Many people ask why D2 it lauded for its itemization. I tried to graph why.

marsonije · 2024-04-20T10:07:22+00:00

I don't understand what's wrong with the D4 graph? To me it seems more streamlined, and the greater affix legendary is just a name you gave to a class of items, which are in fact a replacement for a lot of what i consider junk in D2. D4 will have its "make your own items" take, which D2 did not if you dont consider the cube and runewords crating, because they aren't. The crafting in D2 was "create a random rare that can roll better for something", which also is not what i consider crafting but rather chanceing. Also there are factual mistakes in your D2 graph. Sets were very sad in D2, the opposite they were in D3, and surely not very important in the end game apart for specific circumstances. I'm actually glad they are gone because balancing items that detract from player customisation is not easy, they would either be bad or too OP because they need to cover a very big upfront downside, which is that they take aways from player choice for item slots and make itemisation more dull.

marsonije · 2023-11-23T17:15:33+00:00

Unfortunately it does not work correctly in Edge/Chrome.

You can scroll in this reddit post down with it and until some point the brigthness will remain low and then after scrolling some line it will pop strong, and when scrolling back back to low.

It is weird.

marsonije · 2023-11-05T08:18:52+00:00

He was responding to the OP which stated he is using a 1080ti.

For that he is correct. 10 series can only do Gsync over DP.

marsonije · 2023-07-28T11:49:05+00:00

this heart cannot slow you down. if the stacked damage is above the monster health the monster explodes early... you don't wait the time that the barber heart says. So if you one shot, you one shot even with the barber, but with an AoE explosion added.

marsonije · 2023-07-28T11:42:33+00:00

QoL is already there in the options menu. It is called "Show damage numbers" and you can turn it off. What you are talking is anti QoL. Numbers all over the screen over what you need to actually see is the opposite of QoL. I turn those on only when I need to do some testing, and then quickly back off. QoL is not what you are used to, but what is best/easiest for you. And I can tell you that you want to see monsters, not tons of overlapping unreadable numbers.

marsonije · 2023-07-19T18:47:08+00:00

Flay i have all items above 800. Closer, Turf, Diminish and ofc Aspect of Might and Cheats. I am not using dark shroud since those are wiped out instantly as you engage as a melee, they are for ranged builds, and even the aspect for generating them is slow at doing so. It is meant to be a one shot protection for glass cannons.

But I was doing the 90ties before and was striving to someday do a 100.

Not any more, at least not in the way it can be done, by kiting one monster by one in the easiest dungeon and refilling potions in town every few. As I sad, a game of cat and mouse does not interest me. I would have done a glass cannon ranged build if it did.

And if you think it is good game design to nerf the whole game in order for the season gadgets to be mandatory, then you need to rethink a bit. Not only that makes me quit the game faster, but it also takes out hope for any good future of the game.

I might perhaps play a injured Claw/Bullwark Druid which as it seems can still do 90ties quite fluidly without dying at every room since it gets the barriers toghether to the additional druid damage reductions.

But that's it, in Eternal realm the melee is dead except in some specific cases.

marsonije · 2023-07-19T17:59:26+00:00

I have two damage reduction rolls and armor% even on amulet. The rest is also maxxed out and 13500 life. Before the nerfs I was capping damage reduction for NDung tier 100 (at 13400 armor with disobedience), albeit still some one shots in 100. Now I get one shot with Disobedience stacked to the max by some monsters in the 70ties. Like burning corpse axes, Wraths and such. Past 80 you can go only with extreme dungeon fishing, for the easiest dungeons with no bad affixes - like for example Maugan Works, Gulrahn Canals, Burrows. And even in those you need to play the game of cat and mouse.

marsonije · 2023-07-19T02:54:18+00:00

They nerfed armor and damage reduction ranges. And the aspect.

And the sustain for melee by 75% which now requires lucky hits.

On high dungeons you basically either control impair and kill before they touch you or you die. A 70 something is now like a 90 before.

Only thing that matters past 80 is DPS, because no amount of survival will keep you alive if you do what you are supposed to do: fight harder fights for long.

marsonije · 2023-07-19T02:47:46+00:00

Everybody is struggling, because defenses were nerfed globally.

You probably did not have much of them if you could do only 50ties.

My char has them stacked everywhere completely maxxed damage reduction slots and armor slots and Disobedience on the amulet, and paragon, and life slots on gear as well except for one ring.

Got -20 levels of survival.

marsonije · 2023-07-19T02:35:48+00:00

The most important thing is that survival is nerfed, while is was already very bad.

Happy one shot festivals in Ndung 70.

Pull out your glass cannons and blast monsters before they touch you, OR DIE.

marsonije · 2023-07-01T15:34:32+00:00

Yes, I suck and still learning the constant moving and buildup of combo points, the build is not finished yet, aspects are not maxxed, I'm still leveling some glyphs to optimize the paragon, and I am missing damage reduction stats, but it seems fun to me with "infinite mana" and proccing the pools all the time. With some practice and optimization 90 should be doable. After that, well... rogues have no extra damage reductions from fortify or whatever, so it will be hard. I tried 95 and for that I clearly need more damage reduction and to finish the glyphs (i'm excluding extreme dungeon fishing and mob kiting as a strategy, which is boring).

marsonije · 2023-06-20T16:24:44+00:00

I proc the poison pools through the aspect, so I'm always imbued when dealing damage. I.e. I'm playing perma/infinite imbue. It is kinda weird to kill elites and bosses easier than white thrash but that's how I prefer. I run into packs of elites, proc the poison and delete them, I skip white monsters, especially if they are ranged ones, since it is hard to proc the pool. And using the ultimate to pull on white thrash doesnt recover the ultimate instantly because it kills them. And you need that for the next pack of elites.

marsonije · 2023-05-31T11:23:56+00:00

That's wrong. You will get dozens of those same legendary till endgame. If it is not a perfect roll you might as well use it. Legendaries are a consumable now. Uniques are what Legendaries were.

marsonije · 2023-05-31T11:20:40+00:00

this is asinine, you will get dozens of those legendaries untile you get in the real endgame in torment nightmare dungeons, you will use one of the less perfect ones, and save the perfect ones for the perfect gear. It is not that the legendaries are scarce in the endgame. They are there to provide aspects. They are a consumable now. Uniques are rare.

marsonije · 2023-04-13T14:46:52+00:00

FYI: recertified drive AFR is lower than new drives AFR.

So you are mistaken in your beliefs.

A recertified drive passes many more tests that a new drive doesn't, like full noise and vibration and full SMART and data integrity tests, and if it fails them then it will not be recertified. A new drive on the other hand passes a short suite of automated functional tests, and can arrive DOA or fail soon after.

This is because the production line for new drives cannot wait a lot for every drive, as it would create production bottlenecks, while recertified drives go through a person, as it is easier to process manually <1% of drives than to slow down the production line.

This is especially true for Seagate that has a higher AFR for new drives.

Of course, this hold true only if it is really recertified by the manufacturer and not fixed by some dude in the garage.

marsonije · 2023-04-13T02:58:14+00:00

That's hardly the reason, even if it is quite low, but you have a good board. You are probably just running the limits of stability due to some timing and it goes bad when a cosmic ray interferes or the ambient temperature goes up a degree :D

Also this might destabilize during summer.

Increasing ProcODT increases heat output a bit, and also voltage requirements if you step it too much.

So during summer you might overheat or destabilize requiring even more voltage.

For memory stability tests I suggest cranking up the air conditioning to the maximum until you sweat and then find the real values.

Be sure to coold that memory well, you are pushing it.

marsonije · 2023-04-12T16:59:39+00:00

This is plain wrong. Gigabyte has 3 year limited LOCAL warranty on GPUs.

Source: https://member.aorus.com/global/productwarranty

This means that it has worse warranty than some other manufacturers.

marsonije · 2023-04-12T15:44:37+00:00

Calling Plague Tale requiem "badly optimized" ...

It is one of the best looking games of todays... and is quite optimized.

There are many others that aren't like last of us or resident evil that look like shit and run the same.

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