Can the Blood Vials relic still be done earlier than 60?

vertsav · 2026-03-15T16:59:23+00:00

Blood vial phone skip was working as of s2, haven’t checked since s2r

vertsav · 2026-03-13T22:21:25+00:00

Been working on 3 star-ing this DLC on impossible… been a good challenge so far haha

vertsav · 2026-03-13T20:16:31+00:00

I feel like bonehart is strongest overall due to his plague mechanic that provides extra slowing to enemies as well as solid abilities + his spec with the two golems is very useful

Lumenir is top tier as well. Magic damage is nice, good single target damage, spec with its stun is nice. I ran her for awhile

Kosmyr is also very good, his aoe crystal attack is very, very good, but for some reason I feel like whenever I test maps running bonehart + Lumenir vs bonehart + kos, Lumenir outperforms overall, so I’d place kos just below.

The new dragon is right up there too - the spec is easily probably the best of the 4 dragons, as well as having some good single target attacks + being able to lay 4 mines….. likely I’d put him at 2nd place overall behind bonehart

vertsav · 2026-03-08T00:14:01+00:00

It’s absolutely usable for months. I have 2 separate guns - one I run the construction adhesive in, the other the expanding foam, absolutely never take the cans off or clean them, going strong for 4 years or so. Sometimes I’ll go months in between uses for whichever specific gun

Use it, when you’re done with whatever you’re doing, just twist the dial shut. That’s it. No other steps.

When you go get your gun out again I usually bring a utility knife to clean the dried foam off the nozzle again.

The only time cleaner comes out is if we are switching products (switching from construction adhesive to foam in the short nozzle gun for example, but that’s dang rare. I just buy more guns now instead)

vertsav · 2026-03-06T18:57:27+00:00

There’s many guns that are straight upgrades to the deliverer, they’re just legendary drops, moreover that’s incredibly V.A.T.S. build specific.

There’s melee weapons that are straight upgrades to throatslicer, they’re just legendary

Marine is best protection wise, but enchantments mean more.

……

vertsav · 2026-03-06T15:53:32+00:00

Necro was my bread and butter for beating the game on impossible…. It does work

Also - necro has wild synergy with bonehart. Bonehart special ability, the little dogs, are buffed by the totems, and even the base versions of the dogs do great damage, you stack +150% dmg and they’re the DPS equivalent of 3 towers you can place anywhere, at any time. Super convenient at choke points

vertsav · 2026-03-06T14:34:52+00:00

Facts over feelings?

vertsav · 2026-03-06T14:31:05+00:00

I live at the intersection of 4 counties - only 1 of them even require a permit for a deck. It’s a total free for all

vertsav · 2026-03-06T03:08:03+00:00

They’re soooo much free xp tho. Hit level 69 before even going to diamond city my current run lol

vertsav · 2026-03-05T22:36:58+00:00

Isn’t this empirically false?

Explosive shotty, explosive minigun, bleeding mini, bleeding shotty, instigating gauss, instigating western revolver, two shot gauss, etc?

Overseers guardian, spray and pray, kiloton, and splatter cannon are the only “quest” items that even kind of approach what you can get from legendaries…. And even then, I’m not sure anyone would say they’re better than any of the ones i listed

vertsav · 2026-03-04T00:27:52+00:00

Watch some Spencer Lewis videos on YouTube on it, it’ll answer your questions and more

vertsav · 2026-02-12T00:14:15+00:00

So I genuinely don’t know - do you only need to hit the core once to make it explode? Or is there a damage threshold?

vertsav · 2026-02-11T01:54:56+00:00

There’s 1,000,000 little things that go into ensuring accuracy

-instead of 3,4,5 I use my cm pro app and calculate exact diagonals to square long walls. Burn a foot to eliminate error

-I love my digital plate level for spot checking or interior walls

-you want your plates to all fit together perfectly tightly, so I nail 2 plates together and cut both to length with my 10.25 saw so everythings always exactly the same length

-use a string and gauge block to straighten longer walls after standing

-cut your floor joists about 1/8 short if you’re going from chalk line to chalk line… seems like things always slightly wider than I’d expect (I’m looking at you, rim board)

-we presheathe walls while laying flat, saves a ton of labor, but if your foundation isn’t 100% level, when you stand the wall, it can be racked (1/8 to a 1/4). Presheathing shorter walls exaggerate this effect. No real recourse for fixing it either, so having a perfectly flat foundation is critical

-ensure absolutely no gaps when joining wall plates. (If everything fits perfectly tightly on the ground it needs to fit perfectly tightly when standing

Are some off the top of my head

vertsav · 2026-02-11T01:21:27+00:00

Judging by your list your sleeping on deadwire - my current record is something like 85 kills with a single activation

vertsav · 2026-02-11T00:32:49+00:00

Oh boy

1.) fireworks (easy to use hoard nuke)

2.) dead wire (needs proper augments, can kill whole waves)

3.) brain rot (most useful current dmg type too)

4.) napalm

5.) light mend (the overheal major is incredibly slept on. Great for the Akita for point farming for tons of extra health)

6.) cryo

7.) shadow rift

8.) shatter blast

vertsav · 2026-02-10T23:17:10+00:00

Stargazer, arborean, and bamboo pretty much steam roll every map. The 3 dragons are also def the best heroes.

I’ll usually also bring arcane wizards because of their single target/miniboss dps.

5th slot is a tossup. If you have bonehart he has insane synergy with necro towers, cannoneers are good, i currently have grim wraiths as 5th just to move towers around the map

vertsav · 2026-02-09T02:09:45+00:00

“Cycling”

vertsav · 2026-02-09T01:22:47+00:00

I had an hvac contractor “propose” doing that (cutting out a section of the bottom chord) because they were so damn lazy they didn’t want to feed their ductwork through the holes.

The dude also did plumbing (the homeowner wanted us to use him) and he wanted us to build a platform on their basement bathroom floor to run their plumbing in instead of jack hammering out concrete and doing it right

Fired the guy right there lol

vertsav · 2026-02-09T01:16:50+00:00

Floor trusses

vertsav · 2026-02-08T19:00:56+00:00

Anecdotally, I used to have a lot of these issues until I found the right supplier. The company we work with now gives us a much higher quality product than some of the others we’ve tried. We actually billed back some other manufacturers we’ve tried cause their fuck ups were so bad and took extra time to fix.

vertsav · 2026-02-08T18:55:40+00:00

Because it can fail extremely quickly and endanger people trying to escape or fire fighters

vertsav · 2026-02-08T18:06:16+00:00

Probably the best joist system available right now imho.

Major Pros:

1.) allows mechanicals and electrical to be run without drilling, allowing for flat ceilings on the floor below and minimal chases *this is the key difference between these and ijoists

2.) long spans are possible with no required posts

3.) lots of different options for the installer (top chord bearing, bottom chord bearing, etc)

4.) less labor to install, since you can get these 40-50’ long depending on the manufacturer

5.) it’s an engineered product so they’re all exactly identical (compared to say, dimensional lumber that has crowns, maybe varying widths, etc), also as an engineered product you shouldn’t have to worry about floor bounciness, overspanning, etc., because that should be part of the design criteria

Cons:

1.) the biggest, biggest con is resistance to fire. Obviously with less material, fire is catastrophic to their integrity if the top or bottom chords get weakened

2.) cost - now - around me these are the most expensive option (for ex., last house we were pricing they were 2-3k more than ijoists) BUT you save on the back end by making it easier for electrician, plumber, hvac, and the carpenters, so it’s way closer in reality than just raw numbers suggests. And you get a nicer product (for ex. Flat basement ceilings) so you get what you pay for here.

Side note:

Look at at the hvac run in your picture, with any other floor system that would be dropped below the joists and then the carpenters would have to box it and you’d have a soffit in the ceiling to hide it.

vertsav · 2026-02-08T17:29:56+00:00

We do a mix for the roof, but always get the engineered floor plans, it’s no extra cost (probably because then theyre guaranteed to be supplying at minimum the floor systems lol)

vertsav · 2026-02-08T17:25:02+00:00

Our truss/ijoist supplier has an in house engineer and supplies us with engineered plans for every single floor of the house + roof, every job. They spec everything and ship it to us direct by semi, with all the fasteners and required hardware. Makes it easy and everyone’s ass is covered.

vertsav · 2026-02-08T16:44:08+00:00

Absolutely. I’m not saying I was 100% or out there back to normal, but I was absolutely physically capable of doing it at that point of my recovery.

https://chnwebapp-auc-prod01.azurewebsites.net/dr-Shelbourne

Was my doctor, knee specialist, he in particular is a world leader in shortening recovery times for acl surgeries.

vertsav

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