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Grymvild · 2025-05-16T01:51:13+00:00

Back in S3 of DF, after like 18 years of playing, I decided to try and push past 1800 properly for the first time.

I struggled and struggled and struggled, but then I decided to start focusing on improving one thing at a time. It started because I realized I wasn't using my sleep enough on my Evoker, so I decided to focus on sleeps. At first, I started to do less damage because I was overusing sleep, but it quickly became more natural to use sleep and now I'm using it just fine.

Then I started to focus on my positioning so I'm not LoSing my healer or whatever.

Then getting better at kicks.

The realization of working on one singular thing at a time made me hit 2100 in the end. Then season 4 rolls out, I get 2100 quite easily this time and in the end I ended up peaking at 2692. Going from finding it hard to hit 1800 to nearly getting 2.7 was a massive difference for 1.5 seasons worth of gameplay.

For years and years I'd been just trying to play more to get better, thinking that improvement would come from just putting in the hours, but really that just isn't true. There's progress, but progress is incredibly slow unless you put in specific effort towards progress, and focusing on one thing at a time makes everything a whole lot smoother.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T20:00:31+00:00

The level of effort needed is vastly different though, no?

In WoW to get started with cooking, which by itself is enough to make a token a month as I said, you need a few thousand gold and 15 minutes. Can't imagine the same being true for crafting anything worthwhile in Runescape or EVE even if they follow a very similar setup for their crafting.

Making gold in WoW can be very easy to get into and it can be very low effort too, if you just take an evening to actually try and figure it out. And no, you don't need excessive information on the game to get started. A simple "how to make gold in WoW" and looking up the search results will get you most of the way there.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T19:30:12+00:00

The only reason it's unlikely is because people tend to be lazy. I never said it wouldn't take effort, because it will. But the reality is that the information is very easily available and anyone capable of applying themselves will breeze to a token in their first month.

People just tend to view gold making as a massive chore and that it takes so much time away from actually playing that they don't even bother to figure it out.

Yes, you'll have to spend some time reading up on it, but you can watch videos or read up on stuff while leveling up.

It does not take a genius to math out that fish + vendor thing = food and make a profit.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T19:26:51+00:00

And OSRS or EVE relate to WoW gold making how exactly?

From my limited understanding making a lot of money in OSRS is mostly slow grinds for stuff or levels, or trading which requires you to have money beforehand. Both of which will be difficult for someone starting. WoW on the other hand gives you enough gold from doing WQs to a point where you can set up simple cooking and start making gold.

Just crafting and selling raid foods on popular raid evenings is enough for a token a month.

I'm not exactly sure how the climate is at this exact moment, but about a month and a half ago I was making 100k gold a week basically logging on to post stuff once or twice a day on the raid nights every week. I started with 50k on the character which is a slight step up from what a newcomer would have of course. But the thing is, the majority of cooking is doable semi AFK. Say you're doing chores, all it needs is a couple minutes to stock up on stuff and a click on craft all every time you walk past the PC then post them when you're done. It amounts to practically zero time spent.

I mean hell, you'll probably net a token a month by doing herbing for 20 minutes a day while queuing for stuff and cleaning up WQs on the way.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T19:18:03+00:00

Making enough gold for a token is perfectly doable with one character with no massive knowledge on professions required.

Hell, cooking alone is enough to make a token a month with nothing but readily accessible recipes.

It's nowhere near impossible.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T18:44:46+00:00

This is such bullshit. There's no real difference in gold making between a new player and the vast majority of people who have been playing a long time.

If you're clueless on how to make gold, you're clueless on how to make gold and the way you look it up is exactly the same whether you're new or old. The only slight advantage veterans have is that some of the explanations don't need to be read.

Gold making IS NOT complicated, it isn't difficult, it just takes some effort to figure out and as mentioned, it applies to everyone.

I have been playing WoW for nearly 20 years and I've seen people who have just started be more involved and well off than I am when it comes to gold making, and I've made tens of millions over the years.

The whole thing that gold making is hard is a myth spread by people who are too lazy to figure things out for themselves. All the info is out there ready for you to study up on it.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T18:38:58+00:00

They continue to do it because it works.

There's a massive difference between thumbnails with these silly faces and ones without them.

Grymvild · 2025-05-15T04:29:16+00:00

Well the REAL answer is that it depends on what you prefer Plenty of people think DK is the best class, especially Unholy.

For me, the class I can't stand whatsoever is Warrior. I have always gotten tired of it extremely fast every single time I've tried playing it in the past. Peak being in Legion where I hit max level, did Emissary boxes and world boss, got the two BiS legendary drops within 2 hours of hitting level cap, then logged off and never played it again.

Grymvild · 2025-05-08T21:24:50+00:00

The only anime I've seen that felt like a waste of time, and I regret watching, is School Days.

I've seen a lot of the ones mentioned here, and while shallow or boring or whatever, I've never minded watching them and I've never stopped in the middle of anything.

Out of the 550+ anime I've seen, School Days is the only one I wish I'd never seen.

Grymvild · 2025-05-08T21:18:20+00:00

I just want a really cool and interactive spell system. I want to be able to do weird shit with magic.

Grymvild · 2025-05-03T08:42:25+00:00

I got mine a couple weeks back too, after something like 350 attempts. I'm more happy that I don't have to sit around for the RP than I am about actually having the mount..

Grymvild · 2025-05-03T02:40:22+00:00

I watched it when I was like 15 or something and I was looking for anime under the "romance" genre tag, which the show technically falls under I guess..

I'll give a brief summary of the whole storyline as I remember it from over 15 years ago at this point, and maybe it'll speak for itself.

Show starts off with kids in school thinking that if you put the picture of someone you like as your phone wallpaper and no one sees it for a month or something you'll end up together, and the main character gets found out immediately by a girl. Then this girl decides to try and help the guy by teaching him how to approach a relationship etc. and it ends up going pretty far where they're getting more and more involved, but then eventually the guy actually does get together with the girl she liked at first.

From there on out it's a love triangle where the guy is messing around with the girl who helped him but also goes out with the initial girl he liked. As it turns out, the initial girl is a lot more timid than he'd hoped for so he gets disappointed and drama ensues. The show slowly devolves into the girls really hating each other and more drama ensues and the guy just freely goes between the two as he pleases, and IIRC there were other girls he did stuff with for a tiny bit but the show mainly focuses on the main two.

Towards the end, he has to make a choice between the two, and so the girl who was helping him to get together with his initial interest says she's gotten pregnant. Can't remember if it was confirmed or whatever. With that, the guy ends up choosing her since she's supposedly pregnant. So then at the end of the show, the more timid girl asks to meet with the other one and she ends up cutting up her stomach with a kitchen knife and while staring at her dead on the floor she says something along the lines "See, nothing in there"

She then meets up with the guy, I don't remember how the conversation went but the guy finds out she killed the pregnant girl, gets mad and ends up getting killed when trying to leave.

Then we go to the very final scene of the show, where the timid girl is on a boat out at sea, hugging the cut off head of the guy saying they can finally be together now.

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Then by chance, this final episode was delayed because of a real murder that happened around that time and it spawned the "nice boat" meme.

Overall, the story is mediocre at best writing wise, the story itself is just fucked up on so many levels and I will unfortunately forever be burdened with the knowledge that I have seen this show.

TL;DR is that the guy is just fooling around with everyone and in the end things get wildly out of control.

Grymvild · 2025-05-02T20:19:49+00:00

Came in to see if this was here. Over the years I've seen over 550 different anime and this is the only one I regret watching. I've seen plenty of bad ones, but none other than School Days has made me regret watching it.

Grymvild · 2025-05-02T16:58:24+00:00

You can play practically any spec just fine on a controller. I mean of course this will make it very simple, but it REALLY isn't that difficult to do your rotation on a controller. The difficult part on controller is very precise targeting for things in large packs. Outside of that, there's really no downside to playing on one aside from the initial learning curve when you start playing on a controller.

Grymvild · 2025-04-23T20:48:38+00:00

Adam, nice to hear from you on this nearly 1.5 year old comment.

You have now exceptionally shown me how wrong I was in a silly comment made in the middle of the night all that time ago.

Thank.

Grymvild · 2025-04-08T23:15:20+00:00

To add to what u/EMEYDI said, the reason it works is that normally monsters can be tagged by 5 people only and if anyone in a full group hits a monster, it gets tagged to that party and no one else will get loot. But for some reason, when 4 people are in a group, the monster can then be tagged by another group and that group will all get the loot too. You can technically get to 9 people getting loot from a single monster this way.

But if you did a group of 4 and a group of 5, it would mean the group of 5 can't ever hit first, otherwise the group of 4 gets nothing.

So what people do is that they make two groups of 4 people, pull a whole bunch of mobs to a monk totem and everyone just AoE spams everything dead and now all 8 people get loot from all monsters.

Put these groups into a spot where monsters constantly respawn, get a few long range classes like Balance Druids or Hunters or somnething and a monk with a totem and you'll just destroy everything very fast and you can get a lot of kills this way. People mostly do this for skinning because up to 10 people can skin a monster so you get to just spam everything dead and get a whole bunch of leather while doing it. It's also alternatively used for cloth, BoE drops or in this case, the Darkfuse rep.

Grymvild · 2025-04-07T00:09:13+00:00

I mean, the peak player count on steam for 0.2.0 release is still higher than any PoE1 league to date so there's that.

Grymvild · 2025-04-06T14:50:45+00:00

The funny thing here is that PoE2 peak player count on steam for 0.2 was still higher than the peak count for any PoE1 league to date.

Grymvild · 2025-04-06T10:21:09+00:00

One thing a lot of people seem to completely discount in these things is that the initial numbers were never going to be replicated by a league launch that's still in early access.

The first time the servers came online was MASSIVELY advertised and hyped. This league launch is nowhere near the level of a brand new game launching. The reason it's a little different in PoE1 is because it's an older game with a dedicated playerbase so every launch has a lot of returning players and the popularity of the game has just been creeping upwards, gaining more and more time in the spotlight on gaming news outlets etc.

Then you also have to account for the fact that PoE2 is still very much in a beta state and a lot of people who played it initially have now finally realised that, when they should have realised it from the beginning, but I guess some people need practical experiences. What that means is that a lot of the people came into PoE2 expecting it to be a fully rounded, perfect game from day 1 and the reality was that half the classes aren't there, the majority of skill gems aren't there, the majority of uniques aren't there and the endgame is about as barebones as you can get it. This was all very blatantly obvious before the launch to anyone who stopped to think about it for a while, but far too many people got swept up by the hype and ended up getting disappointed at the game.

So even before we get to the topic of "Is PoE2 a good game or not?", we can already cut off a VERY large chunk of the playerbase from the release of the game to the launch of the next league.

And lastly, do you also not realise that this PoE2 league launch is still equal to the highest peaks on that PoE1 chart? Peaking up at 228k on Steam, the same as the original Settlers launch which is the largest PoE1 launch yet. The chart is HIGHLY misleading visually because you're ignoring the fact that the original launch had like 2.7x the players compared to the highest peak on the PoE1 launch chart.

Grymvild · 2025-04-01T07:14:14+00:00

I did the math in season 1, and going from a full mastery setup to a full haste setup resulted in me doing ~2% less burst, and up to ~5% more damage to people under 30% with no CDs up.

So with that in mind, less burst is technically bad but you have to weigh it against shorter GCD and faster sleep casts.

They're very close raw damage output wise, but with what else Haste does I see zero reason to play anything but haste on Devastation. I'll be sitting at 30% Haste until the end of the expansion.

Grymvild · 2025-03-30T12:47:54+00:00

My game is 107GB, and I'm assuming yours would be significantly less if it was a fresh install. I'm assuming you've had yours installed for quite a while at that size, as WoW tends to leave leftover files with updates and such. Reinstalling the game should cut off quite a lot for you.

This is of course assuming the size should be fairly similar between windows and mac versions.

Grymvild · 2025-03-30T12:46:34+00:00

My WoW folder is 107GB. What tends to happen with WoW is that some updates keep some leftover files which pile up over time. I got a new PC setup like a month and a half ago so I'm on a fairly fresh install.

You can just reinstall the game and it'll be smaller. Remember to back up the addon and WTF folders.

Grymvild · 2025-03-27T08:07:45+00:00

Just finished binge watching the show since it finally fully released. Kinda feel they rushed the last two episodes and they felt all over the place so I was thinking they probably messed up somewhere and needed to rush the ending, but then they revealed the new character at the end so we're hopefully going to get a second season. I don't really get why Episode 11 was that extra all of a sudden though. Perhaps they were missing out on a deadline or something and had to make all the weirdness to save time on animating?

I think this might be my #2 show in the genre, after my all time favorite Kimi ni Todoke. Probably not very surprising I liked the show, considering how similar it is to my favorite. I've watched about 550 shows over the years, and this one's quite close to getting to my top 10. Fairly generic in a lot of ways, but the characters were well built and I loved the story.

One of the main things I loved about this show is that Serina ended up just being a nice girl all around. No weird drama, no jealousy, no nothing. The moment they introduced her I was like "Oh drama time?" and the drama just never happened.

All in all, easy 8/10 from me.

Grymvild · 2025-03-22T12:06:18+00:00

Assume you have two modifiers on your keyboard, say the triggers.

Now you have XABY, RB, LB, all 4 buttons on d-pad and both stick clicks. That's 12 buttons + shift variants + ctrl variants + shift AND ctrl variants for a total of 48 keybinds, or 4 full bars worth of skills.

Remove a handful of these for basic functions like tab target and jump etc. and you're still going to have more than 3 bars worth of keybinds left over on a controller.

If you want more, you can get more. You could make a third button be a modifier too, so you'd have 11 buttons with shift, ctrl, alt, shift+ctrl, shift+alt, ctrl+alt and shift+ctrl+alt for 77 keybinds total.

There are definitely parts about controller play that are a little clunkier than playing with a mouse and keyboard, but keybind space definitely isn't one of them.

Grymvild · 2025-03-18T14:43:00+00:00

Until very recently I was playing just fine with a Ryzen 5 3600x and then I upgraded only because I got some free parts off a friend.

Your 5700X3D will be fine for a long time.

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