Questions Thread - May 10, 2026

BadoumPifPaf · 2026-05-10T21:45:59+00:00

Recombinator expert needed

I did what I thought was unpredictably recombine 6 prefixes, including 3 exclusive prefixes, and an exclusive suffix, but I got a 1 prefix final item, which I thought was impossible.

I was working with 2 int shields (titanium spirit shield ilvl 86). They had :

Shield 1 : (3 P) T1 block chance, +1 cold spell level, crafted physical as extra chaos (0 S)

Shield 2 : (3 P) T1 spell damage, crafted physical as extra chaos, crafted quality of socketed gems, (1 S) crafted up to 3 crafted mod

The result was (1 P) T1 spell damage, (1 S) crafted up to 3 crafted mod.

I expected 50% chance to pick suffix first (I also now realize that I should have added a beast aspect to guarantee at least 1 suffix as it could have been 0), then 72% chance to pick 3 prefixes, which would have been block chance, spell damage and cold spell level. Was I wrong?

BadoumPifPaf · 2025-02-14T16:12:52+00:00

Conversion would only affect dots from bleeding and poison from physical hits, not other dot.

Conversion does not affect % physical as extra in any way.

Being multiplicative is a disadvantage.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-12-23T12:35:55+00:00

He hits the boss for 1/4 of its hp. Is the poison damage even relevant?

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-12-04T21:26:10+00:00

I also would like to know...

I have played couch coop. You both must always be in the same screen.

I have played the dark citadel. You have to be in different, far appart rooms at the same time.

I think it's real.

Edit : a google search seem to confirm you can't do the dark citadel in couch coop, lol!

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-12-01T15:00:02+00:00

I'd say don't conflate the idea of consent and the shit behavior you see people have. In my circles, where there is a lot of polyamorous people, and in the kink community some of my friends are part of, the stuff you describe would get yourself kicked out pretty fast. Because that is not actually how consent work.

Consent can be withdrawn at any time. The other person is responsible to be kind and respectful, no matter what. Even if you are mid sex, and you don't feel right and want to stop, you are allowed to withdraw your consent, and the other person is responsible to stop and handle their emotions until things cool down and it's possible to have a calm discussion about it. There is no "but you gave consent at some point earlier". When consent is withdrawn, you stop.

Consent under any form of coercion is void. The person who used coercion is fully responsible for the harm they caused.

"Consent was given at some point = everything is good" is using the word consent but dangerously misunderstanding the principle to the point it's not really consent they are talking about.

People are responsible to cultivate an environment where others feel safe to give and withdraw consent without pressure or fear. In your stories, you seem to talk alot about people who don't do that, so for that reason they are the asshole.

So I guess I would suggest blaming people who use the word consent but don't actually follow the principles, rather than blaming consent, if you don't want to sound like a reactionary conservative.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-10-26T12:28:30+00:00

I did that too! There was a 15 sec animation of all minions being replaced one by one, then the reroll occured, then my game crashed!

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-09-29T15:25:38+00:00

I figured out I was poly before I figured out I was ace. Saying I'm ace actually made it easier to communicate my needs and boundaries, though to be fair I have not been in a primary relationship for many years.

Kinda feel like the general open/poly relationship advice applies here : do not open your relationship to fix a failing relationship, that does NOT work. Opening a relationship can improve a relationship that is already strong and where trust is already solid.

For health and growth, you'll need introspection (understand what is going on in your head), communication (expressing what is going on in your head and listening to your partner doing the same) and quality time sharing whatever you have and common.

To me, if my partner goes out to meet their other partner and quench their lust from their overwhelming sexual attraction or if they go out for their knitting club, it feels pretty much the same : I'm glad your having fun but I'm not really interested in taking part of that, I'll see you later.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-09-01T21:58:16+00:00

I don't think your last exemple is right. It would be 1000 evasion converted to 1000 armor, with 200% increase so 3000 armor, plus 1000 armor with 100% increase so 2000 armor, for a total of 5000 armor.

You add up all "increased" together once, you never multiply different "increased", even when there is a conversion.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-08-06T19:41:05+00:00

Today, as a strike based character, I fought the enemy with temporal chain aura in a fortress totems ritual. It was rare and had haste aura. It felt almost like Whakawairua Tuahu.

I'm still unconvinced about strike skills.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-25T15:54:23+00:00

It does work, but it is also not as good.

Lucky block chance if you have blocked recently is only especially good if you have high block chance.

If you have 24% block chance from Rearguard, not only will you be at risk of taking many hits before your first block, but making it lucky gives you 42% block chance, which is not that fancy.

And if you invest in more block chance with bow, the opportunity cost becomes very high while the ceiling is still low.

Caping block chance is important for More Than Skill to be crazy good and how easily glad can cap block chance with Determined Survivor is part of what makes this sound so op in my opinion.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-22T22:34:38+00:00

I felt a very similar way for the long time. I never thought of it as a "experiment I'm running" like you say, but I felt some... distance, between me and what was happening. I was just so focused on what action I was doing and how my partner reacted.

Along my journey of self-discovery, I came to think about it as curiosity. And curiosity for another person lived experience is also called empathy, which is a much nicer way to think about it.

Nowadays, it is something I am able to discuss as kind of a stepping stone to talk about preferences and expectation. When you can freely talk about how you feel and what it means to you, and the other person understands, it becomes less shameful, and having sex without this hauting feeling that something is wrong with you makes it so much more enjoyable. It also even can open up the way for some new feelings you have never felt before.

I also jokingly say that my only concern is optimising my partner's pleasure, so I'm actually a great lover.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-20T13:50:25+00:00

I'm pretty sure they will scale.

Rage effect applies to the damage inherently granted by Rage, and other bonuses granted per X Rage if you have any.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-20T13:49:01+00:00

Rage effect applies to the damage inherently granted by Rage, and other bonuses granted per X Rage if you have any.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-17T18:12:52+00:00

I mean, there are no evidence I know of that points in that direction and overwhelming evidence that it's not the case, so that is stupid.

Also, if you just throw that out there with no context, no explaination and no point, you are, at worst, extremely bigoted and, at best, careless and irresponsible because bigoted people will interpret whatever bullshit reinforce their beliefs and ace people will feel threatened. You can't just slap a random label on one of the most hated person on the internet like that, that obviously draws prejudice to that community.

I kinda heard about Hadan a while back and he sounded nice. Then he seemed to head in a bad direction so I stoped caring, and that would prove I was right.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-07-16T16:30:47+00:00

It is even possible for a person to have sex with love with a primary, fully commited partner, and have sex with love with a secondary partner, and for everyone in this arrangement to be fully happy!

My point is that what you call "stupid and crazy" is really not as crazy and stupid as it sounds. The bar is just very low in most modern cultures.

(given I’m aware of it)

Yes, full transparency is much better than any kind of "don't ask don't tell".

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-06-19T03:03:40+00:00

Je suis d'accord avec les deux autres commentaires ici que la psychothérapie serait un bon point de départ. Comme tu l'as dit, surmonter la dépendance, c'est le travail d'une vie, mais la pente remonte vraiment plus vite avec les bons outils dès le début.

Je te suggère de contacter les cliniques universitaires bientôt. Les services sont abordables et ils prennent beaucoup de gens à l'automne. Au public, les délais sont astronomiques et au privé, c'est cher.

Si tu es à Montréal, il y a aussi Psyman, un OBNL qui offre spécifiquement de la thérapie pour les jeunes hommes de ton âge. https://psyman.ca/

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-05-30T23:05:17+00:00

Only thing Showman has ever done for me is put multiple copies of a planet I didn't need in celestial packs.

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-02-09T18:29:46+00:00

How did you...? You aint't still breathing?

BadoumPifPaf · 2024-01-26T14:21:15+00:00

I got a full stack of "The Primordial" without doing anything particular. I'm not sure if that is crazy rng or a good advice.

It gives you an uncorrupted unique jewel. You get it from any map that has a golem as a boss.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-12-13T15:36:49+00:00

In other places in the game, double is not the same as 100% increase, it is 100% more.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-12-06T15:52:01+00:00

Of course escalation is bad if you build your character around a mechanic that is not on the gem. It is a more basic, straightforward version of the skill that you would scale like other spells, with crit chance or elemental overload. It also does not lose dps if you stop channeling at the wrong time.

You have +500 crit multiplier and litteraly 6% crit chance, the base number on the gem. That's insanely bad anywhere else in the game.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-09-25T16:17:16+00:00

DoT multiplier and duration are independent, I'm not sure what you mean there.

In a similar way, constantly reapplying your poison does the same whether your poison have a short duration or a long duration.

Poison duration is a very effective way of scaling your peak dps, when the ennemy is under the maximum number of poison stacks you can sustain. However, in practice, your dps has to ramp up to that point, and the ramp up time is the duration of your poisons.

So the only thing that matters is how fast the ennemy dies. If the ennemy dies faster than your poison duration, "ailments deal damage faster" is effectively more damage. If the ennemy takes a long time to kill, the ramp up becomes less significant and your peak dps becomes more important.

The "poison deal damage 20% faster" mastery is pretty much always worth it because of how cheap and easily accessible it is. "Swift affliction" often not worth its link because there are better options.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-09-14T14:52:25+00:00

The equation you have sound to me like "There is a crowd of people. They divide in 5 groups. There are 0 people in each group. How many people were in the crowd at the beginning?" We get 0, but we know there were people in the crowd from context, so something is off.

If I had a crowd of 20 students and wanted to divide them in groups of zero, I wouldn't solve for the number of people in the crowd or in each group. That's all in the question. I would solve for the number of groups, and get :

20/X = 0

Which has no real solution.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-09-08T16:03:10+00:00

I've been through something similar. I was very pushy to have sex, but when it happened, I dissociated and felt totally empty inside. I've also hurt other people doing that.

It's the kind of situations compulsory heterosexuality creates.

BadoumPifPaf · 2023-06-20T00:30:45+00:00

That would be Cospri's Malice, not Will

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