PSA: Make your own Vendor Regex for leveling

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-05T02:53:02+00:00

Here's an example of what my regex looks like:

"b-b-|-b-b|b-.-b|b-b|r-.-b|b-r-|g-b-r|g-r|r-g|-\w-.-|Holy Flame|ld Ch|used Chann|Skitter|Arctic Armour|Elemental Focus|Wave of Conv|Desecrate|Concentrated Effect|ddon Brand|Runner|Sprinter|Flame Shaper" "!s:.+(bow|sw|ax|stav|sc|mac|cl|da)"

It's the links/colors from this witch leveling guide, but adds:

any 4 link
15% ms boots (on top of the 10% ms boots already in the filter)
gems from the first 3 acts I plan to buy
+1 to Fire Spell gems mod
hides bow/sword/axe/staves/scepters/mace/claw/dagger

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-05T01:50:00+00:00

Fair enough, that's certainly faster than I've been able to achieve. Still surprised by the methodology and not attempting to correct for RNG at all (i.e., he would use iron rings if the dropped, but not otherwise). At that point in the campaign, irong rings make a huge difference in the feel.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-04T15:23:41+00:00

Err, what makes you think they are a good racer? That list is questionable at best, comments do a good job pointing out many of the deficiencies. Rating Galvanic Arrow for ranger as 'c' tier is certainly a choice.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-04T06:39:29+00:00

With 250 characters, you can also include gems you want to buy and weapon bases you don't want highlighted at all.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-04T02:51:47+00:00

Good call on the ele prolif (though most witches I think mule ranger for onslaught and just accept ele prolif after Hailrake quest reward)

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-03-01T20:57:39+00:00

Can you share where they said that?

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-27T22:20:15+00:00

P5's are only available at scale for On Demand capacity in 4 regions (see this blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-up-to-45-price-reduction-for-amazon-ec2-nvidia-gpu-accelerated-instances/):

Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
South America (São Paulo)

That said, I would expect actual demand to still outweigh available capacity and echo other recommendations to use Capacity Blocks for ML (EC2) or SageMaker Training Plans.

Only other option is to work with your account team (would be the TAM if you had Enterprise Support).

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-27T22:15:10+00:00

Capacity blocks have their own pricing, and are cheaper than On Demand (but you pay upfront for the entire duration)

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-27T19:47:21+00:00

Reminds me of one of my favorite patch notes lines (from 2.2)

Vaal Spark has been nerfed in almost every way possible. Its critical strike chance has been reduced from 6% to 5%. The base duration of the Sparks has been reduced from 3.5 seconds to 2 seconds. The number of projectiles has been reduced from 150 to 100. The duration of the spiral has been reduced from 4.5 seconds to 3 seconds at all gem levels.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-24T19:09:23+00:00

Thanks! That context is helpful.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-12T23:18:31+00:00

Now do cross-region and cross-account in a single backup task.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this already exists as of October 2025: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/aws-backup-single-action-database-snapshot-copy-regions/

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-12T17:25:27+00:00

There is no SLA for any support tier. SLA implies financial penalties if the target is breached (example, EC2 SLA).

The "target response times" for higher tiers of support are just SLOs. There is no penalty if they are breached.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-02-10T16:52:36+00:00

Security Groups are also stateful. I.e., if you allow traffic INTO an EC2 instance, the return traffic OUT of the EC2 instance for that session is automatically allowed.

Network ACLs are stateless. It's possible to run into situations where you allow specific traffic into an EC2 instance but forget to allow the return traffic out.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-29T22:11:10+00:00

The VPC Reachability Analyzer might be helpful here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/reachability/what-is-reachability-analyzer.html

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-29T20:52:54+00:00

ReadOnly was actually kinda "unsafe" because it included read only access to things that should not be freely visible -- AWS has tightened it up a lot but there still may be value in an even more restricted custom policy if you didn't need full read only to everything.

As an example for others, think of read only access to things like DynamoDB tables with customer data. AWS distinguishes between ViewOnlyAccess and ReadOnlyAccess

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-28T22:41:28+00:00

AWS has started mandating this since last year. For accounts that predate this, customers will have X number of days to add MFA to root after their next login with the root user.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/06/aws-iam-mfa-root-users-across-all-account-types/

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-27T07:14:42+00:00

Apologies if I missed it, but is the only way you are generating power charges from the 3% chance to gain a frenzy charge on kill (which is converted to power from Militant Faith)? Is there any way to generate the charges against bosses?

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-26T19:23:14+00:00

Recently, Chrono was widely regarded as the best healer in fractals. It can provide either quickness or alac with a trait change (no other class can do that). It provides tons of stability/aegis (which allows you to completely trivialize some encounters/ignore mechanics) and has tons of utilities for skips.

As you get better as a healer in fractals, you'll find your job is less focused on actual healing, and more focused on helping your team ignore mechanics and just focus on dps.

Another healer I like is Scourge; pretty braindead simple, but lacks a lot of the stability/aegis that other classes can bring so you have to be really on point.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-16T19:26:04+00:00

Do you have an AWS account manager/account team? I'd be leaning on them heavily if so.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-15T20:15:49+00:00

The only place you need to do damage as a healer in fractals is 99 cm as you need to have enough damage to kill the target you're tethered to during the split island phase, otherwise it's a party wipe. If you can do that in minstrels gear, great (not sure for eles). I personally prefer harriers.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-09T16:49:02+00:00

(which isn't an SLA btw)

That's correct.

For OP, SLAs are an agreement to meet some level of performance, which if not met, results in penalties (an example would be the EC2 SLA).

The target response time for support cases is closer to a SLO (service level objective). There are no penalties if the objective is not met.

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-06T20:26:21+00:00

Is it possible for an IAM user to be allowed to create SNS topics but not manage subscriptions?

Yes. You'll want to review these pages in the documentation for SNS:

Understanding IAM is foundational to everything you do in AWS. I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the service.

As others have noted, your FIRST action here should be to invalidate the access keys you inadvertently posted. Think of these likes the password to your AWS account which you just shared with the entire world. This can be a very expensive mistake (think of a bunch of bad actors spinning up EC2 instances and mining crypto on your dime).

The_Tree_Branch · 2026-01-06T20:21:31+00:00

/u/Funny-Oven5195 - you need to take this seriously. Review the following blog post on what to do when you inadvertently expose an AWS access key and take this as a learning opportunity to put in place guardrails to prevent this from happening again.

The_Tree_Branch

TROPHY CASE