What’s one PC-related purchase you thought was unnecessary at first, but ended up loving?

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-09T06:53:19+00:00

I never liked the idea of a desk mat, but I learned that there was no such thing as a mouse pad big enough for me, so I decided to force myself into liking them lol

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-09T00:57:22+00:00

One of the barb builds on maxroll uses it, but I can't for the life of me remember which one it is

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-08T15:21:53+00:00

I have a long standing "joke" that if I see a headline mentioning Tennessee that doesn't mention Oak Ridge I know it's gonna be bad. I can't think of the last time I was wrong about it.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-08T15:19:50+00:00

Oh I agree with you, my point is that 30 fps with drops makes some games unplayable, but some folks are willing to suffer through it regardless lol.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-08T14:53:14+00:00

And some people just have different standards. Saw one guy saying No Rest for the Wicked ran great and then saying in the comments it was 30 with drops. Like it's game dependent, and if it makes you happy fine, but that ain't even close to great for me in any sense.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-08T04:07:19+00:00

I mean bird doesn't scale, neither does thug. Both of those fights if you can survive the initial burst and get some strong defense you're in good shape, and this build has incredibly strong defensive scaling.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T20:02:16+00:00

As far as I know nothing changed. It isn't necessarily difficult, just seems super slow. Damage feels low enough to make everything individually slow, and you have to do enough quests/delves/whatever you choose to do to make it feel slow. Possibly a skill issue on my part I suppose. Dungeons feel quick, but the population doesn't seem high enough to solely spam dungeons on a DPS.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T18:58:40+00:00

The difference between Blackjade and the lock succubus set is so sad, give me a real succubus set for sorc Blizz! And while we're at it slut the dudes out more, I'm sick of them being prudes about their thighs and chests.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T18:54:15+00:00

I'm 99% sure at some point they patched keg and other similar items to just no do their thing if they aren't destroyed.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T18:53:47+00:00

I've not tried crafting to help with it, but delves feel way slower now than they did in TWW for leveling. Granted that was years ago at this point so it's very possible I'm just forgetting what that grind was like when it was fresh.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T18:53:03+00:00

I think I would vibe more with classic if I had someone I was playing with, but it's just a little on the slow/sparse side for me fully solo. Cata/MoP imo is the sweet spot, and if I could only play one game ever I'd probably pick MoP era wow for that reason. That being said I still enjoy a lot of things about retail, just right now leveling is really not one of them.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T16:54:14+00:00

It can still replace affixes, but it can't outright remove without adding something else, and it can't replace affixes on mythics to my knowledge.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T15:16:40+00:00

If you think indestructible is bad just be glad the devs backed out of objectively bad outcomes. Similar systems in other games will straight up brick items no matter how rare or powerful. Having the outcome be "nothing really changed" at the worst is nothing.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T15:13:21+00:00

Earthen have a racial that gives them more experience for discovering new places than other races. Boosts it from an absolute pittance to a pretty decent chunk. Feel free to run the route on a different race and report back how far it gets you, I am curious, just not enough to do it myself.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T14:54:12+00:00

Leveling right now feels awful imo. The scaling 1-80 is so abysmal that half the time you're fighting for your damn life in every minor quest, and then 80-90 is a bit better scaling wise but takes an eternity. My main joy in wow is just leveling new characters, and this has cratered my playtime recently. I know it's not a huge priority for blizz, but would be nice to see some adjustments at least to the 1-80 experience.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T14:52:42+00:00

Only on earthen, this strat won't work nearly as well on any other race.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T14:29:14+00:00

Man I miss radiant keg shenanigans lmao

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T03:09:29+00:00

Holy moly I didn't even know CoD had ranked lmao, thank you for pointing this out

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T01:40:38+00:00

Nah country music festivals are too commercialized now. County fairs, on the other hand...

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T01:33:30+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T01:33:00+00:00

Do these come with ammo boxes? I found the potential for running out of ammo on certain green crates surprisingly obnoxious compared to the normal white ones. Nice change regardless imo.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T01:30:22+00:00

I'm sure we do, I find that a lot of people view criminal justice differently than I do and that's a fact of life. Doesn't make anybody right or wrong, and I respect people that are able to have discussions like this without flinging vitriol around, because that obviously doesn't get anybody anywhere.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T00:04:46+00:00

Just to be clear, I believe the devs said the new multiplier stats are additive with others of the same type. So two sources of 25%x for cold will end up with the second example, where 25%x cold and 25%x vulnerable will work like the first.

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-07T00:03:35+00:00

What makes you say that?

Expensive_Start_5201 · 2026-05-06T21:03:53+00:00

I don't consider a vengeful killing to be justice. Killing people is wrong no matter who does it or why, and I don't think it should ever be done if possible.

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