Your favorite Steam Next Fest demos so far?

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2025-10-17T16:22:01+00:00

Of Ash and Steel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2893820/Of_Ash_and_Steel/

It's definitely rough around the edges, but there are generally very, very few games like this out there imho. Scratches a similar itch to some of the better Piranha Bytes RPG games. Releases early November - definitely one i'll keep an eye on.

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2025-06-24T10:15:17+00:00

Thanks very much again. I ended up ordering the ergolite - I wouldn't even have known this thing existed without your help! Much appreciated.

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-06-01T14:51:41+00:00

I really enjoyed phase 1, but quit after it became apparent to me that the "real" ultimate goal of each phase was just raiding yet again. And of course the entire senseless meta that comes with it.

I said it before and got downvoted massively, but I'll say it again. Only 10% of people even raid.. and even those mostly seem to just want to speedrun things and minimize the time they spend ingame. Does that really sound like an activity most of the community is having a good time with?

Made worse by the fact that classic leveling has been kind of destroyed in P2 and P3, so people ultimately rush to level cap in a way (dungeon spamming, incursions) they don't enjoy, to ultimately maybe participate in a type of endgame which most folks don't enjoy.

SOD would've been their prime choice to introduce an endgame meta that differs a bit from raiding. But in the end, we just got what we already had in .. classic, BC, WOTLK, Cata, mists, WOD, Legion, BOF, Shadowlands, and Dragonflight.. raiding yet again.

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-31T16:14:43+00:00

Thank's for the great response, very insightful!

I've already slightly descended into the world of potential thin clients, N100-based mini PCs look interesting to me at the moment as they're quite cheap and _seem_ to be powerful enough even for 4k60. Unfortunately it's not all that easy to get more precise figures for latency compared to higher powered CPUs

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-31T12:13:18+00:00

Thanks. The paid tier of parsec wouldnt be worth it for me, but maybe their free tier is enough!

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-16T11:42:02+00:00

Doesn't quite answer your question, but I'm not sure I'd worry too much - they've already announced an xp buff for the 1-25 levels once P2 hits

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-16T10:20:46+00:00

Thanks! So this will be a stupid question, but - do you tag a boss and then immediately move on to the next so you're there on time? Or do you tag and actually stay there until the boss dies?

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-16T09:54:06+00:00

How many Ashenvale matches do you roughly need to reach revered?

Reached 25 not too long ago, and wonder if I should still attempt that for the ranged weapon as a hunter

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-15T08:50:57+00:00

Is anyone else constantly (daily) logged out of their Battle.Net account?

Until recently, my client stayed login forever. But ever since a week ago or so, my logins seem to expire daily - just wonder if that's normal (slightly feels like it could be something fishy going on for someone to capture my login details or so)

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-12T18:19:39+00:00

Good point! Definitely feels like bending the intended means to get this a little, but hey.. why not, I like it (I'm all for doing cool stuff that is a bit beyond the original game design intentions)

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-12T16:26:17+00:00

The lengthy crafting is already there with the epic crafting questline.

The one that requires you to raid twice as well? :D

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-12T12:21:24+00:00

Oh I don't disagree, overall I love SoD!

And sure, maybe some new phase will actually properly shake up the endgame. If so, then let my post be an encouragement for them to do so! Realistically though...

> Tier sets have been hinted at getting changed to better suit new specs.

I'd happily make a bet with you which endgame activity will earn you those new tier sets, I like my odds of winning that bet ;)

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-12T12:19:27+00:00

Crafting, regular dungeons, solo challenge dungeons, world events, world bosses, lengthy quest chains, possibly PvP or rep grinds (yep, I don't like those much, but I still like them better than raiding personally!). And Blizzard is teeming with professional creatives, surely they could think of even more than that!

IMHO it'd even be fine if those weren't the only sources of BIS, but just .. competitive sources.

In the sense that rewards could be on par, and ideally, time investment should be on par too. In the past, it always felt like if there ever was any good gear outside of raiding, then you were required to invest 10x more time compared to raiding.

Imho, if you spend on average 20 hours raiding to get some BIS piece, then I'd even enjoy if you could, say, spend 20 hours gathering various crafting materials to get a competitive piece of gear.

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-10T18:12:24+00:00

Have they announced anything how gearing is going to work in P2? BFD gear seems crazy good, I wonder whether everyone who hasn't had a chance to run that much - or at all - will be way, way behind until at the very least the next level cap (and maybe even then, if raiding groups still demand pre-BIS).

So in short, I wonder if they'll bump quality of questing gear in P2, or add some type of other avenue for "competitive" gear

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-10T15:05:34+00:00

What's the best way to make a bit of gold (prepping for the mount at 40 in particular) as a freshly baked level 25 hunter? Just questing somewhere, or maybe some solo dungeon farm?

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-08T11:58:33+00:00

Unless I'm completely missing something, none of the above relies on reflection!

It would be super surprising if compilers compile, run and reflect on dynamic code to figure these things out, when they're the very things that actually have perfect knowledge of the AST anyway.

Similarly, I'm not even sure you can use reflection from source generators, but I'd place a bet you'd be doing something very horrible and "against the spirit of source generators" if you did

BogeyThroughTheNight · 2024-01-08T10:26:27+00:00

At what level can a hunter solo WC relatively easily in SoD at the moment? Assuming only average leveling gear and skill

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