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Okay I am done being ashamed of being Arcane. I'm trouncing Fire Mages in groups who have better gear on both trash and bosses. I think people just listened too much to the "theorycrafters" and didn't actually pay attention to what the spells and synergies are.

I love that character actress Margot Martindale has now won an Emmy (for her work on the Americans...not Bojack)

the kid was awesome at making Pandarian food, I guess this ancient elf / vrykul cuisine doesn't suit him... I'm a bit sad they didn't make a rolling pin artifact "weapon".

When he is at full power Bryan Fuller is an absolute genius, even if it isn't always appreciate (hi Pushing Daisies). Perhaps this latest delay is affording him the time to get everything right. Alternately it might reflect CBS having cold-feet about anchoring this to their premium channel...

I was very eager when Destiny launched (as many were) and cautiously optimistic for the Taken King. Now I am feeling very ambivalent towards this new expansion and am pretty sure I won't get it on release unless several friends leave Overwatch to give it a whirl. Beyond the general malaise...

Demon Hunters are indeed overtuned at least at the current ilevel. It's not uncommon for a DH tank to top the DPS meters, which is really quite ludicrous given the whole "class fantasy" business.

I'm at the point where the next point is 24k and I figure it is crazy to not toss at least a few points into something. I might do Frost though since me and Fire just do not seem to get along. I did my first full Mythic yesterday and think Arcane was good enough to get the job done. I spent...

Given the exponential nature of the AP costs, though, it is quite viable to level up two different weapons and be only a few points behind the bleeding-edge with either.

I guess this is rather akin to Destiny where it is assumed you will have a legendary and presumably later on two of them. I've not seen one drop yet, but my guild is just a skeleton of what it once was so we don't have more than 5-6 people actively playing.

Get into my first Mythic dungeon and naturally Battle.net goes belly-up

Thanks, yeah I had consulted Icy-Veins when it became clear I was not doing as well as I thought I should and discovered then that Mastery was no longer great for Arcane the way it had been in the past. Right now I can feel okay about life if I spam Arcane Explosion in groups to clear trash...

I am in something of a pickle. I am up to ilevel 832 now through a combination of lucky warforged rolls but I have yet to set foot in a Mythic. My primary reason for this is that I don't feel like I am pulling my weight in Heroic dungeons as my DPS output seems rather meh. I'm playing Arcane...

I suppose he knew that Overwatch was his last big hurrah when he announced it, hence part of the nervousness. You always want to go out with a bang after all.

So today is the release date for Recore, which was a darling of E3 last year and looked interesting with its concept of robo-animals that you make use of in a modular sense. It seems, however, to not amounted to much given that it has almost zero marketing associated with it for a first-party...

I went with the 15% on the notion that the more challenging missions were likely to be some sort of spell component and that I seemed to mostly be using the troops when necessary to bump up overall success rate, otherwise I was using three actual champions so that they could all get better exp.

How are people doing the Withered Daily as a DPS like a Mage? Last night I was being quite deliberate and yet still did not get very far owning to having almost no means to heal myself and low sustained dps. I've seen videos of hunters / warlocks just using their pet to tank and cruising...

Seems like we've gone full circle in a way. Originally people had to work at making groups and it was such a time-sink / drag for people who didn't have a regular group to run with that they implemented a LFG tool and Heroic versions of dungeons. Then they started adding fancy achievements to...

Judging from the massive sea of orbiting fireballs in the Mage Class Hall I seem to be Mage-ing wrong by being Arcane. I've also noticed, in heroic only since I have not braved the social stigmata of looking for a Mythic group, that Demonhunters seem to do crazy high damage.

Why on earth would they nerf the kite?

I had considered that, but since I am a tailor I figured it was the height of laziness to do that rather than make my own. Naturally the questing necessary to actually make my own seems rather arduous as well. Tradeskills really do seem to be something you do for trade / for other people...

Having recently played on my work laptop (I know...bad) I think there might be a certain level of tech-curve involved in this as well. Certainly on the work machine things were pretty choppy and just the awkward control mechanism made me move my character like he'd suffered extensive...

I was very excited when I finished the 5th of 5 Class Quest missions... and then promptly had another set of 5 one step later. Now about to finish the second wave of 5. I still haven't even done heroic dungeons yet as my ilevel is 809, mostly getting dragged down by the ilevel of my artifact.

Any sign of the Class Hall companion app this morning? I just checked the Android app store on Google Play and did not see anything, but the search function on there sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. Perhaps Blizzard will make an announcement after the weekly maintenance?

For any company that is in or is thinking of entering the persistent world MMORPG product space there should be a mandatory role within that company with the job title : "Exective Vice President of Never Using Groundspawns". No matter how smart you think YOU might be compared to all those...

Hit 110 and there is so much to do I'm actually a bit dizzy from it all. The broader storyline is definitely going in the direction I expected, but there's a LOT of side detail and misc extra stuff. Really shows they did a good polish on this expansion as compared to the last one.

I thought they came out and said that the weapons were only for this expansion and would not carry over. Probably explain that they are tied to Azeroth and stop functioning once we get to Argus / wherever we go into space in the next expansion.

I am really glad that I got up a bunch of alts to 100 because the class / artifact stuff is quite compelling. I'm trying to decide what I want to boost, perhaps a melee class. I actually don't have a real melee class since I play the Monk as a healer only.

I'm at 107 and have done Highmountain and Azsuna to near completion including the capstone dungeon. I figure I will be 110 before I actually get to the 4th 'leveling' zone, but I readily admit that I have been stopping to smell all the roses plus doing the class hall campaign elements etc.

No spoilers but holy cow... for lore nerds this is a major return to form for Blizzard. Very clear what the next major expansion will be judging from some of the big plot elements. I say 'major' because the Legion invasion was heavily foreshadowed in Mists of Pandaria and yet WoD is what we...

Hmmm I had noticed that when I got artifacts that they were locked to the spec I was in when I got them rather than being able to be socketed to a different weapon. I thought the AP items I got when adventuring had a similar note on them. I stand corrected then.

I can see why they made a buff to the DPS for healing specs. In order to raise your artifact power you need to be doing stuff using your artifact in the spec that you want the power to go to and by nerfing gains from dungeons you have eliminated the main way in which healers were able to heal...

I got to 105 on my primary (mage) but also took the time to do the weapon intro bit for my Mistweaver Monk and thought the way they did the big battle for a healing class was quite nifty. I'm always a fan when they find ways to repurpose old content and this was a very good use of that, plus...

Its early days (hours) but I have more of a sense of 'place' for the Broken Isles than I did for alt-Draenor. WoD felt like every zone was caught up in the middle of a war, but without any lingering post-adventure-ohase stability like we saw with some of the Pandaren zones. It still feels...

Im going into this puppy without any foreknowledge for the very first time. Always before I was thoroughly spoiled by at least one phase of Beta, but this time I know virtually nothing and it makes for a much more enjoyable experience. I do like how the class quest for the artifact weapon is...

Finally got some time to play this and I'm remembering how hard it is to decide what to spend Praxis on. So many cool things, so little Praxis.

Both the Alliance and the Horde need to stop using flying ships... those things are airborne deathtraps. Then again they are at least more useful than the Iron Horde and their railroad to nowhere.

Assuming access to BiS items that won't be available for several months seems like quite a stretch. Have people been doing evaluations based on what should be available within the first couple weeks? Undoubtedly by the time those BiS items are available there will have been at least a couple...

I have some millennial friends who were born in the 90s but who are nevertheless unabashed John Carpenter fans who are absolutely beside themselves over this series. When talking to them it is clear one reason, beyond the obvious quality and 80s tropes, is that it is something they can see new.

My experience with Boomkins is pretty much non-existent as my highest druid was like 21 and I'd leveled him as feral. Flash forward to yesterday when I finished maxing out my last 'real' alt and decided to use my WoD 90-boost** on the druid and level him up to 100. I understand that they...

I'm feeling odd about this pilot. Peter is just not 'big' enough to be the Tick in my view. I can't shake the feeling that it needs a more obviously big dumb guy in the roll. The stuff with Arthur and The Terror is interesting though, Jackie Earle Haley was unrecognizable as the Terror, but...