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As a side note, I remember jokingly telling my friend about fatlogic and how so many people genuinely believe that they're incapable of losing weight. Turns out my friend thought he was incapable of gaining weight. 6'1, 165lbs skinnyfat male. He claimed he ate 4k calories a day "easy" but his...

Those aren't the people I'm referring to. I'm talking about people who quite clearly want to build muscle but aren't eating enough to do it. They're perpetually rail-thin. They're likely quite healthy, but they want to be bigger but they don't eat enough. No one picking up heavy shit in a...

I think Elurin and I are referring to the men who are quite clearly not even remotely close to their genetic max. Sure, I'm not their doctor and I don't know if they have any special conditions... but I think those are quite rare. Besides, I've heard the "I just can't gain weight" lamentations...

I just want to chime in and say that Brahma gave you a routine with the implication that diet is under control. For bigger anything, you need to eat at a surplus. I see the same stick-figure men in my gym for whom their goals are clear (not look like a 14 yr old) but they're very clearly not...

I very much enjoyed both. One of the primary themes is examining the benefits/perils of tampering with our own genetics; that the protagonist in Blindsight's job specification is translating what the fuck the hyper-evolved humans are saying into "normal speech" is fascinating to me. Echopraxia...

The only people I recall actually enjoying AV were raid-geared warriors lol-1-shotting people. Is my memory hazy?

I don't know why I open this thread on a cut. As a side-note, these burgers are fucking frozen yet quite tasty.

There is no surefire turning point; people aren't black/white constructs. I was up to some degenerate shit in my early 20s and a very distinct event catalyzed me into making a drastic life choice (military enlistment). Eight years later and I credit that negative event, and my reaction, for...

One quick fix would be prepotting and potting during the fight. It's not only a substantial DPS increase (15% or more), but also mitigation.

In my sample size of "me", I determined that the best role to carry is Support specifically to prevent players getting "fucked" into a role with which they're uncomfortable. And that's usually Support. I suspect, mathmatically, the optimal roles to play are Support/[something else].

I can take a look later, but please upload to Warcraft logs. It's a better site for analysis and far more people use it which makes its percentiles more relevant.

I agree completely. I routinely volunteer to tank a friend's guild's normal HM raid. Technically I'm "carrying" by handling RL duties and being a 678 tank in n.HM but they improve measurably every week which makes it fun.

What matters is overall are people happy with the rate of progression and content to carry those who need it. I've seen SO many guilds blow apart over the years and one of the primary catalysts is people who put the effort in to excel get pissed off at the people who don't. Fine, everyone...

Dood we're very distinctly not talking about the average 30-70th percentile raider. We're talking about people doing like 5th percentile DPS and dying repeatedly to dumb mechanics while giving zero shits, asking no one for help, and putting zero extra time in to practice. At a certain point...

I would guess the # of people that buy a legendary skin is under 3%. Fawe, have they released any statistics in the past on skin purchase rate that leads you to make these conclusions? The HUGE majority of my friends list has spent under $20 on this game over years; they aren't about to drop...

Noodle, that you're even bringing this up means they actually aren't hitting the requirements. They stumbled their way into iLVL but are obviously missing other things they need. You need to draw up requirements for your raid more concretely: ("660 ilvl, no repeated failures on known...

What the fuck BMW?! 115k MSRP for a 2015 M6? Literally what the fuck. And no, I'm not one of those butthurt people that hate seeing richer people have nicer things than me. This just further encourages the auto industry to keep designing luxury cars and most aren't fucking worth it. If this...

Axeman and the other "nothing to do crowd" either don't want to raid or want the game to occupy them meaningfully for an extreme amount of hours a day. Like Gorehack mentioned, I don't have anything to do on off-nights either, but I'm not just okay with that, I'm ecstatic about that. I...

I think simple unfamiliarity with the encounters is the major killer for tanks at this point. Remember, HM is fresh in you mind and people had been tanking that for 3 months. However, Heroic BRF at 675 ilvl has a bunch of mechanics that require tanks to cycle cooldowns and call for externals...

Many people define grouping as: anything even remotely contingent upon other players. There are a sizable amount of people who play MMOs to be in a persistent world but have absolutely zero interest in any social interaction.

It's not for you, its for people who don't want to raid. That's the only thing that makes sense. It's for the tons of people who fuck around with bpets, transmogs, gold farming, etc etc... who absolutely hate raiding and rarely (if ever) group.

I think Apexis is for non-raiders who just want shit to do/goals to work towards. These people smoke a bowl and farm while watching netflix, ARPG style. I can't imagine many people that are legitimately working towards Apexis actually understand stat weighting or give a shit. ilVL handles 100...

It really helps to have a boomkin (or three) for Kromog. If tank death is your issue, try 3 tanking it. If its other mechanics then raid just needs more practice/understanding. I think Kromog is substantially easier than BF/IM.

Out of curiocity, what does 6.1 have in it that's worth a resub? The only stuff I see thats even remotely relevent to a current player is balance changes and catch-up mechanisms for alts.

The common complaint from my friends is no interesting/challenging solo content. They're well-aware of what WoW is and what MMOs are all about; they're just dissipointed that they either raid on schedule with a guild or PUG. I wish Bliz would hurry up with a Timeless Isle 2.0 -- I feel like...

Just remember, even with an insane 60% win rate, you're still losing 4/10 games. Many of those will feel like there was nothing you could have done, and for most, that is absolutely true. But we, as humans, tend to selectively remember our team feeding out of their minds and forget the times...

I remember thinking WoW was amazing on launch. I remember thinking EQ2 was a buggy piece of shit that couldn't run on my machine. I likely would have stuck around longer had my computer actually been able to run it, but I distinctly recall my Defiler having a mandatory self-buff that drove my...

Nothing will change regarding the community; you're playing a team game with strangers. Either change your perspective on solo queue, make your own teams, or you're absolutely going to bounce between misery with a 20% win rate (because your team keeps fucking you) to jubilation with an 80% win...

None, that wasnt the point of my test. Do you seriously think it's hard to stand up an efficient Highmaul raid going 6/7n? or, more appropriately, do you genuinely think a new player with 640+ ilvl can't efficiently knock out 6/7 in a few nights? There are many many great pugs out there and...

People on the official forums make it sound like you need 670+aotc to pug normal highmaul but these qqers suck at both the game and social skills. Get 640-645 (easy with ring and some LfR/garrison missions), look for raids that need whatever role you're playing. Premade filter ftw. Shotgun...

BrotherWu just do this.

I don't think there is any spec that is completely different sets of gear; the most you should have to swap are trinks/jewelry right? The gap between secondaries isn't that huge right now, you can main Disc and if RL needs you to go Holy, you should be able to perform pretty well even with some...

Priest is solid, you just need to learn how to play both Disc and Holy well so you have the flexibility.

I think, as both a LoL and WoW player, that there IS a solid demand for a new site in this space. The current sites do their thing but many many players know the best info is gleaned from forums since shit changes so rapidly. For example, the Protection Warrior guide on Icy-Veins is the...

I think I told him Hunter or Druid.

I've got a few guys on my server that buy anything in the gift shop (including sub time) for flat gold. If anyone wants to save some cash by buying the codes off me for things let me know. I have too much WoW gold and not enough craft beer money.

Our Heroic Darmac kill.Warcraft Logs - Combat Analysis for Warcraft Majority of the DPS 34k+ I need to start showing up sober to raids so I can unfuck my shit percentiles =/

Or who they polled that said they favored a return to 40 man raiding with strict tough attunements.

I'm sad that they essentially failed; I feel bad for the devs that were very clearly passionate about their game. I do, however, think that its an important lesson to be learned: you cannot make a big-budget game to cater to the top 10 percent. Wildstar's blatant disregard for the casual...

That sucks man. I know how it feels to see a long-lasting community go away. Is there no chance of reforming with similar-minded folk under a new banner?