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Name: [NEW] Stealth -Island- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay IP: 172.240.226.148:5010
Name: [NEW] Stealth -ScorchedEarth- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay IP: 31.214.163.40:5580
Name: [NEW] Stealth -Amissa- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay IP: 207.244.76.139:5300
Server Settings : General: PVP All XP X5 Harvesting X5 Taming X5
Breeding Rates : Baby Mature Speed x2 Egg Hatch Speed x3 Mating Interval 0.3 Imprint x50 - Imprints in 2/3 Imprinting Stat Scale Multiplier x5 Dino Stats increased X4 to x5
Player Stats : Player Stats increased X3 to x5
Mods: Utilities Plus Admin Panel Custom Dino Levels Greenhouse Glass Fix ARKomatic QoL+ PVP Scoreboard Resonant's Shop Mod Solo Farm Mod Pelayori's Cryo Storage (Crossplay!)
Amissa Has 3 more mods (All Free) Amissa Amissa Additions Amissa Structures
Everything Else : Lvl 300+ Dinos Flyer carry Flyers Speed can be Increased Only Wipe If necessary Custom Loot Dops In Game Shot With Starter Kits and More Join for more info . Much more to Come !

Build Help/Ready:

Have you read the sidebar and rules? (Please do)
Yes.
What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.
My goal with the build for my new PC is to play the games I have on steam without hearing a very loud noise that the fan makes, on these recent times the sound started to annoy me when playing on my laptop. I want to be able to play games like Skyrim with mods (no graphic ones), DBXV2, .Hack//G.U. Last Recode, Digimon Masters Online, Mad Max, the metro games, Naruto games, Sunset Overdrive, and if possible The Witcher 3 and in the future Digimon World Next Order, Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal. I want to be able to play these and other games without hearing a turbine-like noise that the fan makes, I want one more quitter, and without feeling the heat that comes from the computer (laptop in my case right now).
If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for?
Stable 30fps on the games I play; Low or medium settings, maybe higher if some requirements are met; I don’t care about RTX.
What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?
Around $180 per month.
In what country are you purchasing your parts?
México.
Post a draft of your potential build here (specific parts please). Consider formatting your parts list. Don't ask to be spoonfed a build (read the rules!).
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$95.00 @ Amazon México
CPU Cooler	Amazon México says that processor comes with one.	$0.00
Motherboard	MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$102.25 @ Amazon México
Memory	ADATA Memoria RAM DIMM XPG SPECTRIX D60G RGB 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz, Gris TUSTENO, Pequeño	$44.00 @ Amazon México
Storage	Kingston A400 960 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$55.40 @ Amazon México
Video Card	Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB Video Card	€176.06 @ Amazon México
Case	Cylon White RGB ATX	$65.45 @ Amazon México
Power Supply	EVGA 550 N1, 550W, 2 Year, Power Supply 100-N1-0550-L1	$62.88 @ Amazon México
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$ 601.04
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-05-14 04:55 CEST

Provide any additional details you wish below.
Sorry for bad English and redaction in advance.
With this build I can manage to fulfil or almost do the goal I want of the fan not making too much noise?
The RAM and case on the list I put links for them from Amazon México because I could not find them on pcpartpicker, also the case I put on the list is just a filler for the format, I don’t want the RBG/lights on the case, I would prefer to use no case or get a simplecheaper one, I hope someone could recommend one like that. The RAM I have from amazon is only one module of 16gb just in case.
Most of the pieces are on little discounts right now on Amazon México, but starting tomorrow there is a week of sales so maybe the prices that I listed (that I converted from pesos to dollars) may be cheaper, but I could only buy few pieces per month because I have to use part of the money I get for different things.
The monitor I plan to get is a cheap one with HDMI, 30ghz/60ghz and the same size as the one my laptop has, but for a time I would just use the tv as a monitor while I save some money to buy it.
If possible, I would like to know if the MB has Bluetooth, because some of the things I use needs it, so I want to know this detail.
My plan is to keep the build for many years, because I don’t think I could afford something much more expensive.
I would love, if possible, to receive advice on which piece to buy first to start making this build. Also would like to know if I could somehow save some money on any of the pieces.
Thanks in advance for your opinions and have a good night.
EDIT: Fix.

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Welcome to Stealth This is a brand NEW Cross play server cluster join our discord and become a part of our community.
Stealth admin team will be announcing events and seeking suggestions from our community.
We currently have three maps with plans of expanding to other modded maps as well as every map that comes out officially
https://discord.gg/g8KeSJjgE2
Server Info :
Name: [NEW] Stealth -Island- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay
IP: 172.240.226.148:5010
Name: [NEW] Stealth -ScorchedEarth- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay
IP: 31.214.163.40:5580
Name: [NEW] Stealth -Amissa- 5xAll 300Dino/Shop/Kits/Crossplay
IP: 207.244.76.139:5300
Server Settings :
General:
PVP
All XP X5
Harvesting X5
Taming X5
Breeding Rates :
Baby Mature Speed x2
Egg Hatch Speed x3
Mating Interval 0.3
Imprint x50 - Imprints in 2/3
Imprinting Stat Scale Multiplier x5
Dino Stats increased X4 to x5
Player Stats :
Player Stats increased X3 to x5
Mods:
Utilities Plus
Admin Panel
Custom Dino Levels
Greenhouse Glass Fix
ARKomatic
QoL+
PVP Scoreboard
Resonant's Shop Mod
Solo Farm Mod
Pelayori's Cryo Storage (Crossplay!)
Amissa Has 3 more mods (All Free)
Amissa
Amissa Additions
Amissa Structures
Everything Else :
Lvl 300+ Dinos
Flyer carry
Flyers Speed can be Increased
Only Wipe If necessary
Custom Loot Dops
In Game Shot With Starter Kits and More
Join for more info . Much more to Come !

TLDR: DF54✓ Blind Shaker ~
So, I'm going to revisit these two recently much discussed topics. I've personally posted about them before and wanted to share additional insight after using both of these tools for a while now in comparison to my previous setup.
SmartGrinder -> DF54:
I'm 3 weeks into using my DF54. I love it. For perspective, for nearly 10 years, I had been using a Breville SmartGrinder BSG800XL (not the Pro), which I bought used. As a total noob, it was OK, but as my knowledge and understanding of espresso making developed, it's weaknesses became more and more apparent, particularly its inability to really grind fine enough for espresso. This weakness became more and more apparent as I upgraded my Gaggia Classic, particularly after purchasing a performance basket. This prompted me to shim the lower burr, which was cheap, simple and thankfully effective. I was finally able to dial in adequately. The deeper weakness of this grinder is really the build quality, and although this used grinder lasted me almost 19 years, it finally failed, shortly after I pre-ordered my DF54 but before I recieved it. I've had a good look inside the SmartGrinder in order to assess the failure (main gear vs impeller) and have seen the weakness of both parts. I also posted recently about the MASSIVE amount of retention. So, today when I did my first cleaning of my DF54, I was very happy. Alone, the ability to easily access both burs and the grind chamber for cleaning is an order of magnitude difference. There was some static retention in the hopper (of all places), but the burrs and grind chamber had only the most minimal amount of grinds. <0.5g. Disassembling, cleaning and reassembly are super easy. The coffee I'm getting is excellent, and the adjustment mechanism is very good. Easy enough to move and firm enough to stay where it is set. The adjustment ring is large enough to make very small adjustments. Static was minimal to non existent, so I hadn't need to use any RDT, until...
Grind to Portafilter -> Blind Shaker -> Dosing Cup (and back?):
With my SmartGrinder, I always ground (single dose) to my portafilter with a makeshift dosing ring and RDT to mitigate static, then thorough WDT and leveling. I picked up a cheap blind shaker (total WW knock-off) like so many after watching Lance's videos. There was a minor increase in visible channelling/squirting, and my workflow time seems about the same, but I liked not needing a hack-job dosing ring. When I switched to the DF54, I kept using the blind shaker. It friction fits nicely in the portafilter holder. I didn't really notice a change in visible channelling, and it was still a bit worse than it had been with my SmartGrinder and WDT. So the other day I ditched the blind shaker. The DF54's portafilter fork does not play nice with my Gaggia portafilter's offset ears, or my dosing ring. It generally seems too big. (First negative) So, I pulled out the plastic dosing cup that shipped with the DF54. Static nightmare! I actually thing that this is what is responsible for the retained grounds in the hopper. It was awful. I'll never use that thing again. (Second negative) After wrangling the static mess, I tipped the catch cup into my portafilter and did my thorough WDT and then leveled with the tool as I have done for years. Got a very nice, spray free extraction, as with the next pull. So, the blind shaker is kind of a wash to a nevermind. Maybe I'll try and anodized/powder coated catch cup, or try to work out the portafilter fork issue, because that plastic catch cup is an unmitigated static disaster.
Neither of those negatives is remotely enough to get me to disparage the DF54 at all. I think it is by the best flat burr grinder out there for the money, and it is a vast improvement over what I was using, for about the same MRSP. Crazy.
It does prompt me to ask if anyone else out there has any tips about using the portafilter holder with offset Gaggia lugs, or if anyone has experience with static and metal catch cups with different finishes. Looking forward to any input.

I had a great time with this 1997 game. The game was easy to learn, it uses an action point system similar to the original XCom or Xenonauts, so I slid in real easy. While the opening cave serves as a check on if your built character is "viable", I did half follow a guide. The timer ticking down was my biggest apprehension going in; it's actually very generous, I wasted a ton of time reading skill books and healing with plenty of time to spare.
The #1 thing about this game is how incredibly atmospheric it is, so eeriey and mysterious. That opening cut-scene was great. I saw plenty of 50s theming with the robots and greaser jackets and such. There's also how sadistically gruesome the combat is. I vividly remember my first combats against super-mutants, with them zapping me in half and setting me on fire. But firing full auto into someone at point blank is incredibly satisfying. Crippling limbs really helped to keep the combat interesting, and the flavor text accompanying attacks was some Matt Mercer style cool.
The skill system for this game is a bit wonky. Some skills were pointless. I pickpocked half the people I met without putting any points into the Stealing skill (because I had high Agility), and it didn't effect my Karma. While Repair and Lockpicking are essential skills. First Aid was great for giving me XP and free healing, while I never received a crippled limb to use Doctor on. The way the game handles weapon progression is that Energy & Heavy Weapons represent your end-game capabilities (if you started with those skills, you'd have none to use).
I love how weapons are handled. You load and unload guns, and put in anti-personnel and armor-piercing bullets to fit the situation. I would pick up enemy guns, yank out the clip, then drop them.
The quests were fun and memorable, with variable solutions, and a lot you can talk through.
One of my favorite memories in this game is investigating The Glow, with the sense of danger, discovery, reactivity to my skills, while managing my radiation levels, and getting end-game equipment at the bottom just by chucking a few pulse grenades .
The first time I fought death claws, I was well prepared with a Plasma Rifle (despite no spare ammo for it), and a tip from some geezer on where to shoot it. That went alright. But, soon after I got my Power Armor, a gang enforcer beat me to death with his bare hands. It turned out, he was hopped up on Psycho and had spiked knuckles. Came as a real shock. Overall, I had a great time. I would say the end-game areas were some of my most frustrating experiences: Force-fields in the military base, and being locked out of peacefully infiltrating the Cathedral just because I had talked to the Followers of the Apocalypse. Sorting through my inventory and packing loot onto companions to carry was a real chore; I can see why the guide said to forget the loot and gamble to buy anything you want. Sometimes, allies felt like herding cats, but they aren't as bad as people make it out to be (just respect lines of fire, and don't use a chaingun unless you want everything in front of you dead).

Ethernet has landline 1900s phones two pairs wires reserved in the spec sheet its 8 or so wires when crimping the ends uses like two with one for ground and one seemingly empty and then has two for phone and some unused, with old 10/100 baseT coax with terminating ends exactly like optical or coax 90s cable TV with optical fiber 99% of the way just your block has coax to the rest which uses the 'same'DOCSIS data over cable standards as fibre optic.. just slightly worse latency and bandwidth is calculated by latency things like wifi lan has like 11 channels or 15 channels of frequency which optical calls wavelengths of light. A 2015 or around there linus tech tips video of him going to a swedish lan party called dreamhack had a bunch of multiple redundant 8Terabit or was it bytes of fibre optic internet they explained with light having 7 colors but having 8terabytes of bandwidth with different wavelengths of light called frequencys or a better term for optics is known as LASER ARRAYS of light at fixed frequencys that often plugs into the PC via ethernet cables or whatever for a gamer lan party or home/residential or small businesses at realistically within budget of anything with enough users to require that bandwidth or 'web hosting or web servers' you dont need to be an undersea cable or international link with 200terabits plus for an internet exchange to your main CBD or the fastest like the netherlands IX...
So the problem im trying to solve is, here in australia we got our undersea cables done wrong they kept breaking and we didnt have a navy or defense force securing our countrys communications to prevent war crimes and keep us connected to the global banking systems or whatever.. and then when our biggest telcos cable or fibre all had dialup speeds for around 2 weeks in the early years 2000s to force us to pay other countrys to connect to their links and be ' end of the line' maybe paywalled or proxied off the internet randsomewared to connect to and borrow bandwidth from other countries satellites and other countries undersea link cables which truly were indestructible to any cruise liner ships anchors whatever being flexible giant steel braided cables big as a CAR when australia finally paid to lay small sections of that stuff to link up to others and not pay randsome to internet butt bandits or have private businesses and multi nationals run their own links and ignore the public our lack of a defense force actually let somalian pirates literally somehow pick up and walk off with our expensive undersea car sized cables filled with a few arms thick of hair thin fibre optics which is cheapest clear resin enamels plastics about $3 not sure if USD per kilometer and resembles modern glass/glazing. How does anybody steal that stuff without people noticing like you cant just load it onto a truck and drive away? or a boat? if only satellites and some sort of defense organization existed to prevent us from being impersonated or whatever.. So now in australia ANYTHING with words like gigabit costs a fortune for a mainboard or switch or ethernet hub.. but the ancient 1900s 10/100 telephone land line wires of ethernet 10/100 clock in at a whopping 13 or so mhz sometimes 27.. and 60 or more mhz for like gigabits and whatever it increases shockingly fast with each mhz clock cycle as its units of work over time in nano seconds or zeptoseconds you see billionths of a second nano second RAM and PC with windows realtime kernel actually uses like ryzen hardware negative latency faster than reality freely syncing with any device in the universe and fixed mhz frequency bus can drive like 50 to 100 or thousands of GPU's and HDDs and monitors or whatever from the one modern multicore PC or whatever.. 90s AMD business server still holds world records for most connected devices though it had stackable CPUs opteron and would have used infinity cache type stuff probably software 3dnow and evolving game worlds tech of 80s and 90s AMD gaming evolved advertising.
So in australia anything gigabits costs hundreds of dollars for a switch router some thousands for lots of ports.. but its the shittiest weakest bandwidth ever with mhz and performance miles short of a raspberry pie or whatever. I had to pay a fortune for a mainboard with 10gigabit LAN port and everytime i got a high speed LAN port its been broken or missing so some pricks can sell ebay routers or switches for thousands here.. not knowing why its so expensive is youre paying fortunes for any real bandwidth because australia has to pay literal somalian pirates for their internet connections or privately owned businesses like telstra for access to their private links and glares at countries like new zealand and hawaii for being super technologically superior.. a cheap USB ethernet adaptor costs under 10 bucks on ebay or whatever and is maybe gigabit and your switches and routers 90% of the time you want the cheapest UNMANAGED switch possible. Yet the mainboard i recently purchased ASUS pro art creator x670E i recall had an issue with some asshats trying to steal pathetic measly 40gigabit USB4 chips from all the boards at the computer store to sell on EBay as other junk, when anything in the universe with an M.2 ULTRA slot does 40gigabits since PCI express 3.0/4.0 as PCI express 3.0 SSD drives famously use a specific I/O controller chip which gives them 38gigabits of the ultra M.2 slots 40gigabits of bandwidth. But for a couple years when AMD had pci express 4.0 and better than M.2 ultra intel was playing catch up on PCI express 3.0 and still had regular m.2 in all their boards until AMD was ready for pci express 5.0 my friend on intel bought the same NVME drives and complained they had corruption errors or issues i later learned his board wasnt fast enough and he was maybe trying to use the samsung magician RAM disk and enable NVME features and functions intel maybe did not yet support.
So.. why is USB 4 so many years late and why is it so dang expensive when terabits of ethernet or anything optical is like the cheapest stuff ever and comes with every internet connection since the 90s at the lowest cheapest mhz and 1900s land line wire telephones ever, remember digital isnt a physical thing and everythings literally analog with a sensor or multimeter whatever mathematically translating it to a graph or algebra equation mapping it into different values digitally +10 -10 whatever using microphones or camera sensor whatever. the gigabits tax and uhh LAN port taxes for dumb gay australians being literally see it via satellite outerspace levels dumb and gay astrogaylian should not apply to the cheapest of raspberry pie free 3d print or laser CNC yourself something computery like risc V for the cheapest of USB flash drives or memory cards etc.
I get intel pretends to have invented court ordered USB to probe their hardware after it was proven to have used other peoples code and chips by the chip makers and them selling computers with keyboard and mouse hardwired in so you bought a whole new computer when a key broke on the keyboard couldnt replace them.. and every other device had USB but theirs didnt free open standard and it kinda being the only way to connect any device in the universe and freely sync with it (mics/phones whatever).
why is 1900s phone tech ethernet so dang expensive to go from 20mhz ranges to 80 or whatever mhz ranges or use something very similar to 90s optical audio SPDIF output or anything remotely like a laser in australia? and who would be dumb and gay enough to be so financially retarded as to think that USB 4 was expensive or special as to steal it? am i... missing something?
also before you complain, but ethernets not the same as USB you cant power over ethernet or use your houses electrical wires as ethernet. You also cant use ethernet for monitors or displays, and its not like you can extend HDMI range limit of a about 10 to 15 meters by swapping its ethernet wires with optical ones for it to maintain its HDMI 0 latency spec or type C USB 0 latency spec. USB lets you connect heaps of devices you cant do that with an internet or ethernet for things like keyboard and mice or monitors or whatever. I understand what you mean power over ethernet or PPOE standards suck theres no way those are a thing. using devices over the internet and not the intranet who does that? thats so dumb. remote administration, theres no such thing youre mistaking malware or rootkits im sure. you cant connect a heap of devices up or entire computers to a ethernet port thats the dumbest gayest thing i've ever heard in my entire life! My gaydar is going off and it looks like the wifi symbol.
when trying to use anything ethernet with lame awful bandwidth thats limited, on my AMD board where the website images show AMD ethernet lists as marvel yukon controller i cannot use as its maybe broken there no light on the back, in devices managers advanced tab you can see the send receive or transmit buffer sizes and countless other ethernet settings are MISSING or a blank space. and are limited to 128 on send and 256 on receive up to 4096 or whatever max. But low latency 128 or 256 is maybe best but not all are an option and most networking features on the intel LAN adapters are missing countless advanced ethernet properties and settings because they're fake and lousy and the worst latency ever and they literally seem to swap your windows kernel out with something not realtime so you cannot ever hope to record or playback audio or video or anything close to a video game in hopes of slowly selling it back to you. Linux distros did this too its the dumbest thing ever that to hear or record or playback or play games you must patch in a realtime kernel for free to game like its the 80s and 90s or DOS or whatever. most 90s PCs were CAS 1 or lower nanoseconds. DDR 3 1600mhz depending the maker might be CAS1-4 latency. How can we verify our kernels are correct? and our ethernet and I/O bandwidth is correct? the youtube video about linus tech tips dream hack lan party of gamers in sweden was edited and reuploaded by illiterate asshat buttpirates maybe from somalia or the ones randsoming us some of their internet connections as a proxy piggy back on the international links as we dont have a defense force or army or whatever and dont know what war crimes are or why they are or what the heck a bank is and sure as shit dont know the cost of anything cheap USB or LAN. The dreamhack linus video falsely shows as 6TERABIT. they wanna steal 2TERABITS of EVERY optical or ethernet devices which isnt the government doing it if they wanna see whats in your computer they can document their reasons of why which is what a warrant is they dont need one if they believe a crime is occuring and literally take the computer by law to inspect it then give it back when nothings wrong they leave you a claim ticket and have you document it at the nearest policing station or whatever fill out forms sign 'they are taking my PC and i can get it back when it wasnt used for crimes." when australia doesnt technically have an internet and doesnt technically have RAID arrays which is required to use USB or SSD or NVME or storage tech with no moving parts and multicore a 2TB SSD is twice as fast and often has 2x 1TB wafer chips in there figure it out the IO controller chip supports many and you can buy the cheapest USB sticks with like 16terabytes of storage space i just see a $extend folder or uhh file format header thingy in the partition in my mainboard bios on that particular drive and using any cheap SSD or USB devices makes linux cry about the partition managers cant write or read extending past the storage limit. it doesnt take a genius to figure out what dumb gay fags the whole internet is.
infinitybitdepthinfinitygraphicsinfinitypixelsinfinityresolution.7z ~ pixeldrain

For context, I post cool teams that I made using some underplayed path or tactic, and on the last one, Unorthodox Gameplay 3 : Monarchnesis, a fellow user u/Alexandergus (COME, SAY HI TO EVERYONE) asked me to build a team with not only Anamnesis, but Berserker Helion as well... And as the title says : ASK AND THOU SHALL RECEIVE
Sidenote: If there's too much text for your liking, dear reader, feel free to skip to the summary part down bellow ;)
So, with that out of the way, let's get to strats!

Occultist

I took inspiration on a setup that ShuffleFM (Darkest Dungeon youtuber,twitch streamer and really good reference) showcased on one of his teams. The concept is that you have a Virtuoso Jester using Encore on Occultist, which proceeds to Chaotic Offering on his bonus turn, generating an Unlimited Power Token(UP). After that, when the regular Occ turn rolls in, he gets the second UP because of the turn start effect, which he originally used to nuke someone with Warlock's Burning Stars turn 1; on my case is to perform Aspirant Anamnesis and open the first turn with a really strong cleave, I also run Burning Stars as an option for larger enemies like size 2s or bosses.

Jester

As for the Jester, since I'm basing my entire schtick on Encore, I'm also running Solo and Finale. That's because you can actually use the dazed in your favor and the cooldowns sync. EG: Encore turn 1 > gets dazed and pushed to last turn 2 action order > Solo > Forward 3> gets Speed token and Jester, specially Virtuoso is really fast > goes first on turn 3 > uses Finale > Back 3 and dazed >If encounter's still going, Encore and Repeat. I topped him with Inspiring Tune for Stress heal (literally the best in the game) and Razor's Wit for poke.

Helion

Now let's talk about Helion. She likes the cleave since it helps her kill rank 4 in 1 turn with Iron Swan, specially ordained and modified enemies like elite and sturdy, not only that but as she's Berserk and is at Rank 1, I run Bleed Out as a strong option after I dealed with the backline; Bleed Out doesn't even have a cooldown, it "just" grants you winded tokens, which means you can spam it to stack monstrous bleeds. I just did act 3 and had 18 bleeds on the last phase for 5 turns (I crited). Another synergy is that after you cast Burning Stars at a chonky target, it gets combo; Bleed Out on Berserker on a combo tarket has 63% BLEED PIERCING. It's basically guaranteed (unless you're using this on Warlord, this bastard has 100 base... He's a VERY good reason to not go overboard on bleeds; not only that but if your whole team wants to bleed someone, you'll end up fighting for the same trinkets). For the rest of her kit, I had Toe to Toe for Taunt, Rooted and movement, Adrenaline Rush for heals and Bloodlust for really long fights and as an alternative to remove Winded tokens that isn't dependent on Adrenaline Rush's health threshold AND grants 30% more damage against bleeding targets. With Jester Encore, you can mix a ton of good sequences, specially in later stages of the fight, granting Helion bonus actions, for example stacking Bleed Out faster, or clearing winded with Bloodlust/ Adrenaline Rush/Toe to Toe+ and then hitting again with Bleed Out.

Plague Doctor

And to stitch the team together, I chose Plague Doctor as the Rank 4 hero, but not any Plague Doctor; Physician. I managed to weld together Physician, Anamnesis and Bleed Out and it's ...GOOD? The thing with Physician is that, except for Magnesium Rain that has a cooldown of 3 turns, she doesn't have a damaging skill to use. Instead, her supportive capabilities are enhanced, and they're great with this team because she provides much needed utility with crowd control, corpse clearing, heals and offensive tokens.
Usefulness Utility listed bellow!

• Turn 1 she can use Emboldening Vapors on Occ to boost Anamnesis and Burning Stars, not only that but on this path this skill grants 2 Strenght Tokens instead of 1, with a cooldown of 1 turn or 0 when upgraded.
  
  • She can blind and daze the two backrow enemies wit Blinding Gas+ to delay their actions long enough so Helion and Occ can make quick work of Rank 4 before the target does something WHILE Rank 3 is Blinded!
  • Magnesium Rain is good for chip damage, dodge clearing and corpse removal(therefore, Bleed Out setup)
  • Heals are as great as ever!
  • Even Ounce of Prevention gets an honorable mention for better handling heavy DOT enemy comps and diseases, like creature dens and the Sprawl; and at this path even grants Stress Damage RES
  But one of the reasons I really liked Phys here is because the team can make full use of her Disorienting Blast, which not only has +20% Stun Piercing on upgrade with combo, but grants Vulnerable as well. A problem I had is that some key heavy hitting skills from the rest of the cast are heavelly reliant on position, like Leper's Chop hitting Ranks 1 and 2, PBS hitting 1, Pistol Shot not hitting 1; so it was kinda like a gamble most of the time. But Finale and Burning Stars hit ALL ranks REALLY HARD ; which means that it doesn't really matter where the enemy ends up, it's going to get CLAPPED. Helion also makes good use of it in later stages of the fight, where your Magnesium Rain is on cooldown and the enemy is standing at rank 2, where rank 1 is a corpse and rank 3 and 4 are cleared. You can try to fish it and grant vulnerable at the same time; it's good!
  

Maps

For regions, try to prioritize the Shroud, for the bleed trinkets for Helion and Ocultist and other trinkets for the Jester, like Seamen's Boots and Compass.
Defensive trinkets on Helion aren't bad either, since she's gonna eat 80% of the hits thrown at her, so Tangle isn't a bad choice. Burning Stars ignores Block and Blinding Gas can help by "dodging" some heavy hitting moves.
Sprawl can be okay because of burn trinkets that can up the usefulness of Mag. Rain and speedy trinkets for Jester
Foetor is the lowest priority map to go, literally no one wants blight buffing trinkets and you even risk getting your heroes sick; I'd go if the map mission grants a good reward but that's about it.

Lair Boss matchups

• You can wreck Levi, specially with a bit of scaling since Bleed Out+ gives good damage with 6 points of bleed; the hand has 24 hp and the bleed by itself deals 18. Burning Stars is a Nuke as well as Finale. BTW he has a trophy that DOUBLES BLEED CAUSED. Just saying
  
• Dababy can be dealt with by Helion using Toe to Toe to lock her on Rank 1, which halts the hungering shenanigans from others behind her; try to get Holy Water to get rid of hunger tokens on Helly so you can Toe to Toe again. Other than that just play as normal with the Encore > Chaotic Offering > Emboldening Vapors > Burning Stars setup, use D. Blast as well to try and get Dababy out of Rank 1.
  
• Librarian is okay, try to have a few throwable items on Jester to spend his dodge tokens and try to Encore > Solo > Finale him. Helion can eat the Blinds thanks to Toe to Toe.
  
• The General is the one I worry the most, he has a huge healthpool and only takes 1 action per turn, which makes DOT tick slowly and gives him plenty of time to stall and disrupt you with his stress inducing attacks, Waking Dead and, if you don't deal with the root, Nightmare. I'd avoid fighting him if my team didn't scale enough and I'd bring Cause of Death+ to speed things up.
  

Pets

They are pretty flexible on this team. I like the Rabbit here since everyone has trouble tanking hits, so the bonus HP goes a long way if you get it rolling(HMMM FLAPJACKS). Some good optins are: - The Tick to get the blood for guaranteed crit tokens and huge damage and bleeds - The Owl helps the debuffs from PD to stick and can provide good flow of Combat Items - The Pliskin can be good since the team is squishy and can use more sustain between fights - The Slime if you like running over debris and don't want to deal with negative tokens - This last one is highly experimental and I still have to test it, but it got to my attention that Larval Carrion Eater can be good as a Crit token Generator, specially since Anamnesis cleaves the whole party. On turn 2 you'd have only 1 UP at your turn which means you can either heal or Sac Stab something. If you have Stab+, you can use it on a corpse, kill it, generate another UP, heal 30%, gain a Block Token and a Crit token for next round, and on that round you'll have 3 UPs at your disposal to spend. This translates to 2 Anamnesis / Burning Stars casted on sequence, since you would spend 2 on this turn, and you would generate another one at the beginning of your next turn. Try this at your own courage and peril (and tell me the results later!)

Summary of the team:

Rank 4: Physician Plague Doctor
Emboldening Vapors Disorienting Blast Battlefield Medicine Blinding Gas* Magnesium Rain*
You can swap these with: Indiscriminate Science+ (heals without limited uses, good for Act 5), Ounce of Prevention for DOTS and disease prevention, Cause of Death+ if you want to nuke some large target that has a ton of bleed stacked into it, after Jester's Finale, you can use since he moves you into rank 3
Rank 3: Virtuoso Jester
Encore Solo Finale Inspiring Tune Razor's Wit
Rank 2: Aspirant Ocultist
Chaotic Offering Anamnesis Burning Stars Sacrificial Stab* Wyrd Reconstruction*
You can swap one of these with Binding Shadows if you're worried about shuffles, on Aspirant it moves you Forward 1 and can generate you a stack of UP
Rank 1 : Berserker* Helion
Iron Swan Toe to Toe Bleed Out Adrenaline Rush Bloodlust*
You can swap Bloodlust with: Raucous Revelry for a heal not dependant on limited uses, stress heal, and on upgrade, DBR Wicked Hack for better damage at rank 2 Breakthrough for Shuffles
As for the * on Berserker, is just that maybe it's a good idea changing the path depending on which act boss you're going against; the ones that came to mind are act 2 and 3. Vs act 2, Bleed Out gets absolutely no value so there's no reason to run Berserker, I'd recomend changing to Ravager for easier management of the lungs. You can also change to Carcass to better deal with high damage since apart from this path she doesn't generate blocks; I had her take every inn item I could buy to give her a better chance at survivability against the Focused Fault, but even then I got a few Deathblow checks; would recommend either running Cause of Death on PD with Berserker, or changing to Carcass to tank with Yawp. I'd also recommend not running Bloodlust if you're running Cause of Death on PD, since it clears all DOT for instant damage, making your turn go to waste, in this case just use Toe to Toe+ to get rid of Winded.
phew... this took a WHILE. Feel free to ask any questions about the team and tell me if you'd want some help with a specific path you'd like to play. ASK AND THOU SHALL RECEIVE
Heheh, have a good one! PS: I'm going straight to bed, but I'll try to answer you guys tomorrow. Good night!

I got charged to apply for a TFN, only later did I realize that it was not the official website.
The website I used was au-taxservices.com
I wanted to process my TFN fast so I didn’t double check if it was free or not, and if the website was legit.
They also asked for my passport number and card details, I’m worried if I’m gonna be a victim of identity theft, or if they hack into my bank accounts.
Will my TFN arrive? And what can I do to resolve this situation?

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I'm begging you - don't fuck your teammates over by having us deal with a bot or by throwing the match and hindering us - YOU'RE the reason we lose, not her; she is seriously easy to go against now.
Here's what you need to do if you still stubbornly refuse to learn how to play against her new rework for some goddamn reason:

• See a drone with no rays? Crouch-walk and hack it. There - that's literally it.
• See a drone with rays? Walk up to it but simply stand still when the ray goes over your character then walk again when it passes until you hack it.

There you go. It's that fucking simple and she's a complete joke once everyone stops giving her free clawtraps because they don't know how to deal with drones.
And please spare me with the "I DC not bc she's strong but bc she's boring to play against" then please DC against Knights as well so we can all collectively stop players from playing him and his annoying ass, braindead power - he does everything old SM used to do and is getting a free pass.

OK, for those of you coming back, I've done a few posts about "the perfect Money/XP base," but wanted to cover Getting through an NG+ as fast as possible for getting you your starborn powers and bugging the hell out:
So follow along :)
1) Land on Vectera 2) Run down to where you pulled the artifact, hitting Elemental Pull all along the way -- depending on how much you did for geology, you'll have a nice cache of Calumite and Beryllium. 3) Grab the digipick in the side room. 4) Fast Travel to your ship, and off to the Lodge! 5) Do a quicksave before you enter the lodge -- you can save scum and reset the weapon Sarah's about to give you as well as the inventory downstairs -- once you enter the lodge they're fixed for the rest of the playthrough. 6) Talk to Sarah, get your cutter, weapon and 25K credits. Put her in your ship as crew, do the same for Vasco. You can get Sarah to follow you if you want, or you can just solo everything -- either way. 7) Go downstairs, collect everything, unlock the Mark 1 Spacesuit, and grab it, grab the book from Cora's room 8) While you're there, hit the stove and the pharma lab -- you can't make anything yet, but go ahead and "Track the items" for the following - I usually plan on making 10-20 of each, and then combining bandages/healpaste/antibiotic into the Analgesic Poultice, so only one thing to cure most: Bandages Heal Paste Immobilizer Antibiotic Injector All the "hearts" - Black Hole, Giant etc... Panopticon Paramour
Go to the stove and track: Galaxy Lo Mein Nebula Wat Papardelle Bolognese Stellar Kebabs Star Cluster Marsala 5 of each should be plenty - for me I only really ever use them on Buried Temple.
9) Go to the Eye - Talk to Vlad, get the "assigned" temple, and the list of artifact locations -- it's ALWAYS the same six locations. 10) Go to the Bessel III-a location, but DO NOT LAND THERE 11) Bessel III-b's Temple will spawn (unless of course, it's the one that was assigned already) 12) Go do the temple on Bessel III-b 13) Go to an anomaly if it didn't "autodetect" and scan it, and grab up all the calumite with Elemental Pull 14) Use my "Free Money Guide" Post to find and build the outpost here -- at this point you probably won't build the base quite yet, as you haven't done any shopping yet. 15) If you go to Neon to shop, and you haven't done any detours, you will probably spawn Sigma on Volii Epsilon -- hit it and grab that power while you're nearby, to make sure it doesn't bug 16) I usually go to Gagarin as Clint often has all the materials necessary. He carries (not TOO rarely) Aldumite Drilling Rigs, which are the key to fast money. Sieghart, Outland, and Jae in New Homestead also carry them sometimes. 17) Build the base 18) Sleep and sell - aim for about 2 Million Creds - if you've built our 6 robots, have max surveying, max outpost stuff, this is 1 24 hour sleep cycle, depending on the mods you may or may not play with, selling all this stuff may take time -- Neon will have your best vendor density for dumping. Remember that you can carry everything in your ship, by dropping it on the floor 19) Time to get the Razorleaf -- why?? because it has a fun mechanic where spacers will freak out, and more importantly, it will ALWAYS have the same ship ID -- this is important if you're willing to use the console to fix shield and target lockon bugs -- you can use a text file and just "bat rlfix" if you always know the ship ID. 20) Go to Sirius Ib -- it will have the HE3 extraction site, and will *almost* always have spacers. One of them SHOULD drop "Secret Outpost" which will start the Mantis questline 21) Go to Denebola 1a and clear the Lair of the Mantis, and claim the Razorleaf - make sure you're looting along the way, even though you don't need creds any more, you still need digipicks to go mo fast. 22) Finish shopping, and get the AGM and Quark Degen from Sieghart in Neon, run next door to Newill for the Gastro D. 23) Go back to your outpost and rebuild the Razorleaf into a dreadnaught24) Make your food and meds -- you'll want 5-10 of each, no more, you won't be here long enough to use them now 25) GOGOGOOGOGO FAST! 26) Go gather the artifacts from the remaining locations. Most of these spots will have a skill magazine, unless you did a perfect, complete NG0, you'll probably be adding a little bit of power by picking each of them up. 27) I use a spreadsheet to track what temple spawns on what planet -- cuz I'm a nerd :) BUT as soon as you pick up an artifact, go grab the power - Alpha, Eta and Sigma are ALWAYS gonna be in this first set, the rest are random. 28) At this point you can go back to the lodge and re-recruit Sam, Barrett and Andreja 27) Oborum -> Masada -> Temple -- all the consumables are nice to make the fight go smoother -- Phased Time is totally your best friend use it early and often, and when you have the Heart consumable you can use it pretty much whenever you want. Panopticon is awesome, and the Nebula Wat makes you go noticeably faster. 28) Talk the Hunter and Emissary down -- ain't nobody got time for that fight! -- Use a Paramour before you open the temple door. 29) Go grab the rest of the temples 30) Off to Unity, rinse and repeat!

Afterlife is a totally refreshed rank 30 FC looking to create a brand new group for Dawntrail! Mostly seeking out end game players who have completed up to at least SHB. Focuses include running content together, experienced raid groups, teaching players who are new to raiding, social events, giveaways, contests, and more! I currently have a large beach house in Shirogane that is custom decorated (It'll change with the housing updates we get in 7.x) The gil you spent on your FC room will be compensated if you're in the FC for at least 2 weeks. I have over 150 tier 3 XP buffs as well ready to use as they're primed for DT c: The group is all very fresh, but I hope to have everything up and running by launch of Dawntrail.
More info can be found on the lodestone (https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/community\_findeb96e1d110f16ec19b3c86e8747fa8bd7ef98c7e8/), or you can hop into the discord if you'd like to look around! (https://discord.gg/gk6yQvrgxZ) If you're just looking for a place to hang, but aren't looking for an FC, feel free to hop in and hang with other WoLs! The more the merrier.

This dude can hack into any snap account you want. No upfront payment and you can also get hacks for free!

This may have been brought up before, but as a hack and slash lover myself, I personally can see a lot of potential in further building upon the melee aspect of the game. We already have perks that coincide with melee combat with dashes, stun breaking, and vampirism, so why not build our arsenal with some more brute force brutality? I have thought up a concept weapon for each of the miners that I think fit them conceptually and come with real versatility to make them a worthwhile pick in the game. I'm no balancing expert, but some good old rocks, sticks, and stones never hurt anyone is dwarves didn't want it to. Going right into the weapons themselves now we'll begin with:
Scout: A good old shovel. Basic double swings back and forth with the basic attack and an overhead slam for holding down the attack button. For some extra spice it can do more slam damage based on dwarven velocity on impact. If an alt fire feature is added besides the pickaxe it could be used to jab the shovel into a surface and hang from it, using a free hand to mine still until pulling it out to fall back to the ground.
Gunner: Rocket Axe. Big, slow, arcing strikes better for horde clear. Charged attack is a larger swing that spits burning fuel in a wide arc that could open up some cool overclock features. If alt fire is added it could have a thruster jump that grants added mobility by launching a short distance in the direction you're facing.
Driller: Big Stone block on a stick. This massive sledge hammer takes heft, but it's overhead strikes crush heavy armor like hot pie crust. It's charge attack is another slam, but it cracks the air with a concussive blast to stun all those pesky bugs in the immediate surrounding area. This one's potential alt fire is tougher, but a gemstone demolishing, mighty CRACK of swing that can instantly mine a slightly-larger-than-dwarf sized area despite hardness might be a good fit considering the weight of this weapon and slow start up speeds for swinging.
Engineer: This guy wants to show off more plasma know-how with a laser whip. This little metal rod emits a long beam of hot, beard scorching, purple plasma. With quick, standard whip strikes as it's basic attack it may not seem like much more than a hot laser pointer, but it gets a bit fancier with it's charged attack. It comes out as a twirl of the whip to sting anything close by after a short charge, or a straight, long, whip crack at full charge with a heavy damaging sweet spot at the tip. As far as the alt, a grapple that you swing on rather than being pulled to. How does it work? Management knows and that's what's important. Alternatively if engine limitations don't allow, the two charge attacks can be separated into the charge and alt.
Anyways, those are my weapon concepts for a melee update. I feel the primary slot would be a better place for them to make an impact, so to say, as we already have the pickaxe, drills, and boomerangs (which feels martial enough) in secondary, tertiary, and mandatory slots already. I tried to make things that would fit in a space between Deep Rock's technology and overall dwarven lore. Remember, ranged combat is known to be the way of leaf lovers, hence why they send robots instead of fighting us head on. I, for one, would be excited and honored to show my physical prowess and strength in the name of DRG.
FOR ROCK AND STONE!

Howdy All!
I've just finished my 4th playthrough to NG+10, and thought I'd share for those of you coming back.
There's not much more annoying than when your quest breaks, and you can't complete a temple -- they're already annoying enough!!
I've discovered a couple things.
1) If a Temple spawns on a planet you've already landed on it will usually bug out. 2) If you board a ship in orbit of the Temple Spawn planet, it will usually bug out. 3) If it's a discovered temple, it can bug out if you don't go to it right away (especially if you go get another "vlad temple" in between"
SO -- Avoid Planets with Temple Spawns until you spawn their temples
THIS is the complete list of planets that *CAN* have a temple.
I use a great resource/outpost planning spreadsheet, and reddit post that explains how build 24 outposts that can produce every harvestable resource in the game
The notable planets from the list that you need to avoid until you get the temple to spawn and/or force it:
Bessel III-b (This is always my "free" 24th one) Ixyll II Linneaus II
ETA is always the temple you first get when Vlad tells you about them.
Alpha is the one you pulled from Vectera, and Sigma is the one that Barrett got from Ka'zaal.
Bessel III-b is one of the best starter outpost planets, bar none. I make an outpost there every NG, so I have all the creds, and XP I could need.
BUT it's a Temple planet.
SO what to do?!?! -- FORCE THE SPAWN EARLY!!
As soon as Vlad gives you the location of the first temple, ignore it! (Unless it's Bessel III-b).
If you are in NG, and you're not doing the "rejoin constellation questline",then the>! same six planets are given to you for artifact locations every single time. Go to Bessel III-a FIRST, and it will spawn the temple on III-b -- go to the temple before doing anything else!!<
OK.. so NOW -- GO TO BESSEL III
The "oh yeah, there's a temple in this system, go git it" will happen, and the temple (Always Alpha if you're doing like I suggested, and going here first).
THEN set up your starter outpost as outlined by Vash Cowaii
It takes a little practice, but I'm at ~30 hits or so on creating that outpost.
First "NG0" I do that as he outlined. NG1-10 I do it a little modified as i outlined HERE

I recently saw someone share a pretty negative post about Vaesen on a discord group, and there was an outpouring of folks sharing ideas for how the user might be able to better tweak or adjust the game to work the way they wanted it to. It got me thinking and I was just curious -- what would you want to see changed or updated if Vaesen ever got a 2nd or revised edition? For me, there are three big things.

• Experience Points: After playing in a long-running campaign (we are having our 21st session this week!), I've found that the XP leveling for the players gets pretty wild. We have all absolutely LOVED the HQ Developments, but the PC leveling feels comparatively underbaked. I would love to see either slower progression (XP at the end of the Mystery rather than the end of the session) or an overhaul to the XP system. Personally, I'd allow characters to increase their Attributes (which currently they can't), scale the cost for Skills and Talents based on what you're getting similar to the old World of Darkness system (so increasing a Skill from 2 to 3 would cost 15 rather than 5 XP, etc.) and Minor and Major Talents with prerequisites to allow a bit more of a "build" for characters. This could make the system a little crunchier, but I don't think it'd be so much that things would get bogged down or that it would really favor min-maxing.
• Healing and Condition Recovery: Right now there are simultaneously too many and too few ways to heal Conditions. Between healing Critical Injuries versus Conditions, mementos, services and resting, it's theoretically easy to remove Conditions but there's just so many options. I think I'd cut everything except for HQ Development Healing and Medicine and Inspiration, and then have PCs heal all Conditions at the end of a Mystery. I would also change mementos from healing Conditions to providing +1 automatic success once per Mystery.
• Specific Damage: This one is admittedly a bit niche, but poison, explosions, fire and drowning all should really have unique Critical Injuries if a character becomes broken via this special damage. Especially given how many vaesen can cause you to drown, it seems especially weird that you might be underwater and suffer splinters in your body or be set on fire and suffer from crushed genitals. I'm fine if they only use a d6 of results, but this is something I'd really like to see and when I have more time might work on a free supplement for.

So how about you? What kinds of changes, updates or revisions would you want to see in Vaesen?

Hey Jammers! Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of posts discussing being hacked / not being able to login to their account. I wanted to share some information!
If your account is hacked, unfortunately, AJHQ will completely ban the account. This REALLY sucks. I know a lot of the classic jammers have old accounts with lots of old, rare items. Losing all these things that might’ve taken years to obtain is horrible. I so desperately wish there was something we could do, but for now, AJHQ does not listen to ban appeals.
The only way to fix this problem is to make sure your account doesn’t get hacked in the first place. Here are some tips!
Tip 1. Set up 2 step authorization on your account Tip 2. Change your password if you know/think that your login information has been compromised Tip 3. Never share your account info with ANYBODY. Tip 4. Do not click any suspicious links. Fake AJHQ accounts might send you links, which when clicked, hack your account. 5. Don’t click any suspicious links anywhere.
I hope this guide has helped you! If you have any more tips or suggestions, feel free to comment!

(I'm Copy and pasting this, so if it doens't format correctly Please let me know)
Hey everyone, working on some homebrew for a game I’m currently in, and I wanted to adapt Movement of the Mind into V5. Trying to keep it balanced and make it feel unique, and like it belongs in V5. This is the first draft of that homebrew, I would love some constructive criticism on how I could improve it, as well as any potential problems you see in its language. As when making homebrew, I know how I intend the ability to work, but as soon as other players get ahold of it I find that I have many errors and confusing language.
Here it is:
Level 3
Movement Of The Mind
Amalgam: Auspex 2
The kindred is able to draw on their blood sorcery and move or crush targets through sheer force of will. Those targeted with this power would see nothing physically grabbing them, except for the occasional ripple in the air caused by the force of the power.
Cost: One Rouse Check
Dice Pools: Resolve + Blood Sorcery vs Strength +Athletics
System: The user chooses their target within a number of meters equal to 3 times the user's Blood Sorcery rating. The user then makes their rouse check (Note: Moving an object under 10 pounds requires no rouse check) and rolls their dice pool against a difficulty set by the ST. The difficulty of an average weight, non-resisting person would be 2. You can then immediately move the target a number of meters equal to your margin of success in any direction. Performing complicated actions once the target is under your control, such as stealing the keys off of someone's belt or typing on a keyboard, may require a Wits + Blood Sorcery check at the STs discretion. Using weapons this way requires the user to roll their Blood Sorcery + the appropriate weapons skill at a -2 to their dice pool.
Using this against a resisting target instead requires the user to roll their Resolve + Blood Sorcery vs the target's Strength +Athletics per turn. On a success the user can move the target as normal and they are treated as being grappled, allowing the user to damage them using Resolve + Blood Sorcery vs the target's Strength +Athletics dealing damage with each margin of success.
Moving multiple targets requires the user to split their dice pools as per normal.
Finally, the user may forgo this option and elect to instead send a blast of pure force at a target. The user makes their rouse check and picks their target, rolling Resolve + Blood Sorcery vs the targets Dexterity + Athletics. The user inflicts one point of superficial damage per margin of success with a +2 modifier and sends the target one meter back per margin. The target gains the stunned condition if mortal, and both mortals and kindred have to spend a 2 dice action getting up.
Duration: One scene per target, if the target breaks free or the user lets it lapse, the power ends and another rouse check is required to activate it.
Here’s a quick Q/A for questions I know I’ll be asked so I figured I’d get them out of the way:
Isn’t this a lot like Far Reach/Arms of Ahriman?
Yes, I used both of those powers as a guideline to get a feel of the balance and limits. In my opinion while it is similar to those two, it’s different enough to stand on its own. Though I am more than willing to hear your thoughts on ways I could make it feel more unique.
Why not just make it a ritual?
Because that's not as cool /s. But in actuality it's because as a ritual it loses a lot of its “On the spot functionality.” Rituals have to be prepared beforehand, and are generally one use, this allows the user to use it on a whim so to speak which just makes it feel more interesting in my opinion. Additionally, making it a ritual adds to the problem of it feeling like a reskinned Far Reach knock off to new players.
Why is it an auspex amalgam?
To make it feel like it’s something that's generally only had by Tremere as, to my knowledge, they created the power. Additionally, it's a little more powerful than many level 3 powers. Making it an amalgam artificially increases its xp cost. Because as an amalgam, you have to purchase two dots in auspex beforehand, which makes it more expensive without raising its level.
Why make it a level 3?
For a couple reasons, number one I wanted there to be another option for level 3 powers as the current ones don’t fit every character. Blood of potency is very situational and can sometimes be detrimental depending on your current BP. Scorpions touch requires an investment into strength and melee, which some players don’t want to do. This adds more options and an alternative path for those who want to be a mostly mental focused character, that gives you a lot of options and becomes more powerful the more creative you get with it. Though I do agree it might be too strong for level 3, I might bump it up to level 4 but I don’t quite feel it's strong enough for level 5.
Don't take this Q/A as a sign you shouldn’t ask these questions, please do if you feel like I’m missing something, I want to improve this and make it so that other people can use it at their own tables and have fun with it.
The only thing I ask is that you keep your criticism constructive, as I’ve had some very nasty people respond to previous homebrew I’ve made in other communities.

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