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Well, they probably don't love me anymore since I unsubbed end of Jan. I had withdrawal for a couple days. Worrying when coming home what faction would be on display, if there were missions on the table I'd miss, and so on. And I realized that I had made the right call because all I was...

Ok, fess up, which of you uses that pseudonym to write? (I have to read it now) I think that anything by Bennett is good at this point.

It's probably very complicated, code-wise, to have two different body morphs for a single combo of race-gender. Basically, when you pick your race and gender, you have a fixed body and you can do a little variation of heads bolted on that. Having two body types is probably an impossibility. For...

It's like fusion. It will be a year or so from beta for all of eternity...

Remember that the Arianespace's CEO famously said that doing a reusable launcher would be bad, because he wouldn't have enough work for his employees. Before being ousted. Well, the french state auditors are also lamenting this poor view: French auditor says Ariane 6 rocket too conventional to...

Except Thanos still has it (the gauntlet might have burned, but he didn't leave all those gems littered around). Expectations are that they use Quantum Realm shenanigans from Ant-man's portals to do so (apparently, Quantum Realm has weird time aspects). Probably tweaked by Tony (when he and...

"You are supposed to kill it. Why you try not to kill it? Therefore, if you do not kill it, it will wipe your raid" (there is ONE legal strategy to kill a raid boss, any other strategy will be prevented)

I haven't looked, but my main beef with legendaries were that you needed to grind dungeons, and dungeons require unlocks (until you've done the "story mode", you can't do anything), for which I never managed to get a group. But back then, it was only weapons... Legendary armor is new to me...

Mythic race aside, now that I'm unsubscribed, I finally got my copy of World of Warcraft Diary, which is awesome. I thank the international shipping for its one month delay (shipped 1/2/2019) Hopefully, it's going to be on Amazon soon™.

A nerf in 4-5 weeks?

Yesterday was my last day. Subscription lapses this weekend (and autorenew is cancelled), so I'm not going to do a half raid. That's the second time I cancel WoW. I wouldn't say "never again", because who knows, but I'm not seeing myself resubbing in any foreseeable future. The only games...

Another symptom of the funny at Blizzard. So, they release season 2 with new azerite traits. Then, of course, with the opening of Mythic, they need to nerf those because that would be unbalancing: January 29th Class Tuning - Azerite Tuning and Mythic Balance Changes Oh, my. We need to tune...

The Garrison is the home of all my characters when there's nothing to do.

Heroic ones! Meaning the enemies have heroic Nazjatar levels of health and damage (but the warfront yields Mythic Nazjatar ilvl gear once per reset, vs LFR levels of gear for normal). See, I've made heroic warfronts in less than 5mn! The beancounters will love all that additional content for cheap!

And rather than make a new one in 8.2, they're making Heroic Warfronts (which require pre-made groups).

Worse, it's "log on or you'll be set back one day behind, do your chores, log off". Except that, since there's hardcores, there's more and more chores (currencies) piling up so that the hardcore still display "high engagement metrics" while semi-casual are slowly getting to the "why do I bother...

I got 1493 books tagged "read" on Goodreads and it still tends to suggest mostly useless books I'll never read. I still get most of my recommendations from amazon. I'm using three different stores (US, UK, FR) on which I could record what I read back when you could (before they limited the "I...

This encapsulate WoW's overall design for the last decade. You will progress at the same average speed all the time, rather than whenever you want to. They are absolutely terrified of people blowing thru content, so they've placed bars and catch-up treadmills everywhere.

No. Getting rid of them isn't the worst decision. REPLACING THEM with Azerite gear is the real culprit. If they simply scrapped the artefact system for normal gear and put something new to do with your legendary item (because everyone is legendary these days), that would have been ok. As it...

Oooooh, that might be it. I think I had all my azerite from HM since november... Thanks. I was going to think weird bug, but they did not want people farming to get residuum early, so... (well it's only three 370 pieces)

That's what bothers me, because I did scrap 2 Uldir 375 pieces. They did not give me residuum (my total hasn't moved at all so it's not a missing message or something).

Speaking of which, looks like most Azerite pieces no longer yield any residuum. Scrapped a few 355 WQ drops, nothing, scrapped two of my old Uldir HM pieces after I got upgrades, nothing.

I haven't filled my bar last week, and I might be doing that this weekend. Or maybe not. There's a slight uptick in motivation since I finally have a couple pieces of NM azerite where the +5ilvl isn't unlocked yet.

Nothing is going to happen about follower missions. They've stripped those to the most barebones they can, and I supposed they're going to scrap those at one expansion or another. Same for island expeditions. They were supposed to be the greatest thing since AlphaGo or something (haven't...

I want a Black Empire EXPANSION. I want a full-on campaign against resurgent Old Gods minions with Burning Legion-logistics and encompassing stuff. BFA, but without all that stupid Zandalar Forever or Kul Tiran detours (even if the Vulpera are ok for Horde, and the Kul Tiran witch stuff could...

It's still relatively good. But it's around 20 hours of storyline if you play both sides (which are very different this time), and then you hit the grind of World quests, Invasions, Island expeditions, dungeon running, etc. Add 10-15 hours to do a couple islands, all of the dungeons and then you...

Just finished Weber's latest Safehold Through Fiery Trials. It's a transitional volume; it covers 20 years (earth time) and shuffles the board for the next arc. After the World War (two, complete with concentration camps), it has a focus on two specific equivalent-periods (USA pre-WW2, China's...

Yea, the main "problem" was that I needed to add a normal after the 4 heroics almost all the times to wrap the weekly. Anyway, great, thanks! I would still finish the weekly anyway, but I was bothered by the loss and potential loss of stuff. Given my rotten luck (I get one quest item...

I was more worried about the loss of collectibles from the "lost" island... you do seem to get stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if you got a penalty for losing. Or maybe not. It's blizzard, so maybe you get a straight % of your final azerite count...

One of my beefs with the new islands is that you regularly get into: 1) You have that necromancer pack that wrecks your 385 geared asses (and you can't escape; you die and swallow the respawn timer and lost close to a minute) 2) the opposing team has started his azerite exploit... sorry...

This. It's essentially the "Ariane argument" (that probably cost the CEO his seat). Now that the F9 gets mostly refurbished all the time, multiple times, they don't need the full manufacturing teams. I'm pretty sure nobody in the R&D got fired, and most of the launch teams are unaffected.

Won't matter if datamining is dead. A dungeon will remain "unspoiled" for 3-4 days. Then you have video guides, wikis filled, and people can refer to it. So there's maybe 0,1% of the people who enjoy an unspoiled dungeon, and the rest have the full guide to follow. Save for the contested part...

What the??? I killed Illidan, but never completed the quest?

Yea. I currently have as direct TP: - Basic heartstone (currently in Boralus main Inn) - Legion Dalaran heartstone - WoD Garrison heartstone - WoD Shipyard compass - LK Dalaran TP ring - Stormwind TP cloak - LK Argent Tournament TP cloak Going to add the Boralus ring at some point (after...

There's an article on Kotaku about the destruction of that wormhole Keepstar that most of everyone thought couldn't be destroyed (never give a challenge to a bunch of EvE players). https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442 Executive summary: They...

And at the end of the gantry, this important notice:

Fixed that. I'd like BFA more if I could manage my time there. But I can't. There's a shitton of stuff that's timegated, and the gating is balanced against your doing it daily. Case in point: Service medals (Honorbound/7th legions). You need around 1650 to get all the rewards. But you have a...

Started my new goodreads challenge of 140 books (did 150 last year). Finished Nuttall's latest (after he had to take a break due to cancer/chemo), The Alchemist's Apprentice which is a stand-alone in his Zero universe. The basic premise is a classic: everyone does magic with varying levels of...

QFT. The last innovative game was Minecraft. I don't think there's been a new game type or new take on a game type since. Most RPGs are still refined versions of baldur/diablo/etc that compete on new classes & settings. Adventures are still point-n-clicks and push puzzlers. Strategy has barely...

Or grinding 15 different currency bars almost all on timed gates. - 6 reputations at 10k per chest for a chance of toy/pet - Azerite power to increase your neck ilvl/unlock set abilities - Seafarer dubloons to purchase mounts/pets/toys - Titan Residuum to purchase armor - War Supplies to fuel...