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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Distos drop at those calpheon elvia places. In fact, quite often. I imagine most disto drops aren't coming from Star's End anymore.
  2. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    The changes I made have nothing to do with that drop. I only posted it cause it dropped and I looked it up and was like wtf? I'm assuming I should sell it. I've only got one passive jewel slot and it's giving me chaos resist plus some other stuff. Not sure 5% HP is worth the gear I could get...
  3. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I can believe the salaries, just not for a teacher. And the responses to that Tweet support that, as the average teacher salary in 1999 was in the $30k's.
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This actually brings up a good point about long term investing. A lot of people mistakingly will try to save more of a percentile of their income. Which, I mean, that's definitely good to do. My wife and I absolutely utilized that in our savings strategy. But much more important than that would...
  5. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    So uh, I finally got around to running the eternal labyrinth, and this dropped for me. Not sure what I should do with it. Hilariously, the only reason I even ran it was because I was 1 challenge away from the league body armour cosmetic.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is why I mostly ignore any comments on my posts about the trades I make. It's a lot different when you've got W-2 income to fall back on. You don't know until you're relying on that income and that's it forever. Anyway...I'm going to be super annoyed when @Bandwagon wins the stock...
  7. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I'm literally just copying you at this point. I'm even running Strand, which I like cause it's very linear. I think, looking at what I've got, I need about 15 more respec points. Although I'll still be a few shy since my atlas says 102/115.
  8. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Ran another, this time without the scarabs (since I'm basically out). Not sure if I should just be buying them? I really need to figure out the item pricing thing better. If there's a guide for Awakened PoE or another tool, someone yell at me.
  9. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I've got that, but unless I'm missing something, it does a shit job at checking the actual stats on items? Anyway, just cause I was curious, @Aazrael as one noob to another, I did a t3 map. 4 chisels, alchemy, vaal, and then a frag, and two scarabs (elder/strongboxes). This is what I got...
  10. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Like I said, I only changed once I had most of the atlas filled out. It's definitely useful for getting connected maps to drop.
  11. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I'm kind of hesitant to believe those salaries, too. $65k was a shit load of money in 1999.
  12. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Oh, well that I don't know. I don't think I've seen anyone in my HO, but I haven't been paying attention. I don't think they are though.
  13. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I know your question was directed at @Aazrael, but this is where I once again want to point out how disappointed I am by wandering path. I think I had about 50 chisels by the time I ran up to t16 maps. Respeccing my atlas tree and now I'm getting 2-4 dropping at once. Usually 2-3 times a map...
  14. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Right, but in this scenario they're joining my group and then dropping right after. At first I thought it was me pulling the item from my stash (thinking maybe it was some sort of bot thing and when it was removed it didn't show up on their list so they dropped), but that wasn't it.
  15. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Oh, speaking of that, too. I've got some random unique weapon that I priced at 7c (I think there were a few at 5c). I wouldn't get any responses for an hour then all the sudden like 3-4. I'd invite and every time they'd immediately leave the group. It happened over and over. It started to piss...
  16. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I definitely feel you. Yesterday I hit about 100 atlas points and decided to move on from wandering path. I went with @AladainAF's strat (I like essences) and it made a massive difference. Wandering path seems good for unlocking the tree, but holy shit does it gimp your drops. Severely. I ran a...
  17. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    In what way was it a decent lead in? It was basically an entire separate movie just to introduce a deus ex machina between the two actually good movies. And it was in no way cohesive with the story that was happening in those.
  18. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Outside of the the fact that it's 6L with white sockets and the spell suppression, I would have no idea that's worth anything. Speaking of white sockets, I got a Tabula Rasa and despite there being a billion of em listed for 10c, even putting it at 15c I get like 50 messages. I ignored them all...
  19. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Shit man, it looks almost like you're playing a completely different game than I am. You get the amount of drops in about 3 maps that I've gotten in 50 hours.
  20. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Wtf is 8% quality font? And also, by getting them on your own by farming, do you mean as a raw drop? Or from selling dropped quality skill gems? Cause I don't think I've seen a single one raw drop.
  21. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I think my original question was that I posted my build and said, what's next? Seems like all the actual gear upgrades are several divines, so I asked if I should just be buying prisms to increase all the skill gems to 20% quality. That said, you talk a lot about looting stuff, but do you loot...
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Seems like there should be some kind of national interest law to block something so important from being sold to foreigners. But I guess it's 2023 and fuck anything that actually helps us.
  23. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    If you want to know why this is so confusing, look no further than every response to my question. Each one has a completely different mechanic that's "better for new players" while saying all the previous posts were wrong. Yeesh.
  24. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Oh, another question. I'm using this build Level 89 Summon Raging Spirit Guardian [3.23] and I've basically got the mid-game thing completed (outside of the belt, which I've got bought, but my resists would fall). From here, what's my next step? I've basically been using the same gear set since...
  25. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I mean, I'm assuming it's from selling the drops, not a raw currency drop. But the question is, how? It can't be from gear drops because those are basically all shit and I'm not going to sit there picking that shit up to ID it and then decipher whether it's good for a build I never heard of...
  26. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Is there a good beginner guide anywhere for making money on maps? Every time I look something up it talks about all kinds of shit I just don't understand. Like, if it starts off explaining a bunch of shit about manipulating your map modifiers, it's already lost me. I'm at like 75 or something...
  27. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/16/colin-burgess-acdc-australia-dead
  28. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Lots of quality of life stuff, but I feel like nothing to address the end game grind. Which is to say, there isn't much of one. I really haven't found the motivation to do much but login and claim rewards without actually doing any playing. At 301k/390, and there's just not a whole lot I give a...
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    So I mentioned this to my wife, and I guess that wasn't our situation. We actually had everything signed and notarized, but the title company just didn't get it filed with the county on time and so we had to wait til Monday. So they rented it to us for the weekend. And the reason we needed to...
  30. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Didn't want people messaging me while I was afk. I think I just didn't set prices on a few things though and that's what I was seeing. Dunno, I'll play with it some more. For maps, should I just be rushing to get the highest ones I can? I've run one or two T8's and have some 9 maps. But I've...
  31. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Huh, I guess that sheds some light on why, in California, when we bought our house we had to rent it for the weekend because the title company fucked up and had to move our closing date last minute from Friday to Monday. I guess otherwise we could've just moved in, pulled our offer, and squatted.
  32. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    So it was drugs after all. Not surprising at all.
  33. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Am I missing something with the listing prices? I set some items and then turned public off, and when I reenabled it none of my prices were there.
  34. Gravel

    Civil War (2024)

    People still have the wrong impression when it comes to "red vs blue state." It really comes down to how many major cities you have in the state. This is why the northeast looks like it does, because it's all just people crammed in on top of each other. Get over to the central valley in...
  35. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I figured that one out last night after I bought the other tabs. Would've been nice to know earlier, but not a huge deal. The currency especially though was good timing. I had basically started filling up an entire second tab with them. 350 alteration orbs takes up a lot of space, but condensed...
  36. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    Man, the currency tab is great. Seems like the sort of thing that should be standard. Maps is pretty nice, too. I'm almost tempted to throw even more at this game and grab divination, essences and fragments.
  37. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    I'll keep that in mind. Hopefully the stash sale is this weekend. I bought the First Blood pack, just waiting to buy them (going currency, map, and 1-2 premium upgrades).
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    3.5% to go!
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    C'mon market, just a 4% more Santa rally and I can win the competition again!
  40. Gravel

    Path of Exile

    So I finally got around to trying to trade for stuff and I'm doing a lot better (apparently a few hundred life makes a massive difference). The whole process makes me not want to sell stuff though. Are people really just sitting in their hideouts waiting for people to message them to trade...