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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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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...

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

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

Well, Boeing says no rockets work, but mine.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Urban is such a fan of Elon :)

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

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...

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.