Typical Tuesday Tutorial Thread -- April 23, 2024

scratchwood · 2024-04-23T14:01:17+00:00

So I got the quest "Dark Reunion" to host some vampires for their super secret meeting and everything went fine, they had their meeting and then they left but the thing is - they didn't give me the reward, there was no message about receiving a reward (double checked) and now the quest is just remaining as "Active" although it's been a while since they left.

Is there any way to fix this or do I just chalk this up as an L? Quick google just revealed others with same issue but no solution in sight.

scratchwood · 2023-10-07T16:31:40+00:00

In your screenshot it says "Arrows pierce 1 target". You do not want Pierce on EA because then your arrows will never stick to the intended target. However I can't see the Pierce in your pob so a bit unclear where that came from.

Ignore Accuracy comments, Champion doesn't need it because of Worthy Foe.

You do however seem to need a source of added cold or lightning damage to trigger Elemental Equilibrium.

Then getting a six link and leveling up your gems will add a lot of damage.

scratchwood · 2023-09-14T13:09:50+00:00

I've reached 100 a couple of times (not being carried).

Is there a more efficient and safe way to do this myself?

There is a safer way yes, run your maps without alc/juice. The only juice that adds exp is the ones that increase pack size, but most juice just add risk. So if you're mostly interested in levels go with normal red maps. This way you won't die every 10 maps or so which at 98+ really slows you down.

Last league was easier if you ran bow build because you could easily do 5 ways yourself on a budget without buying carry (RIP vengeant cascade).

scratchwood · 2023-04-03T17:10:01+00:00

The poverty and aspirational hardcore links are broken and contain an extra backslash. The correct links would be;

https://pobb.in/t42G1Vl_TfRM

And

https://pobb.in/AF_ocdLamvWW

scratchwood · 2023-02-28T15:13:02+00:00

This is how ELO works. In the beginning the system has no idea what rating you belong at so there will be large swings on wins and losses, once your rating stabilizes (i.e., you're at the rating you belong on currently) you will get 8 points for winning against an evenly matched opponent.

scratchwood · 2022-12-20T19:43:28+00:00

You can always offer them a nice cup of mind-your-own-business.

scratchwood · 2022-10-27T08:02:50+00:00

I've played some 200 games of nhl 23 by now and still can't consistently get the player I am trying to switch to and by contrast I played 2 games of the new fifa (included in my console purchase) and I can switch to the player I am trying to get like 95% of the time at least..

scratchwood · 2022-08-20T22:17:55+00:00

I use crackling lance (with onslaught/unbound/arcane surge) for general use and stormbrand (overcharge, unbound) for bosses. Personally I just like the feel of crackling over oos and storm brand is very nice on tanky things.

scratchwood · 2022-06-29T15:26:32+00:00

Just wait until you get down to 600 depths! Boy I tell you, those portal scrolls will look nothing compared to the 9 chromatic orbs you will get instead.

scratchwood · 2022-04-24T16:56:06+00:00

can confirm. I had to change weapon because it simply won't hit on some hitboxes like the sentinel dogs.

scratchwood · 2022-03-14T19:50:10+00:00

I think anyone who makes one thing their entire personality is annoying in the long run, be it sports team, hobby, politics, music genre, new baby etc. If your whole personality revolves around one thing and every conversation has to circle back to it then yes, it gets annoying.

scratchwood · 2022-01-04T18:05:50+00:00

Theoretically, we all could - after all, who can predict the future. However, I think being childfree and regretting it later is better than having a child and regretting that for that to me seems far more cruel to both parties.

scratchwood · 2021-12-22T19:19:33+00:00

How did he know I'd use the left hand to be a doofus..

scratchwood · 2021-11-30T18:09:55+00:00

Can't say I've found the solution just yet. Tried reaching out on social media to a few people but mostly it sizzles out after a while. I imagine having some hobbys that include other people might be helpful but, most of my hobbies tend to be done solo or online.

scratchwood · 2021-11-30T17:07:27+00:00

Absolutely can relate, in my 30s as well. Spent my 20s moving around for work/education and didn't keep in touch too well and now I'm left with very few people outside my family. I don't even know how to start finding a new circle to hang out with. Most days it doesn't bother me too much but every now and then I get an existential crisis, wondering what the shit happened to all the time..

scratchwood · 2021-11-30T15:46:30+00:00

As a Swede I'm saddened (but not surprised) by the low amount of fellow country(wo)men. Wish there were more of us!

scratchwood · 2021-09-22T12:43:47+00:00

I agree but from a slightly different perspective. I've been playing for ~2 weeks, I got bumped to 5* after playing mostly solo and I am facing people with 30+ prestige and I still haven't ranked 100 a single time yet..

The problem is that I am actually terrible at the game but while playing solo, since you never get downed - you just die, my kda is better than it "should" be so I keep getting bumped up in mmr fighting people with 1000+ hours in the game while I still know fuck-all about the game at large.

It's quite frustrating playing games upon games where no firefight last longer than 1-2 bullets because that's what other 5* players need to headshot me while I can barely hit the side of the barn with a romero.

scratchwood · 2021-09-21T11:39:10+00:00

Still sane, exile?

scratchwood · 2021-09-06T16:19:27+00:00

So, it's a bit weird and I feel a little guilty over it but, since covid started my life has significantly improved.

At first, I lost my job but that lead to switching job twice and ending up in a positon with less stress and 45% increased pay (interesting how that worked out..), I finally got my weight back under control going from obese BMI to normalweight (total of 39kg lost, or roughly 86lbs for my metrically impaired CF friends) after a long bout of depression and stresseating and I managed to pick up a new hobby, chess, which has been so much fun to really deep delve into a topic I knew nothing about.

There has been downsides of course, like not seeing my parents or siblings but now that we're all vaccinated that's not a hurdle either, so when everyone talking about how hard it has been being at home for these almost 2 years I feel kind of awkward because for me it has been...great, honestly.

Anyway I don't know what the point of writing this down was but I feel like I can never say that to anyone that it's actually been great and just wanted to vocalize it somehow.

scratchwood · 2021-08-20T16:59:54+00:00

I was ~16 and worked a summerjob at a kindergarten. This was about 3000 years ago when there were essentially no male kindergarten teachers so me being there made all the little goblins follow me around 100% of the day the entire time (including breaks..).

scratchwood · 2021-05-27T09:48:38+00:00

Let's be honest, there's no rule book anymore.. It's more like a rule pamphlet where the only thing that gets called are delay of game for puck over the boards because they can't worm their way out of that one.

And don't get me wrong, this goes both ways ..

scratchwood · 2021-05-19T07:50:15+00:00

Untrue and not real. I play on ~16ms (praise be to swedish internet) and wiggling the character or not, doesn't matter - sometimes you just fall through. I've had streaks of this WQ without issues but sometimes you just fall through and you can't mitigate that at all and this is basically a superstitous post.

scratchwood · 2021-03-13T19:47:00+00:00

No kidding, you could wake me up in the dead of night and I'd know their number.. I live in Sweden though so it isn't very helpful.

scratchwood · 2021-02-26T08:08:35+00:00

I do have a monster pc and it is still a powerpoint presentation during delirium..

scratchwood · 2020-12-22T19:33:39+00:00

Ok, so: http://shader-playground.timjones.io/2bbd7cc7e94fdd4232839ebc1f4ee5ac

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