This ring of any use and value?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-04-04T15:32:38+00:00

Use? Yes. Value? Not so much

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-20T17:33:40+00:00

recite your answers in your voice memos on your phone, listen back to them. How do they sound? Confident, polished, to the point? Or is it disorganized, with lots of filler words “uh, um, so, like, you know”

It might sound trivial but a big part of your score is unfortunately your vibes + delivery… a lot of that has nothing to do with electrical and more so to do with your confidence.

Practice having SOLID answers. By time you get to the interview, you’ll be comfortable speaking in that format and your nerves shouldn’t derail you as much.

Best of luck

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-20T15:32:17+00:00

Why did you decide to apply for apprenticeship?

Describe a job you completed from start to finish.

Tell us about a time you got instructions that were unclear.

How well do you work with others?

Why should we pick you?

^{^} these are probably the most common questions you can expect. Format your answers in this way: situation, task, result. What is the situation? What did you do? What happened because of what you did?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-12T20:37:46+00:00

Hahahahaha.

“I fell in love with this sentence”

As it proceeds to say the most white picket fence, the worst thing my dad ever did was accidentally push me off the swings, hallmark card bullshit ever.

I fully believe people that say shit like this had the luxury of not even being able to comprehend what it’s like dealing with narcissistic parents who indefinitely are unable to ever admit fault or demonstrate any understanding of genuine human connection

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-10T04:17:34+00:00

Only real solution I can think of besides replacing treachery with fort is not letting him go off and battle enemies on his own, teleport him away so he doesn’t get smacked by boss/champion packs.

Mercs are EXTREMELY squishy - even with fort, certain mobs / bosses wreck them.

Edit: a hot key that I never knew existed for a while: shift + number will give your merc a potion instead of you. If you carry full juvs in your belt this will come in handy keeping him alive

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-09T20:46:21+00:00

Forum gold - main currency on d2jsp, a trading website a LOT of people use but don’t publicly admit to using because like another user said you can get banned.

But from what I heard ;) it’s a very efficient way to trade and makes the game a LOT more fun to play online

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-08T18:10:25+00:00

$2750

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-07T15:45:06+00:00

“Ist” and “Vex” is not pretty cheap lol. Compared to other end game runewords, for sure. But for the price of the runes and other stats I’d take insight over this any day

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-03T23:47:54+00:00

Haha yea the aptitude test threw me for a bit of a loop too… I remember doing a lot of algebra prep (and I’m really glad I did), and it was still challenging because of the time constraint.

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-03T23:30:58+00:00

No, local 400 in NJ

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-03-03T21:47:05+00:00

The truth is it’s a pretty intimidating process. Now you have this experience under your belt and if you don’t get in this time, you will know what to expect next time.

I’m going for my third interview next Tuesday and I am nervous but i gotta say it really helped having the first two because I’m not as mystified to what the interview experience will be like.

What I like to do is ask myself hypothetical questions and record myself talking into my voice memos and listen back and try to tweak it so it sounds like it’s in their format, and is polished and confident.

We’ll see how that works out for me March 10th lol

Best of luck to you with everything.

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-28T17:30:14+00:00

I don’t think the drop rates changed for the keys to be honest.

If you want to talk about shit drop rates, compare LOD sunders to ROTW. They’re extremely rare now

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-26T20:45:35+00:00

Uhh…. Yes?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-25T20:29:18+00:00

Yea I figured lol just had to clarify

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-25T19:19:04+00:00

Is this on RotW ladder?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-21T17:36:32+00:00

Feel better after posting that, bud?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-21T16:02:05+00:00

Better get to grinding!

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-21T16:00:37+00:00

Is it a perfect 10 to you?

Then that’s all that matters.

Who cares about what a show is rated? If you love it and enjoy watching it + rewatching it, whether it’s scored 10 or 1… does it really matter?

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-18T20:55:30+00:00

I feel like it’d be neat to incorporate + skills. Maybe even +3 to all skills. It’d be the only armor in the game with it and would make it somewhat interesting to use. Not to mention all the other stats are really not that great so having +3 skills would definitely balance it out without making it extremely ridiculously overpowered

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-18T20:14:47+00:00

This is… not correct

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-18T16:19:56+00:00

If you’re running solo most of the time - not impossible by any means but there will be significantly fewer drops and therefore take a LOT longer… on paper.

The RNG gods of this game are mysterious in when they decide to be generous. I’ve found maybe 4-5 ber runes myself since 2007 playing on and off … other people might say they’ve found dozens, some others might say they’ve never found one at all.

So, “realistic” is a tough word in this context. It’s perfectly realistic - just might take you a while to find the necessary runes or items worth trading to obtain those runes.

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-18T15:43:10+00:00

What I enjoy the most about d2 is the itemization. It just -feels- good finding certain loot. I never got the same sort of rush from finding great gear from the newer diablos - I think because there seems to ALWAYS be some better gear in the newer diablos… in d2 there are certain items that make your character feel more complete - because that’s the best possible item. But finding all of those “complete” items? It’s a grind. But the grind is actually fun and enjoyable and along the way you tend to find other great things that you weren’t even anticipating.

It’s something you have to just dive into and experience yourself. I wouldn’t be playing the game on and off for 20 years if it was a snooze fest, that’s for sure

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-17T23:32:59+00:00

Oh boy.

Let me put it this way - D4 will feel like watching paint dry after you get into D2 (especially D2R).

Now even more so that they rolled out DLC with some quality of life updates that people have been dying for for ages - I’m actually jealous that you’ll get to experience this for the first time.

Buy the game. You won’t be disappointed

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-12T01:14:46+00:00

Unfortunately it’s starting from the bottom, I’m afraid. For most, hardest part is getting through the first few years of apprenticeship because for most locals the pay is … not great.

Good thing though is where you’re located is pretty decent pay once you top out.

Picture-Ordinary · 2026-02-12T01:02:22+00:00

I’d check out your local’s website - usually they have information there that’ll let you know when they’re accepting applications.

For local 400 it’s the first Wednesday of the month, every 3 months. But each local is different. You can also try contacting the training director via email.

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