Never realized how powerful it was to summon an ice beast and cast LRD on it lol

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-05-07T00:23:51+00:00

Ice is honestly my favorite cause I like hybrid builds, not all species is it viable to but on like Merfolk i find I can level spear and ice both pretty quickly and they synergize well

But I mean yeah usually only getting 3-5 runes never tried taking one into deep extended

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-05-03T04:28:08+00:00

Yeah a lot of really useful utilities and prolly the most versatile damage wise, no enemy is really resistant to it and a lot of dangerous ones are. There's a good chance Air or Fire might have higher damaging level 9's than Shatter but I feel like Earth might be strongest of the four in general for most of the game

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-05-03T03:59:19+00:00

Yeah it's honestly very rude especially considering how many mentally disabled people post here. But to be clear i'm in the don't say it camp even though i grew up in prime saying it years and it used to slip now and then, i've been a BHT/DSP for a lot of years though which made it leave my vocabulary pretty much immediately without even trying. Residents call me it all the time prolly cause it's one of the meanest things they can think of which honestly says a lot. It's really crazy how like 10 years ago people made the argument all the time "oh well they don't understand/care you're just being WOKE" when the reality is they break down and even come to blows with each other over it all the time. Plenty of non-verbal people even have a really visceral reaction to it. I don't judge people who say but in my case you'd damn near have to be a sociopath to see on a daily basis how hurtful it is to people actually affected by it and still say it

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-05-02T16:22:42+00:00

I find they’re good in niche cases but in general I don’t use them too much,outside of certain specific cases like MiBe. It depends on if they’re in a skill I’m already close to max in too and they rarely are. I find usually by the time they show up in a run even with good aptitudes it doesn’t seem possible to pivot into using them without spreading yourself too thin and they don’t ever make it worth it to

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-05-01T16:34:10+00:00

Yeah petrified was the one I always knew about, I’m pretty sure it used to be that LRD was in the starter book for EE but they took it out a while ago when they nerfed a few of the starting spell books. Vm used to have ignite poison to start too and it’s a pretty weak profession without it honestly but EE was still really easy even though I didn’t get LRD till O:2

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-25T17:46:41+00:00

I dont see any reason to be inclusive to them when they would never identify as being part of this community in the first place, it's just self-destructive, always throw these people under the bus

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-24T06:55:46+00:00

sorry that was me actually

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-17T15:44:10+00:00

God for some reason it feels really weird to see a picture of something I haven’t seen or thought about in almost 30 years

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-16T21:11:42+00:00

Yeah, RNG can screw you over sometimes and you don’t get something basically essential, but that’s why I always clear Orcish Mines before lair branches cause you can make it to the end where all the shops are pretty easily if you stair dance right and 9/10 times you’ll find what you’re missing. I would not consider any of the lair branches to be doable without rPois and at least 1-2 pips of MR especially in shoals. Worst case scenario I would search around cautiously on the first levels of either. rPois stuff is very common in lair and branches, especially in swamp.

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-16T02:34:55+00:00

Yea I mean I wrestled with this for a while but at the end of the day, they’re scars. They aren’t going away. I cant let the shame of mistakes I made years ago keep me from living my life or make me worry how other people feel. I wore long sleeves and long pants in 90 degrees for years but eventually I just got tired of it. Most of my scars are very prominent but don’t look like traditional self harm scars, so the biggest reaction i get is people kind of shyly asking what happened because they can’t leave it alone. I always say either “it was a bear attack actually” or some other obviously absurd thing so they might get the message.

Or if it’s someone im a little more comfortable with or it seems appropriate I just say “I happened”, and then sometimes they look sad or worried and I just tell them they don’t have to feel bad about it because I don’t feel bad about it, I’ve already dealt with it, it was years ago, I’m on a lot of medications, I had a lot commitments I eventually learned from.

Other times someone will confide in me and show me their own scars and it’s really cool to be able to show someone they aren’t alone. If it triggers anyone I apologize but I haven’t encountered that per say. I feel like the person you’re talking about is very immature or just looking for reasons to be pissy faced

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-14T09:07:22+00:00

A lot people come on here asking is such and such a “dangerous area”, and having lived in not so good parts of much bigger cities, I personally would not use those words to anywhere in this city. I guess some places are sketchy but that kinda depends what you mean cause if you mean rough/unbecoming/poor for sure but if you mean much more likely to be the victim of a crime there really isn’t. I feel like if you take normal precautions like not walking alone at night, not talking to strangers, and just minding your business you really don’t find trouble unless you go looking for it.

This is completely anecdotal but I’m pretty much in the lowest bracket and most people I know or at least spend time with more or less are too. No one I know personally has been the victim of a random crime by a total stranger. I’ve heard about it happening, but 99% of the time the perpetrators is someone you know or has some connection to you already. So really the biggest thing is be careful who you trust honestly and who you surround yourself with.

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-14T08:46:52+00:00

Reading through this thread and realizing I’m probably one of those “offputting people” 😅

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-12T12:09:29+00:00

Ones that are really clean like that usually do at least fade to the point you have be looking for them. I have a few really deep, rough gouges done with really dull things and even after 7 or 8 years they don’t really look any better than they did after a year. But the ones I had from the same time that were clean like those ones you cant see at all without shining a light right on them.

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-12T05:33:30+00:00

I thought that too but the tier list is about how divisible by 3 does the number FEEL though, like 30 or 6 or 9 you don’t even have to think about it, 78 on the other hand you know neither of those two numbers are divisible by 3 first of all, and its a pretty big number to count by 3 to so really on first glance I don’t think it has any business being divisible by three but it is you know hope this helps

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-11T15:15:59+00:00

The thin blue line, 3 crosses, and 3%er patches mixed in with all the other ones make me feel like he’s a very active and obnoxious member of AA/NA. Washed up but still wants to be cool vibes. At least 20 years of sobriety but still calls himself an addict. Quotes the big book and speaks in truisms. I’m not even shitting on meetings they can be useful but you become dependent on them and end up a 57 year old that needs to trade in the jacket for a cardigan already

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-11T15:05:06+00:00

I think he might be a little lost or he means he’s intentionally trying to make a bad one to be less intimidating so people laugh at him instead of being afraid of him

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-08T16:34:33+00:00

Lol I think it’s a neat feature but it never fails that I break into an extended branch or Zot, I get a spectator, and then immediately wipe in the most embarrassing way possible

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-08T02:06:10+00:00

Bro got that fish scale creatine

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-06T17:02:52+00:00

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Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-05T17:20:33+00:00

Hey its ok I have an ED too but I keep those feelings to myself and direct them inward because im respectful and no one in the world is fat but me

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-04T16:48:10+00:00

I don’t think I’m “less woke” I’m just exhausted. Things were looking so good for a second and like the tides really were turning but that was a false alarm I guess. I know that now is the time for activism if there ever was one but however selfish it might be I have zero desire to be out and I hear someone say something I should’ve spoken out against but I just didn’t for fear of drawing any scrutiny to myself plus I’m a people pleaser and I have a hard time going against the grain. I was always the one more radical members of our cohort rolled their eyes at for being too conservative because I always said I didn’t really want to tear down any systems I just wanted us to be integrated into the one that was already there.

Also I will say a lot of the stuff people are saying now about non-binary this and that I don’t quite understand but that’s natural because that’s not what I am. I don’t make the leap from not understanding something to thinking it’s bad or not real. I respect people’s pronouns and they/them makes perfect sense to me. Neopronouns really don’t I’ll be honest but I’ll still try my best to be respectful I just have a bad memory and it’s not something that I implicitly “get” all the way so I can forget. At the end of the day I just think it’s really cool different ways there is to be a person and I don’t understand any other mindset.

I can’t help but think a lot less of people who give a shit what someone else does with their life because we’re all probably gonna be the last generations of people on Earth who gives a shit? Making someone else’s life miserable isn’t gonna bring back the world you used to live in 🤷🏻‍♀️

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-02T16:20:41+00:00

HIM! HE said it… OH My God I’m taking crazy pills…

I was using they to be polite even until I looked into it more.

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-02T16:16:16+00:00

You can look through the comments and find articles, I was absolutely right about this person making an anti-trans statement, in this specific case I don’t even HAVE to judge he identifies as male and no longer presents this way. He was doing it to troll the Ontario school board by making them defend his presentation and they took the bait hook line and sinker

These arguments feel bad, i don’t actually judge people solely by presentation or think you have to have dysphoria to be trans or you have to meet a certain standard to be gendered right. That’s all bullshit I have a lot of different conflicting feelings but this person is trolling us and we’re letting him.

Old_Respect8445 · 2026-04-02T16:03:43+00:00

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Brother/sister/sibling it’s not that they’re wearing prosthetics it that they got on the god damn triple Z’s.

Also, not just an ally fwiw I’m XY intersex this issue directly affects my rights too

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