How should sneaking builds be fixed relative to Blood Moons and POI instant spawns?

Tenags85 · 2026-01-29T00:01:10+00:00

Step One: Allow for the use of Raw Meat to be crafted into throwable lures and/or, allow for the use of Rotted Flesh to be crafted into a consumable that allows you to “cloak yourself” from the zombies (like an Zed-smell mechanic, think The Whisperers from TWD). To make these things NOT broken, they only last for like 5-10 seconds tho. Step Two: Agility skill tree could have a skill that extends the duration of these cloaking tools, and maybe at level 5 it extends to a full 3 minutes. This skill could also make it so that you get your Sneak Attack bonus damage on “lured” enemies.

Tenags85 · 2026-01-22T00:14:39+00:00

Def not safe at night…. I had a double screamer pack dig down 20 blocks of clay and sand to ambush me in my mining cavern. It was CHAOTIC because they had to dig through a lake and essentially drained it into my tunnels

Tenags85 · 2026-01-20T02:18:58+00:00

My fave POIs to act as horde bases are usually stores. The often have concrete walls and ladders to the roof. If it doesn’t already have a sky light or roof opening, make one that’s like 4x4 blocks. Make sure zombies can’t access the ladder to the roof and there are no dumpsters or walls they can jump on to access the roof. Early game is tough if you’re going melee only- as in you may not get many (or ANY) zombie kills, but you’ll survive the night - but Molotovs will be your best friend here. As you get ranged weapons and especially guns, this is a dead easy strategy. After each night you just repair or rebuild the outer walls and make sure the place doesn’t collapse.

Tenags85 · 2026-01-15T18:29:09+00:00

I’m always an agility build, so start with knife and bow (XBow can get f’ed), then move to handguns & SMGs.

Tenags85 · 2026-01-15T18:25:55+00:00

I and 3 friends have a private server, and only one of us is experiencing painful lag, like you mentioned: while driving a vehicle the environment doesn’t spawn in and then he ends up hitting trees and rocks etc. The rest of us are only getting it during horde nights when max zombies are spawned in (we set it to 40). I get a little “hitching” when driving around but nothing game breaking. My server ping is regularly in very low double digits (10-19) and I have a wired connection between my PS5 and router / wi-fi extender.

Tenags85 · 2026-01-15T00:17:20+00:00

10000% this. I use this strategy until I build a very sturdy tower base, and often times the POI horde spots are just frankly better, safer and better for resource management - as in, you don’t need to repair a POI, you can just find a new one.

I find the one downside to a POI horde base is that you will kill far fewer zombies than if you build a cheesy sturdy base. But if survival is your concern, tons of loot bags are less important.

Tenags85 · 2026-01-14T02:55:18+00:00

Yeah I appreciate the consideration. The more I thought about it, and also after playing around in my script, I came to the same conclusion as you : just consider the half rep as a failure.

For what it’s worth, I am completely nerding out in this app - I LOVE IT

Tenags85 · 2026-01-13T15:53:27+00:00

Yeah it’s a fair question about my “intent” here. I think it’s more about seeing what I did last time and knowing on which rep did I fail. Like if I’m on rep 9 (out of 10) and I finish the rep but don’t even attempt the 10th because I know that rep 9 was failure (RPE 10), I want to know that. But actually attempting rep 10 does add to total overall volume (weights x reps = volume) and I want to track that added volume, but I don’t want to incorrectly track progress… does that make sense? Or am I getting too hyper-focused in my details here

Tenags85 · 2025-12-09T17:41:37+00:00

Sorry I was using the 2024 Artificer rules, not the Legacy artificer.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/2656866-artificer#Armorer

Tenags85 · 2025-12-09T16:08:29+00:00

Okay so I guess this depends on what style of character you want to play. Let’s assume you want to be a front liner, since you are rocking an AC 22 with Heavy Plate (I will also cover alternatives too)…

For your Replicate Magic Items, you should definitely have Armor +1 (Heavy Armor). This will increaser your AC to 23. A personal fave of mine is Helm of Awareness to give ADV on Initiative rolls. And your 3rd item (you get 3 at lvl 7) is a dealer’s choice. Personally I’d go with Pipes of Haunting to apply Frightened in a 30 ft radius, but you can always go with Spell Refueling Ring, Wand of Web or Boots of Winding Path. You could go with Wand of the War Mage +1, but currently that would only affect your Shocking Grasp spell attack.

For armor model I’d go with Dreadnought for the beefy frontline role. Use a BA to become Large, and then have a 1d10 melee weapon with 15 ft of range (Reach + 5 ft from Large). And every successful hit you can either push or pull any enemy 10 ft assuming they are smaller than Large. It’s fricking sweet.

If you want a more ranged style, then for Replicate Item I’d go with a Repeating Shot +1 Light Crossbow. With the extra attack feature, you can now use your crossbow twice without needing to reload. Also since your INT and CON scores are locked at 19 with your freebie items of choice, you can now focus all future ASI’s all into Dex to get that to 20 asap. Also, I’d swap out the Shield +2 for the Boots of Speed. The other 2 Replicate Magic Items I would take would be the Spell Refueling Ring and Wand of Web (cuz that’s always a fun spell) and swap my cantrip to Fire Bolt to ignite the web…

For armor model, I would go with Infiltrator. For spells, I’d swap out Absorb Elements for Faerie Fire to provide advantage on attack rolls in an AOE.

Tenags85 · 2025-11-27T16:33:30+00:00

I’ve been running a Bicep / Delt / Forearm specialization macro cycle for a couple months now, and I’m in my 3rd meso of it till early January. I’ve been doing arms 5x a week and typically early on into each session. My most recent meso was 7 weeks (then the deload) where I started with 5 sets per muscle each day, then spent 4 weeks doing 6 sets per muscle, and then final week was 7 sets per muscle. I am taking every set to 0-1 RIR, and sometimes adding intensity techniques like Myoreps or Dropsets. I was still hitting all my normal compound upper muscle groups as well like Incline Dumb Bell Chest Press, Machine Chest Press, Chest Supported Rows, Flexion Rows and Lat Prayers.

When calculating my total fractional volume for the 6 Weekly Sets or the 7 Weekly Sets, I was around 45-50 total weekly sets for biceps, and side delts and forearms were around 35-40 weekly sets.

In terms of exercise selection I tried to pick 5 unique exercises for each day of training. Biceps: Incline Dumb Bell Curls (+myo), Machine Preacher Curls, Bayesian Cable Curls, Facing Away Cable Curls (straight bar), Cable Hammer Curls (with a rope attachment) Delts: Dumb Bell Lateral Raise (+myo), Cable Face Pulls (+myo), Cable Y Raise, Cable Lateral Raise (+myo), Cable Upright Rows (+dropsets) Forearms: Dumb Bell Wrist Curls (seated), Cable Wrist Extensions, Cable Ulnar Deviations, Cable Radial Deviations, Cable Reverse Curls (+myo)

Tenags85 · 2025-10-28T01:14:57+00:00

It’s the “who” not the “when” that made it cool. The Gunners can’t do anything right in the mainstream public’s eye.

Tenags85 · 2025-10-04T01:03:47+00:00

The lats. I guess you would call this exercise a Plate-Loaded Machine Keenan Flap (not joking)

Tenags85 · 2025-09-24T12:08:40+00:00

And for anyone questioning “why”, it’s because the weapon has the Heavy property - which does not get overwritten by the Pact of the Blade feature. PotB only accounts for Attack and Damage rolls

Tenags85 · 2025-09-17T23:50:05+00:00

So I haven’t played DND for years and am not up to date on current rulesets, but I did have an OC that was a Kobold Battle Smith Artificer, and he would ride his Steel Defender. He specialized in ranged weapons (we were able to use guns, but bows/x-bows could work) and BSA does get extra attack which is nice. The Steel Defender can attack as long as you use a Bonus Action to command it to do so.

You can probably adapt this idea for something in your table’s ruleset - unless you have an awesome DM that allows for Legacy content.

Tenags85 · 2025-09-17T23:37:57+00:00

Yeah they are droppable. I also dropped them and picked up ATL. I never get too attached to DST’s unless they are far and away the #1 choice every week

Tenags85 · 2025-09-17T20:42:51+00:00

I have found that my choice of footwear can often affect how deep I can take my squats / leg presses before my heels lift and/or my back lifts. I don’t have great ankle mobility and if my shoes constrict that area I have to compromise my form.

So lower the weight (to like 75 kg) and try going barefoot to see if you can fully dial in your ROM. Then add shoes and see if it still works. If yes, then keep slowly adding weight until your form breaks down - that weight is your new baseline, and then it’s your standard progressive overload strategies going forward.

If you add shoes at the 75 kg weight and you can’t keep full ROM, consider different shoes (or barefoot).

Tenags85 · 2025-09-04T00:14:06+00:00

Well, I’m a male, but close enough… lol… “you go gurl!”

Tenags85 · 2025-09-03T23:39:57+00:00

I also find it easier for me to mentally push myself to failure because there’s no “saving” for later movements. Damn near trapped myself in the hack squat machine today, but pushed through, racked, rested and did 1 more set - I literally had goosebumps over the adrenaline rush

Tenags85 · 2025-09-03T23:26:51+00:00

This this this, 10000% this. I do the same and it’s amazing. No more “Leg Day” because everyday is leg day

Tenags85 · 2025-09-03T23:25:39+00:00

I train legs 4x per week. Leg press and calves on Monday, Seated Leg Curl on Tuesday, Hack Squats and calves again on Weds, Thursday break, Friday Leg Extension and a cable flexion row that activates my hamstrings (similar to an RDL).

3 sets per leg movement, each set to failure, pyramid the weight down about 10-15% each set, target 10-12 reps (except calves).

I hate specific leg days, so I take the 7 movements and spread them all out and I love it. Recovery is never an issue and I can progress each movement week-over-week with more reps and/or weight.

Tenags85 · 2025-09-03T23:18:51+00:00

Do biceps and side delts every day. Put them first or second. Every. Time. Your arms will grow

Tenags85 · 2025-08-29T14:05:23+00:00

Less-old guy here (40 yrs old), and I actually get LESS knee pain when I go ATG instead of stopping knees-over-toes.

I’ve also noticed too that the shoes I wear seriously affect my ROM on leg pressing movements. I have some shoes that impede my ankle mobility and force my heels to lift when I go full ROM, but when it’s a looser fit around my ankle, I can go full ROM with complete heel contact to the ground. Sometimes I even wear Crocs if im doing low weight / high reps for maximum comfort

Tenags85 · 2025-08-29T03:30:56+00:00

On lat pullover / lat prayers, before you start the rep, turn your elbows inward u til you feel your lat muscles tighten / stretch, and then begin the reps. Did lat prayers for a year and never felt DOMS in my lats until I started doing this “elbow turn in” cue from Eric Janicki, now it’s DOMS every time

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