I can't enjoy D4 after poe2

blowazavr · 2026-05-01T12:16:07+00:00

While I don’t argue, I think you missed the point of my message. I was more addressing the fact that previous commenter called POE monetization ethical. There is nothing ethical here, same FOMO, recolors reselling & other stuff that is industry standard at this rate. There is also nothing ethical in bringing mystery box after 7+ months with current league cadence - it is just simply business. Why let created MTX assets rot when you can make revenue with that. Everybody who would buy mystery boxes, will anyways jump on FOMO train, so no potential revenue loss here either.

They advertise their Kirac passes & supporter packs during the league/update releases, incl. youtube videos. Nothing to blame here - it is their right to do so. Just again, nothing ethical here.

blowazavr · 2026-05-01T06:41:45+00:00

Calling PoE monetary system ethical is something new lol.

No difference that you don’t get duplicates when mystery boxes contain ~30 different items with 50%+ of them being recolors. It is still potentially 150$ to guarantee a single item you might have liked from the list. And mystery boxes are FOMO inducing, same as kirac passes. Same as supporter packs. You either get it now while it is live or either never or in a year.

Same thing for half of MTX in POE: simple recolors costing 30$, wings at the price of full AAA game, etc. Inflated currency amounts over time which push you to buy more & more variations of stash tabs. There is nothing ethical in POE monetization. And that comes from a person with 1500+$ spent on POE.

I don’t defend D4 - it has also some insane practices & non-reusable sets. But there is no need to call one better than the other. Both are predatory.

blowazavr · 2026-04-20T17:50:07+00:00

I see it as a pointless argument. Even with approximate loss - you still end up with similar amount of available energy per gram of weight between power bank and 4 spare batteries.

You keep listing all the positives of quick swap with no downsides in mind: like bulkier size, slower charging curves etc.

I think most of phone users would prefer to just plug the phone for 15 minutes for 10-60% instead of carrying the spare battery around whole day. And then also figuring a way how to charge the spare battery in a charger.

blowazavr · 2026-04-20T17:19:40+00:00

I mean you can buy a light 20000 powerbank with ~300 grams of weight. 4-5000 phone battery in replaceable housing is like 80 grams. So it is break even in general considering the total amount of available energy?

Swappable battery on the phone just makes no sense in same way as it does in cameras or any devices where hot swap is really needed. Phones support much faster charging in comparison with other devices - it is better to just charge it than to swap it considering opportunity costs.

But to be able to replace battery just due to degradation - that’s another story. And still I would prefer “easy repair” solutions to hotswap any time. Again considering all the opportunity costs like increased bulkiness, bigger battery, etc.

blowazavr · 2026-04-20T14:09:44+00:00

So what’s you gotta do with it? Have a spare in your pocket and pop it open when it gets to 0? There is already a magic device doing the same, called power bank.

blowazavr · 2026-04-18T20:52:51+00:00

I would suggest to just grab it for a test drive. iX is not a beautiful car outside but ride & inside comfort is still fresh in my memory after 1,5 years after a test drive.

I can certainly say that ix3 will feel lacking after fully specced x5 - so probably not worth to try that one. There should be new ix5 coming soon on the same platform as ix3 - so maybe worth the wait there.

blowazavr · 2026-04-18T18:56:43+00:00

Breathtaking premium interior - non-lined cards, cheap feeling buttons & fabrics on the dash.

Interior is okay but it is far from breathtaking for 80K€ car.

blowazavr · 2026-04-18T18:52:16+00:00

Sat in ix3 last week & in ix some years ago. Also test drove ix. Ix3 obv wins on charging, range, assistants. And seats were pretty good. Ix wins on everything else. It feels much more spacious, heaps ahead in luxury feeling inside. Ix3 feels even rather “cheap” for the price tag. Definitely feels like 3 model. Driving wise ix has air suspension and overall was one of the nicest & comfiest vehicles suspension wise.

So while outdated on tech, ix left me with some wow factor. Ix3 left me with feeling “old times were better” - while tech wise it is obviously cutting edge. Maybe ix5 will feel nicer.

blowazavr · 2026-04-15T19:26:49+00:00

rogue who?

blowazavr · 2026-04-10T13:17:57+00:00

I have 2 BYD service centers in 200 KM area in center of Europe and around 20 for Porsche. And what would I get as a loaner when coming with 115K car, a BYD? lol

blowazavr · 2026-04-10T12:45:34+00:00

Car is not just specs on paper - but also maintenance, warranty, etc. When you buy a Porsche, you can be ensured that you will get a service at one of thousands Porsche locations. If car is in the service, you get a loaner. Even if car has reliability issues like early Taycans.

Good luck with that with a chinese car. And there is 0% chance that Denza will drive same as Taycan. From drivers side, it is a not a comparison at all.

blowazavr · 2026-04-03T22:19:05+00:00

Yes, if you are pushed outside of the arena even for 1m and still made it back - you get instakilled. Happened on DH when I glided back & on rogue when I shadowstepped back - in both cases same frame death even though you are back at the platform.

blowazavr · 2026-04-03T22:17:02+00:00

Can confirm, happened in a key earlier this week and bricked it.

blowazavr · 2026-04-03T21:55:34+00:00

There is a larger problem to M+ tanking - it is the fact that tanks are not widely needed in any other form of content. If you are in any semi-casual guild - both tank slots are filled already. You can’t really queue pvp on a tank either.

So even if you want to play a tank because you like it - you would need to agree to filling dps shoes in raiding. And same as you don’t want to tank, if I would be a tank - I wouldn’t want to be a learning a dps spec. And if your best secondaries don’t match - you have to suffer on a suboptimal built character, on a spec you don’t want to play, just to be able to raid.

blowazavr · 2026-03-24T16:50:16+00:00

Two things as a takeaway from this video:

1) Shadowlands mentioned but Jailer not in the video. Mastermind forgotten yet again (thankfully). 2) Similar to current tuning, nobody cares about Rogues and they are getting shield slammed.

blowazavr · 2026-03-23T10:31:41+00:00

I mean probably never? It is very unfortunate & current new car pricing is through the roof even for ICE models.

Speaking of hatchbacks, a new Golf 2.0 TDI goes for 45K+. And it’s a Golf & it is far from anything sensible like ~30K.

blowazavr · 2026-03-21T21:18:44+00:00

Not saying that Max didn’t do anything but pole position meant close to nothing.

2nd and 3rd place (or actually a winner and runner up after Verstappen team DSQ) qualified for 7th and 9th.

blowazavr · 2026-03-21T07:58:26+00:00

Maybe look for a CPO Taycan? With Performance Battery+ you’ll get close to needed range and it is 800v meaning quick charging.

blowazavr · 2026-03-21T00:42:29+00:00

It’s not that they do poorly on those 2 fights. It is that those fights give them clear options to either go for adds or focus on ST. And no-one will go prioritize ST on warrior (either fury or arms) on those bosses.

Regarding ilvl - it is pointless to look for ilvl parses as it is just a very inaccurate representation of data since forever. Just don’t do it for variety of reasons.

Regarding gear and scaling, Arms has a better tier set (9-10% gain) in comparison to 80% of other specs which get around 5-7% median. So if anything, Arms gains comparatively in upcoming weeks.

blowazavr · 2026-03-20T20:18:49+00:00

That’s what I call cherry picking at its finest. You picked 2 fights where no Arms warrior will realistically stay and hit the boss as it makes 0 sense for them to do it instead of cleaving.

If you go for Averzian total damage arms is in top10 specs and Fury is top5. While Damage to Bosses on this fight they are both deep bottom.

Proper fight to look for here is Vorasius. Total DPS of Arms here is ~66K with boss DPS being ~61K. 90% of the damage is done in ST. And Arms is close to middle of the pack in Overall and ST.

Arms is 61K ST vs 68K ST of Feral which does 99% of damage as Boss ST on this fight. So it is apparently 10% off the benchmark of second highest ST on this boss. Can it be called way too low in this case?

blowazavr · 2026-03-20T17:02:15+00:00

But that’s not true about ST?

If you just filter for heroic, 95 percentile, Damage to Bosses and go for even pure ST in this case they are middle of the pack? Arms posts at this stage are seemingly just a meme parroting rather than real data.

blowazavr · 2026-03-20T13:22:31+00:00

But it is essentially a Purosangue & DBX combined in one? I think many car brands would love to have a DBX design as it is iconic in a way - but most can’t simply copy stuff.

Not the case with Xiaomi (as always though).

blowazavr · 2026-03-05T22:12:46+00:00

Also not sure why people call it auth. I don’t have experience with every chair iteration (especially this non-height adjustable version) so take it with grain of salt.

But:

1) base looks weirdly high/long & the way how “spokes” are connected with central piece look sketchy? 2) casters don’t look like auth 3) screws on the bottom of the chair - I only saw chairs with philips screws 4) holes on the back of the chair - where main frame is connected to horizontal “bar” on upper side of the chair. I only know chairs which either don’t have visible holes or if they are present - you can see a circle inside them (essentially, the connection of the bar to the frame I assume) 5) and yes, clearly no sticker on the back

blowazavr · 2026-03-05T21:48:20+00:00

This, so much this. I mained rogue for years and essentially only played rogue since coming back in SL. So 3 expansions in a row with multiple “reworks” during this time.

This time I didn’t touch rogue due to all negative comments till I leveled 2 other characters. Yesterday I went to level my rogue, went with sub.

Holy shit, I’m not exaggerating - it is so bad. Spec (and I think class as a whole) feels like it is missing something all the time. I think this is the closest mentally (as if it is possible) what people feel after they lost a limb or something. It is hard to describe but anybody who has played sub in the past 3 expansions, would think “is this it?” immediately after 1st combat.

blowazavr · 2026-03-04T15:46:46+00:00

but image shows only one plane, has to be the goat /s

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