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Welcome to the world of "R + L = J". (they're really going to drag this on for the whole season. No flashback this ep? really?)

Let's see: Vanilla: normal max drops ilvl 60, dungeons ilvl 68, first raid ilvl 66, last raid ilvl 90. TBC: first drop ilvl 81, normal max drops ilvl 114, dungeons ilvl 115, first raid ilvl 128, last raid ilvl 154. LK: first drop ilvl 138, normal max drops ilvl 183, dungeons ilvl 200, first...

Well, it was, then I saw that Mad Merchant vendor, and now I'm hoarding the gold.

I'd forgive him if he announced a Wildcards show or something. No Wildcards, no free pass.

Just to remind you: Book 1 was written in '92, book 2 was '93. Twenty years later, the author is a bit better (but a bit slower. Age and all that stuff)

I was about to say "I was in a beta once", then I realized it was that annual pass paid-for beta...

It's also a mandatory bit if you're doing one expansion every two years, as opposed to the "one expansion every 9-10 months" of EQ.

No. Camps were an answer to two very specific EQ features: contested spawn areas and hard risk penalties. The only reason you camped in EQ is because if your group moved away, there was a good chance that: 1) The place you would go to would have no mobs 2) If you decided to go back...

WarcraftDevs on Twitter: You can apply a non-artifact look on an Artifact, but not the reverse.

It took me some time to get the right "spellcaster" look for my priest, thanks to that ridiculous wizard hat (which is a random BOE green of the whatever from level 38). However, without a wardrobe system, it was impossible to really play the dress-up game. GW2 is the best dress-up game (and...

As usual, it's a matter of time. You can run with all 4 armor users if you want. Except that, every run, about 75% of the drops are going to be useless for transmog. Requiring you not only to be able to use the item, but to have that item as your "normal" gear expands the time required to...

The book version has Tyrion having more elaborate strategic preparations and battle management; it's just that he doesn't have the resources to defend the city forever since the armies are out in campaign. He still forces Stannis to a standstill for hours, until the reinforcements show up. As...

They tweaked stuff because plate wearers would be able to unlock cloth, but clothies wouldn't be able to unlock plate. Which would be unfair. So, instead of allowing every classes to unlock every armor, they made it so that you can unlock your armor type and nothing else.

Basically, currently, you need to have the item whose appearance you want to copy somewhere: inventory, bank, void storage. Starting with 7.0, each of those appearance will be recorded on an account-wide wardrobe once you acquire it (i.e. it becomes bound and not tradable), and you'll be able to...

What he means is that, before, say, 2006, almost all MMOs launched, and ramped up over a year or two, before plateauing and starting a slow slide to core fandom. Starting with stuff like Age of Conan, you started to see those one-months wonder: a massive spike at launch, then a massive drop...

On 10 characters, I got an epic about every 1.5/2 weeks on average. But I wasn't fishing for crates, just doing useful missions and leaving the followers idle if nothing but XP remained. Blue is a lot more common. Thing is, there are relatively few pieces of BOE epic, so you tend to get them...

I always thought that WoW took from DAoC more than anything.

100% certain that Champion Honor and the honor missions (which unlock once you've got 4k valor from pvp) will no longer spawn, because that would make a content from previous expansion useful for the current one. The Medallion will probably still exist because it's only useful for its expansion...

The top 7 "Everquest for modern times elements": 1) Majority of meaningful content is group-based (you can solo stuff, but that gives you 10% of what's useful and wanted in the game) 2) Combat is strategy-based (not tactic as in which key I use, but strategy as in what do I fight, in which...

I was ready to swear it would be the Voyagers, because they've gone the furthest (at a whopping 0.005% of the speed of light, or 17km/s), but it turns out that it's a different probe set (Helios) who are the record holder with 70km/s, or a bit over 0.02% of the speed of light.

Haven't seen the series, but having read the books and seen the previews, I can smell aFlashforward-level of fubar a thousand miles away...

You have to realize that they've killed Stannis in the show, but he's completely alive and kicking in the books; something GRRM has explicitly noted in some interviews. Once you've done that, you can figure out that Davos is basically playing the role that Stannis should normally have. It's...

I looked at the first picture, and 3s later... "but, where are the specters????" (funnily enough, before missing even a single sand giant).

The two inner worlds, depending on atmosphere and ground surface will be from above boiling point to over tropical. The outer one has so much unknown that it could be barely habitable to frozen ball. But the main point is that red dwarf stars are the most abundant in the galaxy, long lived...

Given the last things we've seen, suddenly a lot of people are starting to re-read Tywin's last words about Tyrion being "no true son of mine".

Oups, I stand corrected. It's been a while since I've read the books, so I'm not 100% familiar with the family tree.

You can't. He's been mathematically demonstrated as The Main Character of the series. (that probably wouldn't stop GRRM, but it probably can stop the showrunners)

As Hodj said, the former. Incidentally, skin lightening occurred completely independently in Europe and Asia. Like everything in biology, it's complicated but the current consensus is that about a dozen genes control your skin tone, and those genes mutated independently in Europe and Asia...

It started good, but I dropped out of the series around book 8 or 9. I can't really pinpoint it, but at one point, I simply stopped caring about "The princess", and simply started to click "not interested" whenever the yearly book would pop on Amazon. It's still well-rated atGoodreadsso...

I witnessed an interesting (for various degrees of "interesting") discussion on a panel on CRISPR/CAS9 in Feb. It was at the annual meeting of biology research directors for the french NIH, and the entire gist of the argument was "we don't need genetic engineering when we have embryo selection"...

Did you read the question? Ok let's be explicit. Landed = USSR, China, USA (India is excluded if you count "non-destructive landing", otherwise, add) Walked = USA. If your meme picture says Landed... guess what's wrong?

As it should be, because the entire Fitz-Simmons interesting perspective in the show is they're "normal" (for various definitions of normal) people. If you start making everyone in your show "special", then you're grasping at straws because your show is going nowhere, and I'd rather avoid that.

See the post a bit above:The Sci-Fi Book Thread - Page 11 Baen usually has the first volume of any of its large series as a free ebook to hook people:On Basilisk Station by David Weber - WebScription Ebook

Remember, each expansion is designed so that characters can enter the expansion after just completing a handful of quests at the end of the previous. Since your weapon is what affects most your capacity to kill the expansion enemies, they can't delay much when you get a suitable one to replace...

Basically, they've got a bunch of "side" films (Doctor Strange, GotG2, Spiderman, Thor 3), and then we get back on track with Black Panther (feb 2018) as the intro to Infinity Wars (may 2018).

As usual, you start with a crazed idea, then you try to build every possible hint, no matter how ambiguous or maybe inapplicable, as a confirmation of your story. What I'd be interested would be the hints AGAINST that story. But I'm not going to obsess over every single page in the series (too...

Legion seems to change all that. Basically, in Legion, you have one PvP stat. ilvl. That's it. All of your stats, including secondaries are calculated from ilvl. And what I saw on web sites is that pvp gear would have: ilvl, sta, int/str/agi. That's it. Nothing else, including any secondary...

Basically, you can have a CRZ with any server of the same type (PvE/RP/PvP/RPvP) in the same datacenter. The only realms with the smallest CRZ would probably by the oceanian RP realms.

Considering the level of interest from the first episode (who might have been shortened to about 2mn out of 20 and lost essentially nothing of value)... Well, they don't want to cannibalize their own games, so they're making totally different game lines. I mean, look at their current games: RTS...