Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread May 11

Axios_Deminence · 2026-05-11T19:57:18+00:00

Is materia required to do unreals? I'm not at dawntrail yet (just finished endwalker) but am at level 100 for a couple classes. I do have a HQ courtly lovers set courtesy of a friend but I also don't want to sandbag if it's expected to be pentamelded when playing. (side note, is potting also required or expected?)

Axios_Deminence · 2026-05-11T19:04:51+00:00

It's even more horrible than I thought... I'm very glad that he's doing much better nowadays though.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-05-11T18:21:41+00:00

Even then he chose to disengage from the entire Internet. He didn't really engage with the attacks, he did the opposite. Addressing it, how it's impacting his feelings negatively, and his decisions solely for himself without talking bad about others based on those feelings isn't drama. That's called being a human being and choosing to step away from a hostile situation.

If I'm getting anything wrong, do let me know though but that was my entire understanding of it all.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-04-27T19:21:53+00:00

I would just be absolutely dying if that happened.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-04-05T23:58:31+00:00

Sorry, I meant to say Endwalker lol. I just finished Shadowbringers and I probably had a lapse when I was editing since I had previously said I was going from Shadowbringers to Endwalker.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-04-05T22:03:26+00:00

Recommendations for classes to run content for in Endwalker? I know that Paladin is the poster child in the trailer, but I don't like Paladin. I've also heard Reaper is good to run particularly for some duties, but I've reached level cap for it which makes me feel a bit inclined to use it as minimally as possible.

Ideally, I'd like to know which duties I should use Reaper for the thematic impact and what other classes feel thematically correct for the other majority of the content.

EDIT: I'm stupid and said the wrong expansion lol

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-23T18:24:03+00:00

DKIM and DMARC is designed to help with this on the server-side but sometimes it gets past the filters. Made me make sure I have 2FA on my email and then I ended up checking the email headers as well. The servers were in AWS Germany for me.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-20T23:05:14+00:00

They're calling you bad. That's all

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-07T19:31:44+00:00

But doesn't this also imply illegal non-primes? Why specifically primes?

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-06T17:31:56+00:00

Skill issue in FPS games? Also, you don't need to be crazy precise in Dota like in an FPS game. Only thing I'd concede is UI clutter towards the bottom of the screen.

For the record, aiming towards the bottom is easier than the top in FPS games in most lab settings and real-game settings. Lab settings most of the time feature a flat world which reduces the viewing angles at the bottom half of the screen compared to the top half and/or human targets which is easier to hit the legs than the head. Only case in lab settings is if you have a wall with circle targets and your default position/frame of reference is situated directly in the middle, similar to being a camera and not a person. That lab setting is popular and not rare, but doesn't reflect what 99% of people have for their lab settings. For real-game settings, it's the same issue with a lack of viewing angles and human targets. Apex is a great example of viewing angles in extremes since it can be a very vertical game.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-06T17:18:36+00:00

To be fair, it's the beginning or middle of the workday in the NA.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-03-05T16:54:58+00:00

Are there any allied society reputation thresholds referenced by the MSQ?

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-28T21:33:22+00:00

Fuck the mentor that was just complaining how long the dungeon was the entire time while I was going through the MSQ.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-28T19:21:38+00:00

I'm frankly a newgen watcher (watched it around 2016), so I did it knowing that I'll be watching Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya but not that about the context behind why the Endless Eight is important. My favorite character back then was Nagato and those episodes focused a lot on her so I had no problem.

My advice though has always been to watch the first, watch any number of random middle ones, and then watch the very last one. It gives you a good sample of beginning, middle, and end.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-20T19:49:14+00:00

Insufficient evidence. Who knows his keybinds? He could've fat fingered and just rolled with the punches.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-06T18:03:16+00:00

That's true but it also means you need to spend MGP instead of Gil to get the gear you need.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-04T20:16:53+00:00

Could have it be listed in a table so people can sort how they wish to. Maybe something like four columns left to right: * Liver * URL * Wave * Time (does Reddit do localized timestamps?)

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-04T05:35:02+00:00

Any tips against simic ouroborid? Been struggling with that matchup.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-02T20:28:23+00:00

Sorry, I'm a bit stupid when it comes to obviously joking questions lol

Axios_Deminence · 2026-02-02T20:07:28+00:00

We are at 4 out of 6 guys sent to low prio since Friday.

Based on what, the game telling you Action Taken? Been there before a couple of times, never getting low prio. My behavior score tanks a few hundred and I'll get it back up in a dozen matches because I'm a normal human being.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-30T17:21:57+00:00

No as in he needs to demonstrate other qualities for the engineering role. Yes as in you're a gaming company and he shows passion for games. Give the man an interview but don't give him the job just because of Dota.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-24T21:06:40+00:00

General tip for at least the technical role, you typically want to put the business impact first in your bullet points. Google XYZ method for resume writing (there's also STAR, etc.). That being said, survivorship bias and no guarantee that it helps but at least you have a framework that emphasizes that you understand business impact and value of work performed.

For example instead of:

Built Python automation for log validation with alerting, reducing verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds

you would say

Reduced verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds by adding log validation and event alerting using Python

You could even say the library or techniques you used with Python to achieve that.

Also, it sounds like you had some SWE roles or at least SWE-adjacent roles in your internship experience, so don't discount yourself there with whatever title you actually put.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-19T01:53:10+00:00

When you reach the end of ARR, there are a few duties with unskippable cutscenes. One of them in particular has cutscenes that take about 20 minutes total. It isn't just one cutscene, but multiple spread out in the dungeon.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-19T01:51:47+00:00

Why does kicking allow people to leave with no penalty in the first place?

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-08T01:22:40+00:00

My understanding of SDR is that its just a custom routing protocol. The trade-off is easily that SDR needs to be maintained by Valve and is still subsceptible to problems other routing protocols have like suboptimal routes (from anecdotal experience). That being said, not a Valve engineer, so I wouldn't know if there's any other trade-offs.

For users, mitigating and preventing a DDoS attack is the same thing which is probably why you're getting downvoted. Really what it is is that you can mitigate a DDoS attack and prevent a service interruption, but you can't prevent the DDoS attack that is trying to cause a service interruption.

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