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You no like to kite?

There's also this, just in case you've had your head in the sand the last couple of weeks.

My wizard uses a melee build and DH's pretty much kill stuff before it reaches them so no, I don't like kiting stuff. I haven't ever since they put all the big dragons in WoW on a leash and you couldn't kite them into Stormwind anymore. (Yeah, back when I still played alliance)

Edit: I've been entertaining myself by watching NPH interviews on youtube. NPH is @#%^ing awesome.

Edited, Aug 7th 2012 11:23pm by Aethien

If your gear is good enough you can just stand in melee and only avoid the really painful stuff on a monk, barbarian or wizard. It's just that once you get to inferno act 2 and on quite a few things count as really painful stuff. Sometimes including mobs themselves.

Nah, more "these mobs are too difficult for your current gear level, RUN AWAY AND DON'T LOOK BACK!"

Witch Doctor was all over the place...

First few levels it pretty much didn't matter what you did. You did a little kiting, but mostly just powering through stuff. Level 19 you got the gargantuan and it played like a pet-tanking class for the next 25-30 levels. As you get up in levels the pet starts living not so long, until finally it's not worth it to even summon it, so you remove it from the action bar.

At that point you're pretty much just throwing DoTs on stuff and running in circles while they tick down.

My brother played one too, spent more time running into groups, using his soul harvest, and then spirit-walking out and what not. Mage was a bit of a kiter too if you went the conventional ranged way. It seemed to have a bit more firepower though, that and a couple of nice defensive CDs meant less running and more nuking stuff.

Edited, Aug 8th 2012 7:30am by someproteinguy

This is entertaining... but also sad:

BOOYA! 14 minutes in and it's 2 - 0 for the Netherlands in the men's hockey semi finals vs Britain. And one Dutch player with likely a broken collarbone, that was not so much booya.

Edit and... 2 -1 after 18 minutes. Damnit.

Edited, Aug 9th 2012 9:21pm by Aethien

Owyeah! 4 - 1 at half time and the Dutch team are playing some amazing hockey.

I kind of feel bad for the British though, they're by no means bad but they can't get many coordinated offenses going and their defense (which isn't the best part of their team) seems to be 2 steps behind the entire time.


On a sidenote, how much force does a ball with ~160 grams and a circumference of ~23cm have when it's shot at ~100km/h and how does that translate to damage to a human body if it hits, say, your guts?



Edit: aaand they gave up, it went from 5 - 1 to 8 - 1 in a matter of minutes.
I feel really sorry for those guys, it must be horrible to be playing in front of thousands of people who are there to cheer you on and not only knowing you've lost the game 20 minutes before the end but also being outclassed in every possible way. I hope the British beat Australia for the bronze medal. The crowd cheering "WE HATE HOLLAND" was a nice touch though.

Final score: 9 - 2. Next up: Germany in the finals!
And the Dutch beat Germany in the group matches with 3 - 1 so there's good hope for a gold medal for both the men and the women.


Edited, Aug 9th 2012 10:37pm by Aethien

KE = 1/2 mv^2
Kinetic Energy = .5 x mass x velocity x velocity
= .5 x .16 kg x 27.7 meters/second x 27.7 meters/second
= ~62 Joules

P = mv
Momentum = mass x velocity
= 4 kg x m/s

Force isn't exactly right, since no force is acting on the ball once it's in the air. It has kinetic energy and momentum, though. A typical fastball in baseball is travelling in excess of 90 mph (~144 kph), and the velocity of the ball after contact with the bat can exceed 120 mph (~192 kph).

I could go into it more with a little bit of calculus and estimates on duration of impact, and relate it to the force in a professional boxer's punch, after dinner.

You'd also need to factor in protective gear into your equation.

For lack of a better term, the resistance of the object to a change in shape can be reasonably modeled in the duration of impact. A beach ball, for example, changes shape easily, so the impact is longer. Thus, less force involved in the impact.

This is totally spit-balling, but assume duration of impact is 1/20th of a second. That means that, in effect, your body is pushing on the ball hard enough to slow it down from 125 km/h to 0 km/h in .05 seconds.

velocity = ~35 meter / second
mass = .16 kg
momentum = m x v = 5.6 kg x m/s
Average Force = (change in momentum) / (change in time) = 5.6 / .05 = 112 Newtons of force.

Based on an article by Scientific American, a professional boxer generated about 3.5 times as much force (400 newtons), while the average untrained person was estimated at 1/3 the force (10% of the boxer, or 40 newtons). In other words, It's not like getting into the ring with a heavy-weight boxer, but it's a lot harder than your buddy can punch you in the arm when you see a VW driving down the road.

One source said that ~30 joules of energy can break a rib, so your hockey ball well exceeds that. I couldn't tell if that figure was modeled using a "dry" bone, or tested using a cadaver with all the tissue around it to alter the impact.

Edited, Aug 9th 2012 8:12pm by AstarintheDruid

1+1=10

It's also sometimes 1 or 3, depending on the values of 1.

Edited, Aug 10th 2012 9:47am by Mazra

ABOMINATION!

Though I suppose it would enable Ferals to use the same gear for both Bear and Cat Form. Not that it matters when you can't do sh*t in Cat Form with a Bear spec.

I'll have what he's having.

Hurr durr, what about the other 1000?

Binary is so inefficient. Wouldn't it be great if our computers understood more than on/off?

If I've learned anything from science fiction movies, it's better that our computers understand as little as possible. Lest they try to take over the world and kill us all.

Edit: I seriously suck at spelling...

Edited, Aug 10th 2012 9:03am by someproteinguy

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The Dutch hockey women win the Olympic final 2 - 0! Not the most exciting match but it's still winning the Olympics just as they did 4 years ago.

Men's final tomorrow, let's see if they can continue their magnificent play from yesterday in the finals.

Omg, happy birthday!

I <3 Whimsyshire

Diablo 3 of course.

Hooray, Finland won.. bronze in sailing.
I think we have 2 medals total now, both bronze I think.

I am not singing We are the champions here.

We'll see about that.

Germany won 2 - 1