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[ibrock]

Here's the latest This Machine Age entry, with some help for those with alt-itis.

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[Argantes]

Here's the latest This Machine Age entry, with some help for those with alt-itis.

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baaaad link (with bonus /http://)

http://thismachineageblog.blogspot.s...all-folks.html

[ibrock]

Doh! ><

Fixed now ... Argantes, thanks for posting the correct one!

[ibrock]

Added some info to the figure and fixed an error in the key.

[Thainster]

Keep up the good work bro ;-)

[Mantic0r3]

in your stats table are some serious errors and some things we could argue about ^^ u should look over that again before posting it for new players (who will believe everything)
Some examples of serious erros: demo doesnt need cold magic dmg and necs dont need electrical magic dmg. Combatrating for POMs? and so on...

Things to argue: hit rating is important for everyone (khitai upwards) , combat rating for BS only M ? ok most of his combat rating comes from str but still combat rating is very usefull for BS

[ibrock]

Cheers,

M8 ... excellent feedback, Mantic0r3. You've definitely zeroed in on the classes that I know the least about (Necro, Demo, and BS). And yeah I'm still learning PoM (How is Combat Rating not moderately useful?). I've tweaked the table a little.

For the record ... I'm open to any and all constructive input. I don't wanna get into the nitty-gritty details (e.g accounting for specific builds) with each class, but I will address any gaping errors that folks indicate.

Thanks.

[Nevsky]

Because Combat Rating affects melee dps and that is not what a PoM does.

[Jaedelyia]

Thanks for the blog. It's always nice to see people involved in the game and produced usefull content.

However, just by looking at the table, there's indeed a bunch of error. In addition of those that were stated above, I spot of few big ones. For instance, it is written in the table than DT should prefer Intel to wisdom, because "Intel give +magic damage and mana" while wisdom gives only "protec Holy/Unholy". Well, this is not true. It's Wisdom that give Dark Templar a bonus to magic damage. (And it also give mana). So a DT would be more likely to have more wisdom than more intel, not the contrary.

Also, I don't really understand why they shoudl care less about evade than other soldier and why they want want plate more than conq, but it's minor details.

Finally, but it's purely a matter of taste, I think the lighter color should be given to the "LESS DESIRABLE" since my eyes are naturally more attracted to thing bold and with more pronounced colors : it's like an highlight. But in this case, the highlight indicate the less important things. But hey, it don't matter that much.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

[ibrock]

Thanks for the further feedback, Jaedelyia. I'll have another look and act on your comments. I'll check my notes on the DT (I think I got that bit from a Dev's comment on the forums ... but it could be an error).

(Except the colours ... that's subjective and it's more work than changing text )

I'll hold off tonight, in the event that more players, throw in.

All constructive feedback is welcome.