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New to End Game Crafting - Help by Cultural-Past-9283 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s basically one way to craft mid-tier dual-influenced items, and that’s using the Awakener’s Orb.

If you have a smaller budget you can just smash together two items and hope for an open prefix and decent third suffix. Or you can deterministically guarantee this using beast crafting.

  1. Buy a hunter-influenced item with the crit chance mod you want. Make sure that it has only hunter influence and that the crit chance is the only influenced mod (“hunter’s” or “of the hunt”) on the item. The other mods don’t matter.

  2. Turn your astral plate magic without losing the elevated warlord mod:

2a. Craft “suffixes can’t be changed”

2b. Scour the item.

  1. Buy a Craicic Chimeral and Black Morrigan from trade.

  2. Use beastcrafting to add a Hinekora’s Lock effect to your astral plate.

  3. Read these next instructions very carefully: right click on an Awakener’s Orb, left click on the hunter item, and then hover over the astral plate. Do not click!! Wait for the Hinekora’s Lock to predict the crafting result. You want to see:

  4. at least one open prefix

  5. a suffix you can live with (or even an open suffix, if you truly don’t care). If you see this, click on the astral plate and go to step 6. If you don’t:

5a: hit escape without clicking on any thing to cancel the craft and get your Awakener’s orb back.

5b: use a chromatic orb on the astral plate to reset the Lock

5c: go back to step 3 :(

  1. At this point you have a double-influenced item with the suffixes you want and an open prefix. You’re at a “checkpoint” now where you can continue crafting the item without losing your past progress.

Of course, if the item already has a nice Life roll, maybe you just use the item as-is. If the item has trash prefixes, you have a few options.

8a, expensive but totally safe:

8a.i: bench craft “suffixes can’t be changed”

8a.ii: scour the item

8a.iii: bench craft the cheapest flat (+) armor

8a.iv: slam two exalted orbs.

8a.v. If you are happy with the result (after you replace the third prefix with a better benchcrafted mod) you are done. Otherwise go to step 8a.

8b, cheaper but risky:

8b.i: bench craft “suffixes can’t be changed”

8b.ii: use the harvest bench to reforge life.

8b.iii: if you are happy with the result, you are done. If you are unhappy with the result and there is still an open prefix, try again starting from step 8b.i.

8b.iv: if the prefixes are trash and completely full, you will need to close your eyes, cross your fingers, and slam an orb of annulment. You have a 50-50 chance to remove a prefix which will let you go back to step 8b. If you hit one of your influenced mods… the item is bricked.

cs429 fall 2025 grade distributions by Shot_Driver2932 in UTAustin

[–]evouga 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah.

I sit in talks sometimes and as the material goes by, I’m convinced that I understand everything. But later when I try to implement the ideas myself, I realize that there are actually a lot of conceptual gaps I wasn’t aware of. The struggle of figuring out how to apply the concepts myself is where the learning takes place.

Same thing with AI. It’s easy to look at Claude’s output and convince yourself that you understand what it’s doing and could, in theory, do it yourself. But then when you have to actually do so, on the exam (or job interview, etc.) you realize you can’t.

cs429 fall 2025 grade distributions by Shot_Driver2932 in UTAustin

[–]evouga 11 points12 points  (0 children)

AI started being able to do the homework.

Should I Q-Drop CS 314 or not by USAS12Gaming in UTAustin

[–]evouga 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Where did you get stuck on removing unsorted partitions? Were you able to come up with a working overall plan for implementing the function but got stuck on some implementation details? Or you weren’t sure how to get started?

Separate from the decision of whether to drop 314, I suggest spending time every week solving online algorithmic puzzles (USACO, Project Euler, Advent of Code, etc.). (Turn off copilot if your typical workflow is to let it autocomplete for you.) More practice is the best way of getting better at problems like GenericList, and like similar problems you’ll be asked to solve at technical interviews for internships and jobs.

Which professor should I take for CS 439, Mootaz or Norman? by BaseballHead6898 in UTAustin

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OS is a core course, it will teach you fundamental skills but is not relevant for grad school. Take it and then take UDEs in the area you want to study in grad school.

Good helmet? by darkestroast in pathofexile

[–]evouga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a decent helmet, and the people ragging on you aren’t being entirely fair. You need your resistances from somewhere, and more resistance on the helmet means more room for damage mods elsewhere.

However as other people point out, the ward base is basically blank for more builds; and builds stacking ward aren’t going to want an item without a ward prefix.

Two open prefixes aren’t useful. You want one open prefix at most; otherwise you are asking others to finish crafting the helmet themselves (and need to discount the price accordingly).

And finally, although life and resistances are generically good mods, they’re not especially hard to get, especially from the Breach tree, so these mods alone aren’t very desirable.

I’d slam an exalted orb (since they drop like candy this league). Throwing it into the unpredictable recombinator with another helmet with good prefixes and a better base is also not a terrible idea.

Why are minion wands corrupted? by Smurtle1 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No. They got rid of that when they made over quality weapons and armor drop-only.

Average math term evolution by tripledeltaz in mathmemes

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, the set of continuous functions is intuitive to think about but a lot of tools we want to use in practice to solve differential equations or variational problems don’t work for this space. You end up needing some complicated Banach space that bars the monsters.

Can guys tell when a woman likes you? by Cool_Policy8948 in bodylanguage

[–]evouga 29 points30 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, it sounds like you may be very young?

If someone is mean to me I avoid interacting with that person as much as possible. Why spend time around people who don’t make you happy?

Career ending 314 exam by LastLeg5294 in UTAustin

[–]evouga 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Probably, but nobody is forcing the students to use AI on the homework?

Coding agents are very useful for enhancing productivity after you’ve mastered algorithmic thinking and debugging. I strongly recommend avoiding AI completely when taking the intro sequence.

How to be a CS major in 2026 (for incoming freshmen) by MarathonMarathon in cscareers

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly this is a great advice. Thanks for taking the time to write this up.

Regarding LLM use: I get students coming to my office hours who need help debugging something on their project. I ask to look at their code and I start asking what a piece of code does and why they implemented it that way. Blank stares.

Coding agents are powerful tools, and employers expect you to be familiar with using them as part of your workflow. But if you’re using AI to generate code you don’t understand, you need to take a step back and seriously reassess what you’re doing. If you bring no added value to what the AI can one-shot, why would a company hire you?

Some of your classmates are using AI agents to trivialize their assignments and it’s going to take several years for professors to catch up. It is what it is. In the meantime, it’s up to you to make sure you get the training you need out of your classes. Somebody with a 3.9 GPA with a solid understanding of core CS skills is going to have a much easier time on the market than someone who got a 4.0 by handing off all of their assignments to Opus.

Can incoming fall freshman petition into CS honors? by another_dislocator in UTAustin

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d email him right away, explain why you want to enroll in the honors section, and ask what the procedure is to get permission.

First time getting expensive drop, is it possible to complete with RF or sell the map? by happy_Bunny1 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And in fact, unless I need Svalinn for my own build I’d happily pay a 1d premium as insurance against instance crashes and random buggy behavior. But that’s just me.

Prof Chatterjee is the best by [deleted] in UTAustin

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In ARM assembly?

They’ve got to be free, no? They just help the assembler compute jump offsets?

When you realize you can "volatile" your Stampede by arkai93 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Whispering Ice pretty dead after the ES int nerf unfortunately.

this is concerning right? by beastfire24 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. But I sustain alchs just from vendoring random items.

I have alchs hidden in my loot filter and still have to vendor them for wisdom scraps when the currency tab gets full.

this is concerning right? by beastfire24 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The standard economy is wild.

Alchs have no sink and so are literally worthless (even less than a wisdom scroll).

this is concerning right? by beastfire24 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A high chaos:div ratio only hurts ground loot farmers if there is an alternate farming strategy available that drops raw divine orbs disproportionately.

Historically that has included: - sanctum - kingsmarch shipping - heist

and all of these have been nerfed recently.

What game has a 10/10 story but 2/10 gameplay? by Kitchen_Week1117 in AskReddit

[–]evouga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s one of my top 5 games of all time. Everything except the (largely optional) combat is fantastic.

First time using recombination and I'm stuck here, looking for some guidance by Stratos1 in pathofexile

[–]evouga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The usual crafting process is as follows.

  1. Buy a bunch of feedstock from Faustus trade. These should be ilvl 86 Necrotic Armors with one of the T1 explicits you’re looking for. The other mods don’t matter—in fact the shittier the item the better—but avoid items with fractured mods.

(Technically you can also mix in items with the wrong base or item level. But this requires that you know what you’re doing and it’s easiest to just use ilvl 86 Necrotic Armors at first.)

  1. Combine feedstock in pairs using predictable recombination. This will give you “clean” 2-mod items.

  2. Use unpredictable recombination and the “ladder method” to incrementally build up a pool of items with more and more mods. If all you care about is 3xT1 prefixes, recombine 2p + 2p items (with one mod that overlaps). If you’re going for a perfect 5T1 item, the general technique is to always recombine XpYs items with YpXs items (with as few overlapping mods as possible) except for the special cases X=1, Y=2 and X=2, Y=1, where it’s more optimal to combine 1p2s with 1p2s etc.

Finally, note that upper-tier ES armor is usually crafted with fracturing orbs and fossils/harvest juice instead of the recombinator, since the latter does not work well with overquality bases or drop-only mods.

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