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  1. sakkath

    Black Desert

    raid scrolls? do you mean awakened boss summons?
  2. sakkath

    The Secret World

    If you don't like the cut scenes then the game probably isn't for you. The games story, atmosphere, world.. that is its real strength, and the cutscenes/voice acting are an important part of that.
  3. sakkath

    Black Desert

    I just finally succeeded in getting my blue scythe to TRI. 10th attempt. RIP 66 FS. My guildies all told me I'm an idiot for "wasting" all of those FS but they can get fucked. I was so happy when it succeeded.
  4. sakkath

    The Secret World

    Yeah I'm playing SWL and having fun but the combat is definitely nothing to write home about. It's not the worst combat I've seen as at least it's highly mobile. Struggling to think of MMOs with immobile combat though.. Maybe Aion? Anyway if you want good combat look at BDO. One of my main...
  5. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    Shrug, I'm not here to say whether they're good investments or not, I'm just saying a lot of people do it for a lot of reasons. Again, 2/3 of Australian rental properties are operating at a loss. Do you really think so many Australian investors are stupid? Of course they're not. Some of them...
  6. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    It's not necessarily lying. I'm sure some (many?) of them are misreporting income. But there can be a lot of factors why people invest in real estate to their financial detriment. People see real estate as a safe place to store money as there is the impression hat it only ever goes up in value -...
  7. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    Well of course if you can make a profit then you would. But when a property costs $2mil and the rental market means it's only worth $800pw then you can't make a profit on it. To break even you'd need to charge over $2k per week rent, which if you tried would mean your property is empty and...
  8. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    The end goal is capital gains. The negative gearing just cushions the loss while you are heading there. In Australia you can bring an investment property loss into your tax return in any income bracket, thereby getting back some of the tax you paid on salary or other investments. Works quite...
  9. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    If you're in the top income tax bracket, if you make a $10k loss then you get $4500 of that straight back on tax, that helps cushion the loss while you're waiting for your capital gains.
  10. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    I think and know for a fact that (many) people are renting out houses for less than the mortgage payment. In fact, based on Australian Tax Department statistics, 2 out of 3 investment properties in Australia is making a loss. -> There were 1,213,595 individuals with a negatively geared property...
  11. sakkath

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Loved it, seeing dragon vs foot soldiers went exactly how I expected it would. I also immediately suspected (not really) Jon made the carvings. Arya fighting Brienne was dumb, as if you can parry such a large sword swing with that toothpick. Very strong plot armour on Jamie and Bronn. Bronn...
  12. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Started trying to get my Kzarka and Bhegs up to DUO (they were both unenchanted). I had a nice stockpile of mem frags and though it might last a while... Nope all gone in 20 minutes!
  13. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    The only insane property tax is stamp duty (tax on buying a property) which would be ~$100k on a $2mil property. Once you own it ongoings are very low, there isn't even any land tax, just council rates to cover things like garbage collection and other council services. But anyway, people don't...
  14. sakkath

    Home buying thread

    Renting can be a better option depending on the market. In Sydney for example, you can rent a house in a reasonable suburb for $7-800/week. Buying the same house would cost $2mil, or over $2000/week just in interest alone. Renting and investing the thousands per month difference in cost in the...
  15. sakkath

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    They're probably ~4th edition WFB Undead -> kill the general and the whole army crumbles.
  16. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Picked up +5 Bheg's for 150mil on preorder. Saw 2 or 3 go before I got one.. I think pre-order of odd enchantment levels and night vendor are definitely the two best ways of getting boss armour.
  17. sakkath

    Black Desert

    yep once you've got a spare 100 mil or more start checking the night vendor regularly for boss pieces. 150 mil or so for kzarka, 300 mil ish for dandelion.
  18. sakkath

    Parent Thread

    I'm teaching my 3yo to ride a bike. It's awesome fun, one of those dad things I was really looking forward to.
  19. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Depends on your class really but your mainhand weapon should be your main focus. You should probably try to get a Liverto which are pretty cheap these days, although for some classes Liverto is considered worse than green weapons I think. I'm 56 and have been for a very long time (because I die...
  20. sakkath

    Black Desert

    You wouldn't see Heve or Grunil by 20. At level 20 your gear doesn't matter. Just have fun and enjoy the ride. by the time you've got to 50 you should research what kind of gear you want to focus on in the meantime. I went with grunil and are in fact still using it because boss armour doesn't...
  21. sakkath

    New and Upcoming Show list

    Mr Robot 4th Oct
  22. sakkath

    Black Desert

    I'm up to 48 stacks trying to TRI my blue scythe but it's all good. Just pulled a Kzarka Amulet from the night vendor which is pretty good, ill look to enchanting that up soon.
  23. sakkath

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    down in front, fuck!
  24. sakkath

    Help Wanted Pricing software as a service

    There are a lot of players in the document management space. Many of the large customer bases are because of mandatory retention periods - like law firms who are required to store all documents for x years, companies whos industry (or the company themselves) are the subject of court orders...
  25. sakkath

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    The best possible bladerunner we're going to get we already got in 1992 when the director's cut of bladerunner was released. But I get what you're saying. I'll be there in the first week in cinemas to watch this for sure.
  26. sakkath

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    I dunno. The trailers are great and all, but I can't help but think that there's nothing that this movie can possibly add.. Honestly, watching them just makes me want to watch blade runner again. I mean I'll watch this and hope for the best but I don't expect much.
  27. sakkath

    Recommend a game for me thread

    What's the best recent MOO2 clone?
  28. sakkath

    Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne

    Was the last rts I played seriously as well. Really was (is?) a fantastic game. I played a huge variety of tactics. Favourite was probably heavy early hero/archer harassment while i teched up for a druid of the claw rush. Loved those bears who could heal themselves.
  29. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Do the valencia questline for 2 rings which are even better. 7ap 25hp each.
  30. sakkath

    Black Desert

    What used to be 1m and is now 20m? There's a few things like red coral earrings which are more expensive than they used to be but most things are cheaper.
  31. sakkath

    Black Desert

    I'm in an entry level node war guild and we get contract payouts in the 10s of millions.
  32. sakkath

    The Secret World

    yeah Livestream stuff so far: just dumping my notes (anyone can trade, Elite dungeons, guaranteed dungeon loot, increase AP/SP at 50) • r/SecretWorldLegends thumbs up across the board really.. looks like they've actually been looking at what people are saying about it on reddit.
  33. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Have to be careful where you loop horses outside safe zones, people will knock you off and drag you into aggro mobs if they can, so you come back from AFK to broken gems and xp loss.
  34. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Sorc is ok in PvP, it's a shame they didn't remove the nerfs to Scythe though.. they made some big nerfs because a lot of classes didn't have awakenings yet, and now that all classes have awakenings they didn't bring the scythe back to where it was.
  35. sakkath

    The Secret World

    Yeah I feel that they have partially ruined one of TSW's strongest selling points - the skillwheel. The lore/story/atmosphere is still good. I'm enjoying it though.. the new itemization system is interesting, not sure if it's better or worse than the old one.. The way items drop really needs...
  36. sakkath

    The Secret World

    I wanted to go Chaos/Blade since I want a melee tank and aren't too fond of hammer.. picked demolisher (since chaos/blade isn't a starting option), after the tutorial finished and I got to kingsmouth I claimed my TSW stuff which unlocked every weapon, found a nice chaos weapon from a boss loot...
  37. sakkath

    Black Desert

    Try disabling your AV. I had crash issues and it was caused by trend micro fighting with XignCode.
  38. sakkath

    The Secret World

    It should have the same class openness as you can choose any weapon combination and has a somewhat similar active/passive system. I only just finished downloading it so haven't had a chance to try it yet.
  39. sakkath

    The Secret World

    SWL headstart is tomorrow.. looking forward to it!
  40. sakkath

    Black Desert

    It's worthwhile solo. There aren't really any group mechanics in BDO, when you play with other people it's more like playing in the vicinity of other players. There's no limitation on what you can do without other players. If you go to kill a world boss by yourself, there will be dozens of other...