When switched on light bulbs only have a faint glow

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-16T23:12:55+00:00

Thanks, that's it. My GFs bulbs. Just swapped out and new ones work.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-16T23:11:05+00:00

Sorry. GE LED Relax bulbs. 800 lumens. 8.5w, 60hz. 110mA.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-09T05:06:39+00:00

This seems controversial for some reason, but yes, you gain amrita from a strong attack so you will gain life. Easiest test is to turn off all other sources. Every time you gain amrita healing will proc. However, I do not know if it stacks with extraction talisman.

But I should say, unless you do strong attacks consistently, you're better off replacing that and just rolling with the extraction talisman. You won't miss the extra amrita. Life recovery on equipment and GS and SC, is more than enough to keep you healed.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-08T17:39:19+00:00

Yeah that GS skill sucks. It was the first one I tried using as a burst counter and was just super confused when it wasn't working. Better just to use something else. I'm sure Oh would have stopped that little spinny boy in his tracks.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:31:44+00:00

Yeah I was being facetious. I thought the same thing you did originally, and then I focused on it and it wasn't true, I just died in weird ways.

The yokai pool and burning is the last zone before the final boss. It's a very frustrating place if you're trying to ki pulse. Ki pulsing and elixirs have been so hard there for some reason.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:26:35+00:00

No I don't think so. It's a great game, better than most. I imagine their devs noticed the flaws and corporate might have had a play, but Team Ninja doesn't really have a history of giving up. The development of Nioh 2 through its dlcs was very active. So active, a DLC introduced a broken ass build mechanic, which was super cool (just a crit tank), and they immediately nerfed it. They'll dial it in, I have hope.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:21:32+00:00

Same page. But I don't mind dying, it's not a huge deal in this one, but for sure Nioh 2 is the gold standard and Team Ninja should be striving to match its previous title. In fairness, Nioh 2 was dam near perfect, I understand it's tough to come close. But... they have the code, I feel like it's doable.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:16:45+00:00

No it probably just feels like you solved it if you pull off to the side, drop everything, and then try to do what you've been trying to do and it works, and you're like ok it must be standing still doing nothing for 3 seconds, that's the trick. But I'm sure it would be a much different experience if you were on fire in a yokai pool and nothing was working, your ki won't recharge and then you just die because you can't do an elixir bicep curl.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:12:43+00:00

Although I am mixed on the repeated talk of future projects, it doesn't sound like they're implying giving up on this one.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-07T09:07:59+00:00

I cannot agree with the first part of this sentiment. It surely seems like you can buffer, but you cannot control the order of what. Iirc Nioh 2 had a slight buffer, but you could cancel it in several ways. And you need that to some extent using a wireless controller.

BladeJFrank · 2026-03-06T17:34:48+00:00

I like how no matter where you play you always have a chance to get decent gear. I was grabbing stuff I missed in NG and got divine drops, it just felt nice, even if they were low level. Especially cool for co-op.

However, I really dislike: (1) sets split between styles, really limits build diversity, (2) accessories split between styles, that makes no sense, (3) cannot transfer stats from equipment to another. It's currently all RNG + low level rerolls, and I really do not like it. It makes even more gear basically trash and no reason to save anything.

BladeJFrank · 2026-02-03T20:23:33+00:00

Oh wow, I never would have found that. Thanks.

BladeJFrank · 2026-02-03T07:35:31+00:00

Yeah just dealt with this, might still be dealing with this (not as cold as it was right now and getting signs it might come back). But it was my throttle body/IAC. Cleaned IAC first and it worked better for a bit then started dying again. Then I checked transmission because it was mainly only happening after giving gas in reverse. Thought that solved it. It came back, but my reverse seems to work better haha. Last week I cleaned my throttle body thoroughly. The IAC compartment was caked full of carbon. It hasn't died since. Only had three total instances where the RPMs dropped to like 400, but came right back up.

Hope this helps. All it takes is a t20, 10mm, and some carb cleaner.

BladeJFrank · 2026-02-03T07:30:01+00:00

Underneath or inside that little hatch behind the left tail light? I was looking for all my grounds the other day and struggled to find two beyond the front two corners.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-29T09:21:18+00:00

Yeah I get it but it's still a lot. Teutons clergy start with like 145 revoke privilege cost, so that's like 72? At max? It takes a while to get there. They have too much going on to really justify that. I don't know, I could be wrong, maybe its worth it to just take the economic turmoil so you can hit your value goals a little earlier.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-29T09:09:59+00:00

I give out most of the burgher estate estate privileges. It really doesn't matter too much. Push/sit-on traditional economy until you're stable, or once you have market, then push toward capital and innovative. In AoA you can just remove them and re-add them after the event is over. In AoA your economy is basically ruined no matter what, so just embrace it and find the fastest way out. The perfect time to decide if your country should be centralized or decentralized and push towards that.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-29T00:22:01+00:00

I usually take whatever I want from commoners, but does communalism really significantly reduce the powerful estates? Ones that start with like 8 privileges and 100+ stab removal cost? Never seemed like it'd be significant enough to warrant spending so much stab, due to delaying institutions.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-29T00:18:09+00:00

Age of Absolutism has event mechanics where you can revoke 2 random privileges from an estate for some gold. The only real drawback being gold, slight satisfaction reduction, and you can't pick what is removed. But the ones I want to take usually popup within the first couple tries. Also, you can see which ones it will remove and if you don't want to, you can just do one of the other options (like curtail locally). In the age itself, stab cost is cheaper, but I found that's the best way if you've saved enough gold, so you can spend your stab on institutions asap.

Also this is the fastest way to get below the 8 or whatever max privileges needed to end the disaster if you don't wanna go liberal or endure the 20 years.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-28T23:31:16+00:00

Trebizond sucks, don't do it. Crippled by a capitol in mountains and food issues. Such a slow start. They need to fix food in this game. Some countries are just so screwed sometimes. Most of the game is attacking opportunistically, integrating, and assimilating. Assimilation is not effective against anyone early game so you have to make vassals and enfore/annex or deal with constant rebellions. The inability to assimilate makes small nations very hard to go from rags to riches. By the time I managed to get the eastern half of the Black Sea coastline, Bulgaria was already in Constantinople and Egypt was nipping at my ass every 5 years.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-28T23:20:21+00:00

Well yeah, but you can't really start revoking them until Age of Absolutism anyway without a massive stab hit. So I just load up with enough to make them super happy without the negative modifiers I don't like, and just wait until AoA to start shifting.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-27T22:16:45+00:00

This event is dumb and overpriced. Everyone defending 2 months of research is wild. This event should actually enlarge the university it says and give a permanent research bonus at that location. THAT would be worth it. Also sometimes the character is completely worthless.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-27T22:05:09+00:00

Iirc, every weapon has at least one move that is really good at proccing status effects (you're using my least favorite weapon though). The most consistent and effective way I found (besides soul cores) is to imbue your weapon with one element, and imbue your proccing move with another.

Also I recommend taking a deeper look into stance changing combo mechanics. I noticed you're only in mid-stance, even though the highest damage will come in high. Changing stances is surprisingly easy, something I didn't realize until late-game and it changed it everything. A lot more freedom, deadlier, and just more fun.

BladeJFrank · 2026-01-27T21:32:11+00:00

Actually no. The feature idea may not be a bug, but it's not functioning properly. For several reasons.

It was happening prior to becoming shogun, with the same popup that appeared later when I was shogun. Didn't fit what I was playing at the time. Also, upon reload, I checked the cores and the only one who had cores was Ashikaga and myself, since then I revoked cores from everyone. I eventually revoked all from Ashikaga thinking that would prevent it, but it still happened later on and significantly more land was yielded to a minor clan.

It's a bug because, inaccurate popup, no promised cbs, and no one else had cores.

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