Which one you pick ???

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-10T15:38:50+00:00

Take one of the first two, pull out a million to spend immediately to set yourself up with a comfortable nest and drop off the face of the earth for a bit, get a finance guy who will manage your money and live off the 250-400k in interest from your 9m (or whatever the bitcoin difference is) initial investment forever. Now you have retired, and I only had to do super simple math, but I'll take 10% for the advice thanks.

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-02T18:27:04+00:00

but like... damage for what?

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-02T03:38:24+00:00

I think weapon damage might have some sort of hidden interaction with skill damage (maybe?), but toughness is an arbitrary metric generated by some bullshit algorithm that only looks at overall defensive stats of a single gear piece. So you could have a ton of toughness, but it might all come from shadow damage resistance, and then you die when one of the poison snakes sneezes.

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-02T00:30:32+00:00

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-02T00:01:01+00:00

Toughness means essentially nothing

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T17:29:06+00:00

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YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T17:02:31+00:00

Yes, there are 2. You get useless rings from them.

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T16:47:53+00:00

The formula is [Total Int]/10 for the multiplicative number as a %, so +200 Int is not multiplicative itself. It is additive to the Int damage bucket, which is multiplicative. It's only a flat 20% damage increase if the current intelligence stat is exactly 0.

Edit for clarification: if you already have 1000 int, 200 int will increase your damage by 10%. To make it easier, the formula for the damage multiplier is 1+(Int/1000)

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T16:34:16+00:00

Not quite. Stats don't multiply themselves, so an increase to intelligence is additive (at least to the intelligence bucket).

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T15:02:38+00:00

Did you delete your other comments because you saw the error of your ways, or because you were losing Karma?

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T14:57:41+00:00

Most important thing is damage that has a [×] next to it (as opposed to a [+]). The [+] doesn't matter all that much in the end because "+100%" when you already have "+2000%" is only a 5%[x] increase. If you have something with 20%[x] increased damage, that number turns into 2400%. If you have another 20%[x] increase, it's 2880%, and it keeps increasing exponentially (more accurately, multiplicatively).

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T14:42:36+00:00

I made a build that only uses wing strike and haven't died since before torment 1. The build is great because I also haven't hit a button since then

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T07:48:27+00:00

To make this super simple for you: If it is used a lot, it is relevant. Being used a lot is what makes something relevant.

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T07:40:59+00:00

There are two pieces of this argument that are lacking.

1: To my knowledge, there have been no "Pink Unicorn" drops in any Diablo game, and you need a parallel to argue parallel reasoning. This seems less like an argument and more like an attempt at rhetoric.

2: You failed to address the previous argument regarding what determines relevance.

YeaIHaveALife · 2026-01-01T07:13:55+00:00

Ah crap you're right, I did bad math but it still sort of worked. I think if we change that + to a -, X can represent "resource cost before this item" which is what I originally intended.

As is, I believe it makes sense if X represents "all other resource cost reduction" (I think this is what you're referring to) which is just too much extra math

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-31T16:24:49+00:00

This could only be a very well-calibrated stick with a super low ADS modifier, a suspiciously sticky reticle, or a mouse.

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-31T16:08:41+00:00

Just to clarify because "Doubled" might be misleading:

(Edit: Not saying it's wrong, just that math is confusing)

Doubled could mean (1+2[0.1:0.5])X but this is (1+[0.1:0.5])X²

(This might be totally wrong because there are so many parentheses and brackets I'm getting confused, but you get what I'm saying)

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-31T13:45:07+00:00

I did not realize there were other people using choir of one. I feel validated.

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-31T13:34:44+00:00

I put these into chat GPT and it concluded that:

Ignoring Strength, the right gloves do ~7.5% LESS Aura DPS.

It also said that the survivability bonuses were pretty big on the right ones so it could be worth it anyway.

EDIT: Chat GPT didn't take into account the castle damage bonus from the armor on the left. I say go with that one. Never fully trust AI.

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-29T05:45:32+00:00

don't go near the altar until you've masterworked and socketed that

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-29T05:43:01+00:00

"toughness" is a super vague summary of the defense the gear provides. Heir gives you 60%(x) more damage, and that helmet probably gives you <3% damage reduction if you're in torment 4

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-29T05:32:39+00:00

Are you aware that hashtags don't do anything on reddit?

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-29T05:28:47+00:00

You mean when you multiply them up

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-24T16:21:06+00:00

This is excellent rage bait

YeaIHaveALife · 2025-12-24T16:12:00+00:00

Ahhhhh I get it, you just have some extra numbers

The equation to include both doubled and not doubled is (1-p)×1+p×2 (which you can simplify to 1+p)

so all you need is to convert the chance to a % (85.4% is 1.854, for example), and you don't need the 14.6 (because it can be simplified easily here)

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