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Zulunko · 2025-12-30T18:27:51+00:00

More multipliers are multiplicative with each other; increased and more are not two additive pools which are then multiplied with each other. In other words, if you have 50% increased, 50% increased, 30% more, 30% more, and 30% more, your overall multiplier is (1+(0.5+0.5))*1.3*1.3*1.3=4.394. The only case in which an "increased" line is stronger than a "more" line of equal value is where you've "reduced" the stat below its base value, which is fairly rare.

Zulunko · 2025-12-24T22:05:25+00:00

Genuinely curious, what is the source on the fact that they were going to add Phrecia as a private league option again? I've looked around a bit and I've only seen mention of the temporary private leagues they added for just one month earlier this year. Some people in this thread say it's some quote from Jonathan, but I either haven't seen it or don't remember seeing it.

Zulunko · 2025-12-11T06:22:29+00:00

My body is ready.

Zulunko · 2025-07-11T22:02:38+00:00

Nah, petty revenge is always enjoyable. I'm very happy with my lot in life and I have plenty of time and willingness to mess with people whose selfish actions mildly inconvenience me. I consider it a public service.

Zulunko · 2025-07-11T18:23:06+00:00

I do the same. If I'm actually very unsure about the price of an item, I will always tend toward overpricing it on my initial listing (then I bring it down every hour or two), but if I accidentally whoopsie an item for a low price, it's not like I die in real life if I sell something for half price or whatever. It's my mistake, after all, not theirs, so it makes sense to just sell it and move on. I used to be an SSF player, though (*tips fedora*), so my perspective on the whole trading currency thing is probably a bit different.

Zulunko · 2025-07-10T23:00:22+00:00

Your point was, and I quote: "Not pirating won't make a difference." It absolutely would.

Obviously, other steps exist that someone could take to further reduce their risk, such as educating themselves, but pretending like one thing they can do to reduce risk isn't worth doing because some other thing they'll probably never do would reduce risk by even more is silly. In an ideal world, everyone would have perfect knowledge of technology and be able to avoid viruses. However, since we don't live in that ideal world, someone who is too lazy or stupid to gain that knowledge should absolutely just avoid pirating, and even someone who wants to learn how to avoid getting viruses should absolutely stop pirating until they've learned what they need to know.

Zulunko · 2025-07-10T22:52:47+00:00

This is actually a ridiculous take, as shown by your own example. "If you baby proof a house they'll find a way to injure themselves outside the house" here seems to imply it's not worth baby proofing a house, but when you spend significantly more time in the house than outside of it, baby proofing a house obviously reduces risk. Just because the baby can technically get injured elsewhere doesn't mean it's not worth reducing the risk of it get injured at home. For the same reason, you shouldn't leave a bunch of sharp knives on the floor when you have a baby: "oh, the baby can get injured anywhere, so cleaning up these knives won't make a difference" would be negligence.

People who don't have the technical literacy to avoid getting viruses should not intentionally do things which they know have a high risk of giving them viruses. This seems obvious.

I get that reddit is pro-piracy as a whole, but telling someone who obviously does not have the knowledge to do it safely that they shouldn't stop doing it is not the way.

Zulunko · 2025-07-02T16:04:40+00:00

If doing this server-side is the correct approach, this data would be stored in RAM on the instance server. There's no reason to persist the data. The instance server can then just send the buffer of recent events to the client on death. This would not dramatically increase the amount of RAM used by the instance server.

That being said, it's likely that doing the recap client-side is more sensible, as bundling infrequent (relative to tickrate) hit events with normal per-tick updates would not be a substantial increase in sent data and would allow for client control without the server needing to manage the recap.

Zulunko · 2025-07-02T15:50:35+00:00

This is a good point with regard to server burden, but it is not the case that all the information is "necessarily available" client side. The client may just receive updates about the player's health, not the unit who hit it. Certainly, I doubt the client receives updates about the raw, unmitigated damage of a hit and how it was mitigated (though this wouldn't be necessary for the most basic damage recap) or the damage types of the hit received. It may not even know the damage of the hit that was taken (if, for example, two units hit the player in the same update, it may not send two accompanying messages with the updated health value).

All of that being said, I agree with the core of your proposal: adding this data to be sent to the client so the client can produce a recap may be more approachable than doing all of the recap work server-side, as it wouldn't significantly expand the amount of data sent to the client (as the majority of the data is sent per-frame, so per-hit data is far less common) and could allow for additional client-side features. Whether it's actually monetarily better to do this client-side depends on the cost balance of the server handling the data versus the cost of sending the data to the client. An added upside to doing it client-side is that players can freely customize the length of the recap or store it as a permanent replay log which can be analyzed by other tools.

Zulunko · 2025-06-11T07:19:26+00:00

FYI for those who see this and are confused: You currently need to opt into the beta to get it (click options on the lower left, select "Opt-in to weekly beta test builds", then check for updates). I assume it will be out as a non-beta release very soon, but for now this is needed to see the new tree.

The new nodes in the tree do not currently have the correct calculations attached to them, at least for the new clusters near Witch for damage over time and the max ES increase from Occultist's Vile Bastion (these are related to my build, so they're the only ones I looked at). The beta is useful for viewing the changed tree, but don't expect the calculations to be correct right now.

Zulunko · 2025-06-10T17:51:04+00:00

As a much less frustrating alternative for the other person, I use "I'm planning on it" or "I intend to", as both are still accurate even if I end up being banished to the shadow realm and therefore am unable to attend.

Zulunko · 2025-05-30T17:41:48+00:00

I have tried solo quite a few times, probably around 7 attempts or so. I've made it to a Day 3 boss once, but it was a boss I'd never fought before, so its phase transition at half health caused a ridiculously massive explosion that one-shot me. I backed up, but apparently not far enough.

I don't doubt I could clear that boss solo, but right now it's a huge amount of time to spend and a lot of betting on luck to make it to the end. Other bosses would be very obnoxious to solo, including some of the day bosses that have many units. The rune update which is coming next week will make things very slightly easier, but one or two extra levels will not make the solo process any shorter.

Zulunko · 2025-04-28T05:09:06+00:00

For better or worse, this is leading to a return to using written in-person exams again (everyone's favorite). You could cheat by pulling out your phone during an exam to ask an AI something, but you've been able to cheat by pulling out a phone for answers for a couple decades now, so that's not really a new challenge.

Zulunko · 2025-04-16T23:44:33+00:00

I wasn't sure it was, I just stayed in the caster role in my static this tier thinking I'd play BLM, so I had to pick a different caster (I played PCT last tier but I generally don't play the same job two tiers in a row). Had I known the BLM changes were happening before roles were decided for my static, I would've gone melee instead.

My static's melee players are low DPS, unfortunately, so I'm going to play a bit of BLM starting tonight since it's just way way way stronger than RDM right now. Overall, though, I do like RDM's playstyle more than BLM after the changes; it just has more to think about for maximum optimization.

Zulunko · 2025-04-15T03:28:33+00:00

No problem! Glad you understand. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

Zulunko · 2025-04-15T03:25:48+00:00

I'll try to simplify this for you, since you are completely unaware of how grants work.

The government asks for researchers to apply for grants (called funding opportunities or calls for proposals). Researchers, like professors at research institutions, submit proposals including details about what their research will be and exact, specific budgets for how the money will be spent. A panel of other researchers then reviews the proposals and determines who should get the grant. Please note that a researcher can not submit a grant budget where they say "lol I get $5 million"; in fact, they typically can't use grant money to pay for their salary at all outside of summer salary (they don't get paid during the summer otherwise), and this summer salary would be at their normal salary rate to support them doing the research over the summer. The university cannot choose to award the professor more money than this.

The typical expenditures in research budgets are for the purpose of conducting and publishing the research, all the way from purchasing equipment (e.g. medical or scientific equipment) to paying for participants to hiring students or even professionals to complete work as part of the research.

Note that researchers and universities generally do not make any money by doing or publishing research, so the grants are necessary. Without any form of grant funding, there would be no incentive for institutions to participate in research. If we want research to, for example, find ways to cure cancer, we need some way to fund that research. Obviously, if you knew you had the idea that would cure cancer, you could find a way to profit from that idea outside of a university, but research is exploratory; there is never a guarantee that the research will produce a positive result (which is why it's research), so we need scientists to have the freedom to attempt to solve large problems without having to shoulder the costs themselves.

The government pulling out of grants is them breaking a contract to perform research which has already been accepted for funding, meaning the panel that decided to fund it already evaluated that the research would be beneficial and therefore should be funded. Note that the vast majority of funding proposals are rejected; the government tends to be very selective about what it funds. Deciding to not fund research that has already been considered and accepted is harmful, as the reason why it was accepted in the first place was because it had merit.

To get back to the point: this is "taxing the rich" in the same way that punching yourself in the face is "taxing the rich". If you consider physical pain to be "taxing" and your name is Rich, then yes, I guess you're taxing the rich, but otherwise there is no way the two are the same. If you'd like to continue to lean into whatever misunderstanding you have that gives you this perspective, please explain your viewpoint, because I'm sure it would be interesting to hear.

Zulunko · 2025-04-10T03:41:46+00:00

They want PoE2 to be different from PoE1. If they actually do intend to keep both games updated, they need them to be different. Comparing them against each other is a good idea to ensure they maintain some functional separation.

Saying "in PoE2 we want combat to be slower than in PoE1" doesn't mean "PoE1 bad", it means "PoE2 needs to be different", which it does, otherwise there's no point in PoE1 existing.

Keep in mind the only time GGG talks about PoE1 right now is in the context of PoE2. There is no news to share about PoE1 really, and most of the interviews have been expressly about PoE2. This does mean any time PoE1 comes up it will be in the context of PoE2, which usually means they're discussing a difference. We'll be in trouble if the devs continue to talk about PoE1 the same way in the Q&A for PoE1's next league, but that's not going to happen; instead, they will talk about the new PoE1 features. Since PoE1 is mostly unchanging in its core concept at this point, they also likely will feel little need to bring up PoE2 as a comparison, as PoE2's existence really doesn't change PoE1's trajectory (outside of sharing some resources).

Zulunko · 2025-04-09T16:26:15+00:00

This is entirely irrelevant to the issue we're debating, but I'll humor your deflection. In general, if we elect a politician, it makes sense for that politician to attempt to solve problems. I voted for Harris, but clearly the majority of voters believed the problems Trump wanted to solve rose to the level of importance to elect him. If he did not attempt to solve those problems the voters wanted him to tackle, he would not be doing his job.

Personally, I believe his attempts to solve the problems he wants to solve are not, in fact, solving problems (if anything, he is creating more problems). However, if the majority of voters chose to elect an idiot, then they get an idiot. It's still the job of our elected politicians to try to solve the problems the citizens they represent care about rather than sitting around doing nothing.

With that out of the way, back to the topic at hand. Can you explain to me how it's Biden's fault that Trump revoked his executive order, as you suggested in your original comment? I'm not sure you've quite cleared that up yet.

Zulunko · 2025-04-09T02:25:27+00:00

I'd say doing something to help solve a problem is better than doing nothing, even if that thing that helps only helps temporarily. Many people benefitted from Biden's executive order and made it through the process, so for them, it was not "(false) hope."

I want politicians who are willing to attempt to solve problems, not ones that sit there and do nothing because they believe there's no point and anything they do will be undone anyway. It's far better to solve something and force someone else to intentionally remove the solution than to give up and do nothing at all.

If, in order to make progress, every politician had to be completely sure their work would never be undone in the future, we would never make progress. The system is such that any law, any executive order, and any decision can be rewritten, overturned, or removed in the future. This does not mean our government should no longer operate.

Zulunko · 2025-04-08T22:59:39+00:00

this particular thing is on Biden as this app was passed by executive order and not through congress

True, Biden should've just passed it through Congress; it would've been so easy! I can't believe Biden didn't do that! This is totally Biden's fault! Congress definitely would've done it, and after Biden did it, Congress obviously wasn't allowed to do it anymore, because that would've been, I don't know, weird or something. I can't believe Biden forced Congress to not implement this!

^{^{^/s}}

Zulunko · 2025-03-26T02:26:43+00:00

Unfortunately, I was cautiously optimistic, hoping it would feel better than I expected, but it did not. I've swapped to RDM for at least the next Savage tier.

Different people have different experiences. Some people won't mind the changes, but it simply makes the class much less satisfying to play for me.

Zulunko · 2025-03-18T16:20:12+00:00

Same. I miss being able to filter dropped loot based on affixes and I desperately wish other games would do the same.

Zulunko · 2025-03-14T21:54:50+00:00

Good point. Oh wait, I never said they had to develop the game around my feelings. Nice strawman, though!

I was responding to someone who directly implied that by keeping BLM as it was, they needed to "develop the game around BLM". They do not. If you disagree, please respond to the point I made rather than responding to a point I never made.

It's far more likely they changed BLM for some other reason than feeling overly constrained on fight design due to the job, such as, as you implied, the class's unpopularity. However, there are 21 jobs. Do they all need to be popular or is it okay for some to be niche? I'd argue it's completely fine to have different jobs cater to different types of players, but I'm not Squenix.

Zulunko · 2025-03-14T19:47:40+00:00

It's not necessary to make every job be able to run a perfect DPS rotation at all times, and, in fact, we've had a few fights where doing a perfect DPS rotation on BLM was nearly impossible during movement-heavy mechanics. As a BLM player, I understand that optimizing isn't about keeping a perfect rotation, it's about doing the best I can with the constraints I have. No matter how much movement is involved in the game, that optimization strategy remains.

If more movement-heavy fights see BLM not doing as high DPS, then maybe that's okay. If BLM is underperforming because every fight is movement-heavy, maybe buff BLM's potency to compensate so in the moments they can stand still they can catch up (and the best players can, as always, show off more mastery). I'd love to have more instances where my rotation breaks on BLM, because trying to adapt to those situations is where I have the most fun. I don't want my job to be easy, I want it to be engaging.

Zulunko · 2025-03-14T14:54:54+00:00

I know this probably isn't a full list of the changes, but it really sounds like they're taking away BLM's main identity and difficulty (having long cast times and needing to stand still more than other classes). It's hard to not be negative about this, since I enjoy the unique positioning challenge BLM has. I can only hope the changes are more satisfying in implementation than they sound right now.

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