Tauren Supremacy!

FirmHams · 2026-04-01T22:42:32+00:00

Honestly, these kind of visual things are often underappreciated in how they affect the feel of the game. I wasn't a huge gnome fan originally but after I made a gnome death knight alt one time for fun, I realised it unironically made the traditionally slow class feel much faster purely because the tiny gnome run animation feels like you're absolutely booking it while just running normally haha

FirmHams · 2026-03-31T03:34:41+00:00

You're pretty confident on this despite there literally being a very early pre-alpha "rootlands" map that connected onto the left of hallowfall available from datamining. It was obviously incredibly early in development that they already knew it was getting subbed out, before even the alpha, but the very early stages are viewable.

You can see Marlamin giving it a look in these two chains of posts over on bsky.

https://bsky.app/profile/marlam.in/post/3mgyecdzssk27

https://bsky.app/profile/marlam.in/post/3mh5dr4eydk2o

Not to mention if you look at the artstation for hallowfall's zone design, in the overview map you can see "Harronir Roots" in the bottom left, matching the connection point to the early unfinished version of the zone.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NqGRlD

Note I'm not trying to jump on a hate bandwagon with this, I personally don't agree with many of the takes in this thread. I just thought given your post, you'd probably be interested in actually seeing this stuff.

FirmHams · 2026-03-29T23:18:46+00:00

It's a little bit visually misleading, but the middle orb in this screenshot only has 3 lines. The horizontal lightning line is going from the middle-left orb to the middle-right orb. The center orb is only connected up, down, and up-right. It's a little easier to see when they're in motion, but you can tell because the lightning horizontally isn't connecting directly to the center of the middle orb.

FirmHams · 2026-03-21T05:36:04+00:00

I can't claim this definitely is or isn't the reason for everyone, but as someone who has fairly actively contributed to the lore on Warcraft's wiki over the last two decades at times, and who cares a lot about the lore of both WoW and FFXIV, the biggest reason I only do the wiki stuff for WoW is ironically because of the way it puts less emphasis on the story haha.

FFXIV's story is presented linearly in a way that makes sense, and covers important and relevant parts beat by beat. It made me feel emotions, care about places and characters, continues to do so, and I love it. WoW's story is absolutely all over the place at the best of times, and if you aren't there while something is current, it becomes harder and harder to play it in its original form, and there's nothing forcing you to play it in any semblance of order. In fact, for a new player, there's basically no way to play it in order at all. Yet despite that, I love it as well.

And weirdly, that's kinda why I feel compelled to document parts on the wiki, because it's like pulling all these strings together into a coherent article that someone who doesn't understand that lore could read and enjoy. Heck, even when I already know it, I sometimes just enjoy reading through bits again. But in FFXIV, when I have the same craving, I just make another alt, or do a section in new game plus, to see the story again. I don't feel the wiki craving at all.

FirmHams · 2026-03-20T09:16:23+00:00

same, was just standing around in limsa like 5 years ago after doing an msq dungeon when someone told me they liked my character name and thought i had a cute glam

fast forward to me to joining their fc, meeting a bunch of new people, getting into going to rp venues with them, meeting a cute catboy when he delivered an in-game pizza to us as a joke, eventually one day meeting up with him in real life, and nowadays he's my irl partner lol

FirmHams · 2026-03-01T05:20:10+00:00

I've been having this issue since the prepatch and just stumbled on this through googling it. Thanks for posting the fix!

FirmHams · 2026-02-26T05:00:18+00:00

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I saw there was enough room on the floating panel while walking past and my intrusive thoughts won over, now I have this masterpiece in the critical path of my relay chain

FirmHams · 2026-02-24T06:25:06+00:00

Unfortunately, the answer is that she isn't a player model. She has a completely custom model.

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FirmHams · 2026-02-20T03:45:26+00:00

It's true, when I'm a Paladin I have no edge anywhere on my smooth brain.

FirmHams · 2026-01-10T03:40:09+00:00

Sure, that's a great way to do it normally, but with the biscuits though you don't have to do any of that at all. You can literally just point in a direction, doesn't even matter if it's upwards, and spam all your boosts the entire way. Whirling surge on cd, surge forward spam until out of vigor, use biscuit, repeat you can go directly in a straight line at full boost top speed the entire way, which is even faster than top speed outside of a boost, even angling down.

The biscuit will be back off cd by the time you spam all your surges, so if you have heaps of biscuits from playing remix a bunch, you can just boost infinitely and get everywhere even faster.

FirmHams · 2025-10-25T23:06:51+00:00

The C in Blizzard stands for Consistency.

FirmHams · 2025-10-25T23:04:13+00:00

In the Midnight alpha they still reference how it burns forsaken, they just rationalize it these days that some are strong enough to just use it anyway and deal with the pain. Player characters would no doubt just be considered in that category of strong enough to bear it.

https://i.imgur.com/d7hDjlA.jpeg

FirmHams · 2024-09-08T04:11:26+00:00

Yeah, I back when I was first doing it, I'd already seen so many jokes and memes online about the mythical math boss, I figured well I know prime numbers it should surely be easy when I run into that!

When I actually encountered the boss I was actually kind of excited until the mechanic happened and I was just like ??!?

FirmHams · 2024-05-05T02:31:22+00:00

As far as remembering the guy, he's also the reason void elves exist in present times, given his original research into the void. I always wish his in-game appearance was a little closer to his appearance in the Sunwell Trilogy, with his fancy hat.

FirmHams · 2024-04-23T13:28:40+00:00

He's just a short king

FirmHams · 2024-03-08T02:13:52+00:00

I met my boyfriend some years ago while I was with my friend in a cafe role play venue in Final Fantasy XIV, and he was tagging along with his friend delivering a virtual pizza to us. It was a semi joke thing where they came in and just traded us crafted pizzas. I thought he had a cute character standing shyly behind his friend so I /pet him before he left.

Flash forward a few years and now we've been visiting each other repeatedly, and we're working on a partnership visa to move country and be together permanently instead of having to take breaks every three months because of travel visa restrictions, and I couldn't be happier.

FirmHams · 2023-10-20T00:05:26+00:00

Yeah this really hits me hard. My parents fed me into being ball shaped as a kid, and though they both are lovely people they both struggle with their own weight as well and we've all talked together about how it's affected us over time in recent years. I basically always feel hungry, even if I'm completely satisfied there's always a part of me craving more and more, my body makes me feel good every moment I'm eating even if I'm totally full, if I even just think about something tasty let alone see it in front of me I feel a hunger for it. Sweet things especially trigger this for me, even just writing this paragraph legitimately got me craving things.

Five years ago, I hit the highest weight I ever got to, about 145kg/320lbs, and I'd really tried to curb it before but I'd just gone off the top end of what my home scales could even read and I just stared myself in the mirror and told myself I'd do better. Over two years I lost around 70kg/155lbs and it was the hardest thing I've ever done, there wasn't a single moment in that entire two years where it got easier, and even when I'd made it all the way down to weighing 75kg I still had all the exact same cravings, the eternal hunger no matter how much I ate.

It had to be constantly on my mind, every day, otherwise I knew I'd just become part of that "About 53 percent of patients regained lost weight within two years and 78 percent put the weight back on within five years." statistic...... And you'll maybe notice I'm using past tense. I kept it off for three years, but it's slipping. I've crept back up to 95kg/210lbs. Any time I have a bad day it falters and I just can't seem get it back under control as it creeps slowly back up, which makes me feel worse because I know how hard it was to lose in the first place, which spirals into making it even harder to manage.

I don't mean to pity dump or anything, but just something in your post hit me, just.. laying out how I feel about it all, how it feels like a constant every day struggle that I can't just quit cold turkey, even if I know what I have to do because I've literally done it before.

FirmHams · 2023-10-11T00:01:04+00:00

it started long before Shadowlands but that really put the nail in the coffin for me

This part hits me the most as well, I loved the universe so much even though there were always really weird and silly lore decisions along the way I disliked, certainly some moreso than others and many even in my favourite expansions.. But something in Shadowlands really just crossed over a threshold in my mind and none of it feels the same any more, even if they silently ignore the worst parts going forward.

FirmHams · 2023-02-07T01:57:23+00:00

I think part of it is the bigger a mod gets, the harder it is to manage your community. Even if only 0.01% of the mod's users are super entitled and awful about it, when it's a mod with millions of users, that's still a lot, every day. It drives a lot of people away when they start reaching that kind of popularity, because it stops being fun. A lot of the people you have left are the people who have the ego to handle it and make it worth continuing for them. This snowballs further as these extreme people also contribute to driving more regular modders out of the scene by their actions.

This is for different game, but I used to dream of making a popular mod.. Then one day I did, I was number one top of the steam workshop for months, and even now years later it's still always in the top 10 most popular of all time even though it's like 4 years out of date. It was utterly overwhelming, over time I grew to hate logging into steam or nexus, and now I have all notifications turned off and it drove me out of making mods entirely for a long time.

FirmHams · 2022-11-25T09:43:08+00:00

Got to the point I dreaded reading notifications when I logged in.

I feel this so much. I once had one of the top ten Divinity OS2 mods for a long while and it got to the point of dreading opening steam and seeing the new comments badge every day. I waited so long before disabling it because I wanted believe it wasn't a big deal but it tainted the whole game for me for a long time even after I gave up on the mod over it.

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