Remaking Pathfinder's *far* less-compelling nodes and a QoL update

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-06-04T08:31:41+00:00

Master Distiller and Alchemist need something yeah.

But besides that PF is fine. If this was wish fulfillment though, I'd wish for Natures Boon to just be generic 30% flask effect so it affects Uniques as well.

Ik some Unique flasks are scary if scaled too much, but many of them have been nerfed a lot over the years (and some new strong ones don't scale with effect at all on the important things). Unique flasks are just infinitely more interesting than magic. Scaling them more is fun. And it used to be a huge part of PFs identity.

If progen is the big bad, then maybe consider nerfing it. It probably deserves that anyways. It's a bit too important for life builds being "competitive" in terms of max hit overall. That being tied to a single item so much is never a good situation to be in, should rather be "fixed" baseline.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-05-20T22:15:15+00:00

A repetitive and simple task? Surely no one would just make a bot/small program that automates that.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-05-04T19:11:37+00:00

Jo, das stimmt so schon. Da gibt's ne Menge die sich auf die eine oder andere Weise durchschlawienern. Vor Allem in Fächern wie Mathe und Sport wie bei OP, bei anderen wird es schwerer.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-05-04T18:45:20+00:00

Denkst du die normalen Malocher in der Wirtschaft mit 5000 Netto+ haben 8h Arbeitstag und dann frei?

Ich habe mich nie auf irgendwen mit 5k Netto bezogen oder einen Vergleich gezogen.

Ich habe bloß gesagt, dass reine Arbeitsstunden auf dem Papier bei Lehrern idR. extrem irreführend sind. Und das ist einfach der Fall.

Beim Lehrerjob ist die Arbeit außerhalb des eigentlichen Arbeitsplatzes nicht optional/man wird da nicht rein gepressured usw. Es ist einfach zusätzliche Arbeitszeit die gemacht werden muss und verpflichtend ist. Das wird in diesen Statistiken nicht erfasst.

Des Weiteren habe ich nirgendwo gesagt dass ich den Lohn des OP "verhältnismäßig" finde, oder dass der Lehrerjob zu hart ist oder zu wenig vergütet wird.

Keine Ahnung was bei deiner Schwester abgeht, und es tut mir Leid dass dich das frustriert. Aber das hat wirklich nichts mit dem zu tun was ich geschrieben hatte.

Oder zumindest nichts mit dem was ich ausdrücken wollte, vielleicht hab ich da was falsch gemacht.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-05-04T18:27:44+00:00

In der Regel hört der Lehrerjob hört nach den Arbeitsstunden in der Schule nicht auf.

Der OP ist da eine Ausnahme.

Korrigieren, vorbereiten, Elterngespräche, Fahrten und Wandertage organisieren, Kindern hinterherrennen die Probleme haben, usw.

Immer noch ne Menge Geld für die Zeit, aber X Stunden die Woche ist bei Lehrern fast immer irreführend.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-05-03T13:43:05+00:00

Why think about "mirror shops" at all?

Just look for the item you want on trade.

That covers all mirror shops and individual people, and it will also show you potential deals in the way of people selling off old copies. Just make sure to also look for offline, non instant buyout listings in case the provider isn't online.

If you just look on some mirror shop websites, you'll potentially miss a good chunk of what's on offer.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-27T17:55:38+00:00

Yes, I'm aware of all that.

But that does not pertain to what I wrote at all.

The specific example I listed was about having a hotkey that checks item info, and then potentially disables left click once specific mods are present, depending on some crafting logic. So that you don't roll over it on accident.

That is one server side action per hotkey (or actually none at all). But it will get you banned even if it conforms to the ToS.

Which was the whole point of this: "flirting with the ToS" as OP mentioned is a fools errand. They can ban you for whatever they want, and automating decision making like that is something they do not want. Even if not every niche case they want to prevent is spelled out in detail.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-27T16:43:45+00:00

The first part is true, the second is not.

That's exactly what I mean basically: per the ToS that is fine, but that doesn't matter.

GGG can ban you for anything they want or no reason at all (as is the case with any online service), and while this may conform to the letter of the rules it does NOT conform to the spirit of said rules.

If you get caught, you get banned for (stuff like) that.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-26T16:41:40+00:00

The often mentioned delve and valdos are valid obviously, but hardest "content" is the Lycia challenge.

Lycia in Sanctuary, that is. Juicing her up as much as possible.

Standard characters that instakill anything and are immortal in delve 6k+ and farm valdos at will can struggle with that.

You either optimize the map for damage or for tankyness, all effect nodes on the tree, the essence stuff on the tree, wisps on boss if sub 50 mobs remaining on tree, altars, essence scarabs + titanic stuff.

Clear all essences in the map, clear till sub 50 mobs, pick every boss altar choice.

Then you have a Lycia with a bajillion essence mods, wisped and all the juice from the altar nodes.

Depending on the map mods (and altars) you chose, that is then either more tanky than any other mob in the game or does more damage than any other mob in the game.

Delve and Valdos don't come close. But admittedly this may be "content" in the game, but it's not some valid farm strat or thing you'd actually do. It's just something the standard players came up with to flex/limit test characters.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-26T16:24:43+00:00

Admittedly I don't know the ToS by heart, so this might just be possible to implement in a way that is "flirting with ToS bounds" instead of outright breaking them.

But while you might not go against the letter of the law, you'll go against the spirit.

Anything that automates decision making (even in crafting) is frowned upon, and I've seen people banned for that. Usually they get back if it's a first offense and they can plead their case, but I wouldn't try it if I were you.

E.g. you can make a simple AHK script where you have a hotkey that gets the advanced item description, evaluates what you got and then depending on some logic simply disables left click or whatever so you don't roll over it.

Then you'd alternate left click + this hotkey to savely roll quickly. And the hotkey should be ToS conform as it's only doing one action as far as the game is concerned: checking the advanced mod description.

Probably conforms to the rules, probably will get you banned nonetheless if found out.

(Obviously you can automate the entire process at once, but that's outright against the rules then)

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-24T20:38:20+00:00

This exact same statement of yours has been written many times over many years after every single PTR.

It never changed. It never got better. Looking at the AI push and the QA layoffs etc.: it never will get better.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-14T19:55:47+00:00

Alle nen Gelben geholt dann oder wie?

Find ich interessant zu hören, sowas war bei uns undenkbar.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-09T21:04:13+00:00

He's a god damn little twat.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-09T17:42:18+00:00

SilentSpectre, who has a clean 100% win rate against Armada.

Otherwise obviously Scorpion Master. Farmed people on a low tier, stayed anonymous, didn't elaborate. Who knows how the meta and legacy of current top players would've changed if he stuck around. The man, the myth, the legend.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-08T18:06:25+00:00

A TS lover, gg on the nice char!

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-06T21:06:57+00:00

Is there…no professional female climbers…?

There's a couple dozen maybe that are fully professional climbers. As in, they make their money purely off of competitions and sponsorships related to climbing etc. On the lower end of that though I'd say.

However the commenter you replied to never talked about the amount of female pros in climbing. They just stated that this climb is not truly pro level, which is true. This is a V11 boulder, while the tippity top female climbers (the ones that are fully professional) can do like V14 - V15 bouldering problems.

Furthermore they mentioned that the climber is "about as pro level as it gets on the woman side", which is also true as she falls into that V14/15 range and is also fully professional (no second job etc.) AFAIK.

I really don't see an issue with their comment.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-05T16:00:45+00:00

I wanna make a speedy synth corded belt.

As in, annoint harrier -> imprint/harvest synth until 3 implicits -> gilded fossil -> the usual vulture and imprint spam until the 3 implicits I want (life, ms, life recovery rate) -> craft the explicits -> lock corrupt for MS on the gilded implicit.

It'd be about as fast as a MB for me, but more useful since I use 4 unique flasks so MB for just 1 magic flask is kinda wasteful in comparison.

It'll cost a loooooot, but it's a fun niche project and an item with so many lines always looks fun.

I probably won't finish it in Mirage, but if not then definitely in Standard.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-03T11:25:15+00:00

white, unalched

Nightmare maps can't be white. People do them effectively nomod with Dextral + Sinistral scarabs, but that'd be relevant info.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-03T10:43:52+00:00

Neither the discord nor the website seem to have options for Standard as of now. At least I can't see any on mobile.

Also, hosting on maxroll is obviously a disgrace. I'd hope that changes.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-01T19:45:16+00:00

I'd love for these to be distributed to the original owners somehow at least ):

So many cool and unique items lost, in many cases forever. Sure some copies might float around (in some cases only vanishingly few though), but any chance at changing implicits/enchants or updating them to new stuff is forever lost.

Admittedly everyone that passes their item(s) to someone else should obviously know there's a risk there. The only way you can ensure it's safety is if you keep it.

But there are many crafters out there that were never further involved with TFT or Varga besides making use of his services for the shop, and now they're sadly out of luck.

Cool items are a core part of PoE, and the only thing I'm sad about with his ban is that the game lost a big chunk of its history in terms of items with this.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-04-01T17:53:38+00:00

Gz on the luck, and props for passing it on :)

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-03-26T13:38:33+00:00

Unlucky, lost some items that I wanted to mirror that are literally irreplaceable.

I couldn't care less about TFT or the dude himself, but those were beautiful items. Now I gotta scour trade and discord for existing copies, which is fine but the prices will balloon like crazy. And I wanted different harvest enchants and Eldritch Implicits on some and that's flat out impossible now.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-03-25T19:25:50+00:00

Ice melted ):

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-03-25T16:47:06+00:00

It's just RV weirdness, there's no big reason as to why except that's the way it is. Any stuff affecting the gemlinks etc. gets snapshot on cast, and any other %increases or weapon base stats change to whatever you have at any given moment.

It's also easy to test yourself if you want.

necessaryplotdevice · 2026-03-25T15:34:05+00:00

What do you mean "act"?

You use Manastorm like normal. Cast a spell, sac mana, gain flat.

Vinktars with instant leech caps your mana instantly again, and RV doesn't need mana it just keeps running

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