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Regret is something many Dynasty baseball owner experience regarding trades. It’s selling an important piece for pennies on the dollar, or it’s holding onto prospects when nobody is ready to contribute while the team flounders anyway. It is a transaction that looks good on paper but when you look at it, it doesn’t feel right. … Read more

At level sixty, standing in front of the training dummy, there’s a certain panic. There’s a realization that your talent points has been scattered about like breadcrumbs left by a confused bird. And the Priest class in World of Warcraft Classic require choices, ones that will shape who you are for months. You can’t just … Read more

In World of Warcraft Classic, becoming a druid mean fulfilling many roles. A druid is a tank, a melee damage dealer, a ranged caster, and a healer all rolled into one. Fifty-one points, distributed among three trees, makes the talent interface look easy. In practice, though, restrictions are tight: every point you sink into one … Read more

For 30 seconds, there is silence in the chat room and then either outrage or elation. That is the moment that an NFL trade has gone from football strategy to perception. There you are sitting across from a manager who view a rental running back as a paycheck while you view them as a depreciating … Read more

Evil Hunter Tycoon tends to attract most player who mindlessly stack raw damage stats without paying attention to their attack rhythms at all. This makes sense; big numbers on a tooltip look like power, and yet this overlooks how speed actualy dictates how often your hunter lands blows. A slow weapon that does huge damage … Read more

Path of Exile’s attack speed is not “just” about damage output, however. It is also about the generation of resources and it is about rhythm. Your screen should either be a video game or a glitching spreadsheet, your choice. While numbers may appear huge on paper, the way you stack up multipliers can mean the … Read more

The timer begins and your damage per second seem pitifully low. Your gear is spot-on. Your set bonus is just right. You’re loaded with raw damage necessary to kill any normal boss. What’s wrong? It isn’t elemental resistances or lack of talent points. It’s almost always attack speed. Time is damage in Diablo 3. If … Read more

When you lose to someone who clicks faster but hits you fewer times it might seem like you’re getting cheated. This is likely due to not understanding how combat work in Java Edition. Speed alone is not rewarded anymore. Now, it’s about patience and knowing when to strike. Each time you take a swing before … Read more

When you dual-wielded stilettoes in Pillars of Eternity, you expected them to strike like lightning … but they were sluggish loops of animation. That’s the gap between what you expect and what it delivers. That’s where build optimization starts. Speed isn’t one stat in this game. It’s a layered equation made up of dexterity scaling, … Read more

You might feel sluggish during teamfights when your attacks don’t line up with your skills. That’s because you’re building gear without knowing what Riot’s formula for attack speed are. The game doesn’t just throw bonus numbers at your base stat. Instead, it take your base stat, multiplies it by a champ-specific ratio, and finaly caps … Read more

A lot of times you get mad because “your attack speed isn’t making you hit fast.” Your build up has all these stats, you’re just hitting super slow. Maybe the guy dies really quick but you see his health bar drop slower then what it should be. And its not realy due to the item … Read more

Anyone who’s played an action RPG knows this feeling: you’re gearing up for battle, pressing that button… and watching as your character lazily swipes the air. It’s less of a lethal attack then it is a leisurely pastime. Always, everyone experiences this same phenomenon in a multiplayer title. As enemies move toward you, you watch … Read more