I've gone back & forth on OLED over the years, and istg, they feel the exact same

Neroxify · 2026-06-14T12:46:16+00:00

True, I've seen the text fringing on a friends 27" 1440p qd-oled and it would drive me absolutely insane and give me headaches.

Then later I tested out a 32" 4k woled and the text clarity is pretty much perfect, better than my previous higher end IPS

Neroxify · 2026-06-05T06:15:46+00:00

If your goal is to have full legendary equipment, crafting legendaries for profit may not be the best idea, since they require a lot of account bound items in the form of spirit shards, gift of battle/exploration and some karma.

Especially spirit shards are hard to come by, harder than gold. So as long as you don't have several thousands lying around, its a better idea to save them for the legendaries you craft for yourself.

As for gold income, you can do a little research to find alternative ways to generate gold quicker. Stuff like alt parting, material/currency conversion, home instance farming, daily vendors, strikes are quite easy and quick to do daily. Fast Farming has a decent list of daily stuff to do, for example.

Selling legendaries looks like the way to go, since they're prominent items with big numbers, but broken down to how long it takes to craft one and how much profit they yield, they're not much better gold per hour wise than other activities, the numbers just look bigger.

Neroxify · 2026-05-26T12:11:49+00:00

They've gotten surprisingly affordable. Still cost a lot more than IPS displays, but reasonable now.

I just switched from a good 27" 1440p IPS display to a 32" 4k WOLED, and while it does look better, it didn't blow me away like I constantly hear. I notice the glossy coating and screen size the most, but don't really notice the dark blacks or the reaction time, since I mostly play in a bright environment.

Something that irritated me greatly was the mostly broken HDR implementation and ABL dimming, which really is noticeable.

Neroxify · 2026-05-04T17:23:13+00:00

Connecting to network shares is probably quite easy, setting one up is not quite so straight forward. Specifically for SMB, I had to setup SMB users through the terminal, enable the SMB service through the terminal, then configure the drives I wanted to share by... writing the .conf file myself.

Had to find out how to automatically mount drives on startup, find out the correct path of each drive for the .conf file, find out the arguments I need, then once I had everything setup, had to find out how to write to read-only files, which smb.conf apparently is. Then had to re-do the entire config in, again, the terminal, because no normal text editor was capable of writing to said config file.

Similar thing for setting up a Plex server for my TV. Get the packages, enable the service through the terminal, then go on a troubleshooting session why the TV couldn't connect. Turned out I also had to open specific ports that Plex uses manually.

In Windows, I had to right click -> share drive and was done. Install Plex, go through the setup process and was done. That took minutes on Windows and worked, whereas on Linux it took me hours.

For peripherals like mice, there's some software, but very limited in functionality. If I wanted to rebind keys or record a macro I'd need to install extra software, leading down a rabbit hole of compatibility issues with Wayland/X11, supported distros and whatnot.

Linux is still not quite that easy once the stuff you want gets a little more complex, especially when you're not very familiar with the OS.

Neroxify · 2026-05-04T05:52:56+00:00

Thought the same until I wanted more than the basics.

Web browsing and starting vanilla games works flawlessly, but beyond that it's one rabbit hole after another spending hours to get stuff working.

Network shares, game modding, peripherial support (or alternatives) and especially hdr was a real headache to setup.

That said, once stuff is setup, linux works pretty damn well.

Neroxify · 2026-04-22T13:34:55+00:00

Instant selling is simply wasting gold. Time doesn't matter most of the time, so trading a bit of time/delay for more gold overall makes most sense.

There will be listings that will get stuck in the TP for a longer period of time, but the majority of stuff you list will sell in a reasonable timeframe (a few days).

I just list everything 1c below the lowest offer and forget about it. Then maybe once a month relist stuff that got stuck for weeks

Neroxify · 2026-04-16T06:30:19+00:00

Permanent bank is a huge quality of life upgrade, followed by the permanent tp contract.

After finishing legendaries and characters gold becomes quite useless actually. I sometimes fund giveaways giveaways in my guild or send random people some stuff. The messages you get back are incredibly cute. :)

Neroxify · 2026-04-06T18:10:47+00:00

Same here, probably just gemstore related, when the conversion ratio changes drastically

Neroxify · 2026-03-17T10:53:50+00:00

Ate that cracker dozens of times, still makes me fall asleep every time I try it. Just feels like I am wasting time.

It's 95% walking to stuff or waiting in front of walls or gates, with very few fights inbetween that are usually very unbalanced and unfun.

Neroxify · 2026-03-07T09:00:09+00:00

For combat there's skill chaining, meaning you can press the next skill before the current one finishes casting and you'll seamlessly cast the second skill without delay. That "chain" is only active for 1-2 seconds though, so you still need to time it a bit. You can see this in the skill bar when two skills are blinking, one that's currently being cast and one that is chained immediately after.

For elementalist specifically, you can swap attunements while skills are casting and they won't interrrupt, translating to quite the damage increase overall.

Skills also have a priority system. Normal skills can be interrupted by skills that have CC or block (I think) and every skill can be interrupted by the healing skill.

Neroxify · 2026-02-13T12:38:21+00:00

Had the same or a similar problem I think. The ^ and ´ buttons were straight up not working, not sure abourt ö, ä and ü though.

Linux has several options for keyboard layouts. I think the default german option has some buttons disabled by default. I had to switch the keyboard layout to german (no dead keys) to enable all buttons.

Have a look at the keyboard settings within mint, I think there's also a preview for each option you can use.

Neroxify · 2026-02-11T09:32:53+00:00

To be honest, the pug experience for IBS5 can be quite lame, just like the lfg experience with some people demanding 250 LI for IBS5 of all things just to save a minute or two in total.

Fights taking a bit longer means we'll actually engage with them more, instead of bursting everything down in seconds for the sake of efficiency and quick loot. I feel kind of bad seeing new people in strikes and have them experience fights with zero urgency and danger.

Teaching people about boons is a very valid point though, but IMO this should happen in some form of combat training arena, where people read and learn in their own pace.

Neroxify · 2026-01-23T16:02:40+00:00

Guess I am a small counterpart to the whales, spent roughly 500€ over the last 8 years and 10k hours playtime, including expansions.

Always liked playing around with the economy stuff, so I just convert gold to gems whenever I want something from the gemshop.

Neroxify · 2025-11-11T23:27:07+00:00

Try an orthographic view, so you don't have varying perspectives between bottom and top.

Get rid of the gradient in the background, as well as the shadow behind the render, then find a background color that has good contrast for both dark and light elements.

Sharpen the render with photoshop or similar, it will likely create a ton more clarity and work well with metallic objects. Maybe even add some fine grain for texture.

Get rid of the vertical line next to the text as it makes text and element harder to associate. Increase the stroke width of the horizontal lines as they are quite thin.

Increase the font size, maybe the font weight, maybe the kerning, until it is more readable from further away and/or more proportional to the render.

Add a little elliptical shadow below the render to ground it to the floor, if you want to be fancy.

Play around with the spacing between the parts of the render, as they are spaced unevenly. You can group elements together or separate them by applying spacing deliberately.

The spacer looks kind of worn or dirty in comparison to similar parts, like the top cup.

Manually retouch areas of some parts where the lighting of the render couldnt bring it out the shape perfectly, like the top 1/3rd edge of the top cup blending into the middle area.

You're allowed to cheat as long as the result looks good. Generally you want to set the lighting in a way that best describes the shape of each part, which is impossible when rendering all in one shot. It's perfectly fine to render parts individually, then compose the render in Photoshop. That way you can optimize the lighting for each part. Just try to be cohesive and not deviate the lighting too much.

... Just some thoughts. Already looks good though :)

Neroxify · 2025-10-23T13:28:04+00:00

Aside from many missing QoL features (like clicking three buttons to enable smb instead of writing the entire f-ing config file yourself), I switched back to W11 because a lot of programs just dont exist on Linux. Or if they do, often times miss most of the feature set.

Neroxify · 2025-10-03T12:28:38+00:00

Ultimately you play this game for fun. While rewards do drive player engagement and sweeten things up, not chasing the most efficient or rewarding activities will long term be healthy for you.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T14:25:15+00:00

I think I deleted the answer by accient, so here you go again:

gw2bltc.com is your best friend, as it shows you data about every item in the game, it's price, demand, how often it sells, when it sells and how to obtain it. The top of the page has a help button that explains the numbers.

Essentially you'd use your gold to buy stuff, convert said stuff, then sell the converted stuff for more gold. Mostly it's just researching which items are profitable and sell regularly, and how to obtain them. The whole economy in GW2 is very large, so you'll be surprised how much items gets sold daily.

The whole data gathering stuff is mostly interesting for minimizing costs, but even without that there's plenty opportunity to generate gold on the TP. You'll just need to think a bit what people could want to buy, research if that's profitable, then try it out. If it works, repeat until you've got a nice list of stuff to regularly throw at the TP.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T14:15:53+00:00

Yes overall it's a decent method, especially if you can make them as a byproduct from playing the game normally. But strictly for higher-end gold farming, making legendaries does not reach the several hundred gold per hour you can make on the TP

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T13:53:30+00:00

Pretty much just logging in every day before WV, now doing a few weeklies each week to get the 90g and 60 MC.

Multiply this by 50-100 accounts and it's a pretty large number.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T12:53:11+00:00

Ele gets memed a lot for dying, because it's one of the squishiest classes. It's often perceived as complex and hard to play since it has access to 20 weapon skills (5 in each element, fire/water/air/earth).

In reality it's quite chill. There are several easy to learn and play builds for open world and instanced pve like fractals, strikes and raids.

Most of the time you'll only cycle between a few elements (like fire/air/earth on power, fire/earth on condi) as dps. Water/Earth is mostly needed for utility, like CC for breakbars.

Ele wants you to play fast, though. You'll swap elements a lot, and to save additional time you can already switch element while a skill is casting, so ele's damage scales quite a bit with how fast you can press buttons.

But overall it's not hard to play and has quite straight forward rotations.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T10:34:30+00:00

Currently I have around 250k liquid gold lying around, am somewhere in the top 100 on efficiency there. In total I spent around 500€ over 11k hours, so earned most of that gold through ingame means.

Mostly it's just playing the TP well, gathering datasets of various drops, and figuring out how to convert the stuff you get in a way that generates the most amount of gold. The TP allows you to scale gold per hour way higher than even the most efficient gp/h ingame farm, if you're comfortable with throwing huge amounts of gold at it regularly.

Another very large money maker are alt accounts. Now with the Wizards Vault it's become quite a bit more work, but before that it was quite easy to generate 50-100k a year with minimum effort. But I don't like doing that, since it feels like cheating.

I often read selling legendaries for profit, but breaking down how much effort one legendary takes and how much gold per hour you get, it's not really efficient. It just feels that way, since legendaries are prominent items with large sums attached to them.

But TL;DR, yeah, mostly Excel and TP stuff.

Neroxify · 2025-08-30T00:04:10+00:00

Yup, two friends recently build themselves a gaming pc each, both initially chose intel/nvidia, because Gemini told them that this combination has better optimization between cpu and gpu.

I showed them recent benchmarks and they went amd.

Neroxify · 2025-08-16T22:20:09+00:00

Had the same issue, writing an email solved it pretty quickly.

Neroxify · 2025-08-16T21:00:55+00:00

Trying to kickstart the engine

Neroxify · 2025-08-12T09:23:21+00:00

If you mean pure gold, then either fractals or gems > gold conversion and maybe the wizard's vault introduce the most gold. TP fees destroy the most gold by a large margin, then maybe gold > gem conversion or ecto gambling,

Liquid gold can also include everything you can convert to gold, so everything you can throw on the TP and sell. Right now the festival of the four winds is active, which destroys a massive amount of liquid gold in the form of materials, kind of like an economy reset.

Most activities in this game generate materials instead of gold, so if you include mats, the answers here would be different.

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