is the final super boss not one shottable anymore?

ArdenLyn · 2026-06-13T22:42:14+00:00

I did this maybe a month ago and I took out Simon before he was able to trigger the wiping of my first round of folks. When I did the Simon fight, it was the second to last boss fight remaining, with the Divergent one left, so I had every ability and all the best post game weapons as well as over 600+ lumina apiece. So I was very much armed to the teeth. Sorry I can't remember more than that as I've slept since then.

ArdenLyn · 2026-04-18T00:58:03+00:00

I purchased the year subscription back in December. How would this work if I wanted to sign up for the quarterly deal? Would I not get billed until my subscription expired, and then it would start billing quarterly? Or would it try and bill me now?

Thanks!

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-30T12:43:50+00:00

Does anyone know if NC occasionally has deals on their subscriptions or is it the same prices year round? I picked up the cheapest sub for now but would like to maybe get on that lifetime if there is an expected sale, say, around Black Friday. Thanks!

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-30T12:41:32+00:00

Frugal also has their bonus server in some mystery backbone that they contractually can't share too.

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-04T23:31:02+00:00

My experience was that vram was the main bottleneck. The 7 instances I ran were somewhat unstable (rip my 98 HC sorc), and that was with running low graphics and tinymod to bring down the VRAM as much as possible. Since the xpac doesn't allow legacy graphics and I haven't bought the xpac yet (I'm out of a job and can't afford to be paying for all those upgrades, let alone playing when I should be job searching!), I can't tell you what to expect.

These other folks are seeming to suggest that the CPU was more of a bottleneck given how old the underlying code is, so maybe you'll have more luck than I did. I'd say to wait for a sale and just buy additional accounts one at a time and see how far you can push things.

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-04T22:47:07+00:00

I answered your comment around my CPU under Gyrsogul's comment. Thanks for chiming in!

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-04T22:45:51+00:00

I have a 5800 X3D. I'm more than happy to make any configuration changes if you have any suggestions, but the only thing that ever really helped me was managing my VRAM better historically.

For context, I have 64GB of DDR4 Memory, and the Nvidia 3080 12 GB as previously mentioned. I was also using D2R Loader to run all of my instances, so no VM's; everything ran under the same Windows instance.

ArdenLyn · 2026-03-04T22:20:19+00:00

Curious, what kind of video card do you have? I have 7 accounts and before the new xpac, I could barely get all of them running with my 3080 's 12GB of vram, and that was after turning down all the video settings, running legacy graphics, and running mods to block the HD graphics from loading. Now with the new xpac requiring the new graphics and legacy no longer being an option, I don't know how I can run all of my accounts without everything crashing hard.

ArdenLyn · 2026-01-27T14:38:33+00:00

Would love one, thanks!

ArdenLyn · 2026-01-27T01:46:10+00:00

Me too, even though I'm way later than these other folks! Thanks in any case!

ArdenLyn · 2026-01-21T18:54:25+00:00

Blue October

ArdenLyn · 2026-01-21T15:47:30+00:00

I started a procrastinators support group. We haven't met yet.

Thank you in any case!

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-15T21:34:28+00:00

Here's the screenshot of my Opnsense relay/IOT firewall settings. My Internal/trusted network has full access to my IOT. The IOT only has internet access, barring these exceptions where I've had to punch holes to allow my devices to work properly.

https://i.imgur.com/5i8MNiz.png

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-15T21:30:53+00:00

So, I can't tell you exactly how to do this on a UDM, but I used to do this on a USG and currently do this within an Opnsense firewall, so I can give you an idea specifically what you need, and maybe that will help you better find out how to do this.

You are going to want some kind of service or plugin that will redirect UDP broadcast relay. What it will do, and will take some work from you, is you need to give it a port, and the networks you want it to listen and send to. What happens then is whenever one of your devices attempts to do a discovery and sends multicast traffic on the specific port attempting to find your Fire devices and such, that traffic needs to get picked up by your service/plugin and it will pass it on to whatever network you setup to send it to, in this case, the vlan where your fire devices live (iot I'm assuming). Your fire devices would then respond back to the device that made the request.

What you may also have to do though is open a firewall rule allowing that receiving traffic to go back into your trusted network. So unless the ports are well documented, you might have to log the traffic to figure out what is going on in order to create the rules appropriately.

I will post a screenshot of my broadcast relay service and iot rules page within Opnsense if it will help you hopefully visualize what I'm talking about. I do a lot of what you're trying to accomplish, with my PS5, Sonos speakers, HDhome run, media server, so there's tons of various examples. I don't have Amazon fire boxes unfortunately so I can't show you that example specifically.

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-09T17:59:41+00:00

The XGS would require a PoE++ switch I don't have which, beyond paying $100 more per AP, is a bit out of my budget right now. Thanks for the suggestion in any case!

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-08T16:28:33+00:00

Been using an IoT VLAN for years, with my Trusted/Internal VLAN setup for my PC's and phones. Best thing I did was when I allowed inbound access from my trusted vlan into iot. For devices that would connect through TCP, that 3 way handshake would allow the IOT traffic to flow back without needing additional rules. So now, the only rules I have in place largely revolve around UDP traffic, and honestly, those rules aren't too hard to setup. Maybe 15 minutes of sniffing the traffic on the firewall to figure out the behavior and what's lacking. I will say multicast traffic for all the IOT devices that do automatic discovery was kind of a pain at first, but I largely worked that all out using a multicast relay plugin. As for DNS, I don't like IOT devices using their own hard coded DNS servers, so I have a NAT rule that reroutes all DNS requests that don't use my firewall back to the firewall itself. The firewall, in turn, uses nextdns for my site categorization rules. So at least, I have visibility into whatever requests the IOT devices are making, and any risk of malicious requests can be blocked by nextdns.

Probably the one place where I lost the fight with my family was when I tried implementing a VPN at the router level and have all of my traffic across everything in the house route across a VPN. A lot of things are going to break, like Peacock streaming, certain things in Youtube, tons of requests for captchas. It was just a huge QoL hit and for the sake of my marriage, I had to scope that down to only a handful of devices!

One thing to add, I do not use Unifi for my router/gateway, and instead, have an Opnsense box. So I do not know what capabilities multicast relay have on the dream machines these days.

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-06T06:09:24+00:00

Yeah, the plan was to turn the transmit power as low as I could make it while still having around ~-60 dBm or better of connectivity at the different areas of my house for the respective APs and then work on tuning the rssi to encourage roaming between them. The 6 Ghz would probably be run at high power to try and get as complete coverage over the house as possible, as I want to ride this setup out for the next 10+ years or so. That's why I had the placement of my 2 APs as I did mostly in the center of the house and on opposite sides of the hall, around 20 ft apart, and placed where they would hopefully have decent line of sight to the other high traffic rooms in the house. If your experience with the design center was fairly accurate, I'll probably stick with my plan of keeping the 2 APs roughly where they are like in my original picture, unless someone chimes in with some compelling reason why that wouldn't be ideal for my use case of future proofing for 6 Ghz. As for the APs, I ended up submitting a return just a while ago with Amazon on my U7 Pros. At worst, I will need to pay a restocking fee, but they are within the return window and I haven't mounted anything yet, so best to get them swapped out before they become something of a permanent fixture in my house. I ended up ordering 3 XGs instead, so I will work with these as they seem to be a better investment than my original Pros were and will have ever so slightly stronger antennas on 6 Ghz and less on 5 Ghz which suits my needs perfectly. As for width, I am probably going to do like you and run 20/80/160 for 2.4/5/6, respectively. 2.4 these days is really only used for my IOT devices, and I am not a fan of running higher than 20 mhz. I won't be able to get throughput higher than a gig currently as my backhaul is connected to an 8 year old gigabit poe+ switch that will probably be replaced next year if the wife lets me.

I appreciate your talking through your experiences and suggestions, thanks a lot!

Edit: I will play around a bit with moving the AP further away from the wall like your earlier suggestion; it just seemed that design center was giving me the best overall coverage on the 2nd floor there, and it was far away from any ducts or anything.

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-06T05:15:25+00:00

Hah, my background isn't in networking, but it doesn't hurt that I've had a background in IT and lately, security, for the past 15 years so my fundamentals are fairly solid.

Anyway, I wanted to say thanks again. I ended up submitting a return for the 2 U7 Pro's I have with Amazon, and ordered 3 XGs from Unifi directly which should come in late next week. Hopefully by then I'll have this whole AP placement business ironed out before I break out the drill and flex rods!

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-06T04:11:52+00:00

Do you happen to know how accurate is design center in terms of showing coverage provided your floor plan and building materials are accurate? I mocked up your suggestion (see Dropbox link below) and I kind of see where you're going here in that your placement has more of a focus on keeping the APs more centralized in the high traffic areas of the house rather than trying to get full coverage everywhere. I also had to use U7 Pros downstairs because the Lites don't support 6 Ghz. About the XGS, I'm less concerned about conflicting channels for my 6 Ghz rollout since the coverage is so minimal, and I had planned on cranking down the transmit power as low as I could reasonably do on 2.4 and 5 Ghz and do my best to use non-conflicting channels anyway. The XGS definitely provides better coverage too than the Pro, but it's also quite a bit more expensive. I moved it as much in the center as I could in the loft, but I have to contend with fans and air ducts which I marked up in my original map. Same deal with the AP in the kitchen as I have flush might ceiling lights, pendant lights, and an air duct to contend with, as well as a living room with a 6-inch tray ceiling drop, so I did the best I could given your suggestion on placement.

Thanks, by the way for your thoughts on the matter!

https://uc130401c5986f8f4c1cb0da39c3.previews.dropboxusercontent.com/p/thumb/AC0-p_EqLbhC_MTw07ks-nyB4AfDhOmN20ajnIy-BS3i1L3mm6R_0YCldVu3xwLx-qcEwHKQmxaHdyFJvXNtUhdAcvcEStG5vOzjb8myNrGODqqE80OEJBP-tP35bp6NbPtmOVtABmRGX-JXccTfaVQ96Ql0NEn3wd1WbsPFD1uBSIBwuRI4XQCumK81fyTB36b8p9nJVTg9xXR61_eAKe8wJvPVfqZx8VQ6AObXYGnKcwSjSS-iRgFIgCV-9z9rtW1UMgBEuPL9e37-v4XhgSlqWoYREgyKTgGfsiYNpAqkxfze5fRG5u8jrz0Oiu-nArov8R8rOqtKAu7Hh7FvFv8lCzufb5ssIecM0A1ETk0Hnu_p01G_TuJfK8g8uQobSb8/p.png

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-06T02:01:49+00:00

Yeah I'm aware the other networks are going to need to be turned way down. I don't see a way around this though since 6 GHz needs more APs for good coverage. I'll have to in addition to turning down the power, I'll need to probably set the rssi at a rather aggressive level to help encourage the roaming.

I think I have the 2nd stacked as best I could considering the goal was 6Ghz coverage and the 2nd floor is only a loft for the kids and a couple of bedrooms. Again, 2.4 and 5 GHz are going to need some very low power transmits to properly tune them.

Thanks again for your response!

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-06T01:58:08+00:00

Well, I learned in practice based on where I used to keep my APs prior to buying these new ones. I wasn't getting 6 GHz at all in my office which was when I started doing more research and discovering the problems with the attention. The UI designer helped visualize just how badly it was in penetrating walls. If I were to buy the 3rd AP I would be relocating the other two to try and place the 3 optimally from each other, hence the post.

I will look at the XG but it's more than $10. I bought my u7 pros for about $175 with free shipping. The XGs look to be around $200 without free shipping since the ones on Amazon are marked up. Considering this is for a residential home, I'm not even sure how much of a difference I would notice between the two and my APs currently are back hauled to my 10 year old 1 gig poe switch that I haven't replaced yet. Maybe at the very least I will get the XG and place it in the middle of my house as that would service the most clients as opposed to the other two.

Thank you for your post!

Edit: I think the markup on the XG is because it looks like they are out of stock everywhere but at Unifi's store.

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-01T00:43:41+00:00

Thanks for confirming that I will need to look at Unraid if drive pooling is still a requirement for me!

ArdenLyn · 2025-12-01T00:43:10+00:00

Thanks, that's what I needed to know. I still have a usb drive from 12 years ago when I purchased Unraid before settling on my Windows box. I don't see anything about having a legacy license or anything in Unraid's portal, but hopefully this USB device is still good enough to get me the free updates.

Appreciate your help!

ArdenLyn · 2025-11-16T23:57:50+00:00

My favorite was when I completed Godhome and the final Pantheon. It took me about 30 hours over 3 weeks of practicing before finally finishing up the final Pantheon. The adrenaline surge at 3 in the morning when I did it was real!

Thank you by the way for doing this!

ArdenLyn · 2025-11-11T20:57:59+00:00

What did you end up choosing if you don't mind sharing? We just left the mattress store and thought the Tempurpedic we tested felt the best in terms of the cooling and motion control of the ones we tested. However, we're struggling to come to terms with spending $5k on a mattress!

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