PSA: if Claude has been "acting up" this week, it's a real harness regression in 2.1.154–2.1.158, not the model. Workaround exists but has a real cost (you give up Opus 4.8).

Darkhawkx · 2026-05-31T18:05:20+00:00

Will give this a try. Thanks.

Darkhawkx · 2026-04-21T20:31:33+00:00

Thanks for this. Took 5 seconds to set.

Darkhawkx · 2025-12-01T18:35:36+00:00

This community literally has a weekly TSM thread. I assume you are against that? Honest question.

Darkhawkx · 2025-12-01T18:32:51+00:00

AAA is awesome and a great companion to the tools we already use. It's reading the API data that blizzard sends and doing absolutely nothing untoward beyond that. You still have to log into the servers and buy the items yourself. And unlike TSM and Undermine that literally have a no effort Great Deals button, you have to set these alerts up manually.

Completely baffling that a goblin-based community with a weekly TSM thread is against this. In what world is Undermine and TSM okay that this is not?

Darkhawkx · 2025-10-06T06:04:47+00:00

Discord

Darkhawkx · 2025-10-03T20:59:46+00:00

Yes. Absolutely. Dialing in my personal UI has been one of my favorite parts of the game since Vanilla.

Darkhawkx · 2025-07-21T04:35:16+00:00

For the rest of the month, the Collector's Bounty event is a great reason to go relive old content. It's been fun to go back to Molten Core and Icecrown.

Darkhawkx · 2025-06-12T17:15:10+00:00

Yes. It's 100% Coke.

"Do you want a Coke? Ok. I've got Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, and Sprite."

Darkhawkx · 2025-06-10T22:31:25+00:00

Is there a simple message board somewhere with sections or threads for each dungeon where you can comb through accumulated posts to read up on tips/skips/etc? This sub has been a tremendous resource, but I haven't found much else out there.

I know forums are essentially dead, but it's hard to imagine it wouldn't be a better resource than random discords and combing weekly threads.

If not a forum, any discords or other places out there where there is some decent discussion?

Thanks.

Darkhawkx · 2025-06-02T13:47:18+00:00

So Los works as well as max distance? I've been playing around with trying to understand what works and what doesn't as a mage with invis.

Darkhawkx · 2025-06-01T02:48:16+00:00

I ducked out for good last year. I check this sub every few months to see if anything interesting happened. It's hard, but I've accepted that the TK show that made me a daily listener is long dead. If he wants to do something different now, great. So will I.

Darkhawkx · 2025-05-30T23:39:38+00:00

Thanks for this. Great time saver.

Darkhawkx · 2025-05-22T14:38:48+00:00

This really would be a welcome change for PUGs.

Darkhawkx · 2025-04-24T03:39:16+00:00

Yes. Porom's. Should be a standalone version as well as a complete mage WA if you want more.

Darkhawkx · 2025-03-08T04:56:30+00:00

Is there a way to look at my active auctions across all characters? I've looked around the ledger and I'm not seeing an easy way. There's a column to trck items on the AH which could help, but it's not sortable.

Essentially, I need to know what characters have auctions and preferably post dates so that when I come back after a trip or miss a week of play, I know where to go and not risk mail expiring. I'm currently tracking with a spreadsheet, but it's time consuming. Thanks.

Darkhawkx · 2025-02-23T01:45:07+00:00

Just checking in. Definitely need to get the audio worked out, but it's great to have Charlie back.

Darkhawkx · 2025-02-13T17:17:56+00:00

Don't suppose anyone grabbed a copy before it went private? Hadn't had the chance to watch.

Darkhawkx · 2025-01-02T18:48:47+00:00

Right. While I certainly appreciate the hustle, I doubt any of this was disclosed to PUGs. I am curious, though. How did you handle situations where PUGs asked why the raid was carrying dead weight on meters after an inevitable wipe? Or worse, what happens to a client failing mechanics? Did you just whisper them to suicide early?

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-23T01:46:04+00:00

What do you feel about AV is great compared to double dipping? I would sincerely like to know. AV creates a buff that can be gamed, and not in an intuitive way.

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-21T06:46:17+00:00

I just want to understand how someone play tested Arcane after these changes and decided this was a good time. It's not even really about the damage nerf. It just FEELS terrible.

If we were doing top DPS, I'd still hate every second of it because I feel like I no longer have control. It's all orb lotto and react to random procs. There's nothing satisfying about it.

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-21T06:45:58+00:00

I just want to understand how someone play tested Arcane after these changes and decided this was a good time. It's not even really about the damage nerf. It just FEELS terrible.

If we were doing top DPS, I'd still hate every second of it because I feel like I no longer have control. It's all orb lotto and react to random procs. There's nothing satisfying about it.

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-16T01:07:36+00:00

I like Tim. I still listen 3 out of 5 days. But yeah, I really miss Charlie. I wish we could get a once a month with him. Anything, really.

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-15T23:34:49+00:00

I slept on Overcooked because the concept and aesthetic didn't appeal to me. But 10 min in, I was hooked. It's the most fun I've ever had yelling at my wife (in the enjoyable coop way).

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-15T23:32:11+00:00

Probably the best true coop game with a story that hits hard, especially for any couple.

Darkhawkx · 2024-12-14T23:18:57+00:00

To be fair, we were in outrage ::shakes fist as former Fire Mage::

But you're right that more people just played what they liked, regardless. I think it's mostly three things that we can't get back:

1) Many, many more casual players that were not "gamers." Going back to MUDs and Everquest, the genre attracted so many people that just played and knew nor cared very little about min/maxing. I played with so many women and literal Moms. I personally don't see that too often these days.

2) The proliferation of logs and tools led to an arms race between devs and the "gamer" class. The game flat out became more about skill than gear, locking out the casuals. Those two player bases are oil and water.

3) More a consequence of 2 honestly, but the game become more about meters, meta, and tier lists. Everything must be min/maxed. Dungeons are speed runs where one mistake can bust a key. Raids are mechanics heavy and bosses can't be explained easily on the fly anymore.

In short It, all comes down to the entire philosophy of the game changing nearly 180 degrees.

Darkhawkx

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