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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's a lot of resources nodes inside other items; a fair number of mobs spawning inside rocks and trees. The Q&A for the world building was low.
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only missions I'm really waiting for are... the pet charm missions. I mean, once you have all factions at revered, you're ok; the exalted rewards are not important enough to warrant pursuing right now as opposed to "wait until it arrives". The gold is meh. The azerite is ok, but not...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    In term of speed, I'm not sure you can't get expulsom/hour faster with skinning, crafting leather items, and scrapping those. It's 1 expulsom/6 bracers on average, so 30 leather, 24 bones. That's about 20 stags/wolves/whatever, which take like 10-15mn to kill. WQ are faster, but the items...
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At this point, I'm pretty sure Arathi only resets when your side gains control. So horde got a free period of Arathi rares, plus half a week of unconstrained warfront farming. It's funny how everyone was whining about Alliance being advantaged since they got Arathi out of the box when it looks...
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think I spotted the problem.
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what I was mentioning earlier. They've just realized that, as they were, heroic dungeons were useless, unnecessary, and totally ignorable. So they're trying to make those "slightly" relevant again. Too little, too late, methinks.
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hopefully, it resets when Arathi changes hands, and not just when your side gets Arathi. Otherwise, the whining about Horde getting free Arathi rares and warfront gear vs Alliance just the WB will be... loud. (of course it averages over time... but the outrage will be real at first, and first...
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what I expected when I saw they wouldn't be dailies...
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I hit revered and did a /cheer on random birds and crabs. Go feed, my pretties!!! It's all yours now!
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No. Normal AND heroic dungeons are completely pointless; I dinged 120 on saturday, did zero dungeons and am now average ilvl 304. In a week, two maybe, I will probably be sporting an higher ilvl average than heroics. So what's the point of running heroics? None. Zero. You do normal to rush the...
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you were lucky, that is. One of my alts got two 340 belts from Arathi (one drop, one from the quest). That's it. No WB drop, no bonus loot. I suspect this is more in line with what the majority of players will experience; some - a few - will simply get a exceptional shower of loot this week.
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Warfronts started in EU, and the queue system broke down. Completely. Spinning wheel to just display just a list of raids, can't join any (they go "cancelled", then when you refresh they're there)... But yea. I was expecting 2 or maybe 3 days tops for the warfront scenario. Not a full week.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I suspect the "gathering speed" will be adjusted for contribution, so that major effort might reduce the wait time to open the warfront scenario from 4 to 3 days, or some such.
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently, you can tag the elites only once per warfront. I hope you can tag them again while it's Horde, but I'm not holding my breath...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Random is random. Of course they're going to make you farm it over time. If you got everything on first drop, it would be empty next week.
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently. The prices at the AH will explode. However, check before making/buying: each tradeskill quest can ask for one of 3 different items on any given reset (sometimes raw resources, sometimes crafted items): Launching a Warfront Through Contributions
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They can, got 345 WF boots. Meh, but still.
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The rares in Arathi are once per day, not once per Warfront, right?
  19. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Welp? I was going "why hasn't amazon notified me it's on my kindle library", but it turns out my ebook will be landing on thursday, because it's the english Pan version, not the US Del Rey one...
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have full 30 slots, and 3 1/2 of them are perma-full. Between various clickys, archeology tokens, 8 different fishes, 4 (or 5?) different meats, 7 herbs, a set of gear for my alt spec, etc, etc... the only spot for looting stuff is my backpack and 1st bag...
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nope, they only give a small azerite cluster (40ish AP).
  22. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Yea. The other translations from russian he did have had... varying quality. (the last of the Weirdest Noob trilogy was an horror)
  23. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    PvP & P2W, if I hear right... /sadpanda
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ok, so Darkmoon faire wasn't changed; the +5 skill quests apply only to vanilla skills, which means they're useless for anything except Archeology. Well, one more piece of content that's no longer used...
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I still have plenty of rep mission popping on the class hall... (at least one a day)
  26. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I'm reaching 115 out of 125 for my 2018 reading challenge on Goodreads (going to break last year's record by a large margin) so there should be stuff to read. I've finished the Destiny's Crucible series; it's a good break point at book 4 or 5; the initial plot is wrapped up and everyone's...
  27. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Technically, those are cultures, not civilizations. The root of the word is based on the concept of cities (and citizens), so you don't have a civilization until you have a settled permanent "state". Indians are basically Siberians cousins. They're descended from a basal population that was...
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Seen those flight points that appear when you cross the continent, but don't have a wing icon on the zone map? Those are outposts. When you unlock them, you can claim them and then you have a new flight point plus shit. Haven't done that, but in theory, if you unlock WQ with one character, all...
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can't. Any harder, and you would need an addon to complete. The reason the game works is that your brain can keep track of 6-8 things, and then, any new input ends up making you forget the original ones. That's why the match-up is 8 pairs. Any more pairs, and it degenerates into a game of...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The gold coins aren't on the mounds with the signs. They're the sparkle spots around the mound. If you use the magnet on a spot rather than the mound, you get 4-7 coins.
  31. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    Just like an enlightened absolute despot is wayyy more efficient than democracy. (to continue the analogy)
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you believe the 4chan larping from "a dev", he's the one pushing Sylvanas.
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm pretty sure it's like all those movies and series where removing the bit sticking from you is a terrible idea because it's the only thing stopping you from bleeding to death. Last time we had an open bleeding wound on Azeroth, we had a Sundering of continents... (please ignore all those...
  34. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    I don't really remember the Endymion books, it's been soooo long. I do remember slogging thru them, far more than Hyperion. Ilium was good, Olympos less so. If you liked Hyperion, odds are you're going to like Ilium (I loved the climactic end). A number of readers at the time thought that Ilium...
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ahem. This Black Lotus begs to disagree...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So I was wondering (after running my 6th alt thru the intro in Silithus)... Exactly who are those ChampionS of Azeroth I'm factioning with? Because Magni keeps telling me I AM her Champion. So, am I factioning with the other players? Are they supposed to be nicer to me in dungeons once I reach...
  37. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    Neural networks strike again. After putting a face on your favorite porn sequence, they're now starting to remake the entire video.
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Hopefully the solar panels will be intact enough after the scouring...
  39. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    DKP is like democracy. It's the worst loot system, save every other.
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. My guildmistress was absolutely sure that the mythic version was actual horde pvp. I kept telling her "no, no. It's 3 normal vs AI. PvP is a completely separate version!" "No Way!" "Yes. It's AI, not players. Players would be more stupid!"