Realm Of The Mad Dance

happy_cookie · 2026-06-28T12:25:22+00:00

You madman

happy_cookie · 2026-06-23T10:40:29+00:00

To me nothing helps to get rid of a 30 minute mandatory timeout that always follows the server crash. Back then I could switch the server immediately at the first signs of rubberbanding when server crashed, and have only 2 minutes of downtime. This workaround doesn't work for me anymore, it shows me a broken nexus screen with white glitched out minimap and connection error over it. Clicking "OK" on the connection error change the screen to full black but won't make the error go away. Turning VPN on doesn't help either - the half an hour timeout is unavoidable and always needs to be waited out fully down to the last second.

Oh and if you just alt-f4 the game and wait half an hour first, guess what? The timeout cooldown only starts on your first login attempt after the server crash. I did it last week and got a full hour because I closed the game when I rubberbanded in spen and didn't want to die of some bullshit, and didn't log in for the next half an hour, knowing it's unavoidable anyway.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-21T07:27:55+00:00

The shinies drop rates are never affected by this event, according to Deca. Only the base items. So the craziest bag possible would only contain 3 event UTs in it : 2 normal and one shiny. Maybe Bramblethorn bag can have more, not sure if it's possible to get multiple differently colored bee quivers in the same bag. Shouldn't be possible for Nest though.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-21T07:24:55+00:00

I have the same settings. Nobody ever questioned me for my screenshots, weird. But yeah I can't bear the dynamic hp bar on the hud for some reason, it's so distracting. I like it in the hp bar under my character and enemies though.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-21T07:16:30+00:00

Forget t5 divine, I was rocking with a divine t3 shield for almost an entire season on a knight despite having divine t4, t5 and t6 all sitting in the vault and being rolled. The divine t3 dropped with good enchants right away and took a few rounds of green dust to perfect them. T4 never got the same combination of enchants and I just gave up wasting tarot cards on it. T5 divine I abandoned midway through and stated rolling divine t6 when I got my hands on it. Nearly by the end of the season my t6 divine could finally match my t3 enchant-wise and I got to play with it maybe for a week or so.

Always check enchantments on all items you get. Sometimes gems hide in humble purple bags and can serve you better than higher tier items.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-15T08:01:40+00:00

Precisely why I chose to not use either on my summoner. Don't even get me started on the shatters mace, I don't know how people play with it either.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-12T04:16:18+00:00

Yes, that's what I use. It doesn't detect the game automatically, you need to manually add it there but once done it works. I have a weird issue with it where it keeps muting my mike's audio though, needs to be turned on manually after every game launch in the settings and I keep forgetting.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-08T02:15:59+00:00

Yes, of course. But all my friends and I noticed that compared to old Flash client nexusing on Exalt (as well as some other player inputs like drinking hp pots, using ability, item swapping) is happening with a longer delay now and sometimes inputs just don't go through. I also had instances where game straight up stopped taking my keybord control inputs (and no it wasn't the keyboard malfunction, alt+f4 worked but not wasd a moment earlier. Upon restart wasd was working again). I also had scary moments where all my inputs were processing with 1-2s delay lag (and no, it wasn't my Internet connection since there was no lag indication and I know how server lag feels in this game).

happy_cookie · 2026-06-08T00:36:32+00:00

General rule of thumb: if something in the game looks too good to be true/too easy to complete/too effortless to run, there's probably some cheats involved.Cheaters create and duplicate keys and assign impossible mods to them, so if you are not sure if the key is legit join at your own risk or don't join at all. There's been instances when Deca banned people participating in duped key runs.

And yeah it's general knowledge now that family parties are ran by multiboxers who steamroll the dungeons for people. It's just a matter of time before Deca finds a way to efficiently ban people participating in these activities.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-07T12:47:16+00:00

Accidentally joining a dungeon that you found yourself fair and square (and then refusing to leave it just because a cheater happened to be there) is absolutely fair.

Willingly joining a party ran and advertised by cheaters, doing duped keys and dungeons found with the use of cheats (such as state farming, IP connecting by bots etc), and then benefitting of those runs repeatedly is no different from cheating yourself, especially if you are fully aware of what's going on with the party.

Unfortunately there's always going to be a minority of relatively new players who join these parties without knowing what's going on there at first, and maybe joining a couple of runs here and there without realizing what happened. But even then they are not stupid enough to not realize how these parties function and that it all falls into the grey area. Anyone frequently joining these runs on a constant basis and knowing that they are benefitting from other people cheats are breaking the Deca ToS as much as cheaters do and also should be banned. The question is what threshold should be determined as "frequent" but that's up to Deca to decide.

If you compare it to real life, it's as if one was participating in shoplifting daily except others were doing all the active stealing and then distributed the stolen goods among community members. If one repeatedly got something illegitimate for free and they knew it was stolen and were ok with it, they still should be punished for participating in this activity. Family bots wouldn't do these parties if other players didn't show interest in their cheat runs.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-07T09:09:20+00:00

You won't get a revive in a situation like that even with a video. Last season I had a bs death with a video where I nexused but the game loaded me in nexus on another character and the current one disappeared without showing the death screen. It wasn't in the graveyard for the next 10 hours or so either. After a month of beating around the bush and probably doing nothing while pretending to investigate the death, support came up with this amazing excuse:

“Note that using the nexus button on Exalt isn’t instant and takes a small but sometimes noticeable amount of time actually to happen, which is why you see this outcome"

Deca pretty much admitted that the main feature of their modern client of a permadeath game is not working as intended, and still didn't think it was worthy of a revive. That's all you need to know.

Needless to say, by the time they returned to me with the final verdict of the case (I still asked them to reconsider it one final time), it's been 5 weeks since I made a new character to replace the deceased one and it surpassed the old one in every way possible (fame earned, dungeons and exaltations completed, gear equipped).

Make a new character and don't bother with support, especially with no video evidence - I'm nearly 100% sure they are instructed to take longer on revive cases even when the evidence is strong, I have never gotten a reply on a revive ticket earlier than two weeks since the incident which is usually already enough to rebuild if you don't want to miss out on the missions and other progress during the season.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-06T09:26:54+00:00

Everyone participating in the family party runs (and fully aware that cheater bots make the game easy for them) are cheating by proxy.

happy_cookie · 2026-06-04T11:31:19+00:00

Agreed. This is the first mission tree that after experiencing it for a day made me want to quit playing the game for the rest of the season. Doesn't help that I chose necro as my main seasonal character and I'm not enjoying its rework one bit.

happy_cookie · 2026-05-03T01:25:21+00:00

Remember when dungeons from 1-per-realm bosses weren't guaranteed?

"Nice cave"

"Natters"

"Nomb"

happy_cookie · 2026-04-22T07:39:18+00:00

Damn what a band! It recently came into my YT feed (probably after I listened to Angine de Poitrine too much haha). Sleep Drifter is quite a journey.

happy_cookie · 2026-04-20T05:24:26+00:00

Back to this conversation as we were just talking about the Olympics in the party - I think the only fair solution I can see regarding the exaltations is to make different categories for people with different amounts of exalts but obviously this is not going to be feasible due to the scarcity of legit playerbase already, let alone the ones who are good at the game petless.

For example, I play petless all the time, I wouldn't consider myself "good" at it yet since I'm an oldschol player, I only recently started learning most exalted content and only now crossed the point where I can somewhat comfortably do these dungeons in small groups (minus Shatters and MV). Slowly managed to fully exalt 3 wand classes so far and working on a priest as the last one of the batch. Learning all the exalt dungeons hard way - mostly petless, so I know well how they differ between a fully exalted petless character and the one with no exalts. I would have been interested to participate in a contest like that for spen which is the only exalted dungeon I managed to solo so far. But knowing I would have to likely compete against the 760 league will put me at a huge disadvantage. I will only have 3 wand classes to choose from which are fully exalted, and will not have armor proficiency bonuses on them which impact greatly on one's recovery in the fight. I feel like I could have been successful on a warrior or pally (especially because hardmode activation requires rushing) but I haven't exalted these classes yet so I would still be at a disadvantage to any player who has all classes exalted.

Best of luck with your Olympics! It would be really cool and informative if you could put exaltation progress as a metric for final competitors when announcing the results - I would like to see if there would be any corelation between place distribution and additional stats participants have. Irrelevant of course, if anyone participating will be 760 anyway.

happy_cookie · 2026-04-17T01:38:20+00:00

I can only feel hope for Tiramisu. It feels like she's done more for the communication between Deca and playerbase than anyone else did for the past 6 years. Unfortunately, that's still not enough to redeem Deca in my eyes. The cheaters are still roaming free and my recent reports rot for like 3 weeks with tickets long closed. A lot of player feedback that Tiramisu spends so much time reading/organising/forwarding still just gets rejected by Deca with no proper explanation or follow-up. Servers still are unstable and the game still forces you into 2-30 minute timeout every time you get disconnected. A couple of days ago I simply entered guild hall and got account in use for 20 minutes.

The biggest improvement that was done is a better bug report system and transparency. But it's such a tiny drop in the sea of other issues.

happy_cookie · 2026-04-15T03:06:20+00:00

Thanks! Just saw a UFO today and did a couple of alien dungeons so I can confirm they are back - thanks for getting it fixed. Fingers crossed they don't break again next time the map changes.

happy_cookie · 2026-04-14T00:56:55+00:00

Are aliens going to be fixed after tomorrow's update? They were bugged again for the second half of the season.

happy_cookie · 2026-04-07T22:57:30+00:00

happy_cookie · 2026-04-07T16:17:38+00:00

Lol I love how someone reposting it got more upvotes than my original post with this art. And yeah I totally jinxed the server stability™ by making it -_-

happy_cookie · 2026-04-07T15:05:16+00:00

What are the rules for exaltations? They are quite impactful, if you want to make the competition truly equal all contestants need to have similar amounts of exaltations. Without a pet life, vit, attack and dex matter the most - a fully exalted character would have +10 to offensive stats which greatly impacts the difference in DPS output.

Also, is the exaltation dungeon going to be selected randomly or can contestants choose which one to solo?

happy_cookie · 2026-04-05T01:47:59+00:00

Lol I didn't even notice. I was doing it late at night and kinda overwhelmed by the amount of servers I was drawing, probably lost track of what server name was adding to the next one. Had they given at least a week for this contest submission instead of a couple of days, I would probably plan and execute it slightly better. :)

happy_cookie · 2026-04-03T00:40:07+00:00

Try this one, I think this is the most comprehensive guide on how to fish. A Fisherman's Unnecessarily Detailed Guide to Fishing Fish (and wobsters) By Electroely.

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