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Not really an orphan if you get adopted I forgot that I watched the video because all the people talking about it made me think it would be gory or something. Sad, but hopeful. That is an awesome dad.
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Hence the mixed feelings. My munchkin is 3 and ever since he was born, the thought of a child being separated from their parent just gets to me.
Hi peoples.
I've been peeking in but not posting much because I've been sick all week with a stomach thing.
Well, except maybe over in Canio's journal.
Things are better since all the drunken postings.
I'll fill that in tomorrow.
Because tomorrow I should have tons of time as I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn to go see my therapist...
My appointment was supposed to be at 2pm.
Silly receptionist called me and changed it to 7:30 AM>
I'm not quite sure what it will be possible to accomplish at that time of the morning as it's really not the time of the day during which my best thinking occurs.
But I do hope that it is productive.
I'm not quite sure where we are starting... more basic info-gathering/history maybe from what he said at the end of our last appointment.
Then again by the time that is done I might just want to come home and take a long, steamy hot, soaking the bones and soul type, fragrant bath.
I also need to do some real shopping since I haven't been out all week and it's a stinky "holiday weekend", and I want to get it done before the stores get crowded.
Soooo... therapist-shopping-hotbathseminappingwithchillaxingmusic.
That sounds about right.
I'm really feeling about writing about my time "at the spa" lately too.
Overall it was a good experience, and I think more and more about it lately in that light.
Positively. With a sense of humor and a smile... though I do admit that there are still plenty of people who I wouldn't tell because of the hassle of dealing with the judgement issues.
I guess it's the same as any other private factor of ones life that way.
�You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.�
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
I hope your appointment goes well today and your relaxation times is extra relaxing (but please don't fall asleep & drown in the tub).Depression Lies
Hi hi Cori,
Just wondering how you're doing. Miss you. xoxo"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
Hi Cori! How are things? I know you're alive as I've seen you on Facebook... but you're absent here so I thought I'd drop you a line. I hope all is well.Primal since March 5, 2012
SW: 221 | CW: 204 | LPW: 166 | UGW: 140 (80 lbs loss)
Hmmm... how are things?
Such a simple question, yet complex answer if one is to be honest.
I think the best short answer I can proffer is "Good(I think...), but very, very difficult."
If you don't want ratty messiness, the possibility of some disorganized thought or really uncomfortable topics at some point below, and the otherwise colorful verbal vomit I've been occasionally known for: Stop Here.
(or just where ever you get tired of my mess)
In some ways things are great. Better than one would suspect I suppose.
I've continued to lose weight at my usual sort of slow/steady, on/off pace... and I now weight less than when I got married almost 15 years ago. And still losing. I've gone through most of my closet shopped pants and there are several now too big, a few I can wear but baggy, a couple that actually fit, and only 2 pair that are still to go down into... and I think one of those might never happen as it's possible it was an accidental "slim cut" purchase from years ago(tags are still on them, but I haven't inspected closely). The other "one" pair is a favorite old pair of Levi button flys that have current Holy Grail status. I don't know if they will ever look as good as they did on my ass as they did in my 20's... BUT, having them on my ass again in my 40's will be enough for me I think.
Since my 40th birthday is coming up shortly I started having some very "diet-y" thinking happening recently. Stuff like "but if I could just hit 'x' weight by that day"... and I had to put a stop to that. It's a lie. It's bullshit thinking. If I put that goal out there and I lose 5 lbs short then what? I feel like a failure. LOL
A failure, are you KIDDING me. Ha!
And what if I did lose 10 lbs instead of just 5? between now and then. At the cost of what... stressing over my food? Fretting if I was going to "make it in time". Worrying? And would anyone really give a shit?
Sorry, but NO. Sure my friends notice I'm looking better on occasion(and say so), but please. We would all be too busy cracking jokes and drinking, and they would be teasing me about the giant cigar I'm smoking... not trying to analyze if I'm 5lbs or 10lbs lighter.
No one cares. *so I don't either*
I'll probably lose some weight between now and then, but it will because I'm just doing my thing eating healthy foods like every other day. Not because of diet speak and diet planning and diet thinking in my head. I think that sort of self talk is very defeating for dieters... I think it defeated me for a long time(among other things, for years) and switching to "just being healthy for TODAY" changed that.
I'm not sure this is an easy sort of liberation to find. But it's nice.
That whole appointment thing, which was my last post, ages ago actually went OK. And there was another appointment scheduled, and another with another shrink. And they asked me all sorts of really detailed and difficult questions. And then the psychiatrist(my pill guy: I like him) and the psychologist(she's cool too) at the VA must have gotten together and said "Holy shitballs... wth are we going to do with HER!", because in addition to seeing both of them every other month(VA, over booked that's all ya get, pills and checked in on once in a while) I also now see another psychologist at another Vet center every week. I've been formally diagnosed with PTSD, which my shrink informs me is quite severe and that he's shocked I managed to stay out of a (locked up "spa")hospital setting as long as I did, and MTS(military sexual trauma). I'm undergoing specialized intensive therapy to deal with that. They wanted to send me away to a live in care facility at Bay Pines for a few months to go through a program, but I've opted to try and do the work from home visiting my local therapist at least once a week(sometimes more)... to see if that works first. I figure just the fact that I'm now willing to talk about this stuff after 16 years is a good sign that I'm ready to move in the right direction and finally get the monkey off my back. Or at least turn the 800lb gorilla into a tiny little Capuchin with a bellhop's cap on? (Not that I'm really sure that can happen... ? I don't even know. I just want "less".)
On the plus side... Medication! The meds do help my severe anxiety issues(also that other little issue that I got to stay in the "spa" for), my sleep issues- insomnia/night terrors (some, not 100%... don't look at me like that, I haven't taking my bedtime pills yet tonight because I wanted to write this), and such. Also there is lots of therapy work on reworking self talk and blame, and learning to deal with anxiety in healthier ways than I sometimes do, and I'm glad to report that I have been having very good success with my redirection of self harm actions.
On the minus side- it's basically trial by fire. You cannot go around, under, over, to the side of, or any other normal, 'natural' avoidance tactic that you have used for how many ever years to avoid some seriously intense and very scary feelings and memories. Having to relive what happened with out avoidance outlets increases all the anxiety and issues about a million fold. Earlier today I was shaking and yelling at my refrigerator. My husband asked me if I wanted to hit it, and suggested I go ahead and do so, the refrigerator was obviously wrong(the open door bell kept ringing).
I love that man.
Also, my son it doing better.
He is working. He and his GF are still together, however there is no baby.
It turned out that she has kidney disease and did not know. She lost the baby and the function of one kidney.
She is doing better not though, and they are still together.
Tough kids.
Makes me proud of my son, he's being a lot less of a knot head these days, he's now working hard backtracking a bit where he had fooled around and messed up before... he had to grow up a bit there real quick there, and he stood up and did.
We talk pretty regularly on the phone.
He doesn't know about my stay in the "spa", but he was asking about my appointments the other day and I told him what they were for. And he was just so sweet, telling me that he hoped it helped me and that was so long ago and now I have him and D(husband) and how much they both love me...
And I just felt so guilty about landing my ass in the spa in the first place with him telling me all of that.
But you know.
It was really a GOOD thing to happen to me.
Since my brain malfunction I've been changing. I've changed my attitudes about things in my life. About the judgements other people make about me. I've changed my whole way of looking at my diet and health and I'm thinner than I've been in 15 years... I'm letting go of things. It's time for me to let go of this too.
Because as much as I'd like to believe the past 16 years has been MY life... a lot of it has not been. It's been ruled by anxiety, and fear, and night terrors, and feeling lost, alone and trapped all at the same time even in a room full of family and friends, and sudden overwhelming reactions to smells or sounds in public places that I absolutely had no control over, not to mention god forbid anyone ever touch my hair. The man who terrorized and tortured me for a few short years physically, emotionally, and sexually in person has been doing the same thing as an image burned into my brain every since then because I didn't know how to deal with it. I swallowed it down and tried to hide it and never told a soul, except my own. You just can't hide something from yourself. Especially not something that big and malignant.�You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.�
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
Hugs! I can sympathize/ empathize to an extent. You're loved, even on the days your head doesn't want to see it.Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, steak in one hand, chocolate in the other, yelling "Holy F***, What a Ride!"
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Glad to hear that you are taking good care of yourself and that your son is doing better too. Hugs to you lovely lady.Primal since 9/24/2010"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within." Miguel de Cervantes
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Hugs cori. Good to see you around. It seems you are treading a very painful road one step at a time. Dealing with that shit and keeping true to yourself. Awesome as always.
Cori, not only is it good to see you back here, but as is often the case, you absolutely floor me. Hell, you even occasionally humble me and that's no easy feat.
Yes, talk to the shrink. Talk and talk and talk until it's no longer something that controls you. I used to think that swallowing my pain was the best way to deal, but the one time I thought I was really losing my mind, talking to someone who wasn't family/friends was exactly what I needed. Color me a convert to shrinkage.
squared."Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
So, obviously still not writing much here. Writing a lot for the shrink. It's work there. Hard work.
But I did have a thing that happened on Tuesday that I felt was worth mentioning here.
I went and played DUI Dummy for a conference meeting for LEO and Forensic analysts, doctors, etc.
Basically you show up at 9am... get checked in and checked out, and they measure the alcohol for you, and you drink for them. Then they measure your impairment in front of the room full of guests. Fun right? LOL
Yes, I started drinking... vodka and coke at 10:30 am.
Don't judge me... it was for SCIENCE! =P
Anyway, that's not really the story that I'm telling here. Though all that mess was a pretty good time.
The thing was that during the intake part they do you bp/heart rate... and record your weight(so they can adjust that against your alcohol consumption? and later figure your alcohol metabolism time.
So I tell this big ol' 37 year veteran of the FHP(florida hwy patrol) my real actual weight.
I'm wearing a sort of snug fitting pair of very light colored jeans and a kinda over large heather gray UCF tshirt, slighty wrinkly. So nothing that would make me appear particularly 'slim' that day. No dark colors or nicely fitted shirt.
And, you know... no kinda heavy woman wants to shout out her weight across a room full of strangers so I walked forward and leaned and said my weight and he jokingly spouted back loudly with "what'd you say, 199?" And I was kind of ticked because I didn't really get that he was joking at first... so I leaned in and said my weight again... and he said "no you don't", so again I thought he was trying to say I weighed MORE, than what I was saying... so I kind of scowled at him all "WTF" like and said "Yes, I do." And suddenly he was all... "come on, you can't weight that much... there's no way?"
And I'm all, "no really... that's what it is."
And he was like "no, your scale has got to be broken or something"
And again, me, "no, that's really what it is..."
And we went around in circles about 10 times until I looked right at him and said "do you know what your problem is... you've spent the past 30-something years being lied to by women".
It's not like I spend a lot of time working out. I've never claimed to either. Because of genetics, and eating plenty of protein I guess, I do tend to retain/build muscle fairly well. But I'd sure like to have more, I'm far from where I should be to be "ideal" in the muscle to fat ratio thing...
I am tall, and my body is well proportioned, meaning my fat is well placed in general. I have good fat placement as far as maintaining an hourglass type figure. Fat on bum, hips, thighs, waist thinner, tummy pretty flat, fat in boobs, and some in upper body. Face/neck is much thinner these days.
But I'm in a size 14 from years ago... I tried on some 14's in a store the other day and they were falling off of me. Why? Stinky vanity sizing BS.
And I know for a fact that most (general population SAD) women my size are going to lie to people about their weight by a good 20lbs. Even thin/very thin ladies will knock off 5-10 lbs for no reason at all...
The size of your ass is going to look exactly the same whether you lie about that number or not!
All that crap does is create some seriously distorted thinking about weight and body size in our society.
One day I overheard some guys talking about weight and women... and one of them said any woman who weighed 130lbs was a FATTY... really?
I'm 5'9"... when I weighed around 130 I was freaking muscular and super SKINNY. I had some fat on my but and thighs(thank you genetics), but you could count my ribs easily. Not a "fatty".
Numbers are stupid and arbitrary.
And that's my message for now.
/rant�You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.�
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
Standards...and double standards...don't get me started...My Primal Journal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread53052.html
�"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. - Dag Hammarskjold
It's therapy time! Woo!
Why do I have to have therapy on a holiday?
Hmm... good excuse to have some drinks with a friend to chillax it later... bonus.
In better news, last night was the FIRST time in several sessions I have slept the night before therapy!
(even with awesome lights out drugs)
Yay, me!�You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.�
~Friedrich Nietzsche
And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.


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[Build] Sonic Boon - Shout Greatsword
Posted 15 November 2012 - 12:25 AM
I will give you a proper reply tomorrow when I'm not on my phone
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 01:07 AM
Sadly I don't have the equipment for this, nor the time at the moment.
What do you say my faithful thread dwellers? Any chance one of you can post a video showing off the build? (Please have a silky smooth voice! ) I will obviously credit you for it and if several of you make videos I will pick the one I think is best, and you will get credit for the video!
I have also been short on time, but finally acquired the equipment today. I'll see if I can't capture some gameplay footage.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 05:11 AM
Dirk, every time you talk I read your words in Nicholas D. Wolfwood's voice, and it is always the best. I'm not even sure if that is who your profile picture is, but it looks a lot like him.
I have also been short on time, but finally acquired the equipment today. I'll see if I can't capture some gameplay footage.
You have my gratitude sir ^^ Here's hoping your voice is as silky smooth as I keep imagining it to be!
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 05:18 AM
I have another question, do you think if I were to take the 10 points out of Disc, and put them into Arms, that I would see a dps increase? The Crit from Disc is 9%, and the Crit for 100 points in arms should be about 5% (100/21 = ~5) if I am not mistaken. So then do you think the extra 10% damage from bleeds, and another trait (Probably Deep Cuts or Last Chance) would make up for the loss of 4-5% crit and 10% crit damage? (Not to mention the Condition damage in Arms now helps us a lot more, whilst Brawn still does nothing for us) This is of course assuming that when dropping our crit by 5% that we can still keep up 25 stacks, which I believe is possible since I think there was a little extra crit in the build.
Sorry for getting a little snappy with my reply, I anticipated a more heated reaction..
I will give you a proper reply tomorrow when I'm not on my phone
If that works out, perhaps you would see a lot of the dps increase you were looking for, especially when we see how the math comes out for the FGJ/OMM thing (Compared to the 10% increase in damage for GS only in Strength) perhaps you might even use the build!
Also, what do you think of giving the Rifle a Sigil of Bloodlust? Frailty is nice, but in the end the build is geared towards supporting the Greatsword parts of the build. Do you think Bloodlust would be best?
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 04:02 PM
But maybe it's me but I'm having a hard time serving.
Maybe it's because of the back pack that I didn't had.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 06:23 PM
If at base stats and no traits you do 102 damage (4% crit, 150% crit damage).. (This means for every 100 power you gain ~11% of your base damage, which I refer to as 100).
With pve knight gear & zerker trinkets (roughly 26% crit +4% base = 30% crit, 50% damage. Call it ~+614 power, or +66% of base. +15% crit damage. This is from memory so it'll probably be a bit off) and you get ((166*0.3)*1.65))+((166*0.7)*1) = roughly 200.
Add the ~10% crit you're getting from 20 points in arms, the 9% crit from heightened focus, 10% crit damage from disc, 20% crit from fury, 100 power from traits, 12% damage from zerker...
((177*0.69)*1.75))+((177*0.31)*1) = ~270.
Compare to 10 less crit damage and 9% less crit for the 10% dmg greatsword trait as suggested above:
((188*0.6)*1.65))+((188*0.4)*1) = ~261, plus the 10% from the greatsword trait, 287.
Compare to 10 less crit damage and 9% less crit for the 10% on bleed and +~5% crit from arms as suggested above:
((177*0.65)*1.65))+((177*0.35)*1) = ~261, plus the 10% from the greatsword trait, 276.
The difference here is pretty close. When you factor in longer bleeds and slightly higher bleed damage % might proc chance it's probably in Arms favor, especially since the 10% dmg applies to all weapons and not just greatsword.
For fun; taking those 20 trait points from tactics and picking up the two +10% damage traits while also keeping the heightened focus buffs.
((188*0.74)*1.75))+((188*0.26)*1) = ~292, plus 20% from traits, ~350. That's somewhere between 20 and 30 percent more damage than the two above builds, but at the cost of healing shouts and 20% cd reduction.
Some probability on might:
With 75% on swing (a crit) giving 5 secs of might (9 secs after boon duration) and 30% to proc might while critting (75% chance * 30% chance) for 18 seconds you average out at 10.8 seconds of might per swing (I'll round it to 11).
If you plot this on a timeline whereby each strike grants a stack of might for 10.8 seconds the average stack size is just over 13. (Graphs attached.. yes I actually bothered to calculate this! One is just a closeup of the other).
A drop in crit by 9% dropped that to 11.4 average stacks because the amount of might grained per strike dropped from 10.8 to 9.5 due to the lower chance of proccing.
If you don't have the extra 20 points in tactics, your average length drops to 9.6 from 10.8 (which makes sense, going from 8 to 9 in duration was a 12.5% increase, 9.6 to 10.8 is also a 12.5% increase).
With the duration of 9.6, the average stack drops to around 11.4. Strangely enough, going from +80% boon duration to +60% boon duration (cost: 20 trait points) had pretty much the same impact on the average might stack as the 9% crit (which funnily enough would cost you 200 prec, or 20 trait points).
Anyway, to conclude, I reckon ditching 20% of that boon duration would cost you between 1.5 and 2 stacks of might on average over time.
Side-note, dropping ALL boon duration will reduce the average stack size to around 7. So let's say the benefit of these armor runes is 5 stacks, or around 175 power/condition damage (not bad for armor runes, but not amazing).
Now consider all this math was done on auto attacks (3 strikes per 2.5 seconds) not 100b or whirlwind attack. Also consider more targets = more stacks. Frenzy? Might procs suddenly start to scale very very well. I'd keep the armor runes, but the shout traitline is debatable and rests entirely around whether you want the extra damage or the extra group support.
Final comment on might... if you want to go all out gsword might, consider the 'on weapon swap, gain 3 stacks of might for 20 seconds' sigil and equip 2 greatswords for the lols. Bloodlust on rifle is a great choice though because I believe wvw fights are often won in melee, the ranged dance is just foreplay... an ideal time to build up bloodlust. Pve is probably similar, you need ranged attacks while you play it safe. Build bloodlust stacks and save the real damage for melee.
FGJ might goes from being 25 secs duration out of 25 secs cooldown (100% uptime, 105 power/condition) to:
40 secs out of 25 secs (160% uptime, 168 power/condition) with the +60% boon duration, non shout build.
45 secs out of 20 secs (225% uptime, 235 power/condition) with the +80% boon duration, healing shout build.
If you assume your group mates are sitting at an average of 2100 power (power gear, 300 trait) , then the 168 power will take 233% base damage up to 252% abd tge better +235 power version will take it to 259.5% or so if you assume ~900 power is 100% of base damage. That's ~3% extra on top of a group members damage you've just added to your group by going shout spec, or 12% of a whole person in total, which is actually pretty sweet. Add on top of that On My Mark and you're contributing a lot of damage to your group. That's not including Fury. This is assuming direct damage rather than dots. Note that just by taking FGJ with you whether you're shout spec or not, you increase their damage by over 10% each as long as you have some good boon duration, but imo the difference between runed FGJ and runed FGJ with 20% cd and an additional 20% duration isn't huge.
All in all, (that extra few % also applies to yourself), I reckon the shout traits probably add ~15-20% damage to your group. This is a lot closer to the increase to your own personal damage through those damage traits than I thought it would be, but you do have to make sure they're in range of your buffs which can be tough at times. Finally, if you feel you outskill your group mates... being selfish can be a good thing.
Imo... overall..
Personal damage : 20/25/0/10/10 (5 spare)
Group damage : 10/20/0/30/10 Might be less effective on overall group damage output than increasing your own damage via the build above, but the heals will be handy as well & there's really not a huge difference.
On my comments about soldier gear in other threads: without the boon duration increase, the benefit from might is lower, to the point where soldier gear (which has higher power than knight) is actually almost the same damage as knight with a little more survivability excluding might procs, which as I just said, would be several stacks high with base duration and ~75% crit. Keep in mind ~50% crit is easily doable with soldier gear and zerker trinkets, so our stacks don't drop a huge amount... which is why I still say soldier is almost equal to knight in terms of dps for a non boon duration gsword warrior. Note I said almost.. Personally I no longer want the extra vita as I'm comfortable with hp, so I take knight gear on a damage dealing gsword, if i'm earthshaker spamming it is soldier gear due to not bothering with crit and is a whole different build. Often you'll see me saying I go without crit because I don't think it is an efficient stat. That holds true - I believe power gives more damage point for point than precision, and I think you gain more effective HP from a point of toughness than you gain in damage from a point in precision. However there comes a point where it does not matter how minmaxed your defenses are because nobody is going to kill you, and what matters is the extra damage you can squeeze out. Straight 1v1 attrition fight will see toughness win, but that's rarely the case in pve and wvw. If I am going to play a crit build, gsword is how I would do it. The might proc is just too good.
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Edited by Lilitu, 15 November 2012 - 07:27 PM.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 06:49 PM
I think you missed some detail here, the point of switching those 10 points to Arms was to gain 10% damage, 50% bleed duration, 100 Condition damage, and 100 Precision.
Did you forget those other variables, or did you just not represent them in the text?
Loving all this math by the way
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:34 PM.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:00 PM
Note that the proc is 3 seconds, and dots work in whole seconds. +50% takes it to 4.5, which unfortunately is rounded down. So it works out as +33% damage to your crit bleed.
Unless of course you also/alternatively have +20% condition duration from 20 in strength, meaning 3 seconds +70% = 5.1.
Edited by Lilitu, 15 November 2012 - 07:05 PM.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:09 PM
Also, just to clarify, are you in fact saying that finishing out the arms line will be a damage increase?
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:29 PM.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:30 PM
I've updated the first paragraph to compare the 10 in disc to moving those 10 to either arms or str.
If at base stats and no traits you do 102 damage (4% crit, 150% crit damage).. (This means for every 100 power you gain ~11% of your base damage, which I refer to as 100):
With pve knight gear & zerker trinkets (roughly 26% crit +4% base = 30% crit, 50% damage. Call it ~+614 power, or +66% of base. +15% crit damage. This is from memory so it'll probably be a bit off) and you get ((166*0.3)*1.65))+((166*0.7)*1) = roughly 200.
Add the ~10% crit you're getting from 20 points in arms, the 9% crit from heightened focus, 10% crit damage from disc, 20% crit from fury, 100 power from traits, 12% damage from zerker...
((177*0.69)*1.75))+((177*0.31)*1) = ~270.
Compare to 10 less crit damage and 9% less crit for the 10% dmg greatsword trait as suggested above:
((188*0.6)*1.65))+((188*0.4)*1) = ~261, plus the 10% from the greatsword trait, 287.
Compare to 10 less crit damage and 9% less crit for the 10% on bleed and +~5% crit from arms as suggested above:
((177*0.65)*1.65))+((177*0.35)*1) = ~251, plus the 10% from the bleed trait, 276.
The difference here is pretty close. When you factor in longer bleeds, slightly higher bleed damage and increased might proc chance it's probably in Arms favour, especially since the 10% dmg applies to all weapons and not just greatsword.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 07:49 PM
Changes have been made accordingly.
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 11:43 AM.
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 08:16 PM
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Posted 15 November 2012 - 10:18 PM
I like your buiild... I've been using a variation now for a while (funnily enough, you beat me to a post by about 3 days but oh well).
In my build I take a full 30 point in Arms to get Last Chance - Guild Wars 2 Wiki (GW2W) and Attack of Opportunity - Guild Wars 2 Wiki (GW2W), which I find is a btter choice over Berserker's Power - Guild Wars 2 Wiki (GW2W). Given the high crit chance (I reached 62%) and the on crit bleed chance of 33% (giving an average of 20% per hit), you will always be fighting a bleeding target and the quickness proc is great to finish off a target. So its basically 12% bonus damage always (assuming full adrenaline, which is given in GS builds) and damage at the end of a dodge roll or 10% damage vs bleeding targets (pretty much a given) and 4 seconds of quickess every 90secs vs dying targets (25% health). I prefer the second option.
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The build is basically a hybrid of "Might-y GS" (cookie cutter berserker GS build) and my guildies "Warrior Bard" (full cleric shout heals). Im calling it "Warrior Poet" for now, until I find a better name.
Heals should reach about 1200-1300 with around 200-300 compassion, whilst maintaining 62% crit, high power, decent crit damage (around 40% depending on gear) and on crit might stacks (my record is 25 for now, average of 15 after 100 blades - thats an extra 225 power on avaerage for a spike of 375).
For comparison, the "Warrior Bard" build, heals for around 1800 for each shout, so 5400 max burst. "Warrior Poet" heals for around 1400 for each shout (with Cleric chest, head, legs and boots), so 4200 as a burst on the same average cooldown. So thats a 28% difference in healing in exchange for extra Power, might stacks, and 62% precision. So, a AOE condition removal healer than can kill quick basically.
Knights armor with Rune of the Soldier (shouts remove conditions)
Cleric/Sapphire Amulet, 1 Ring and 2 Hooks - gems have been replaced with ruby gems
Ruby/Berserkers ring
Note- The reason for the Sapphire gems being replaced with Ruby is that it is the most efficient way of gaining extra crit damage per upgrade slot.... (I got this from you sonic boon build - brillant idea btw)
Mystic Claymore with Sigil of Nullification (remove boon on crit) and will swap to Sigil of Strength (might on crit) when I finally get round to it, Axe/Warhorn as secondary and a rifle in the kit bag for seiges.
I use Omnomnom Chocolate Cake (+40% magic find under a boon and 20% boon duration). I always have swiftness or fury up so its always +40% MF
This gear is about 30 gold worth in total if bought from scratch.
I use Signet of Rage on CD. This gives 45 seconds of Fury, Swiftness and 5 stacks of Might on a 60 second cooldown. With 'FGJ' and Warhorn swiftness I can keep fury and swiftness up permanently. The shouts are used like a shout heal build.
Stats end up being (at 80):
Powr - 1,748
Prec - 1,706
Toughness - 1,487
Vitality - 1,410
Attack - 2,848
Crit chance - 42% (+20% from fury) = 62%
Crit dam - 40%
Armor - 2,698
Health - 23,312.
Edited by Bluetalon_TOG, 15 November 2012 - 10:18 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:17 AM
It's not like we're adding more bleeds, this build already had bleeds, we're just making them last longer and by extension do more damage.
I'm not convinced that moving 10 points from Disc to Arms is a good idea when you are with a group. With the bleed cap at 25 you are going to be fighting your party for a bleed "slot" and may be reducing your party's overall damage.
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:27 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:15 AM
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:26 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 07:38 AM
The crit chance comes from precision from gear and the 300 from traits.
40% crit damage comes from ruby jewels in my trinkets (total of 15%), 10% in discipline, 6% from ruby trinkets, 9% from weapon. = 40%
Armor is all Knights, 3 trinkets are Cleric/sapphire with Berserker/ruby jewels, and 2 are Berserker/ruby
The runes aren't for survivibilty. Its for the additional condition removal.
The Build
And I think you miss the point of the build. I wanted unselfish DPS. And I like the GS.
I understand that the best support build is a 3 shout warrior (traited to heal), with a warhorn (traited for CD and conditon->boon), but that build does very average dps. I generally run with axe/warhorn as a secondary, with a rifle in the kit bag for WvW seiges (mainly defense if all the seige is taken). And the Banner builds are too immobile for my tastes, not to mention that regen isnt designed for burst healing.
I get what your saying, but my build gives me decent (not great DPS) whilst keeping people alive. It may work in a dungeon, I dont know but it works for WvW.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 08:27 AM
The Warrior's primary focus with a Greatsword is to deal damage, but when you use Sonic Boon you are also supplying lots of support. With your build, there is no reason to even use the Greatsword really, as your might stacks and boon duration just aren't high enough to maintain the might stacks at 25. You're supplementing your loss of boon duration by throwing in lots of crit and crit damage, which isn't going to help you in the long run (And is way less optimal than Power).
As I stated earlier in the comments:
The great thing about this build is it's ability to provide support and good damage, while neither of these aspects are wasted in a way that makes you want to lean towards total damage/total support. You can keep both areas without sacrificing so much from one side or the other that you would be inclined to go full damage or full support. When you start to take out traits from tactics and turn them into more damage, your shouts become so much less useful that you don't need them, and whole sections of the build would be better suited in other places to increase your dps.
If you take away from the support aspects you start to make having shouts less useful etc etc until you come up with a new build entirely.
This same argument can be used here, substituting more damage for more support (Which you are trying to achieve). When you start pulling points or swapping gear choices with this build, it ultimately leans towards one side of the equation and you end up being more optimal as a full support.
This build is a finely tuned balance, and the reason for this is that in order to maintain the build, you need those 30 points in tactics for the boon duration. This means that you "might as well" take shouts and shout healing, and then once we were done putting points into precision (To a soft cap so that not very many might stacks were wasted during combat) we put in some cleric's gear in order to give ourselves more healing, a good amount of power, and NO WASTED PRECISION (Power scales better than precision anyway).
I've been balancing this build for some time now, and I have the math of Lilitu and Sithicus Dias on my side. Sithicus knows as well as I do (You can go ask him) that going for a "AOE condition removal healer than can kill quick" just isn't optimal.
In fact, I ASKED HIM about the very same type of build when we were swapping ideas. I will post some of that conversation:
It is becoming very difficult to understand what you are trying to achieve. You "want the sacrifices you make to each to be more beneficial to the other side of the spectrum." I'm not sure I understand why you want to achieve such a "balance", I fear you might reach an unruly compromise if you do. Why don't you want to build as IBS with a GS and push massive DPS? The problem with balancing this is that to truly "balance" would probably mean you're not going to be too great at anything. Cleric's gear cripples your damage so much.
Now if I go into a cleric's build with VS (That would be something like 10/20/0/30/10) I could take say the 10 points out of Strength and put them into something that would increase my ability to support, say something like Turtle's Defense(II) in the Defense traits. However, the damage I would lose is significant, and likely not worth it (Especially since conditions should be getting removed often, lowering TD(II)'s usefulness). I'm mostly talking of traits and accessories here, the armor would remain cleric's, the amulet might change, a few traits would be given to damage because putting them into support would not be as beneficial as that extra damage. I want the amount of support I lose to be less than the amount of damage I gain in terms of usefulness.
Hey, I like your spec, probably the highest damage one you can be (this is what the Warrior who runs with me builds as), I filled some runes in, it's a little gimmicky, but i'd be really interested to see how 60% Might Duration could work out http://goo.gl/7rjYH
In addition to this, annoyingly with that build editor, I never understand how those "gems" work, they don't seem to offer you "Knight's", just a bunch of weird stat combos. But here is what I think (and there are two sides to this):
Firstly, you are already leaning towards offense, hence you should use your weapons/armour to lean that way, i.e. Knights instead of Clerics. Since if you chose Cleric's, you don't have the 300 from Defense, so at best it would be a slightly watered down build.
Conversely, you are already leaning towards offense, which means you could still capitalize on some of the early benefits of stacking a little bit of Healing Power, since any damage you gain on top of what you have won't be too much. I added a chart to the google sheet: http://goo.gl/pj0CC
The chart shows Healing done over 100 seconds (look in the "Convergence" sheet), with Healing Power on the x-axis. The blue line is what you want (3x Shout). You could get 461 Healing Power with Clerics Armour/Weapons (note, NOT accessories at this point) and your healing would go from ~20000 Healing over 100 seconds, to ~26000 over 100 seconds. If you chose Knights Armour/Weapons instead, you'd lose that healing, but gain 352 Precision. 352 Precision equates to ~16.8% critical chance. 21 Precision = 1% crit chance, with this in mind you may almost want to get the Sigil that stacks +10 Healing OR Precision, for extra stat boosts.
Those back of the envelope calculations in the paragraph above are an attempt to show how much more healing you could get compared to how much crit you could get with two different sets (note however you'd have roughly similar Toughness, but slightly more with Knights). What do you make of those numbers? It all comes down to how much crit chance you think is ok, and then how much healing you would conversely stack into your build instead.
At the end of the day, GW2 has no particular character "roles" and that holds up very well, but what you can do is enhance your effectiveness in one or two areas (i.e. I heal and withstand a lot of enemy pressure).
As for VS being viable at 0 HP, my calculations showed that VS heals 54% more than Banners at HP=0, which is quite a margin, meaning VS at 0 HP is perfectly viable. Just remember, giving yourself Cleric's armour instead of Knights armour only improves Healing by 6000 over 100 seconds, is that really worth it? When realistically your damage enables things to die faster. One of the biggest banes to a team I have seen is when a boss is just taking too long to kill, due to other profs running gimmicky builds. By putting out a lot of damage, you ARE helping the team.
I'm starting to return to my old mentality here, you should either go all Knights or all Clerics, you just water yourself down too much otherwise (plus, losing 300 HP from no Defense is a big loss really).
As for Runes, when you decide what armour to go for, (or rather when you pick "damage" or "healing", choose a rune to mesh with that) Soldier is a solid choice if you're serious about Shout support though.
So, at the point that I get rid of soldier's for the might duration build, is VS even worth it?
Ultimately we came to the "Vigorous Greatsword" build, that I remodeled into Sonic Boon. You're going to end up wasting stats, wasting procs, and overall wasting the potential of your build. Sonic Boon is a high damage build, that just happens to also be able to heal, and remove conditions. It is not specifically designed to be able to support, it is specifically designed for damage and might stacks, and as a bonus we get support.
Well, VS is viable without Soldier Runes, all Soldier does is provide condition removal, it doesn't affect the healing in any way.
If you're building like that with Might Duration then there is no point. As i said before, Might Duration is an idea extending from offensive Greatsword. If you want to use a similar build to me, why go Greatsword, when you could just get a shield and block? Remember that if you go far enough into Defensive builds, to use a Greatsword with no traits that augment it would be a waste.
Just try and remember that there are many individual facets to this build, Vigorous Shouts is the foundation, as such things like your Rune Choice don't directly affect it too much (except for Soldier with Cond Removal), so VS is always viable. Your Sigil is independent of VS too. By choosing Might Duration you're not making VS un-viable. However by choosing defensive traits or runes, you ARE making GS + Might duration un-viable.
Choosing Greatsword with a defensive/healing build would be at the loss of maximizing your defense. It would water it down. Shield Stance is so good for tanking, and to be honest, so many boss fights I'm the one tanking him the whole time. Aggro-theorycrafting aside, you need to aim for one extreme or the other. Taking Greatsword for a defensive build is like running a race, you're so close to the finish line, but you've taken a wrong turn. Imagine the reverse too, if you specced into the Offensive Build, but took a Mace and Shield, you'd just be limiting your potential to deal damage. Just as taking a Greatsword limits your potential to absorb damage.
Your build is specifically designed to remove conditions while you do high damage. In your build nothing is a bonus, it's all specifically planned for. As such, you aren't getting anything "extra" you're basically taking the damage aspect of Sonic Boon and cutting off a third of it so that you can maintain decent condition removal that a guardian or mesmer or etc in your team/WvW match already has.
I cannot stress enough how important it is that you DO NOT water down your build.
If you want to support, build for great support.
If you want to do damage, build for high damage and get a BONUS of team support. DO NOT build for condition removal, which will end up hurting your dungeon team, and it won't be more useful than the damage you could have when in WvW.
I do understand the point of your build, but the way you want it just isn't optimal. Just because you don't run Soldier's runes in your shout build doesn't make you selfish! In fact, as I stated, running condition removal can actually hurt your team if you aren't "THE SUPPORTER", and the times it doesn't hurt your team, it will be wasted or the damage you could have would be better suited in the situation. Sonic Boon is geared towards those who want to deal very high damage with a niche build that also allows them to support their team. You're actually doing a lot more for your team and yourself by running Sonic Boon over your build 90% of the time.
I hope this is enough explaining!
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:24 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 01:43 PM
Anw i've noticed that you use 2 sets of runes that boosts Might Duration 20% and a set of Boon Duration 15%. Is that the optimal rune combination? I don't really want to do the Math but can you just let me know if
ie. having 2 sets of +15% boon duration and 1 set of +20% might duration or
1 set of +15% boon duration and 2 sets of +20% might duration
Which is better since boon duration covers all boons that gives you all sorts of bonus and is beneficial to the trait Empowered as well for dmg increase. Or do we have to use 2x might duration to make the might stacks last long enough?
Secondly, for the above discussions wouldn't having 10pts in Discipline for the 9% crit be more versatile (rifle crits) as well as faster might stacking be more practical for actual usage where players run in and out etc. Along with the fact that it is possible to stack more vulnerability as compared to the dmg increase from 10pts in Strength for the Slashing Power and Power stats.
I'm not sure if the 100pwr + 10% greatsword dmg actually outweights this difference.
I don't really know the Maths so forgive me if i'm stating the obvious.
Thank You!
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 04:02 PM
Your second statement is also defunct as the debate was not whether to use 10 more points in strength, but to use 10 more points in arms (At the expense of the 10 points in disc). We proved this to give more damage as you only lose 4% crit and 10% crit damage in exchange for 10% more damage overall, 100 condition damage, and 50% longer bleeds. You still retain your ability to get/keep 25 might stacks, your bleeds last longer and do more damage, and you get 10% increased damage.
Thanks for reading the guide and supporting it.
Hope this answered your questions!
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:36 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 05:13 PM
Dirk, every time you talk I read your words in Nicholas D. Wolfwood's voice, and it is always the best. I'm not even sure if that is who your profile picture is, but it looks a lot like him.
You have my gratitude sir ^^ Here's hoping your voice is as silky smooth as I keep imagining it to be!
It's Spike from Cowboy Bebop. Steven Blum is the voice actor. And it's a pretty sexy voice.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:33 PM
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 09:44 PM
You're welcome for all the hard work Thank you for using the build and encouraging its use!
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:39 PM.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 05:43 AM
I haven't had the chance to play with this build in game as I've completely shelved my 450hr Warrior for a new Hammer Guardian (I am very saddened by this), so I am missing all the gear; but on paper, it looks right up my alley. Nonetheless, I appreciate all the work and testing put into this build and would like to see the same effort put towards builds for every class.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 09:56 AM
Anywho, just a couple of things here...
Guild Backpack: You should really use the Caretakers, you are essentially trading 6 power and 14 toughness for 20 compassion (From Defenders -> Caretakers), and the compassion comes out on top.
Accessories: You use 2x Cleric's Earrings and 1x ring in your sheet, and honestly we have enough precision so you should really go for 2x Cleric's rings and 1x earring (Not to mention this puts you at exactly 260 = 1400 heals which is sexy and as I said, a good number to shoot for, it's right on the edge of "too little" and "too much". Reason being that in order to get a 100 point healing increase (1500) we'd need 385 Compassion, which is more than we can afford)
Now I hope you agree with these points and change your spread sheet, because I'd really love to use yours instead of mine. (I'd have to copy over mine on my account though, for clarity's sake.) Yours is frankly a lot better and neater xD I'd love to use it and credit you for it.
I'd also ask that you add in a Condition Damage column and have a full 25 stacks of might listed for the "Synergy" bit there, showing 875 might/condition damage increase to the final numbers (I've been meaning to put this in mine as well).
Also you have "Regen tick" listed there, I'm unsure what that means. I think you put it there to show our Compassions effect on regen, but we DONT give any regen as far as I know. And any regen we get is almost definitely based on the "Granter's" Compassion, not ours. (I haven't tested this, but that's how Boon duration works and I doubt it's different)
Anyway I'm glad you like the build as I worked pretty hard on it o3o and I'd love to credit you and use your spreadsheet in the main post since it looks like you worked pretty diligently (At the very least on making it look sexy )!
Love to see people coming and adding to the build!
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 12:39 PM.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 02:16 PM
Hey, I wanted to touch back on this for a moment. Now that we have the 10 points in Arms, do you think this build (In terms of all damage sources combined, like boons you give to allies, bleeds, etc) Is actually superior to a full out damage build (20/30/0/10/10) with Boon duration runes? How about a full damage build with some other type of effective rune combination?
I don't think the 20 points in the shout trait line are worth the 10 percent damage buffs you could be having in both the arms and strength lines, especially since you aren't cleansing . That's an awful lot of damage you're missing out on.
What I'm really asking here is:
"How much damage do you think we are losing compared to other high damage/survivability builds? Do you think the damage we are losing (If there is any) is supplemented by the additional support? If so, are we getting more support/survivability than that build's damage? Or are they on par with each other?"
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 02:17 PM.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 05:35 PM
Guild Backpack: You should really use the Caretakers, you are essentially trading 6 power and 14 toughness for 20 compassion (From Defenders -> Caretakers), and the compassion comes out on top.
Accessories: You use 2x Cleric's Earrings and 1x ring in your sheet, and honestly we have enough precision so you should really go for 2x Cleric's rings and 1x earring (Not to mention this puts you at exactly 260 = 1400 heals which is sexy and as I said, a good number to shoot for, it's right on the edge of "too little" and "too much". Reason being that in order to get a 100 point healing increase (1500) we'd need 385 Compassion, which is more than we can afford)
I won't claim to be the arbiter of min-maxing, or frankly even any good at it (my results usually come by accident), but I hope I can explain how my previous gear choices affected the final stats of the build.
I chose to use a Cleric's Shoulder Piece over Knight's and as well as you've already pointed; Guild Defender's over Caretakers, finally 2x Cleric Earrings & 1x Cleric Ring over 1x Cleric Ring & 2x Cleric Earrings. I've shifted equipment around while keeping in mind and trying to maintain 260 Compassion. These changes have managed to squeek out an extra +20 Power, +7 Toughness, and an incidental +3 Healing Power which has disturbed the golden 260 Compassion rule, at the cost of 1% crit chance. Honestly seemed like a good trade to me. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
For the sake of clarity, I've included shots below:
Your setup vs. mine
Now I hope you agree with these points and change your spread sheet, because I'd really love to use yours instead of mine. (I'd have to copy over mine on my account though, for clarity's sake.) Yours is frankly a lot better and neater xD I'd love to use it and credit you for it.
I'd also ask that you add in a Condition Damage column and have a full 25 stacks of might listed for the "Synergy" bit there, showing 875 might/condition damage increase to the final numbers (I've been meaning to put this in mine as well).
Done. Updated Sheet
Also you have "Regen tick" listed there, I'm unsure what that means. I think you put it there to show our Compassions effect on regen, but we DONT give any regen as far as I know. And any regen we get is almost definitely based on the "Granter's" Compassion, not ours. (I haven't tested this, but that's how Boon duration works and I doubt it's different)
You are correct, I initially added that little tidbit because I was interested in the formula to see how it would affect Banners and also because I wanted to use this sheet as a base for other classes, hence the addition of the Defense column as well. As the information has no relevance to this particular build, I've hidden it.
Edited by laek, 17 November 2012 - 05:48 PM.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 07:41 PM
Regardless, I'll update that and credit you right now, just so you know I am putting it in my drive for sake of clarity and what not
Edited by Brand, 17 November 2012 - 07:48 PM.
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Dominican Dominance
Not so long ago, the Dominican Republic was a small player in the world cigar market. Now it leads the way.
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Santiago is impressive. In a decade, the city has grown from a population of 365,000 to more than a half million. Cigars are part of the reason. The Dominican Republic is making as many premium cigars as Cuba—more by some estimates—and more than half of the handmade cigars sold in America every year. If you smoke Fuentes, Davidoffs, Romeo y Julieta 1875s or Macanudos, you're smoking cigars that come from here and contain a hefty amount of locally grown tobacco.
It's hard to imagine a cigar world without the Dominican Republic, but the country hasn't been a market leader for long. Although its oldest cigarmaker, La Aurora S.A. has been in business for a century, most of the cigars it made in the past were for local consumption. In the 1970s the first free trade zones opened in the country, welcoming companies that would make cigars strictly for export. It took nearly a decade for the Dominican Republic to overtake the Canary Islands and Jamaica to become the leading cigar producer for the United States. The increases in cigar production here have been extraordinary. Dominican cigar exports were a paltry 5.8 million in 1977, grew to 33.7 million in 1981 and stand today at 160 million. In 2003, shipments of handmade Dominican cigars grew by more than 5 percent over 2002 levels, greater than the overall market.
"The growth of the Dominican cigar is so incredible over the past 20 years—it's been in business such a short time," says Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, the maker of La Gloria Cubana cigars. He's smoking one of his freshly rolled La Glorias, perhaps his only vice. Carrillo, a slim 53-year-old, is an avowed fitness nut—one of the bedrooms in his Santiago apartment has been transformed into a miniature gym.
When Carrillo outgrew his original space in Miami, he opened a factory in the Dominican Republic to try to satisfy the raging demand for his cigars. He began making cigars here in 1996 in a factory in the Pisano free trade zone, outside Santiago, and quickly outgrew that space, so he opened a factory next door. After selling his company to Swedish Match AB in 1999, Carrillo moved to his current space, a large factory in Santiago.
He's outgrown that as well. He walks up some steps to an area on the side of his rolling gallery, where rows of tables have been set up for junior cigarmakers. The space used to be a cafeteria.
"We have 190 people, we're going to get to 220," he says. He walks over to a table and picks up a long perfecto, with a tapered tip and foot. It's wrapped in Ecuadoran leaf grown from Sumatra seed, as are all natural La Glorias. "This is the first shaped cigar La Gloria Cubana has made in 20 years," he says. It's his only perfecto.
He moves from his factory to a room in a huge tobacco warehouse, where the workers greet him with smiles and hearty hugs, and begins looking at his impressive stocks of tobacco that come from Ecuador, Connecticut, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. His Ecuadoran wrapper is three years old, his broadleaf and Dominican tobacco is five. You can hear the pride in Carrillo's voice as he looks it over. "Let me tell you something," he says. "I think the Dominican has come into its own, as far as being compared with Cuba or any other country."
The sale of the company to Swedish Match has untied Carrillo's hands, allowing him to focus on cigar making rather than bookkeeping and the like. During the cigar boom, Carrillo couldn't answer his phone calls, let alone design a new cigar shape.
Getting creative with cigars has been a hallmark of Litto Gomez, who co-owns the La Flor Dominicana brand with his wife, Ines Lorenzo-Gomez. His newest cigar shape is unique and eye-grabbing, a love-it-or-hate-it creation called the Double Ligero Chisel, a strong figurado with a head shaped like the hand tool for which it is named.
Litto Gomez spends each week here, commuting via plane from Miami. He's typically in his Dominican office late Monday through Friday, splitting time between his factory in Tamboril and his farm in La Canela.
Gomez, who co-owns the farm with cigarmaker Jochi Blanco of Tabacalera La Palma, has improved his farm with each crop. The Chisel, which has an Ecuadoran wrapper, gets its guts from the farm.
Gomez is becoming increasingly less dependent on outside tobacco. Three years ago, he estimates, 40 percent of the tobacco he used came from outside vendors. Today he's reduced that ratio to 20 percent.
"This is beautiful stuff, brother," Gomez says with a smile, wearing his trademark Montecristi Panama hat. He has a passing resemblance to actor Andy Garcia and looks younger than his 50 years, especially when walking in his tobacco field. His shade crop is a few weeks old. The small plants are a vibrant green, vivid against the dark brown earth. At this stage they are nothing more than a few tufts of beautiful leaves not far from the ground, but soon they will be standing as high as eight feet, bristling with nearly two dozen spade-shaped leaves.
Business has been good for Gomez. "We have a strong market of smokers," he says. "It's steady. It's not going down, it's not like after the boom. Now you have a definite market of consumers." Gomez can't fill the orders for his Chisels, which are fat, powerful cigars that pack a punch, fueled in part by his homegrown ligero. They're worlds apart from the original cigars he made, which were mild smokes with Connecticut-shade wrappers.
"I was a nice guy who made these nice cigars for a while," he says, a Cheshire cat smile creeping across his face. "No more Mr. Nice Guy. From now on, what comes out of that factory is going to make you sweat."
Dominican cigars were once pigeonholed as mild, but that stereotype is wholly off base today. Carlos Fuente Jr. perhaps the world's premier blender of strong cigars, has no shortage of offerings that can make anyone's nose tingle, from the Ashton VSGs he makes for Robert Levin to his steroid-fueled Fuente Fuente OpusX X3, also known as the Power Ranger. Tabacalera de Garcia Ltd. the massive factory that makes all the Dominican brands for Altadis U.S.A. Inc. has been pumping out stronger versions of the company's best-selling brands, from Romeo y Julieta to H. Upmann to Montecristo. Montes, once available only as rather mild smokes with Connecticut-shade wrappers, now come in a host of stronger varieties: Montecristo Platinum and Montecristo White are pumped up with Nicaraguan tobacco in the filler blend. Macanudos, Davidoffs and Fonsecas are also available in stronger varieties.
For years the leading cigarmakers of the Dominican Republic have had large inventories of tobacco. They still do, but they're ordering new leaf at record levels to maintain their stocks and keep up with demand. While Dominican tobacco is a major part of nearly every cigar blend made in the country, the cigarmakers here are master blenders, and rely on foreign leaves to make their cigars.
"I'm selling more tobacco this year than during the cigar boom," says John Oliva Jr. an executive from Oliva Tobacco Co. of Tampa, Florida, one of the world's leading tobacco growers and brokers. Oliva's speciality is Sumatra-seed wrapper that grows on several hilly farms in Ecuador and is found on La Glorias and La Flor Dominicana Double Ligeros, among many others. Oliva is back-ordered on the Sumatra leaf.
"I don't know how to explain it," says Oliva, "but we're moving product."
Back orders, which occur when cigarmakers can't fill the orders they have on certain cigars, were common during the cigar boom, but were largely unheard of between 1998 and 2001.
Jose Seijas runs Tabacalera de Garcia for Altadis. The factory, located in La Romana, half a day's drive from Santiago, is the largest cigar factory in the country, if not the world, but it still can't make enough to fill all of its back orders. In 2003, the company added more manufacturing capacity.
"Last year we built our capacity, so we don't have to work on Saturdays," Seijas says. Still, when certain large projects need to be done and time runs short, the company works about two Saturdays a month. Some 3,000 people work there. Seijas and the Altadis team have come up with a large variety of new blends in recent years.
"Quality is foremost," he says. "I want an increase we can manage very well."
La Aurora has put an increasing focus on its popular Preferido cigars, the bulbous perfectos that are copies of the company's original cigar from 1903. Eleven Preferido cigarmakers sit in a special area, separate from the factory, that is designed for tourists. It's a gorgeous setup with a lector's table and a small shop off the rolling gallery where visitors can buy cigars, accessories and even a La Aurora tie. The energetic Eugenio Polanco leads tours through the rolling area, describing to tourists the art of enjoying cigars. Polanco, who is fluent in five languages, also serves as the lector. "My father used to roll tobacco, sell tobacco, make his own cigars," he says. "My father was a complete cigar man."
Cigar smoking is a thirsty business. After visitors to La Aurora watch the cigars being made, they can walk across the perfectly landscaped courtyard to the cafeteria and buy a sandwich and a cold Presidente beer to pair with their Preferido. After the refreshment, they can walk into a modern, luxurious museum—the only museum in Santiago—and view a showcase of Dominican art and history.
It's quickly evident that La Aurora is much more than cigars. The company makes most of its money from beer and cigarettes (it claims more than 90 percent of the local market for each), but has not forgotten its original business, cigars.
The Preferidos are rich smokes. The filler and binder tobacco for each cigar spends half a year in old rum barrels—the company keeps the tobacco behind a padlocked wire fence upstairs from the main production room.
La Aurora's newest Preferido comes in a gold tube. It's made with an oily, dark wrapper leaf grown in the Navarette region of the Dominican Republic from Corojo seed. La Aurora has been gathering the wrapper since 1999/2000 (the company lost half the 2000/2001 crop to blue mold).
The current crop looked good on a winter visit. The freshly picked Corojo was in the tobacco barns, already beginning to take on a bit of its signature reddish color, and the company was preparing to harvest its second crop of olor wrapper. (Olor, a seed variety that grows large leaves, is typically used as binder leaf.)
The sight of a Dominican cigarmaker with muddy boots is becoming more common, and many have been spending less time in their factories and more time in tobacco fields working on growing wrapper for their Dominican puros. After the rave success of the Fuente family's Fuente Fuente OpusX, which contains only Dominican tobacco, several other companies have followed suit. General, which has grown green candela leaf in the country for decades, now has a dark Dominican wrapper on its Ramon Allones cigar. Hendrik Kelner of Davidoff, once a vocal doubter of the notion of growing Dominican wrapper, released a Davidoff puro recently and is growing more wrapper. (Kelner had such a good growing season in 2003/04 that he ran out of space in his curing barns.) Gomez plans to release a Dominican puro this year, his 10th anniversary as a cigarmaker.
"If there was supposed to be a challenge to grow wrapper in the D.R. then it has to be a bigger challenge to grow in La Canela," Gomez says. The agricultural town is windy and sunny, forces that can make tobacco thick and veiny. Gomez fights the elements with a higher percentage of shade and other methods. But he thinks he and other growers have been given a break, in a way. "For us, it's even easier, because someone took the chance before us, and was very successful."
That someone is Fuente Jr. who turned a tobacco farm into a showcase with his Fuente Fuente OpusX project. The all-Dominican cigars put the Dominican puro on the map and set a new standard in the cigar world in terms of supply and demand.
Fuente Jr, has been in charge of his family's factories for more than five years now, and he has introduced a number of innovations-substantive as well as organizational. One of his greatest achievements, he contends, is the use of young people in his factory. Many of his best workers have rolled cigars for only a few years. "I don't know how we did it, but I think that we have changed the world of cigars with what we have done," he says during a tour of his main cigar factory in Santiago.
Tabacalera A. Fuente, in effect, is several small factories within one large factory. Large, separate rooms with selected rollers are used for crafting particular cigars, including Fuente Fuente OpusX, Ashton VSG, Arturo Fuente Hemingway and Don Carlos. The factory is extremely well organized and clean, with workers seemingly full of energy as they construct their cigars.
"I didn't want them to have worked with anybody else. They learned everything from us. They didn't have any bad habits," Fuente says. He began this policy in 1997, recruiting young, well-educated adults from middle-class families in Santiago. "Twenty years ago the Dominican Republic had a tobacco culture, but not a cigar culture. I think that we have helped build the cigar culture here that we have today."
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does anyone know how many records peyton has broken this year? and how many hes on pace of breaking?
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does anyone know how many records peyton has broken this year? and how many hes on pace of breaking?
Peyton has broken two records to far this year that I know of:
1. He broke the record for most consecutive games with 2 or more touchdowns. The previous record was for 12 games; Peyton set the record at 13.
2. Peyton broke his own record for consecutive seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards. The record is now 6 seasons.
Peyton is on pace to break the following records (forgive me if I leave one out):
1. Total number of passing touchdowns in one season by a quarterback. The record is 48 by Dan Marino.
2. Passer rating in one season, currently held by Steve Young. Peyton's current rating is near a whopping 123, besting the mark of (approximately) 112 set by Young.
3. It is possible that Peyton and Marvin could tie or break the record number of touchdowns between a quarterback and receiver before the year is out. The current record is 85 by Andre Reed and Jim Kelly of the Bills. Peyton and Marvin have hooked up for 82 touchdowns at this point.
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Peyton and Marvin also broke the record for the most TD's between a QB and WR. It too was held by Kelly & Reed if I remember. sorry I don't remember the numbers.
You are right, but I think you meant to say completion record.Originally Posted by realtyczarThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Peyt & Marv are still 3 off the TD completion record by 3 as obnoxiousmodesty stated above.
Actually you are both half right. It's Young and Rice that have the TD tandem record. Kelly & Reed used to own the completion tandem record (broken by Peyt & Marv this season).
Damn, I knew I'd gotten that one confused.
Well, add the receivers into the mix and the Colts set a record for having three receivers with 10+ touchdowns each in one season. Reggie, Marvin, and Brandon also became the fourth trio with 1000 yard seasons.
...I think Dominic Rhodes also set the record for return yards by a Colt in one game yesterday as well. Whew, that's a lot of changes in the books.
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Didn't Peyton set the record for most 3+ TD games in a row. I know this is getting nitpicky but they have a record for everything today so.......
This is a cool way to remember History being made. (It's not my site.)
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Cop survives bullet to head
An NYPD cop is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the base of the skull last night while chasing a murder suspect through a Brooklyn housing project, authorities said. "This was a miracle," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at Bellevue Hospital, where Officer Kevin Brennan had been rushed. "He's one lucky young man." Mayor Bloomberg said he spoke to Brennan about the cop's 6-week-old daughter, Maeve. "He understood he was hit and he said he was in a lot of pain, but we joked about his daughter," Bloomberg said. The harrowing incident unfolded when Brennan responded, along with two other plainclothes cops, to a report of shots fired at the Bushwick Houses at about 9 p.m. Read More: New York Post
Three-week-old daughter gives Giants' Cruz Super strength
I don't want to pinch myself, so I can stay in the moment and soak it all in. It's been an amazing journey for me, and I don't want it to end. Yesterday was a whirlwind with Media Day. It was exciting to see what it was all about. They got me to dance the salsa, of course, that was pretty cool, and a TV lady from Azteca Sports asked me to put on a sombrero and say hi to everybody in Mexico — saludos a Mexico! I signed a deal with IMG, which was huge for me to have someone like that market my off-the-field stuff and all the ventures I want to do and a lot of stuff I've dreamed about doing. It's the start of something special. Read More: New York Post
Department of Education probe bungling saved 'ogle' teacher
Department of Education bureaucrats bungled the city's best chance to rid itself of its notorious $100,000-a-year rubber-room teacher by failing to secure the testimony of a series of students who accused him of creepy behavior, documents obtained by The Post show. Typing instructor Alan Rosenfeld has received full pay without setting foot in the classroom in more than a decade — even after six junior-high-school girls accused him of leering at them and making inappropriate remarks. The case was botched because of the DOE's inability to produce required documentation — such as attendance records — for four of the six student witnesses at his 2003 disciplinary hearing, records show. Read More: New York Post
DWI kid killer dodges prison
A drunken driver got a slap on the wrist from a Queens judge yesterday for drunkenly slamming his car into a 6-year-old girl who later died from her injuries. Kent Lowrie, 53, of Jamaica, was sentenced to five years' probation. He had pleaded guilty last month to the vehicular manslaughter of Zhaneya Smith, who darted into the street toward an ice-cream truck and was struck by Lowrie's car last June 28. Read More: New York Post
Club PO'd at P-Funk
Legendary funk master George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic have been slapped with a lawsuit claiming they failed to perform at a Queens nightclub — and then kept a $15,000 deposit anyway. Owners of La Boom New York also allege in their Queens Supreme Court suit that Clinton, 70, and the band performed at another venue the same August 2011 night they were contracted to play the Woodside club. But Clinton's agent, Jeff Allen, said, "La Boom chose to cancel the show. [The club] said there was no show and wanted the money back — it doesn't work that way." Read More: New York Post
Officials Seek Steeper Fines For Illegal Dumping
Jamaica Avenue has seen better days. At the intersection of 123rd Street, garbage is piled high. An oversized box for a flat screen TV and plastic bags filled with Christmas tree remains clog the path to a public garbage can. Trash bins are meant to collect litter from pedestrians, not hold garbage from someone's home or work. "Businesses do it because they are trying to avoid paying private pickup. I have no idea why private people do it. Maybe they are too stupid to figure out when their pickup day is or maybe they are just too lazy," said Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. New Yorkers living in illegal apartments may also be adding their trash to the pile. They may think putting garbage on the curb outside their home will draw unwanted attention. Read More: NY1


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Mark Montieth: Pacers Q&A
Indianapolis Star sports reporter Mark Montieth answers your questions about the Pacers.
June 13, 2005
Question: Mark, as with the rest of us Star readers and Pacer fans, I enjoy your columns. I have a trivia question going back to my childhood, listening to a game on radio (Jerry Baker was the announcer, seems like it was a Sunday afternoon) with the Pacers breaking a record for most points in a pro game (ABA or NBA) at that time. Can you help?
What is the most points the Pacers have scored in one game? "Detroit beat Denver 186-184 in a triple-overtime game that set NBA records for most points scored in a game" NBA.com states, but that was a triple-overtime game. (Bob from Indianapolis)
Answer: You remember well, Bob. It was a Sunday afternoon game. I happened to be there, in fact, a 15-year-old kid sitting in an end zone section. A friend from school worked the games as an usher and got us down close.
It was April 12, 1970 and the Pacers beat the Pittsburgh Pipers 177-135 in a game without overtimes. It was reported as a scoring record for any professional basketball game. Boston had scored 173 points in 1959 for the NBA record and the Pacers had scored 172 the previous season against the Los Angeles Stars.
The Pacers scored 46 points in the first quarter, 41 in the second, 39 in the third and 51 in the fourth. According to The Star's story the next day, they fouled as quickly as possible in the final few minutes of the game to get the ball back so they could score again. They were called for 16 fouls in the last period, and Pittsburgh shot 32 free throws.
I don't have to tell you how that would be perceived today. They'd be ripped for violating the integrity of the game, much like Ricky Davis was for shooting at the wrong basket a few years ago to get a triple-double. Philadelphia had done the same thing to help Wilt Chamberlain get his 100-point game, however. The games were taken less seriously then, which wasn't all bad.
You'll be surprised to hear who led the Pacers in scoring that day. John Barnhill, a non-scorer, had 31 points in 31 minutes. Bob Netolicky had 28, Freddie Lewis 26, Art Becker 23, Roger Brown 19, Billy Keller 14, Jay Miller 12 and Oliver Darden 11. Mel Daniels scored just nine points, but had 17 rebounds. Tom Thacker had four points, but 11 assists. The Pacers hit 73-of-130 field goals, 9-of-21 3-pointers and 22-of-31 foul shots.
They declared themselves ready for the playoffs after this game -- there were only two regular-season games left -- and went on to win their first ABA title.
There was another oddity about the game. Keller was hit with three technical fouls in the fourth quarter for arguing a foul call. Referee Norm Drucker admitted Keller did not curse at him and seemed rather amused by it.
"I hit him with three technicals and that's a rarity," Drucker said after the game. "Can you imagine what that would do in a close game? He could have lost it."
Why did Drucker do it?
"I don't have to explain anything," he said. "Can you imagine what would happen if you had to explain every call? You'd need a King Solomon out there."
Question: Are the Pacers looking into trading their pick, or are they looking into drafting Rashad McCants? (Mitch from Zionsville, Ind.)
Answer: Trades are always possible, but that sort of decision usually is made on the day of the draft, after all options are considered. McCants, who left North Carolina after his junior season, is projected to go in the middle of the first round, and I've seen one mock draft that has him going to the Pacers.
That means nothing at this early stage, though. McCants has lottery talent -- he's a great shooter and a legitimate NBA athlete -- but he's short for his position (shooting guard) and has had off-the-court problems.
Question: As far as free agents go, do you think the Pacers have anything up their sleeve? Would Micheal Redd or Larry Hughes be attainable in a sign-and-trade? I have this vision of a starting five of Redd, Ron Artest, Jeff Foster, Jermaine O'Neal and Jamaal Tinsley that makes me smile. DD, JB, JJ and FJ would make a nice rotation, too. (Jamison from Avon, Ind.)
Answer: I'm sure the Pacers would love to have Redd, or Hughes for that matter. They'll be tough to get, though. Milwaukee is banking on re-signing Redd, having made trades in February so that it would be able to do so. A lot of people think he'll leave, though, and his agent has said the Pacers are among the teams that interest him.
The Pacers would have to make a major trade to get him, however, and no doubt give up one or more of the players you envision starting with him. Redd wants a max contract, and it would be difficult for the Pacers to absorb that into their payroll structure.
Question: Let's be honest. Stephen Jackson, Ron Artest, and Jamaal Tinsley may be "scorers" but they aren't "shooters". I think the loss of Reggie Miller is going to be significant. Unless personnel changes are made, I see a season of 35 wins in our future. Your thoughts? (Aaron from Cincinnati, Ohio)
Answer: Remember, the Pacers have generally had success when Miller wasn't able to play in recent seasons. They were 7-2 at the time of the brawl last November, and that was without Miller, Jeff Foster and Anthony Johnson playing. I think they'll be able to score plenty.
His presence will be missed most because of the maturity and stability he brought to the team. Without that, a lot of issues could emerge that were bubbling beneath the surface in past seasons. That, rather than lack of shooting, is their greatest threat in my opinion.


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ADMINISTRATORS say 330 Comet staff are being made redundant - but not at stores in Somerset.
Cuts will be made at Comet's head office and support centres, and a call centre in Clevedon.
All 236 Comet stores continue to trade as normal, and no further redundancies are planned.
Administrator Neville Kahn said: "Staff will continue to be paid for the work they do while Comet is trading in administration. We remain extremely grateful to the staff and management for their continued loyalty and support at what is clearly a very difficult time.
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Chess at the Library. A weekly chess program offers instruction for beginners and a place for patrons of all ages and levels to play with each other. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. César E. Chávez Branch, 3301 E. 12th St., Oakland. 510-535-5620, www.oaklandlibrary.org.
Off the Hook Knitting Group. The Melrose Knitting Group meets the second and fourth Saturday every month. 3 to 5 p.m. Melrose Branch Library, 4805 Foothill Blvd., Oakland. 510-535-5623, www.oaklandlibrary.org.
Pathways Hospice Volunteer Training. Pathways Hospice is seeking volunteers to make visits to patients. No previous hospice and health care experience is needed. Assignments and schedules are tailored to volunteers' geographic preferences and schedule. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 3. Pathways Hospice Oakland Offices, 333 Hegenberger Road Suite 700, Oakland. No Charge. 408-773-4271, www.pathwayshealth.org.
Intro to Genealogy. Trace your family history at Northern California's premier genealogy society library's free Introduction to Genealogy Class. 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 3. California Genealogical Society and Library, 2201 Broadway, Oakland. Free. 510-663-1358.
Oakland in Popular Memory. Oakland author Matt Werner reads from "Oakland in Popular Memory," featuring interviews with artists and musicians putting a new "there" in Oakland. Author talk and reception follows. 3 to 4 p.m. Nov. 3. 25th St. Collective, 477 25th St., Oakland. Free. 510-384-3146.
Celebrate Friends of the Oakland Public Library. Mark the 20th anniversary of the Oakland Public Library's Bookmark Bookstore with a week long celebration with a 20 percent discount on all book purchases, raffles, free book for kids Nov. 10, and more. 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5 through Nov. 11. Bookmark Bookstore/Friends of the Oakland Public Library, 721 Washington St., Oakland. 510-444-0473, www.thebookmarkbookstore.org.
Preschool Storytime. Reading aloud, songs, and rhymes for kids ages 3 to 5. 10:30 a.m. Nov. 5. Oakland Main Library, 125 14th St., Oakland. 510-238-3134, www.oaklandlibrary.org.
The Mystery of Bird Song. Discover how birds learn to sing such beautiful songs with California naturalist and author David Lukas, as part of at the bimonthly Friends of Sausal Creek member meeting. 7 p.m. Nov. 7. Dimond Branch Library, 3565 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland. Free. 510-501-3672, www.sausalcreek.org.