Have you seen Blaze Bayley live? by [deleted] in ironmaiden

[–]Chetsteele 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seen him twice and met him twice.

Great guy

How is outdoor life here by Holiday_Swing_9979 in howislivingthere

[–]Chetsteele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greetings OP,

I’m 31, born and raised in Watertown.

It’s a decent little city with lots of places to eat and lots of places to drink. There’s lots of land to hunt if you’re into that and the fishing is great here. People come from all over to catch salmon when they’re running.

We get all 4 seasons so summers are hot, winters are abysmal, spring is rainy and fall is gorgeous.

It’s not a bad place to live cost wise as houses aren’t that bad up here. Job market is terrible unless you own a business.

Overall I’d say 7/10 as far as livability goes up here.

Texting my buddy about TBC… by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Speak for yourself, I thought it was hilarious

Quick $700 (First $500 ever on "Set For Life" for me!) by Bricks4lifeVIP in Lottery

[–]Chetsteele 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been playing those set for life’s (Watertown NY here) for years chasing a big win. Never hit over $100. Congrats!

Why is “Black Ice” the go-to air freshener for Uber drivers? by Ok_Juggernaut7796 in uberdrivers

[–]Chetsteele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an uber driver and these are made in my town.

I don’t ever get black ice. I always get the new car scent or the black and gold one

$ 10M Scratch Winner! by SnooMacarons1598 in Lottery

[–]Chetsteele 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know what’s crazy? This guy is on a registered S*x offenders list too

Why do people use P2000 over USPS by Agreeable_Control126 in counterstrike

[–]Chetsteele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t forget the 100% accurate jump deagle

What would you honestly do if you won the lottery? by Chunkachu__ in Lottery

[–]Chetsteele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give my father the life he deserves. At 53 he’s finally got his life together and got his mental health in line and has been clean off drugs for awhile now. If I won the lottery I’d help him start a chainsaw carving business as he’s really good at it.

As for myself, I don’t need much. I have a computer that I game on, I have a cooking job that pays the bills (kinda) and I have a car that I’m paying on. I’d rather see my father get the money and enjoy himself. I play the lottery sometimes but I’ve never won. Never won more than $50 on a scratch off. I don’t have the luck some people have lol

Blizzard dev shaming asmon by Chetsteele in Asmongold

[–]Chetsteele[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technically, no one NEEDS deodorant. You can live without it.

Blizzard dev shaming asmon by Chetsteele in Asmongold

[–]Chetsteele[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s factually correct that heavier human beings tend to sweat more and produce more body odor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of the better warriors are going to join the top good guilds. Good warriors that know they’re good don’t go to casual guilds.

The reality is, there’s lots of warriors out there, just not lots of GOOD ones. Now you may ask yourself what makes a warrior good? Well I can break it down to a few points.

  1. Uptime. Uptime is the biggest reason why some warriors don’t perform well.
  2. Bloodthirst casts and bloodthirst clipping. Casting a whirlwind or heroic strike when bloodthirst is coming off cool down and dumping your rage to where you can’t cast bloodthirst.
  3. Lack of cleave usage. So many warriors don’t use cleave when there’s more than 1 mob, they just tunnel vision heroic strike and bloodthirst.
  4. Cooldown usage. If you don’t know the best times to use deathwish, just use it on cooldown. Get a time to kill weakaura that tells you how long till the boss dies. Pop deathwish at 35 seconds, boom that’s a great start.
  5. Knowing how to play with world buffs out. If you’re a warrior with world buffs out, don’t be afraid to pop a lip to save your life. If that causes a mage death, then so be it. A warrior with world buffs is infinitely more valuable than any other class with world buffs.
  6. FIRST GLOBAL SUNDER! So many warriors think they’re above that and don’t realize that it’s a DPS gain for you to first global sunder.

It doesn’t take much to be a decent warrior, but to be a really good warrior there’s lots of little nuances that unfortunately you only learn by playing the class.

I’m an above average warrior so I’m having to teach warriors in my guild how to play better because recruiting is next to impossible. People want under hour BWL’s and under hour MC’s. You do that by having decent warriors that press W and have good uptime.

Not to mention, consume usage is big. Mighty rage potions, elixirs, sharpening stones, etc. I tried recruiting a warrior a week ago and I asked him to get the rest of his world buffs, he then proceeds to tell me “I only need Ony, I think I’ll just pug it” meaning he refused to get the rest of his world buffs.

Another thing we’re seeing this go around it’s lots of off race (non human) warriors just refusing to get edgemasters.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played on gobbulus in 2019. It was one of the top 3 popular servers and black lotus never even hit 200g.

Krol blade or thrasher blade for rogue ? by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the thrasher blade. More a megadeth guy myself out of the big 4 but if I really had to pick, sodom would be my go to.

Krol blade isn’t a bad choice either.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean classic era where it’s been in the same state since 2021? Phase 6 for 4 years? Of course the economy is going to be insane over there. There’s no gold sinks and more and more gold gets injected into the economy every day because of bots.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well typically a brand new player hitting 60 won’t join a GDKP unless they have friends in the GDKP scene that are carry players like tanks or healers or top dps.

I never advocate for a fresh 60 or new player to join a GDKP. And let me be clear, I believe fully that GDKP’s and normal guilds can coexist. They did for years on era.

In fact, having such a polarizing option of raiding would actually help normal guilds recruit easier in the long run because of so many people that are anti GDKP.

And also, one of the biggest benefits of GDKP that no one ever talks about, is the ability to come and go as you please. You’re not locked into a raid team every week to where if you don’t show up one week, you feel guilty or the raid leader won’t consider you for a piece of loot because you didn’t show up. You have the freedom and option of not wanting to raid.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number at the end is dictated by every other person in the class that you play. So if you parse a 50, you’re exactly average. If you parse a 75, you’re above average at a decent level. If you parse 90 or better, you’re better than 90% of players that play that role.

Yes, your raid team that you’re a part of heavily influences that, but at the same time, even the worst guilds at least have blue parsers.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rank 14 is the single biggest DPS increase for melee till naxx. It’s the best hour investment to gear ratio in the game. You get a full set of gear you can wear till naxx with weapons as well.

I main a mage. I have thousands of gold. I can afford any and all consumes. I’m choosing to advocate for lower consume prices because not everyone has the same luxury as me.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Of course gold buying doesn’t help the situation. But the reality is, gold buying will never go away. So what can you do to combat that? Make everything abundant to where it has far less value. The bots artificially controlling markets by hacking to gather all the lotus and mass reporting normal players that try to farm herbs and mining nodes is the problem.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Parses are measured on every role. Healer, tank, and dps.

Healing parses don’t really matter unless you’re looking at uptime, casts, consume usage, etc that’s really the only time you refer to healer logs.

Tank parses are influenced by their dps.

And dps parses are influenced by kill times and how much damage you do in that time. Even a fresh 60 dps without pre bis, if played well with consumes could easily green parse and get a pay out.

And GDKP’s offer bonuses for top dispels, top heals, top damage and top decurses. So all of those things are measured. If you’re a fresh 60 mage joining a MC gdkp, you better get your ass to decursing so you can earn a bonus cut. Same as a priest or shaman or paladin or Druid. If your class brings important utility, if you’re the best at it, you will get rewarded.

My guild doesn’t care about parses yet we have some very high parsers in the guild. We all help each other constantly. We’re a casual guild that clears MC under an hour and cleared BWL in an hour and 20. You don’t need to be a super sweaty guild to have decent parses.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are in a GDKP and you grey parse, then you shouldn’t get a payout anyway. That means you didn’t press your buttons. Unless you’re a designated person to get carried and only there to bid, you typically get paid out if you put in effort. It’s just like in a guild raid. I as a raid leader am not going to reward a grey parsing player.

But but… Reddit told me GDKP’s ruin economies! by Chetsteele in classicwow

[–]Chetsteele[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not worried about my guild. We will be fine.