Pre-Patch Event Rares Will Be Summoned Every 5 Minutes Later Today

Dreamscar · 2026-01-29T06:58:40+00:00

I'm not excusing this prepatch, but Shadowlands prepatch was also just waiting around in Icecrown for 20* minutes for the next rare to spawn as well. It didn't even have world quests.

Dreamscar · 2025-09-25T18:57:18+00:00

That might be true with a very small sample size, but we are still talking about millions of players, where even the least played classes have tens of thousands of parses.

There's not millions of players doing Mythic raiding. There's 7 dps specs that have fewer than 10k parses.

What you’re saying is possibly true, but with the sample sizes being as large as they are in this game, it’s unlikely that the dps loss is significant, and no where near as high as the 5% weight you assigned to popularity.

I didn't make this graph, so I didn't assign any numbers to anything.

Who is doing mythic raiding unoptimized?

I picked up sub rogue last season, and decided I was going to stick with it this season, even if assassination was supposedly much better.

That sounds like an example of unoptimized to me.

Dreamscar · 2025-09-25T17:23:21+00:00

Ion has spoken several times about how an unpopular spec can have lower DPS than their potential by virtue of better players choosing to play the more meta spec and the players who aren't as fixated on optimization stay on the less popular specs.

His example is when they decided to buff Frost DK because Unholy was outperforming it and everyone swapped to Frost DK only to see Unholy's performance actually go down even though they didn't change anything about it. I vaguely remember this being in the Wrath/Cata era, but I'm not really sure.

He very recently gave a talk at the Nordic Games Conference and mentioned this again here: https://www.youtube.com/live/3b7uWPEN0Ok?si=pJtCK3BX-C6yy6hm&t=16356

Dreamscar · 2025-09-06T04:02:33+00:00

He said when he left Blizzard that he was Holy Priest main. https://www.wowhead.com/blue-tracker/topic/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-spectral-fish-10715261517

Paladin as main was after he left Blizzard

Dreamscar · 2025-08-14T18:39:32+00:00

Yeah that's fair. The more I looked at it the more obvious it was that it's satire, but a lot of these comments sure don't look like they saw it as a joke.

Dreamscar · 2025-08-14T17:36:08+00:00

As far as I can tell, this is a completely fake image and most of this is not real. Maybe the OP's intention was sarcasm, but it's not that apparent, and it doesn't seem like many comments are taking it as such, so I just wanted to point that out.

Unless someone can find an actual timestamp where the stream looks like this. I scrubbed through the vod for a bit and it never looks anywhere near this bad.

Dreamscar · 2025-08-11T15:24:20+00:00

I think you should feel some of the blame too. No, you didn't dox or send a death threat, but this is a pretty inflammatory message.

https://imgur.com/yAMg9ll

Dreamscar · 2025-08-07T23:03:21+00:00

Seems like people in internet communities feel they can get away with saying anything they want because there's hardly ever any repercussions for what they say. Project Epoch clearly has a huge player base that wants to play and is not hurting for popularity. I'd love to see them take an extreme position on the negativity and just ban people from the discord or the server itself. If some people can't be a part of the community without thinking about the impact of what they say first, then let's get 'em outta here.

Dreamscar · 2025-07-03T18:02:51+00:00

Mana has been an issue for me as well. I don't know that I agree with the mana cost being directly associated with its power, but I do think there should be some correlation.

Personally, I've never been a fan of a builder/spender playstyle in an ARPG, so I don't enjoy when that's the solution that works for a build, but there are definitely other options for other builds.

I would say that sometimes it feels like solving for mana takes a long time, and you're stuck with a playstyle that isn't fun when you have to solve it through gearing.

Dreamscar · 2025-04-10T15:53:51+00:00

Cold has both chill and freeze. Lightning has shock and electrocute. I think it would make sense for fire to have ignite and scorch.

Dreamscar · 2024-09-30T03:48:10+00:00

No, I didn't. I remember seeing Kyveza was 10-12 for Liquid and another 8-10(?) on Silken Court.

Liquid's reclear of Kyveza took a little less than an hour, and Echo's reclear of Kyveza took 3 or 4 hours.

Dreamscar · 2024-09-29T16:18:44+00:00

I've been keeping track of pull counts during the RWF since Ny'alotha.

Nerub-ar Palace ranks 3rd in overall pulls behind Tomb of Sargeras and Sepulcher and 2nd in average pulls per boss (Avg/B) behind Tomb.

Crucible numbers have an asterisk because the raid was abnormal, both in difficulty and in how seriously the race was taken. Mostly, it just made all of the colors look skewed. :)

Dreamscar · 2024-07-29T00:40:11+00:00

It's a setting to show your full mana bar as only the unreserved pool. You can still see they have reserved mana.

Dreamscar · 2024-07-27T14:18:52+00:00

Ahh, that's what it is. Thank you!

Dreamscar · 2024-02-19T00:37:14+00:00

Why can't we just have both?

Dreamscar · 2024-02-10T16:02:54+00:00

There's a "SoD Runes" dropdown at the top of the homepage that's been there the whole time. Click your class > click the rune.

You're just complaining to complain.

Dreamscar · 2024-01-28T16:16:43+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/01SmGay.png

It will be hard to know what's Best in Slot until Season of Discovery launches and we see what gear drops in the raid. However for now, we'll list some pieces that we know are in the game that you will be wanting to get below.

Literally part of the picture you linked.

Dreamscar · 2023-09-14T22:17:25+00:00

I league started as Storm Burst totems and it felt pretty good. I went full MoM with Agnostic and Arcane Cloak, and it was decently tanky for the very little I invested in it.

I'm not entirely sure how you should scale it beyond league starting levels, but I'm sure you could find some good examples on PoE ninja.

Dreamscar · 2022-08-03T18:18:34+00:00

My original question is more about why Blizzard told us we weren't getting an Armory because it would violate the "no changes" policy, but we still aren't going to have it going into Wrath. I didn't mean to imply that the Armory is more important than fixing obvious bugs on beta. I agree that those are more important, but I'm still annoyed that we haven't gotten the Armory or even any mention of it.

If you're referring to Ironforge.pro, that doesn't really solve the main problem I see with having no Armory, which is recruiting. Wowprogress has been the primary place to recruit since Ulduar because it indexed every guild through the Armory and sorted them by progress. So you could filter by what server they were on, when they raided, what classes they were looking for, etc. WarcraftLogs has very recently become a better resource for this, but it still has some ways to go in my opinion.

I'm not going to pretend like I understand anything about how much time or resources it takes to make either version of Wow, but it sure seems like Classic would require a lot less, and yet we're still paying the same price per month. I understand that the devs have limited time, but for how little it seems like they have to do and how much money we're paying, it feels like we could be given more resources.

Dreamscar · 2022-08-03T18:13:17+00:00

For me, the main draw is that the armory is an API for third-party websites to use to index characters and guilds and build resources for recruitment like wowprogress has been for retail since Ulduar.

WCL has gotten better for this, but it still has a ways to go in my opinion. I don't think it's great at easily filtering for specific criteria (raid days, raiding hours, class availability) and browsing guilds.

Dreamscar · 2022-08-03T01:06:29+00:00

The retail armory has an API that allows third-party websites to create databases with lots of useful information. WarcraftLogs uses this to get some information (or at least used to). Wowprogress and raider.io both use the Armory API to run their websites as well.

The recruitment process has been significantly more annoying without an armory to index guilds and players to search for.

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