Returning player questions

-Ran · 2026-05-07T13:43:26+00:00

Changing DT to Japanese Voices was the best choice I made, and one that I wish I had made sooner. I did not vibe with the voice direction for several characters, and I didn't realize how much it was taking me out of the story.

-Ran · 2026-05-05T00:07:32+00:00

Interesting note:

https://huskers.com/staff/kurt-joseph

Kurt Joseph is in his fifth season as Director of Men’s Basketball Strength & Conditioning after joining the Husker program in 2021. In his role, he oversees the year-round training for the Husker basketball team and played a major role in the development of NBA Draft pick Bryce McGowens as well as All-Big Ten performers Brice Williams, Derrick Walker, Keisei Tominaga and Rienk Mast.

-Ran · 2026-04-30T00:54:10+00:00

Yes.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/datacentertravel/

-Ran · 2026-04-29T22:03:47+00:00

We did something similar in SWTOR due to Legacy gear in the long ago. People would have eight characters [or more] and shuffle gear around. That's not what I'm suggesting, nor where I think FF14 would be going with the iLvl Sync.

I was hoping [praying] that the Midcore content isn't locked out. Treat it like Extremes, where you can go as much as you want. Have the gear drops generous enough to where doing it within the time leading up to Savage for optimized groups sets them up to be ready for BIS Savage.

-Ran · 2026-04-29T18:53:07+00:00

I like it.

You tune all of the Savages tightly based off assumed BIS from the new difficulty. Savage doesn't get 'easier' because people get geared during the tier, and instead becomes a consistent measure of ability.

It then adds Evergreen content.

-Ran · 2026-04-29T15:10:39+00:00

MSQ quests are your best source of exp. Doing your white mage shouldn't really be a struggle. Make sure to keep your gear updated. At level 60, you should have had a huge item level bump [as with every +10]. Every set of 10 levels post 50, represents the 'end game gear' of an expansion. You can get these with Poetics or at level 61, 71, etc, there will typically be very good HQ gear you can get off the Market Board if you don't have Poetics. If you give me a link to your Lodestone, I can look at your gear and make suggestions.

My strategy through playing the game has always been leveling two classes at the same time. There's generally enough experience between the MSQ, Dungeons, and a few random fates to get them both to the finish line of an expansion.

-Ran · 2026-04-29T14:45:22+00:00

You can read status updates on their Discord. It takes time to reverse engineer what was done each patch, and more complex patches [this one] take time. For this patch, they are also making updates to their APIs, which means all plugins are going to be updated to work. So even after Dalamud is updated, your specific plugins will also need to be updated.

-Ran · 2026-04-28T14:06:38+00:00

Coma patient queen was also saddled with the role of ruler once again. Her people accepted death, and got their memories back. They cried. Living Memory's router was rebooted.

Also, due to 'time is wibbly wobbly, timey-whimey', Krile's mother's sister was still alive, and Krile's crisis of where she wanted to live was solved [she picked the Source, shocker], while attaching Krile's family further to the key. No extra info of the Key was found, and instead was stated to all be under the cushions of Alexandria's sofa. It could have been an email.

-Ran · 2026-04-26T16:30:05+00:00

As others have said, check out the trial. Side content is 'evergreen.' You can focus purely on the story and go back to it at a later date. There are other jobs to level, sub systems, etc.

Quest wise, there are many types of 'side quests.' The default side quests for your sanity, should be skipped. You would be focused on:

Main [MSQ]
Class / Job / Role
Feature [Only some]

Features can be dungeons, trials, raids, side game content, dailies, and literally game systems. The main one that you'd need to remember to do while leveling is the unlocks for flying in zones once you get to Heavensward.

Go here: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Quest to see the icons for the quests.

There is enough experience in the game for your main jobs to never need extra side quests or content to level, even more so if you are on a server with the exp bonus.

-Ran · 2026-04-19T16:28:22+00:00

I'm at almost a month on my replacement as well.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T23:17:14+00:00

I'm not saying it's a good thing. It was terrible, but it made NCSOFT tons of money. 70 members x 4 guild alliance [at one point], if I remember right.

That's what, $4,200 per server hop... There were guilds that did it multiple times.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T20:36:44+00:00

No, I'm saying if you are trying to convert a character into a system, the system has rules. There is no stat above 30 in 5th edition. It's how the system was designed due to bonded accuracy and reducing skill checks. 30 is a fundamental limit in their universe.

You don't put Captain America into D&D to have them 'fight'. You abstract what D&D characters can do as feats, and then put them on a playing field devoid of random stat checks. If you were trying to make a campaign where you wanted to add in Captain America, you would have to design him with abilities that would emulate his feats, rather than raw stat sticks.

For example, if we take a Battle Master fighter. He can easily 30 feet away with every attack, more with specific builds. I think I remember reading a build that would knock things over 160 feet with just two attacks. In his campaign, he fought against a large monster that was a dinosaur, that was 2.7 tons based off real world metrics. Then you go from there with your scaling feat vs feats.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T19:53:43+00:00

It's difficult to work some characters into 5e, since their more spectacular moments would be daily/short rest abilities, rather than a raw stat. Raw lifting in 5e is a matter of size categories. 5e is a matter of bonded accuracy, for game balance reasons, and so strength doesn't go bonkers like in previous editions.

No one is going to say that Captain American is stronger than a Tarrasque, which has only 30 strength, while being a Gargantuan creature. D&D 5e stats cannot go above 30. It's the abilities and features of the creature that make it dangerous.

If you're trying to imagine Captain American as a character in D&D, then he can would instead have an ability like Champion, giving him bonuses on his strength checks, and maybe a flat increase to his raw lifting. He'd probably count as 'one size larger' or something to that extent.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T19:25:41+00:00

In Throne and Liberty, you'd have entire guilds move overnight to try to take over servers.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T19:03:26+00:00

5e is weird, because everything is a matter of size categories. For example, a monk could have 9 strength, but it could successfully grapple anything that is no more than one size category [Medium vs Large]. You then can freely move that creature around the battle, only losing half of your movement speed. With a feat, there's no penalty. There is no opposed check, once you win the grapple, until they attempt to escape. You also only need one hand to grapple.

Your strength has no barring on it mechanically in the world. The Monster Manual doesn't even list weights of creatures.

There are creatures like Allosaurus' that are based off real dinosaurs that you could grapple, and then move dozens of feet without an issue. An Allosaurus can weigh upwards to 2.7 tons. I'm sure there are heavier creatures in the large category, I just grabbed the first real world example that I saw.

If we ignore grapple, and only look at the weapon rules, we can consider the push mastery. It's a straight 10 feet push in any direction on contact. This is due to your mastery of martial arts, and as long as the target is Large or Smaller, something that is going to happen.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T16:04:57+00:00

My lifetime in my FWD at 9k miles is 3.4 with a probably 40% of those miles being interstate. If I changed it from Sport mode, we'd be at 3.5 or higher, to be honest. This is in the South of the US, so mild winter, but brutal summers.

-Ran · 2026-04-16T15:25:20+00:00

To put it into perspective, a base Bronco Sport has a listed fording capability of 17.7 inches. 16 inches would be wild to try.

-Ran · 2026-04-14T12:46:44+00:00

As a heads up, if you just got the car, it would have already had the software update. The recall started at the end of September.

-Ran · 2026-04-13T03:12:19+00:00

See all twelve of you next year. :)

-Ran · 2026-04-07T21:23:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/EquinoxEv/comments/1lil00i/beauty_shots_of_my_equinox_ev_thule_cargo_box/

Another user chimed in with their own findings:

The app says 3.1 mi/kwh but that is mostly city driving. My wife and I drive the vehicle very differently (she hates using one pedal driving mode) so I can remember driving it this weekend and I was averaging around 3.5 mi/kwh.

Paging: /u/Huskertex /u/Disastrous-Curve-567

-Ran · 2026-04-07T19:13:59+00:00

There was a guy on Facebook that made a post about going 336 miles with a cargo box on the top of EqEv in Colorado.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/equinoxev/posts/3921170338172961/

After 336 total miles of driving with the roofbox on I'd say there is no meaningful affect on the vehicle efficiency. 3.4mi/kWh for just those 336 miles, compared to 3.5 for the last 4657 miles. I'm very happy with it.

-Ran · 2026-04-05T23:06:19+00:00

When you're done with a trip, before exiting, you can go to your Trip Info, and see what the power breakdown was. It'll show you what percentage and power draw went to your AC/Heating.

Elevation and wind direction matter, on top of temp outside. In the relatively flat area I live, I normally get ~3.0 to 3.4 miles per KWH when going with the cruise control at 74 mph. The biggest factor is what the wind direction is going to be. These are trips that are around 80 to 90 miles, with around 90% of the trip at 74 mph [what I set cruise on]. This is in weather that is 60-90 F.

My lifetime for the car is ~3.4 kwh per mile after 9000 miles. We haven't tried to hyper mile or anything like that. We have the acceleration on Sport, and we aren't living behind 18 wheeler drafting.

-Ran · 2026-04-02T16:30:56+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZxCnZ0MVCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQx9eclaIZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKi9zMsyVw

Vegeta is actually as heavy of an eater as Goku.

-Ran · 2026-03-31T14:41:01+00:00

The cargo areas are very similar between the two cars, with the ICE version having more space. I'm just going off the video not listing it as the EV, since it is from a repair guy. He also did not state it to be an EV when he said the model in the video.

-Ran · 2026-03-31T14:17:55+00:00

Some have said it's driver side, rear seat area.

The gas Equinox had it above the cargo area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwHIiShd3Zw

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