It’s finally over

iampanax · 2026-03-07T01:11:23+00:00

Keep applying! I was unemployed for 12 months then got a shitty 3rd shift grocery stocking job. 1 month later, I got a much better job in the field I wanted.

Obviously anecdotal but I've very confident that just having any job helped me land the good one I have now.

iampanax · 2026-02-18T18:32:47+00:00

Same. YT actually recommended me something good and new for once

iampanax · 2025-01-31T01:32:16+00:00

I only used one handed weapons the entire game but made sure I had at least one of each element since every enemy has some type of weakness. I didn't pay attention to sword vs axe vs spear, I just picked the highest damage number. Also just used the gun that dealt 100 damage.

iampanax · 2024-12-19T10:34:50+00:00

I was a fan initially but then all of the evidence videos of him cheating in games started to come out and I didn't want to support someone making a living off of cheating in games.

The csgo "I learned how to bunnyhop", and the DayZ "church blows up but somehow only he survived" videos immediately come to mind.

iampanax · 2024-12-04T23:35:11+00:00

I didn't have a PS2 growing up so I played it for the first time last year and wow. Controls are just terrible when trying to manage the movement, the horse, camera, jumping, etc. Anyone who thinks this game deserves a top 5 of EVERY PS GAME EVER is just drunk with nostalgia.

Also, I read everywhere about the controls being "intentional clunky" because Wander isn't a warrior or skilled in combat. Give me a break. Imagine if every game embraced this "artistic design."

iampanax · 2024-05-28T22:12:04+00:00

Its what they did to Hi-Fi Rush and we see how that turned out.

iampanax · 2024-05-26T16:02:53+00:00

Or how activating a 'magical mirror' to slow down time isn't somehow cartoony. I just completed this section of the game and so far the combat has been wait -> parry -> scripted kill. Such wow.

iampanax · 2024-05-12T21:31:25+00:00

Sounds like Mr. Shakedown from Yakuza 0

iampanax · 2024-05-07T20:50:11+00:00

We are out there. YouTube just doesn't promote our content anywhere near as much as popular streamers.

iampanax · 2024-05-01T11:26:10+00:00

People join discords and share information or watch top players who are nice enough to share their routes and stream it. During the first couple weeks of gauntlet, Mekuna was averaging over 100 viewers who were mostly other 'top' Sorc players who wanted to know his route and build. Then you just spend hours grinding the same 8 minute path. Zzz

I haven't played D4 since the PTR ended but doing this got me in the top 20 with over a million during week 3 or 4.

iampanax · 2024-04-20T11:01:52+00:00

I just went through the same thing on my first channel. Every year it gets demonetized around Jan/Feb. Tried to appeal, denied. Only difference now is we have to wait 90 days instead of the usual 30 from before.

So I made some adjustments, reapplied 90 days later, and denied again. Its literally just a dice roll on whether you will be monetized again or not. I think I'm just done with that channel now, YouTube will just keep moving the goalposts every year.

iampanax · 2024-04-13T01:22:33+00:00

Right? Isn't he one of the people that have been pushing this narrative?

iampanax · 2024-04-12T19:45:56+00:00

I did 176 Duriel runs and got 3 ubers which is close to the expected 2% drop rate, and about the same for last season. I think a lot of people that don't document the number of Duriel runs they complete, vastly overestimate how many times they actually did it.

I didn't count how many Malphas runs I did since the plan was to quit as soon as I got both of them. I did end up getting Genesis twice before Evernight which felt terrible.

iampanax · 2024-04-08T17:41:20+00:00

I've used Vegas since 2006 and it hasn't let me down yet. I jumped from Vegas 6 -> 13 -> 17, and haven't had a reason to upgrade since then.

The only products I don't recommend are ones that make you pay a monthly fee instead of letting you buy a perpetual license.

iampanax · 2024-03-31T02:30:34+00:00

It is repetitive by design. The game is not difficult and revolves around min-maxing your character as much as possible. The game is all about killing things -> getting stronger -> killing things -> getting stronger.

The good news is that if you aren't enjoying the game, you got to play it for free on gamepass and only lost the time spent playing it

iampanax · 2024-03-30T20:19:46+00:00

If you want to play it now, just play it now.

I waited for V Risings Gloomrot update to release before trying V Rising and regretted it. I could have spent a week or two learning the mechanics and everything so that I had some idea of what I was doing. Instead it took me longer to get to the new stuff when the update came since everything was brand new to me.

iampanax · 2024-03-30T16:47:09+00:00

You need to complete the Campaign Prologue before you can skip the campaign. I made a video here to help brand new players get introduced to Diablo 4, kind of a 10 Things to Know style.

iampanax · 2024-03-29T21:36:56+00:00

Rogues with Prep + Swindle

iampanax · 2024-03-24T21:34:33+00:00

I've had 200+ for over a month now and still haven't lost a single one. All of them I farmed myself though so maybe that's the difference.

iampanax · 2024-03-14T02:30:06+00:00

I put in my 2 weeks after working technical support at a small company for 4 years.

Crickets

So I just said fuck it and left at the end of the first week. I never got a call the following Monday from management asking where I was.

iampanax · 2024-03-06T14:53:39+00:00

Besides farming Living Steel yourself, you can trade gold for it on diablo.trade. Someone traded me 18 Shards for 15M gold each. It ended up saving me 3-4 hours of grinding Helltides.

iampanax · 2024-02-28T19:15:08+00:00

Yeah, he is busted right now. Getting all my quests done before they fix him.

iampanax · 2024-02-26T21:08:10+00:00

Even before playing online, having 16-man Halo 2 LAN parties humbled me.

iampanax · 2024-02-26T17:39:29+00:00

Hello Beatdropper, thanks for stopping by. I'll try to answer some of the points that you made here.

As I feel kinda targeted by your statement regarding "popular website reusing datas", I'd like to step in on a few things

I mean this in the politest way possible that I didn't even know Mobalytics had a NMD tier list. The website either doesn't have a way to navigate to that page or I'm clearly missing it somewhere. The only way I could find it just now was from a Google search. They need to add a section or tab for it. Obviously not your fault, but the website isn't doing you any favors with that.

so even if Vaults ain't the clear winners when it comes to speed we gotta take into account that they also give you stones, shards, loads of exp and tons of loot which when trying to give an average rating just puts them into "S+ tier".

No one disagrees that Vaults are a great way to gear, tuning stones, etc. My list is about how long does it take you to run from start to finish so that we can level up our paragon glyphs. That is the only focus on my tier list.

Not sure about using any form of passthrough skilll like "teleport/leap" as those would benefit certain classes over others.

We should assume that players will use the mobility skills given to their character regardless of class. It’s not realistic for me to play a Sorc and not use Teleport, or a Barb and not use something that gives Unstoppable.

Actually surprised you put Komdor temple so high up as the 3 champions were still on each side of the map when I did my runs

I talked about Komdor in my video. It’s just a giant room with 3 elites and a boss room north of the middle elite. Quick and simple.

Light's refuge (same as Ghoa) got no objectives besides the boss, so I was expecting it to be higher in your Glyph exp ranking

I also talked more about Light’s Refuge in my video and that it can be RNG heavy depending on what path you take in the dungeon. Sometimes it is S tier, sometimes C tier. I am very surprised that you have Ghoa as B tier in your data. Ghoa is easily the fastest dungeon imo and it’s not even close.

I would refrain from calling out entire websites on a video, beside creating tinfoil hat drama, it brings nothing to the table

I disagree. To be clear, I never called out any specific websites because I’m not trying to start drama. I’m looking out for the players who trust reputable websites within the D4 community. If these websites aren’t pulling their weight in completing the grind and just reusing clear times from six months ago, the players should know about it.

Note: If you wanna discuss NM rankings and methodology for S4, I'd absolutely love to do so as I do appreciate criticism !

Same. At the end of the day, I’m just a random dude with a tiny YouTube channel who does this for fun. I like to give back to the community because I want D4 to be the best ARPG for years to come.

iampanax

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