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  1. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    Blizzard is entirely owned by Activision Blizzard, they don't have stock. And while Bobby may (or may not) leave, he's smart to have multiple revenue streams. So, yes, while Blizzard is important, they're not going to get shuttered anytime soon, even if WoW shrinks below 1M. And Activision is...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently, you can use any of the ingredients or base ingredients to trigger the recipe discovery. If you use Shanks, you can only discover recipes ranks 2 or 3 for shank, surf&turf or discover the salad. This place is a cakewalk for any tank spec once you have enough withered in your army...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You will have to do them for the flying achievement anyway.
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Not so sure. I'm guessing that heroics are no longer a primary entry point, normal Mythics are. However, I could see them reducing the number of item WQ, given that your daily chest now has an item in it (albeit one that is absolutely random and not linked to your ilvl).
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guess: they flipped the "boost people's chance for their first legendary" so that it triggered if you had one instead of if you had none.
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Some WQ reward epic gladiator rather than basic pvp. At rank 1, I've seen one quest with a 840 neck, while all others have base 810 (the pve quests all give 825+ based on my ilvl). It looks like those "high reward" quests appear at random. Same for dungeons, my first dungeon quest rewarded a...
  7. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire - Book Spoilers Within

    The topic arose while discussing various books with friends last month, and I could make the joke "Well, Amazon just told me they're shipping the last Martin" "WHAT? IT'S OUT?!?" "Yes, he's got a book" (ok, that's mostly Snodgrass, he probably just did a few comments)
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Procs are capped to 850 until raid opens.
  9. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Just got an Abra out of an egg yesterday. Made up for the previous 10km egg which hatched an... Eevee.
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Those quests are "breadcrumbs". You have them so you know there's "something" to be done. Otherwise, people who don't go to wowhead or any guide wouldn't guess that the various parts of the story unlock at various rep levels.
  11. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    At these energies, the gravity isn't much of a problem. Even though the beams can stay rotating for minutes until collision, the amount of energy required to keep them rotating far exceeds the amount of energy required to keep them afloat against gravity.
  12. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Got one Lapras 3 weeks ago from a lure. Haven't even looked at its stats, since it was like something level 10. That was before buddy system, so maybe he's worth making candy...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This apparently makes them a counter to that spell component, which means they could act as "pseudo-champions", thus potentially freeing a champion for another mission. The 5% chance for water elementals still make them weaker than the other troops, so at best, that means expending 10...
  14. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Well, they could write lore based on african langage, with click sounds. So that would be Gʘzeǂinha the dragon. Try that one :)
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, you look at what you'd like to get, do them. Most of the time, you do complete the daily factions over 3 days, so you get your boost toward flying. At the moment, I'm doing gear (on the off-chance it procs a massive titanforged+socket upgrade), profession, and then some Warden targets...
  16. Ukerric

    9/11/2001 - Where were you when Bush knocked down the towers?

    Was at home, in between jobs. Left Nevrax prior, was waiting to hear about an internet startup. Loafing around in bathrobe, looking at internet stuff. Mail pops, "apparently, there's a fire in the twin towers, CNN is live". So, why not? Turn on CNN, see the fire with "accident at WT" title...
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They don't scale in that you're guaranteed an upgrade, they scale in making it more likely you could get an upgrade. Otherwise, even casual outdoor players would be 850 in no time... One dungeon WQ in particular was funny to watch, it was 805+ head when I opened WQ, the next day it was "Heroic"...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you do lots of WQ, your bodyguard gets between 100 and 200xp per WQ. That's probably faster to level him/her/it than any non bonus xp mission. Unlike Draenor bodyguards, your bodyguard repops as soon as you go out of combat; no 60mn timer.
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    WQ are there for that. Not exactly max, but still...
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Their rep is one that gates quest parts of the flying achieve, so yes, it's probably important to run to at least 1/3rd exalted asap.
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ok, turns out it's a WQ with a respawn of... 3 days. Drat.
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So do I. I did the intro, then ran the scenario once, and it hasn't been offered since, for 3 days now.
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Question: how did you pass the warrior scenario? That demon simply slaughters me after doing the last 2 vrykuls, I die, and then the fight resets.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This. The only time I died was doing stupid, and not moving out of some serious AOE.
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You don't need to pvp. You pay 5g, you get 5mn immunity from pvp. The problem was that, when pvp is turned on, the mobs for your quest don't spawn at all (since they're supposed to drop eyes for PVErs, and when pvp is active, well, players do drop those). With the timer - when it works - you...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    right now, I want to find out who designed the quest line for the Obliterum forge and put an entire matchbox worth under all of his or her nails. Finger and feet. Light, and repeat until the crate of matchboxes is over. You pay the guard 50 eyes to put the area in PVE so that the named will pop...
  27. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looks like a simulated pic, not "seen" from space. The submarine features and total lack of any cloud cover give it away.
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think I did my second mission without negating the timer on my priest as well.
  29. Ukerric

    Draegan sold the site to MMORPG.com

    For a time, rererolled.org and firesofheaven.org were the same site, but separate domains. Now, rere simply does a redirect to foh. I had login cookies for both domains, so I didn't even notice :)
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Long term, it doesn't matter. If you want to unlock your first golden trait before starting to raid, you're still fine, it's not one of those artifacts where the first important golden trait require like 15+ pt... (/eye Shadow Priest blade)
  31. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    I walk around enough that a 3-shot incubator lasts 2 days, so I only keep one for any 10km egg that pops, and any other gets immediately used on 5km ones.
  32. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Actually, it's level 1. But it gains 2000 prestige when you stick a Pokemon in it, so the first pokemon raises it to 2 (2000/4000), and the second Pokemon to 3 (4000/8000). Sticking a third pokemon isn't enough to raise it all the way to 4, so that's when you start training.
  33. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Not going to switch my snoring buddy anytime. He'll complain, but if he's nice, I'll feed him that candy back...
  34. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Lots? Try to get friendly with the Taurens, then immediately switch to Suramar to get friendly. The flight whistle alone is worth everything. And then you'll also see lots of stuff to do (all those world quests).
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I ran into the "wall" while questing in Highmountain at 109. Seeing the bar jump from 1000 to 6800 is groan. Since then, I'm feeding half the power to my alt spec and half to my main. So I'm now at 13/9 halfway in 13. I'll probably stop feeding my alt until I'm waay higher as soon as it hits 13...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    For Holy and Shadow, they both use Crit as their main secondary, with Haste favored for Shadow and Mastery for Holy. Any crit-non versa piece will work, take the one that is higher ilvl. If it's only 5 ilvl, and crit is not the highest of the two secondaries, then maybe it's worth considering...
  37. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    There was a research paper a couple years ago that basically placed a limit at 8 civilizations in this galaxy. With 8, we'd have a 50% chance of having detected them by now, given our capacities and general SETI programs. The longer we watch and the better we are at it, the lower the cap...
  38. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Not only we already produce more than we could need, but if those anti-GMO activists were to stand down, we could probably squeeze a couple double digits of productivity out of existing farmland.
  39. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Type II? More like "oh hi, that's a nice solar system full of unused mass you have there."
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Video of the site: