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I really really wish some guide or post or something had told me to tame a cat in Swamp of Sorrows in my 30s and level with it to 60. Although I love my owl and would prefer to use that for PvE, but leveling pets is just such a retardedly harsh time sink. I've had levels where I leveled faster...

Yeah, trying to find good info is difficult because the game has so many versions now. I'm not certain if 4.3% is correct (I did say 'apparently' in my post) but I got that number from here: A recent Blizzard post (link is in the reddit post) mentioned that there is a hidden penalty if weapon...

What's sad is that all these BIS lists created by WoW emu kids are so wrong to begin with and people blindly follow them like GPS errors making people drive off cliffs. If hunters roll on your Hand of Justices and Dal'Rends, thank the emu kids. Wowhead's drop down menu at the top of all pages...

5 weeks after launch and vendor sold recipes are going for 40g in AH with the vendor perma camped by 3+ people around it on my server. Azshara satyrs camped by half a dozen people well after midnight. Felcloth going for upwards of 3g each. Gonna get fun when layers are shut off and more...

God did I notice that farming whirlwind axe tusks at level 30 solo

What Blizzard needs to do, and soon, is code up a guild move feature that guarantees everybody with the tag gets to move. The reason why people don't move is because of guilds. They could also add some conveniences like allowing people to reserve names by making new characters on the transfer...

Regarding Feralas: also my favorite zone. Gnolls are a fantastic grind for Horde players (reavers and mystics). I sat there from level 40 to 46 having done maybe a dozen quests in that span. It was just too good to leave if a bit mind numbing. There are a lot of them and Alliance generally...

Two weeks in, every quest I go to in my 40s is being done by at least one other person and usually several. Queues still in the thousands. Server is so overpopulated it makes grinding WAY better than questing and makes me mad when I even attempt to quest after grinding for hours. This is on...

Oh so they grace them with a response but when I email them about Preform I get nothing back? Gee thanks

EQ's design was in large part copied from text based MUDs-- particularly Sojourn, which I had played some as a teenager-- and that's why it was so good. EQ wasn't good because of corporate Sony geniuses. The best gameplay typically stems from indies and modders. WoW of course heavily borrowed...

Not a bad video overall, but the first two minutes are hilarity from a WoW kid. "Nobody grouped because people sucked at video games back then!" "Terms like CC and healer were uncommon!" "Get gear while leveling in dungeons! How Novel!" "The game is much more enjoyable leveling with other...

I would agree that developers should spend some time playing their own game. If the developers are overworked and this prevents it, then the blame can be placed on the managers who are reducing the quality of their product. Frankly game developers allow themselves to be exploited far too much...

I do a lot of development work, so I hate rebooting and leave my machine unrebooted for roughly 2 months at a time. The only problem I have is explorer.exe which has a memory leak somewhere and can get up to 10gigs or whatever. Firefox used to give me a lot of issues but not recently. I have...

I've left machines on 24/7 since I still used a 386 for a BBS. It's not unreasonable to expect software to function properly when left running for weeks.

I'm still bitter over them hiding server locations then offering free server transfers to servers on the other side of the continent. And Blizzard wanted WoW to be some big esports hit when they show zero concern for how this affects PvPers? My latency went from 15ms to 150-200ms on the BDF...

My video card died over 2 months ago, so I'm using a fanless Geforce GT 610 that I bought in 2012 for $35 (before a $25 rebate, so cost me $10) while I wait for 5700 partner cards to launch. I get ~22 FPS in Thunder Bluff in modern WoW with players around me. Classic with features turned down...

I recall using scatter + trap to aimed shot people but apparently that won't be a thing in Classic either. But as somebody who spends a lot of time researching an old game, I have to say that memory is too faulty to base conclusions on

I wrote a long post (I still have this on my disk actually; I was told that developers had discussed it at a meeting) on the old WoW beta boards before launch in 2004 regarding fury warriors which included that I was wearing too much leather because DPS plate was not common enough. This ain't...

I was merely clarifying an off-hand comment that people were taking out of context or misinterpreting. TLDR I don't like spoilers much? Of course a MMORPG can't seriously be made with zero spoiling, I'm not making that argument. I just said that 2019 WoW is not going to be quite as fun as...

I said that a large amount of 'spoiling' (subjectively) harms (or objectively, alters significantly) the game experience-- not just speed leveling, but that's part of it, and illustrative of it. When there are google sheets that tell you exactly what gear to get and where to get it at what...

I'm not working right now. I have plenty of time. I'm just not going to spend it trying to compete with a bunch of neckbeards who think getting level 60 in 3 days is some great accomplishment. A lot of people commented on Beta's progressive level caps as being a positive thing. It's a...

I was the first 60 wizard on my EQ server in 2000 and that was after I stopped leveling to play Diablo 2 for awhile. I was also one of the first 60s on Hyjal and the first 60 Horde on Dentarg. And went to bed every night doing it. This actually brings up the big reason why Classic won't be...

I have no respect for anybody who 'world firsts' just because they played 50 hours straight. Congratulations, nobody else was willing to harm themselves to be first in a video game level race? Also, good luck getting 40 people to do that with you

There will be a delay after we launch Planes of Power and when we (re)open our source. Maybe a year, depending on what the developers decide. I wouldn't have gotten involved unless the project were open to begin with and we only closed because our generosity was taken advantage of. The...

Box limits also require constant supervision. The lower the limit, the more the supervision. FFA/FIF engagement rules require even more supervision. If your server becomes popular, this problem grows even more. This is the big reason TAKP devs didn't start up another server (some of us...

Hah, well that was supposed to be a joke because you're roasting coworkers in these threads and I tended to rub people the wrong way in our little touchy-feely yet surprisingly capable guild. (don't get me wrong, I loved Hoss, but sometimes the guild needed the whip, hence the rubbing the wrong...

What you want already exists. Hardly anybody cares about accuracy because they haven't played the game in 15 years to know what's wrong/missing or if they do they still want their precious mousewheel camera enough to play on a server without the dedication to accuracy. Realizing that was...

Oh sure. The other guild was full of cheaters RMTers and assholes. I'm glad you dominated them

I was in Holocaust for a short time before I quit the server. What genuinely surprised me was just how bad at PvE the good PvP players were. Holocaust would murder the rival guild on the field, then die to AI NPCs because they couldn't seem to coordinate or have the patience. It was like some...

I'm terrified of what Elid would say if somebody asked him about his time in the raid guild we were apart of

Fiat 'has value' because a head of state decrees it so. The same head of state can also reduce the value by printing more of it; or in the case of India recently, just proclaim that paper money is now useless. Bank notes used to be backed by gold, but not for some time now. When the Fed...

Bitcoin mining is a competition. That's why energy use is so high. Only the cheapest electricity can mine profitably. What is the cheapest electricity? Surplus energy that would otherwise go unused. What produces surplus energy? Renewables, which cannot be dialed down to use less fuel (as...

GM stock-- a blue chip stock-- went from $94 to 75 cents in nine years time. Is that a 'serious investment'? The Dow lost 54% of its value from its pre-2009 peak to its low in 2009. Gee lets privatize social security. Volatility doesn't matter nearly as much as the technicals. What matters...

Hah. If I had treated Bitcoin as a 'serious investment' I'd be a millionaire right now

Laugh. BTC crash after Coinbase goes down. I sold a tiny bit at 13,700. Here I come, Steam summer sale

Just sell a little bit every time the price goes nuts, then you can't lose. Even if it's just enough for a video game or three, it'll make you feel better if the price crashes.

I played on a PvE and PvP server in classic era. On the PvE server the Alliance outnumbered us 3:1 or whatever, and pre-BGs it was basically them camping Tarren Mill all day and us Horde basically hiding behind guards and goading them to get too close. I won the tabard contest because I was a...

don't forget timing cannibalize between med ticks

I only went there to kill the runt King, whatever his name was

Bitcoin is digital gold, not digital cash. If you wanna buy shit, you got VISA or Paypal whatever. The unique desired feature of bitcoin is that it is a permissionless (no middle man) store of value that is not centrally controlled and is extremely robust. Nothing can stop you from using it...