mumei @ mumei @lemmy.world

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Thanks, I'll try that!

Not a huge fan of the town management bits, but I'm playing SSF and shipments can bring back uniques, of which I need four for my build, so I'm trying to play the mechanic.

One of the uniques I need can be targeted via Divination, but I'm still trying to understand how to sustain the one map it drops in, without much luck. The other uniques can't be obtained via Divinations, so I'm trying to chance them (no luck so far, unfortunately...). I was also considering the Atlas Passives that converts map item quantity to 3x item rarity, in hopes of dropping those uniques and then maybe respec it when I need currency for crafting Rares for the other slots... don't know tbh, first time SSF and also been away from the game for several years lol

I'll also have to review my defences as I'm getting one- or two-shotted in early yellow maps through 3k life and 3k ES, with 40% attack block, 20% spell block and 20% spell suppression, but there isn't much else on the tree that I can allocate easily...

Eh, I'm not going to play at max effort, I'm just getting back to PoE after all. A way to farm Fusings is good enough!

Thanks for the help, I dind't know about Tainted Fusings, that could also be of help

Thank you, never would've tought about a couple of these!

-I guess that I can hide the vast majority of bases that I can't use or don't fit my class, at least while leveling during acts. At some point I will need the Chaos recipe thogh and those useless bases can come in handy

-A plan about gearing is absolutely a stranger to me lol I've played 3k hours in trade leagues so I'm just used to buy what I need. Except for some specific bases and the right gems, everything else is a mistery

-this one is easier, as I'll mostly farm only the divination cards needed to get my uniques, unless I can chance them

-I know about the bench craft, what I don't know is how long is going to take to get to 1500 fusings... guess that's another divination to farm lol

-this is good advice, a meh Temple can net good XP and drops evem though the double corruption room isn't available!

-I'll need to look into this a bit better, so thanks!

I recently got back into it, and it's not that bad if you go in with the knowledge that you won't get a top tier item without investing an absurd amount of currency and with curbed expectations.

You can get some decent rares by limiting yourself to three or four mods items without spending too much and by offsetting your equip's shortcomings with your passives.

I think the main issue is that the game is balanced around trading, which lead to incredibly overpowered items and monsters... just yesterday I got oneshot through 8800ES while monsters where cursed with Enfeeble on my build from three or four years ago, in a lightly modded T9 map, by a Delirium boss, I think?, which is kinda nuts

I'm gonna go SSF next league without expecting to get to Red maps and see how it goes, but crafting doean't seem too bad now and this comes from someone who never crafted anything, always bought my equip

Hell yea

You will have to look at the second hand market for sure, but you can probably get a decent 1080p 80-100fps medium/high build.

Something like (or equivalent):

Ryzen 5 3600

RX 6600

16GB DDR4

1TB SSD (probably not NVMe)

Whatever case

Whatever monitor, even if only 60Hz, for now

Whatever MoBo

Tier A PSU from the Cultists Network PSU tier list

You can most likely get everything used if you buy from a second hand shop that has a form of buyer protection (eBay and similar) and thoroughly check and clean and test everything you buy

Haven't seen this mentioned, but did you make sure to plug the display cable into the GPU and not the MoBo?

edit: nvm, just saw a comment with same suggestion

About RAM, Trident Z5 NEO @ 6000Mhz seems to be the best price/performance ratio.

About GPU, I'd personally go for a Sapphire as they're one of the historic AIB for AMD GPUs and I also dig a lot the design of the Nitro+ lol

See if you can save something on the MoBo (by getting a lower trim) and 2x2TB might be a bit overkill for gaming only (ofc it depends on your habits, but I personally don't have games installed for more than 500-600GB). Also, you picked two PCIe 4.0 NVMEs, so maybe consider a 970 Evo Plus if it's cheaper than the 980 Pro

About cooler, I'd prefer an old fashioned air cooler simply because it can't leak lol

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account is being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

Anyways, I kept them. One drive loss won't be catastrophic (got two mirrored and also spare backup), so I decided to go for it!

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account os being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

In the end I decided to keep them, considering the store provides warranty! Loving the gigantic storage amount I have now haha

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying "this account os being verified" and I coulnd't comment or anything else.

Anyway, yes, the store I bought them from is a legit store and provides warranty, so I decided to keep the drives!

That's fair, I paid three times as much though so I do care a bit more haha

Actually, I found something: "DOM: 07JUN2022". I guess that's "Date of Manufacturing"?

I was a bit off, they were 15% cheaper than the Ironwolf on the same website/from same seller (156, not USD, vs 179, not USD).

For a better comparison, I went to WD's official store and for what I spent on these two 8TB Exos (312, not USD) I can get two 4TB Red Plus (310, not USD). Can't make a direct comparison with other Seagates because their "buy now" section redirects me to Amazon, which, as you said, is not the best since they allowed third party sellers, but on there the 8TB Ironwolf is 250 (!!).

As you already know, I'm not in the US so I can't buy from there. Unfortunately, Seagate's "buy now" section (which should be official retailers) brings me to either Amazon or other chains that don't have much else besides portable drives.

At this point I have two options, really: try again the same online store (which is kinda like Amazon, many third party sellers), but getting Ironwolf, which should be more likely to be "legit", and of course check them as well when they arrive, or settle for two 4TB WD Red Plus (which isn't ideal as I'm already nearing 2.5TB total, but should allow me to get by a while longer) bought directly from WD.

edit: looking at the link you provided, I paid 30% less for my Exos. Would that sway you towards keeping it without warranty (apart from the seller's, which is one year I think)? Mind that I don't need enterprise-grade drives, and I think even NAS drives are overkill for my needs. For example a WD Blue with its 55TBW per year might be enough for me (that's 150GB a day everyday for a year, which is above my average writes), but those don't come big enough (I need 6TB min to be comfortable) nevermind, they do come in 8TB size, just at a lower spinning speed (5640rpm), but they cost more (267) than the Ironwolf, and are SMR and have 128MB cache. Sounds like a bad deal!

No I don't, I wrote it in the OP haha unless there's a way to know it by looking up the S/N. Have to check.

How can you be so sure they're older? They were sold to me as new and they did come in the usual sealed plastic wrap.

Anyway I don't think saving some money is worth more than a full warranty, so I'm basically set on returning them and get something else

Agree, I stopped buying Sony games because of that

I feel the pain: began my Linux journey some four months ago, tried Ubuntu first, played with it a bit for a couple days, abandoned it; then tried PoP!_OS, got it up and running, broke it, wiped it; tried again and it finally clicked! I'm now dailying it, and it's been pretty good so far!

Keep trying without forcing yourself, maybe try different distros depending on what you need!

I saw W11 in action on a different PC and that made me stay on W10. In the meantime, I researched Linux and dipped my toes in it for a while. Just made PoP! _OS my daily driver (installed on my main NVME), with much less pain than I thought, while I moved W10 on a secondary, old and small SSD, only for those games that don't work in Proton/Wine.

It is a bit difficult to learn everything from scratch, but it's a small price to pay, to be honest

Thanks a lot for all the help! You've been very patient and helpful, I appreciate that! Have a nice day!