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I'm going to give you an example. Yellow Fever vs Malaria. Both are tropical diseases, majorly affecting developing and third world nations. Malaria kills 400k people a year, Yellow fever 30k. We do have a Yellow Fever vaccine, and we've had it since before WW2. We still don't have a Malaria...

Since 7.1, there's a significant pause in loading whenever I get a load screen. A number of guildmates have noticed that as well. Instead of the usual "load to 90% of load bar, pause 10s, then go" I always had, it's more like "load 5% of load bar, go spinning wheel for 1mn, then load all the way...

Great "WTF" moment as well this morning as my mage enchanter alt got a legendary. While I'm waiting for one on my main. On the other hand, a raidmate got his 4th on 3 separate characters. And I've seen 2 of them drop (including the SP BIS, which makes me jealous as hell, of course). I think...

Good movie overall, I like the concept of the Mirror Dimension as the explanation of most of the Inceptiony stuff. Good stuff in the two post credits scene as well

No. It potentially makes you 855 spec-optimal armor, at an enormous cost. By the time you make your first 855 piece, you're probably going to be 830+ average from WQ. By the time you make your second 855 piece, you're probably 850 average from mythics+WB... and that's assuming you're absolutely...

Dunno about the industry, but I can guarantee you that the House Committee that oversees NASA and its budget would be one of the most sought after post for Congresscritters.

The Artefact Weapon system is probably going away; they'll replace it with something different. I don't think you're ever going to get armor at the start of the expansion and never ever replace it. Not enough loot means the main carrot of WoW would be gone. Hidden Artifact appearance aside, the...

I think it was an Asimov short story (rewritten to be part of a different novel later) where the crew of the first interstellar ship finally arrives at Alpha Centauri... where the millions of inhabitants on the planet spent the last 5 years preparing for the celebrations of their arrival...

Nope; most of my alts got the EN mission despite having the champions below 770. Heck, my main got an EN mission that day he dinged 110 (which is probably what's needed)

Basically, from what I've seen, Legendaries can drop from: - Any chest (emissary, class hall mission quests, satchels, mythic + end of run & mythic+ weekly) - Any raid boss - Any dungeon boss There's probably different base chances (like mythic+ or heroic EN are higher than normal dungeon runs)

EQ Atlas or bust.

Just be careful because most of the modalities in which a 9th massive planet is responsible for the axial tilt of the sun appear to be incompatible with the proposed 9th planet that explains the orbits of Oort Plutoids (that are also mentioned in the article). Which is sad, because at the...

Dunno, because when I open the socketing interface, Pawn suggests green qual gems on 830- ilvl gear, and blue qual gems on 835+ items. But when the item is socketed, it absolutely takes its current gem into account for score.

It's a talent system. They redo their talent system every expansion, so it's not unprecedented. However, they're going to need a severe change when 8.0 hits, and alts are expected to rush thru the Legion "era" between Draenor and whatever. *EDIT* My guess is that, on 8.0, the artifact talent...

5 million AP for the 34 skills, then 60 million AP for the 20 "bonus stats" skills. (thank god that AK25 will eventually give you 24,000% AP gains in 5 months)

Oh, it's probably very good for a significant segment of the shadow priests. However, there's no denying that the 7.x Shadow Priest gameplay is an order of magnitude more demanding than any of the previous iterations, and is completely incompatible with casual players. My guild is fairly...

Blizzard made a remark that they're not really happy with that situation. Their goal is that ilvl (in effect, your main stat) should be the main driver of upgrades, with the secondary being a differentiator between items around the same ilvl range. So a normal drop should be better than a LFR...

I've been doing that this week, and just found out that the "default" profile for SPriest is based on assuming you're using the S2M talent. Which sounds reasonable, but requires you to be good enough to play with fire (or die. Horribly). So if you're not speced S2M, you've got an entirely...

Well, I can accept that for rings/necks. With no primary stat on them, a ring that hasn't got your best secondaries is basically a ring that didn't had your main. But I was slightly aghast at finding a 830 robe that was better for my offspec than my primary's 850, even though both specs share...

Guild was congratulating me on achieving a legendary. Unfortunately, as it turns out, it didn't mean what they tought it was. Still waiting for the first one, then I can wait for the second...

I want my Blizzard sandbox base building game.

We are starting to get a good feeling about some other mechanics, and it's not the instancing that causes problems. It's the first M in MMO. As you said, you never run across the same person twice. That's because you're playing in a pool of a million or so people. If you remove the auto-queue...

I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that postmodernism is one of the most pernicious idea ever. The idea that there is no objective standard to judge anything, anywhere, paves the way for a massive authoritarianism. Because without objective standards, the only way to solve a...

Just finished (after several breaks) David Wootton's The Invention of Science, a fascinating account on what exactly went on during the Scientific Revolution, and what we mean when we talk about a Revolution. As he said, in the 17th century, a "learned man" knew about witches, and werewolves...

This, basically. If you're LFR-capable, the WQ are probably going to give you 830+ gear (with the usual mythic+ 840 for a dungeon every 3 day), so you're not going to get much in the way of upgrades unless it procs. Don't waste your roll tokens on LFR unless you're maxed and are not going to do...

That's probably like the WoD scheme; you get a chest based on progression from class hall stuff, but the timewalking chest is at a fixed level.

See above; if you have a trinket of the same ilvl or greater, you can trade it to anyone eligible. Last LFR I was in, someone had "that" addon that indicate automatically any personal loot which is eligible for trade, and even lists which characters have lower ilvl and could "benefit" from...

Current baseline loot rules (unless your lead changes to master/NBG, if he is allowed by the group/raid format): - You have about 25% chance of getting a loot from the boss - You can get any loot from its loot table that fits your current loot spec (click on portrait, "loot spec", choice is...

You also have the Timewalking week to get a 4th seal for an extra roll.

Yes, but the class has to pay that with extremely complicated stuff. Compare it to a Fire Mage... I'm considering, for the first time to use a castbar UI addon, because fuck paying attention to the crap, moving around, and keeping an eye to see if the Void Form icon is flashing yet. I'm 55, and...

I positively loathe the creeping vines from Cenarius, who are tracking invisibly some random dude in your raid. Yes. At the moment, the entirety of raiding is drilling a reflex "debuff #3! Move toward this designated spot!". At the same time, if you had to make meaningful on-the-spot tactical...

And then, you are a shadow priest who has to alternate between different rotations as often as possible.

Oh, and got around to read MHI Grunge, and that's why you get 3 "Larry Correia books" in 4 months; it's not a Correia book, it's a John Ringo book with some Correia editing. Apparently, the same for december's MHI book. Not that it's bad. Ringo writes good stuff.

Be happy. In 7.1, there is a potion that gives you +2500 stat every minute; it's going to be mandatory chugging.

Yea, I got corrected. To be honest, that was what I saw on every of my currently leveling alts, I've yet to get druid and warrior to 101 and unlocking their class hall upgrades.

If it had been a viable design at those costs, Musk would have jumped on it...

Which begs the question: Is CT the real one who escaped the puppet theater and all the others are still prisoners, or is he a fake that replaced the real one?

Every class has those. There's a small variation in other upgrades available, but every class gets: 1) One option for 1 additional troop of each type (which is useless) 2) One option for follower upgrades @ 50 ressources per (which is cheaper than the missions, but you don't decide what you...

Which is probably the only place where life is possible on that world...

It's enough to get the world tidally locked up, meaning you don't get real tides. Nor sunsets.