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Contest Build: Nogo the Bow-Saint

Tags: #Character Build Archer  #Character Build Acrobat  #Character Build Bound Weapons  #Rank:Mythic  #Hall of Fame Build  #Race:Altmer  #Contest1 
  • July 24, 2013

    Oops, completely missed this comment. Means a lot, coming from you. Thank you.

  • Member
    July 24, 2013
    asgard, this build has an amazingly written backstory and cool roleplay touch with throwing Mythic Dawn artifacts in lava - one thing I didn't see elsewhere. I have a note on your presentation should you decide to post your consequent builds in the same way. While certainly having an amazing look it has a few drawbacks. One you already know about - trouble with slow connections. The other point, however, that just occured to me is the way it looks on mobile. I'm now logged in from mobile and the text wrapping that works on "classic" presentations has no effect here, forcing the reader to constantly move the screen to follow the text. I think you should take it into account for future builds. Anyway great job on this one and I hope to see more from you!
  • July 24, 2013

    I will definitely ensure the image size remains below 2MB, and I'm going to find a way to make the music optional but visible at the top so it's easy to toggle (if I even decide to add music; my next build probably won't have any because the story doesn't call for one).

    The mobile issue is trivial to solve with dual text columns, so I may well do that in the future. Thanks for the heads up.

    I don't create builds for mass likes; I post the quirky characters I enjoy playing in the hopes that at least one person enjoys them as much as I do. I also had a tremendous amount of fun learning how to work with the GIMP and creating Nogo's build image, and I'm looking forward to learning more. I'd rather be 'that guy with the interesting builds that take a little longer to load' than 'that guy with the hideously large builds I won't click on', but if that's what people's attitudes will become, then I will just stop posting my builds here.

  • Member
    July 24, 2013

    Uh, not sure why would you think that. I was just mentioning about text-wrapping nothing else and certainly not changing the way you post builds. I know that this is pretty hard to put up. The Ning editor is a pain if you don't know HTML and even if you do, it doesn't support some features. This way you can avoid all that complications. By the way I can tell you a way to shrink the size of the image even more. Using XnView free software you can open the jpg and just save it. The resulted jpg has less size and no detail loss. For example this build is 2.1MB and after shrinking becomes 1.7.

  • July 24, 2013

    Wasn't aimed at you in particular, Vazgen ;).

    The image you posted was just saved with more compression. You can see that the screenshots are of considerably lower quality than my version's.

    edit: I take that back; it only looks a tiny bit grainy and some pics I can't even tell apart. I'll see what I can do.

  • Member
    July 30, 2013

    Inspiring Build! Good job!

  • July 30, 2013

    Thanks Chris. If you want more inspiration, try my latest build, Rasha, the Bog-lurker.

  • Member
    August 7, 2013

    I think this is one of the best archer builds I've seen! Excellent presentation even! Very nice!

  • Member
    August 7, 2013
    Wow. Such a great job, and very unique. Love the story and RP aspects. And the apparel is a nice touch. Sadly I can only like it once
  • Member
    August 8, 2013

    I love this build so much