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  1. Ukerric

    The Magicians

    The original idea of the trilogy is "deconstruct Harry Potter", I think. Since I'm rarely interested in rebuttals/can-do-better books, I've given it a pass. Is the TV show really good?
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    The Expanse

    If you look at the episode titles, you can see exactly how the pacing is, and if does feel about right. The only thing that seems maybe rushed in ep 9-10, there could have been another, but onceit's very quick in terms of real-time events. Here's the titles for the upcoming episodes: 5...
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    The Expanse

    It's a good standard for story-driven shows rather than recurring drama shows. 10 ep per season is Game of Thrones, 22 eps is Stargate SG1.
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    Star Trek Beyond (2016)

    You're in troubleif you have to defend your trailer from the fans.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At the standard group/dungeon level, Holy is ok. I've always been Holy as a raid Priest and have pretty much stopped doing that and am always in Shadow doing my DPS because I'm an hindrance in any non-farm stuff if I'm doing healing.
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    Upcoming SF&F Adaptations (or future disappointment)

    It's optioned, meaning they still need to figure out if they can really have a good script that works. Once Eick has finished a script, then they have to convince SyFy to order at least a pilot. Then the pilot and projected budget has to convince the network execs to order the series. A lot...
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    Star Trek Beyond (2016)

    Boutella. The girl who was playing Gazelle (the razorblade legs girl) in Kingsman. Yea. What could possibly go wrong? When I heard "The frontier fights back", I was "what? Are they really jumping to remaking The Final Frontier?"
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Items in Legion seem to start at 700 in your first zone and go up to 800 for level 110 dungeons/crafted (artifact starts at 750). That suggests a progression of 9 ilvl per level post 100. If you're geared in non-warforged/non-improved heroic, you're probably replacing your items at level...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Swap servers to catch that bug. I had a character camped there that I would from time to time swap to and then custom LFG hopping. Got the beastie in about 3 days (of course, I think I just logged in the middle of a sandstorm, and there were half a dozen around waiting for me). My last...
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    X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

    Yep. She was signed on for 3 movies before she signed for Hunger Games. And that's probably why she's not so much in makeup; they want us to see her. They carefully husband the dude's film options. Any additional film needs a couple trailers of money thrown at him.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Tier 2 barracks + tank bodyguard = not squishy. (a bit squishier if horde, that warlock tank isn't as good as the alliance paladin).
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    The Expanse

    You should, unless you want to avoid spoilage. The first one is a bit weak, the rest goes up from there. People have noticed that Avasarala (which appears only starting in the second book) is immediately introduced, I presume they're going to pick some stuff that comes from book 2 to strengthen...
  13. Ukerric

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Infinity Wars (part 1 & 2), yes.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Yea, and I was pretty bummed to discover that Gandalf was, in fact, a Dwarf. Originally. (ok, a dwarf that uses a magic staff, so what?)
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    What did you just read?

    Currently in the middle ofThe Pentagons Top-Secret Military Research Agency: Annie Jacobsen: 9780316371766: Amazon.com: Books. I had a shorter and more "hype" book a few years ago,Department of Mad Scientists, The: Michael Belfiore: 9780061577932: Amazon.com: Booksbut wanted to know more about...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They should probably split the custom LFG/LFR section in two, with one dedicated to challenge mode which would list (and allow sorting) which stone level the leader has.
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    The Elder Scrolls Online

    It's B2P; youdoneed to buy it to play. The gradation goes P2P (Pay - recurring - to play), B2P (buy to play), F2P (don't pay anything).
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The gods of luck, I think.
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    The Expanse

    14th is Ep 1 (the one already streamed), 15th is the 2nd episode.
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    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    You can't beat E.E. Doc Smith power creep, where you start your "ultimate weapons" with laser guns that burn themselves after one shot in the 1st episode, and you end with battles fought with antimatter planetS (plural) thrown at faster than light speeds to your target. As a diversion for the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only reason I have all save the Ashran at exalted, and the Ashran one half-way there is that 8 alts shoveling the Legion medallion to my main whenever that mission pops make it doable.
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    I dropped the second book halfway thru. I still liked how Suarez writes, so I did pick and had lots of big groans on the Influx book (and I shudder at thinking how it could ever be adapted in a movie, which it's supposed to).
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    Marvel's Jessica Jones

    Supposedly, you have Luke Cage, then Ironfist, then the Defenders ensemble season. Depending on delays for Ironfist, I suppose you may have a 2nd season of DD before...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't remember about other portals for horde beside Orgrimmar, but Alliance side, you have Stormwind (mage tower) and Ironforge (next to the dwarven forge). Level 3 garrison has the full tower next to the mine area; at level 1 & 2 it's only a pile of construction materials. You automatically...
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Took me a while but I'm pretty good now (at ilvl 711). I'm going with another shadow priest as acolyte (the Arrakoa bodyguard), and stuff dies rather quickly. While I don't have the survivability of a DK, I simply chain pull stuff and do my dailies quickly. I don't use dots though, the talent I...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Because you only need 25k apexis if you want a guaranteed 695 item; if you want a 650-695 (the latter with lots of luck, it's usually 665-680 when I get an upgrade) to boost your ilvl, then your 7k+ daily round gives your nine baleful tokens for one week for the slots you're missing which is in...
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Tanaan all the way. Tanaan baleful gear is way better than anything prior to citadel raids, except Citadel LFR if you happen to score a warforged socketed version (I'm obviously not including LFR in "raids"). Its downside is that it takes quite some time unless you're willing to spend 3-4 hours...
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's supposed to be another Nerubian Fortress, i.e. a smaller copy of Acherus. It actually makes sense since they already have a teleport back and forth between there and whatever current content there is.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm pretty sure it's the point. The datamining shows the legendaries bound, so they are almost certainly BoP. Meaning they are going to be personal spec-loot system (i.e. when you get one, it's one that's useable by you). They might add another mechanic to it, but I doubt it; the...
  30. Ukerric

    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    Nope, he's still with a contract option for Infinity Wars part 2. But they're probably going to have him "retire from superhero affairs" following some form of humbling failure at the end of the movie.
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    The Expanse

    The book series is good. They've got a contract for 9, 5 are out so far with the 6th coming up this summer. I also liked how they set up the impression that Holden's crew is going to rescue Julie on the Scopuli, but she's not there.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only way to get those is the BMAH...
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    The Expanse

    Yay for the episode. And, of course, boo for making a free episode where "This content is not available from your location".
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    The Man in the High Castle

    It's TV. If it's succesful, it will have a sequel, even though the book itself basically covers that season 1 and Dick never wrote a sequel.
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Do Tanaan anyway. If you're careful about what fight you pick and try to stay away from groups, you'll survive no pbm, specially if you have the tank bodyguard with you. If you haven't recruited her, do it first, then head back to Tanaan. There's a couple oftreasuresthat can help, plus if you...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's two possibilities: One is that it's a temporary position for the pre-launch event. Two: it's a phasing map, and you get into the Broken Isles not using the flying fleet seen in the trailer, but when Dalaran moves itself into position. So, just like you had a Tanaan jungle trek at...
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sitting in front of the mission table to send your treasure hunter followers plus scavengers twice a day, finish any mission that yields a sellable, get out every 3 days to empty the cache and dump GR on buying gold bags, open and sell salvage when you start having two-three stacks = 1k gold per...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I particularly like the Karana Br... sorry, the River Bridge.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm pretty sure you can't; relics appear to be the Artifact-only version of gems. So you can't recover a relic once slotted, you can only overwrite it. Which is part of why it's going to be slightly more difficult to keep all your artifact to the top: you'll need to farm artifact power AND...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, we did manage to fend off antigravity nerubian fortresses, so why not legion star destroyers?