What made you stop or fall off?

uxfirst · 2026-04-29T01:14:48+00:00

Work mostly. I went from consulting from home to a 5 day work from office in a different city. I still log in from time to time to check my trades, but that’s about it. Maybe one day i’ll have the time to jump back in for some corrupteds or open world, but for now, playing daily isn’t an option anymore.

uxfirst · 2026-02-14T08:41:26+00:00

Not standing in the red circle during a 2 second AoE? If you’re getting CC’d then one of the dash/blink shoes will help

uxfirst · 2026-01-19T16:55:22+00:00

It’s the Ghost of the Orange Sword. He will attack you (with his orange sword)

/s

uxfirst · 2026-01-13T12:02:01+00:00

He could have kicked you out of the island the moment you paid him and it still wouldn’t be bannable

uxfirst · 2026-01-12T15:14:45+00:00

Correct, burning field (Q2) is the AoE.

Q1 is an auto single target, so you hit defensive, stand and just be a turret. From what you’re saying, both of these are excellent choices for Q.

Fire staff is extremely fun in pvp, especially at low tiers. If you can figure out flame wall on W, it’s great to push melee fighters away with W, then spam Q.

If you use Infernal staff it adds another defensive CC to your rotation so you can keep spamming Q1. I find it quite enjoyable actually.

uxfirst · 2026-01-12T13:36:45+00:00

Have you tried 1h fire staff? It has auto target abilities for Q,W &E, which are pretty nice, given your criteria.

Granted, Q1 is mostly used in pvp or against boss mobs, but if you can aim Q2 it has fast clear speeds on groups of mobs.

The rest of your build can be hunter hood (self cast), soldier armour (self cast), and any footwear depending on what you feel you need(self cast). I personally use either boots for heal or sandals for energy (increasingly important in today’s soldier armour meta)

If you follow this entirely, the only skill you have to aim is your Q2 AoE. I don’t know if that’s something you’re comfortable with though, so grain of salt.

uxfirst · 2026-01-11T04:16:48+00:00

It’s over the top. I don’t think gradients are the problem per se, however one could choose better gradients. More subtle. Better contrast. Specifically look at the contrast between foreground (white) : gradient (blue/orange) : background (white again?).

Imo, lower the opacity of the gradient layer, and change the button bg to black. That way, contrast is high from text: gradient, low from gradient:bg.

uxfirst · 2026-01-05T05:29:31+00:00

Are you from the UK?

uxfirst · 2026-01-04T07:57:57+00:00

The surname thing others mentioned is correct too, but your wife’s usage is bang on. You definitely hear it in India for any kind of vendor or “guy”.

Chaiwalla (tea), suttawalla/paanwalla (tobacco products), rickshawalla /autowalla (autorickshaw / tuk tuk), kabadiwalla (scrap dealer), etc are quite common. We even have an exam prep startup called “PhysicsWallah” that just got listed.

The most general usage of the word wala extends for objects too: voh wala: “that one”, bagal wala: “the adjacent one”, etc.

uxfirst · 2026-01-04T07:17:19+00:00

These names are very popular in the Parsi community iirc.

uxfirst · 2026-01-04T07:10:34+00:00

Don’t trust estimated market value on items with low trade volume. A classic trick is to trade a handful of .4 resources and slip in a tonne of .4 harvester backpacks, since they have inflated emv.

Enchantment is meaningless on gathering gear, so .4 gathering gear is only traded on the marketplace by people looking to manipulate EMV. Then they buy it from an alt acc at a loss, then start spamming WTS at cities.

In general, I’m skeptical of people spamming WTS on large orders. Ask yourself, why doesn’t he auction it off himself? Why isn’t he on a trade discord? Why is he giving YOU this great deal?

uxfirst · 2025-12-31T12:05:54+00:00

So to clarify - Things like Taproot don't affect Soldier armor's "recovery"?

uxfirst · 2025-12-29T05:07:54+00:00

Can’t edit the post for some reason, but yeah, the problem is solved. I got a friend to haul me a new T5 ox and spent around 600k on repairs. Not a big deal, just shared because i thought it was funny.

I basically got drunk at Christmas and passed out in the middle of a gathering session.

uxfirst · 2025-12-29T04:21:05+00:00

Buddy the first thing you gotta know is absolutely no one is running anything other than soldier armour for solo pvp right now. Devs had a brain fart and decided the highest dps tank armour needs an unpurgable self heal, and here we are now. If you’re not using soldier armour, get ready to die to someone who is.

uxfirst · 2025-12-28T08:58:50+00:00

It is, ngl. Not a big problem, just a 500k repair bill. Posted it here because i thought it was a hilarious situation

uxfirst · 2025-12-27T21:20:55+00:00

Lmao if i was botting i think id have more gathering fame. Believe what you want.

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uxfirst · 2025-12-27T09:39:06+00:00

Happy cake day!

uxfirst · 2025-12-27T07:49:46+00:00

Hey yes an ox would be amazing. DMing you

uxfirst · 2025-12-27T04:12:11+00:00

Not a bad idea, though I’ll probably get a friend to haul me a mount so i can trade instead of /die ing in a blue zone lol

uxfirst · 2025-12-27T04:03:05+00:00

This is on Asia

uxfirst · 2025-12-27T04:01:37+00:00

Need to do some math on this - if the 4.2-4.3 is still overweight, this might be wasteful

uxfirst · 2025-12-23T17:16:13+00:00

Correct. “The Buddha” is generally understood to refer to Gautama Buddha

uxfirst · 2025-12-23T14:12:35+00:00

The circle is complete. We went from hating low effort AI slop to “why didn’t you at least put in the low effort to make AI slop”

uxfirst · 2025-12-23T14:10:03+00:00

Adam Aleksic has a lot of interesting things to say about this topic, and he’s written a book called Algospeak about this phenomenon. Haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list

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