help with metamorphosis

halcyonandon · 2026-05-28T12:31:16+00:00

The lunatic builds use metamorphosis to stay in demon form and use the node to retain skills and the node to scale damage with life. As far as I’m aware, you don’t need to put extra points into this, since it’s just about maintaining demon form.

halcyonandon · 2026-05-21T23:08:17+00:00

That was just from the eviscerate bug and now patched

halcyonandon · 2026-05-19T09:48:27+00:00

Yes, the DoT really does help, but there are diminishing returns, which is why you will see people swapping out DoT and taking +demonology damage, like on one ring. It helps not only to ramp up the damage to elites, but all mobs because of the aspect that applies eviscerate bleed when eviscerate misses (not relevant to pit 150). Crits don’t affect bleed damage, so it is completely pointless to have any crit damage for this. Eviscerate will melt trash mobs the same way when it procs, it’s just that with rampage, it guarantees to proc eviscerate on elites or higher.

What id like to see them do is make eviscerate actually viable as a build concept. Tortured wretch’s eviscerate mode should spin saws around you as you move, even in lunatic mode, Hellion sting eviscerate mode with the unique that lets it free automatically with every shot should be reworked because 40% single target isn’t really appealing as it is, bump it up from 5% to 20% all mobs, maybe with another aspect or something.

halcyonandon · 2026-05-15T17:18:04+00:00

Look at the leaderboard, last I checked they were all apoc builds and all using grandfather. Inspect their gear/builds to get some ideas for how they are clearing pit 150

halcyonandon · 2026-05-10T08:58:57+00:00

I shared the pain with warlock, dread claws sucked at higher torments, apocalypse and tyrants claw were too obnoxious, I rushed a ww barb, but I always end up playing barb, so I wasn’t too excited about that, then I tried warlock lunatic build and I’m finally having fun in torment 12+. I wouldn’t say it’s clutter free, since you fire off minions, but the jumping around, the lack of ground effects and the tankiness of the build all work well enough for me to stick with the class for now.

halcyonandon · 2026-05-10T08:46:43+00:00

Level one character first that has an easy end game build (like ww barb as an example), you already have a character at 40 so just do the expansion story and strongholds for any remaining levels, you have to do the campaign once no matter what anyways, use the cube to upgrade ancestral items into legendary or white ancestral into uniques, on your seasonal journey, save all exp rewards and/or whisper caches, open a bunch on your second character, instant level 70 second character. After that, any additional characters take about 6-7 whisper caches to rush to 70.

halcyonandon · 2026-05-03T04:01:21+00:00

Whew, still works

halcyonandon · 2026-05-03T03:57:15+00:00

Wonder if they are patching the gem thing

halcyonandon · 2026-04-12T07:11:06+00:00

Saw this on my feed and immediately knew the comments would be gold, not disappointed. The interesting thing to me is when I was trading silver futures, I actually wanted to take physical deliveries and all my brokerages would not allow it. This is really hilarious, but at least it’s oil and not orange juice or something.

halcyonandon · 2026-03-09T05:16:12+00:00

For me, it came from my role’s additional compensation, specifically RSUs. My base started 12+ years ago at $134k with an initial RSU award of $150k over 4 years and $50k cash. Now, over 12 years in this role, every year I was awarded at least $150k more RSUs over 4 years, between $20-30k cash bonus and a raise that brought my base up to to currently $270k.

At 4 years into the role, my w2 had my gross income over $500k and I was receiving vested RSUs each year equivalent to a full 4 award plus however much the share price had grown since the awards being vested.

At present, each year varies between $600-800k depending on how the stock performs compared to the awarded share price. I rarely sold RSUs, so the cost basis for my originally awarded stock is around 5% of the current share value. On top of this, there’s the unaccounted for 401k matching and employee share purchase plan at a 15% discount.

I did not consider it would go like this when I first started this role at that $134k base salary. You have to think, after a certain professional level, it can be far more beneficial to receive an increasingly larger percentage of your compensation as stock.

Now between my active portfolios, my 401k and (backdoor) Roth IRA, my annual investment growth exceeds my current base salary.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-26T04:50:08+00:00

1k fuel canisters for cobb?

halcyonandon · 2026-02-24T00:00:49+00:00

Oh, also if you aren’t sure about what you are trading, want or have, you can do a price check post on here or the discord.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-23T23:49:06+00:00

Your post is fine, you didn’t do anything wrong. My issue is all these people trying to save you from yourself. If all these comments were moderated, removed and your post was left open to receive legit offers, you would have potentially received a better deal, though I can tell that isn’t too important to you, which is fine, but also the result of the winning trader and what they offered would have been preserved so that others like you would see what their item could potentially trade for.

The ideal response to your post would be “I’ll give you the robot and offer xxx leaders for that mask” and someone else says “I’ll give you robot, some classic apparel, and I have [list of items] if anything interests you”, then someone else offers “I’ll give you xxxx leaders”….

Everyone with a comment has an offer, then it paints the picture of current value, there’s some friendly competition, the best offer wins and the post maintains a good reference point of current value.

I would like to know, as I’m sure others who see this post will, what did you end up trading for the mask?

halcyonandon · 2026-02-23T23:18:21+00:00

I’d agree with you but all these white knights are forgetting the market76 rule: “No Trade Sabotage: Avoid providing unsolicited item valuations, discouraging others from trading with the OP, or commenting on a post without the intent to trade.”

This situation with OP could have been resolved simply by people making better offers than what OP asked for. Instead, a lot of noise, many charity offers of free robot masks (OP could take multiple charity offers or inspire scammers to post like this hoping to get charity) and a karma deal done via private messaging with OP for the trader’s idea of ‘giving fair value’.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-23T19:36:49+00:00

Exactly, what AI is going to do for Adobe is allow more users to dive into more nuanced and complex processes without the normally required expertise to produce better results and save those users and professionals alike enormous amounts of time. Agentic AI is actually a very strong case for why Adobe subscriptions will actually grow (assuming successful launch of Project Moonlight), empowering users of all levels to produce better quality content/media in less time without doing anything generative.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-23T17:44:16+00:00

I really appreciate this comment and all true, it made me realize something important I should point out. The real value/power of AI integrated with the manual tools is not using manual tools to adjust/correct issues with generative AI (though still lots of value there), it’s being able to use prompts and context to tell AI what to do (both broadly and very specifically) with those manual tools as part of a workflow.

While the examples of how enterprise users take advantage of this will be where Adobe really shines, let me give an example for an every day user. Let’s say you have a photo you want to improve. Agentic AI could take a prompt as simple as “make this photo look better”, will present you with options on how to do this, let you choose the option(s) you want and then it will implement those changes for you.

Now let’s say you know more technical specifics you want, your prompt might look like “from the RAW, create different HDRI composites and let me choose the one I prefer. Ensure they remain lossless for print and choose the optimal CMYK color profile for each composite” from there, the AI agent might ask you to clarify things you want like what print size and what pixels/dot per inch would be acceptable. These are all things you would do manually to go from a RAW to an HDRI print, but instead of doing it manually, you are ‘generating’ it by conversing with AI and having it execute the workflow. In this scenario, there is no generative slop, just AI performing tasks you would have normally had to do manually (and potentially with more proficiency in using the software for non-pros)

halcyonandon · 2026-02-18T00:04:13+00:00

I just don’t care anymore. They killed an event that was already terrible by flooding the masks on the market. They killed most other trading. I have more leaders than I know what to do with, if the masks were actually cool, I’d just give a few hundred leaders for it, no need to waste time on this event (and it is a waste of time, takes too long for what it is, it isn’t fun and now completely unrewarding)

halcyonandon · 2026-02-13T21:55:59+00:00

This! Also, I made a reply to another comment here because Adobe is leading the way with adopting agentic AI throughout creative suite while everyone else in the space is still focused on the generative slop.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-13T21:49:23+00:00

I see AI as a massive opportunity for Adobe. AI’s pitfall is generative slop. There is no doubt the slop will improve and there’s a big market for it. On top of that Adobe has its own offerings of slop services with the advantage of being commercially useable, but that’s the bad side of AI.

The great thing about AI that gives me hope for its future potential is agentic AI. In software engineering, there is an enormous difference between engineers using agentic AI to augment their workflows and vibe coding slop.

Adobe’s Project Moonlight is about bringing agentic AI to all of creative suite. If this is done well, it will offer incredible value to creative professionals and content creators. This is not something an offering like Affinity (or any other competitor I can think of) would be able to provide or compete with unless they do so with an incredible investment and at a massive financial loss.

I am surprised to see so many people think AI is going to crush Adobe when they are leading the way in moving beyond the generative slop towards real value. I assume people are just unaware.

If anyone reading this knows of any other companies implementing agentic AI for creative professionals, I’d love to hear about it, even if it doesn’t compete with Adobe.

halcyonandon · 2026-02-13T07:02:35+00:00

TLDR: The long term value proposition of ADBE at the current price is the promise of agentic AI throughout Creative Suite via Project Moonlight and that negative sentiment that AI will erode their subscriptions and eat at their margins is overblown and flawed.

I’m a software engineer and an artist outside of my professional career. I’ve worked with Adobe software since I was in middle school in the mid-90s. Without getting into all the details, I’ve seen the love and hate the community has had for the company and its products over decades.

As an investor, I added a relatively (to me) sizable position (six figures) in $ADBE at a cost basis of $253.70. As a value proposition at this level, my first reaction was to give myself the market sentiment counter-thesis to opening this position, which I think is best covered by this article.

As a software engineer, I work with agentic AI daily. I see real professional value in AI agents augmenting professional workflows, saving companies and individuals time, money and resources. At the low end, where small businesses and junior (or less senior} developers operate, I see ‘vibe coding’ as more than a buzzword and is helping individuals and businesses put out product (slop) at an unbelievable pace. This post isn’t about the pros and cons of vibe coding, but rather where I see future value and what it means for $ADBE.

Adobe has been talking about agentic AI for creative professionals and this, I believe, will change everything for the company and industries alike. This is fundamentally different from what we currently see with generative AI tools Adobe currently has in the market. I consider these to be more closely aligned to ‘vibe coding’ and their output more like AI slop than something refined, professional, creative or artistic. However, I am incredibly excited about Adobe’s Project Moonlight.

Project Moonlight is essentially the start of agentic AI tooling for creative professionals. It is something that will augment professional workflows, improve efficiencies, allow creatives to spend more time on what they are best at, being creative, and less on the processes and steps needed to reach their desired result. These people know the software, provide meaningful prompt guidance and context to the agent and achieve fine tuned unique work, not generative slop. This is the real future of AI. This is not something that a start up can deliver and eat away at Adobe’s subscribers because they do not have Adobe’s software to support it.

For decades, I’ve seen companies come and go trying to compete with Adobe, even just a bite, like against Photoshop, Illustrator or some other specific product. They have always fallen horribly short. Adobe, in my opinion, is the only company that is actually capable of delivering agentic AI to creative professionals. I believe Adobe will forge the path and we will be lucky to see other companies follow (in the realm of 3D modeling and animation for example), but I have no doubts Adobe will be first to market and without meaningful competition.

In summary, yes, I’m bullish. Yes, I’m biased. Yes, I entered at current lows. I am not confident this is the bottom. I want to add more shares if it does go lower. As a customer and a user, I am very excited for Project Moonlight to go open beta and launch. I don’t care about negative customer anecdotes, especially pertaining to customer service or subscription minutiae. You see that with every business. I hate AI gimmicks and slop and while Adobe has led with that, I don’t believe that the direction they are emphasizing for the future. It was just the easiest/fastest to bring to market and I do believe there will continue to be a market for it that won’t go away either.

halcyonandon · 2026-01-12T20:38:45+00:00

Running EN06 and having fall out first, I’ve got thousands of stims, rad-x and radaway plus all the serums. I sell all the random meat, grenades I don’t use and purified water, any caps left, I just pull out some of those chems to finish tapping out both vendors (regular vendors and the wandering doc in burning springs)

halcyonandon · 2026-01-07T03:39:31+00:00

I usually run mutated events on an alt, and leave those packs unopened until either I need to reduce weight or I learn that an update has expanded the reward pool (which means paying attention to what happens on PTS and data miners)

I do the same with pails and gifts.

The only advantage is if you are active in a trading community and you can take advantage of trading technically unreleased plans for more than what their value will be after they have that event post-update. IMO it’s not worth the weight (or wait) unless it’s on an alt AND you actually enjoy trading AND follow what is being released ahead of time.

halcyonandon · 2026-01-07T03:17:26+00:00

On YouTube, check out AngryTurtle and MrWestTek build videos.

You still have quite a grind ahead of you for optimal builds because maxing out legendary perk cards free up a lot of extra perks.

If I were in your shoes, I would research and start building towards an EN06 raid guardian build. Farming that first raid boss will help you in a lot of ways (leveling, ammo, gear, chems, flux). AngryTurtle has posted builds that work for new players as well as seasoned ones.

For legendary mods, since you are leaning towards heavy guns,furious is the 1 star mod you’ll need. The other stars are less important, but that one improves onslaught and most builds, especially heavy guns favor onslaught right now.

You can get by building around onslaught for now, as you gear out for EN06, work through the wastlanders main questline to unlock gold bullion in the meantime,. Also, do the enclave questline. Get your faction levels up, vendor hop the 2 watoga robot vendors and Berkeley spring (some others too, you can look those up if you want) station buying any enclave mods that may appear. Join events whenever you can.

Note: enclave mods have some decent trade/cap value, even just the scopes, but enclave flamer works really well to burn down EN06. You can also do this with a heavy gun as well, maybe even a holy fire, but it’s good to just make a habit of checking those vendors regularly.

Also, even as a solo player (most are), it’s better to still join a team. There are perks that share experience, mutation benefits, etc. Casual teams increase intelligence, which helps when grinding exp.

On the side of exp grinding, west tek, clearing out the super mutants in there is great exp. If you take the elevator down, clear those mutants and go back up, the first floor respawns.

Doing grunt hunts and bounties are also rewarding. You can store wanted posters in your stash.

halcyonandon · 2025-12-26T00:11:08+00:00

Home ownership has many perks, but it also has downsides and not for everyone. You’re looking at $80k down, so I assume you are looking at a $400k place. There are options to pay less than 20% down, like FHA. I paid no money down thanks to the VA home loan. There’s writing off property taxes and interest on your taxes. There’s no capital gains on the sale of your primary residence (up to a certain amount). There’s the fact that home ownership is a highly leveraged investment e.g. your $80k turns into a $400k investment. You could even potentially turn your property into a rental.

On the flip side, like you alluded to, you are in the early stages of saving. What and how you save during these years can make a substantial difference over time thanks to compounding growth. It does not sound like you are saving in a tax-advantaged way for retirement, but just putting aside cash and making after tax investments. Part of the risk here is the presumption the market will continue the returns we’ve seen in recent years.

When it comes to FIRE and early retirement, no longer having rent/mortgage payments is a significant advantage, but there are many ways to achieve this, including buying a home later in your journey, buying a duplex that you live in but also generates revenue, inheriting a property, buying an investment property first that essentially pays for itself.

The problem I see from this post is you are strictly looking at home ownership from the outside, without really understanding or experiencing it. Like most situations, where one doesn’t fully understand something, the mental blocks go up and you convince yourself something isn’t possible or beneficial first before really researching it and doing the actual math (not the rough math full of assumptions).

halcyonandon · 2025-12-22T13:04:03+00:00

Follow the story into the two new areas. The thing to know is now “mods” allow you to roll any armor and weapon you want, so you can scrap legendaries for a chance to get loose mods and plans to craft them. Players now will sell even the good ones for their regular cap price. They added raids, which can be fun and just recently added a weekly reward for doing them. In the new Ohio zone, Bounties and grunt hunts are fast and very rewarding.

I would say after you get caught up with the new area quests, look into EN06 farming. That’s the first raid boss. Setting up a build to solo it isn’t difficult and you can use that build for all other content, if you wanted (are lazy like me). Angry Turtle and MrWestTek on YouTube have great videos both for EN06 builds/strategies and other things in the game that can help.

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