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  1. Burns

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I hit 900 to 1000 before quitting and saw maybe 5 or 6 primals in total, all of them worthless (one was a bovine bardiche). That was 1 or 2 more than the last season I had played (2 or 3 seasons ago). RNG do RNG things. Like that belt Penance is hunting for, I had 5 or 6 drop before Paragon...
  2. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    On a related note, who would you trust more with your money, Cathy Wood or Jim Cramer?
  3. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Well then, I tell you to remember, remember the fifth of November.
  4. Burns

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I have been wanting to play another Crusader for a couple seasons now, but they just looked so slow. Hopefully that lightning build is still good next season (or the next time I play). WW barb this season is tied with monk (from a previous season) for speed to consistently clear a GR in. I was...
  5. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yarp, prepatch logs for old xpac raids are almost always meaningless for the upcoming xpac class performance. It is compounded by how many changes have been made to the classes, and how the covenant abilities and legendries interreact with a talent tree not made for them. They should have no...
  6. Burns

    Advice for someone failing college?

    I haven't flown in a long time, but I would assume the quality of airline staff is dependent on the company and the location. Southwest used to have high quality staff and the crews based in Texas seemed to be over 50% attractive women as late as 10 years ago. I met a handful of Texas...
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    Advice for someone failing college?

    "You can get a degree in something you are interested in, or you can get a degree in something that makes good money. Less than 10% of people are going to be able to get both out of one degree." Money isn't everything in life, but one should at least shoot for making around $75k+ after a few...
  8. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    He was probably a Varangian guard that won that ring off a dead Mussie while fighting for the Byzantine empire.
  9. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Affliction can do well in Mythic raids due to how long a lot of the fights last and especially on cleave fights or long lived trash. Those fights greatly out number the burst trash fights in most raids. Although, any of the DoT specs do poorly in low and mid level M+, since most of those are...
  10. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Since the new Lizardmen look retarded, I keep calling it DargoneLands in my head...opps. As for what plays best at what gear levels, the simcraft sites kinda did this in the past, I think. At least I remember reading discussions on why X spec will be strong early, but Y spec scales much better...
  11. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Frost DK had a little bit of time where it was good, but I don't remember if that was MoP or Cata. WotLK DKs were op in all areas but I think that power lingered for at least 1 or 2 xpacs. M+ is much harder to rate and not that many people even uploaded parses until fairly recently. It's almost...
  12. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  13. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Who doesn't love to look at/talk about numbers and spreadsheets?!? TLDR: Time spent with at least 1 DPS spec in the top 50% of performers (classes with both ranged and melee specs are also separated): How long each spec spent in the xpac in the top 50% By Tier: SOURCE: Google spreadsheet
  14. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I haven't been excited or "hyped" for an xpac since Legion, but I generally like the dudgeon, raid, and leveling content enough to get at least 40 hours out of it. With no word on the Microsoft buy out, it's not like the gold sitting in my account is doing anything else, so might as well use it...
  15. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Poke around the Discord for each class and see what they are saying but, usually, the "what's good" wont be decided until the first weeks of the raid. The first 2 weeks of dungeons will give a good feel though, and the last 3 xpacs haven't penalized a player too much for switching classes after...
  16. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Wowhead says Nov 15 for DL invasion event. Although there is no guarantee they made it a huge XP event. The Legion event had silly amounts of XP, but I don't remember what BFA or SL were like. https://www.wowhead.com/guide/primal-storms-dragonflight-pre-patch-event
  17. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I guess I should have specified that I was talking about leveling in DF, being that the new xpac is less than a month away, I would assume that that is part of the equation, eventually. Also, if someone is just looking to level fast, and doesn't care about content, there is a decent...
  18. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They are rolling Shadowlands into Chromie time when they start the prepatch event and allow people to make Drakthurrr. Every xpac should be able to go to 60, through chromie time, at that point.
  19. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Does the cross faction taps work in warmode? I wouldn't be surprised if they left it off to "encourage" pvp. Your warmode experience may depend heavily on what faction you play on what cluster. Most clusters are going to have Horde outnumber Alliance 10 to 1, so if you are leveling as horde, of...
  20. Burns

    The Video Thread

    The idea of this show is basically a posh Ali G meets History:
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Depends on what you want, if you want a pvp experience to break up leveling, then sure, but don't expect that many people to really engage. You don't miss any content by having Warmode on. It only changes how tags work, being able to attack the other faction, access to few more abilities, and...
  22. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  23. Burns

    Tales of the Jedi

    The first episode was the weakest. It felt like she was way too young As for the rest, the Dooku stuff was good, and the last two Ashoka episodes were great. Although the greatness of the second to last episode has a lot to due with how they tied it into the last season of Clone Wars. Also...
  24. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Did they implement the changes in the XP requirements in the pre-patch? If not, leveling in Shadowlands should be the slowest it's going to be, right now, unless the XP buff is still up (maybe even with it). I doubt it will stay up for much longer, but maybe they will run it the whole prepatch...
  25. Burns

    Andor

    Release time is currently every Wed @ 12am PDT. No clue if it will stay that way, after the move to PST on Nov 6.
  26. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Icy-veins used to be shit tier info. Like they posted all the noob trap guides that were always bad. Wowhead has better guides, all in one place. My Pi-Hole stopped working, and I never bothered to fix it, but it worked with wowhead fine, some years ago... For browser side stuff, I block all...
  27. Burns

    Weather

    It may be more dangerous, for a longer period of the swim. The Mississippi river is one of the most polluted (natural and man made debris). So still a lot of shit to get slammed into as it pushes you down stream. A shallower river also means more of the heavy shit that was deep below, is now...
  28. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I like all the zones in WotLK outside of Borring Tundra, but even that zone kinda grew on me, on successive play throughs on alts. Storm Peaks was the opposite, I thought most of the quest lines were cool, but it was so slow and spread out; so every playthrough with alts, I would try to skip the...
  29. Burns

    Home buying thread

    If 8% is going to break the budget, then it is better to walk away than deal with the stress of an overbearing house payment putting pressure on your life. If it takes 2+ years before the numbers make sense to refi, then that is a lot of stress to put on ones self, and ones marriage. They could...
  30. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    My understanding of it is that a Hydrogen fuel cell is chemical conversion process, where the hydrogen bonds with a compound, and becomes more stable and condensed in the cell. Then as the hydrogen is needed the bond is broken, releasing the hydrogen for the vehicle to use. Using a tank that...
  31. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    See if there are any tax breaks to convert it to propane, hydrogen, or Ethanol. Propane is easy to get and all Hydrogen requires is a electrolyzer unit to separate hydrogen from water (that you run in your garage or barn to fill up gas tanks). Unfortunately, hydrogen fuel cells are still not...
  32. Burns

    Car ?'s

    The battery in particular is a wild card. There are so many factors that will determine it's life that used electric car buyers will never be able to know what they are getting. New owners who like to keep their cars for a long time will also have trouble estimating replacement times. Some of...
  33. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Speculators and "investors" loosing interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum is a good thing, if the stated final goal is to have them work as a stable currency. Adoption as a currency looks to still be moving forward, just as slowly as ever.
  34. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have one of every class at level 50 (2 at 60) and they are all Human, Orc, Elf, or Troll. Obviously, I wont be playing Evoker, but I also read that the DPS plays like shit due to it's 30 yard range and breath attack that you must strafe enemies with, so it's not like I'm even tempted.
  35. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looks like he got another one, boys!
  36. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That is the correct starting point. You gotta fight your way into the zone, getting a foothold and all that. If you can see other quests that are available, they were probably added later and/or not related to the main quest line of the zone (such as the Argent Tournament).
  37. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pre-patch mail "THAT'S MA'AM" armor set uses discarded ball sacks as their glove adornment:
  38. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Get your fucking white supremacist shit out of here.
  39. Burns

    Black Adam (2021)

    The Rock is Black? I thought he was Samoan...and Samoans are Asians...and Asians don't count (they count too well to count).
  40. Burns

    Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

    That's what I assumed this show was going to be. Each season was a new story in the land of Cyberpunk. The best of both types of TV shows, a bit episodic, where they are writing a clear beginning, middle, and end, and a bit serial where they have a bunch of time to flesh out the characters.