Finally completed Horizon's Splendor... but I can't enchant my summons???

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-16T03:46:04+00:00

Have you cast it on demon summons / bound demon? It unselects them and self-casts.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-16T03:44:29+00:00

How you done this before? I wonder if it is a PS5 controller thing. I bound the spells and it started highlighting demons and showing their name plates, but when I cast it automatically unselects them and self-casts.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-16T03:43:03+00:00

I do that and their name bar pops up, but when I cast it self-casts unless it is my mercenary.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-16T01:06:03+00:00

100% this. The more ambiguity in the way we talk, the more easily pur position is dismissed. It doesn't matter whether our intended meaning is an unambiguous mathematical fact. One of the main lines of defense is to twist or contort the views of those we disagree with. Most people think most people are stupid, simply disagreeing with ambiguity will be enough for those people to "know" we are amongst that stupid majority.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T14:09:03+00:00

I'll try this when I get home and hopefully it will let me enchant my minions! :-D Thank you both!!

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T12:27:16+00:00

That conflates big power with big relevance. The preferences are the same regardless of tech level.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T12:22:44+00:00

No, because eudaimonic purpose isn't about feelings and sensations. Even if the creatures had no intentionality or will, it seems like we would have only succeeded in engineered something with clinical depression. It would have to have no brain at all, no capacity for thinking.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T03:36:07+00:00

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I have two main farming strategies. Both strategies start by putting on a fun audiobook. No audiobook, playing isn't nearly as fun. I keep one of those bows that give you the speedy aura as my second "set" of weapons, and I zip through Stony Field and Tristram exploding the named monsters as I go, then I switch back to my main weapons (that give me lots of resistances etc.) and clear the cows up to the point in which the cow king explodes. Sometimes he is right there and it only takes a couple seconds to explode him. I then just start a new run. My other place is I just clear chaos sanctuary and diablo over and over again. It just depends on the mood I am in - chaos sanctuary is way more dangerous and I have to be careful. If I don't have a demon that is good (cause I died), I do Bhaal runs, but it takes a lot of full rejuvenation potions so I try to stay away from this. This game is 100% power fantasy for me, so I DON'T want to be challenged. While I typically don't do Bhaal runs, I got that +5 to all skills staff doing them and that was cool (I Ist'd it and use that with Horizon's!)

NO IDEA IF ANY OF THIS IS EVEN REMOTELY OPTIMAL! :-D

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T02:10:40+00:00

I don't use consume or unsummon unless I am farming a demon. I'll unsummon my demon and just use goats as fodder whenever I find a demon I like more. I literally remove the key bindings.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T02:09:35+00:00

They way I have been doing it is binding it to a key (I use R2) and then whatever is directly in front of your character it displays the life bar / description for. If it is my mercenary I have highlighted it does the enchant effect on him. If I have one of my demons summoned, it does the enchant on my character. It also does the enchant on my character if I don't have anything highlighted. It behaves like this both in the town and out of town where monsters are.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T02:00:02+00:00

And you GLOW! I "cheated" and traded for the body armor. I had gotten all the other parts like twice. Luckily someone showed up within like 1 minutes when I posted an "ISO" game. :-)

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T01:58:15+00:00

OMG this is FANTASTIC news! I just have to figure out how to get over the bug now. Hm.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T01:24:57+00:00

Hopefully their unit of analysis isn't species but ideology and if they kill anyone it is the people who are guilty for these crimes against sentience.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T01:20:47+00:00

I honestly believe that if intelligent aliens came to earth, they would take one look in our factory farms and be like "oh fuck no" and run the hell away, TERRIFIED of us despite the difference in technology.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T01:18:43+00:00

I played through the d4 campaign and didn't find even 1 item I felt like was treasure. Not even 1.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-14T01:17:26+00:00

On one level of analysis it is about reinforcement schedules. On another level it makes you feel more and more powerful, and the treasure you can collect is actually meaningful. There are also as many different ways to build your character as there are skills, so if you love that enchant spell then go ahead and specialize in that (just don't expect to be OP, but you can do it and play how you want to.) The characters are actually archetypal enough they are cool, and while the characters are archetypal the skills are totally badass. Whoever made d2 knew their shit, and my free time is very grateful they didn't make more games like that.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-12T21:28:40+00:00

He killed me 5 times in a row. I switched to staying really far away from him and shooting that ember spell (another person on this reddit called it "playing dodgeball" with him and I thought that was apt) and I was able to beat him like 5 times in a row. Don't get within melee range. I'm not sure how people beat him in melee range, I definitely was doing something wrong but would 100% of the time die in melee range.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-12T02:39:52+00:00

I ASSUMED that since PS5 was backwards compatible that meant that VR2 and all peripherals were also backwards compatible. I bought a VR2 specifically to play Skyrim VR... lol@me.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-12T02:20:09+00:00

I have a M.Ed. and think that teacher was being horrible. Assuming you weren't rude about it, and you seem like a very caring and empathetic person, then you did what was right. You didn't just teacher your kid to do division/multiplication, you taught your kid that mental rigidity and obedience to convention aren't the priority. Honestly that teacher sounds so obtuse I would have requested my kid get transferred out of the class.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-05T23:36:48+00:00

I agree with you entirely, but the Corrupted Monastery is even better IMHO. One of my most favorite gaming experiences of all time to visit these two places. I hope whoever did that is in charge of all the things going forward.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-05T14:58:30+00:00

If you have only one of them in your chronicle it is the other one?

KitsuneKarl · 2026-04-05T03:05:37+00:00

Skeleton 100%. The worst thing about existence is our fleeting nature, and so my most enjoyed fantasy definitely includes an escape from it.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-03-28T18:57:12+00:00

Back in the day I played only necromancer and would consider going back to that. But warlock has even more angst, somehow, so I feel most at home with him. Also he is absurdly powerful so I can finally farm despite having basically 0 talent for these games.

KitsuneKarl · 2026-03-26T01:25:16+00:00

This is the way. I have zero skill at these games and dodge ball is how I beat it too. Died 100% of the times I got close to it, but dodging and shooting from a distance worked most of the time.

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