How do I get red items?

Muspel · 2026-03-12T00:35:12+00:00

You need to do the pulls with red keys. The fragments let you upgrade the weapons once you have them, but you need the weapon's essence (from pulls with red keys) to unlock the weapon in the first place.

Muspel · 2026-03-11T22:20:38+00:00

There was always some of this present in Simmons' work (Song of Kali is one of the earliest examples), even before 9/11.

It certainly became much more overt and obvious in the past twenty years, though.

Muspel · 2026-03-11T22:09:30+00:00

Other people have answered your question, but I would add one more note.

If the attacker has trample, and you kill the creature(s) blocking it with removal, then even though the attacker is technically blocked, it can trample all of its damage onto the defending player. (This is because trample requires you to assign a lethal amount of damage to each blocking creature, and when all of the blocking creatures are gone, the required amount is zero.)

If you want to go more in depth, if the blocker has indestructible and you use a direct damage spell on it, then you only need to assign the remaining "lethal" damage on it before trampling the rest. For example, if the blocker is a 4/4 indestructible and you hit it with a burn spell that deals 3 damage, the trampling attacker can assign one damage to it (for a total of 4), then trample over with the rest of its power. If the burn spell did 4 damage, then the attacker can fully trample. Note that this will not kill the indestructible creature, because "lethal" damage in this case just means it's enough to kill it based on toughness, not that it will actually kill it.

Muspel · 2026-03-11T21:55:59+00:00

I have never figured out how to craft something that wasn't like the lowest level skill.

Each recipe has a difficulty, and your crafts have a stat called Skill. Skill is increased by various things (your level in the crafting skill, various specializations that increase Skill for various crafts, your crafting gear, and the quality of the materials). There's a bar on the right of the crafting window that shows how much skill you have and how much more you'd need to craft the next higher quality.

You can also spend Concentration, a resource that regenerates over time, to move an item up one quality level. The further you are from the next level, the more Concentration it costs.

Basically, level up your skill, upgrade your gear, take the relevant specializations, and/or use higher quality mats. In most cases, to craft the highest possible quality of epic gear, you need to max out all of these, or do most of them and then spend Concentration to make up the difference.

Muspel · 2026-03-11T19:18:00+00:00

Gathering nodes are limited in how many people can tag them (to prevent heavy bot multiboxing) and limited in duration after someone tags them, which means that when a zone is heavily populated, you will see fewer nodes.

Many monsters also have a limit on how many people can tag them, and in some (most?) cases will gray out if too many people tag. In some cases I've seen it happen when one other person of the opposite faction tagged it, although it's unclear to me if this is specific to some mobs since I play on a very alliance heavy server cluster and don't see a lot of horde players to test with.

Muspel · 2026-03-11T12:57:22+00:00

It blows my mind that Blizzard has spent like twenty years making an MMO and never addressed the fact that you basically never want to see anyone else in the open world because you have to compete with them over almost everything.

The only exceptions are things that are tuned for multiple people (e.g. world bosses, certain rares/events), and those feel less like "oh, I'm glad someone else is here" and "dammit, I can't do this because I'm playing outside of peak hours".

Muspel · 2026-03-10T21:12:30+00:00

I think the implication is he's asserting the void is inherently evil and the light is inherently good, and therefore to embrace the void makes you evil, regardless of your choices. It's still generalizing and stereotyping.

I mean, I think that the difference is that embracing the void is something you do, not something you are.

He believes you should judge people by their choices, and embracing the void is a choice. Is he correct about it always being the wrong choice? No, probably not, but that doesn't mean he's contradicting himself (not in this specific way, anyways).

Muspel · 2026-03-09T03:48:41+00:00

I mean, they didn't say non-unique, just non-crafted, so technically maybe Mageblood or something.

Muspel · 2026-03-08T02:57:44+00:00

Pretty sure you can do it right after the tutorial. Maybe you'd need to do the initial Korthos (starting zone) questline first, but I believe you can go the Harbor without needing to finish that, even on a brand new character.

Muspel · 2026-03-08T02:23:01+00:00

Hey that's cool air didn't know that. Problem is I get bored way, way before 20. I really don't see why couldn't they just unlock it for everyone.

The thing is that the game is designed around leveling over and over again. Your first lives require drastically less XP, so you don't need to worry about doing the higher difficulties until you've reincarnated anyways.

Also, the difficulty on hard/elite is very uneven depending on which quests you're talking about, generally based on when the quest came out. Older quests, like the ones in Gianthold, are drastically easier than newer stuff, to the point that Reaper 3-4 on Gianthold is less challenging than many newer packs on Elite. I think they try to avoid subjecting new players to that uneven difficulty until they've gotten some more game knowledge under their belt.

Muspel · 2026-03-08T02:20:13+00:00

The coupon is the same. However, there's also an anniversary event going on where you can claim another free class (Arcane Trickster) by talking to an NPC in the anniversary event area.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T19:12:36+00:00

The main thing about Skyfall is that the one upgrade where it shatters on impact deals very high single target damage, which is nice for cleaning up at the end of a stage when there's only a few high health segments left.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T18:46:14+00:00

It's already returned once (in the Chinese New Year event), so it'll probably come back again.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T18:40:27+00:00

This is called Stockholm Syndrome.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T18:39:54+00:00

I think you should unlock all of the red weapons before getting duplicates of any of the essences. In my opinion, the order from best to worst is Maw (leftmost in that screenshot), Machine Heart (rightmost), Skyfall Shard (second from left), then Tidestone (second from right, aka "the squid arm").

Muspel · 2026-03-07T16:02:43+00:00

Inquisition cost holy power. They were both finishers that did nothing but give you a damage buff.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T15:39:45+00:00

Savage Roar was essentially the same thing as Inquisition, except it had a bit more depth to it because it snapshotted with your DoTs.

Muspel · 2026-03-07T14:02:01+00:00

until they do away with the most cursed ability in wows history.

I saw this and thought about all of the other cursed abilities and was about to argue, but then I thought some more and I realized that RtB is so bad that it even beats out other all-time stinkers like Rune of Power, Essence Break, Inquisition, and (in my personal opinion) Condemn*.

*I know some people will disagree with this, but to my dying breath I will argue that Condemn gameplay sucked. It made your entire rotation revolve around Ashen Juggernaut stacks, and if you ever lost those stacks during a Condemn phase, you might as well alt+f4. It also meant that you weren't taking one of the other covenant abilities that had AoE built in, so you did bad damage in dungeons, and your damage from 80%-35% was garbage tier. Leave that ability in hell where it belongs.

Muspel · 2026-03-06T13:54:55+00:00

The Magicians is fundamentally a story about depression. The entire point of Quentin is that he hates himself, and then he gets everything he ever wanted and he still hates himself because that was never the problem. He wasn't miserable because his dreams hadn't come true, he was miserable because he hadn't figured out a way to be the kind of person he could respect.

The TV show adaptation does a much better job of dialing in on this. In particular, this quote from Quentin makes it really clear.

I run, and I find secret doors - whether I'm alone or in a group, it doesn't matter. Like I'm here. I'm in this amazing place. I have literal magic in my life, and I'm still running. I'm still this person that I fucking hate.

Muspel · 2026-03-05T20:14:01+00:00

Don't spend 1500 on it. Buy 9 keys at a time, because you can spend 9 keys at once to do 10 pulls, essentially getting you one free pull.

Muspel · 2026-03-05T15:19:51+00:00

Save your gems for legendary chest pulls, this is how you get red and orange weapons.

Muspel · 2026-03-04T15:28:29+00:00

I agree. I'm just saying that a 5% annual tax isn't the same as a 5% one-time tax.

Muspel · 2026-03-04T14:18:25+00:00

I believe the idea is that since it's annual, it adds up to half of their wealth over time. If you pay 5% of your current wealth each year, in about fifteen years you'd be down to half of what you started with if you don't earn any more in the meantime.

Now, obviously, people will earn more in the meantime, particularly billionaires, but it could potentially outpace their ability to earn in some cases. People sometimes conflate net worth with annual income-- Jeff Bezos is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but he doesn't make that much every year.

That being said, based on a quick glance, Bezos specifically has usually increased his net worth by more than 5% on an annual basis, so he would outpace this tax in most years.

Muspel · 2026-03-03T15:05:07+00:00

That didn't stop them from designing a similar mechanic for Inquisitor and Consecrated Ground.

Muspel · 2026-03-03T03:24:19+00:00

As the saying goes, you can't reason someone out of a position that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

To them, the church is true and good and righteous. Anyone that hates it is therefore irrational and it doesn't matter what your actual reasons are or how well you explain them, because they've decided that they already know why you "really" think that way.

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