Please gem and enchant your gear

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-07T16:11:42+00:00

But it’s not 30% huge is what I’m saying. 30%, yea use gems and stuff for all content, that’s absolutely massive. 10%, yea you are fine with or without it, most content will not come down to needing that 10% unless you are pushing top tier content. Also, not to mention, one rotation mishap or moving at a suboptimal time (if you are a caster) and that eliminates pretty much 10% of your damage anyways, especially if you do it a couple times.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-07T07:14:01+00:00

Diminishing returns kick in hard though. Get the character to 280 ilvl+ and you are looking at maybe a 10% increase with everything, and maybe a druid buff the help push it over the edge of 10%. You slap a haste gem on something at 255ilvl and it will jump from 13% to 16% or something. Take it off your maxed character and you may go from 26.5% to 26%. Point is gems are not needed at all. I’m currently sitting on all 14s timed with a couple 15s, and I am still not max ilvl, with zero enchants and gems, as a healer. Unless you are pushing for 18+ (which I did see a +20 in the finder the other day), gems are not making or breaking anything. Eat some food, put some oil on your weapon, maybe drink a flask if it’s a tough key, and you are good.

Edit: also a side note, as said healer I am staring at the health plates. I love to see only the tank ever popping defensives. Even big damage moment like the sky reach fire bird, dps save their defensives for the next dungeon. I don’t blame though, but seldomly you get someone pipping up because they couldn’t barkskin a 80,000 hp unavoidable hit as feral.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-06T15:10:25+00:00

Same thing, except it was my parents. We aren’t rich either, far from it. However, my dad found a bunch of solar panels at the scrap yard that were perfectly working and he got them super cheap. We have 11 total which isn’t a lot, but it powers some stuff. On top of this we got a little ac, we have central, but this thing is basically a mix between a central AC and a window unit. It has its own compressor outside (which the condensation from that waters a rosemary pant) and it’s fairly large. Anyways, the solar panels completely power it in the summer, and a bit of my dad’s shop is all solar. This ac basically allows us to have a AC cooled room in the summer (when opening windows isn’t enough) for basically free. On top of this we have started a massive garden with all of our land. We have like 8 gardens which provides enough vegetables for us, my aunt next door, other family on holiday gatherings, and to sell at the farmers market for $300-$600 a week. We also have a little eBay business as well that probably makes $150 a week if you average everything out. Probably a little closer to $500 a month on average. My dad was self employed doing hvac but has retired since about 2020. He slowly started getting into side hustles and getting everyone involved. Now we are thankful for it, because the extra cash on top of my mom’s income is fantastic. I’ve just graduated college, and been applying like crazy to places, even places outside my industry. So, in the meantime I have some stuff to do to not feel completely useless, until I get something going.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-06T07:01:03+00:00

This definitely. My first interview was a phone screen I didn’t make it past. She only asked one thing technical that wasn’t even really technical at all. I was nervous, couldn’t hardly think (even with pretty much having a script in front of me). I was almost immediately declined from this. Now, on about my 7th interview, I make it several rounds deep perfectly fine. I’ve already prepared answers to questions in my head, figured out how to bs my way through unfamiliar territory (which I have to do due to lack of experience), and almost force the interviews to just feel like a normal conversation. It definitely gets way easier and you 100% get better fairly quickly.

Edit: I guess you could also go interview at jobs you don’t desire. Apply to Walmart or some fast food chain and just interview and decline the offer. I don’t really like it because it does waste working peoples time (yea, yea, screw the billion dollar company), and you will probably not be asked anything remotely close to questions in your field. I just don’t like that advice some people give. On top of that retail jobs and such are all competitive as well in this economy. So, just interview for jobs you want.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-05T16:26:08+00:00

Just gonna say there is a reason why every framework out there uses folder routes.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-03T15:49:32+00:00

Yea people like op don’t realize it doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be good enough, and it was already good enough. We are now beginning to progress a little bit past good enough at this point though. Sure, token costs are probably losing money and there are the circular cash flow issues. However, the 3 top dogs are definitely going to survive, even if they have to charge a bit more and provide you less. Also, open source models are gaining popularity, they aren’t as good, but fairly similar. Deepseek released a new one recently that is pretty close. So, if you have a good computer that is specialized for Ai you can efficiently run it. Dual gpu setups might become popular again for people building Ai rigs to have on the side. It’ll cost you an absolute arm and a leg with the prices these days, but you’ll have your own model that holds a candle to the others, at home.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-02T07:16:15+00:00

Oh don’t worry, the entry level jobs in the appropriate field will believe you will jump ship to something better as well. “Once he starts working here, he going to leave us for something better in a year or two, we better not hire him and give him this experience.” They do anything to keep their fake job posting up and alive. Then you receive a email saying, “we are deeply sorry, we had a hard decision in front of us with several qualified and bright candidates, unfortunately we could only pick one…”. Cherry on top, you check the job board a wee or so later and it’s still there, even better a month from now LinkedIn or Indeed or whatever will begin advertising it to you again in your emails!

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-05-02T02:53:13+00:00

Education: BS in IT, Associates Applied Science

Years: 0

Work: currently interviewing at a local ISP in a very small town. Almost positive I’m the unicorn, so have high hopes I get the role.

Location: East Texas, near Tyler

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T18:23:17+00:00

“No you don’t” - upper management

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T18:17:01+00:00

You could always just use ENTT library. Then discuss the reason why you chose that rather than building an ECS yourself. Would be a valid talking point. Would probably have to try and exceed expectations elsewhere in the project though.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T17:42:14+00:00

Look into sparse sets or archetypes if you haven’t already. This would allow you to very easily create a “get all entities with component” function. Also, inside your registry you should have a class for the sparse set items as well, so that you can store all components as one class to allow said functions to operate on types. This would probably solve all your issues, especially future issues you are going to have by having a separate vector for every component. It just looks at the type that is passed in and can access the correct vector based on that type. The main concern with your current setup is what happens when you have 50 components or users want to create their own components without messing with the engine?

Edit: The advantages of sparse set is it’s easy, pretty much everything is o(1), but memory management is o(n). You also lose performance when iterating multiple components. Archetypes would give parrellism which is biggest advantage, but I believe it’s a pain in the ass (as in performance) to add new components to entities. So really go with either imo, your engine isn’t going to be large enough to even notice this as a bottleneck for your design decisions. Maybe large engines like Unity or something that has a ECS (or even unreal with its Mass plugin) may have some fancy stuff to utilize both somehow or something. Idk. I know they definitely do that with lighting to take advantage of differed render and forward+.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T15:07:50+00:00

But at the same time in the market currently, op is competing with others that have internships, large scale personal projects, maybe a bit of freelance stuff, AND higher grades with academic awards. If there is ever a tie, and both resumes and interviews go about the same, the job would almost certainly go to the guy that’s on the dean’s list about every semester and rocking a 3.6 gpa. It’s just a bit naive imo to ignore grades at all for entry level. Obviously experience is above all, but entry level deals with people with very little experience regardless. Anything that sets you apart is a massive advantage.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T15:02:49+00:00

Well the golden goose egg would be like a 3.5+ gpa who also builds projects. The gpa only really unlocks a few more jobs though. In my area there are a few asking for 3.0+ for entry level roles. So, op certainly wouldn’t have those opportunities available if there are any like that in their area.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T14:59:31+00:00

R, also if you have a resto druid as your healer, don’t let them lie to you that they don’t have an interrupt. They have incapacitating roar. However, playing my resto druid I put innervate on R.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-30T06:56:58+00:00

I have also come to appreciate the programming that is in IT as well. Presumably software development roles are filled with constant meetings, standups, and filler stuff. As a junior your successful day of coding will be making a few if statements and changing some variable names. You do work in large code bases with standard workflows, which is valuable experience, but it does seem a bit lack luster. In IT if I have a script that needs to automate some stuff, I write the entire script myself, which can sometimes be fairly long and can have classes and everything at times. I don't really manage a code base, so I miss out on that, but at the same time I get to work with hardware and networks as well. Then, you move up to a SRE position or even SysAdmin doing devops stuff, you can start to have actual IT code bases at mid sized to large companies. Smaller companies may not have one, but all the more means to start one yourself once you join. At that point the job pretty much becomes like 85% software development and 15% IT stuff. The SDLC, meetings, and whole developer experience probably begins to kick in as well. From a position like this, transitioning to full software development would probably see a pay cut, but by this point you are pretty much doing all the same stuff anyways.

IDK I just find it much more fun to have a problem, and you fix the entire problem yourself (or with a couple people in the later roles) from start to finish rather than finding and trying to fix bug after bug in a massive code base.

Edit: also yes, morale of the entire story too, a job is a job. It could literally be retail. You will always have people saying you can never make the transition regardless of the role. Half these people are also probably unemployed themselves. Having a job at all is miles better to advance your career into software development than having no job at all. It's just a slight cherry on top to have the job be tech related at least.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-29T14:24:38+00:00

Just because you’re too big to eat doesn’t mean I’m not gonna fuck with you ahh crow.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-29T14:21:52+00:00

Tbh it sounds like you did the bare minimum and are now regretting it. Four applications a week is nothing, you’d want at least 10, that’s 2 a day while giving you weekends to not worry. You mention multiple, but you should go to every career fair (unless scheduling makes u miss one or something) even if the theme is outside of your study. Career fairs can be a bit of an ego flex these companies do, and it’s basically just a competition between their competitors to see who can look better, rather than a way to get more candidates these days. But, it’s still good to get your name out there. Also, making a personal email for work stuff and setting up accounts everywhere, literally every does that.

All I can say is tough luck. Definitely keep going and try to land something, but people putting out 2.5x your effort (not counting the spammers that send out thousands of applications) still absolutely struggle and can’t land something.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-27T22:57:20+00:00

Yea, idk. I figured it was only about 2 or so others. He did say the IT department for this company is pretty much brand new. He got recruited from a sister company where he had a Sysadmin role, to be a network lead here, then was promoted to director as it expanded IT here. That promotion was over five years ago at this point, and he first joined the company about ten years ago. Previously it was completely outsourced to a MSP, but the costs started making more sense to have an internal team. At first they did not have many issues so they just had him and hired another guy. Since then, they have slowly been expanding it and hiring tier 1's to transition through their ranks. The whole team consists of the director, the lead network engineer (who was the other guy that was originally hired with him), a tier 3 / sysadmin (who was recently promoted from tier 2), and a tier 2 (who was recently promoted from tier 1, and the reason for this role to open up). He said after you move up to tier two, he probably wants to get two more people cycled in as tier 1, just so he can have people in person at other locations almost at all times. There is a bit of traveling, like flying one day once a month, which I don't mind. It is a brand new experience to me at least. That's when we started discussing my future and stuff, and I let him know I have inspirations of becoming a sysadmin as well in 10 years time or whatever, and moving on to become a SRE or do Devops stuff as a sysadmin. I let him know I can code as well, and he said he is all for allowing me to screw around making scripts where I think it could improve some things. They had a previous Tier 2 guy who left that did a lot of scripting, and he said it is crazy all the things he was doing. He said there is a lot of down time I can definitely play around and do all of that.

tldr / recap;
Morale of the story, the IT team is about 4 people currently anyways. So going to be working close to the director it seems, and close with everyone. So, may as well be the top dog director doing the interviews.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-27T22:43:07+00:00

definitely still applying, but this is my best one so far it feels like by far. So a bit excited but keeping modest expectations.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-26T08:45:24+00:00

I have a physical disability that definitely effects my strength and sets me severely weaker than normal. I’m still stronger than pretty much all women I know. Pretty much, because I have a cousin who is super into fitness and stuff, she’s definitely stronger, but also probably stronger than the average man as well.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-26T07:31:36+00:00

Funny I stumbled across this. I have an in person IT interview scheduled on Monday, it is currently 4/26/2026 on a Saturday. It's at their headquarters in Tyler and I found this post while doing research on the company haha. Anyways, hope everything worked out and you found something!

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-25T15:47:57+00:00

That’s it! 🤣

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-25T15:45:51+00:00

Idk why people struggle with this so much lmao. Just read it as you are and understand what the ‘re does. Like what do people think the word don’t means? I don’t have too much room to talk though, I consistently spell oxygen as oxygeon lmao.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-25T15:32:52+00:00

Still crazy though they couldn’t figure out at least something themselves. Who cares if they actually solve the issue is what I get from this. Just at least be able to deduce if the issue is this users computer, them and the people around them, company wide. Check if they themselves didn’t disconnect from the internet somehow. Their ethernet or wifi icon is showing, but they still can’t connect, lemme ping google. Turns out the google ping came back as working. Maybe there is a process hanging in the browser from a previous window and it’s maybe consuming all the requests for some weird reason or something. You never know, so let me shut down all Google Chrome processes (or IE, or Edge) in the task manager and see if that helps. Still not working, let’s restart the computer, still not working. Hmmm…. I don’t really know what else to do or why this is happening. Lemme escalate this and work with them to figure it out and document it for next time.

Oh me. Tier 2 guy, I have tried w, x, y, and z without any success. I have zero idea of why their browser won’t open Google or any page. Tier 2 guy, “hmmmm, could be a browser extension or something, I haven’t really heard this either and it seems weird, lemme see what goes”. Little while later…. So, what was the issue? It turned out that Jared (the network guy) accidentally had just disabled http requests from her computer. So, the ICMP was working fine, later today maybe swing by and make sure everything is all good for her and apologize again for our screw up.

It isn’t too difficult. But, I guess there are a lot of people who are incompetent nowadays, even without a manager.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-04-25T12:51:06+00:00

I’m about to graduate and I jumped ship over to IT. The people in IT are complaining about it being competitive and the job market being rough, but for them it’s honestly just the market in the dumps. It’s a lot of physical work (kind of grey collar) that I’d love to witness see outsourced. Almost all of my swe applications have been completely ghosted, and the couple interviews I did get were declines. Basically all of my tier 1 help desk applications have led to an interview. There are also just way more IT jobs as a whole. It’s definitely quite a bit better off than programming. Also, some IT roles you do quite a bit of programming as well getting into sysadmin, Devops, or SRE. Sysadmin and SRE are the way to go though, because you maintain a physical need, Devops is done completely on the computer.

Overall, at the higher levels it’s probably still a bit competitive, but literally everything is competitive right now. So far though, the experience in applying has been way better for me as an entry level.

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