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Raiding in Destiny 2 require a certain type of patience. It’s the kind of patience that isn’t related at all to mechanics; it’s the kind of patience related to probability. Your execution is flawless, your fireteam is tight, you’re standing in the Void facing down Atheon. But the screen is still empty. Luck doesn’t care … Read more

If there’s one kind of pain you’ll learn to endure as a card farmer in Ragnarok Online, it’s the one that comes from standing on the same map for hours at a time and killing monsters as mechanicaly efficient as possible. You watch the numbers in your fatigue meter climb as the ones in your … Read more

Farming boss for a rare mount is a game of chance; at least the first time you try it. You slay the dragon, open your bag… and see nada. Repeat. Still nothing. After a few dozen attempts, you get tired of waiting. After a hundred, you start to doubt yourself. Maybe you’re cursed. Maybe the … Read more

When you ring the Beckoning Bell and nobody answers, you can get upset. You might feel this way when you’re low on health, stuck fighting a boss, and there seems to be no one online. It’s never personal, usualy. But more times than not, you just fell out of Bloodborne’s mathematical bounds for matchmaking. The … Read more

Raid: Shadow Legends’ Summon Rush events makes winning the lottery look easy. Summon a legendary champion? It’s a math problem. It is just a stack of shards and a countdown clock. You know the point requirement to reach reward tier, and it takes an exact amount of points. The difference between grabbing those fusion fragments … Read more

When you begin farming in Diablo 2 Resurrected, there’s a certain madness that sets in. You’ll promise yourself: just one more Shako… Okay, fine, I’ll take three, now where’s my goddamn fourth? Next thing you know, you’re back in the same act for the fourth straight night. The issue with thinking like this is that … Read more

Summon Raging Spirit has always looked like a mess on paper, but play out super smoothly. Optimizing it take work because you have to understand what we are actualy trying to maximize; most people look at their minions damage stat and think a higher number mean better clear speed. And that is true… right up … Read more

Genshin Impact planning involves a lot of math and some hope, to. Most players looks at their total primogem stash and assume it translates directly into a specific character guarantee. But in reality, there’s a very clear disconnect between how many primogems you actualy have and what you’re realistically capable of obtaining during the event. … Read more

You’re standing in front of a summoning sign. Three minutes go by. No phantom show up. Your stamina bar fills back up but that’s about it. You look at your network settings. You restart your console. You hope to God you got it right this time. Unfortunatly, more often than not, it won’t be anything … Read more

Your orbs aren’t looking great. The new banner comes out. A fresh banner spawns, and there it is: that sweet, sweet unit is calling to you. But base rate is only 30%… Too risky! It’s gacha time, and gacha mechanics are random: either analyze spreadsheets too hard, or pull blind and hope for the best. … Read more

It’s you, holding a new character banner in front of you, a five-star unit at your fingertips, and Stellar Jade in your other hand. Is it certain? Or luck? Mostly it boils down to one factor: the number on your pity counter. How much pity do you have? The term sounds simple enough, as does … Read more

The math is simple: each death will cost 20 percent of your points. However, the penalty isn’t flat; it’s sequential, which means it compounds fast. You don’t need to open up Excel to know what this looks like. But if you want to know exactly how much your odds decrease after each death, you’ll need … Read more