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  1. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Finished, I'd give it 2½ stars out of 5, which is a low bar for Hamilton. ("Salvation", book 1 of new series) The background is a new one, but the first book absolutely suffers from too many timelines. You have a central timeline, a number of flashbacks from that timeline (the participants to...
  2. Ukerric

    Captain Marvel (2019)

    I wouldn't bet, but I remember a panel from a recent issue in which you had all kind of alternate Cpt. Marvels using... the Reality Infinity Stone to get in touch and coordinate on universal threats. So, altering reality is possible...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yup. I'm not subbing to the kickstarter full pack because his wrist isn't going to survive the 635 dedicated books he already has; but I'm getting the hardcover...
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's 2 rares that have charms as their loot for being rare (loot on first kill only), and 2 quests that reward it (all alliance side; horde not invited to the party). Plus a couple chests that have some. Outside of that, you have one mission every 5-6 days, and usually 1 WQ a day. You have...
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have an alt that dinged this weekend. His neck was 12. You are telling me you got 7 neck ilvls in 2 days playing casually? jenniferlawrenceokay.gif
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    But, but, but... there's PET CHARM missions there! If that alone does not justify an entire game mechanic complete with resource farming, I don't know what does!
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    2 ilvl on your neck per AP level, if I'm not mistaken.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    From what they imply, your last power lvl is fixed basically by the ilvl of the item, while your first power is based off your current power level & item ilvl, with the rest linearly inbetween. So the 370 chest would always have a 26 max power, but it might have had a start lower than 17 if...
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Flying will require Pathfinder Part II (or maybe even Part III), with 1 or 2 additional reps added in 8.2. And, of course, we'll have the Emerged N'yatotha isle, where our mounts are permanently grounded, to farm in 8.3, so flying will be slightly useful for two months...
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You have to do them only once per account. Once the outpost is "populated", it can be used by all your chars. The followup missions for "improvement" are per character though. Some improvements are essential, like the one where I populate the cave with baby dinosaurs to pet. I kid you not...
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Got that one as well. Was funny seeing my follower getting 0 XP (because of course he's been maxed since forever).
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's a lot of resources nodes inside other items; a fair number of mobs spawning inside rocks and trees. The Q&A for the world building was low.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only missions I'm really waiting for are... the pet charm missions. I mean, once you have all factions at revered, you're ok; the exalted rewards are not important enough to warrant pursuing right now as opposed to "wait until it arrives". The gold is meh. The azerite is ok, but not...
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    In term of speed, I'm not sure you can't get expulsom/hour faster with skinning, crafting leather items, and scrapping those. It's 1 expulsom/6 bracers on average, so 30 leather, 24 bones. That's about 20 stags/wolves/whatever, which take like 10-15mn to kill. WQ are faster, but the items...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At this point, I'm pretty sure Arathi only resets when your side gains control. So horde got a free period of Arathi rares, plus half a week of unconstrained warfront farming. It's funny how everyone was whining about Alliance being advantaged since they got Arathi out of the box when it looks...
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think I spotted the problem.
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what I was mentioning earlier. They've just realized that, as they were, heroic dungeons were useless, unnecessary, and totally ignorable. So they're trying to make those "slightly" relevant again. Too little, too late, methinks.
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hopefully, it resets when Arathi changes hands, and not just when your side gets Arathi. Otherwise, the whining about Horde getting free Arathi rares and warfront gear vs Alliance just the WB will be... loud. (of course it averages over time... but the outrage will be real at first, and first...
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what I expected when I saw they wouldn't be dailies...
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I hit revered and did a /cheer on random birds and crabs. Go feed, my pretties!!! It's all yours now!
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No. Normal AND heroic dungeons are completely pointless; I dinged 120 on saturday, did zero dungeons and am now average ilvl 304. In a week, two maybe, I will probably be sporting an higher ilvl average than heroics. So what's the point of running heroics? None. Zero. You do normal to rush the...
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you were lucky, that is. One of my alts got two 340 belts from Arathi (one drop, one from the quest). That's it. No WB drop, no bonus loot. I suspect this is more in line with what the majority of players will experience; some - a few - will simply get a exceptional shower of loot this week.
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Warfronts started in EU, and the queue system broke down. Completely. Spinning wheel to just display just a list of raids, can't join any (they go "cancelled", then when you refresh they're there)... But yea. I was expecting 2 or maybe 3 days tops for the warfront scenario. Not a full week.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I suspect the "gathering speed" will be adjusted for contribution, so that major effort might reduce the wait time to open the warfront scenario from 4 to 3 days, or some such.
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently, you can tag the elites only once per warfront. I hope you can tag them again while it's Horde, but I'm not holding my breath...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Random is random. Of course they're going to make you farm it over time. If you got everything on first drop, it would be empty next week.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently. The prices at the AH will explode. However, check before making/buying: each tradeskill quest can ask for one of 3 different items on any given reset (sometimes raw resources, sometimes crafted items): Launching a Warfront Through Contributions
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They can, got 345 WF boots. Meh, but still.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The rares in Arathi are once per day, not once per Warfront, right?
  30. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Welp? I was going "why hasn't amazon notified me it's on my kindle library", but it turns out my ebook will be landing on thursday, because it's the english Pan version, not the US Del Rey one...
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have full 30 slots, and 3 1/2 of them are perma-full. Between various clickys, archeology tokens, 8 different fishes, 4 (or 5?) different meats, 7 herbs, a set of gear for my alt spec, etc, etc... the only spot for looting stuff is my backpack and 1st bag...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nope, they only give a small azerite cluster (40ish AP).
  33. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Yea. The other translations from russian he did have had... varying quality. (the last of the Weirdest Noob trilogy was an horror)
  34. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    PvP & P2W, if I hear right... /sadpanda
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Ok, so Darkmoon faire wasn't changed; the +5 skill quests apply only to vanilla skills, which means they're useless for anything except Archeology. Well, one more piece of content that's no longer used...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I still have plenty of rep mission popping on the class hall... (at least one a day)
  37. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I'm reaching 115 out of 125 for my 2018 reading challenge on Goodreads (going to break last year's record by a large margin) so there should be stuff to read. I've finished the Destiny's Crucible series; it's a good break point at book 4 or 5; the initial plot is wrapped up and everyone's...
  38. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Technically, those are cultures, not civilizations. The root of the word is based on the concept of cities (and citizens), so you don't have a civilization until you have a settled permanent "state". Indians are basically Siberians cousins. They're descended from a basal population that was...
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Seen those flight points that appear when you cross the continent, but don't have a wing icon on the zone map? Those are outposts. When you unlock them, you can claim them and then you have a new flight point plus shit. Haven't done that, but in theory, if you unlock WQ with one character, all...
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can't. Any harder, and you would need an addon to complete. The reason the game works is that your brain can keep track of 6-8 things, and then, any new input ends up making you forget the original ones. That's why the match-up is 8 pairs. Any more pairs, and it degenerates into a game of...