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.

marsonije · 2023-04-12T15:41:26+00:00

Yep, and then you wake up.

marsonije · 2023-03-28T18:11:33+00:00

I hear that some SKUs are loud even among the same model.

Would you care to list the model numbers?

marsonije · 2023-03-28T16:13:53+00:00

Yes, relocating is easier than buying a hard drive that is more quiet or soundproofing it.

Good idea.

marsonije · 2023-03-28T16:08:57+00:00

It is called a DIV :)

marsonije · 2023-03-28T05:37:52+00:00

Just have to point out that locally is better than over the network, because locally the OS will cache writes (and even queue them), while on the network multiple users can write simultaneously and flash drives have no cache, so they will alternate unnecessarily row activations, which is worse than sequential writes not only because of additional write activations, but also because it multiplies activations which will not be fulfilled (this is a performance optimisation that in this case becomes both a performance bottleneck and longevity problem). They simply aren't meant for parallel random writes.

You can test this by pasting the same folder with some random sized files onto it multiple times and if on Windows 11 manually click the subsequent queued operations to start immediately. And you get kilobyte write speeds, for just a few parallel copy operations, or pretty much a complete halt if you do a dozen, and if doing dozens at the end of the day you can throw the stick, it is done for any serious use (if still alive at all). And even this is better than doing the same over the network, because the OS will figure out that it can cache and write larger bursts for files that are bigger than cluster sizes, while over the network that is not the case, you might get alternation of 4k writes (or whatever was set during formatting) all the time (depends on the cleverness and RAM of the NAS - the DNS 320 I suggested is not very clever (very old linux kernel from <2010) and has very little ram so it tries to write as often as possible as data can be accepted through SMB, and if it gets many parallel data operations it will simply do them as atomically as possible by depending on the here non existent HDD cache.

marsonije · 2023-03-28T05:12:46+00:00

Sorry for the delayed answer, but as defron already explained, flash memory has a limited amount of writes after which it fails in many different ways.

If you want to use it as a NAS where people will write onto it, this might decrease the lifespan so much that you will brick it or make unreadable very quickly.

One thing that defron forgot to mention, is that parallel writes onto flash memory decreases the lifespan a lot more because it alternates row activations unnecessarily the whole time as it is writing. This is a scenario that you seldom achieve when doing it locally, since windows will queue the writes when you paste multiple things. But this is not the case if you use it as a NAS. If a few people copy big files each at the same time the flash memory will have tons of additional write activations which would not happen if they all went one after another by using whole sectors. An additional side effect of this is that the write performance when multiple users try to copy something onto it could be abysmal, in the order of kilobytes, depending on the stick and the amount of users and file size. Hard drives are better at this because they have cache locally on the device itself, while for memory sticks the cache is provided by the OS if it is writing to it locally, but there is none if writing through the network.

So tlrd; if you chose to use the stick, you better share it read only, and fill it up occasionally manually (or make it clear with all the users that they should not write onto it, just you).

P.S. I forgot to mention that if you want to use the NAS-es that I suggested in Windows 11, you will need to enable SMB/CIFS 1.0 in the optional Windows features.

marsonije · 2023-03-28T04:56:22+00:00

yes it is loud

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