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Do casters start with full mana or is it a good idea to hit the death knight(s) as early as you can to reduce the coils you eat? I'm frankly amazed at the amount of clothing she is wearing and while she is holding the bow in a silly way her pose is not needlessly showing off her chest or butt. Is this unofficial artwork?
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Poil posted:I'm frankly amazed at the amount of clothing she is wearing and while she is holding the bow in a silly way her pose is not needlessly showing off her chest or butt. Is this unofficial artwork? It's from her Hearthstone trailer. There will be official artwork of her I'll post in the future - and I have in the past - that is entirely less sensible.
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Jan 15, 2023 23:50
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Yeah, I remember the picture from the Beyond The Dork Portal manual. 
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Jan 15, 2023 23:53
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Poil posted:Do casters start with full mana or is it a good idea to hit the death knight(s) as early as you can to reduce the coils you eat? Full mana iirc.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:01
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achtungnight posted:Full mana iirc. No. I think 75 mana.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:12
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Considering mana is constantly regenerating and you don’t see the casters on the map at first unless you’re cheating, it might as well be full. In any case you want to kill casters early. I prefer to do it with a death wagon or something else immune to the instant kill spells.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:53
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Always geek the mage first
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Jan 16, 2023 01:11
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Why did I think the Windrunners were Night Elves and not the Quel'Thalas crew
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Jan 16, 2023 03:03
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Why did I think the Windrunners were Night Elves and not the Quel'Thalas crew Maybe because they had face tattoos before it was established that that was a Night Elf thing and not a High Elf thing?
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Jan 16, 2023 05:02
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A certain Windrunner also used a Night Elf model in vanilla WoW. Or maybe you just got the name mixed up with Whisperwind.
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Jan 16, 2023 10:40
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...Is it just me, or is his head kind of tiny?
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Jan 16, 2023 11:55
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Carpator Diei posted:...Is it just me, or is his head kind of tiny? Dude's proportioned like a Space Marine.
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Jan 16, 2023 12:07
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Poil posted:Do casters start with full mana or is it a good idea to hit the death knight(s) as early as you can to reduce the coils you eat? For some reason anyone tagged as a "ranger" type generally is covered up, male or female, usually a big cloak
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Jan 16, 2023 12:43
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AtomikKrab posted:For some reason anyone tagged as a "ranger" type generally is covered up, male or female, usually a big cloak Carpator Diei posted:...Is it just me, or is his head kind of tiny?
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Jan 16, 2023 14:07
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Here's a much more representative work of art for the BtDP cast, from the Chronicles book. Spoilers: the Alliance will be going beyond the Dark Portal in this expansion. I didn't touch on it, but hefting around a broken sword is kind of a thing for Turalyon. It's the remains of Lothar's sword recovered from his body.
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Jan 16, 2023 15:04
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Now I've just realized that aleria's bow looks like it's basically useless and it won't store any elastic energy when drawn
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Jan 16, 2023 15:24
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Hell, in that last picture I don't think it's even strung, she's just posing with it! Warcraft has never made designs with practicality aforethought, but I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard's designers don't actually know how a bow works and just assume the bowstring is elastic.
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Jan 16, 2023 15:30
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ikanreed posted:Now I've just realized that aleria's bow looks like it's basically useless and it won't store any elastic energy when drawn
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Alleria's bow officially falls under 'it's magic, we don't gotta explain poo poo.' I may do a lore post on Legion's artifact weapons at some point, but Alleria's bow is one of them. The hereditary bow of the Rangers-General of Quel'thalas, an ancient relic that dates back to the founding of Quel'thalas. Players got their hands on it, used it for a couple of years, then sucked the bow's power dry and turned it into just a stick and threw it in their banks where it rots to this day alongside the weapons of other players like the Doomhammer, Scepter of Sargeras, and Frostmourne. Cythereal fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Jan 16, 2023 15:42
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Cythereal posted:Here's a much more representative work of art for the BtDP cast, from the Chronicles book. Spoilers: the Alliance will be going beyond the Dark Portal in this expansion. Turalyon has a nice little Pride Rock there. Danath is just kinda there.
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Jan 16, 2023 16:36
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Tenebrais posted:I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard's designers don't actually know how a bow works and just assume the bowstring is elastic. I've found to my great disappointment that an enormous amount of people including a lot of artists, game designers, etc. think this is exactly true.
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Jan 16, 2023 16:41
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Most of them (and most players) would be shocked to see something like the archer test videos on Tod's Workshop when he has Joe Gibbs on.
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Jan 16, 2023 16:42
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raifield posted:Somewhere in the ether, the mythical spirit of Zhuge Liang winces.
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Cythereal posted:Here's a much more representative work of art for the BtDP cast, from the Chronicles book. Spoilers: the Alliance will be going beyond the Dark Portal in this expansion. I’ll be honest that looks like a lot more men then I expected. I always had the vibe of this small elite force that was on a time limit.
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Chainrider37 posted:I’ll be honest that looks like a lot more men then I expected. I wonder if this fits as a thread title...
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Chainrider37 posted:I’ll be honest that looks like a lot more men then I expected. I always had the vibe of this small elite force that was on a time limit. There's some fan theories about the size of armies in Starcraft/Warcraft where a single footman or a single marine in-game is actually a squad of people. The idea is that your biggest or most powerful units, like juggernauts or battlecruisers tend to be a single unit, and then as the individuals get smaller by comparison the squad size represented by a single unit on the map increases. So that picture where you have a swarm of alliance soldiers leaving the portal could be represented in-game by a dozen footmen and a few rangers or something to that effect.
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Jan 16, 2023 19:09
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Cythereal posted:Here's a much more representative work of art for the BtDP cast, from the Chronicles book. Spoilers: the Alliance will be going beyond the Dark Portal in this expansion. I like how Danath is just a particularly strong footman. Even in this picture he's down at the bottom with all the other footmen instead on up there with the rest of the heroes.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:28
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Tenebrais posted:I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard's designers don't actually know how a bow works and just assume the bowstring is elastic. The models for bows in wow flex realistically, at least the ones made back when I played did so: https://www.wowhead.com/item=2504/worn-shortbow#modelviewer. Of course, the 3d modellers in 2003 might not have necessarily communicated that knowledge to the people hired to do big 2d paintings a decade+ later.
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Gun Jam posted:Short google search after, I ask - huh? Zhuge Liang was an ancient Chinese strategist. Maybe he wouldn’t appreciate what was going on in this game?
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achtungnight posted:Zhuge Liang was an ancient Chinese strategist. Maybe he wouldn’t appreciate what was going on in this game? And I reiterate what the other poster asked: Huh?
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Jan 16, 2023 22:19
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Zhuge Liang would have 4 pooled
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 Why must you let Zhuge Liang down, Cythereal. He had such high hopes for you.
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A judgment on Cythreal’s strategy from Zhuge Liang’s arch rival Sima Yi, who was defeated many times by Zhuge but nevertheless surpassed him in the end and became ruler of China- - You protected yourself well by taking advantage of that archer’s range. Good. - You slaughtered many Orcs, including warships & death knights. Good. - You saved the heroes, accomplished your mission. - You missed the ballista and finished with many dead or nearly dead soldiers. Imbecile! Dynasty Warriors & Romance of the 3 Kingdoms are the only reason the world knows who these people are today.
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Viola the Mad posted:
Success is the only metric of victory by which I judge myself. That which furthers my purpose is authorized.
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achtungnight posted:Dynasty Warriors & Romance of the 3 Kingdoms are the only reason the world knows who these people are today. Don’t forget Fate/GO, and the Parpri Koumei/Ya Boy Kongming anime from last year. The multitudes of Chinese dramas covering the period too, but those are all based off of Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, so you already covered that.
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edit: actually you know what I'm not gonna start a fight over this.
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achtungnight posted:- You missed the ballista and finished with many dead or nearly dead soldiers. Imbecile!
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Gun Jam posted:Short google search after, I ask - huh? Myth (and it is only myth, sadly) states that Zhuge Liang was sentenced to death unless he could procure 100,000 arrows within three days. He agreed, much to the delight of his enemies. On the third day, he took the fleet out, each ship armored with hay bales, and baited the enemy navy into firing arrows at his ships, collecting 100,000 arrows. Look on YouTube for 'Red Cliff, 100,000 arrows'. It's only slightly less realistic than the notion of a single archer sinking a ship.
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The bow is magic, your argument is invalid. This is Warcraft, not 'things happening in a vaguely reasonable way perpetuated by rational individuals.'
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