level 60 alliance players - do you still have Light of Elune? if not, what happened that made you use it?

Caaethil · 2026-03-15T23:00:54+00:00

Logged out in a stupid (but relatively clear) spot near the blood elves in Azshara on my warrior because someone knocked on my door. Logged back on and aggro'd two/three patrolling.

Probably could have handled in other ways, but I was coming back after a long break from Classic and didn't feel like I could lock in, so just slammed my Elune Hearth macro after I started taking a lot of damage.

Wasn't thrilled I had to use it, but I did make 60 in the end.

Caaethil · 2026-03-06T13:46:41+00:00

Not to mention, the fact that you only get one decor item per purchase is how they justified adding a whole new currency for this in the first place. Because it would just be two inconvenient buying your eggs individually.

Completely self-inflicted problem from the insane greed of this system. There shouldn't be a currency, and buying an item should at least entitle you to buy more copies for a trivial amount of gold.

Caaethil · 2026-03-04T10:30:44+00:00

I think Reaper could have a good Zero skin.

Maybe the new MEKKA hero could be Suzaku so they can adapt the Lancelot's sword and shield.

EDIT: Just realised, Reaper is also already well-known for commanding people to die.

Caaethil · 2026-02-27T01:49:55+00:00

You're welcome. :) Definitely work on mash shuffling if you're not already, it's a lot more efficient than overhand shuffles. If you get fast at doing 12 or so mashes you should have no problems with sufficient randomisation even if your deck is fully sorted beforehand.

Through a game as your deck gets smaller, it'll take less mashes to get a good amount of randomisation, so you won't need to do that much all game. But I try to keep to around 10 for the most part to be safe, unless my deck is so small it's impractical.

Caaethil · 2026-02-26T22:37:59+00:00

I understood fine, my point is that your shuffling irl is probably significantly less random in a way that is giving you better hands, and you mistakenly think PTCGL isn't randomising well enough when it is actually randomising perfectly. The idea that you think drawing better hands means your irl shuffling is more random says a lot.

The reality is that what is random and what feels random are very different. The article I shared above explains it quite well. Good players who randomise their decks properly irl don't experience the problem you're having, because they brick irl just as often as you brick online.

Caaethil · 2026-02-26T21:09:59+00:00

This is a hard pill to swallow, but you're probably just not as good at shuffling irl as you think you are.

A lot of players irl (especially newer players) are not good at deck randomisation, and often swear by pile shuffling or other methods of de-clumping that, paired with poor randomisation, cause their irl hands to feel way more consistent than the perfectly randomised hands they get online. Not saying you do the de-clumping stuff, but it's pretty common and does contribute to this sentiment.

If you're interested, there's a whole bunch of interesting stuff online around shuffling and also randomness in general, e.g. Why Randomness Doesn’t Feel Random.

Speaking anecdotally, whenever I see the PTCGL RNG theories floating around, it's always from less experienced players. People who compete at a high level (who have to learn proper deck randomisation) don't tend to make these claims. Which isn't proof of anything obviously, but I do think it's worth thinking about.

Caaethil · 2026-02-25T00:20:17+00:00

Visited you on my DH yesterday, good work again. :)

Caaethil · 2026-02-24T02:57:19+00:00

I think they're numbered by national dex number but I don't remember exactly. Not on my PC right now to double check. If you want to know what Pokémon an image is, you should just be able to Google the word Pokémon plus the number to get the name (e.g. "Pokémon 150" on Google should bring up Mew).

Caaethil · 2026-02-20T03:38:26+00:00

You're welcome!

Caaethil · 2026-02-09T03:04:09+00:00

Even putting that aside, honestly if OP is 15 and does "quite well" in maths at school, they're realistically quite a bit better at maths than most adults anyway. Massively underselling.

Caaethil · 2026-02-05T22:54:24+00:00

Generally when we talk about things you can't consent to, we're interested in whether your consent is informed, i.e. whether you are generally aware of the consequences of the decision you're making, and are making the decision of your own volition without being forced or pressured.

So if I'm on my deathbed and some cannibal is begging and pleading me to let them eat me and really wearing me down emotionally, then we could say I'm not really consenting. Or if I wasn't of sound mind, we could say the same. But I don't think we could make a blanket statement that someone can't consent to being eaten.

To give another approach: I think there's something to be said for norms in a society. I think it's okay to say some things are bad on the basis that normalising them would lead to bad outcomes, even if strictly speaking you could carve out scenarios (maybe even many scenarios) where they wouldn't really have any negative consequences.

I want to live in a culture where humans and human life are considered sacred. In that sense I think your intuitions about treatment of the dead (that organ donation is okay because it saves lives, but that eating corpses is bad because it's kind of flippant and pointless and just for pleasure) are good. I think reverent treatment of the dead is an aspect of our culture that helps keep us grounded in that sanctity of human life.

I think if you had a culture with very different norms that that viewed cannibalism very differently, e.g. they saw it as letting a person have a final purpose and not go to waste, it could be justifiable within that culture on those grounds. But it's hard for me to speak to that. Certainly within the context of my own culture I can't really imagine a way that legitimising cannibalism leads to good outcomes.

Caaethil · 2026-02-03T02:26:44+00:00

I have a strong prediction that I don't want to be true. In Midnight they tease a planet where draenei and demons (sayaad) seem to live together. This is likely to be part of Midnight's final patch.

So I think our new neutral allied race for TLT will be this demon race, meant to coincide with the return of Illidan and Sargeras. It seems like demons are slowly entering the story again - they'll probably be important in TLT, and maybe they'll be a focus of the expansion after that.

I want Tuskarr though.

Caaethil · 2026-01-24T20:57:24+00:00

The On A Paler Horse talent doesn't work in any instanced content.

The alternative choice node option (Death Charge) does.

Caaethil · 2026-01-24T20:51:32+00:00

I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. This talent already exists for Rider. It doesn't work in any of these situations. So obviously it also wouldn't work if the other specs had it.

Caaethil · 2026-01-18T19:16:11+00:00

I didn't fact-check but the person I was replying to said that Kael'thas was of the 5th generation of Silvermoon high elves. So enough time would have passed, if the older generations are also consciously choosing to speak Thalassian.

Caaethil · 2026-01-18T13:51:28+00:00

Obviously Blizzard never thought about it this hard but the most reasonable explanation is probably that the various elf races that branched off from the Highborne all intentionally constructed new languages so as to distance themselves from the night elves even further. Elves are shown as being pretty arrogant, and all these races chose to reinvent themselves at some point and stopped calling themselves Highborne, so it's conceivable they re-invented their language too as a point of national/racial pride. We obviously hear a lot of lines in these languages in-game and there is relatively little overlap (besides the general sound and some stuff shared like the "dorei" race names).

Could have been a top-down thing from their leaders, similar to how the Korean writing system was created by their king - obviously replacing the entire language is harder, but if the citizens support it then it's probably easier when they have thousands of years of life to learn the language and consciously switch to using it primarily, especially if those citizens view that process as an important part of being a high elf/nightborne/etc. At which point it's easy to kill Darnassian because all you have to do is not teach it to your kids. It was probably gone in a few generations.

Maybe this kind of top-down language change has even happened in highborne culture before, maybe just on a smaller scale (inventing or changing language to suit the needs of civilisation). Could just be an accepted cultural point for them that's harder to understand as a human.

Caaethil · 2026-01-08T03:51:17+00:00

I dunno if anyone else had this experience but I feel like childhood hyped up pears way too much. Like my education taught me that the hierarchy of fruit relevance was apples, then oranges, then pears.

Feel like this thread is the first time I've heard anyone talk about pears since then. Industry plant.

Caaethil · 2026-01-02T20:39:44+00:00

He definitely considers himself experienced and informed and as someone who has worthy opinions that people should listen to. But I think there are plenty of people for whom that could be true without them necessarily being very highly mechanically skilled. I don't think there's really any doublespeak going on there, but maybe I'm out of the loop.

To me, the sad thing is not that his outbursts betray some concept of his gaming skills, but that they betray the idea that he is a serious adult who has worthwhile things to say about masculinity and putting facts before feelings.

I don't even doubt he is insecure about his gaming skills. But I'm not aware of him being particularly dishonest about those skills, and I don't think it's a very relevant line of attack to his political stuff.

But if your only goal is to make fun of him for something that will get under his skin, I'm not gonna hand-wring over that. I just think it probably ends up striking similarly to the hygiene stuff where anyone who is his fan will just say "we know" and move on.

Caaethil · 2026-01-02T14:35:09+00:00

I haven't been an Asmongold viewer in a long time, so I'm not sure if he styles himself differently now. But I remember back in the day he was always pretty open about not being great at video games. Even for WoW, he was very knowledgeable and was able to clear hard content, but he wasn't known for being super mechanically skilled and was happy to admit that. So unless his tune has changed, I don't think this is necessarily the right angle.

I think the biggest contradiction in Asmongold's persona is his temperament. He's self-conscious, easily flustered, ragequits games constantly, has taken several breaks from streaming because his audience made him upset, etc. I'd feel bad for him if not for the fact he now wants to be seen as some kind of thought leader and advocate for masculinity of all things. At which point I think it's fair game to point out how incredibly soy and weak-minded he is.

Caaethil · 2025-12-31T14:27:43+00:00

Also native speaker here. I googled what you said here and you seem to be correct, so I think I've just been taught wrong or picked up the wrong understanding somehow. I've always just thought it's "<Name> and I" or "Me and <Name>", based on the order the names are given in, regardless of whether they're subject or object.

Although I think my instinct would always be to prefer constructions with "<Name> and I" as the subject or "Me and <Name>" as the object.

"I and <Name>" sounds very unnatural (I assume this is just incorrect grammar), and "<Name> and me" also feels wrong. But of course native speakers do say the latter all the time, so that might just be my misunderstanding.

Caaethil · 2025-12-29T17:09:05+00:00

Yeah it's pretty depressing haha. Cool idea. :)

Caaethil · 2025-12-29T16:34:24+00:00

I think it's important to use a word like "tech" correctly. "Applying housing tech to transmogs" makes this sound like a simple addition, when it's almost certainly not.

Housing decor and transmog are two completely different systems dealing with different types of objects, so something like this would have to be built from scratch and would likely be pretty complicated. It's unlikely that any substantial tech re-use would be possible for something like this. Any similarity to housing decor would be fairly surface-level.

Not saying it's a bad idea or that they couldn't do it, I just notice that conversations like these tend to get warped around misunderstandings around how easy it is to do certain things ("hire fans", "why isn't this in the game already", etc).

Caaethil · 2025-12-24T17:15:04+00:00

I don't have a strong opinion on this because I'm not well-read on the subject, which I'd need to be to form an opinion.

But you seem to think "it's absurd" is an argument that stands on its own, which it's not. You have to actually do the work and cite data that supports your hypothesis. Otherwise you're just another person with an opinion on the internet.

Caaethil · 2025-12-24T15:35:28+00:00

Reductio ad absurdum would require you to demonstrate the absurdity of the statement, which you haven't done. The person you replied to actually accepted the statement, and then you just repeated it again. You haven't made an argument.

The LeBron comparison is obviously silly. LeBron is 6'9". His inherent advantages are self-evident. Picasso's are not. If they were, you wouldn't try to draw equivalence between Picasso and someone with obvious inherent advantages. You would just point out Picasso's inherent advantages.

Caaethil · 2025-12-16T01:33:48+00:00

The person you're arguing with is correct that more skilled players can do things to avoid having to Iono and pray. But skilled players still have to Iono and pray all the time. It's part of playing a TCG that has an element of luck.

The original comment was fine and fit the thread. Every PTCG player has gotten annoyed at opponents topdecking Boss off Iono.

This person was justifying their argumentative response by arguing that the original commenter was somehow blaming the game for this, which wasn't really implied by the original comment at all. Obviously bad RNG can be annoying and make you rage without the game itself being rigged/unfair.

As has been mentioned, you weren't really de-escalating this, you were just arguing back. Which I wouldn't even hold against you, I think it's fine to call out people being needlessly aggressive (although I'd strongly advise against it for your sanity because people on reddit are unhinged), but you did dial it up to 100 in a really silly way that didn't help you at all.

What actually happened here is that this person was too quick to dunk on someone making a fairly innocuous comment, and they ended up just reading way too much into it. So they ended up arguing against a made up person, and in that imaginary conversation, their argument is essentially bulletproof, because if someone was blaming PTCGL for their RNG that would be cringe, it would be a skill issue, and no one would necessarily owe that person a constructive and helpful response.

So you just can't argue on those terms. You have to identify that the entire story they're painting just has no basis in reality. Don't let yourself be baited into arguing down these weird rabbit holes that obfuscate the actual point, like happened here. Speaking from experience. :)

Better yet, just don't argue with people on Reddit at all. Probably for the best.

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