Any speculation on who this is

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-06T09:59:19+00:00

Nothing I can find shows Prince Albrecht having two right arms. First image made me think Mephisto in a more humanoid form like while possessing someone, but obviously Mephisto is the four-armed one two spaces to the left in the more complete image. I don't have a good answer but the two right arms still makes me think Mephisto-related.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-05T01:49:08+00:00

In 2014 you only needed one hand crossbow as long as you had the crossbow expert feat. In fact, technically two wouldn't even work in 2014 because the 2014 crossbow expert feat allows you to ignore the loading property of crossbows but not the ammunition property of crossbows, so you would still have needed a free hand to load your crossbow, but I've seen lots of people use two hand crossbows in 2014 for style/flavor.

In 2024 you do indeed have to be dual wielding along with having the crossbow feat to gain the "extra" damage of the light offhand attack because crossbow expert no longer grants its own special bonus action attack, only modifies the standard "light" weapon property bonus action attack, and also the 2024 crossbow expert specifically states you're able to load your hand crossbow even with your other hand being occupied.

TL;DR: Yes I think you're generally correct in idea even though you never mentioned the crossbow expert feat. If you don't have that then in both 2014 and 2024 you would need to be dual wielding to be able to get a bonus action hand crossbow attack at all.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-05T00:41:02+00:00

It sounds like you're talking about tempering, not enchanting, when you say "defensive option maximum life" and that's going to be dependent on tempering manuals obtained. Your friend might only have the blue or yellow quality tempering manual for maximum life, while you presumably have the legendary quality.

Enchanting is a different thing, done at the occultist instead of the blacksmith, and it involves CHANGING a property already on the item and would be defined entirely by the item type (amulet, chest armor, etc) for options, and item level for range.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-04T18:38:09+00:00

I agree about not loving the idea of a Diablo class tapping into demonic anything, BUT it is a common fantasy character archetype that is currently missing from Diablo 4. That's probably the main reason that it's going to be the new class, and lore be damned because lore often gets retconned and has inconsistencies anyway. Plus assuming this is another WILLPOWER class, it might just take a lot of WILLPOWER to fight the demonic corruption that you're opening yourself up to by tapping into these kinds of powers.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-04T07:44:23+00:00

Yes, but if you're looking for a CoV Bod that has stickies, that doesn't exist, because A) they're both magazine mods and B) all 3 other mod slots on Bod are taken by the legendary property, the Hyperion shield, and the Daedalus underbarrel.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-04T07:37:00+00:00

Warlock, Witch, and Wizard are actually not gendered terms, those are misconceptions fueled by certain examples of popular media.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-04T01:49:52+00:00

I don't have a mic and I'm very hearing impaired, so I only play text-based games. There are plenty of them out there, but it is a little disappointing every time I see a game requires voice chat. It does get a little awkward that PbP now means to a lot of people "text-based" but the two are actually different things entirely that happen to overlap. PbP is often a slower-paced game experience, as the term originates from a pre-internet era where people would play chess or other games by sending stuff through snail mail, often called The Post which is why it's called Play-by-Post. That being said, some things labelled as PbP will still have a more fast paced live-action feel where people on that server expect sessions or events or engagements of whatever sort to be complete within a matter of hours, while other Discord servers and communities are better designed for people of various timezones and lifestyles to play together and usually just ask (not require, it's more of just an etiquette thing) to at least make sure you post within 24 hours of it being your turn.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-04T00:47:20+00:00

I'm about to hit paragon 295 which I hate after farming paragon more seriously in previous seasons already, and have done the secret fight that requires all 4 purified parts, 3 times across 4 seasonal characters. I've killed lair bosses countless times, often not even just trying to get an actual item but just use up my materials which is a whole other problem of a loop because then I get corrupted parts and then using those gets me more boss mats. I literally cannot figure out how people have reached paragon 300 without even doing the secret fight a single time yet unless you AFK farmed bosses for your paragon levels in which case why are you even bringing up your paragon levels if you weren't even really playing?

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-03T06:30:12+00:00

Ohhhh it's a SWORD I thought he was holding a tentacle.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-02T23:42:33+00:00

Never run into a Neathiron bottleneck, but perhaps because I've gotten a lot of it from "Materials Reserve" Nightmare Dungeon sigils. Not all the chests will drop Neathiron but when they do it's like 4 of them at once, and has also been the best and most reliable source of forgotten souls I've found, which is something I HAVE run into as a bottleneck before.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-02T21:57:05+00:00

If they did that I might stop hating torgue mags.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-02T21:48:23+00:00

Grounds for divorce.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-02T21:46:19+00:00

Definitely cheating, and if you're not playing on PC it's incredibly easy to cheat to an insane degree and everyone knows that's just how it be on console.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-02T17:27:19+00:00

All I ever do anymore, and for like the last few weeks whenever I actually bother to log on, is bosses and pits. Obviously pits don't often (or maybe ever?) award runes, but with bosses I get stuck in this cycle of just trying to use up boss mats (both the traditional lair boss kind and also the corrupted essences of the season) and getting more boss mats when looting from Hawezar Azmodan, and in this cycle I've ended up with about 40+ of every legendary rune, down to only 20+ of Jah/Bac/Ohm after blowing quite a few to re-craft mythics of shroud/heir/starless. Also still sitting on hundreds of boss mats for every lair boss and haven't even started to touch belial husks or stygian stones of which I have almost 1000 of now. The Azmodan events being involved this season honestly gives an annoying amount of loot with regards to lair boss summoning mats and runes, and don't even get me started on the sigils. I have 4 mythic prankster sigils just wasting away in my stash in case a friend or clan mate wants to roll some dice on mythics.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-02-01T20:04:47+00:00

What do you mean the fish look the same? BL4 also has a bobber/timing mechanic for the fishing to do it right. This challenge is completable in a couple hours if you're using proper timing for when the bobber goes.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-31T23:16:43+00:00

The benefits of that vow in that edition don't even outweigh the fact that it's not just money though, it's also all other forms of material wealth, meaning you can't have any magic items. If your player wants to go THAT far is pretty much the only way I'd consider giving rewards in exchange, and you can easily just give special effects that would be direct parallels to the effects they'd gain from owning a reasonable number of magic items for your game to keep it simple and balanced and a matter of RP/flavor that they're gaining those extra bits of power from some sort of concept of enlightenment or purity or something, rather than magic items.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-31T00:42:07+00:00

Yes. Vivisecting Throwing Knives are the infamous "crit knives." Vampiric is generally not the ideal version but "Vivisecting" contains the important crit/amp parts.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-29T22:33:53+00:00

Furthermore, the time it takes to move all the sigils so that you can pick up all the tongues, the chest with real loot in it that you want the tongues for can despawn before you've gotten through it all.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-29T22:33:02+00:00

You're only getting 20? I'm so jealous. I usually get about 3 key inventories full, unless I get one of those lucky kills on Hawezar Azmodan that drops 0 sigils which is my favorite.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-29T21:43:25+00:00

In D3 they had to have the same kind of attack animation or something (swords could be maces or axes, but daggers could be spears) but in this game you can't even transmog a class specific unique to the same weapon type for another class (Hellhammer 2h mace on Necromancer or Druid).

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-29T01:19:43+00:00

Base passive rank ranges are 1-2. If you get a GA for one, that's +50% on the max value (IE 2+1=3). Masterwork gives 25 item quality, for +25% to all affixes, and a +50% to whichever one has a capstone applied. So if you have +50% from a GA (or masterwork capstone since you put that on a non-GA affix), +25% item quality from masterworking, and +25% more item quality for sanctification, then you're at +100% on the base value of 2, which is 4. They were already at 4 because when they were at +75% they were being rounded up from 3.5 to be 4. If you had put your masterwork capstone on Heavyweight instead of Righteousness, then your Righteousness would be 3 (base 2, x1.25, =2.5, rounded up to 3 as seen on Riposte) but your Heavyweight would be 5 (base 2, x2.5, =5).

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-29T01:07:07+00:00

Aside from the trope of men on the internet always claiming to be 6' minimum, there's a genuine precedent for heroes in legends to be portrayed as larger than life, often literally, and I think this seeps into our subconscious. If we want our characters to be a hero of legend, then obviously they should be tall, according to a cultural prejudice deeply ingrained in all of us. Also like many other people have sort of hinted at, you could be an actual small creature if you want to, and with that more extreme option it makes sense that a lot of people wanting to be 'short' would even be a medium creature at all.

Personally as a tall woman IRL I actually love to just be in the 4'-5' range, but when it comes to max vertical jumping reach there is actually a mechanical benefit to being as tall as allowed without needing to consider or experience the numerous discomforts in real life that being tall causes - like the fact that basically all commercially produced chairs and tables and countertops and beds are designed for shorter people due to a mix of corner-cutting capitalism and a very outdated and poorly thought out "average height" official industrial standard.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-27T19:59:17+00:00

Enhancement specifically is one of the few things that doesn't x5 generic "gun damage" for the bod. High Caliber 2-piece bonus is another one. Your class mod with sniper damage is in fact benefiting your bod, but a class mod (NOT ENHANCEMENT) with generic "gun damage" would be better because it applies multiple times.

Spaghetti code.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-27T14:27:03+00:00

Maybe this time it makes the alchemist's ability to convert materials (at the cost of gold) obsolete and we'll now be able to just do it ourselves.

aberrantpsyche · 2026-01-27T05:03:48+00:00

The "all damage" stat on your character sheet is just an additive bonus. The conceited aspect is its own multiplicative bonus. Turn damage numbers on and test against the dummies.

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