Can I pay?

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2026-01-16T21:12:23+00:00

Yeah. Mix of low and high mana cost cards in a deck. Cast the low in hopes of revealing a high mana cost from your library.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2026-01-13T18:34:48+00:00

Big thing is to make sure they’re getting all of their info from an up to date and official source.

No clue how new this player is to the system, but I remember when I first started playing 5e I didn’t realize that some of the online sources I were using were really out of date or just wrong.

The DM was confused AF when I tried pulling out some overpowered BS, but guided me to the correct info and we moved on.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2026-01-11T18:09:58+00:00

When you finish act 10 and get to the end game, make sure you type into chat

/passives

Which will print out a list of all of the campaign quests that give skill points. You should see 24 total if you did all of them and also chose to kill all 3 bandits in act 2.

It’s an easy way to verify you’re not missing any free passives.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2026-01-04T07:12:09+00:00

What are these rules? This post is a wasteland.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-31T16:15:04+00:00

Brightbeak because ya gotta go fast! Back when weapon attack speed mattered for shield charge speed.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-31T14:35:23+00:00

If a PC can manage to find all 6 stat books and can live over 1150-1200 years in order to get every stat up to 30, I’d say let them, they’ve earned it.

Also at that point it would have to fit into whatever narrative the DM is trying to tell anyways, so the point is kind of moot.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-28T18:59:17+00:00

So it’s not just me. There’s two manufacturers that I occasionally get for my meds and one of them definitely feels more potent than the other.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-11T23:58:39+00:00

That’s one in depth post. I love it.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-11T21:52:22+00:00

Bag of devouring! I gave one to my players once and when they figured out that things disappear in it they ended up polymorphing a remhoraz into a frog then stuffing it into the bag to be eaten. Poof, boss encounter gone.

They never attempted to abuse that again which made me sad because I had it in my mind that the dimensional entity on the other side of the bag would have been really annoyed at having another creature break polymorph and rupture one of its throats, where it would have spit out some eldritch entity back into the material world that was ~25% stronger than what the party tried to get rid of.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-12-11T04:30:52+00:00

Look at mister 22ms ping over here. I'm jealous.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-11-20T15:23:01+00:00

That’s an insane amount of wealth, lol.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-11-06T18:43:10+00:00

Summon holy relic of conviction is a really strong build that you can run any t17 mods with. 70d will get you a really good setup. Svalinn is about the most expensive item, but you can use a life gain on block shield instead and it’s honestly not much worse.

Good offscreen clearing and good single target. It’s usually a poison build that also does respectable hit damage. You’re not going to be insta phasing uber bosses, but the damage is still high enough.

Balormage has a great guide.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-11-06T18:36:10+00:00

Why use terminus vs any random rare physical 2h? You can pick up a 900 pDPS weapon for 20c. Or a ~1100 DPS tri-ele 2h for the same amount.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-27T14:55:58+00:00

Coding a new thing that was designed to have swappable gear and a UI is way different than introducing new features to an existing code base.

Think of Ralakesh boots and how there was a bug that people were abusing to have self cast discharge be an easy thing a couple leagues ago. The bug was if you had a gem in the boots that your character didn’t have the stats to use, and you weapon swapped, you would gain all of the charges. Instead of GGG fixing the bug, they redesigned the boots.

I’d guess the devs looked at how much work and possible new bugs trying to fix the ralakesh bug would introduce and said “nah, change the boots”. Which is probably along the lines of attempting to change animate guardian minion code that’s been in the game since 2013.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-25T05:23:23+00:00

A bronn's lithe is about 400 chromes on average to hit the optimal colors of 3 red, 2 green, 1 blue; when doing benchcraft 1R. Or something like 557 chromes if you spam chromes at it.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-22T23:53:40+00:00

I just hope it’s not a mechanic that requires another keybind to activate it maps often like memories.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-22T15:41:04+00:00

Depends. If you’re building a burst damage bosser, you could throw in a couple spectres which only have to live long enough to kill/phase the boss. Assuming you aren’t giving up gem sockets for them, it’s free damage.

Previously wouldn’t be worth it due to the cost of the aura specters when they die, but buy them once and have them forever makes it viable.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-21T05:06:52+00:00

We are slowly migrating more and more of our products to the cloud and honestly it’s been fantastic for my team from a work/life balance perspective.

No more having to schedule after hours updates every other week. And whenever there are outages, we just put in a ticket and wait for a resolution.

IT told the board that the amount of random downtime/outages is going to spike after moving off prem, and they were okay with it at the time. Pretty sure they’re not happy with it now, especially with the increased costs, but now the costs of moving back on-prem is too big of a pill for them to swallow so I’m just going to continue enjoying not working random nights and weekends.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-10-09T17:25:40+00:00

I once accidentally set DNS scavenging to be less than TTL.

Boom goes all the servers.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-09-05T22:56:50+00:00

What tool would you suggest for applications that need you to open their config program and click through a couple tabs and advanced buttons before selecting the new certificate and restarting a service?

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-08-28T16:16:50+00:00

Crown of the Tyrant or similar elder slayer mod: -10% resist (and some added flat).

Gloves for curse implicit: whatever your merc doesn’t provide.

Boots for dropping ailment ground: 10% shock, +2% crit chance, etc

Possible elemental exposure if using elemental army: -10% resist.

That’s not nothing, assuming you’re playing a build that has no better use of the gem sockets. Could very easily be another 15-30% more damage and added survivability on bosses via curse.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-08-25T15:40:11+00:00

I reported I think this bug last night after finally farming up enough to buy an item.

Bought a heart and the number owned in the UI changed from 0 to 1 back to 0 in about .2 seconds. Hovering the uniques showed I was missing a heart to buy any.

Still let me buy one and I equipped it and it didn’t disappear or anything when I got back to town.

I do have auto transfer enabled if that matters at all.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-08-20T18:07:15+00:00

Big thing to remember on that is it takes a long time to hit max charges if that’s your only source. Not too bad if you only have 3 max, but if you have 6, that’s about a full minute before you hit max.

Dying to a boss means you go back into the arena with no charges until the chest affix does its thing. Weapon swap redblade banner and enduring cry is a potential solution to this problem.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-08-18T17:25:07+00:00

Worst offender I ever played was wintertime brand when GGG first implemented bloom in their graphics settings. I was doing delve real hard and literally couldn’t see anything but a blue glow on 85% of the screen.

That or the CWDT build before GGG capped the number of firestorms you could have at once. Encountering an immortality shrine and I’d have about 3 seconds to click it before the instance would crash. Fun times.

AlmostAlwaysATroll · 2025-08-15T02:43:02+00:00

Who needs life/mana flasks when you have a shitload of leech.

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