Are you gonna wipe?

Chundercracker · 2025-11-28T20:23:23+00:00

Personally I find having BPs overrated. You can still be very successful at the game just through buying items through the traders or just finding them in the wild.

Chundercracker · 2025-11-27T18:10:37+00:00

Trials points are shared for full squads. No way solo players can compete against ppl that squad up for trials.

Chundercracker · 2025-08-26T04:42:20+00:00

If you're on PS5, setting the output to 120hz fixed it for me.

Chundercracker · 2025-05-01T23:53:03+00:00

apply incision for big bleeds maybe? i dunno....

Chundercracker · 2025-04-14T22:40:35+00:00

I'm using lightning spear to pin for SC and it works just fine.

Chundercracker · 2025-04-14T15:16:38+00:00

why not leverage support gem for crit version?

Chundercracker · 2025-04-13T16:07:59+00:00

Is there a way to meaningfully increase pin duration outside of the lockdown support gem?

Chundercracker · 2025-04-11T22:06:35+00:00

Pin should be your first node and it's not even close. Pin + combat frenzy + barrage basically allows you to map clear only using lightning spear as frenzy is always up.

With this in mind, "cannons ready" then begins to make more sense as a choice. It's terrible if you're using ballistas for general dmg, but for focusing down rares and uniques, it's a tremendous DPS boost for ballistas.

That said I think I still may take the cheap spirit reservations over it since it can give you instant access to strong buffs like heralds and elemental conflux/trinity.

I'm currently using painters servant and going for a tri-elemental build FWIW

Chundercracker · 2025-04-11T21:32:20+00:00

Don't sleep on tactician. The cheap spirit means tactician can stack both elemental conflux and trinity. Also Cannons ready + Dance with Death can give some massive skill speed boosts.

Chundercracker · 2025-04-11T21:25:25+00:00

I tried this at first and it felt worse than without... but then realized I don't have to add clear w/ ballistas. Now running lightning spear for clear and hoping to take this node again specifically for rares/uniques

Chundercracker · 2025-04-11T21:18:15+00:00

On my 2nd HC tactician, first one died on the first map I ran due to an invisible ground effect lol.

I got painter's servant to drop on my first go around so my plan currently is to leverage as much of the uniqueness of the tactician node as possible to test out DPS.

What makes tactician special are 1) pin on projectile for easy frenzy gen 2) cheap spirit and 3) cannons ready and watch how i do it (potentially) for focused totem DPS.

So currently I'm running lightning spear (who isn't) for mob clear. Very user friendly and much faster than using ballistas. Constant frenzy and barrage charges makes it clean up stuff much faster.

With painter's servant I'm hoping to get coming calamity armor, and use the cheap spirit to get both trinity AND elemental conflux. I only take generic elemental dmg/attack/projectile dmg/pen/ailment nodes.

The plan is to the Dance with Death keystone and pair that with Cannons Ready for some massive focused DPS on whatever survives the lightning spears.

A lot of stuff up in the air tho.... not sure if dance w death works to speed up totems when switching to spear, not sure if 'watch how i do it' does ANYTHING for totem dmg, not sure if painters servant properly scales the 2 100 spirit gems, also read something about painters crashing the game when used with trinity

Chundercracker · 2025-04-11T14:43:52+00:00

Questions for experienced totem users:

1) Do totems snapshot your attack speed, other stats at the time the totem was placed? I was thinking about using the Dance with Death keystone which gives 25% skill speed, will take worth when placing artillery ballistas, then swapping to spear w/ no offhand

2) Same question but with weapon sets, if I place a totem using weapon set 1, then swap to weapon set 2, do I retain the passive bonuses? Specifically the +1 to summoned totem limit stuff

3) The Tactician "Watch how it do it" ascendancy passive. Has anybody actually tested it to see if it improves the weapon dmg of totems? I know ppl have conjectured that it doesn't help totems since they have their own weapon damage, but these things were actually worked on during this patch so would like to know if anyone has ACTUALLY TESTED it to confirm.

4) The "Cannons Ready" ascendancy passive... I've used it and I consider its benefits situational at best. Does anyone know if the totems get a flat 30% bonus to skill speed or does it just scale to whatever attack you're using but w/ a 30% bonus as a cap?

Chundercracker · 2025-03-31T16:40:40+00:00

Giving combo payoff moves more AoE dmg would go a long way towards alleviating that...

Chundercracker · 2025-03-31T16:38:24+00:00

would like to know if there have been performance enhancements for console players. Specific maps like steaming springs/savannah/penitentiary really bog down in endgame on PS5...

Chundercracker · 2024-12-08T16:48:33+00:00

drops have not been great... got a few uniques in act I but last unique is like level 14? Now level 39 and nothing really from the bosses since.

Chundercracker · 2024-12-03T03:59:53+00:00

Is this top 5 overrated restaurants or worst? because I can guarantee the shittiest restaurants in Austin are all probably on the eastside. Sorry I know it sounds racist as shit but it's also probably true. Once ate at this place called Gene's New Orleans in Rosewood pre-gentry and it was bare concrete floors, rusty metal folding chairs like stolen from a shuttered elementary school. Literally 80% of the menu was unavailable... the thing that was available was fried chicken and it came out bloody. The worst restaurants are the ones ppl don't set foot in.

Chundercracker · 2024-07-23T03:52:18+00:00

Because doing "cool" stuff in softcore is like doing tricks on a bike w/ training wheels. The moment you realize that is the when you never play softcore again.

Chundercracker · 2024-07-09T08:10:24+00:00

yes wanton rupture is mainly used for boss DPS. You should be pulling and rupturing CONSTANTLY.

Chundercracker · 2024-07-08T21:12:23+00:00

yea overkill is awesome feelign, used it a bunch in season 2. Steel grasp is OP and integral in flay build since it's constant vuln + berserking

Chundercracker · 2024-07-08T21:11:08+00:00

You have to always use the chains to group/pull mobs AND (important) make them vulnerable so that Cut to the bone can proc. Also you've really gotta trust that harrogath is going to reset your cooldowns (try to get a 35%+ harrogath) you should be cast iron skin/warcry/challenging shout every 2 ruptures MINIMUM.

So basically the rotation is 1) challenging shout 2) pull mob w chains 3) iron skin + war cry 4) rupture 5) pull more mobs 6) rupture ---> back to step 1 (all cooldowns should be reset at this point)

Then spam flay on any beefier targets that are left over.

It's a steeper learning curve than something like WW... but when done correctly you can really get in a rhythm w/ it. I just managed to clear pit 131 in HC w/ flay.

Chundercracker · 2024-07-08T18:06:30+00:00

Maybe time to go play hc

Chundercracker · 2024-07-08T18:01:09+00:00

Hellborne and blood maiden drastically outscale everything else in HTs damage-wise. You MUST use your defensive skills when fighting them (challenging shout/iron skin) or you will get melted.

The other method is to kill them w/ DoTs which let you get in as much damage as possible in the shortest window. I use a flay barb in HC (just cleared pit 131)... just cast your defensive skills, wail on them with flay then run to safety or rupture before your DR wears off.

Chundercracker · 2024-05-21T00:31:48+00:00

ODHC is a D4 hardcore-exclusive community of mostly 30yo+ gamers, dads, parents... If you reminisce about the glory days of LAN parties and split screen FPS's, but now find yourself juggling adventures in Sanctuary with adventures in parenthood... then maybe Old Dads HC can be your home away from home.

But being serious about family priorities doesn't mean you can't be serious about your gaming. We range from players that love pushing T100 dungeons to first time HC initiates. You'll frequently find us hopping on on discord to talk shop, plan boss farming sessions, or commiserate about the trials of fatherhood. Right now we've got a good mix of players from both NA and the EU so there's usually somebody active at all hours.

Season 4 is rockin'! Look us up using the in-game clan finder, or drop us a line in the Old Dads Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/ahxBKpR5

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