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Tieing money to sexual expectations is kinda dangerous. I get the mentality, it's essentially "I did this for you, now you do something for me". But money is a hard metric while the "value" of sex quite subjective. Expectations of sex should be worked out on a relationship level. Not...

I was playing around with this a bit more. The goal was to get IP to return as much rage as possible via damage absorbed. Ideally, you would get all your rage back, making it a broken self-sustaining absorb shield. But, that doesn't look possible. This is the real reason IP got cut by 33%...

You get rage from IP absorbs ;) I just tested it. You perhaps get more than intended. It seemed like I was getting slightly more with IP up than not. Didn't test absorbed cast by other players though. I think this system makes sense so that IP doesn't hurt subsequent uses. There's a...

I don't think that's double dipping. That's just getting the rage you would have gotten otherwise. The alternative(no rage on absorb) means spending rage on IP(or Shield Block) means you get less rage for subsequent uses of IP. Active mitigation hurting itself is just bad. I'm fine with...

For the most part, the system is ok. I mitigate more damage, I don't need to press my non-percent-based active mitigation as often. So, it acts like a quasi-percent-based mitigation. However, it's complicated, unintuitive, and feels bad being rage starved even if you are holding threat fine...

The more I think about RFDT(rage from damage taken), the more I'm surprised they brought it back. I was hoping that linking active mitigation to RFDT and freeing threat generation from resources would make the system work. But even then, the system has some conceptual problems. If I parry an...

I haven't tried putting the same exact item on a follower, but I have the 25(green) and 50(blue) versions and they stack.

The best way to convince people to buy a Guy Fieri Sous Vide machine is to push the concept on all your shows. Sous vide beer can chicken is awesome!

Yeah, I realize the impracticality of stacking versatility, I like having these discussion for a purely theoretical standpoint. I'm not sure I'd categorize low haste as "huge gap in shieldblock". Single digit haste can still maintain 70% uptime, and I think something as simple as that we can...

I didn't say anything about sims. More haste technically is more rage and IP, but it's not going to be significant(you said triple). Those that prioritize versatility will have fewer casts but they will be bigger.

Why? I thought it resulted in more gear for everyone?

You guys don't do personal loot?

Sure, but that's not going to end up being that much more rage.

Yes, that would get you slightly more rage, but it wouldn't come anywhere close to the "triple" he mentioned. IP is largely fueled by incoming damage, which is why it's ok for warriors to be "rage starved" on easier content. Feels bad, but mechanically, it's ok.

I guess I can understand rabbit, but what's wrong with sous vide on a cooking show?

Huh? How does more haste get you more IP?

How do druids decide between ironfur and mark in environments where you're receiving both types of damage? That's definitely something I miss from warrior, ignore pain being the answer for both. And shock wave, typhoon will never compare.

Yeah, but now you're taking more damage so more IP! It doesn't matter how much it absorbs per use as long as you aren't running into these hard limits: its cooldown, rage cap, getting one shot. Of course, you don't want the ability to be spammy either, so, idk every 2 to 3 seconds max? This...

Necromancer follower! Petception.

Been thinking more about @BoozeCube point about IP scaling poorly. In a vacuum, he's likely right because it's tied directly to the player's AP and Versatility instead of a percentage of damage taken. But, since it's fueled by rage, which is largely fueled by damage taken, won't IP's poor...

You say that like average shitposting takes any time or skill. Let us know when you can derail a thread like woolygimp.

I meant it would be wasted such that if you save SB as a preemptive cooldown, you are limiting the effectiveness of HR. Explain your table math please. Without HR, you need 117% haste to get 100% SB uptime. I wish I remembered my college statistics class well enough to remember how to model...

That's a good thing, no? Tanked headless horseman recently and my fingers just kept itching to hit IP out of habit and no fucking rage. Obviously, that means I wasn't taking much damage so I didn't need IP, especially on that fight. But in terms of developing cadence and muscle memory, it's...

Ah, ok. I guess that was the intent of my original question then. IP is definitely "the" warrior active mitigation. Did they intend for SB to be one as well? Or just gear and play for 100% uptime(lame and boring)? I'd almost prefer it to be active mitigation. I hate the SB mini game...

It wasn't the better deck then. Card rarity and deck quality do not correlate.

Every time I get that warning from DBM, I get hit, even without preemptive SB or IP, and most of the time I have to check to make sure the boss mechanic actually fired. Most of the time I'm tanking heroics with ~840 gear, which I realize is over gearing heroics, but heavy hitters from bosses...

You can't from a balancing perspective because if that frequent 30% DR makes a big difference every other tank is screwed. Also, not playing the 100% SB uptime game wastes Heavy Repercussions. Are you going to take Ravager?

I was thinking about this some more. What's their intention with Shield Block? Its cooldown is too short to be used as a mild preemptive DR like barkskin or demo shout. But the cooldown is also too long to be up 100% of time by itself. So, does the ability add anything besides restrictions...

Why not all 4 ;)

Balance spec is what sealed my choice to alt druid. Did my first normal EN saturday night and there was one ranged dps. Even the fucking hunter was melee. And while we did clear it, surprisingly well for a lfr group, the proportion of melee dps in this game is too high. So, I wanted that...

Monthly playtime?

Yeah, I remember that once someone mentions it, just always forget it since I don't raid that often. It is stupid that they made some secondary stats so good as to indirectly screw some spec with horrible itemization.

I can't speak to most of your post as I'm not playing bleeding edge content. But regarding rotation boredom, that's part of the reason I picked druid as my alt. I know prot warrior rotation doens't take a lot of attention, but guardian feels like even less. I'd rather pay attention to what's...

What inherent gearing issues does fury have? And what's non-intuitive about the spec? I like that the priority list is pretty straight forward.

Just curious, why are you benching your warrior? I have my own problems with the prot spec, so I'm enjoying bear more now. But don't think I'll stop playing him.

That's a reasonable trade off. Ranged does better dps on this fight, melee does better dps on that fight. Not, fuck you melee, your group fails for bringing too many.

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but doesn't closing your borders prevent religious units as well?

Been noticing a lot of "not melee friendly" this expansion. Granted, I play a melee so I notice it more. And of course there will be *some* fights that favor ranged over melee and vice versa. But seems skewed in favor of ranged so far based on my experience and the comments here. Any ranged...

Did you forget to add the part about how much you're getting paid?

Catch up is already partially in effect. Lower ranks of AK research quicker now than they did at release.