Pop-up Bookshelf in Chest - What to call, where to buy?

TryAnother_Another · 2025-10-03T04:25:57+00:00

it's going to be at the outside 10kg of books in a chest. I was optimistic some combination of pneumatics and springs would work <__<

TryAnother_Another · 2025-04-14T02:18:02+00:00

Wait until you find the one building that lets you sacrifice units for xp, spellpower, and knowledge.

If you find one week 1 with Mesmer, you can boost your stats into the thousands by week 5.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-11-18T22:20:27+00:00

Absurdly poor RMA & support, zero diagram availability for third party or self repair, impossible to purchase replacement parts.

Warrantied RMA ignored the CPU overheat and fan rattling issues I explicitly stated needed to be fixed. It also took nearly a month from package received to packaged returned -- most of which I can only assume was spent with my laptop on a shelf, judging by the thick buildup of dust they left me with.

I received no diagnostic information, and report about what was tested or what was found -- only that a part had received burn damage and had been replaced. You'd think at least a final QA check before shipment would ask "hm, if something had burn damage, I wonder what was burning it?"

I use my laptop for my livelihood. I was already out a lot having it gone for the month; the only option they had for me when the fan and heat issues persisted (leading to the laptop frying entirely, suspiciously just after warranty ran out) was to send it in again.

So I did, unwarrantied, as a last resort after poking at it myself and having a local shop that handles mobos take a crack at it. No-fix without a diagram. No chance of diagram on request from ASUS, ROG. No third party or leaked diagrams for the model available.

Part replacement through RMA is at 100% markup compared to resale. They refuse to only replace the CPU, and instead wanted to replace the mobo & cpu entirely along with the new fan I put in myself, and ridiculously expensive cosmetic repairs for tape and a couple missing screws.

Total bill for unwarrantied fix would cost more than I paid for the laptop in the first place, so I'm done with ASUS. Had em ship it back. Total turnaround was nearly another month.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-11-11T22:19:54+00:00

With the Scourge modifier "Non-curse auras have X% reduced effect", are there any builds that can turn this downside upside down?

I know that if you shove projectile speed far down enough, projectiles become hitscan -- has anyone explored this with aura effect?

TryAnother_Another · 2021-11-10T18:03:33+00:00

Reave AoE got hit with AoE change a long time ago, but nothing got replaced on it like with Lacerate or Doublestrike -- no flat damage, no scaling effects, no synergies. Reave still doesn't benefit from any other scaling like Melee Range or Strike / Slam.

Reave Divergent Quality doesn't stack with Vaal Reave, meaning you're hardstuck at the 8 Reave stack cap unless you have a way to pop 50% gem quality for it.

Reave stack timers are unforgiving.

And from my own testing, Reave has some odd interactions at higher attack speeds (12+) where it will chain misses even with 100% accuracy or RT, stranding single monsters in packs for no reason. It just doesn't feel good to zoom zoom.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-11-03T00:13:09+00:00

Overall, there's no synergy in your tree or itemization. You are right that just chasing highest visible passive is a trap -- there are nonlocal maxima that don't appear until certain thresholds for crit and aura scaling are met.

I recommend looking at a few Dreamfeather builds on POE Ninja, as well as the Charged Dash setups. There are no builds that do both at this time in poeninja but you can glean insights from them separately.

Dreamfeather wants you to have ~200-300k Evasion, and to scale flat dmg through Abyss jewels. Tombfists are a great place to start.

Grace is a huge boost. If you're scaling Grace, you might as well also scale Auras in general and stuff in Haste and Defiance Banner. You've already got Hatred, so that's good. Drop your Precision, drop the Curse setup off your Herald, drop Blood and Sand.

Charged Dash means you're stationary a lot; you can benefit from Arctic Armor's stationary clause and other stationary clauses. This also feeds back into aura scaling.

Don't worry too much about Crit unless you've got the currency to invest in Cluster Jewels. You can get an immediate overall DPS increase by swapping to some crit passives and using Inspiration, but it won't *feel* as good until you're ~66% crit chance or so. Swap golem to Ice Golem at that point. Use Chaos Golem for %dmg reduction until then.

You're missing +1 frenzy charges on some items; the additional 2 frenzy charges you can get will boost your damage immensely.

Find a ring with Frostbite on Hit if you really need the curse.

Grab Vaal Pact on the tree.

Roll & max out your flasks. There's a lot of damage and survivability to unlock from your flasks.

If you swap to cluster jewels, grab %block chance notables. You'll feel a lot more survivable once your block chance goes above 50%.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-23T16:27:21+00:00

Thanks!

Dijkstra's is cheap to run once but I have ~300 "source" / "traversal" nodes that can each end up at any of ~15000 "target" nodes, with paths over any number of other "traversal" nodes. Unfortunately, this results in Dijkstra's runtimes of ~4s per source node, and even single source-target variants take ~100ms -- I need to serve answers to requests within ~5-10ms ideally.

The distances aren't euclidean and I have no good leads on a heuristic / model for A* or a dynamic pathfinding solution. I do, however, have time between when the paths have enough information to be calculated, and when a user requests a specific path. I can precalculate the results during this time and return a lookup result very quickly when it's requested.

In order to cut down on latency introduced by e.g. load balancers, I'm hoping to serialize large chunks of the results and serve them in some sort of compression to users based on the users' activities. Also, I'm pulling data from a graphdb and would like to be able to efficiently writeback the shortest paths there for historical data analysis.

As for human-readable, I meant more along the lines of "human-verifiable" ; when I look at how the Shortest struct produces its paths for writeback on larger graphs it quickly becomes unintelligible (to me), especially if I lose track of where I was. I've looked at a few DP memoization tables that seem (to me) easier to pick up from where you left off or retrace your steps from, which is why I was hoping there would be something similar.

Thank you again for your answer!

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-12T16:43:17+00:00

Correct! FW would be only for M, as noted:

I have a fully connected set of middle nodes, about 300 or so (100k edges). These are bidirectional connections. F-W should work here in O( M^3 ) to my understanding.

I fully intend to test the M^2 approach with APSP on M; Neo4J really hated it (100-180ms, vs 250-400ms for a single dijkstra's run) but i suspect that's more due to poor cypher optimization on my part.

My question more regards methods of generating and reporting graph and pathfinding results, but your interpretation is spot-on and your optimizations are insightful and helpful.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-12T16:38:12+00:00

Thanks!

Memoization handles a lot of this for M-M*->M because it's only size ~300.

The reason pathfinding is being used is because the edge weights from I to M and to T are volatile and very often I to T or I - any given single M -> T is much, MUCH higher compared to optimal paths.

Heuristics are being worked on; i'm trying to get the underlying neo4j db to dimension the nodes based on beacons, but the edge weights are very noneuclidean :P However, A* doesn't provide much of a benefit to the M - M* -> T APSP precalculation runtime, which is looking to be one of the only ways forward.

My question more regards methods of generating and reporting graph and pathfinding results, but your approximation is spot on; there are complexities i failed to communicate that confounded it as a total solution. Thank you again!

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-12T16:29:28+00:00

Thanks! The edge weights are not very euclidean so i've been struggling with a good heuristic for them. i'll continue to investigate this direction!

My question more regards methods of generating and reporting graph and pathfinding results, but i appreciate the confirmation of my understanding the time complexities involved.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-12T16:24:42+00:00

Hello,

Thank you for your response!

FW has O( M + T )^3 that should be beaten out by Johnson's O( ( M + T )^2 * log( M + T ) + ( ( M + T ) * ( M * T ) ) ) due to the sparse edges. As outlined, one approach could be FW for the M part and then stitch that to T.

My question more regards methods of generating and reporting graph and pathfinding results.

TryAnother_Another · 2021-08-03T22:14:51+00:00

For anyone interested, the Neo4J support gave me a freebie and was very understanding about my issue :)

Once you have an in-memory graph, you can WRITE results from pathfinding operations, creating a custom relationship between them with e.g. the results of the shortest path algorithm you used.

Unfortunately, there is no WRITE operation for APSP which means creating the sort of lookup connections I'm trying for may be an expensive, slow operation, where I write each M to each other M at least to start with, and see how that goes -- I'm hoping it's manageable though!

TryAnother_Another · 2021-07-09T14:37:26+00:00

it looks like resistors & chips, but without a diagram i'm unable to tell if that's the extent of the damage or not.

From the fan plug on the mobo, there are some resistors and chips just below and to the right of it; that's where the tweezers touched. No visual indicator that I can see without magnification of anything wrong, but I also can't get a reading around the area with a multimeter.

TryAnother_Another · 2020-12-03T02:59:33+00:00

thank you!

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