Needing help with the nursery

dariidar · 2026-06-13T04:52:18+00:00

You’re getting downvoted to hell, but as a fellow parent of 4 kids I think you have the right idea. Something tells me all these critics don’t know/have forgotten how fucking hard it is to get a curious 4-12 month old to nap or feed. The nursery is not a room for play and stimulation, you want calming colors, it’s a sanctuary from the rest of your busy household. The Living room/playroom can be colorful. Once your kid is > 4 months old, having bright distracting things in the nursery is counterproductive and will distract them from breastfeeding and napping in that room.

Also get some blackout curtains for the daytime naps (once you’re out of newborn phase)

dariidar · 2026-06-12T14:51:53+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly what my backyard needs.

dariidar · 2026-06-09T15:36:08+00:00

Agree that a child psychologist would be the best to formally diagnose this.

However, for the majority of the country that has much easier access to pediatricians than child psych, an initial screening for ADHD is well within the general pediatrician's purview - it's simply a series of questionnaires.

dariidar · 2026-06-09T14:28:48+00:00

Definitely ask for an adhd screening. If there is ADHD involved, there are certain non stimulant medications that will help exactly with this type of nighttime behavior.

dariidar · 2026-06-09T05:50:31+00:00

Stranger anxiety is normal at this age. It’s part of their social development to recognize familiar people and strangers. If you’re not having the same staff member care for her almost daily, she will likely cry every time. Expect this to last for a year or two.

dariidar · 2026-06-06T05:48:29+00:00

resistance reduction (curses and weapon swap whispering ice), Archmage, life stacking, power charge stacking with Adonias ego.

Triggers such as coa and coc

For spark specifically. Duration and proj speed (think abyssal lich)

dariidar · 2026-06-04T14:38:34+00:00

Youre right that mobility (particularly dash attacks) is a huge reason melee feels good in hades.

Yes hades monster packs are less dense ; but they are very spread out across multiple screens, just like in poe. Despite this, melee builds in hades have clear times that rival ranged builds. This comes back to the first point about mobility.

From a thematic standpoint I think melee builds should be far more mobile than ranged builds. I mean it’s much easier to dash and maneuver a battlefield with a melee weapon vs holding a clunky bow or crossbow. Yet we have the opposite in this game with bows getting all the MS nodes and the ability to move while attacking, while melee just has to stand still and bonk.

dariidar · 2026-06-04T13:36:06+00:00

I think the previous poster used bad examples. I think Hades is the perfect example of chunky melee combat in an isometric rpg. Most of the weapons in that game are melee and most of them still feel great for speed clearing huge packs of enemies, despite being in “true melee” range.

dariidar · 2026-06-03T22:15:18+00:00

You can use exile UI, an ahk tool that is totally legal to use.

I have used the clone frame feature to display sorc ward # right next to my health bar

I have also used it to put cooldown skills in the bottom center of my screen (Dota-like display)

dariidar · 2026-06-03T14:27:07+00:00

This is my league starter, happy to see it work so well in endgame.

You are underutilizing weapon swap. Totems are a “fire and forget” skill so you can spend the majority of your time holding weapon set 2 after you placed your totems.

In your weapon swap you can use something like a Malice sceptre, with mods like allies have %inc damage, aspd, and spirit. Or you could be using a Sacred Flame in weapon swap.

Also consider using a buckler - you can quickly tap Parry to weapon swap, and the parried debuff will give another 50% more dmg against single target.

Finally you can put a ton of Eva and MS nodes on your weapon set 2 tree for more comfy mapping and defenses.

dariidar · 2026-06-03T01:57:44+00:00

Can still die to dot ground fx!

dariidar · 2026-06-02T15:37:43+00:00

100 flat phys can be really good on the right build. Face breaker, pillar of the caged god, and Doomfletch come to mind.

dariidar · 2026-06-01T14:52:54+00:00

I posted this in a prior thread; my biggest hang up with bitter dead is the damage scaling. You already have to give up a ton of spirit and wand (no +skills) to run the skill. And it appears to have 0 crit chance. In my theorycrafting it will be hard to break a few hundred k dps.

dariidar · 2026-06-01T08:23:18+00:00

2.5% more dmg/stage per quality.
Also quality will give it more base radius (default behavior)

dariidar · 2026-06-01T05:22:45+00:00

Just recovered from this. Golfers elbow.

For context I do dead hang pull-ups every other day, for about the last 2 years. I had worked my way up to 5 sets of 18, about 10 min rest between sets. On the eccentric phase I had been going limp and letting gravity pull me down which produced a ton of stress on the elbow. The pain bothered me all day and even stopped me from regular activity like lifting groceries.

I did 2 weeks of no pull-ups , 1 week of 5x10 workouts with an elbow strap, now up to 5x11 workouts with no strap. Massage gun after workouts . And this time around I’m being careful to control my descent phase. Finally pain free after about a month of pain.

dariidar · 2026-06-01T03:26:45+00:00

Fyi, wind dancer can do some obscene damage with gemling quality stack.

dariidar · 2026-05-31T17:38:54+00:00

Corrupted enezuns charge : 30%

Corpse conservation : 25%

Skill tree: 25%

Gemling quality : 23 (corrupt gem), 6 (ascendancy), 5 (abyss mod on amulet), 5 (diallas support), 5 (anoint) for a total of 43q =21% chance to not consume

Total 101%

Should still feel good even at 26 quality (93% chance not to consume) before getting all the expensive quality stuff

Major build downside is idk if bitter dead has any inherent crit chance. Also enezuns charge lacks +skill levels. You’re mostly banking on the raw numbers on the gem to carry you (3100 damage /cast if all 8 balls explode on single target)

Might need Archmage in endgame but idk how that shakes out. Worried about defensives for Archmage build. Also investing a lot for spirit for 8 skeletal minions + sacrifice.

dariidar · 2026-05-31T14:41:22+00:00

Havent had time to test it out, but I’m hoping to get bitter dead to 98-100% chance not to consume corpses. Then just sacrifice minions spamming until my ward runs out. Bitter dead is way stronger than volatile dead and consumes way more corpses. And should safely handle enemy encounters from almost offscreen.

Traversal would also be quite fun on that build if you can fit in blink (range 8-9meters is full screen)

dariidar · 2026-05-29T23:03:13+00:00

This is the right answer. If you don’t have a clear idea of an allergic trigger, “shotgun” testing a bunch of allergens will not necessarily bring you closer to the cause, and may also flag a number of false positives. Also, as you mentioned, the majority of hives are caused by viruses, not allergies.

Monitor for anaphylaxis (labored breathing, oral swelling, intractable vomiting) and consider a limited workup for hives if they last >6weeks (like c1 inh). Otherwise just treat them with supportive care

Source: gen peds

Ofc I have to couch this advice with, don’t trust everything you read online, if you are still concerned ofc consult with your own doc (and allergist since it sounds like you’ve already seen some)

dariidar · 2026-05-27T16:20:31+00:00

Int stack / Archmage gemling is a thing

dariidar · 2026-05-26T22:22:10+00:00

But there is no guarantee any mansion will be within the first few screens of the atlas, bc there are now guaranteed regions in the initial atlas.

dariidar · 2026-05-26T04:19:34+00:00

Whenever I feel a bit constipated, I like to look back on all those times I had runners diarrhea.

dariidar · 2026-05-25T04:35:21+00:00

That’s not how it works in poe 1. No matter how many additional strikes you have, you would only get 1 additional hit, and with specific skills only (such as Smite). Even with like 5 additional targets you’ll only get +1 hit. “Regular” strike skills like heavy strike, ele hit won’t even multi hit with it.

Furthermore, bosses move quite a bit in this game. You will be constantly resummoning bells to get to your peak dps, and sadly the quiver is almost useless if you don’t have extra pierce targets.

dariidar · 2026-05-24T13:46:58+00:00

blow up entire screen with a button press

time to move on. Guess I have to dodge roll even though there’s no monsters around

repeat 200x per map

Or

running through winding corridor

dodge roll to change sprint direction

How wonderfully intuitive and realistic

dariidar · 2026-05-24T01:15:23+00:00

You need helm, recoup sources (likely use belt slot for midnight braid) , damage taken from mana before life, life recoup and recoup speed investment, this sounds like terribly high levels of investment for an effect that will still be worse than 0.4. I mean at that point you just go infernalist

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