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There's no real benefit. The thing is, if you later want to raise, say, pandaria alchemy, you will not be able to without doing pandaria recipes. Right now, you can gather some plant seed, craft basic potions that reward 5 skill, and get to 600 skill, which will mean that you will have pandaria...

I think the best "raid save" was a near wipe to Agnarr. I don't remember the details, but one guy managed to aggro him and started kiting while someone used a rez for a cleric. Then, we started slowly rezing while Agnarr would run round and round and round in his room; dragging the corpses to...

That was DBM before there was DBM...

Finished both of Andrew Rowe's first series (The War of the Broken Mirrors and Arcane Ascension). Beware, series are ongoing. They appear to share a common universe where magic is manipulated and controlled leading to a manner similar to a class system. The War of Broken Mirrors is more classic...

if it's this week, do the cheapest legion recipe as long as it's orange, then grind reps to exalted as fast as you can (that is, not fast enough) to get as many rank 3 recipes you can so they're still green until 800. Done. If it's next week, every expansion is its own skill level, and you...

But, but, the players need to feel Rewarded™! If they do not get a full upgrade every leveling zone, they'll Complain!

I do because otherwise, I'll get bad habits for the "real" raiding.

I have leveling stones for every pet announced in BfA. I get them, they'll be rare/25 1mn later after I switch to my stone bank. Overruled! Next argument!

It's a bit late for that, since you have 1 week left. Heroic & WQ aren't going to do much, you won't get enough legendary tokens for a new legendary item (unless you're close to half done). LFR will give you 3-4 (with bonus rolls) 915 items, you might get 2-3 relinquished tokens for 910+ if you...

Since "Atlantis" was almost surely Santorini, at 1500BC, we're looking at bronze-age pre-mycaenian period. The thing is, in that era, each civilization was significantly different from the others. Crete was very different from the Mittani, which were different from Egyptians. The only thing we...

Highly logical and rational behavior from Mr. O'Brien. Your employees start going ad-hominem on media partners in public, they can come get their personal effect under escort on monday.

The big problem with Tesla is that he was apparently asocial to an extreme degree. He might be interesting, but I'm not sure I'd appreciate spending 1h with him...

Phased out? Like, by what? The Internet... powered by the 4000 satellite radio constellation that Elon is putting in orbit? :)

Give him a handful of health suggestion so that he can live longer; give him advice on how to handle succession better; tell him not to stop until he reaches the Altlantic... and don't bother building boats, just go around from Siberia. The World Mongol Empire would be a sight to behold.

"I don't like the current estimates in Drake's, therefore I'll push my own versions" Not to disparage the method, but they start with bullshit, and end up with bullshit. But on a log scale. The only recent decent work on Drake's equation was the fact that we do have an upper bound to N (the...

Given that I was still getting 25g tokens that were refused by the merchant this weekend, I doubt it. And it's exactly one model of 25g token, the last of which I got from a mission on sunday. Every other sold fine (we EU got the hotfix along with the patch).

Your bodyguard earns you 125g per WQ though (in addition to whatever the quest gives). Not too shabby.

Hopefully. There is at least one token who has a 25g merchant price indicated, but every merchant gives a "The merchant does not want that item" message. Can't use the icon to recognise it; there are other tokens that share the same icon and sell normally.

Which reminds me: what are they replacing artefact tokens with in class hall missions? Since AP is gone in 8.0 those missions which make more than half of what you have (while you're unlocking the hall with an alt) must be replaced...

Because it costs a lot of manpower to balance. Most of the older content, they don't care about balancing, so as long as that timewalking raid works, go for it. But content that's supposed to be a challenge "should" not be trivialized, so you need to make sure it does not. And that's a bit more...

Don't WQ give you 250 guild rep each? I think they do. That makes exalted very fast to get. Making a low level fresh alt to grind leveling quests would probably be slower...

Since I play mostly in guild, there's no real need to rush thru content and then wait for the rest of them to level up. But, coincidentally, I have 3 weeks (filthy euro, I know) of vacations coming up for the last 3 weeks of august. Funny how things work out.

Just in time, xkcd weights in:

The "dark side" is anything but dark. The far side of the moon gets exactly the same day/night extremes of temperatures as the near side, so the only thing you gain is that there's not that ball in the sky that's lighted most of the time (but, given that there no atmosphere, it simply blocks...

Space telescopes is a kind of weird optimization. They take advantage of being in vacuum (less optical distortions), but can't be manned (vibrations destroy the distortion advantage). So they end up as autonomous units, and that means we have to launch them. So a space telescope is a one-shot...

If the xmog had been at least useable by "similar" races (like the VE racial being useable by night elf/blood elf), it might have been interesting. As it is, the bonus is limited to those who want full account-wide ATT completion percentage...

Nope. It's just delay upon delay upon delay. 4 years ago, most scientists were already grumbling that this piece of (censored) was going to cost waaaaay too much for the science they might get from it. They were wrong. It's worse now.

ATT requires you to be top PVP rank, top raiding rank, and 18/24 OCD farmer in between on all classes (since you need to complete every xmog on every classes, meaning you need elite gladiator rank on all of them). I have no idea how high the % is for the top collectors. Anything above 90% is...

Yep. If you're only playing a druid, you instashift when moving between mediums. Otherwise, there's two water strider mounts (a red one and a blue one), and I don't really remember which is easier to get (because I got both years ago, ofc).

But they did. If you read the entire post announcing the 1.12, they even explain that the original code crashes a lot on new video cards. Which meant they had to decide between trying to fix the old code, or running the game on the new codebase (which is the way they're going). But... the new...

Back in the day, I was shooting the "It's over NINE THOUSAND" achieve. But I always drew the line at the Insane achieve (which one guy in the guild had. Still has. I know no one else)

ALL THE THINGS is pushing all my buttons. I even realized that I never did get all 4 falcosaur pets, let alone the quest lines (which are further complicated by the fact that one character can only accept one falcosaur quest per day). Plus the missing 2017 toys for the current world event, the...

They did prototyping. A full-on classic codebase, which crashes heavily in a Win10-64bit format vs a modern codebase that uses old data. Both of which took time to test.

As one dev (whose name escapes me at this time) famously said, you don't need AI. Just script the boss to go for the healer first and ignore everything else would be enough to turn every encounter into a nightmare.

Yea. And they still haven't fixed the fact that WB quests are added to the quest listing, which means your raid group gets auto delisted at 5, no matter what you want.

The achievement tracks the character with the highest usable count, not what the current character has. I think.

Thing is, for everyone who liked it a lot, there's one who hated that stuff. Anecdotal evidence: the mother of a former guildmate lives for tradeskills. She's got a stable of characters for every tradeskill and enjoy primarily farming, crafting, selling. She hates dungeons. She has not...

The thing is, amazon routinely does A/B testing (different presentations, to see what sticks) so links will behave slightly differently based on IP, hours, browser, and a dozen different variables. I always set the link title by hand rather than let the forum pick it from the linked page when I...

I'm still revered with one, and hated with the other. Something that's impossible in modern WoW (the quest status override your faction).

Plane of Fear CR are the stuff of legend. Since PoF didn't drop any Cleric armor (it was all in PoH), you almost never saw a cleric on a PoF raid. I went once "for reasons", and so we broke the zone as usual, then when things were stable... ... I ended up the only cleric with a 50+ raid with...