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You can blame the timer. Which is why I've never done a M+ since they've been introduced. Having to fight the dungeon AND time means you need to take shortcuts everywhere, and "pausing DPS" (because something is CCed) means you're not fighting time. So people don't, because the game tells them...

More like "we already know why people quit mostly, so there's little point in getting more data we won't use".

Which is why I was talking about a world 80 times the size of WoW. Because at that point, you don't need a lot of servers. One is probably enough. I did the math a year or so ago; a game with 80 times the size of current day WoW can have a 300-400k player base which translates into 100K...

The big problems with this are also well known: 1) Story and everything else is fully and completely spoilered three months before you even encounter it 2) The main challenge is watching the video showcasing the fight, and doing it correctly enough when it's your turn 3) and lastly, all that...

Now that Metzen is out and Thrall sent to pasture, it appears we have a new pet Orc from the new main man, Alex himself Guess who will end leading the Horde at the end of 8.3.5?

Islands are ok, I think. The only bad part is that the grind to get everything from it is horribly long. I do 10-12 a week, and got like 3 pets (and a dup) and 5-6 xmog items that aren't even in the same set. (almost everyone by now knows that you skip everything and rush every rare you can...

Massive procedural generation. Instead of making a 2 square mile terrain replicated on demand, make a single server 80 times the current size of WoW. With 6000 dungeons. Maybe the dungeon you're visiting today is spoiled, but it's probably better to find someone who has been in it and can guide...

I have this on my mage. And it's very obvious at time, because I'm under Combustion (everything crits), got my first crit in, and... I don't get the second crit. At all. Waiting for my insta pyro... nope. After 2-3 tries, it finally lands, but of course my cooldowns for instas are all consumed...

Now, imagine sharding vs The Opening of the Gates...

French version here; the % is dropping all the time, but we had compulsory one-year in military service until 1997. You could delay it a bit if you were doing college/university, but you needed medical waiver to avoid it. Or be female. I did mine in the navy. I almost got an extension, because...

Last alpha running now (supposedly a complete standard game). Still no non-Win client, so it's still a pass. Bleh.

Everyone is doing BR these days when they lack imagination...

Are they going to hold the door? BlizzCon 2018 Closing Ceremony Music Festival - Featuring Train, Lindsey Stirling, Kristian Nairn Hodor is going to do the DJ on one of the three stages for this Blizzcon

Unlike Hubble, which is in earth orbit and can (and was) serviced, Kepler is in deep space heliocentric orbit. So, to service it, we need to go beyond the Moon. But yea. That's the main problem of space telescope: they cannot be expanded, upgraded or serviced, and they need to fit into a...

Of course. You will have flying in 8.2, and they will add the Emerged Nazjatar zone where you cannot fly (because too much kelp stink) in 8.3.

Do they? I'd argue that, with less massive worlds, you get more and more instancing/phasing/mega-servering that basically destroys community, since every player is irrelevant to your playing experience except the ones that the game randomly associated with you when you clicked on "join queue"...

To bring back the original post, A New World is - at last - a first western MMO that is NOT a crowdfunded shit. Unfortunately, both ANW and Ashes seem to be very PvP-oriented. While this is good for some, it's now an instant "shelve it to uninteresting game" for me.

He wasn't fired. He was moved to the World of Diablo (or whatever the big unannounced is) that probably had major pvp difficulties to fix those, and he's their "PvP specialist". Now his "loan" is finished, he's back.

No they don't have any. Just came out of a WQ where you bombard a ship and have to destroy a forsaken blighthrower. There's four of them on the ship, plus the quest forced respawn, so easy right? Wrong. Two of them don't take any damage, no matter where you aim. There's a string of 6-8 gryphon...

Abraham worked with G.R.R. Martin, but he's not GRRM. The characters killed off come back stronger!

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Paul Allen died. He was the 4th of the Space Barons - people always forgot him when they talk about the space billionaires.

I want next book to have Cara showing up and "fixing" things. (if you have no idea who Cara is, you need to read the Stange Dogs novella)

Because outdoor content is the gateway to LFR/Mythic. If you get higher stuff outdoor, why even do Mythic (which is now the staple/expected minimal group content - normals are for leveling, heroics for the odd WQ, everything else requires you to do Mythic - cough, Hydrocores, cough). That's why...

Diablo 4, Diablo adventures or World of Diablo (maybe???). That's all the new stuff they're showing this year. The next expansion won't be discussed on the year they launch the current. All the WoW panels will be art stuff and patch 8.1.

The 3.2M at launch for worldwide-china-excluded is certainly incorrect. The 47% drop (3.2->1.7) between then and now is almost certainly correct. Why do you think they gave away that pet and mount if you subbed 180 days, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, GET IT BEFORE IT'S OVER, NOW NOW NOW!!!

Except you can't really do this, because you do need to be 320 before going to the Warfront. Unless you're swimming in gold/crafter alts, that's not happening before the WQ expires.

Bear Tartare is old content. Therefore, it must be absolutely useless today and not worth any time farming for.

Quoted for Truth.

Been meandering into various indy gamelit / dungeon core / wuxia novels; Nothing particularly notable. Next books in the pile: The latest Honor Harrington book (pure Weber, no collaboration, yay!), and The Dreaming Stars from Tim Pratt. I've read the The Wrong Stars, book 1 of the series, a...

The WB is like every WB. You got your base 20/25% chance of getting some loot, plus token bonus roll.

Well, that's the same mechanic that apparently caused all those weird-ass azerite cache reward shenanigans where people at 363 would see a 370 reward, and some at 371 would only have a 355...

The rewards are "any spec you could be". Hence why my BM hunter that has always been BM except for 2hours when I had to pick the other artefact weapons to get the class mount got a halberd reward this weekend (the same halberd I mentioned for the feral druid). But, based on what the CM said...

Hotfix for the hotfix: apparently, it kept different ilvl based on spec. So you might have ilvl 369 equipped, but the server thought you only had 351 for feral, so it gave you only 355 because it was thinking you wanted feral. Even if you were in non-feral spec. I can't even...

From what I heard, you get a 355 reward at 350+ ilvl, and a 370 at 365+. Remember: this is intended as a source of azerite gear when you have upgraded most of your stuff but can't find an azerite piece because they're rarer than epic BOE world drops.

That hotfix was wonky. My ilvl 359 char was seeing a 340 cache on the map, but when I turned in, the emissary was showing a 355 reward for the quest instead (which is what I got. Of course, I have a 370, 355 and 340 azerite armor pieces, and it gave me a piece for the 370 slot...).

That, or it was designed first, then someone realized "fuck, we open beta tomorrow and nobody put the NPCs yet???"

You know that Boralus has 3 flight points, but you don't really have to use them? The Horde pyramid has 2, and you NEED them to go between your main hub and the boat for the mission table. Oh, and the professions are smack in the middle of the way between the two (ok, kidding, you just have to...

Emissary reward yesterday was a Feral polearm (Alliance/EU).

Level locking was added in LK, so no.