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The most common difference between a "performance" laptop and a "gaming" laptop would maybe be the dedicated graphics card. Some performance laptops have one and some don't, but most gaming laptops will. This makes a large difference in rendering due to not having to steal memory or CPU cycles from the motherboard. While popular with gaming, any video intensive application would benefit from this. Your description of the topographical maps sounds like it would benefit from a dedicated GPU.

Another possible difference is the monitor size. A performance laptop doesn't necessarily need to go above the 15" models. However, for gaming, a 17" can be a big draw...at the cost of lugging around a heavier machine and usually less battery life. If, however, your mobility is from one desk to another, the full size keyboard and larger screen add up to productivity increases even in non-gaming applications. Personal concerns and usage patterns, then, have a lot to do with that choice. A good docking station at home can allow you to have a large monitor and regular kb/mouse for gaming with mobility if you will be using the laptop from your car instead of a remote office.

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Is this dagger hard to get or a relatively common drop? It's the fina piece on a build I'm wanting to try.

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It might be more active and engaging, but it feels like a damn chore when you have to spend forever between attacking and trying to stay alive on levels where there was no problem before.

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I used to be completely against seasons, I mean why give up months of work farming gear and paragon right? Season one I played only till lvl 70 to get my transmog and then deleted my seasonal character so no one could ask me to play seasons with them (also needed another mule). As season 2 approached I became more and more tempted to try it out just to get a change of pace. Sure the season exclusives are neat but it's not that hard to wait for them to come around when the season ends. I went in thinking "lets try this and if it sucks I'll go back to normal before the end of the week". The only time I've spent in non-season since S2 started has been to delete characters to make more seasonal characters. I can't say you will feel how I do but to everyone who thinks seasons will rob you of all your hard work and effort I hope that at some point you give it a shot. I understand exactly why you don't think it's worth it because I felt the same way. I hope that if not in season 3 at some point you will try it out, find a group of friends and make a call to try it out for 2-3 days. Maybe you will love it like I love it, maybe it will reinforce your position that seasons aren't worth it, either way that's ok at least you'll know. There isn't that much to lose, just try it once for a couple of days and whatever the outcome at least you can be sure that you've made the right choice for you.

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i felt exactly the same way and did exactly the same thing

I used to be completely against seasons, I mean why give up months of work farming gear and paragon right? Season one I played only till lvl 70 to get my transmog and then deleted my seasonal character so no one could ask me to play seasons with them (also needed another mule). As season 2 approached I became more and more tempted to try it out just to get a change of pace. Sure the season exclusives are neat but it's not that hard to wait for them to come around when the season ends. I went in thinking "lets try this and if it sucks I'll go back to normal before the end of the week". The only time I've spent in non-season since S2 started has been to delete characters to make more seasonal characters. I can't say you will feel how I do but to everyone who thinks seasons will rob you of all your hard work and effort I hope that at some point you give it a shot. I understand exactly why you don't think it's worth it because I felt the same way. I hope that if not in season 3 at some point you will try it out, find a group of friends and make a call to try it out for 2-3 days. Maybe you will love it like I love it, maybe it will reinforce your position that seasons aren't worth it, either way that's ok at least you'll know. There isn't that much to lose, just try it once for a couple of days and whatever the outcome at least you can be sure that you've made the right choice for you.

I don't think it's going to stack that way, probably the biggest stack from any player is going to count and not added stacks from all of them. Anyway I think this gem may be extremely powerful. Imagine this with a pet WD... You hit a boss 20 times during 10 seconds with a lv 50 gem and bah! Your army of 20 fetishes hits for 20 fetishes x20 stacks x60 wpn dmg x2 seconds = 48000 additional weapon damage each second. There is just no way it's going to stay like this.

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it does say % weapon damage.

so if your skill does 500% weapon damage. your second attack does 510, 3rd attack 520, etc etc. it's not a flat 10% boost.

I'm curious to see how much it goes up per level and I'm strongly thinking that it will have no cap on number of stacks since it

Oh yea good catch, I didn't even notice the weapon damage part.

Then yea, my money is that it'l stack forever, but it's additive damage that will have to reach pretty high stacks to be a TON of damage, or OP.

Might also be Blizzards answer to the many billions of HP a RG has for single players, since it'l be slightly helpful on trash but should really shine on long fights.

it does say % weapon damage.

so if your skill does 500% weapon damage. your second attack does 510, 3rd attack 520, etc etc. it's not a flat 10% boost.

I'm curious to see how much it goes up per level and I'm strongly thinking that it will have no cap on number of stacks since it

I use to feel this way but NS has just become dreadfully boring for me. There's just nothing left to do. I tried seasons this time around and I had a lot of fun. It brought me back to the game.

If you can't wait a few months to get seasonal items during non season that sucks for you. Buy a console, when the patch hits all items are available since there are no seasons. You're getting along just fine now without the bracers so why do you suddenly need them? You sound like a spoiled millenial complaining that you should have access to everything you want but not put in the effort that everyone else does.

Do not reroll the vit to strength reroll attack speed to str and move vit off other pieces for more offensive stats till you get a better one. Vit is way more valuable on a ancient weapon then attack speed.

Dat necro