u/SparkleFritz

I'm asymptomatic so there's no way for me to tell if I'm having any reactions from an allergen or not. I know everyone is different but I have nothing else to go on, so I'm looking for general consensus.

Say your trigger is dairy, and something is made in a facility that processes dairy but the food itself doesn't, would that cause an issue?

I have always wanted to do a magic only run. I know that will be hard during the beginning of the game when my MP bar is small so some attacking will be needed, but I wanted to see how far I got until I get frustrated. I know starting dead of night will be harder at the beginning but if I'm gonna go all the way I might as well do that. Some questions though before I get started:

- Will not getting second chance until like level 92 make Proud mode extremely difficult?

- Does starting at dusk really save that much time if it's a way harder time getting to 40?

One of the common things I see people comment about large weight loss is that people start treating them better and how it's a shame. I agree that it's a shame; you should be treated like a human no matter what your size is. While I wasn't banking on everyone treating me better as the weight came off, I will admit I was a little excited to see how this would change for me. Unfortunately, I'm getting treated worse now than I ever have before.

I've gone from 220lbs down below 180lbs in four-ish months. I am not on any weight loss medications (saying this because it comes up a lot, I don't have any issue with people taking them). My goal I've set is 160lbs, but the middle weight for my height is around 150lbs for a healthy BMI, so anywhere around there will really make me feel like I've "made it". I don't think that 40lbs is such an accomplishment or a drastic change and I'm honestly surprised that people are noticing it as much as they are.

At first things were fine. I would get the "are you losing weight" and "what are you doing" questions. I'd talk about moving more, eating healthy, just usual weight loss stuff. Then people would ask what my goal is and I'd say 160lbs. Half of the people who asked would say something to the effect of "oh my god that's too much". I would explain how it's a little over smack dab in the middle of a healthy BMI for my height but I stopped because it just led to more questions about things like I was in the wrong.

As I get closer the remarks are getting more harsh. To the point where I don't even talk about anything relating to weight loss, exercise, food, etc. "You don't need to lose any more weight, you'll look like a twig!" "You know, when you lose so much weight it makes you look older." "Your face is going to be too thin." "Oh look at you, Mr. Good Genes." "Men lose weight easier than women so it's not a big deal." "What do you do, live on salads?" "Not all of us can afford GLP-1s." "What's for lunch today, bland chicken and rice?" "There's no way you've lost that much without taking drugs."

Not all of them are terrible. I think some people think they're actually giving out compliments. I just smile and try to brush it off. But it's becoming non-stop and it's starting to make me feel alienated by everyone. My family stopped being supportive and started asking me when I'll stop. At work if I have an opinion on something I've heard remarks about how I'm "a new person" because the old "me" wouldn't have this opinion. My friends are nice (I don't know how to type this without sounding mean but I don't mean it like that) but it feels like some of them resent me because I've been successful in losing weight when they haven't.

Now I don't really talk to anyone. I don't eat near anyone, I stay out of any conversation regarding food or exercise or being active; I basically just sit by myself avoiding everyone. It's funny, when I was heavier I thought that's all people saw me as. But now it seems like people only see me as the guy who lost weight.

Don't get me wrong, not everyone is mean. I'm glad I've gone this far and I'm going to keep going. But there are days I just wish I gained it all back. I feel like if I keep going it's just going to get worse and worse. Thanks for reading, just needed to vent.

I (37m) feel like my entire gastroenterologist office both doesn't think EoE is a big deal and also thinks I'm crazy for not having any symptoms. Now I feel like I'm the crazy one for having no idea what I'm doing for my EoE.

I have never had any EoE symptoms in the slightest. I say this because none of the doctors I've spoken to believe me. No eating slow, no choking, no regurgitation, no pain, no need for water when eating.

This is my path over the past year. I've shortened it because it was loooong but if anyone wants the full version I can post it.

- A year ago I had a scope for pain after gallbladder removal. Rings and furrows were found.

- Follow up appointment I was told eosinophil count was 31, "I've seen people with counts 500+ so 31 is nothing", take 20mg Omeprazole daily and "try to avoid dairy but the Omeprazole should do the trick", follow up scope in 3 months. No notes on size/length of rings/furrows.

- For three months I take 20mg Omeprazole and make no diet changes because I have no symptoms.

- Day of the 2nd scope (March) three different doctors ask me how my symptoms are and are shocked when I say I have none. Like, amazed by this statement.

- Scope completed, biopsy taken, findings: "furrows and rings in the mid-distal esophagus, otherwise normal esophagus, stomach, duodenum." I was advised Omeprazole would increase to 40mg daily.

- Follow up appointment I'm told my eosinophil count was 0. I was asked about my symptoms, I say I have none, shocked/confused face. Told to avoid dairy, stay on 40mg Omeprazole for six months and then can probably go down to 20mg if symptoms don't appear. No more scopes needed.

- Office just called, asked me how my symptoms were. Explained again, no symptoms. They asked if I went down to 20mg. I said they told me wait until my follow up appointment. They said okay, see you in August.

After all of this... I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm told I have EoE, avoid dairy, but really Omeprazole should be fine, my eosinophil counts go down to 0, my Omeprazole is increased, and all anyone can ask me regarding progression is "how are your symptoms" when I literally have none. No return scope recommended. This is a highly rated gastroenterologist that everyone rants and raves about.

If I have no idea how things are progressing, isn't a scope needed? Why would my Omeprazole go up if my eosinophils went down to 0? Why does everyone seem shocked at not having any symptoms but yet... doesn't do or advise anything on it?

Then I read post after post here about people having symptoms constantly, worrying about scopes and biopsies and dupixent, and I feel like I'm the crazy one because I was basically told "take this pill and good luck!"

Journey Mission 6 is a culmination of utilizing your active modifier surge to the extreme. Thankfully, most of them are pretty easy to cheese, but a couple are kind of annoying. If you're looking for an "easy" way to complete them, here you go!

If anyone has any better suggestions feel free to comment! I'm sure I missed something obvious.

Recommendation: Set your world to Normal. You will probably want control points reset anyways. Also, equip the passive modifiers Viper Bite and Spark & Flame. They're needed for Objective 4 and can probably be completed without even needing to farm it.

Retain at least 100% Bonus Armor after Invincible ends (3 times)

• Gear Recommendation: Anything with high armor. This is the easiest one.
• Start Viewpoint Museum on Normal difficulty, activate it right at the start and kill the first group of enemies. Then sit in cover and wait for it to end.

Reach 20 stacks in all three Pneuma bonuses before it ends (3 times)

• Gear Recommendation: Quickstep (or any pistol), your favorite SMG/Shotgun, favorite LMG/Assault.
• Note: If you don't want to do retaliation, Grand Washington Hotel on normal works. Just pop it right before the first room in the building and run and gun like your life depends on it.
• Set your world to Normal and start any retaliation. Black Tusk are the hardest to do this with and Rikers are currently glitched. I did Hyena.
• Exit the safe house and clear out the first part of the first control point but DO NOT start the second part until Pneuma is ready.
• Start the second part, find where enemies are and run up to them, activating Pneuma in front of them.
• Blast as many enemies in the head with your pistol as you can (stay within 10m and kill quickly).
• Keep your eye on the bars below your health bar. If pistol is maxed but others aren't, switch to that gun, continue killing with close range kills quickly.

Eliminate 7 or more hostiles affected by Vicarious while it is active (3 times)

• The WORST one.
• Gear Recommendation: Vile, Eclipse Protocol, Jammer Pulse, Reviver Hive just in case, roll everything Status Effects if you can.
• Equip passive modifier Spark and Flame.
• Look at your map and watch out for the red gun icon that is moving towards another hostile control point. This is one enemy faction attacking another enemy faction's control point. If you can't find any, look for an enemy resource convoy returning to an enemy control point.
• When they're close but not yet there, teleport to the closest point you can and run in when they're in the middle of the control point. Run into the middle of the gun fight.
• Pop Vicarious, unleash a fully charged jammer pulse, everyone dies.
• If you manage to get 14 enemies in the blast, you can get 2 points at one time. I know, it happened to me. One faction attacking another faction can cause this.

Apply status effects with both Viper Bite and Spark and Flame equipped (100 times)

• Okay maybe this is the easiest.
• Vile, Jammer Pulse, Scorpio, Shock Trap, honestly doesn't matter why am I even typing this out.
• If you really want to cheese, Skill Tier Stinger Hive build with BTSU gloves, Federal Bunker on Normal with Vicarious, use Vicarious on the first set of enemies and put your hive by the door they spawn out of, wait for everyone to die, break hive, go back and restart mission.

Kill an enemy by deflecting damage with Unfriendly Fire (50 times)

• Recommended gear: A rifle.
• Glitch alert: If a shielded hyena dies before his shield breaks, you can shoot the shield on the ground to get the bullet bounce effect, getting kills with it until it breaks.
• Run District Union Arena on Hard or Challenging (not heroic, and not normal because they die too quickly), go until you reach the room in the second conscourse with the hyena sleeping on the bed on the left.
• Kill that Hyena and then all of the other Hyenas in the back of the room for the first group except one red Hyena.
• When the doors open, let any non-shield Hyenas come out.
• Use your rifle on the shield of the elite shieldy boi until it breaks or he's the last one alive.
• Then let him kill you, repeat. Get 1-3 kills per try, if there's a shieldy boi in the first group you can get more.

Eliminate 3 hostiles with Contagious without regaining Contagious (15 times)

• I am honestly not sure if this is 3 in a row, 15 times, or every kill above 3 in a row counts as another time. This one happened naturally for me.
• Any gear works. Viewpoint Museum, normal, run up to first group, kill the one that has Contagious and go to the next, profit.

Survive in the Dark one with Inoculated equipped. Every full minute increases progress by 1 (30 minutes)

• No guide needed.

Donate enough Sample Containers to max out the Sample Size bar (2400 donations)

Honestly, this last one sounds horrible but it isn't that bad. Go into the PvE Dark Zone, find a group of people, kill and extract with them. I have not once seen people griefing others, and I only got called a slur once! And it was because... Someone else picked up his loot.

You get canister caches from DZ chests, named enemies and hunters. Doing things in there will also give you keys to unlock the chests. If you've never done Dark Zone before, make sure you are leaving periodically to reset Toxicity and going back to the White House to checking out your new DZ perks.

Following a group I was able to get about 200-300 canisters an hour. That Rate of Fire increase is worth it, too. If you want to farm hunters as well, you can get exotic components like water. In one day I went from 70 to 140 and I didn't even really farm them.

Have fun!

Journey Mission 6 is a culmination of utilizing your active modifier surge to the extreme. Thankfully, most of them are pretty easy to cheese, but a couple are kind of annoying. If you're looking for an "easy" way to complete them, here you go!

If anyone has any better suggestions feel free to comment! I'm sure I missed something obvious.

Recommendation: Set your world to Normal. You will probably want control points reset anyways. Also, equip the passive modifiers Viper Bite and Spark & Flame. They're needed for Objective 4 and can probably be completed without even needing to farm it.

Retain at least 100% Bonus Armor after Invincible ends (3 times)

• Gear Recommendation: Anything with high armor. This is the easiest one.
• Start Viewpoint Museum on Normal difficulty, activate it right at the start and kill the first group of enemies. Then sit in cover and wait for it to end.

Reach 20 stacks in all three Pneuma bonuses before it ends (3 times)

• Gear Recommendation: Quickstep (or any pistol), your favorite SMG/Shotgun, favorite LMG/Assault.
• Set your world to Normal and start any retaliation. Black Tusk are the hardest to do this with and Rikers are currently glitched. I did Hyena.
• Exit the safe house and clear out the first part of the first control point but DO NOT start the second part until Pneuma is ready.
• Start the second part, find where enemies are and run up to them, activating Pneuma in front of them.
• Blast as many enemies in the head with your pistol as you can (stay within 10m and kill quickly).
• Keep your eye on the bars below your health bar. If pistol is maxed but others aren't, switch to that gun, continue killing with close range kills quickly.

Eliminate 7 or more hostiles affected by Vicarious while it is active (3 times)

• The WORST one.
• Gear Recommendation: Vile, Eclipse Protocol, Jammer Pulse, Reviver Hive just in case, roll everything Status Effects if you can.
• Equip passive modifier Spark and Flame.
• Look at your map and watch out for the red gun icon that is moving towards another hostile control point. This is one enemy faction attacking another enemy faction's control point. If you can't find any, look for an enemy resource convoy returning to an enemy control point.
• When they're close but not yet there, teleport to the closest point you can and run in when they're in the middle of the control point. Run into the middle of the gun fight.
• Pop Vicarious, unleash a fully charged jammer pulse, everyone dies.
• If you manage to get 14 enemies in the blast, you can get 2 points at one time. I know, it happened to me. One faction attacking another faction can cause this.

Apply status effects with both Viper Bite and Spark and Flame equipped (100 times)

• Okay maybe this is the easiest.
• Vile, Jammer Pulse, Scorpio, Shock Trap, honestly doesn't matter why am I even typing this out.
• If you really want to cheese, Skill Tier Stinger Hive build with BTSU gloves, Federal Bunker on Normal with Vicarious, use Vicarious on the first set of enemies and put your hive by the door they spawn out of, wait for everyone to die, break hive, go back and restart mission.

Kill an enemy by deflecting damage with Unfriendly Fire (50 times)

• Recommended gear: A rifle.
• Glitch alert: If a shielded hyena dies before his shield breaks, you can shoot the shield on the ground to get the bullet bounce effect, getting kills with it until it breaks.
• Run District Union Arena on Hard or Challenging (not heroic, and not normal because they die too quickly), go until you reach the room in the second conscourse with the hyena sleeping on the bed on the left.
• Kill that Hyena and then all of the other Hyenas in the back of the room for the first group except one red Hyena.
• When the doors open, let any non-shield Hyenas come out.
• Use your rifle on the shield of the elite shieldy boi until it breaks or he's the last one alive.
• Then let him kill you, repeat. Get 1-3 kills per try, if there's a shieldy boi in the first group you can get more.

Eliminate 3 hostiles with Contagious without regaining Contagious (15 times)

• I am honestly not sure if this is 3 in a row, 15 times, or every kill above 3 in a row counts as another time. This one happened naturally for me.
• Any gear works. Viewpoint Museum, normal, run up to first group, kill the one that has Contagious and go to the next, profit.

Survive in the Dark one with Inoculated equipped. Every full minute increases progress by 1 (30 minutes)

• No guide needed.

Donate enough Sample Containers to max out the Sample Size bar (2400 donations)

Honestly, this last one sounds horrible but it isn't that bad. Go into the PvE Dark Zone, find a group of people, kill and extract with them. I have not once seen people griefing others, and I only got called a slur once! And it was because... Someone else picked up his loot.

You get canister caches from DZ chests, named enemies and hunters. Doing things in there will also give you keys to unlock the chests. If you've never done Dark Zone before, make sure you are leaving periodically to reset Toxicity and going back to the White House to checking out your new DZ perks.

Following a group I was able to get about 200-300 canisters an hour. That Rate of Fire increase is worth it, too. If you want to farm hunters as well, you can get exotic components like water. In one day I went from 70 to 140 and I didn't even really farm them.

Have fun!

The Inoculated passive modifier is explained as: "Toxicity accumulation from all sources is reduced by 50%".

When you use any surged active modifier: "In Toxic Dark Zones, Toxicity is reduced by 35 on activation".

Well, it turns out, if you have the Inoculated passive modifier equipped, that 35 reduction actually turns into just 17 reduction. It cuts the reduction in half. This means even though you're gaining only half as much, you're also only removing half as much.

Also, since I'm questioning the design choices for this, why does Invincible have a two minute cooldown and cure 35 (or 17) Toxicity, but Pneuma has a four minute cooldown and only cures 35 (or 17)? Shouldn't Pneuma cure more since you can only use it half as often?

EDIT: Here is a link to the Bug Reporter ticket I opened, please contribute if you can (gotta reach 5 before they review).

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/bug-reporter/issues/TCTD2-4772

In an hour of playing the game today I've had three deltas. Last night I had five. I'm not even doing the Dark Zone either. Ever since the new season it's been horrible. There's no way in hell I'm touching Escalation until this is fixed.

Just got another.

I found this floating around a few different sources and thought I'd share here. If any of this information is incorrect or changes, I will edit/remove.

Leader gains are (2 + (2 x Tier)). So Tier 5 for example gets (2 + (2 x 5)) = 12 tokens.

Member gains are (Tier + 1). So Tier 5 for example gets 6 tokens.

Tier 0 is still 0 cost, 2 token profit for everyone.

Tier	Leader Cost	Leader Profit	Leader Gain	Member Gain
0	0	2	2	2
1	1	5	4	2
2	4	10	6	3
3	8	16	8	4
4	13	23	10	5
5	19	31	12	6
6	27	41	14	7
7	37	53	16	8
8	49	67	18	9
9	63	83	20	10
10	80	102	22	11

You start an escalation. You and two other teammates enter a room, are running to find cover, when the fourth guy who has barely entered just starts shooting off randomly, alerting the enemies and starting the fight. The group is caught off guard and things go south annoyingly quick but you pull through. Pick up drops. Get ammo. Get to the next door. When someone starts opening it, fourth guy randomly starts shooting again.

I keep encountering this over and over and I can't figure out why people do it. It's like they're sabotaging things, but then they start playing like normal. They don't even run in first, they're usually the last person in, and it doesn't seem to accomplish anything but chaos for everyone else because there's no time to setup.

When I ask why people do it, no response in game, ever. Worse off, I'm usually host which I don't mind. But like, if we fail, you don't lose anything but you also don't gain anything either? And it happens a lot, moreso than just a one off.

Is there any reason to this? Low SHD, high SHD, doesn't matter. I don't get it.

I have been enjoying the workouts that the AI coach makes for me, but there's no noise or voice that signals that I'm ready to move to the next set. There's an option to make it automatically switch to the next, which it does, but neither when turned on/off does it actually make any notification so I have to leave the app open or time myself.

During my conversation about this week's workout plan with the AI coach it mentioned something to the effect of "make sure to listen to my voice cues to turn up the resistance." When I asked why I couldn't hear them it went into a troubleshooting mode telling me to go into my Fitbit app settings and turn on voice cues. I assume that this is just a holdover from the Fitbit app, so I checked the Health settings and I did find voice cues, but they were all turned on. I tried turning them off and on again, but I still don't have any cues. Even when doing a freeform walk, it didn't give me any minute or mile cues. The rest of the troubleshooting steps were about re-linking my Bluetooth earbuds and making sure I had the sound settings correct, but I don't think that's the issue.

Does anyone have voice cues, or if anyone has had issues with it and resolved it, how?

When you eat something that you're allergic to, what is the amount of exposure that is needed to cause a reaction? Is it that you need to eat a lot? Only a little? Is it so bad that even a safe food or plate that has touched your trigger will also trigger? Or is it random?

I ask because I'm asymptomatic, so I can't tell what is causing damage. I'm currently wheat and dairy free, but I don't know what amount of exposure is "too much". Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm sure this varies between person but I need all the answers I can get.

This room is the worst. The adds never stop, the gunner guys in the main boat, the cover is horrendous, constantly getting flanked.

I usually run on the right hand side to near the right hand tank, because the boat gunner can't get me and I can kite adds around the boat while keeping watch on the right hand spawn points. But once the first tank goes down then it always ends up a shitshow.

Is there an easier way to do this? If I ignore the tanks, will the adds eventually stop? It doesn't seem like it.

This happens to me all of the time. I'm trying to raise my shepherd rank because I like helping people out, but this happens at least a quarter of the time. I'm SHD level 3k+, so it's not that. I'm not on mic, I don't run into every fight like rambo, it just happens all the time. Is there something I'm missing?

I've been answering calls for backup and I'm always unsure of what the group leader wants to do. I'm on console so no one really uses mics. I'll ask in chat but most of the time never get a response. When I go slow, I feel like they probably want me going fast. When I go fast, I feel like I'm taking over and they want me going slow. I'll usually gauge it by their level and the higher it is the faster I'll go.

Just wondering if there's any real rule of thumb for this.