Gladiator II - 94%

Far better than I expected. Good tie in with the original. Managed to capture the Colosseum well. Not as good as the first Gladiator but that was a classic. Denzel Washington played his part well. Hopefully there will not be a third... Seems like it was a bit of a stretch to have this one.. the irony of being back in the pit and having to fight his way up again.. 

I watched this on the plane as I was flying back from Las Vegas to Detroit. 

Prison Break - S3 - 99%

Fantastic. Can't believe they killed Sara... Felt like they recaptured the essence of the theme. Quite a character shift for Brad Bellick, amazed they kept him in the show. Interesting that they kept Mahone too. Gretchen seems a bit inconsistent as a character. Overall, great season.

POE Phrecia Obshabi - 100%

Amazing fun build! Finally. Third time is a charm.. 

Amazing at mapping, not so much anything else. 

Build is based on getting Shrines and extending the duration with the idols. 

With the overlapping buffs the DPS goes well into the millions and you can get from one side of the map to the other in less than a second. It is so fast you can't control it!

I repeated the same build as the scavenger for leveling with Power Siphon so got to maps in about 4 hours again. 

The Squire and the Resolute Technique Ephemeral Edge each cost 100C so I had just enough to get rolling as soon as I got to maps with the real build. 

Super tank. Can steamroll a T17!!! 

Lots of unpredictable fun!

The Voice of the Storm was the most expensive item needed to complete the build at 2 divine. 

So a total of about 5 divines to steamroll a T17 is very cheap!

Wicked - 80%

 

Shockingly, Ariana Grande did a fantastic job with Glinda. 

Music was OK. 

Didn't like how they tried to make the animal silencing be like racism...   

Started to watch this movie with the kids but realized they hadn't seen the original Wizard of Oz so we watched that first and then went back to this. 

Will probably watch the next movie but not really looking forward to it. 

POE Phrecia Scavenger - 85%

 

This was the most popular build.. Power Siphon Mines. 

Had enough from the first build to buy the 50% movement boots and the tabula. 

The second smoothest leveling ever. From start to mapping in 4 hours. 

No problem killing the Searing Exarch. 

Pretty good DPS but really squishy.. Could clear T13s pretty smoothly but forget T16s... 

Could have put more time and effort and I am sure I could gotten to where I could be T16s but didn't feel like it was worth the push.  I was gonna quit for the league but then I saw the build I wish I had seen before starting this build! So I gave up on this one too. Managed to get about 200C worth of random loot which was enough to get a good start on the next. 

POE Phrecia Commander - 80%

Leveling was a major pain... Till I got to A8 and got very lucky landing the Tectonic Slam of Cataclysm on my Cruel Labrinth. Then I found my first divine right after that.. So then everything was very smooth until I got to the Searing Exarch.. Brick wall. I was able to kill the Eater of Worlds deathless but I couldn't but a dent in the Searing Exarch. So, I played the build to level 89 and gave up.

Good starter build except for the slow leveling. 

Pretty great clear speed. 

Cyclone has very low top end DPS. Doesn't feel like it has any hope of any end game. 

Not a fan of the map/idol system. At first it feels ok but then it feels like a lot of unrewarding content. 

This new ascendency isn't really anything special.. Just a big endurance charge build.