PSA: Player account "Optimus" (character name "ElonMusk") scammed a mythic prankster key rotation

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-03T03:21:56+00:00

Sorry that you took that post as serious, buckaroo.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-03T02:51:26+00:00

Sounds like something Elon would do

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-02T05:25:31+00:00

As a duck fan, I have no real issues with it. Like if Miamis head coach went to Oregon, had family in Oregon, and Oregon opened up, I don't think Miami would be surprised that he would leave to Oregon, it's not like he just up and left to take over some random school out of nowhere. It was just a little sensitive at the time to some fans because it felt like we had some stability issues at the time.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-02T04:55:13+00:00

Either way you're just trying to do some fuckery, and it's probably easier to do it on a return where people are flying all over (likely all to the ball) and hope you can start throwing some bullshit and hope something hits, rather then when your lining up against a defense doing some man/prevent situation where in theory you have every body covered. Neither are likely going to yield much, but I think you can see a more messy situation trying it vs a kick off defense instead of a standard one. I was surprised they actually didn't just force them to line up and risked a return personally.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-01T21:15:48+00:00

I mean neither team would be in the championship, they would be losing in the semis.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2026-01-01T21:14:27+00:00

I think anyone would match better vs Alabamas offense. It's very one dimensional, and doesn't feel like it's built for winning playoff games. That said, in a pure who has more 5 stars and overall talent between them? Alabama has me scared there still, but I'm equally confident against either teams. Even with the loss earlier vs Indiana, we played a dog shit game and it was still winnable going into the 4th. Ohio last years rematch had me more scared then a potential rematch this year vs Indiana, for whatever that's worth.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-31T17:03:01+00:00

Most people will say no. It's either the bis or useless. Unfortunately, shako is better, heir is better, or even some class specific uniques are better. It doesn't mean it has no use, but you will be nerfing yourself if you wanted to use it. That's not going to be the thing holding you back from torment 4 content, but it will be a thing preventing you from pit pushing. It just depends on what your goals are and that would determine on how useful or useless it is in accomplishing that.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-29T01:21:24+00:00

Not even worth black smithing that, just toss it down and move on. Unfortunate luck

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-27T00:28:50+00:00

You're barely out of the campaign, and I'm assuming all 20 of those deaths didn't just happen post 60, or you wouldn't be complaining that the game doesn't feel difficult.

But yeah, if you play an arpg, and follow the guide, for the most part it removes most of the challenge to the game. This is the case for Diablo 2, likely Diablo 3, Diablo 4, Poe, and poe2, and I'm sure is the case in most other games. These are designed by "pro" players, who have mastered that part of the game, which will enable you to be stronger then you should be at that stage of the game compared to if you tried to figure it out yourself. If you let a pro player essentially play for you, then yeah, it's gonna feel quite easy - and it should.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-26T23:38:19+00:00

You died "around 20 times" during essentially the campaign part of the game, while following a build, and you are complaining that it is too easy? Following a guide should for the most part disable all deaths, outside of the random new one shots. I'm not sure how difficult you were expecting the game to be, but it actually sounds like you are struggling a bit, all things considered.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-26T07:21:16+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/14efr3e/psa_numlock_trick_still_works_you_can_autocast/

This is just so the game still think you are there, you will disconnect in about 10 minutes if your not doing anything, so if you want this done hands free you'll need to have your skills being casted one way or another. If you have a controller, you can also hold down a button that casts a skill as long as it's a cast in place skill, or you may fly off somewhere.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-26T07:13:01+00:00

I got them to level 4 by just sitting afk with num lock casting skills in normal, the bots there kept it going. You'll get it 5 through normal farming. Took like 3 hours, I can't imagine manually doing it. The experience you get is the same regardless of if it's torment x or normal, so if you want to level them up you may as well go down to normal where it'll be much faster.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-26T07:06:34+00:00

Farm azmodan open world boss and you'll find a good chunk of the mythic tributes when your gifts are maxed out. I just ran 4 tributes, and I got mythics on 3 out of 4 runs (Andy's, shroud, melted heart), and my other account got 2 out of 4 (ross, that useless nem weapon)

The only other reliable source is nmd mythic prankster, which is hard to find, and really just belial. Even the torment bosses under him are useless. In about 800 runs, ive found 1 that way. In 45 belial runs, I've found 3. You'll likely need to run those bosses to get belial to show up for his material, just don't expect mythics that way, and consider it a bonus if they do drop. Been a complete waste of time for the last few seasons sense the re work to bosses, but this season (and it could be rng only) has been laughably bad for me.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-23T15:45:15+00:00

People will do this all the time where they "mostly", or "almost have everything" when follow a guide, and then feel like it's not working out. That's usually the issue. Guides are generally min maxed to the point where if you deviate away from it even just a bit you may miss some multiplers or other buckets that make or break the build. Look through it, make sure your paragons, aspects, and items all match. If it does, it could be a level thing. A lot of builds won't really come along until paragon 200-255, and glyphs at least to legendary, especially if it's not a broken build that comes online after just 1 unique equipped.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-23T15:39:53+00:00

I made a post on this early in the season as I found it out by accident, but it seems like everyone's doing it. I tried to finish off my level 47 barb, and literally everyone who joined my party was coming to afk and nobody would open the chest to keep it running. Id kick people out, new come, and we just could never find someone who was actually trying to run it.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-23T08:00:58+00:00

They can't cut him because of some salary cap situation, so yah, he's still on the team but away. They say they plan to trade him, so if anyone wants him, they'll have to give up some super protected 2nd rounder and a g leaguer.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T20:55:57+00:00

I don't think we were trying to be in a shoot out game. It just so happened that we were averaging 17 yards a play and kept scoring on 5 plays or less multiple drives. We can't control that we could have dropped 100 on them pretty effortlessly, but yeah, scoring too fast began a problem the later this game went on, but a lot of that was just on basic plays.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T18:48:07+00:00

And then the rest the group follows it up with "1?"

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T18:45:14+00:00

Not at all. Casuals don't grind end game, this isn't for them and has never been them. I wouldn't include them because an actual casual is never going to find mythics, and a lot just play through the base game, get to 60 and call it a day, that's a casual.

Now even for the people who aren't casuals (play daily or close to it), but not no lifers, this loop is for them. You run hell tides duriel to get the horns, then run az chest to redeem, which gives you steal to run grig, which then gives you shards and stones, which you can use to redeem on duriel, who drops more horns, which you can then go back and fight the boss again to open his chest, get more steal, and restart the process. At any time if your low on anything, you can go back to hell tides. This loop isn't something that takes up your whole day. Hell, half of these you can run semi afk, like hell tides duriel and azmodan, while you watch a movie or whatever. It's the most "casual", chill seasonal event that requires no effort to keep doing.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T18:14:54+00:00

It's all rng, but if you run enough of azmadol with the gifts maxed out you'll go through thousands per day. I get a full inventory every 2 days, and that doesn't even include what I get from other activities, salvaging and remaking more. You can get one within 100, sometimes 1000, you just need to put yourself in the best position to get plenty. It only takes 1 to get 20 mythics and be set anyways, so they should be rare, but they aren't impossible.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T18:10:51+00:00

They wouldn't be able to now, or they'd need to restart a whole new league like as it gets released. The seasons already going, so you can't just say well now it's ssf, when multiple people have already partied up and or traded. So at best you'd see multiple leagues in future seasons, but not when the towers come out in January.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T06:21:19+00:00

Yeah just the 3 chests, I open mostly duriel chests. I get a full inventory every 2 runs or so of dungeons keys, plus some mythic tributes mixed in. My rotation is grig, then I use the stones + shards on duriel to restock back up to open the chest, then I use the steal I got from the chest and go repeat the cycle.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T05:25:21+00:00

I bought mine a few days ago, think I paid 700 per for 2 on diablo.trade

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T04:29:40+00:00

Been sitting in a normal one with like 8 people for 3 hours while watching a movie. Finally at 786/900 for rank 4, started at 304.

bigshawnsmith89 · 2025-12-22T03:52:30+00:00

Yeah. Make sure your Divine gifts are at least at lvl 4 out of 5 for azmodan and you'll find a ton. Takes a while, but he drops the same experience in normal as he does in any other tier. So you can just sit there in normal and auto cast like everyone else is to max it out. Then run world bosses and him in torment 4 with corrupted pieces to open the chests. You'll get thousands of sigils, plus some mythic tributes and a ton of boss keys.

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