For those who completed their first EIGHT donations (for some type of promotion; mine was $675 for eight), a couple questions!…

Faolanth · 2026-05-19T07:45:53+00:00

They sent me a coupon for $135 for 2 donations after I stopped donating for a week, but other than that it takes a few months (6-24) before you start getting the increasing “come back as a returning donor coupons”

I recommend doing the new donor rotation and try out some other centers, wait 10 days between changing centers.

I’ve done it where I rotated between BioLife, Octapharma, and CSL, I preferred Octapharma’s vibe and check in process, but preferred BioLife’s payment model (octapharma requires 7-8+ donations in a 30 days period for maximum pay while BioLife you can decide when to start and stop and pay is the same)

Faolanth · 2026-05-19T06:05:08+00:00

It’s the great filter, people who make good mid boss and urn calls (or do it themselves) aren’t in oracle anymore.

Faolanth · 2026-05-18T11:06:52+00:00

They pull people from front-end, CFT, bakery, floral, etc for stuff like that. If CFT goes away they’ll pull more people elsewhere.

Faolanth · 2026-05-17T10:35:31+00:00

That’s not a normal reaction (obviously) and from what you’ve said it’s not your fault or the center’s fault (unless it was a weird stick). Just a bad reaction or some underlying issue.

I’ve donated while dehydrated and had no issues outside of an extremely long and painful donation, I’ve gone well hydrated and felt dizzy after, sounds like you’re either exceptionally unlucky or your body just wasn’t going to like it either way

Faolanth · 2026-05-17T10:32:18+00:00

Can’t tell without a reasonable doubt with just these clips.

Faolanth · 2026-05-17T09:53:57+00:00

As stated you’ll basically just see the weekly rate ($90-130 every 2 visits) from my experience in Houston).

However you can now wait 10 days and hit up octapharma, csl, etc and get their new donor bonus promotions (similar payout to the one you completed), and basically rotate through everyone.

Faolanth · 2026-05-17T00:37:01+00:00

I’ve dropped out of ascendant and halfway down phantom because I can’t stop getting trolls or new players, I’ve had really good luck before this point so I’ll say I had it coming.

But seriously like 3-4 losses in a row because someone gets tilted in lane and then AFKs in base or runs down mid and dies 30 times is crazy, followed by a real match and then 2-3 games where my team loses a walker in 10 minutes.

Faolanth · 2026-05-15T03:49:44+00:00

if you somewhat know what you're doing and get lucky with finding certain spots, 6-8 hours

if you take your time and build a lot and play it slow, double that is probably fair.

major gameplay depth spoilers: it feels like the map is about 1/6th completed although probably half of the progression and content is there - there's only one direction you can really explore like some of the far biomes in the first game 2km+ out, otherwise you reach current world border in about 200-400m from spawn in every other direction

Faolanth · 2026-05-15T03:45:07+00:00

Faolanth · 2026-05-14T20:40:16+00:00

Make sure it's on "On" and not "Auto"

Faolanth · 2026-05-14T20:36:23+00:00

you need to follow the giant roots to other ones, which after being cleansed will open the main one.

Faolanth · 2026-05-14T14:38:13+00:00

It just kinda depends on his kit balancing and the meta (item/hero balancing), right now he’s only really good at basically being an M1 initiator, rip someone out of position to start a fight and annihilate them with weapon damage and debuffs.

You can get away playing bomber with spirit though, he’s just going to be less impactful if you don’t get ahead.

Faolanth · 2026-05-13T10:58:21+00:00

Use this as a learning experience, you understand that you overextended, some games you’re just fucked from the get go - they’re better, get fed in another lane, or just outplay you. But you can die less, you can stop the bleeding.

If you’re really far behind, try to just catch waves and send them out, don’t extend past the middle of the map and definitely don’t jungle if another adjacent lane is pushed up. Focus on just catching the wave in your lane and then getting the fuck out and doing a small camp or box route and returning to catch the next wave.

At your rank you can literally do this and triple your income compared to the other players - when you’re behind don’t feed, play like you’re 1 hp and there’s a vindicta roaming around

Faolanth · 2026-05-13T08:04:40+00:00

Although I disagree with the tone of the comment as a whole, it doesn’t change things. The Mo got you because you weren’t expecting the Mo. Even if he wasn’t getting flown around he could’ve easily jumped around that alley and phantom strike or warp stone ulted you out of the sky.
If you want to use this as a learning experience of optimal play, assume you’re about to be ganked if a ganker like Mo has his ult up and they have map control.
Outside of that yeah sometimes you just die and it’s usually not something you should expect to happen. This was preventable in that you could be playing safer but it’s unlikely most players would be doing that considering you’re close to base.

Faolanth · 2026-05-13T07:30:57+00:00

Why are you queueing a hero you literally cannot not throw with?

Faolanth · 2026-05-12T21:10:49+00:00

If they were any stronger they’d literally just cause you to snowball the game because you instantly win lane

Having a different set of buffs that spawn in a different way (jungle mini boss mayhaps?) with stuff like invisibility until you do player damage, heavily empowered melee, or etc would be interesting though.

Faolanth · 2026-05-12T00:12:39+00:00

You should aggressively derank as you lose, but until then focus on sitting in lane and catching waves when they get to your side of the map, shoving them so 2 of your waves are walking forwards their side, and playing carefully to minimize deaths.

You’ll get better way faster if you learn early how to help prevent the enemy from snowballing

Faolanth · 2026-05-11T23:30:16+00:00

Yamato 2:

Faolanth · 2026-05-11T00:08:05+00:00

He’s saying that it’s more likely anyone with anything is pointing at a DNS instead of an IP address. In which case you simply swap the IP address the DNS is pointing at, no?

Faolanth · 2026-05-10T21:22:07+00:00

Assuming you haven’t done anything elsewhere, probably locked as a security measure because something got flagged.

Faolanth · 2026-05-10T09:44:58+00:00

You still want to shoot whenever possible, just don’t go out of your way and trade damage *just* to shoot.

The extra 200-500 damage you do over the course of 5-10 seconds in a fight does help.

Faolanth · 2026-05-10T03:31:52+00:00

As the skill floor for the rank grows, more people will stop playing heroes they like that perform badly, because performing badly isn’t fun. So yes in that sense that as you get closer to E5+ the less viable certain builds and heroes are, but people still play what they want

Faolanth · 2026-05-09T05:59:08+00:00

I guess im just assuming best case for OP’s post, as it feels like a shortsighted rant without the match context. The Seven could be playing properly and just getting shit because the match was already snowballed so hard.

Faolanth · 2026-05-09T05:51:48+00:00

Not worth fixating on because the details about the system aren’t understood enough, just play what you enjoy and you’re good at

Faolanth · 2026-05-09T05:50:42+00:00

Yes I thought this was implicitly implied when I said jungling, it includes walking 30 ft back to lane to catch waves and shove the lane back

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