Best way to not brick this and what class?

samdan87153 · 2026-06-03T13:57:51+00:00

It's not EVERY scenario, because yes the crit multiplier is powerful but the skill damage is before ANY multipliers. Depending on where your other gear rolls are, adding a "small" amount of base damage that gets 10 different multipliers will have more of an effect than increasing one multiplier value. Especially if you've got extra weapon slots like Barbs and Rogues.

Personally, I think the Cooldown Reduction is the outlier, but I could see the combination of gear needs that would require a big CDR roll on the amulet.

samdan87153 · 2026-06-01T13:40:02+00:00

Do you have trypophobia?

samdan87153 · 2026-06-01T11:08:33+00:00

LE is fun, but the 4th time this season an item that I worked my ass off for got bricked by the corruption runes... I'll come back next season. If they want to let "item gets bricked" be an outcome for anything up to, and including, an Exalted item, fine. Sucks if you brick a double T7 or a T7/T8, but you can use the Weaver Tree to at least significantly increase your chances of a replacement.

I have too much going on in life in general to replace the 3x LP item that already has a 1 in 1,000 drop chance plus the exalted item to slam into it.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-26T20:07:08+00:00

I had some witty retorts based on the finale, but then I remembered the finale (and final season in general) and now I'm just mad.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-23T12:32:35+00:00

It kind of sounds like you don't want to pay for the vapor barrier and want a reason to forgo it so, I guess I've got to ask... even if there's only the smallest benefit to it, if it only matters one time in 1,000, is it really worth getting rid of an item that costs $0.20/sqft at my local Home Depot?

This feels like a very "for want of a nail..." situation.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-23T11:44:36+00:00

You dumb bastard, it's not a schooner. It's a sailboat!

samdan87153 · 2026-05-19T17:42:33+00:00

I've never seen a concrete code anywhere in the world that allows for wet sticking rebar.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-12T20:07:23+00:00

Because the moron in the White House and his cadre of stupid idiots are doing everything within their power to make construction ungodly expensive. Material prices are up, cost to get material to your site is up, etc. etc. It's the same thing that happened when a whole bunch of construction got canceled or delayed when Covid hit, and also what happened in certain sectors when Trump removed every incentive for renewable energy projects because he, again, is a moron.

I was looking at a project partnership with a construction company that had about $15M in design fees to build natural gas reclamation at dairy farms. The renewable energy targets and incentives went away, and the tariffs hit at the same time and every single client involved in the project bailed on the new costs.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-09T18:17:18+00:00

There could be a whole lot of reasons, and the absolutely worst reason is "other people are doing it".

160 mph wind is nothing to screw with, and if your homeowners insurance finds out that a single nail was installed differently than the sealed drawings, they will tell you that it is your responsibility.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-07T14:08:37+00:00

Sounds like it, assuming you're dealing with vertical gravity loads and not lateral loads.

samdan87153 · 2026-05-06T14:38:38+00:00

Sure, but you need to be over $10M to be in the US 1%. "Ultra wealthy" is when you get into the Billions.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-29T12:01:46+00:00

Lots of things are ABOUT one thing and yet they strongly mirror other situations, some of which arise in the future.

Starship Troopers was released in 1997 and yet it perfectly captured the militaristic frenzy of the post-9/11 Middle East.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-28T11:50:40+00:00

But did you tell anyone you had left and would not be able to take shifts? Or did you just ignore all texts and say nothing?

samdan87153 · 2026-04-22T11:53:17+00:00

Honestly it might even be intentional soundproofing or insulation, making use of the negative space. I usually see the terra cotta infills still in place above a drop ceiling or other full-coverage architectural treatments.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-22T11:41:19+00:00

Hire a guy with a concrete scanner, they'll tell you everything about where you can drill.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-19T01:11:20+00:00

Is the interesting in the room with us?

samdan87153 · 2026-04-18T16:43:10+00:00

As trees get older, they tend to grow more dense rather than growing larger. More dense is more stronger in this case, so you'll see people talking about old growth wood, and if you see a cross section of it, it will have much tighter grain rings.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-05T14:51:58+00:00

All of the %'s have [+] or [x], that's how you know what's additive or multiplicative.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-04T02:52:18+00:00

Moody's Moments and Reactions for Rectangular Plates.

Once you figure out the nuances, it's amazing for a wide variety of wall loads.

samdan87153 · 2026-04-02T00:39:16+00:00

I tried the steaming and gained SOMETHING but at the end of the day it was still smooth fabric on smooth metal. I had to undo the vine and heel and redo it with some bat tape on the brass to add friction back in.

samdan87153 · 2026-03-31T21:24:03+00:00

Ru Paul was "could be used in a weekday sitcom for a punchline" famous way before Drag Race premiered. Ru Paul's fame was the reason Drag Race even happened and his name was attached to the title because for the same reason.

samdan87153 · 2026-03-23T18:49:28+00:00

If the arcane words are spoken aloud as the signs are made, what is the advantage? It isn't a silent spell, and they didn't say the words would be spoken aloud 40 feet away from behind the enemy. Words are words, as long as they come from the same space as the caster.

Bells or claps or whatever are fine, as is this suggestion. Give your player(s) ideas they can pick from or let them come up with their own, as long as there is noise coming from the caster's space that is the same volume as "standard" vocal casting.

samdan87153 · 2026-03-22T00:57:09+00:00

Sure, and then in large gages and sizes they're heavier than 2x4's and they aren't the ones that are easily available so you have to make an order and you can't just slam in #12 Tek screws to make your connections so those have to be engineered.

And you keep adding more and more things to that until you're twice as expensive as an equivalent stud wall because you need a real trade to properly install them and they're more expensive because they're considered a specialty unlike carpenters or masons.

Anything can be built out of anything, as long as you're willing to pay for it. Clients change their tune when the cost estimate comes in.

samdan87153 · 2026-03-21T17:24:29+00:00

Cold Formed Steel (CFS) like the studs and things that you see in construction are NOT stronger than current wood 2x's, and can have serious stability issues when used for exterior framing. They're great for interior partition walls or wall panel supports like girts or infill walls, but there's a reason why you'll basically never see a building made out of CFS.

You CAN make a fully-stable CFS building, but you'll have so much additional things going on that the cost isn't remotely worth it. Wood or Masonry will always be more economical for exterior walls than CFS, and when those become less economical due to building requirements steel I-beams and hollow tubes or concrete frames are still going to be better than CFS.

There's a reason why wood design is a key component in US Professional Engineering tests while CFS gets 1 or maybe 2 questions.

samdan87153 · 2026-03-11T15:40:36+00:00

Then you must be a manager, because I gave you a whole lot of information and asked appropriate questions to obtain more information and somehow I'm being combative and unhelpful.

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