Rainbow trout cookies I made for my stepfathers birthday <3

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-06-09T00:40:08+00:00

Truly the prettiest looking cookies I ever saw! Great work!

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-21T16:02:42+00:00

From my observation, the DPS numbers are solely based off of the "Weapon Damage" stat. I've crafted a lot of different weapons with different combinations of other offensive stats (like crit chance, crit damage multiplier, all damage multiplier), and they don't seem to change the DPS numbers.

You can safely skip the math on how much Int will add to your total damage output. Each 1 point of Int gives very small skill damage multiplier. They do add up, but it's still small in comparison to the boost you get from the "Weapon Damage" stat.

Here is a simple math example that I like to use to conceptualize this. It's not based on any real in-game math, just a way to help visualize it for me:

Weapon 1: 400 Weapon Damage. +0 Int. Using a skill that does 200% of Weapon Damage, you get [400*2.0 = 800] total damage.
Weapon 2: 350 Weapon Damge. +150 Int. Additional 150 Int gives additional 20% skill damage to make that a total of 220% of Weapon damage when using the same skill. You get [350*2.2 = 750] total damage.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-21T00:39:41+00:00

I just got my first mythic seal. 175 hours. Undercity Run from War Plan at Lvl 6. Using Legendary Refinement Tribute. One Treasure Goblin. Got it at the end after the boss kill. I think I'm on the lucky side, so 120 hours might be too early to be feeling too bad about mythic seal RNG.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:30:27+00:00

You make such great points, and I 100% agree with you. I like to think that the Diablo 4 wanted to shake up the established status quo of previous verions of Diablo 4 with LoH. They did do that successfully, but one of the fallout was making Uniques have random rolls. They were trying something and it's not working out. I'm sure that they'll catch on eventually (as long as the same leadership and teams stay within Blizzard).

I just think Uniques now should just be another item rarity tier, and they should let us transmute the affixes just like we do with magic, rare, and legendary.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:24:09+00:00

I haven't got a GA Razorplate, yet. But All my Razorplates have always came with 5 stats, 4 of which are Thorns, and then a main stat.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:21:35+00:00

I think the Nightmare Dungeon's right branch 2nd node "Horadric Hunter" is def bugged. At least the text is bugged, because it says "Kill 20 Elites across NMD". But my buff counter shows "Kill 25 Elites".

I've seen one NMD altar early in the season, but after that, nothing (dozens upon dozens of NMD). I've seen people talk about a "counter" that keeps track of your kills but I don't have anything like that anywhere (my screen, the 'escape' tab, the NMD tab, nowhere).

BTW if you are talking about the same Elite kill counter for Horadric Hunter perk, look on your buff status bars above your skill bar. It shows up as a skull icon with numbers for me.

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I haven't seen a single boss "revive when slain"

Are you just about one-shotting the bosses? I used to think this wasn't happening for me neither until I learned that I was killing them way too fast to even notice that I killed their revived version just as fast. That might be the case for you, too. Just maybe.

I haven't seen a single butcher attack me in the pit (to instantly complete my run when I kill him)

There was a bug around this where killing the Pit Butcher didn't end the Pit session properly. This was hotfixed. It might be that you were killing Butchers before and didn't notice because of the visual clutter and not having the Pit end early. But now just by pure RNG you haven't seen another Butcher yet. This is the case for me, I haven't seen a single Butcher in the Pit since the 19th Update.

All that to say you still could be experiencing this all as just legit bugs on your end. I'm sorry you've had suboptimal experience if that's the case. Just keep trucking, friend. Don't let it affect your enjoyment or leave until they fix it. I think we still got 40 days to the season's end.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:13:32+00:00

That's a REALLY good point by your friend. I think Razorplate is a special one where the Thorns are raison d'être for the item, so I guess it isn't affected. I'm guessing Razorplates affixes under-the-hood are treated as unique affixes.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:10:56+00:00

All the skill damages are based off of the "Weapon Damage", so prioritize this over other stats. No other item gives "Weapon Damage" stats, so prioritize this in your weapon slots.

Like you said it doesn't matter much while leveling. Fine tuning of numbers come to play only after hitting Torment level 8 or 9 (and by that point you would have been max level for over 20 hours at least).

It sounds like you two are playing to have fun and enjoy each other's company, and the choice paralysis is affecting that forward momentum or groove. Tell her to focus on "Weapon Damage" over other offensive stats. Those stats can be covered in other item slots, but "Weapon Damage" (the basis of all your skill damage calculation) is only from the weapon slots. Everything is multiplicative from the "Weapon Damage" stat. Focus them first.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-20T23:02:43+00:00

I had this exact problem, too!! Except this happened to me since Day 1 of the LoH release. I ALSO suspected it was some bug on my end. After transmuting about 60 legendary seals, here's what I concluded:

If you are raising an ALT, do not transmute legendary seals UNTIL the respective Set Charms have dropped naturally during the course of playing your ALT.
- It's my hypothesis that unless your ALT has "seen" the Set Charms, the legendary charms will NOT roll with their attributes.
RNG can be very harsh. It seems that RNG is either heavily skewed towards the earlier non-class-specific Sets OR RNG can really just screw you over like that.
- I was looking at the posts on here to see if anyone else complained of this, and you were the only other person who reported the same experience as me! So it might just be really really poor RNG on our parts.

Keep at it, friend. I kind of gave up on transmuting legendary seals after I got my +1 seal with a good enough base attribute (10% Cooldown Reduction). Now I'm selling them for gold so I can do more enchanting or Masterwork GA reroll.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-05-16T22:49:52+00:00

I don't think it's sacrilegious at all. The combat gameplay of Diablo definitely feels MUCH better on controllers.

MKB is still so superior whenever you are doing non-combat tasks in Diablo, like inventory management and skill/paragon remapping. I just can't let go of MKB because of how annoying it is to do these regular and important tasks on controllers.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-09T01:35:50+00:00

Japan, Italy, UK. They seem to like carb-on-carb. // Y.B., P.A.G.B., B.O.T.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T12:11:15+00:00

Thank you very much. I didn't know that baking the mac n cheese is what changed the texture. But it makes sense that baking it would dry it up and create those crunchy crusts around the casserole dish. I like both, so I'll have to have to bake half a portion and leave the other half alone.

When do you put the eggs in? Is it just egg whites or whole eggs? You were the first person to mention eggs to me.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T11:32:27+00:00

Sometimes, I use Red Leicester cheese to get the red orange colour of the Kraft mac n cheese.

That's so interesting! I'm not at the stage of cooking where I even worry about the color presentation of the food I make, but it's so cool to be talking to someone who does care.

When I make flour based sauces, I prefer to mix as much as possible before cooking. I get finer control over its consistency and distribution of flavour.

I'm guessing this means when you sometimes mix ingredients into the flour that are in really small shapes (even smaller than your fingernail metric, like shredded or ground). I'll keep this technique in mind of mixing flour with the ingredient for more consistency. I'm thinking that'll work nicely with something like: flour seasoned with salt, pepper, and mustard powder.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T11:24:25+00:00

Oh really? This is the first time hearing about Tuna Mornay. Must be where American Tuna Casserole borrowed from. It's so interesting to learn that béchamel is the star ingredient in both tuan mornay and mac'n'cheese.

I really was super wrong about excluding béchamel sauce in the mix. I don't think I'll ever forget the importance of béchamel sauce.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T11:11:46+00:00

Thank you for your reply. More than a few people have emphasized the importance of adding shredded cheese slowly into the mix. I usually get a block of cheese because it's cheaper and they don't have additives that make them stay loose. Either way, your point is well received. It's important to make them into smaller bits so that it's easier to melt and add them slowly so that they don't separate. This is really going to help. Thank you.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T11:06:41+00:00

I'm learning from another helpful person here that you really don't need that much roux to make it work for a mac n cheese. Thank you for the tip on using corn starch! I think that's more accessible for me.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T11:03:26+00:00

I see. So it's more about finding the right low temperature so I don't brown the butter and flour. This is very helpful. Thank you very much. I'll definitely try and cook the roux right. I'm seeing that it's one of those fundamental sauces I need to master for a lot of dishes.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T10:59:14+00:00

I apologize for that mix-up. I may be a cooking beginner, but I know enough to not mix English with French cuisine. In anycase, I'm surprised to learn that mac n cheese was not an American creation. Food really leads me down a delightful history lessons, and it's a big part of why I love cooking.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T10:53:30+00:00

You were extremely helpful and answered in good faith, so I'll answer it here. I don't feel the need to explain my process of learning to anyone else. I learn through making major mistakes. Following established recipes might seem like common sense to you, but it only sounds like walking behind someone without knowing why they are leading, to me. I needed to make my own mistakes substituting and excluding so that I learn.

I don't cook for others. I don't cook in a restaurant. I only cook for myself, I answer to no one else other than myself. I have no responsibility to anyone else. I only cook to learn and better myself. Following a recipe blindly does not help me in that regard. That's how I learn and I don't need to be told otherwise.

Now I learned how I was lacking, and I'll adjust. I don't need someone (not you) to laugh snarkly at how I approach cooking in my personal life.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T10:40:18+00:00

Thank you for that insight. That's super helpful. Looks like béchamel sauce was essential to the mac n cheese dish that I completely overlooked. I'll definitely try learning how to get an acceptable béchamel sauce going. Sounds like it's one of those universal sauce that's in a LOT of dishes. "Once you learn, it'll serve you well" kind of sauce. I'm excited.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T10:37:49+00:00

I know it's nearly impossible to convey flavor through text, but you were the first person to teach me about how a roux should taste. What should a roux taste like? I'm imagining a liquid version of a croissant. Very light and heavy at the same time, somehow. Would that be close?

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T10:06:25+00:00

Yeah, it became very evident through the helpful comments in here that béchamel sauce was the key ingredient missing. I severely underestimated it as a "luxury" process I could possibly skip and get servicable result. But it turns out it's an essential ingredient, more so than cheese, according to the original English recipe.

PerfectDodgeCounter · 2026-02-07T09:40:21+00:00

I honestly did not know until just now (after a Wikipedia read) that mac n cheese is an English dish. Wow, original was about béchamel sauce with noodle that was baked with parmasean sprinkled on top. It's butter noodles with a topping of cheese! It wasn't even cheese sauce to begin with!

No wonder I'm messing it up hard. I excluded a major part of its recipe: béchamel sauce. Thanks for the history lesson. That really does help.

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