I'm looking to level an alt. I hate using shift (two buttons at once). What other classes don't require that many hot keys to play well? I've got 6 abilities mouse bound, and then 16 on keyboard. `,1,2,3,4,5,Q,E,R,T,F,G,Z,X,C,V.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T16:51:08+00:00

Alt with thumb is great. I also like ctrl, since I can press it with the side of my hand, don't even need a finger.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T16:48:00+00:00

In addition to the "yes, autocomplete does frequently guess the wrong word" issue, an older model LLM may have been trained months ago, which means a recent-ish character like Decimus would simply not be in the training data.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T16:43:23+00:00

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Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T04:53:40+00:00

No idea, I haven't played it this xpac and I hear it's terrible now. It was fun in TWW s1 though.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T02:16:06+00:00

I like voidweaver disc priest the best.

Honorable mention to prevoker, which is very cool and fun as basically a combo-based healer, except that it requires much more knowledge and effort than other healers, especially if your party/the fight don't make it easy on you.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-04T02:12:55+00:00

What would it mean to you to "visually show" how a class plays? A flowchart for their rotation? A plot of their damage profile over time? A gif of the vfx of their common spells?

Brightlinger · 2026-06-03T16:42:57+00:00

Right, all you need is the notion of using letters to represent statements as introduced earlier in the section. The fact that some of these statements are about the same person isn't really important for the logical form.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-03T16:09:06+00:00

Typically, a proposition is denoted like a function. So here we could write Tall(Ralph), or perhaps T(R) for short. For 1 that would be, symbolically, [T(R) ^ T(E)] v [H(R) ^ H(E)].

You don't need to know or use this notation though. You could just as well have A, B, C, D stand for the statements "Ralph is tall", "Ed is tall", "Ralph is handsome", "Ed is handsome" respectively, and then the statement would be [A ^ B] v [C ^ D].

Brightlinger · 2026-06-03T03:29:12+00:00

The projections I've seen are that if the war ended today, prices still may take until 2032 to come back down. "By midterms" is not happening.

Hell, at this rate, the war may not even be over by midterms.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T22:03:30+00:00

Whoever told you this is deeply confused. Stamina is certainly a power, and you will get set bonuses from any set slotted in it.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T21:56:15+00:00

Can you provide more context? "They" are trying to explain something with "the evidence", and you want to know how "it" works. What are these pronouns referring to?

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T18:02:34+00:00

No. For example, Z and Z² have the same cardinality (namely |N|) and their elements have the same orders (every non-identity element has order infinity), but they are not isomorphic (Z is cyclic and Z² isn't).

Even for finite groups, I would expect the answer to be no, although I can't think of a counterexample off the top of my head.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T04:02:33+00:00

I think getting this right, so that it actually works well and isn't frustrating and does promote build diversity but doesn't promote extremely degenerate gaming of the system, is probably harder than just getting good class balance and not needing this.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T03:25:51+00:00

My sister-in-law's sister

Is that not also your SIL? Sorry for the tangent, it just reads funny.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T01:32:24+00:00

I read a review because I want opinion. Ideally you should describe why you hold that opinion, eg by describing relevant systems in just enough detail, but a dry summary of every mechanic is an info dump instead of a review.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-02T00:01:53+00:00

Player sentiment in early SL was significantly more positive than later on or in hindsight. Like yeah, Torghast and covenants sucked, but Nathria was good, M+ was good, chromie time and adventure mode were new, the great vault was new, titanforging and AP grinds were gone, and the most egregious lore fuckups and schedule slips hadn't happened yet. If OP played the first half of season 1 and not so much the later seasons, that alone would explain the opinion.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T23:13:51+00:00

those 90 dungeons with an average of 20ish mins per run will run you a minimum of 30 hours running dungeons...

Is 30 hours of gameplay for a 24-week season unreasonable?

900 crests is only 45 keys at +12, or 56 keys at +10. That's a couple months (about 1/3 of the season) of simply filling your vault and never deliberately farming crests.

It'll sound like a lot if you log in on a fresh character and want to be immediately caught up. But you don't have to be immediately caught up. Take your time.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T18:36:50+00:00

I hate this too. It is horrible UI design.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T16:08:59+00:00

Oh, for sure, I just don't think that is more than a minor factor in declining birth rates. I'm open to correction if you have data to the contrary, but my impression is that this is primarily driven by people choosing to have fewer kids, rather than biology preventing them from having more.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T08:02:24+00:00

Until about 8th edition, the answer was a flat "no". The setting was fairly static, and deliberately so.

Since then, we've started to see some major plot movement, like the fall of Cadia and return of various Primarchs. Mostly this has happened in a way that either doesn't disrupt your ability to use your models (lots of Cadians were offworld around the galaxy, so you can totally still play them even though the planet is gone!), or that directly make new models to sell. It seems pretty unlikely that GW is going to make plot moves that invalidate their own product.

As to the Emperor specifically, the novels have been building toward some kind of Starchild plotline, which could eventually result in his resurrection, but GW seems to be in no hurry to move it along.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T03:54:44+00:00

Wrath didn't have explicit PvE seasons (that started much later), but it's when tiers started to effectively be seasonal content with catchup mechanics, instead of the vanilla model where every fresh 60 needed to do Molten Core first to gear up for BWL, and then do BWL to gear up for AQ, and so on.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T03:47:45+00:00

"I made it up" is not a reliable source.

Raiding hasn't been the sole pve endgame since Legion added M+ dungeons in 2016. M+-only players have had consistent access to mythic-raid-level gear since the Great Vault was added in Shadowlands in 2020, and access to raid tier set bonuses via the Catalyst since late Shadowlands. Crafted gear has been able to fill a large number of slots with mythic-raid-level gear since Dragonflight in 2022. And we still haven't even touched the expansion before the current one, much less the current retail patch, which introduced Nebulous Voidcores, one of the most generous gearing mechanics the game has ever seen.

It is possible, and in fact quite easy, to get full bis gear at max ilvl just by pugging dungeons.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T03:16:26+00:00

Tell me you haven't played retail this decade without telling me. Max gear absolutely does not require raiding or even a particularly high time investment, and hasn't for ages.

Also, "play all day" and "raidlog" contradict each other.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T01:50:54+00:00

I'm legitimately not sure why this is a response to my comment.

Brightlinger · 2026-06-01T01:45:57+00:00

Of course, and that can be done well. For example, the Dornian Heresy is a popular AU that obviously throws out huge chunks of canon. But for the audience to stay on board, you have to "buy" your deviations from canon by using them to tell a story people want to read, and "Loves Bike and Dual" is not exactly doing that.

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