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  1. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Gold artifact traits look flashy and definitely make a 1-3% difference in most cases, but let's not think they should be some progression-gating mechanism. I was curious about Kreugen's comment about total AP cost to get all the good traits for a spec. Arms: 1.75M AP, wasted nodes: at least 6...
  2. Deathwing

    Civilization VI

    Should be no problem for someone that makes 7 figures.
  3. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    Shared class cards sounds like a bad idea. Classes need their own identity and unique playstyle.
  4. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Whoops, I meant that he sounds different. It ends up being quieter, but different sounds too.
  5. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Did they reduce some sounds in this patch? I swear my fury war sounds quieter today than yesterday .
  6. Deathwing

    Smartphones

    Finally got around to watching that video. I'm a bit surprised at specs and price, much more than I'd expect for $500 phone. I haven't heard of Xiaomi until recently, so not sure I trust the brand. I would like details on the display though. Something that large, things like PPI are...
  7. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nothing wrong with button mashing...if you're given the attention and time necessary to button mash correctly. Mythic dungeons and heroic raids are already on slim margins with both of those that mythic+ goes too far. I specifically don't play any class/spec who's rotation take too much...
  8. Deathwing

    Smartphones

    They're nice in theory. But when every phone, include Google's own nexus phones, still has enough chin for physical/capacitive buttons, you're essentially losing screen space for them. With the advent of physical home doubling as a fingerprint scanner, I'm much less adverse to off screen...
  9. Deathwing

    Civilization VI

    Anyone have problems with msmpeng.exe and this game? Try to start a game and it just hangs, music playing a mouse pointer responsive, but it does nothing. I don't want to disable Windows defender if not necessary even if I'm not sure how useful it is.
  10. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah I get that, but I don't agree from a simulation perspective. Fury's rotation is quite easy, so is arms for a machine. Why is fury matching arms in sims then? Do the logs normalize not just for ilvl but also artifact traits and legendaries?
  11. Deathwing

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    So don't go. Sounds like a train wreck wedding that would fun to spectate but not participate.
  12. Deathwing

    Smartphones

    Edge screen looks really nice. I'm pretty sure I have no functional use for the edges, I just like that it makes the screen look bezel-less. I'm honestly considering buying one just for that over a midrange phone that has the same soc. In a market flooded with phones, gotta do something to...
  13. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah, but I was thinking mythic logs would be that 5% only. I'm finding some fight have more ddr than I would like. This game's default ui is horrible at putting all the necessary information in one spot. Even with mods it's hard to ddr and rotate even 90%.
  14. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you're not liking the mastery focus of arms, haste for fury is almost as bad. What do you mean by better than advertised? In sims, fury and arms are pretty close. I still can't figure out why fury is so underperforming. Is it mostly herd mentality and only the bads are playing fury?
  15. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    First time doing HoV was on mythic. As a melee, fuck whoever designed that place. Felt like I was raiding old school. Tons of trash and melee danger.
  16. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    But then you're stuck in furform for the rest of your career. I think they should take a clue from DH development and simplify classes into more distinct roles. No more 3 ranged dps specs for mages. No more 2 melee dps specs for DKs or warriors. Fewer roles means better delineation of flavor.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    He's just phishing, don't fall for it!
  18. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Like Thunderfury or Atiesh?
  19. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can modify the action list to only use certain sub lists and/or actions based on the number of targets available. For instance, in my AOE list, I include raging blow, a single target ability, up to 3 mobs.
  20. Deathwing

    Biggest video game surprise?

    Bastion. A very good reminder that games and story telling can still be done at a very high level.
  21. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Two pawn strings is definitely one way to do it. I generally keep stuff around if it might be an upgrade later, I'm not really lacking for bank space. I already have three strings for prot, arms, and fury and it's confusing when I'm arms and the stupid thing highlights a drop as an upgrade for...
  22. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh yeah, it still comes down to available gear. Which means BiS, *if* you accept versatility then mastery as your main stats, is pvp gear. Fun...feels like TBC all over again. Getting a titanforged amulet from those WQs is probably BiS for quite a while.
  23. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So, I can't figure out how to get from the logs to what gear they're wearing. The logs have it record obviously since it tells me what gear they are wearing, they just won't tell me the stats. Warcraft Logs - Combat Analysis for Warcraft I'm not sure using best-ranking logs is a good idea for...
  24. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    This thread is now worse than playing hearthstone.
  25. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I thought of the problem with your comparison. By using just ignore pain to compare strength and versatility, you're ignoring that ignore pain is never up all the time and that it's a 90% absorb. Both of those reduce strength's reduction versus versatility's always on reduction. Of course no...
  26. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Versatility rating converts at 400:1. Honestly, I think that's too simplistic of an approach. There's other consideration like mastery, which enhances strength(but perhaps to a detriment in this equation) and there's the double dipping for versatility that's being left out. This type of stuff...
  27. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    $versadmg is the damage and healing percent of versatility. If you have 10% increased damage from versatility, it also increases your IP by 10% multiplicatively. And then versatility also reduces damage you take by 5%. You can see this "$versadmg" used elsewhere in other absorb spells: Power...
  28. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    According to weights from simcraft. Yes, the recent patch notes specifically states that protection warrior is still a work in progress, so the results should be taken with some reservation. But with how much versatility and ac(yeah, you don't have to worry about this stat anymore, I just use...
  29. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, what's within reason? Because it's worth less per point than vers and ac.
  30. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As in, to the detriment of other stats no matter what?
  31. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's not a decision you have to make anywhere except trinkets, so I wouldn't worry that much about your weights being wrong there. I don't know the AGI tank classes that well, but I know for warrior, versatility and ac are king. I believe str is next and probably only because of IP. I can't...
  32. Deathwing

    Biggest video game disappointment?

    Hah, didn't even know there was a HoMM 7.
  33. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Those look like tanking weights. Versatility and AC(and bonus ac for a few classes) definitely out weigh main stat.
  34. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You should definitely spend 5 minutes looking over the action list simcraft uses for your spec. Ask yourself "do/can I even play this way?". For instance, if you're an arms warrior, the action list is heavily skewed by the assumption of focused rage, the possession of a few legendaries, and...
  35. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Of course there are exceptions. I didn't mean to imply that seals should be your only usage of OH resources. Just compared to gold, especially after finishing questing, it seems easier to accumulate 7k OH resources than it does 7k gold.
  36. Deathwing

    Smartphones

    Look into their newer plans instead of default renewing your existing grandfathered plan. You might find one of the new plans offers similar options but is cheaper and assumes you'll bring your own phone. Potentially similar costs in the end.
  37. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Calamir is the world boss. Don't think there was a patch or hotfix though.
  38. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Didn't play WoD nor know it was an issue then. That does sound stupid. Still, at least 1k and 2k order resources per week for a couple seals is pretty easy to do. Was it as easy to acquire in WoD?
  39. Deathwing

    Smartphones

    My guess is that they couldn't find an OEM to play ball at those margins. The nexus line does not command that much market share.
  40. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I want to say they are changing that for 7.1? Or at least, they talked about getting gold on a bonus roll felt bad.