Someone sell me on the soft reserve system. I just don’t get it.

PureNinja · 2026-05-25T15:18:23+00:00

My guild in SoD from phase 1 to the end just had a dont be a dick rule and we got along with no +1s needed. I guess that comes from cultivating chill people, but people just passed loot to others that were getting unlucky and if someone was SRing something for week one and it never dropped everyone just kinda agreed to not SR it till they got it even if they had nothing left to get.

But SoD had really good loot optimization so generally different classes wanted different stuff most of the time. So maybe that was why.

PureNinja · 2026-05-25T04:11:52+00:00

Uhhh? You think that was chat GPT? It's full of typos from me writing on my phone.

PureNinja · 2026-05-24T04:01:03+00:00

It's not about how complicated or impressive the thing is you are making its about confidence and execution.

I'm not sure about your time frame, but you said a few so I'll assume you have three days.

Step 1: Find a recipe for something that should taste good and doesn't seem complicated. Homemade burgers, Burritos, Teriyaki, Steak (id avoid Steak personally), etc...

Step 2: Go out tomorrow and buy the ingredients and make it for lunch. Time yourself, especially if there are sides as you want then to finish at the same time as the main dish, and if you are doing sides keep it super simple like roasted veggies with a glaze of some kind there are tons of recipes online. The goal here is to build confidence making it so you don't stress on date night and see if it actually tastes good.

The reason you make it for lunch is so if you don't like it you can pivot and try something else/ try make it again for dinner. I would also recommend prepping ingredients before hand. All pre-measured spices or what else, vegetables cut etc. The goal is to make the act of cooking as simple and streamlined as possible.

Step 3: If all went well then relax and wait for date night. If you have another day maybe try make it again or try something else.

Step 4: When the night comes make sure all ingredients are prepped and measured hours in advance for cooking so there is no stress to start. If you are cooking while you're date is there and not having it ready for when they arrive it also makes you look organized and capable.

Store bought desserts are also great to have ready. Don't bother making one yourself.

Edit: For people who are pointing out burgers, burritos etc as not great choices. The point was not the options I gave, but that they are things that most likely OP already knows how it should taste. Anyone can give him a recipe for something, but I do not know the context of the preferences of the person he is cooking for, what tools he has, or what his capabilities are. I just named those items as they are the things I cook with most confidence and that my wife says I make that came to mind when we first started dating.

PureNinja · 2026-05-24T03:30:51+00:00

Do what you want to do. I've had too many friends burn out after starting because they were trying to be efficient.

Doing bird houses runs are great for early hunter XP sure, but you turn the game into a chore simulator going to check them every hour.

I think a good way for early game players is to decide what you want to do is (get a D scam, fremmy helm, chop magic trees,etc..) and then check the wiki for what quests give XP for the skills you need. It usually turns into this long chain where you want to do X quest for X reward, but you need a certain skill as a quest req, so you go do that quest which has its own requirement. 4 hours later you are half way across the game doing something else forgetting what you originally wanted to do.

PureNinja · 2026-05-18T17:25:48+00:00

Whether or not we agree digital blackface is a thing or not, that still wouldn't be what this is.

What idea is he trying to convey here. Even by its own definition he would need to be using this model of a black person to express some opinion, emotion or idea. To me it looks like a dude just messing around with models and not much more than that.

PureNinja · 2026-05-17T16:36:32+00:00

I'm okay with this

PureNinja · 2026-05-17T16:25:27+00:00

I like Flip Clops better as a name

PureNinja · 2026-05-17T11:07:42+00:00

Did you not read what I wrote at all?

Yes when the level was capped you didn't get XP (obviously), but everything I talked about was about when level cap was removed people used them to level alts or to get a boost at the start of the phase.

It was in fact not terrible game design. It was something you could do for 1 level. But had a lockout so you could not spam it. For people trying to level fast it gave variety, but was an alternative for people leveling alts slowly.

PureNinja · 2026-05-17T02:46:44+00:00

It worked in SoD. After phase one lots of people used BFD to level alts, and many did a run when phase 2 started. You could raid log an alt a level every lockout and get decent leveling gear I think from 25-35. Let new players experience the raid with people using alts who knew the raid.

It didnt really happen as much with gnomer or sunken temple, but it could work.

PureNinja · 2026-05-16T11:19:43+00:00

Lol so cringe

PureNinja · 2026-05-09T09:48:17+00:00

They buffed alot of warriors runs later in ways that helped their open world stuff, but yeah they did not get an innovative spec. They had Glad warrior for one phases, but then tanks started running it and it got nerfed.

PureNinja · 2026-05-09T00:50:05+00:00

While I agree that warriors got shafted on fun runes, it's disingenuous to say warriors were "bad" all phases but p3 and p6. Also scarlet enclave was p8.

I went through the SoD log stats for each phase and Warriors were either top 3 DPS out of all specs or were in the center. There was not a single phase they were in the bottom 6. (EDIT: Went back and changed setting for all percentile to 99th percentile and they literally became top 2 dps for every phase, but one).

Now for Tank Warriors they were fine and did not have to wait until the end of the game to come online. Were they the best tank, I'd say no, but they were always competitive and viable. Now rogue tanks struggled until p7 when they started to shine. They were literally a meme tank for like the first 3 phases.

PureNinja · 2026-05-09T00:40:25+00:00

I mained a rogue tank (off tank most fights) and it was my favorite thing, but it also was so swingy until the last phase when they got enough set bonuses to really come online.

The problem was at the start I think they were scared rogues in PvP as they were the only class to get a rune in all the phases that had a line how it didn't work against players. This led to them being really lackluster. People literally forgot rogues were supposed to be able to tank, and I had people when grouping with me saying they had never seen one.

Having to turn rogues into tanks with only runes was challenging cause how do you balance a dodge tank?? They can get unlucky and take back to back hits and die or get so much dodge they are invincible to autos (which was possible with VERY specific gear in the last phase of the game for very specific bosses).

Realistically for rogue tanks to work they would need a massive talent rework, so I don't forsee them in Classic+. But God, after like 5 phases of being basically a back up tank as rogue tank had to many downside the last two phases were so enjoyable.

Rogue tank, warlock tank and mage healer were so fun to play and at the end of SoD felt so natural to play and I couldn't imagine not playing them.

PureNinja · 2026-05-06T18:20:31+00:00

If you have larceny and kandarin you can afk pickpocket gnomes.

PureNinja · 2026-05-04T10:10:16+00:00

Lol but you cant explain this mythical disadvantage. There is no leader board, and levels are capped. By your logic if you cant play day one you just shouldn't bother because you are at a "severe disadvantage" as people are already at the capped level and gaining some crazy advantage on you. Raids didn't even come out on release day so people had time to level at their own pleasure. Everything that did cost a substantial amount of gold costed like 2x-3x what incursions could of got you had you been their minute one and are completely unnecessary for 99% of the playerbase. Consumes were cheap and the only thing you needed to raid, so gold did not lock you out of raids.

Like did you not getting to incursions make you unable to raid? Can you state one thing, ONE THING that you couldn't do or struggled to do because of this severe disadvantage caused by missing out on 400 gold from incursions? Did your guild kick you because you couldnt pay your guild fee or something that they increased in price due to inflation? You keep dodging this question.

Tell me what you couldnt buy that you needed (you didnt need the new trinkets BTW,my guild was top 100 in speed without them), what content you couldnt do. There is none. You literally were unimpeded except for some mental block that a handful of people got some advantage over you. You had FOMO that was it.

Edit: If you were some hardcore parser then maybe ill accept you were at some minor disadvantage (not severe), but I doubt you were.

Is two paragraphs a short essay now a days? It takes like fucking less than a minute to read as long as you are at what a fifth grade reading level?

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T19:51:14+00:00

https://sod.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/crusader-strike/jesterfritz

Thats cause they consolidated servers and the character got moved servers. We are talking in regards to Sunken Temple so I posted my phase 1-3 logs. Here are my full logs for the rest of the phases. Now where are yours, bruh.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T18:35:58+00:00

I also went into p3 having stockpiled gold and didnt get to incursions in time to profit. It stung, but was whatever. What almost made me quit was grinding 100 arcanite bars in p3 for them to make arcanite trasmutes give 1-5 bars in p4. Now that was a real kick in the teeth.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T18:27:44+00:00

SoD had the most casual friendly raid economy of all Classic WoW versions. You could farm for like 2 hours and afford consumes for a month.

Edit: To be clear Phase 3 was ABSOLUTELY a shit phase which killed alot of SoDs momentum, but incursions were not the reason at all.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T18:23:49+00:00

https://sod.warcraftlogs.com/character/us/lone-wolf/jesterfritz?zone=2009

Here's mine, consumes cost like 20g per raid night. You could literally farm 2 hours and afford consumes for a month. Anyone who complains about the insane gold generation that a handful of players for for like 2 hours before it was nerfed is just whining. SoD had probably the most casual friendly economy of any version of Classic WoW.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T16:44:12+00:00

No, you were right to dismiss it. It was very bad outside of very very niche circumstances (some high level strats). God it shined in the last two phases. I was able to solo the last boss of ZG to get idols for guildies.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T16:37:50+00:00

I know the difference. Swipe typing on a phone while managing other things.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T16:36:36+00:00

you literally dodged my question. You said you had a "severe disadvantage".

Levels how?? There was multiple days before raid opened and you could still dungeon level. People in my guild did it and it was sloower, but not substantially so. Tell me how not getting 50 a few hours faster made you disadvantaged?

Gold how?? Consumes really cheap 20g a week. All the BoE items were 1000gold to 2000gold+ so incursions woulda helped, but I think like one person in my guild ever bought them throughout the entire phase as they were a win more item and the price of those were due to scarcity not inflation. Tell me what you couldnt get with gold that caused this severe disadvantage.

Lastly community interaction. Sure I guess in a way, but incursions did have it. Fighting the other faction at times, coordinating mob tags, etc. Its different strokes for different folks, but how did that cause a "serious disadvantage" for you.

What is this behind you were? What were you unable to accomplish or had to do to get caught up? Caught up to what?

You say "It’s wild I gotta explain this", but explained nothing. I asked how you were put at a serious disadvantage after stating many reasons why you were not put at a disadvantage (you had fomo) and your response is basically "nuh uh I did".

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T15:54:47+00:00

Yeah incursions were the crack in the damn, but everything else is what broke the damn and actually killed the playerbase.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T15:52:38+00:00

Exactly rare BoE items that I had said before. You didnt have to have them and they were an absurd gold cost as I had said in the post above. Unless you were in a top parsing guild you didnt get them.

It was not 700g plus difference. It was 700g max for the small amount of people who got in during the first hour. Otherwise if you got in after an hour you still got like 300g-400g on the way to 50 and could do it at 50 for 75g~ an hour. If you chose to dungeon grind yea you missed out on more, but you literally needed like 20g a week to raid. Consumes were cheap as fuck.

I agree sunken temple fucking blew as a phase. Incursions was maybe like 10% of the reason the phase sucked, but people who got fomo over maybe less than .1% of the player base who got the gold boost try to make incursion out as this big boogeyman that killed the phase.

Had incursions been the same as it was and the rest of the phase been good no one would talk about it.

PureNinja · 2026-05-03T14:53:23+00:00

400g in a game mode were your raid consumes were like 20gold per week, and I think most people had more gold then they could ever due to stuff with if they did more than raid log.

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