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Critic the hero above

me0wSter — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:28:43 +0800

Just wanted to bring this tread over here.

You of course put your hero link here and the next person to post will give you their opinion and next upgrade.

Anyone wants to start on mine?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/me0wster-1247/hero/972292

[1.0.4] Barb Preview

me0wSter — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:42:11 +0800

Source: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923460/Pa...arian-8_15_2012

One of our primary goals with class changes in patch 1.0.4 is to help improve build diversity. Of course, this has been a goal for the Diablo III development team since launch, but our approach this patch has been a little different. For 1.0.4, we're taking a good look at some of the most unpopular skills for each class, figuring out why they aren't being used in your builds, and then seeing how we can make them better -- either by redesigning how they work or just buffing the hell out of them.

For barbarians, we focused on improving the following areas:

Bash and Cleave are not very attractive compared to Frenzy
Many of the damage-oriented Fury Spenders don't do enough damage to justify the spot on your bar

Fury Generators
Frenzy:
It’s easy to see why Frenzy is the most popular Fury Generator right now. It generates a solid amount of Fury, it has the highest single-target damage of any Fury generator, and it has the highest single-target healing using Life on Hit. The bonus attack speed also provides good combat mobility as well as the option to focus all your damage on a single target or distribute it between multiple targets as needed. We're going to buff Bash and Cleave to be viable alternatives to Frenzy for people who would like to try a different play style.
Bash:
From a design perspective, Bash should be the definitive choice when it comes to maximizing your Fury generation. That’s not currently the case, and given the current state of the game, this means attacking the problem from two sides. First, we need to make Fury a more attractive resource to build up (which also means making Fury Spenders more attractive, which I talk about below). Second, we’re going to increase the amount of Fury generated by Bash from 6 to 8, as well as the amount of weapon damage done by Bash from 150% to 165%. The goal is to make Bash not only a very compelling option if you decide you want to focus on Fury generation, but also an appealing single-target alternative to Frenzy if you don’t enjoy its mechanics (like having to manage Frenzy stacks). Currently, Frenzy surpasses Bash in single-target damage as soon as you have your third stack of Frenzy, and it feels like the breakpoint should be around the fourth stack instead. These changes should help better balance the appeal of the two skills.
Cleave:
Looking at the three basic Fury Generators (Frenzy, Bash and Cleave), the role of Cleave is fairly straight-forward: it should be the clear winner when there is more than one target to hit. In a single-target situation, however, Cleave will always perform worse than Bash and Frenzy. While this is intended to a degree, the amount of single-target damage you currently have to give up feels too great to make the trade-off worthwhile. At an extreme, if Cleave did almost exactly the same damage as Bash or Frenzy, but had the ability to hit a second target when one was around, Cleave would definitely become that “clear winner.” So, to make it more appealing to some players, our goal is then to find that sweet spot between where Cleave is now and doing the same single-target as Frenzy and Bash. We’re going to increase both the damage and proc coefficient on Cleave to close the gap when fighting a single target.

Fury Spenders
For many players, using Hammer of the Ancients, Seismic Slam, or Rend just doesn’t seem worth it. To make these skills more attractive, we're going to straight up buff their damage across the board. How much? Well, we noticed that more players use Battle Rage than any of these other Fury Spenders, but Battle Rage is less exciting to use and doesn’t quite evoke the same visceral joy. So, we used Battle Rage and Frenzy as our starting point. We basically asked ourselves the question "How much damage would Hammer of the Ancients have to do in order to make Frenzy + Hammer [of the Ancients] as appealing as Frenzy + Battle Rage?" Players who really want to go the extra mile for the most damage could go so far as to combine all three skills together, so we kept that in mind as well.

Hammer of the Ancients vs. Battle Rage was a simple starting point, but we used similar approaches with Seismic Slam, and Rend. The basic idea was: Fury generation isn’t attractive to players because Fury spending isn’t attractive to players, so what do the numbers need to be to fix that? To continue using Hammer of the Ancients as an example:
We're increasing its base damage from 200% to 325%
We're increasing the damage for Rolling Thunder from 155% to 275%
We’re increasing the damage for Smash from 270% to 406%

And to provide another example, here’s what we’re doing with Rend:
Weapon damage increased from 210% over 3 seconds to 700% over 5 seconds
Lacerate weapon damage increased from 271% over 3 seconds to 903% over 5 seconds
Bloodbath weapon damage increased from 60% over 3 seconds to 100% over 5 second
With these improvements (Whirlwind and Seismic Slam will be receiving similar tweaks to improve their viability), we hope to see Fury Spenders become more appealing for all levels of play.

But What About…
I'll close by adding that there are no changes planned for either Sprint or Battle Rage, so all you crazy double tornado barbarians will still be able to log in after 1.0.4 goes live and continue with your current build. Or, you can try out some of the new toys we’re adding. Either way, we hope you have fun and are looking forward to 1.0.4!

Opening terminal

me0wSter — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:37:58 +0800

Hmm, after googling this for a while, i've still not found a solution to this. When opening a terminal, I would like to point it to another directory.

This should be possible right? Any pointers?

Mountain Biking, ~ version 5.0 ~

me0wSter — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:21:20 +0800

Rider's and their bike Setup

me0wster

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mushr00m

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iman_210

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1 PC Connecting to more than 1 Internet Source

me0wSter — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:00:38 +0800

I've always wondered about this.. Any reading materials?

Image bug

me0wSter — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:49:33 +0800

Seems that i have found a bug here when placing images.

I've taken the link from imageshack (i.e. their forum links) and place 5 for the 1st post and then another 5 for the next post and i allowed it to addon to the previous post. Then paste another set of links but this time it says "Too many images in a post". So, i've forced it to go to the next post.

But here's where it gets funny.. After selecting the "Do not combine", the 3 post overrides the 1st post (with the combination of 2nd post).

Comments?

Mountain Biking, ~ version 4.0 ~

me0wSter — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:36:01 +0800

- Booked -

Mountain Biking

me0wSter — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:16:07 +0800

Bikers and their bike

1. me0wster

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2. Andy Lo

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3. Ober

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4. Akchang

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5. sucka3

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7. xardazs

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9. mushr00m

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Generating Database

me0wSter — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:07:12 +0800

Would anyone know how to generate data for a table? My assignment requires about 50k worth of rows in the database.

THis would be mainly in the transaction table which looks like this

CODE

CREATE TABLE TRANSACTION
( TRANSACTION_ID NUMBER(10,0),
FUEL_ID NUMBER(10,0),
PUMP_ID NUMBER(10,0),
TRASACTION_DATE DATE,
TRASACTION_TIME NUMBER(4,0),
TRANSACTION_PRICE NUMBER(5,2),
TRANSACTION_AMOUNTOFFUEL NUMBER(5,2),
TRANSACTION_PAYMENTTYPE VARCHAR2(4),
TRANSACTION_CARDTYPE VARCHAR2(10),
TRANSACTION_CARDNO NUMBER(4,0),
CONSTRAINT TRANSACTION_PK PRIMARY KEY (TRANSACTION_ID) ENABLE,
CONSTRAINT TRANSACTION_FK FOREIGN KEY (FUEL_ID)
REFERENCES FUEL (FUEL_ID) ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE,
CONSTRAINT TRANSACTION_FK2 FOREIGN KEY (PUMP_ID)
REFERENCES PUMP (PUMP_ID) ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE
);

Is there anyway to auto generate the transaction date, time, price, amountoffuel, paymenttype, cardNo?

Mountain Bike V2

me0wSter — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:27:01 +0800

Ok all, this is the new thread for us to banter.

To all MTBer, pls send me your pic and your bike specs so i can load it up here!!

PLSQL Trigger

me0wSter — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:55:30 +0800

Im wondering if thier any SQL experts out there which can help me. Im getting this no data found error.. The trigger is compiled ok but when i run an insert value, the error appears.

The thing i would like to do is to find the average of internal and external and dump it into totalmark.

CODE

CREATE TABLE RESULT
( STUDENT_ID VARCHAR2(6),
MODULE_ID VARCHAR2(6),
INTERNALMARK NUMBER(4,1),
EXTERNALMARK NUMBER(4,1),
TOTALMARK NUMBER(3,0)

CODE

create or replace trigger Calc_Result
before
insert on result
for each row
declare
a number(4,1);
b number(4,1);
c number(3,0);
begin
select internalmark into a from result;
select externalmark into b from result;
c:=a+b/2;
select c into :new.totalmark from dual;
end;
/

Then

CODE

INSERT INTO RESULT VALUES ('S00001','M00001',32,30,62);

Thx for your time wasted here

me0wster's windoW

me0wSter — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:10:24 +0800

Welcome to my window to the world. I will keep on updating as time goes by!

Photos are taken with either FinePix S5500 or A310 unless stated.

Some wild pig seen in Sawarak

Hotel in Sarawak at the Rainforest World Music Festival 2005. Cant remember whats the name of the hotel.

Our fellow friends.

Shot is Sabah; Sandakan i think

Another shot as above. Beautiful lighting!! This one totally no alteration; only cropping!!

Shortcut key for Windows

me0wSter — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:57:40 +0800

Shift+F10 brings up the context menu
Ctrl + Shift + Esc - Brings up the task manager
CTRL and A Selects all the items in the active window.
CTRL and C Copies the item or items to the Clipboard and can be pasted using CTRL and V.
CTRL and F Displays the Find all files dialog box.
CTRL and G Displays the Go to folder dialog box.
CTRL and N Displays the New dialog box.
CTRL and O Displays the Open dialog box.
CTRL and P Displays the Print dialog box.
CTRL and S Displays the Save dialog box.
CTRL and V Pastes the copied item or items from the Clipboard.
CTRL and X Cuts the item or items selected to the Clipboard.
CTRL and Z Undoes the last action.
CTRL and F4 Closes the active document window.
CTRL while dragging an item Copy the selected item
CTRL+SHIFT with arrow keys Highlight a block of text
CTRL+F4 Close the active document
CTRL+ESC Display the Start menu
CTRL and F6 Opens the next document window in the active application.
ALT+ENTER View the properties for the selected item
ALT+F4 Close the active item, or quit the active program
ALT+SPACEBAR Open the shortcut menu for the active window
ALT+TAB Switch between the open items
ALT+ESC Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened
F1 key Gives help on the active window or selected item.
F2 key Rename the selected item
F3 key Search for a file or a folder
F4 key Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer
F5 key Update the active window
F6 key Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop
F10 key Activate the menu bar in the active program
Windows Logo Display or hide the Start menu
Windows Logo+BREAK Display the System Properties dialog box
Windows Logo+D Display the desktop
Windows Logo+M Minimize all of the windows
Windows Logo+SHIFT+M Restore the minimized windows
Windows Logo+E Open My Computer
Windows Logo+F Search for a file or a folder
CTRL+Windows Logo+F Search for computers
Windows Logo+F1 Display Windows Help
Windows Logo+ L Lock the keyboard
Windows Logo+R Open the Run dialog box
Windows Logo+U Open Utility Manager
TAB Move forward through the options
SHIFT+TAB Move backward through the options
CTRL+TAB Move forward through the tabs
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB Move backward through the tabs
ALT+Underlined letter Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option
ENTER Perform the command for the active option or button
SPACEBAR Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box
F1 key Display Help
F4 key Display the items in the active list
Arrow keys Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons
BACKSPACE Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box
END Display the bottom of the active window
HOME Display the top of the active window
NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder
NUM LOCK+Plus sign (+) Display the contents of the selected folder
NUM LOCK+Minus sign (-) Collapse the selected folder
LEFT ARROW Collapse the current selection if it is expanded, or select the parent folder
RIGHT ARROW Display the current selection if it is collapsed, or select the first subfolder

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC brings out Task manager <-- from a_yu_volution
ALT + LEFT -> Back
ALT + RIGHT -> Forward <-- From V3i HoN6