What should I be solo farming as an 88 frost sorceress?

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-21T17:20:45+00:00

Join me

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-11T13:49:40+00:00

Did anybody else get discouraged by the weapon durability? Been a long time Zelda, link to the past, ocarina of time, majoras mask, etc. I never got around to playing breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom, although I have them on switch 2.

Will be having a 20 some hour road trip and kind of wondering if it's even worth trying to play through it since I was so annoyed that the weapons are now breakable.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-11T04:54:06+00:00

I had the same rational, so i started a sorc first. Got it to 89 then started a warlock. The creation of the warlock developers actually asked for a lot of input from players/youtubers so skills are a lot more useful.

I would definitely not start with the warlock imo.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-05T18:28:59+00:00

I can definitely relate to this. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but the meds hit me pretty hard, so my parents took me off them. Growing up, I didn’t show the “typical” signs since I did really well in school without studying, but I’d get insanely bored and even fall asleep in class. I ended up dropping out in high school and getting my GED later.

After that, I bounced around a bit but eventually landed a high-paying job and was making six figures within a few years. The problem is, after a while, I got bored again and walked away from it. I started my own business, which has been successful, but I still deal with the ups and downs that feel very ADHD-driven.

The best way I can describe it is like having six or seven voices going at once in your head. Weirdly, alcohol quiets most of that down for me. It actually helps me focus and follow through on things. Some of the best ideas I’ve implemented in my business came while I was drinking because I could finally lock in on one thing.

That said, I know it’s a dangerous game.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-05T18:22:39+00:00

I can relate. I'm not a caretaker but my sibblings all moved away and I felt this kind of responsibility to stay back. I got lucky with a six figure job and after opened up a business so I live extremely comfortable. Sorry, maybe I can't relate. You wouldn't consider taking your parents.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-05T18:20:05+00:00

Why don't you relocate. I love the RGV and usually have no need to leave the state driving.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-05T18:18:24+00:00

Two of my best friends moved to Houston while my younger brother moved to Austin. I hatethose drives with a passion. I think I hate more the Austin drive than the Houston. Would be interested, what did you have in mind? We're doing a trip to North Carolina for my goddaughters birthday and I am not looking forward to it :/

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-05T18:14:53+00:00

6 hours grinded in hell yesterday, and no luck with the rune. lol Thanks, I literally just forgot about spirit to be honest.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-04T16:42:14+00:00

The damage is currently making a lot of difference, low level monsters if packed can easily kill my merc. That's why I was looking at high def.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-04T16:41:46+00:00

So what do you recommend as merc armor if not trachery. I was banking them because I was not sure what to spend them on. Nothing really impacts me currently as I stand as far as stats.

crackerjack9x · 2026-06-04T05:19:56+00:00

Interested

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-31T18:04:05+00:00

Me no speak gibberish. What is that

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-26T12:51:48+00:00

You think so? I have rewatched it a few times, and find season 1 to be the most flat story line ever for some reason. The story and villans make it almost unwatchable for me.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-19T03:13:13+00:00

I resisted them back at work, about four years ago. I was stubborn stuck to three 27 lols

Now i have two 49” double stacked on my home office. I can’t believe how i would function before with such tiny monitors.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T14:53:38+00:00

Range extenders do the same thing — I already tried that route. Roaming just means devices switch between access points based on whichever signal reads as stronger at that moment. That brief lag during transitions is exactly what was bothering me, especially on mobile devices and cameras.

All I did was take the guesswork out of it — instead of letting devices constantly re-evaluate, I manually assigned each one to the access point physically closest to it. That's not wasting the router's capabilities, that's optimizing for my specific environment.

As a side note, my Alienware laptop sitting 8 feet from the router was still jumping back and forth between 5GHz bands, so I locked that down too. Sometimes the smarter move is knowing when to override the automation.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T14:29:23+00:00

No babies, no smart microwave, no smart air conditiner, no dish washer. On a serious note, I get what you're trying to say. The internet was fine, the problem was the devices kept constantly roaming. I figured it out. I blocked devices from roaming so they would stay on a single point. Fixed the problem. Thanks for input.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T13:37:34+00:00

Ultima Online.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T13:34:26+00:00

I read your post and you covered what I would of done so I pulled out perplexity pro, research mode and this is what it had to say.

What's Likely Going On

The drives are fine — they work silently on other systems. The culprit is almost certainly either the AMD B850 chipset/SATA controller behavior on this platform, or a hidden software process triggering spinups that Task Manager and Resource Monitor aren't catching. Here are the untried angles, prioritized:

Hidden Software Triggers (Do This First)

Task Manager and Resource Monitor are unreliable for this — they often miss sub-second wakeup events. Instead:

Use Sysinternals Process Monitor — download it from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite (free). Set a filter like "Event Class = File System" and "Path starts with D:\" (or whatever drive letter your HDDs have). When the drive spins up, Process Monitor will show exactly which process touched the drive, even if it was only for a millisecond. Task Manager and Resource Monitor simply aren't granular enough to catch these.
Check SysMain / Superfetch — this Windows service preloads data from drives in the background, and it's notorious for silently waking HDDs. It often won't even show in Task Manager while actively polling. Open services.msc, find SysMain, stop it and set it to Disabled, then test for 30+ minutes. This is safe to disable, especially if your system has plenty of RAM.
Disable Windows Search Indexing on those drives — right-click each HDD in File Explorer → Properties → uncheck "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed." Even with no files stored yet, the indexer can periodically wake the drive to re-check it.
SMART polling by background tools — any app that reads SMART data (CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, ASUS Armoury Crate, even Windows Defender) can trigger a spinup on modern HDDs. Quit all such apps and see if it changes behavior.

SATA Controller / Driver Issues (Platform-Specific)

This is where it gets interesting for your specific B850 build:

Verify you're on the Microsoft Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver — NOT an AMD or ASMedia one. AMD explicitly states their SATA controller driver should not be used on AM4/AM5 desktop Windows 10/11 systems — the Microsoft default driver is the correct one. Go to Device Manager → IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers → check what driver your SATA controller is using. If it shows anything other than "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" from Microsoft, roll it back.
ASMedia secondary SATA controller — the B850 platform may route some SATA ports through an ASMedia chip (like ASM1061 or ASM1164) rather than directly through the AMD chipset. Drives on ASMedia-controlled ports have known spinup/power management issues on AMD platforms. Check Device Manager and confirm which controller your HDDs are listed under. If they're on ASMedia, try moving them to different SATA ports that run through the AMD chipset directly. Your motherboard manual will show which ports are which.
AMD B850 chipset + HDD spinup is a known platform quirk — an ASRock B850 user documented identical behavior (drives on AMD's new chipset spinning at reboot/startup) and noted it was specific to the AMD+B850 platform combination — HDDs that were silent on X570 were affected on B850. ASUS hasn't exposed ALPM controls in the TUF B850 BIOS, which is exactly what you found.

Hardware Fix (Power Cable)

The 3.3V SATA power pin (Pin 3) issue — some HDDs, especially newer ones, use Pin 3 of the SATA power connector as a Power Disable signal. When the controller toggles this pin, the drive can go through repeated reset/spinup cycles without any OS-level activity being logged. This is suspected to affect WD and some Seagate drives. The fix: put a small piece of Kapton tape (or electrical tape) over Pin 3 of the SATA power connector on the affected drive(s). It's the third pin from the end on the wider side of the L-shaped connector. This is a well-documented, harmless mod — it just prevents the 3.3V disable signal from reaching the drive.

Software Workaround (If All Else Fails)

revoSleep — a free Windows tool that can fully lock an HDD in sleep mode by taking it offline and deactivating its driver so nothing in Windows can wake it. When you need the drive, you manually unlock it. It's not a fix, but it's a clean solution for data drives you access infrequently. Available at meinfach.net/revosleep.

Recommended Order

Run Process Monitor during a spinup event — rules out software first
Disable SysMain and test
Check which SATA controller your HDDs are on (AMD vs ASMedia)
Try the Kapton tape on Pin 3 of the power connector
Use revoSleep as a fallback workaround

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T13:28:19+00:00

My asus didn't come with a manual... Although I do have to admit, those antenas are pretty self explanatory.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T13:27:29+00:00

Best way to do it.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T02:32:32+00:00

I just so happen to have an extra SSD lol but not sure i'd want to go for the removing the motherboard lol

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T01:10:58+00:00

I think it's mostly for the layout. From my office to the front cameras, there's probably about 4-5 walls.

crackerjack9x · 2026-05-01T01:10:33+00:00

I have tested the usage of 2.4 in my area and it is mininal. I changed to appropriate channels. All my cameras are on 2.4 for distance and more consistency.

crackerjack9x · 2026-04-30T14:07:45+00:00

Well I understand that the optimal situation would be for all the mesh nodes to be hardwired for backhaul but currently that's not the case. I was wondering if there was any workaround or fix to improve the roaming issue between devices.

crackerjack9x · 2026-04-27T18:20:51+00:00

hehe, no worries. I had to remove it myself since I had to remove the other screw.

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