DusK

No time this go-around. Sorry gents. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

Whenever I damn well feel like it. I get NO'd a lot. Don't do what I do.

DOWNLOAD: http://fromtheforestitself.bandcamp.com This EP is a labor of love, heavily inspired by metalcore acts such as Haste The Day, August Burns Red, Oh Sleeper, and Still Remains, and of course, chiptunes. Check it out, straight from my heart to your ears. Thanks for listening.

Kenogu kinda touched on the combat, but when you also factor in that many skills are situational and meant to be used in certain circumstances, that adds a lot of depth to the combat system. The build I primarily play, for example; A greatsword Guardian. The first skill is a typical 3-hit auto attack that hits multiple enemies and applies might to me for every enemy the third strike lands on. This is a kind of cornerstone for the greatsword playstyle, as it's built around taking on multiple enemies at one time. My second skill is a Symbol of Wrath that puts a circle on the ground at my location, simultaneously burning foes and healing myself and. This works great if enemies are clumped around me. I can also use this as a placed AoE heal to support allies near me as we take on the same enemies, or dodge back and place it down near a group of allies that are being attacked by ranged foes, though there are better utility skills for alleviating ranged damage against allies. Whirling Wrath is also great when I'm surrounded by enemies, doing a massive amount of damage to every enemy around me and often hitting far-away enemies with projectiles. This skill alone, when activated while having a stack of 3-5 might after the third strike from skill 1, can kill several enemies in one go. Leap of Faith works as a fantastic distance-closer that, on hit, blinds every enemy around me. I'll often use that move to jump into groups of mobs and start fighting them, jump back at a ranged mob after I shake off his snare to get back in his face, or get back into melee range of an enemy after dodging his power attack. My Binding Blade is a fantastic skill that I tend to use in conjunction with Symbol of Wrath and whirling blade. It tosses blades at up to five nearby enemies with some fairly decent range, and with another press of 5, I pull all of them into melee range around me. Bust that out, slap down a Symbol of Wrath, and hit em with Whirling Wrath, and there's a good chance I have a few corpses around me when I'm done. This skill also works great when I'm snared and a ranged enemy's blasting at me, but I don't have a skill up that allows me to shake off that snare. And it's basically like this for every class in different ways, and it becomes more and more apparent the further along you go. And All I did was explain my weapon skills; utility skills and traits open up many more venues for the combat system that you really can't grasp to its full potential until level level 20, and the elite skill is a great tide-turner, a sort of Smash orb ability that can help you snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Like Ken said, the enemies, their tactics, and combat as a whole become increasingly more difficult and complex, and situational use of skills becomes more and more necessary. I've never touched Tera (I'll never play a subscription-based MMO again, solely on principle), but from what I've heard, it still has mobs that go "These other two guys are really hurting me, but this guy in plate armor keeps making fun of me, so I'm going to keep attacking him instead while that guy in the robe fixes all the damage I do to him." A break from the questclamation marks and the tired old tank/dps/heal system is exactly what I was looking for, and GW2 has delivered in spades.

Two loads. No less.

I think I could pump out that quick groovy remix of "Ring Rink" from Ristar that I didn't get to do last year.

Woah, Dj Mokram's birthday today? Awesome! Have a good one.

Swallowed countless hours of my high-school life.

SCREW BANDIT THUG/HOOLIGAN COMBOS IN THE MOUF. Spent at least 30s on repairs because of those guys. Ugh.

It is for me. My Line 6 POD Studio's ASIO drivers work fine for simultaneous playback. Which is good, because I kinda need that to learn the songs I'm remixing.

ASIO must have changed before I started using it, because I've never had that problem.

So, Macs work better for music, and you can't do composition or arrangement in a DAW. I gotta ask again: How do I do it?

In the works, my friend.

Then how do I do it?

I'm hearing a lot of fantastic work from you guys that got back to us. Keep at it, cause this thing's gonna be incredible if these WIPs are any indication.

Dj Dark set up a vent for us. I'd drop the info, but I don't remember the password. Just keep an eye on the MOTD, I'll throw the info up there when I get it.

Yak's Bend is now full. Apparently, a LOT of other guilds were trying to jump on that one.

I lol'd. Imagine how bad it would be if they didn't have the stress tests. As for me, I played for about 5 hours straight the moment the headstart launched. I experience no network problems except being kicked twice, and all I had to do was log right back in. I haven't logged in since the server restart, though.

Vocal harmonies. I'm a sucker for well-done vocal harmonies.

We should probably be posting our IDs so we can add each other regardless of what we name our toons. Mine's DusK.3680. Maybe Derrit should add our info to the first post, too. And now I go back to eagerly counting the days til midnight. Been a long time waiting for this game. Years. I don't think I'll be sleeping tonight.

I must have misremembered then.

Bahamut mentioned something about it.

I don't think that'll be possible. There's a 4-disc limit for OCR releases, and I think Xircon's got all of that filled up already.

Something else to consider is that it's not a full song, but an intro for the album. The track clocks in at under a minute, so it wouldn't pass OCR standards anyway.

I'm wondering this as well. I'm currently sitting on a ton of WIPs for an album, which I'd like to make official, containing contributions from about 10 posted ReMixers. Not really sure what the next step would be in this scenario. Is there a specific person I should PM to get the ball rolling?