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[UNNECESSARY BACKGROUND INFO ON ME, AKA WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS]

This is going to be a very long, pretty prescriptive post, so let me start off with some credentials. I've played PoE for a pretty long time (since Talisman), and while I'm far from the best player out there, I was the #2 living Chieftain in Bestiary HC and something like the #10 Elementalist, for a week or so, starting a few days after the start of the league.

I've also got great huge gobs of competitive gaming, game balancing and design experience, from beta testing an expansion for Impossible Creatures, betas for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and SupCom 2, and membership in the [Project M Development Team](https://

Hi!

I've been happily using a Noppoo Choc Mini for some years now, but lately I've been taking on a rather large programming project, and am sorely missing easy access Home, End, Insert keys as well as a numpad, though I'm still very attached to the compact layout and alignment of ESC and the F keys to the number keys along the top.

Is there a keyboard out there with aligned ESC and F keys, as well as proper home/end/insert? A numpad would be ideal but not entirely necessary, especially as I could simply get a detached numpad.

Thanks so much for the help!

It's pretty frustrating - I was a decent player back in the day (I think plat season 3 when I quit) and now I keep getting surprised by stuff i've never seen before, weird champ changes, and assorted related fuckery.

The client is completely different. The game looks and feels completely different. I have no idea what the hell i'm doing.

A bunch of friends have roped me back into this game and I'd like to be able to keep up with them - lost I think literally 6 games in a row now; there's just too much context missing. I can't tell what's a ward, what's going to explode, what the dragon does, how to navigate the shop, or goddamn anything.

Are there any resources to re-orient for people wit

So Shaydon is coming over to my place and we get to play a shitton of friendlies out of tournament for the first time. He's also bringing a third, I think his tag is Alpha.

We plan to stream all night - for about 12 hours - and make a combo video from the resulting footage.

Anyway, because we're both proficient with more or less the entire cast, we'll be taking matchup requests, providing advice, etc on my stream.

Hopefully I can make it up to you guys for never releasing Odds and Ends 3.

Check it out at http://www.hitbox.tv/odds at around 7PM EST.

So, I'm totally stumped as to what the hell I'm supposed to do about opposing players repeatedly jumping over my head and mixing up aerials and sweeps. Crow, in particular, seems impossible for me to AA with s2 or jumping grab before his aerials come out, and he seems to get insane conversions off of all his mixup options. Everything I do seems to either come out too slow, or hit in the wrong direction, or both - even though I know exactly where he's going.

I feel like I have to be missing something -- I feel I can tell when I'm being straight up outplayed, and this seems like a gimmick to which I just don't have the answer. Do I need to switch s1 to v2 and just always try to stick him on l