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If you're familiar with Norse mythology, it's fairly obvious from the start. Huginn and Muninn always around...

Just read thru Weber's latest Honorverse, Shadow of Victory and it's kind of messy. It's chiefly far too many side stories from the "current" events, with relatively little meat adding to the main story. I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a collaboration, but no, it's all Weber. Half...

The MCU "rule" is that the events are normally set in "alternative today", i.e. the events of Doctor Strange happen in 2016, a few months after the Sokovian Accords and all that. It would probably have worked better if it was set "a couple years ago", which would justify the easter egg of...

Saw that. The biggest hangup, as far as I see, is the requirement for the macro recipes to use the exact product of a given run, and once that is exhausted, it's over. That makes any macro temporary, which increases the data management. I'm no longer a great fan of random boost to recipes. That...

Well,

7.1.5 is scheduled for PTR, usually you have 5-6 weeks of testing before live, so we're looking at mid-december for pandaria timewalking & stuff. Then 7.2 hits PTR, another 6 weeks, so we're somewhere in february for Broken Isle/Tomb of Sargeras/Cathedral of Night. Argus end of march... then...

Who needs a security guard? Just put another autonomous security system onboard

Achievement is ok. Depends if you want to change people's behavior, or simply replace our brain-limited social sense with a computerized augmented version. Otherwise, you can also use big social data and recommendations algorithms. Ultra simple version: You can friend (+100%), thumbs up...

There's no purely mechanical way of getting around that. Blizzard explained how any choice leads to exploits ("cancel run" => cancels when it looks like the timer is going to expire). At this point, the problem isn't the in-game mechanics, it's the unaccountability that stems from the fact that...

They've got two outdoor areas that are underused. The non-instanced version of Eye of Azshara could be used to set up some storyline around Azshara/Old Gods stuff. The Broken Shores is going to be used for the final push of the Legion storyline. That's in addition for whatever stuff goes on...

25 resources for one seal. Counts as one of the three.

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.