• @Moghul
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    This is gish propaganda. Nothing wrong with two barbs side by side soaking up damage together or two casters taking turns wiping the field from a tall spot.

    Everyone could use a healer, though.

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    My local stadium hires a security company called DPS. I stopped one of them and said “y’all’s comp is unbalanced, try sprinkling in some mages and tanks” and he had no idea what I was talking about.

    Bystander laughed though so it wasn’t wasted time.

  • HubertManne
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    also consider polamory as you want the trifecta and maybe even an extra dps or two.

    • @radicalautonomy
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      Half of all polycules come about solely to form an adequately-sized D&D campaign.

      (Or so all the relevant polyam memes in my FB feed tell me.)

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        I was about to say that was probably a joke but then I thought about the other 2 couples I’ve done D&D with and, yeah, no, accurate

        • @radicalautonomy
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          Oh no, it’s definitely a thing. I’ve been polyamorous for 10 years, and I can count on one hand the number of polyam people in my circles who aren’t into either D&D or board games.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        It checks out. A friend of mine GM’s for her sister and her sister’s two boyfriends.

    • @CookieOfFortune
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      Just make sure everyone has their WIS maxed out or you’ll have a bad time.

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        lets not ask for the moon. how are we going to find one dps with high wis much less two.

    • wia
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      45 months ago

      Or polearmory, that reach is very helpful

  • @Arkaelus
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    335 months ago

    New existential crisis unlocked: what class am I?

      • @Arkaelus
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        135 months ago

        Oh… Oh, no! I was supposed to have a character sheet?!

        • @mossy_
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          As long as you brought food, the dungeon master won’t kick you out

          • @[email protected]
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            65 months ago

            I find that DMs become quite patient with helping players make character sheets when provided a can of coke and some donuts/chips.

          • @Arkaelus
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            05 months ago

            Stale bread, musty ketchup, and tap water it is!

    • @Drivebyhaiku
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      First you got to have the existential crisis of figuring out what system you are playing. You can’t just assume D&D. Once you get that out of the way save room on your schedule for a smaller crisis about which edition you are dealing with…

      • @Arkaelus
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        15 months ago

        Gawd damn it, can’t ever be simple, can it…

      • @Arkaelus
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        45 months ago

        Hahaa, Chaotic Good Human Monk! Guess I’m stayin’ single, babyyy!

      • @CrowAirbrush
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        I started this on my break, made it to question 14 until i started scrolling to see the end…i gave up.

  • @SkyezOpen
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    OK but literally. I’m a healer. Started dating a tank main. Dps are a dime a dozen so we never have queue issues.

    • @HauntedCupcake
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      I’m the healer and my partner is a dps. Healers and Tanks seem so criminally underplayed that I alone massively skew the queue times.

      Healer and Tank combo must be borderline instant

  • @KaiReeve
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    I’m a plate DPS main and I married a healer. There is a lot of pressure to ‘just tank’ for her.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      I usually prefer range shooty man and lately my healer wife, bored with nothing to heal, decided to be range shooty girl.

      And now we can’t kill things fast enough so now she stays shooty girl and I’m tank/healerhope I don’t die.

    • BubbleMonkey
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      Prepare some side quests to give a potential mate, obviously. Then stand around in a light beam and wait.

      ETA:

      • @dvlsg
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        Or find another healer. That way when you introduce your healer partner, they can tell you what a waste you are.

    • Pyro
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      25 months ago

      I filled it all in and the button at the end didn’t work. That’s 20 minutes I’m never getting back :/

      • nifty
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        25 months ago

        No way, that sucks. It definitely works though. Maybe try a different browser?

        • Pyro
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          25 months ago

          I’m gonna chalk it up as yet another problem with Firefox Mobile. I really want to like it, but it doesn’t make it easy haha

          I’ll probably try again another time on something Chromium-based

      • nifty
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        25 months ago

        That just sounds like a difference in luck, I think yours is better than mine

    • @RudeOnTuesdays
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      225 months ago

      They are making a joke equating real life romance to video games. The “current meta” refers to whatever class build/equipment load out is most powerful in the current version of the game.

      • @[email protected]
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        205 months ago

        Or whatever people think is the most powerful, at least. It’s worth noting that the meta can often be wrong, and if you play what you enjoy, you might find yourself discovering something stronger.

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          Also crushing isn’t the only viable goal. Like you said, if you just want to enjoy yourself and not even worry about what’s stronger or weaker, that’s super valid

  • @Noodle07
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    65 months ago

    Rogue main looking for his rogue soulmate to make the perfect gank couple

  • @Missmuffet
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    55 months ago

    Is it better to marry a pocket healer or am I in for a lot of trouble if I do

  • @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    This is false for at least World of Warcraft. Everyone who has every done any random group content can attest to the fact that it is always hardest to find a good tank.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      I think tank in most MMOs is a low-desire role. It typically hinges entirely on having a healer to keep you tanking, as well as holding an immense responsibility to be aware of aggro patterns and incoming debuffs. You eat a lot of blame for not tanking well, even if it’s just because your healers mispositioned or some DPS decided to steal aggro by spamming too much of X move.

      And generally, you don’t feel as much of the “I did a thing!” feeling as, say, a rogue pumping out damage or a mage casting a slew of debuffs and DoTs.

      • @SupraMario
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        When I was younger, I always played a tank, and yea the blame was always high, raid goes good, it was DPS got the good job, raid goes bad, fucking tanks fault.

    • @Crashumbc
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      25 months ago

      A tank period…

      At least currently.

  • mad_asshatter
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    “Cosmonaut Marcus” makes sense now.