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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes, but the class has to pay that with extremely complicated stuff. Compare it to a Fire Mage... I'm considering, for the first time to use a castbar UI addon, because fuck paying attention to the crap, moving around, and keeping an eye to see if the Void Form icon is flashing yet. I'm 55, and...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I positively loathe the creeping vines from Cenarius, who are tracking invisibly some random dude in your raid. Yes. At the moment, the entirety of raiding is drilling a reflex "debuff #3! Move toward this designated spot!". At the same time, if you had to make meaningful on-the-spot tactical...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And then, you are a shadow priest who has to alternate between different rotations as often as possible.
  4. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    Oh, and got around to read MHI Grunge, and that's why you get 3 "Larry Correia books" in 4 months; it's not a Correia book, it's a John Ringo book with some Correia editing. Apparently, the same for december's MHI book. Not that it's bad. Ringo writes good stuff.
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Be happy. In 7.1, there is a potion that gives you +2500 stat every minute; it's going to be mandatory chugging.
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, I got corrected. To be honest, that was what I saw on every of my currently leveling alts, I've yet to get druid and warrior to 101 and unlocking their class hall upgrades.
  7. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    If it had been a viable design at those costs, Musk would have jumped on it...
  8. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    Which begs the question: Is CT the real one who escaped the puppet theater and all the others are still prisoners, or is he a fake that replaced the real one?
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Every class has those. There's a small variation in other upgrades available, but every class gets: 1) One option for 1 additional troop of each type (which is useless) 2) One option for follower upgrades @ 50 ressources per (which is cheaper than the missions, but you don't decide what you...
  10. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Which is probably the only place where life is possible on that world...
  11. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's enough to get the world tidally locked up, meaning you don't get real tides. Nor sunsets.
  12. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, Boeing says no rockets work, but mine.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A bit more than that. My alt was played relatively infrequently for two weeks (read "had a perma-bar of rest xp"), and knowing you needed rep with all factions meant I dropped two zones mid-point to make sure I was going to get enough reputation to friendly so that I would go to Suramar...
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So did I, but I must inject the PoV of real casuals in here, because that's possibly the first expansion where Blizzard may see a massive hemorrage of its real casual players. It is the first expansion where a majority of basic casual content is gated behind dungeons. You cannot (litterally...
  15. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Shoemaker-Levy broke down during a previous passage, the time spent below Roche limit during an impact event would not be enough. The Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is about 5km diameter, which means: - A 100km-wide crater - Blast fallout 1000km from impact - Firestorms: continental level (5000km...
  16. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Finished Peter Hamilton's latest, A Night Without Stars, the second and conclusion to the Faller duology. It's a bit weaker than most, but then, Hamilton always has difficulties finishing stories. I mean, the main twist of the book was not even set up in the previous one, and it feels a bit...
  17. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    They're straight up mil-action thrillers, with a slight sprinkling of fantasy. Probably slightly better than most thriller authors, but they're not as interesting as MHI. Will probably still check the book (since I almost always pick the Baen monthly bundle, so I get lots of books)
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think it's 25rep for the scenario, plus 1 rep per pt, up to 400, so that caps at 425. I finally got all the upgrades, so basically I'm going to do at one point a run for the last pet chest, but outside of that, it's get 400pt, end scenario. The key to boss is to have a large upgraded army...
  19. Ukerric

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

    Content updates aren't much of a problem. The biggest problem is still the non-functional in-app scanning. I don't understand why they have not deployed that update that adds the nearest pokestop to 'mon on your radar. It's like they want people to use 3rd-party mappers...
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No idea, but I would not be surprised if it did not include a fairly large rep token ala-Kirin Tor for the weekly quest. I'm about 100rep from all revered (why aren't we getting rep from cleaning that Warden's Vault mess?), so don't really need rep boosts. I'm going to get full exalted one day...
  21. Ukerric

    History thread

    If you want to head that way, I'm partial to Frank McLynn's Genghis Khan story.
  22. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Last pic:
  23. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    There's also the third book on the Dead Six series out this month. Nothing for years, then 3 in a row.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I got a note that lists all the recipes I'm not at 3, and shove him one WO per food/fish item. Do that again as soon as I'm going to lapse before the next day. Of course, I have half a bag full of foodstuffs now. But I have my main recipe food (got Azshara Salad 1 day after unlocking Surf'n...
  25. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Urban is such a fan of Elon :)
  26. Ukerric

    Grimnoir Chronicles

    Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge was out last month. There's another Memoirs in december (both collaborations with Ringo, another Baen stable author)
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, that worked that way during WOD for the legendary quest line that had you farm raid drops. Only the first kill of a given boss that week gave you the rune/book/whatever thingy, regardless of the difficulty. So you couldn't complete your raid quest in two weeks by running...
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If it's like WOD, you get flagged for quest drop by boss, not by difficulty. I wouldn't be surprised if, despite the fact it can't drop in LFR, killing a boss in LFR will prevent you from getting the essence in "normal" raids.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sounds like a Nomi-style worktable bug. When there's too many people in Nomi's kitchen, his table bugs out. You click, nothing opens, and you see that his work order count has dropped, which means you "looted" it. After a while, the Postmaster sends you a mail with the content of the table...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Everything quested shows up; item drops don't carry if you sold them (you'll have to farm them again, potentially from the BMAH).
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's a bit more than that, but not that much of a problem. You need: 500 OR per 5 days (AK research), 250-400 once or twice a day (missions). That's about the amount of OR you get from the daily emissary chests. If you do 4 WQ a day, you do get enough OR to sustain you in normal play. You need...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Welcome to Tanaan 7.0
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's not Dro's door we're talking about but the last door (the one after that) that locks the last corridor toward the exit. Normally it's clickable with 10 withered. Last run, it was totally inert. Not even a cursor gear.
  34. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Had that one just two hours ago. Was fine on my previous run, two days ago. Ended up picking the AP and toy chest.
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's been around since release. The area in Stormheim just before Hel is particularly prone to that.
  36. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    That's going to be very difficult, notably for Cata/Panda. You have major lore basically in every zone, but you're going to overlevel each zone by mid zone. For Cata, skip Vash'jir (which is irrelevant to the main storyline), do Hyjal, Deepholm and Uldum, and you have most of it. You're missing...
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    When people list the cheapest Legion flask at 4k per, it's tempting to downscale.
  38. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Eh, my Holy staff is now 875 while the main spec Shadow artifact is stuck at 871... I blame the game for giving only Holy, Life and Shadow WQ, and never a Blood one.
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Flying is currently not achievable, so it's not that important, but you need to do it at one point on at least one character. (I'm currently at 5/11 myself, since I have time)
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I had swum there, but he didn't pop for a while. The "watch out" seems to be when he aggroes; I get a "watch out" message every time as my Mind Control drops. They might have realized he's way too hard for a number of classes, and let people get max score before they try to get his key to go...