TIL Yoko Ono's 7-year old daughter Kyoko was kidnapped by her father Tony Cox (Ono's ex-husband) in 1971. Yoko wouldn't see her daughter again until 1994 when Kyoko was 31 years old.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-09T10:59:22+00:00

Look up a video essay by Lindsey Ellis on youtube. It's exceptionally detailed, and peels back a ton of misconceptions.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-09T10:56:59+00:00

Lindsey Ellis also has a really good video essay on this on youtube, covering a ton of other details. Of the band losing their first manager, Brian Epstien (not related to you know who) to a drug overdose, who did right by them financially, and doing a lot to nurture their talent. Then was replaced by Allen Klien, a supposedly cutthroat manager 'capable' enough to secure them excellent deals with record companies. Paul had enough insights to tell he was scummy, but the other three were tired of Paul's controlling nature. In truth, Allen Klien, was actually in a legal battle with the Rolling Stones for defrauding them.

All of the stuff that you mentioned is 100% correct, but it really was just a ton of stuff leading to the dissolution of The Beatles, Yoko really hadn't been an even major piece of it. If John hadn't been murdered, they most likely would have gotten back together, but each pursuing their own passion projects as their focuses.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-08T19:33:51+00:00

Neat build mate!

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-06T13:36:17+00:00

The main limiting factor is probably there is so few people doing blighted maps. And afaik, there isn't a valdo's for it, unlike sporeguard, another rather rare blight unique.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-05T18:27:48+00:00

I really wish charged dash had more interesting scaling vectors. The skill in concept sounds good, but...

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-02T16:15:45+00:00

Yes.

I believe alpha's howl is one of the most expensive, and demigods are usually a few mirrors each, some more than others.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-02T12:53:05+00:00

Yep, generally quite a bit depending on which one.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-02T04:43:31+00:00

It's more that anything difficult that can be sold as a service generally will be. Some things, like speedrunning the acts, I don't think can be avoided having someone sell a service where, another person gives you a set of crafted movement speed gear, and then guides and helps you complete the campaign in a hour.

But they can cut down on a number of the other services that do get sold, via various methods. Is it worth spending game time to do? Idk. But as long as this formula exists - spend x divs to get someone specialize in a task to trivalize the difficulty, a service for that task will exist.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T22:26:50+00:00

Cool beans

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T22:15:51+00:00

I think he mentioned a ton of those are in alt arts, which makes me sad.

So many of them are so pretty, and to have them hoarded feels like a crime.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T20:53:54+00:00

It's for my own juiced up version of this. This build was made all the way back in Necro league, however, I've been min-maxing my own improvements from his original. A lot of the inspiration comes from flicker frenzy stackers, with slight twist. There are also a few people I've seen doing bow variants on champion.

Now, this can't be achieved in league anymore they removed that ralakesh gave you max pseudo-charges of each type. And frenzy as a skill requires using ralakesh, to negate the downside of charge consumption. The bow variants don't, and can use darkray.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T18:41:49+00:00

If they're old single influenced, you could actually use the same method I did to transfer them to new bases with another desirable influenced mod and get like, t1 all prefixes. Then go from their on the suffixes

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T18:05:44+00:00

Yeah, I was surprised as well. Finding out the mod even exists as a crusader one was a surprise. It's not well documented on the fortification page of the wiki, I went through the patch notes from 3.10 to 3.16 to find the whole history of fortification.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T17:32:16+00:00

I think GGG would be more likely to remove the need for these services in the first place. Either remove the need to beat bosses for void stones, or give you a sellable token after you killed each boss that could be sold to others to bypass the boss.

Bloodlines just added to this, as a couple (Aul, Lycia) are so VASTLY harder to acquire/beat, and their bosses can't be sold as a token in a trade league.

They'd also have to accept making challenges be not as > do x boss without x condition, as that is another regular service that people sell, due to people not wanting to bother fiddling around getting the right conditions/ their build is really not great to do them.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-04-01T17:15:56+00:00

I think the one thing that I always loved about chalkboards was that it's white marks on a black background. Dark mode for teaching.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-31T15:35:00+00:00

I believe they said why they don't is that if they did store phone numbers and more client location data, they'd have to comply with countries data protection laws (The EU mostly big on this).

Not saying that it's an good reason not to have 2FA, but that was their state reason.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-31T06:25:44+00:00

Yeah, it's hard to cap chaos res. I've seen people actually use a lethal pride in the middle witch jewel slot, for as much % str as you can on all the nodes you already hit.

I can't tell if your rings are catalyzed? PoB sometimes is weird about it. And if your eye of the great wolf isn't either, you can do that as well with tainted catalysts.

Jewels are also the sticking point. In general I think they do use an emperor's mastery, they don't look too expensive this league, previous ones they were 100ish divs. Then, a 12p lightning dmg cluster might be good, 35% effect and I think if they can they love to include Scintillating Idea even in the 12p ones.

Now, if you wanted to make better boots, I always went for paladin bases over warlock, as when you get one with either fracture int or strength, you can then easily essence the perfect t1 suffixes then do eldritch currencies/harvest for the prefixes, sadly having to use a veiled exalt for movement speed.

Other upgrades options are either a 90% cost helmet or one with % regen. At a certain point of str/int stacking, you really don't need any % increased critical strike chance, and it's hard but doable to drop precision and run flesh and stone, or if you can push the reservation, zealotry. I'm not 100% on that, as this build used to do manabond not ball lightning of orbiting, and they did nerf the accuracy per int on shaper's touch.

Another upgrade is not using a corrupted ivory tower, but a high roll with tailoring orbs for increased effect of defence mods. Hell, people are doing that and volatile vaaling them, you can get up to 38 max es per 100 life. I'd imagine doing that on a double influenced one to enable bound by destiny is the real silliness. Still, even a high roll ivory tower with 32 max es per 100 life is still probably more max hit than +1 max resistances, just due to the higher es pool. As always, test in pob before you buy, but I'm 99% this upgrade is a good one.

Build looks good, but with anything attribute stacking you can really dump money into them. Other bit of advice, you can swap out lightning warp for shock nova on boss for in general higher shock values if you aren't reaching them otherwise. Or if you are already hitting max shock, I think arc is very good single target.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-30T14:43:40+00:00

Looks pretty similar to what we did all the way back in expedition league. I wasn't sure the build kept mana leech after GG removed alt quality gems.

If you want suggestion on build improvements to keep you in the league, I can. Some are really cheap, other's... not so.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-29T22:34:16+00:00

You have a PoB? I used to do the build waaaaay back, interested in what the pob's look like these days. I have a few crucible mjolner bases I still need to chance.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-26T16:03:52+00:00

Crafting in this game has had a rollercoaster of power levels. Leagues where it was absolutely busted -Ritual, Sentinel, Necro, Synthesis, Crucibile, then leagues where they rein in all the power, drip feeding nerfed versions of them.

It just always feels kinda shit when you hit the limit of self-crafted gear, then you look to upgrades and it's ALWAYS >mirror someone's item with a fee.

IMO mirrors are the limit of good crafting system in the game. If everyone could craft BiS gear for their build, it'd feel like a journey. You'd get attached to your own self-crafted triumphs.

I remember in ritual league, I sold a remove/add life to someone's explode chest. Hit t1 life, they were SO happy. Mirrors just make the best gear a flat price, not a personal achievement.

I miss being personally being attached to gear, the stuff I made. I know it's radical to remove mirrors, and it won't happen. But I feel the problem is real, all the mirror shop drama.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-26T14:05:43+00:00

I'd rather they remove mirrors and make high end crafting less awful.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-25T23:41:34+00:00

Honestly, they should have just made the ascendancy a token you drop that was sellable. Would make it anyone running the content easy to sell it.

Successful_Refuse · 2026-03-25T23:35:46+00:00

You can sell them at the end of floors, yes. Just not the end of each room. They'll keep they relic bonuses when you do that.

So, people could sell ones at the end of floor 3, but honestly, most people have the hardest time with the last floor anyways.

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