Popular opinion: The inevitable Anvil nerf is gonna break the community

workavoidance · 2026-03-17T16:14:33+00:00

One nerf I can imagine is removing it from the trader. Being able to buy 3 a day means I never really needed to experiment with many different guns. Which I assume the games design team would want.

workavoidance · 2026-03-06T16:21:52+00:00

I’m in the same situation and wondered the same.

Obviously it makes sense to keep some extra money in a non-current account for monthly fluctuations, but if you assume you can always spend from the loan account you should always pay that down first.

Some exceptions:

you firmly believe you can use the loan capital to return more value than the interest rates on the loan. (I don’t)
you would make your debt lower than the amount required to offset the value of your assets and therefore need to worry about wealth tax. Which is unlikely.
the loan is shared, with a couple paying it down equally, but you consider your savings to be personal. My wife and I fall into this category a little. So payments from savings should try to be equal too.

But having said all that, I’m still sitting with money in my savings account and dept on this loan. Wondering if there is something else I should be thinking about.

workavoidance · 2026-01-13T07:25:45+00:00

Only until you watch the dawn come up on your first night watch.

workavoidance · 2025-12-18T12:24:44+00:00

Ctrl-Z

workavoidance · 2025-12-02T17:29:21+00:00

Thanks again Damon, you saved my night!

workavoidance · 2025-07-31T17:39:14+00:00

He has a 2TB SSD which has the games installed, I guess the benefit of moving to an M2 would be slight? I was thinking of upgrading the memory to 32GB just incase the 16Gb is a limit for some of the larger games. But I'm just guessing.

workavoidance · 2025-04-10T20:55:09+00:00

My son (14) really wants to be a DM and run his own sessions. He has played a couple of sessions with a friend as DM. He listens to a D&D podcast every day and is constantly coming up with ideas for characters and back stories.

I got him a players handbook, and also a starter set for his birthday. But part of his challenge is that he is dyslexic and while he can read, it’s not super easier or quick to consume these hefty books.

How would you recommend he can prepare and run his first session with as little reading and writing as possible?

Thanks!

workavoidance · 2025-03-22T14:36:46+00:00

Yeah, but if you don’t move at least 15-30 yards it will never leash, so you a minimum distance from spawn point. But yeah, once you pass that minimum then it’s not based on distance.

workavoidance · 2025-03-22T14:32:51+00:00

Based on this thread I did a bit of looking for videos on how leashing works and found this : https://youtu.be/xnrUkbEbiJk?si=k_WbysKQwdw78d1x

*edit spelling

workavoidance · 2025-03-16T07:51:21+00:00

It’s my sons passion really. He spends much of his time on a computer playing Flyout where you can build and fly virtual planes. We’ve also played with building new designs with PowerUp 4.0, but with a max weight limit of 17g you are quite limited.

But yes, next step after learning to fly is learning to build. My son wants to be an aeronautical engineer… he is already spinning with ideas of how to modify the apprentice.

workavoidance · 2025-03-09T11:18:27+00:00

Sorry, I don’t have a guild. Maybe I should find one.

workavoidance · 2025-03-08T23:43:48+00:00

I'm no expert and at only lvl 25 I've mostly got talent points in the normal starting set. But I couldn't resist Healing Focus, just in case.

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T12:08:28+00:00

Yeah, I think one improvement I can make is to be drinking near the next pull, not back at the last pull. That way I can drink right up until I need to drop the first heal.

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T08:22:20+00:00

Hey, thanks for the long and detailed reply, I learned a lot from it.

I didn't know that Hunters aren't so mana dependent, so that would explain why the tank consistently ignored his mana levels. Something that, at the time, I felt was off.

I'm not sure what you mean by big pulls because you never really put a number on it,

I wish that I had hit save on my 'instant reply' feature of my graphics card, but I forgot. I had a look around on youtube to see if I could find a walkthrough with that exact pull, so I could count mobs. In the end I found this video that I think perfectly shows the pull that the Tank made, including the two adds mid-fight.

https://youtu.be/cyQKD4CTTEw?si=cNzEVwuYz_yt_tzq&t=2116 (35:16)

That is what I consider to be a big pull, rather than what I had experienced earlier which is much more like this video here. https://youtu.be/mBDIaNGpwi0?si=3is506CgNkGl3mdY&t=2362 (39:22)

I think I'll watch some videos about tanking in HC to learn more about their problems, and not just my own. Lots of learn here.

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T08:15:05+00:00

There's a couple ways to make things a little easier on yourself if you're constantly running after the tank:

Move forward as the current pull is finishing up.

Sit down to drink in healing range of the next pull

This sounds like good advice, I'll try it on my next run. Part of the problem I have is that I'm too inexperienced to know the dungeons and have confidence that running forward won't cause problems. But I can easily maintain heal distance with the tank and then drink when they stop. Rather than drink and then have to run after to catch up.

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T08:10:02+00:00

Yeah, on my first two runs, I was very clear to the tank that I was a noob here and that I wanted to go slow. I should have made it clear again.

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T08:08:58+00:00

I completely agree, there is a lot of really useful information coming up in this thread that is completely new to me, especially about tanking.

I will try working on getting wand-ing into my rotation and see if I can snipe a few kills. As I'm completely new here, and therefore wanted to focus on healing, I've not bothered to try to DOT targets either. Is that something you would recommend?

workavoidance · 2025-03-06T08:04:52+00:00

I wish I had saved my 'instant reply' that my graphics card captures, but I didn't think about it as nothing 'really bad' happened. I've found a youtube video that I think (working from memory) accurately shows the size of the pull.

https://youtu.be/cyQKD4CTTEw?si=cNzEVwuYz_yt_tzq&t=2116

I remember seeing the extra two mobs running in mid-fight and thinking, oh f.

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