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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

It was act four. It was a checkpoint in the middle of a dense crowd. Golden chests swarm across your screen, and purple enemies swirl around them. Everyone’s swinging their characters. Yours swing faster then everyone else. You’re untouchable. Or so you think. And then you see yourself up close. How many hits per second … Read more

But when you’re staring down at a chest of raw iron and your furnaces runs dry, you know that panic. The stone cools and those hours spent mining vanishes before your eyes. That’s when it begins; the switch from casual gameplay to logistics. Once you’ve constructed an automated smelter array, Minecraft’s smelting no longer feel … Read more

Rather than guessing if it’s okay to sacrifice some of your damage potential in exchange for additional speed (and therefore faster skill charging), simply input your own numbers into the calculator above and let it do all the work. This becomes especially helpful when fighting against enemies that stack up as time goes on, such … Read more

With this in mind, I wrote a calculator (above) to run through it for you. It break out the individual skill-specific bonus and total modifier provided by gear, letting you know actualy how far away your next frame drop is. That’s also why we refer to these as “dead zones”… Most builds suffers from them. … Read more

In Rust, there’s always this fear of running out of wood and having more ore than needed. You’re stuck staring at your resources as they gathers dust while your furnace burns through its own supply of wood before the sun sets. This smelting calculator gets rid of that worry. Resource management become a simple math … Read more

The furnace is up, the ore has been collected. In Vintage Story, smelting isn’t just a matter of pushing a button, it’s about understanding chemistry and thermodynamics. Overshoot the ratio or the temperature and you waste your resources on an unsuccessful cast. Underfuel the batch and your metal will never melt. This tool does the … Read more

Your inventory’s almost maxed out. You’ve got three thousand units of raw metal from some nasty place. All this effort suddenly hangs on whether you can get it smelted fast enough before the raiders come, or your dinosaur companion wanders away and dies. It’s a situation that demands careful preparation, not blind chance. Knowing the … Read more

In New World you hit that point where you’re wearing Tier 5 gear and you realize you’ve filled up your inventory with raw ore and now you don’t know how to turn it into weapon upgrades. It’s a unique frustration. You have what you need, but there are no ingots and a lack of tools … Read more

In most long-form matches of League of Legends there comes a point at which the game transitions from a competition of skill to one of attrition. You have picked off your waves, cut off enemy’s flow of gold, and established an early advantage. Now what? Not only do you need to kill the opposing champion, … Read more

It calculates it for you on the calculator, but knowing what goes into it will inform your gameplay. First thing is first: your own personal level of mastery. This are derived from your life skill rank and represents the baseline that everything else is built around. Many players also don’t realize that it change. It’s … Read more

Everyone thinks they just need to stack their nodes with enough gear stats. The reality of FFXIV is much like gathering itself: it’s not raw power. It’s about maximizing your limited resources while under pressure. There you are, facing a legendary collectable node. Time is ticking away. Do you go for broke? Or do you … Read more