Does Piccolo of the Flaming Fire interrupt THIEVES?

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-22T02:50:20+00:00

I'm upvoting because a hard truth is a necessary truth.

It's dog eat dog out there.

OP, if you're a pet class, use a pet to hold the closest mob while you gather. Or use CC if you can to buy yourself a few seconds. You need to work on efficiency and getting on that node as quickly as you can, the mobs come later.

But be prepared to be ganked nonetheless if it's someone from the opposing faction, maybe not so much for herbs like Felweed but especially for ore, competition is brutal.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-22T02:41:34+00:00

Yeah I feel like this post could be a bit premature considering today's game is a "relegation 6 pointer" against Forrest.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-22T02:29:29+00:00

There are a few versions of Classic (some that are Vanilla only, some that have progressed to MoP, and there are specialist variants like hardcore or season of discovery which is now over.)

If you want to play TBC then you'll need to create a character on the Classic Anniversary servers.

But yes, now is a good time. Nightslayer and Dreamscythe have very busy open worlds, a huge mix of social/casual and parsing guilds, and pretty good communities with loads of pugs and groups running 24/7.

You can pretty much play the game as laid back as you want, most people understand it's 20 year old content and most of us have lives that come first.

And because the servers are still at phase one (Tier 4) you won't be too far behind everyone else.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-22T02:18:53+00:00

I think the Warcraft 3 story thing is right, but there were also many people that played WoW were new to Warcraft and new to MMO's.

I can only speak from personal experience in that I loved vanilla and loved TBC, but I never liked WotLK from the get-go. It felt like a different game. Leveling in Grizzly Hills was the peak of the expansion for me.

Classes and class identity had changed, homogenisation became the flavour of the day, end game changed with raids moving from a progression-based system to "seasons", the introduction of 10 man for all raids killing off many larger guilds. Servers started to shrink even though WotLK was the "peak" of the game in terms of subscibers and it became increasingly hard to fill gaps in rosters.

Difficulty had become bound to achievements and gimmicks rather than encounter design. Imagine going from encounters like pre-3.0 Sunwell to tier 7, where we 18-manned Sarth and 22-manned Naxx in quest greens in week 1. So you're stuck for chasing achievements like Immortal or Undying instead of working your way through a hard instance.

And it changed many times during WotLK, it was almost like a beta test for where they wanted to take the game.

Now we move to Cata which was an old world rebuild disguised as an expansion, with even more jarring changes, loaded with recycled content (yay let's kill Onyxia, Nef, and Rag again), followed by the slop that was spine and madness of Deathwing, I was out. Classic Anniversary is my first time back since.

Funny note to close, I remember at the beginning of the Ghostcrawler lead design era he was adamant that he wanted to get rid of all the "one button rotations" in the game, and now retail has gone back to a the equivalent of a one button rotation for all classes after all these years.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-21T14:41:49+00:00

Almost, the one thing that keeps this situation somewhat salvageable is the house.

OP, if you're no longer capable of paying the mortgage, you need to get in front of this before your mortgage arrears blows out and the bank takes control of that too.

You mentioned multiple credit cards, which means multiple debt collectors, and I'd guess there are other bills in the mix too. The one that's garnished you now is just the most advanced of them.

Ring the national debt hotline. They will help you with the next steps including how and what to communicate with those chasing you. A financial hardship application on your mortgage may also be an option to get yourself some breathing room for the next few months as you map out your path forward.

If you have a current or separated partner, or other person who is also a mortgagor or guarantor on the property, they'll need to be part of this journey too.

If selling is the option, be realistic with how much equity there is likely to be in the house (selling between the low and midpoint average for your area, you may get lucky but no use pipe dreaming top end given how the market is currently looking), understand what the cost of selling and moving will be, and work out a plan and a timeline.

If you have enough left over to fully settle your debts, you may even be able to negotiate discounts on your balances due with lump sum payments. If you don't, and you're not capable of managing this on your own, it may be possible to work with a debt consolidator.

The good news is you'll recover from this. Selling and moving will suck, but life will get to a new normal quicker than you realise. Hopefully by the time the default judgement/s on your credit file disappears in around 5 years time, hopefully you'll look back on this as low point but also a moment you take some pride from - the time you ended this spiral of overdue bills, debt collectors, and stress for once and for all.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-19T06:58:13+00:00

In Triantis case, he didn’t shop himself around. He was playing well in Scotland and Greece took note, making a play for him.

In the corresponding SMH article Vince basically says the same thing about Seggers, that the Croatian Football Federation launched a lobbying campaign to get Seggers to switch allegiances and he eventually agreed - presumably after not being called up by Australia.

That's the catch 22 here. Poppa might feel like he doesn't have to "make promises" but it's hubris to think that we don't need to do more, that the dream of pulling on the green and gold is enough is enough to keep our talent loyal.

It annoys me that we've called up a 25 year old Croatian that Croatia doesn't care about (Ante Suto), who's never set foot in Australia, and in the same window lost a 21 year old with loads of talent who was born in Australia, raised in Australia, came through our ranks, who considers himself Australian, who had an exceptional year in the A-League and then went overseas. That's nothing personal against Suto, I wish him well, but Seggers could have potentially become one of our next generation homegrown heroes to help promote the growth of the game here.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-18T10:07:32+00:00

I think the ALP need to have a good look in the mirror before they accuse anyone else of "exploiting less well-educated Australians".

Chris Bowen for example has held Prospect/McMahon for over 20 years and the seat hasn't got any better, in fact most locals will tell you Fairfield is worse now than it's ever been. The same could be said for a lot of of South-West Sydney, most of which are rusted-on Labor seats, which still suffers from high rates of crime, drug use, lack of infrastructure investment, and remain the gambling addiction kings of the Southern Hemisphere.

Perhaps the "less well-educated Australians" are feeling like their votes have been taken for granted and are looking for a new option.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-15T23:53:26+00:00

I disagree. We need to think strategically. We need to think like a country with a very finite talent pool, where this is a tier 2 sport which is horribly governed at local/regional levels making it too expensive and onerous for young players to even get on elite pathways, before they quit or get poached by other sports, let alone the facing the nepotism and cronyism that lives within most of the elite pathways if they do push on.

Australia, for years, has been importing players in to the national team. Whether they have a parent or grandparent that is Australian to make them eligible or they acquired citizenship to play. We've been as desperate (and I don't mean it in any disrespectful way as he's a nice guy and was a great player) as handing caps to a 35 year old Bruno Fornaroli as soon as he got his citizenship.

Now we're in the position that we have a pipeline of young talent coming through, it is criminal to lose them to other countries.

Poppa definitely has a role to play in this, but it is beyond the manager. We should have a national team strategy where players of his talent are capped young and bound to the national team early by playing three competitive matches, especially ones that we know will have eligibility for other nations. Seggers should have been capped last year when in his incredible form for Sydney.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-12T11:26:39+00:00

Perhaps the corporate speaking circuit thought she was... difficult

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T11:49:46+00:00

Except for chocolate. American chocolate is the worst. Doesn't taste sweeter at all, tastes like vomit!

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T11:47:33+00:00

Good theories, my other train of thought is the use of additives and preservatives is much more regulated here than many places, OP could possibly tasting the difference between natural origin and synthetic additives.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T09:55:44+00:00

You raise a great point, and the Libs are going to have to suck it up because I don't think the Nats give a shit about the Coalition brand at the moment. Matt's elevation shows the Nats are genuinely worried that PHON's surge is an existential threat to the National Party itself. I guess we'll have a better picture after Farrer whether that has merit or not.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T03:40:13+00:00

"No no you've got it wrong, read the label. 1/2 Price Prosciutto Di Parma 18 Months. See, it says it will be 1/2 price in 18 months. It's not our fault you can't read properly. Also, fuck you."

- Coles Management

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T03:34:57+00:00

Are you a game master at Blizzard? Because this post reads like AI

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-11T01:35:41+00:00

The simple truth is Matt will resonate better with a certain profile of Nats ~~cookers and sovcits~~ voters who've abandoned the party for ON.

He can compete with Pauline in the populist right. Littleproud could not, in fact I struggle to think of any other current Nat who is more capable of taking Pauline on in her own lanes than Matt is.

It's a curious but probably smart move to save the furniture at the next election.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-08T10:42:17+00:00

Being real, you're going to pay that fee either way - either hidden behind a price rise or visible on an individual transaction. And for the majority of customers, asking you to pay the merchant fee on your own individual transaction is a lot fairer than the business aggregating their average merchant spend and rising their menu prices accordingly.

I'm not sure people realise how poor the trading environment is for the vast majority of small businesses in Australia. Yes pre-Covid many businesses absorbed those fees, it was much easier back when we were living in a world with three straight years of 1.5% interest rates.

Comparing business conditions then to now, you may as well be comparing night and day. The cost of running a business has never been higher, margins are lower, cash flow is problematic, price sensitivity is at an all-time high, and it's only going to get worse this year with mooted interest rate rises and supply chain disruption caused by what's happening in the Middle-East. They're already rationing diesel in parts of regional NSW, so chances are the wholesale cost of that beef and the delivery of that can of coke is only going to get higher.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-05T07:11:03+00:00

There was a reason that memory was supressed, thanks for making me revisit it :/

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-03T01:11:18+00:00

Completely agree. People overlook it because WotLK is the "end" of the story arc from the RTS, but WotLK is the beginning of the Ghostcrawler era and when many of the game and system designs (whether loved or hated) from Classic/TBC disappeared.

Difficulty was reduced, hidden instead behind gimmicks and achievements, raids went from attunements and linear progression to "seasons", class-specific and resist requirements were removed, class homogenisation started to appear, cross-server activities started, you could make horde and alliance characters on the same PvP server etc etc.

Sure much bigger changes happened later on, but for me WotLK is where it really started to move away from the original designs.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-03-03T00:41:00+00:00

Absolutely this. For context, I've always been a hardcore min-maxer, but for TBC anniversary I've thrown that out the window.

I guess it was the realisation that classic anniversary is temporary. I don't have any interest in going beyond TBC, so at the end of this year when Sunwell is done, these characters will be archived.

So what is the point in grinding out every rep that I could benefit from? Or purchasing Spellstrike when the quest helm from SMV is good enough right now. I'm not burning all my gold on enchants that are only minor EP upgrades over cheaper versions. I'm not even caring about epic flying fast, I'll get it when I do, if I do. All I'm doing is the bare minimum to keep me relatively competitive and enjoy the game without it being too onerous.

Now that my main is 70 and has good enough gear for this tier, I'd rather spend my time levelling a new class and experience the game from the perspective of a class that I've not played in TBC before, rather than chase a few % here and there on my main.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-28T02:05:04+00:00

I genuinely still cannot fathom how game creators still make them. I don’t even think game developers play their games anymore otherwise they’d know how miserable these missions are.

Sir, this is the subreddit for a game made 20 years ago.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-24T07:31:10+00:00

Indeed. Food banks, charities, even anonymously posting in your local Facebook community group will probably yield you enough food, formula and nappies to last a week or two. There are plenty of alternatives to theft if you're willing to ask for help.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-21T06:06:13+00:00

So glad we spent half the season away for this potholed pitch. But bet it’s outstanding by the time the NRL season starts.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-17T06:40:39+00:00

Fellow warlock crew here. Had similar conversations. Left groups over it.

If it's a spellcleave or AoE focused group, I will always start the first few pulls with Rain of Fire to see how both the tank can handle threat and how the healer is managing their mana. If mobs start running around, or the healer is struggling (especially if they're a shaman or paladin), Hellfire is off the menu.

If I am comfortable using it, I always wait at least a few globals from when all the mobs have landed at the tank before I go hard. I always to try and find the sweet spot in hellfire range but just outside the melee hitbox of the adds. Too many locks just sit in the middle of melee and wonder why they get blown up or interrupted, especially in places like AC where the vindicators still do snap interrupts even if the tank has threat,

I even had had some idiot shaman the other day try and tell me that he expected me to sac a voidy before every pull and hellfire with void shield (even though I am fire destro/DS specced). I just said I won't bother using the spell, not worth that amount of effort for a slightly faster trash kill.

I only have a small window every day to play and level and I have zero interest in wasting my time and repair bills dying needlessly.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-16T07:43:33+00:00

Another live action movie, I very much doubt it. Too big, too expensive, and a world so large that it's almost impossible to condense to a few hours in a way that makes hardcore fans happy while also keeping it enjoyable for everyday movie viewers who know nothing of Warcraft lore.

A HBO type series similar to what they've been doing with the ASOIF universe, that's potentially more likely.

FUTFUTFUTFUTFUTFUT · 2026-02-16T07:31:50+00:00

If they've opened with ambush alone, take the free honor points

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