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Quick questions thread!
thelaptop:
Alright, there are three classes of acronyms, in-game, post-mortem and nicknames.
* In-game: Traits (Iro, TaN, SoB etc) and challenges (AoB, AoMr, Ao100 etc) that appear in-game. The trait acronyms are often the first three letters of a trait Iroman, or initials Son of a Gun. Challenges are often named with the convention of "Ao" (Angel of) followed by either the first two letters of the challenge or something that is more or less "intuitive" -- the system is not completely systematic. Best way to find out about challenge acronyms is either from the high scores page or from reading the Badge descriptions.
* Post-mortem: Read Malek's mortem guidelines for a full list of mortem acronyms. These overlap with the in-game ones. YA* (Yet Another) is used to denote a win (YAVP), full win (YAFW), 100% kills win (YAAM), or death (YASD).
* Nicknames: These are often community generated. So things like "shotty" for shotgun, "double shotty" for double shotgun, "DS" for DragonSlayer, "BA" for Berserker Amour, "LS" for Longinus Spear, "Cybie" for the cyberdemon, "Spidey" for the Spider Mastermind. This is not something that is too hard to pick up if you are already familiar with the in-game stuff.
I'm going to leave this here for a bit, and then probably merge this with the Quick Questions thread. Part of joining a forum is to lurk to learn the lingo, and in our case, since we are based around some games, most of the lingo comes from there. =)
Klear:
Hi and welcome!
I'd like to add that the acronyms of master traits are a bit unintuitive in that they are always preceded my M for master, so MVm is Vampyre, MAD is Army of the Dead, MSc is Scavenger etc. And you can check out a lot of stuff on the wiki.
There are obviously spoilers galore there, depending on what you consider a spoiler. For example, I decided never to look up the different before discovering them myself, though most of the people here do. (and despite having a couple of diamonds, I still don't know most of the master assemblies).
Klear:
Personally, I've skipped the unchained court (the version after beating Hell's Arena), Mortuary and Lava Pits on most of my runs until I was able to beat the game on UV most of the time. Oh, and the Unholy Cathedral. I rarely venture there outside a dedicated melee build.
Eyro:
OK, so I went into Hurt Me Plenty with the intention of going MCe (I think that's the Cateye shorthand :P). This all changed when on level 4 I met Ms. Nuclear Plasma Rifle. That changed things up. I stuck an agility mod on it (Might've been a bit too quick on that one), and now I'm planning to grab Juggler to switch to another rapidfire when it needs to recharge, and grab Whizkid so I can mod it out (No idea if I can assemble it into anything).
Should I keep going to grab MCe (Currently have a level of EE, a level of Int, and 2 levels of SoB), or should I use the chance to try out a masterless build with all these extra traits I want? (Or just, you know, postpone the master trait, but maybe keeping TaN or Rel open would benefit).
Also thinking of plopping two bulk mods on the Plasma rifle, but no idea if it can assemble into something or if power/agility/etc might be better.
Of course, I'll treat any posts as recommendations, not follow it blindly. I think what I want to know if any of these options are "God awful bad" or "Stupidly fun" rather than "The most optimal".
Edit: Just entered one of those rooms that usually contain a ton of demons or lost souls with goodies, got a Onyx armor and a Nano pack. Holy crap all stuff I've never had. o-o
thelaptop:
MCe is a very useful general purpose Master -- that extra two range of sight can allow you to snipe things, for various definitions of snipe.
If you want to do masterless, remember to be willing to switch weapons depending on the situation.
And don't worry. What the RNG giveth, the RNG taketh away...
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