3481

Damn it, after recording gigs of LOL with Fraps just fine it is starting to lag after about 5 min of recording in game (ie, any further recording drops to 1 or 2fps). The first 5 minutes of recording will sit at 30fps without any problem. I wonder wtf is going on? :(

I have all random programs closed and nothing seems to have changed on my box other than perhaps less hard drive space (30gig free of 500).

EDIT And… it looks like this guy has the same problem… What a great time for my external hard drive to fail - which it looks like it did recently. Thankfully the drive was empty, but even so, would be a great time to have a spare TB lying around…

3482

I actually managed to win 2 ranked games in a row last night and climb back over 1000. I jungled as WW in both games. I’m 18-9 in ranked play as WW, my best winning percentage out of my top 5 most played champs (second best in Amumu from back before he got nerfed). Perhaps jungling really is a good way to get out of Elo hell?

Looking at my ranked history I think the thing I regret the most is all those games I played as Ezrael.

Also I’m out of town until late Sunday and since there’s no Mac client yet no LoL for me (okay so I do have a Windows partition but meh).

3483

There is a mac version I have it installed.

3484

I love how quickly a game can turn. Laned with an average MF against Sion and Panth and we had a hard early game. Their team also included a Malzahar, a terrible Yi and a Malphite. We had MF, Morde, Singed, Ram and … I forget. From mid-game on we won every team fight and the game relatively quickly. I am not sure what it was that turned things around, more DPS and them having a bad 5th, maybe, but games like that are what keeps LOL so fun for me.

3485

I’d agree, my last couple of games have been like this. The last we even had a vote for surrender 3 to 2 agaiinst and won within 5 minutes of the vote. There carry was going out of his way to target me as ashe. He came amongst us, morgana shielded me - shen ulted on me. Pirate went down and we pushed for the win. Great when it happens

3486

You might want to look at your team’s items too. Team aoe buffs like Aegis often go unappreciated, but they can make a big difference in team fights.

3487

Not enough people bring aura items, but agree, they are great. Almost tempted to build an Aura Morde as he is very hard to kill and with the auras he will bring something more to team fIghts.

3488

Try it, I had a little sucess with it, although I was on a low level account when I was trying it out.

3489

In my experience Abyssal Scepter is a great aura item on Morde - AP, MR and enemy MR reduction are all things Morde wants. I tend to think that the other aura items don’t provide as much direct benefit - none of the aura items’ stats are as good a fit for Morde’s strengths.

3490

RIOT has no fucking clue what it’s doing. How many horse shit motherfucking tanky DPS characters are they going to allow wrecking everyone’s shit in the endgame?

3491

Poor Riplez, he rages so hard. After a bad game with a couple of kiwis (Rip being 30 pulled a pretty competent opponent team) Rip and I tried our luck with just us two. He was TF and ended up laning with Eve. We had an Udyr in the woods and a Trist in the mid and I was in the 2v1 lane up top.

And then things got bad.

The eve started building crit items from the start and then failed to be any use to Rip, dying a lot and causing deaths to Rip. I got ganked up top by Shen and Panth and couldn’t control diddly. Udyr and Trist did their thing.

As Eve slowly built 3 avarice blades, zerk boots, executioner’s calling and Emblem of Valor, IIRC, Rip rages hard in team chat about how we are stuffed now he is way under leveled and Eve has proven herself to be utterly awful.

He’s right, of course, but the constant rage draws Udyr into a long flame war. Annoyingly no one would vote formmy surrenders and we aged through to 38 minutes with Udyr getting… one kill or so, Trist and I 5 or 6, Rip with a handful and Eve with a last minute lucky tripple off a Rip stun.

Totally awful and terribad game, had to laugh.

3492

Bah, nothing beats the awesome fiddlesticks jungler we had. First off, he didn’t have smite. Second, he died. Repeatedly. And then kept trying to jungle. He was level 3 while I was level 9. It was pathetically terrible – and he never caught up, even in the very end.

3493

There’s nothing quite as sad in this game as rocking out in the early game going “WHEEEEEE! I AM AWESOME LOOK AT ME EAT FACES!” and then realizing everyone else on your team is being manhandled and having them all surrender 30 minutes in.

3494

Heh, that happens me quite a bit when solo-laning Cho’, too.

3495

And that, Calistas, is why you never rage at your pubbies. When dipshits do that to me I refuse to surrender just to piss them off.

3496

Except his “pubbies” were me, AB, and chiffy.

Even though I’m level 23 with 70 wins, and Lazy/AB are each at like 250-300 wins, Chiffy’s 800+ wins caused us to get all level 30s with like 600-700+ wins apiece. Not that I’m “blaming” Chiffy, but that tends to be a certain level of play that needs a better understanding of team positioning and map/jungle control.

3497

After one of those really pleasant raging teams, I realized Riot could make money if they allowed me to pay money to ban others.

3498

Riot opened a merch store. They’ve got T-Shirts and Posters so far. One step closer to getting a Cho’Gath plushy!

3499

I bet we’ll see a Miss Fortune statuette first.

3500

Probably but Cho’Gath plushies have to be one of the most requested items for them.