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Same for a guildy; relatively casual (plays mostly late evenings) and his comment on Discord when it dropped was "Ok, wife will have to wait for her craft components, the bloods will go to HR now". (wife wasn't in the raid that night, or it might gone... differently) Getting a legendary is...

That, or they want something to be genuinely rare.

The "solution" to the legendary system is simple: remove caps, extend bad luck protection. You should have exactly the same chance of getting a legendary at a given point, regardless of how many you have. That's the only way you remove the syndrome of "shit, I got XXXX, now I'm fucked, I'll...

The biggest change between WoD and Legion for me was relearning the entire flow of Elemental Shaman. My fingers are still trying to use the old cast order.

About every review of the paper I've seen says the same thing: - They appear not to do a thorough set of tests that check various aspects of the system - They don't provide critical details on how they account for measurement errors The reason they haven't a launch date or anything for their...

Amazon's Best of 2016 SF Books is up. And I've read... 1 out of 20 (plus the 3rd Cixin book, which is on the "to read, after finishing the 28 books still unread" pile). Well, I know what to look for. After those books. The one I've read is The Invisible Library, which is a 2015 book, but now...

ROFL at the comments on the ban threads for the Nightfallen exploit. "But why can't you ban those people only 3-4h? They won't be able to come to the raid tomorrow night!!! I LOST my faith in Blizzard's fairness!!!"

They tend to go together because they strengthen similar goals. Let's say, your goal is that people should try to group up whenever they have the time (and don't feel too anti-social that day). You can't have a game where you can't solo anymore, but that does not mean you shouldn't have a...

She's a bitch until you find out the correct strategy for your raid in P2. Once we switched from our original tentacle kill order (which wasn't working), she went down on first try.

If you don't know what to offer for christmas, this is it. It even has a pandaren-style cooking quest at the beginning :)

At the moment, the evidence appear that most of the increase in reported autism cases comes from better and more inclusive diagnosis of it; a large number of children diagnosed with autism today would have been shelved in other categories or even completely ignored one or two generations ago...

That's good, because science is never 100%. Only true believers have 100% certainty on a claim, never scientists. Besides, I have a problem: what claim are you making here? From what you seem to say, you appear to imply that thimerosal is a toxic due "heavy metal poisoning" (false), and you...

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...