism. You will not be punished, but its nice to see some cautious people nowadays, :) Welcome to the wiki! &mdash;Blastedt 17:30, 9 February 2007 (CST)
 * You are mistaken Blastedt. It is not ok to have a revert war, even if it's vandalism. If you play a vandal's game, you essentially are still breaking policy and while you will not be punished on your first offense, merely a warning, but the continued breaking of policy will eventually result in administrative action. The correct advice is to contact an admin so they can deal with the infraction. &mdash; Gares 18:23, 9 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks for the clarification. That's what I believed, based on my observations of various other revert wars with vandals, which is why I bothered to post a discussion note instead of rv'ing again. Shas&#39;o Kauyon 00:26, 11 February 2007 (CST)

Thanks
Well, it's always good to have a warm welcome. I just feel sort of odd since I spend so much time lurking over talk pages and such, I'll work on making meaningful edits. For now though..dinner.

Shocking discovery about rez sig
I'll have the details up on my userpage in a minute, but this tidbit on game mechanics confuses me. Just finished doing about a 4 hour Urgoz run, used rez sig right near start without ever getting morale boost. Lo and behold, I noticed something amazing! Just before the end, there was a tiny sliver of it "recharged!" (showing normal graphic). Not that it actually means anything valuable, but could rez sig just have a ridiculously prohibitively LONG recharge instead of NONE?
 * I wouldn't be surprised. Rather than code a skill to turn 'off', perhaps it's just a recharge time of 150,000 seconds or so. Craw   00:31, 11 February 2007 (CST)
 * Doesn't recharge. I noticed that after a near-wipe in the desolation, and once we capped our skill, I told them to map out instead of zone; went afk for a few hours, came back, was still a sliver. :/ -Auron [[Image:Elit Druin.jpg|||My Talk]] 02:33, 14 February 2007 (CST)
 * However if it actually has a recharge shouldn't it be affected by skills such as keystone signet and other recharge effecting skills? I think it would be easier to program in a "Never recharge" then special codings for all the skills?--Devils Apprentice 17:09, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

More on sig recharge
Well, that should be about right. Because the recharge shown on mine takes up 2.05 (measured with tool in GIMP) degrees of the icon in the span of approx. 6 hours. Assuming you would want to recharge the full 360 degrees, I believe that would be a 45 day recharge at that rate. I'm quite aware it's impossible to actually recharge it, just thought it was sort of amusing. I've been too busy playing to check wiki lately, sorry. Shas&#39;o Kauyon 09:43, 17 February 2007 (CST)

Earth farming eles
Just curious, does this bar seem too similar to existing tested builds already on the wiki? (I scanned over them and didn't think so, but I could be wrong.) I've been using this for a long time for most farming with minor variants, and I'm fairly certain a good number of other sites have highly similar builds. Bar below, and Galigord's Stone Staff or equivalent w/+20% enchant is a MUST. The setup shown below is for hydras, and (although nearly any farmer build can,) is capable of wiping out every hydra in skyward reach very easily with relatively forgiving casting requirements. I find this works better than some other builds I have seen on the tested area, because so long as you avoid areas with heavy enchant removal (which any elem farmer should already be doing,) your e-manage and health will both be pretty much taken care of 100% by renewal so long as you're keeping enchants up, and you should be taking 0 damage from literally anything. If it's interrupt heavy areas, might be worth taking mesmer secondary and tossing on a mantra instead of one of the pbAoE's. EDIT:  I should mention, reason for aftershock and crystal instead of crystal and tenai's is energy cost getting prohibitive with very little actual damage gain due to recharges (Aftershock helps sheerly due to spammability).

Major variants are switching out stability for melee (trolls) and taking off stoneflesh to replace w/sliver, or tenai's instead of crystal (if you have one instead of the other). For 100% prophecies, just sub out stoneflesh with your choice of skills. For hydras you just cast kinetic armor BEFORE engaging, establish aggro, immediately cast stability, follow w/stoneflesh and armor of earth, ether renewal (should be taking 0 damage from all things now), spam daggers for energy and health regen till melee range, and pbAoE once every few seconds, recasting enchants and renewal/spam as needed. (they rarely ever break aggro, even true of trolls.) Shas&#39;o Kauyon 09:59, 17 February 2007 (CST)
 * We had something like this before, I think it was archived at some point. I'll go see if I can find it. &mdash; [[image:azayasig.jpg]] Azaya 14:20, 1 March 2007 (CST)
 * Well, I guess I lied, because I can't find it anywhere. I could have sworn there was an 'E/any Stone Dagger Renewal' floating around somewhere... &mdash; [[image:azayasig.jpg]] Azaya 14:34, 1 March 2007 (CST)
 * E/any Multi-Purpose Farmer, see Hydra Farmer variant. --Deadly Lollipop 06:45, 5 March 2007 (CST)

Hmm, well, I put up my build but now I'm wondering if I should flag it for deletion? Don't know how I missed that, and I heavily doubt the one I just put up, E/any Renewing Daggers is different enough then. I'm still rather new to wiki-code, so should I just flag it for a delete and hope an admin comes along and does it, or is it different enough? (don't think it is myself, but..)

I would agree to some extent that it's redundant, but I personally find that this setup works vastly better than the Multipurpose set-up, because on the build I posted, literally all attacks from most monsters (both Hydras and Trolls with the change of wards), do 0 damage, and this can be maintained 100% consistently on the setup I submitted. Hence there is no need for any form of healing, and the Ward prevents KD interrupts against hydras (it's saved my life several times). What is the policy on removing delete tags if I was the original submitter? I might give it some time yet, but I'm not sure. I will say this though, give it a try if you have some time. Shas&#39;o Kauyon 09:58, 5 March 2007 (CST)

Hey
I can't access my talk page because my school's most excellent danguardian is half-working and disallowed it :p you're welcome anyway &mdash; Skuld 04:12, 1 March 2007 (CST)

just ignore him imo &mdash; Skuld 04:16, 1 March 2007 (CST)


 * You naughty users are filling up GuildWiki with trash. Those articles I put the delete tag on were already voted unfavored. I was simply marking them for deletion because there's over a thousand unfavored articles in that category already. Skuld you lazy bum I thought you were cleaning up the builds section but it's a mess now 1000+ unfavored builds. What's the point of having them around. 70.231.233.201 04:20, 1 March 2007 (CST)

If you're enraged that there are so many messy builds, then why on Earth did you decide to act outside of the rules to attempt to remedy what you see as a problem? As of right now, you deserve to be banned, and have committed more than enough offenses to warrant it. There are perfectly legitimate means to express your concerns on this Wiki. You're causing far more harm to the wiki than you are good by doing this. Perhaps you should have read my user page before blanking it, you would see that I myself don't like the current state of the builds area. It does absolutely no good, however, to go on a rampage over it. If you wanted Skuld to clean up builds...why not just politely "egg him on" about it on his talk page? If you want to help with the work of encouraging strong builds, be my guest, but doing the equivalent of screaming "ZOMG THIS SUXXORZ DELETE!" does not teach users how to make a build, it just repels them. The problem of so-called "noobs" is largely perpetuated by the very people who commonly use the term. I honestly doubt you really have any intent of helping this community, but if you do, then stop the madness that you're committing this moment. Oh, and I'll end on this note. Your comment on the edit to my very page reveals you know nothing of religion as you do seem to believe. The comment was "God hates you," which can not be further from the truth for any human being, even you. I would advise you against continuing further. (PS: I accidentally forgot to log on when adding that last tidbit) Shas&#39;o Kauyon 04:32, 1 March 2007 (CST)
 * Thanks for your help in dealing with the above user, btw. You were calm and cool in dealing with him. You seem like a good person to have around the wiki. - [[Image:Candle.jpg|12px]] Krowman (talk • contribs) 01:21, 2 March 2007 (CST)

Random
I doubt whoever it was even cares anymore at this point, but for some reason I feel stupid, I accidentally pasted over some dude's talk page comment once while over-liberally applying my ctrl-V's. Unlikely they'll see this and/or care, but if they ever do, sorry about that. Shas&#39;o Kauyon 03:16, 26 March 2007 (CDT)

Builds
Please remove the Tested Build template from your archived builds, it puts them in the tested Build section, and that's bad. --   17:17, 22 April 2007 (CDT)

Ack, my apologies, fixing that now :x (sorry, wikinoob :( Shas&#39;o Kauyon 01:14, 26 April 2007 (CDT)