Sounds like you’ve put enough thought into your situation for both of us so I’ll leave you to it. Try not to let yourself get too upset!

Reminds me of the Fish Peppers I’ve grown the past 3 years! But definitely less hot/more versatile!

Feels super bad, but if you still want to play, the upside spin is that you can frame it to yourself as the patch letting you out of the “Necro Jail” you created for yourself and try lots of wildly different options now.

I mean I totally get the disinterest too, but basically that’s what happened for me when they ground Chrono into dust after years of being the only real source for alac and quick.

Not a fan of the look for any set but heavy, but I’m super pumped to have a pathway to legendary armor through content I prefer to play without being forced into content I don’t enjoy at all!

This may very well convince me to set a long term goal of unlocking full legendary armor and full legendary runes, which would easily keep me involved in GW2 for many more years to come.

I’ve been on an extended hiatus since last fall due to burnout and some IRL difficulties, but seeing all this news about the new expansion has me ready to get back into it once I finish up my summer traveling!

43 from vlemmy.net as well!

Very much so.

Any other DnD communities out there at the moment that aren’t hamstrung by similar rules?

Asking for a friend.

Ugh, I’m so sorry you had to experience that horrific playoff series.

I’ve been playing since just before HoT, friend, I’ve taken most of it slow, but occasional burnout is just part of the game for me.

Honestly the biggest thing that led to this one was that I’ve been working towards Bolt…only to find out that I can’t just use my tyrian exchange vouchers for dungeon currency to buy gifts I need. Now I need to finish the specific dungeon’s explorable path 5 times before they’ll even sell it to me.

And since I mostly play solo and dungeons are so buggy, I basically just gave up on it, which left me pretty aimless.

This is very timely for me.

I got burnt out last November and haven’t touched GW2 since. But lately I’m getting the itch again.

I can’t really say much, but I did love reading that link about playing a fairy, so more of that sort of thing would be awesome.

On the other side, I’m not at all interested in DnD Beyond, so having that content tagged makes it easier to filter out.

Overall, this is one of the more active subs I’m subscribed to, so I think you must be doing something right!

Victoriously flee for our lives, I think he means!

For me personally, 4e felt a lot less like, “Here’s a set of rules and lore to help you and your friends tell awesome interactive stories!”…

…and much more like, “Here’s the rules to a slightly more story and narrative driven, and more complicated, tactical miniatures combat game. Miniatures sold separately.”

Sure, you can play 4e without minis, but it really felt like the core of the game was built around the assumption that you had a big table, a DM that was into modeling terrain, and boxes of minis ready to go. Playing 4e without minis felt kinda like trying to make a pizza without cheese. Like sure, I guess you can, but it’s clearly intended to be a core ingredient.

Laranity on YouTube has some fantastic tips like this on the “things you probably don’t know” videos that she occasionally does.

One that lots of people probably already knew but that I learned of within the past year or so is that if you’re moving things from your inventory to a stack of that item in your bank (not material storage…if they go there, use the drop down menu to send them), that you don’t have to find the item stack in your bank.

Just double click the stack in the inventory side of the bank dialog (not in your actual inventory window), and it’ll automatically stack them on top of an existing stack of that item in your bank.

Within the game, you can also access the event timer by typing

/wiki et

Into the chat.

On this note, I like turning on the option that limits the skill placement marker of ground targeted skills to the skill’s actual range.

When you’re fighting a world boss, significant champion, or any enemy that is an event unto itself (read: has an event with a skull symbol, and is the main target of the event), you can click on its orange health bar in the sidebar to target that enemy.

This can be very useful in chaotic fights with lots of mobs running around, when hitting tab might guess wrong a dozen times before putting you back on the main one, and there’s too much visual clutter to get a good targeting click on the mob itself.

Those are among the worst, yes, but even the existence of subs like gonewild can have the effect of repelling potential users, especially those who don’t have an understanding of how the site is organized.

They read an article that talks about a sub for content they find objectionable, and from that point on, Reddit is “that site for (insert content they dislike here)”.

Much the same, I’m concerned that Lemmy will be known among those users as “that site for communists that support the CCP”.

Like the goblins of Moria.

I guess that makes spez the balrog…or maybe the cave troll.

I would definitely consider that a serious potential issue, if for no other reason than so many communities will likely find a use for tags based on the nature of the community structure.

For example, I could see a ton of communities having tags for things like modposts, new member intros, meta topics, memes, questions, reviews, how-to’s/tutorials, guides, etc. and that’s just for broad post types that would apply to thousands of communities.

I think letting users manually make their own multi-lems, perhaps with the ability for communities to sort of team up to make uber-lems of closely related communities to help users discover more of them…but sub, unsub, multi, and un-multi as they see fit…is likely the best approach.

Maybe don’t take disagreement so personally?

I too would like to do this myself and not have AI or anyone else decide for me what content gets lumped together.

I predict that this is also an issue that will slowly resolve itself over time, as critical masses of users gradually coalesce around one community, or more…but only if the extras are distinct in some way…which would very specifically be made more difficult by the sort of programming you’re proposing.

I’m not saying there’s no merit in your suggestion, only that it may not be the one-size-fits-all solution that you seem to think it is