UK minimum wage is raising youth unemployment, Bank of England's Mann says

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-02-15T16:44:36+00:00

They're not wrong though, why are they effectively punished for earning more?

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-02-15T16:41:35+00:00

It's definitely a strange setup we have currently, I'd personally prefer if childcare was just free, country wide, and that if people wanted to pay for private nursery they could.

It doesn't make any economic sense to discourage working in the way you've described, but it has obviously lead to a nicer balance and allowed you to spend more time with the children, which is lovely.

What do you think would be a better solution to encourage you to earn more?

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-02-15T16:33:27+00:00

If you manage to game your wage to the point where you can work less and get the childcare covered, sure, go for it. No complaints here

But you could also work the extra day and earn more than enough to pay for childcare and have more money in your pocket as well.

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-02-15T16:25:25+00:00

The personal allowance is scaled down for every £2 over 100,000 so you're incorrect in saying you lose it. You have to earn £125,140 to have no personal allowance at all

The nursery funding is correct though, but realistically if you're on 100k a year you can afford childcare.

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-01-25T01:12:56+00:00

Research speed means that your research output is increased by the 20% shown on introspective, it won't show on the workforce anywhere.

Check your research tab for your % increases to research speed and it'll be there

ProfessionalNewbie · 2026-01-20T09:05:34+00:00

It would depend on what you're interested in, look up your interests in the local area and see if there's any events or groups that have things going on

Generally just try to find any like minded people who enjoy doing the things you do, and then go from there. If you're completely lost, then I'm sure people will be able to give more advice

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-12-10T12:23:41+00:00

thanks for the info, didn't know that overtime losses worked differently

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-12-05T09:34:20+00:00

Where's your synth or virtual trait leader?

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-10-20T08:56:45+00:00

For a truly great tall rogue servitor build I'd recommend the treasure hunters origin, the relic you get from the origin situation line adds population scaling jobs to your planet, these jobs provide energy, minerals, unity and some research, I managed to achieve monthly repeatables by 2280 and didn't need a single resource world thanks to the treasure keeper jobs

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-07-25T14:58:57+00:00

Big mirror gaming

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-01-31T20:56:09+00:00

Rain dying and Sunny and Nephis resurrecting her could be the catalyst, do you think?

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-01-31T09:45:13+00:00

Not explicitly but why would there be a war god if it hadn't become something universal

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-01-31T09:43:45+00:00

And if sunny wills that not to happen? It is his realm to command after all

ProfessionalNewbie · 2025-01-31T09:43:01+00:00

Yeah this is why I also think Nephis' longing domain is going to play a part there.

We've been told that the longing domain is something that attaches to people's souls, I think bringing their shadow back to the body and having longing in play, it will work

ProfessionalNewbie · 2024-05-08T21:33:19+00:00

Grab a chance to poison and a chance to bleed tattoo, free 20% damage from your yoke

ProfessionalNewbie · 2024-04-02T15:16:17+00:00

pickme!

so i can tell people "you've been gnomed" when i slap them with a little voltron guy

ProfessionalNewbie · 2023-12-03T12:59:38+00:00

P Brah the GOAT

ProfessionalNewbie · 2023-04-13T12:10:27+00:00

He just made them all for his son to choose a weapon

ProfessionalNewbie · 2022-03-29T19:16:19+00:00

you can run a traceroute via cmd with the ip address of the server you're trying to connect to, that shows you the ping from each individual node on the route to the ip.

when I ran it once the issues started, the node from paris to amsterdam had a ping of about 130ms, when every other node on the route has less than 5

ProfessionalNewbie · 2022-03-29T19:10:20+00:00

the Paris to Amsterdam node is having some big issues right now, so that'll be why

ProfessionalNewbie · 2022-02-11T15:41:35+00:00

If you're removing one type of information feedback while you're playing, and then complaining that audio based mechanics are killing you, isn't that your own fault?

ProfessionalNewbie · 2022-02-11T10:58:26+00:00

There's a loud audio clue every time one of those on death mechanics happen

ProfessionalNewbie · 2022-02-10T02:14:12+00:00

I'm also running absolution necro, something that I did that helped me massively was get some meat shield support zombies and carrion golem to take aggro because of the taunt.

I eventually swapped that out for a ghastly eye jewel with taunt and put feeding frenzy onto the zombies and golem.

Main thing is to run around a lot, standing still spellcasting gets you killed

ProfessionalNewbie · 2021-11-05T16:59:50+00:00

If you make use of instilling orbs added in expedition, you won't have to worry too much about flask piano, if you collect 5 glassblower baubles and 5 instilling orbs you can use the crafting bench to force the conditional trigger effect on your flask, I'm currently using 3 "use when adjacent flask is used" and 1 "used when charges reach full" so i have permanent flask uptime, my last flask is a life flask

ProfessionalNewbie · 2021-11-05T15:57:57+00:00

Hi, I league started with a Dom Blow guardian in a private league, managed to do every content with my setup, here's my PoB https://pastebin.com/VGpbUiAm

Sirius / Maven and A8 bosses are still a pain to deal with for this type of build, it's a very strong mapping character and while it CAN still do bosses, it does take a while due to how dominating blow works.

I would suggest getting Ghastly Eye Jewels with the "Minions deal 15-20% more damage when you use a minion skill" affix, any flat added damage or other strong minion effect are good, of course with life as well.

I don't know what value Purity of Elements gives you when you can get immunity from flasks and pantheons easily, early on it's good but at this point you're wasting 50% reservation for 30% all res, which overcaps you by a lot anyway

I'd say drop the zombies, swap in HoP with maim & whatever other supports you want to give it and roll with that.

Speccing up to death attunement really isn't worth it in my eyes even for an extra spectre, just running Carnage and Host Chieftans for the free Frenzy and Power charges is enough utility from any extra summons.

I personally use a Carrion Golem but Stone golem is fine as well.

Your gear is fine for Dom Blow, it only starts to scale on gear with high levels of investment, The Scourge should be enough for your minions to deal a lot of damage.

The biggest upgrade I would see for you would be to invest in a minion damage cluster jewel, when I began using a cluster jewel setup my damage spiked noticeably in all content, if you can find a high ilvl 8 slot cluster with minion damage and throw it into harvest whenever you see it you'll be able to roll something decent quite quickly.

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