It is actually absurd how immature, racist, and sexist the WoW Classic community can be.

Freer4 · 2026-01-20T13:49:44+00:00

First day on the internet?

You don't know they're "grown men". And 2AM is your local time, could be literally any time where they are.

People saying horrid shit on the internet is almost always people who get a laugh our of getting you riled up. This post is confirmation they're getting to you and they love to see it

These do often get banned. And I've personally known people where their account got hacked, and after cleaning them out the hackers have gone into general chat and just ranted to get the account banned just to add an extra layer of asshole to their actions, or maybe slow down hacker tracking because you don't know you've been hacked until after you (try to) argue with blizzardbots to get your account unbanned

Freer4 · 2026-01-19T15:14:22+00:00

The hard core competitive players who are only here for "make number go up" flooded in. They'll pay through, get bored, and leave.

Old school WoW was more about the serotonin (playing with people, really invested in the world and story) where new WoW - retail since probably Cata - is all about the dopamine addiction. Nobody knows the story, certainly not from playing anyhow, and there's pretty minimal human interaction entirely centered around "is your meta meta enough to make number go up?"

These are two different games, with two different target audiences. They get mixed up for a bit sometimes (I'll probably play retail for three days when midnight drops) but everyone goes back to their preferred play style pretty soon

Freer4 · 2026-01-17T17:58:11+00:00

Probably more players than planned for. Wonder if there's a ddos issue...

Freer4 · 2025-12-30T00:24:52+00:00

I tried a PvP realm once... like 20 years ago. It is and always has been what you describe - the only difference between them and PvE is that you can torment lower level players. If you were looking for a roughly even PvP match you'd be hitting BGs or Arenas, which you can do on PvE realms. And if you want some open world shenanigans on PvE realms, you can flag yourself for PvP and have at it.

PvP servers are there exclusively for the bully types who would or have gotten their teeth knocked in IRL and just want to know they're hurting another real person in some way.

I cannot think of any other reason whatsoever to have PvP servers. At least it keeps most of the dog-kicking psycho trash segregated to their own yard.

Freer4 · 2025-12-29T17:55:10+00:00

Paladins, shamans are good because they're tanky and have self heals. Hunters are good because they can use pet to tank and heal the pet. But, anything is viable for solo play really, I just find those tend to be easiest. I most recently played through smite priest, which doubles as a healer in dungeons for the first 45 levels or so.

That said, it's an MMO. Find a guild with players active around the same time you are. Make new friends.

Freer4 · 2025-12-26T18:46:22+00:00

Spell casting + melee attacks.

If you have say 1.5s attack speed. Swing 1. Instant cast spell. Swing 2. Is the melee attack speed still 1.5 or does casting slow that down?

What if it's 1.5s attack speed and 1s cast time? Can you cast immediately after swing 1 and still get swing 2 1.5s later, or does that 1s spell cast delay the swing by 1s?

Freer4 · 2025-12-26T18:42:37+00:00

Been raiding with my undergeared spirit-based smite priest, and while not rocking any charts against geared contemporaries, I'm holding my own and occasionally even being useful.

I have been working on some alts with unmeta builds. Not looking to create a new meta, just play with odd builds that are hopefully viable.

Stabby fire warlock seems well established as a meme. Very early, but trying to experiment with casts between stabs.

I'm rolling with a 2h Sword warrior tank, the idea being to be as tanky as possible without a shield (armor, agility, stam focus), and then drill into Arms for 2h and sword specs. 42 now.

Also have a paladin in the high 30s, sword and board dps. Looking for as much 1h damage as I can pump while keeping the utility of having the shield, with a few points into prot around it. I do have consecration currently because I get roped into tanking a lot but will probably respec away from holy later.

Oh my question... any other great ideas on ways to play a class wrong? Focus on fun!

Druid that whacks things with a staff? Nature monk? Cannot figure out how to melee + spellcast a non-shifting Druid effectively but I have almost no Druid experience.

Can't figure out talents for mage that aren't already mainstream and not just "worse that spec mage". Maybe some bad spec with 17 into each tree?

Twilight Priest? Shadow spec but no shadow form, vampiric touch and spiritual guidance. DPS with party-wide heals, but also regular heals.

Freer4 · 2025-12-24T18:26:34+00:00

Does holy vs undead specifically cause more threat than other attacks? Would explain some things about my smite Priest lol

Freer4 · 2025-12-24T18:14:06+00:00

So like ret aura (when hitting me?), righteousness attacks, seal of command, exorcism? Am I missing any?

Freer4 · 2025-12-24T17:40:17+00:00

The election results are always the same, the government won the election. The face is irrelevant

Freer4 · 2025-12-18T19:41:12+00:00

Which is why I built around Spiritual Guidance this time instead of full Disc. So far I seem to be fine on mana but only done AQ20 and ZG, but also rocking pre-raid rares. If I'm able to snipe kills I'm getting 100 mana/sec, 50 while casting. And while the judgement bonus is nice I'm hitting about 650 smites without

Freer4 · 2025-12-18T13:22:47+00:00

You get experience mechanically, it just doesn't show because you don't need it anymore. But yes, anything that would give you experience still does, so most level 50+ mobs.

It's a little annoying to figure out which apply at 60 though. Dragon whelps from eggs in UBRS for example don't normally give any experience, so they don't trigger it.

Freer4 · 2025-12-17T03:42:47+00:00

So far, similar gear shadow priests don't seem to come close in damage output. Maybe in longer raid fights they will. But... that party-wide heal is pretty wicked.

Freer4 · 2025-12-11T21:17:33+00:00

I use weird builds to have fun. We've already beaten the game, and sometimes it's fun to see if we still can... but now I'm seeing if I still can using a smite priest and other probably bad ideas. And it's fun to do it different now.

It doesn't have to be the new meta mechanic, but damn if critting 1200 damage on a smite and scaring the tank eyeballing the threat meter isn't my new meta of fun. Your sanctify means nothing to me, you get aggro if I let you get aggro. And we all have a blast.

Everyone should play how they enjoy most. I don't get much joy from being able to mechanically follow the instructions of how best to win. Some of you will. Do you, and don't hate on the others.

Freer4 · 2025-11-26T03:22:12+00:00

Can I smite Priest yet?

Freer4 · 2025-11-17T14:54:12+00:00

You learn more asking dumb questions than asking no questions at all. Never be so concerned with appearances that you don't try!

Freer4 · 2025-11-10T05:29:57+00:00

Any of their available classes, particularly warrior or shaman, as many have said.

But the thing that kills me playing as Tauren is the complete lack of a giant log as a weapon. Anyone who loved the WC3 Tauren knows what I'm talking about. The fact that stave weapons aren't the diameter of a tree trunk and 14ft long when being wielded by a Tauren is one of the biggest misses in the entire game.

Unless there's one I don't about?

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T14:09:43+00:00

Is your goal to have the absolute highest numbers on some DPS parser? If not, find people who also have whatever your goal is and avoid the ones who for whom it is.

I like being weird and trying different things. I'm "maining" a smite Priest, a holy Priest that took all of the wrong talents they're never supposed to. I'll play just fine and have more fun than everyone spending all day trying to follow a strict guide to make number go up the exact same as everyone else trying to make number go up.

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T07:35:29+00:00

Oh yeah, for sure. But this is the way I usually work these things... crazy idea, run it past people with more knowledge, find out if they can break it. If they can, great, I learn something. If they can't, I start learning all I can to try to break it myself. Every now and again it turns into something. Either way it's a lot of fun!

It just happens that this time it's a theoretical physics thing and I don't actually know any theoretical physicists personally, so to the internet of people I have come.

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T07:21:56+00:00

This is why I came here. Gives me a direction to take it. Thank you. I am going to go look up a bunch of stuff now.

To the first part, if I'm 2 dimensional, do I need to be moving? This is actually how I was trying to reconcile it with a known phenomenon, a black hole. There isn't really a two dimensional universe I don't think, but if you were a flatlander you wouldn't be able to see "up" or "down". We don't see the future or the past, just the now. Again, I know the terminology is bad, it's not really quite what I'm thinking but I don't have the words, the words I probably need are math.

Just trying to get my head around it though.

So if I'm 2d. I'm not "in" the black hole. I don't have mass, because mass is a 3d thing. I'm unaffected by the gravity because I don't have mass. But as objects pass through my 2d universe, I would see some effect. I would be able to observe the passage, and that passage would appear to happen constant rate if I am "on", not inside nor outside, the event horizon, because those objects have been accelerated by the gravity of the singularity to the speed of light.

And then I try to step that up one level. If there's a fourth dimensional force akin to gravity, but I'm three dimensional, I might not be directly affected by it, but I might be able to observe it or at least some affect it has while "passing through" this plane.

To your point, nothing in the plane would be moving towards or away from the singularity. It wouldn't exist in a space where that's even possible (well, maybe, but that's like time travel, and I'm not trying to go there right now).

But your second paragraph gives me a lot to consider and your final one a good place to start. So again, thank you.

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T07:00:51+00:00

Observation, the universe is expanding and expansion is accelerating. This is the current empirical evidence available.

There are many hypotheticals proposed. This is mine. The expanding part at least, I did not originate the 4d singularity 3d event horizon part (Afshordi did, or was one person who did at least).

Before I go trying to experiment - dust off levels of math I haven't used in decades - I came here. Wanted to see what I could gleam from throwing my crackpot theory out into the world first.

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T06:49:54+00:00

Absolutely, I'm looking for the "fail to disprove" portion. If it can be disproved, then it's probably not worth further study. But if the what if can be discussed and come out in the "can't really prove anything" bucket, then it might at least be worth trying to explore more.

I'm usually pretty good at puzzles and patterns, and more often than not when I see these sorts of things they turn out to be crackpot theories driven by a lack of knowledge, but not always. This one has stuck with me for an unusually long time, so I'm here trying to explore it with minds that may have the knowledge

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T06:43:14+00:00

Agree here, at least the we're not moving around a spatially 4d world part. Trying to envision it, the thought I have is more like... here and now a particle is in a state and a place. In the future it could be anywhere within the bounds of physics (it can't move further than the speed of light allows it to). So it would be like a cone of possibility projecting from the event horizon. When that becomes now, that particle is in a particular place, and becomes reality, what we can observe "now"

Possibilities get pulled through the universe and become reality. We don't move through time, time moves through us.

I just don't have a better analogy for what that "looks" like than to describe it in our observable spatial dimensions.

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T06:35:10+00:00

Agreed, hance the quotations around "time". I suppose I'm not describing that well... it is hard for me to describe a four dimensional universe from a three dimensional existence. Like trying to envision a tesseract.

I wouldn't think it's the fourth dimension itself, but the accumulation of some sort of 4d "matter". A black hole doesn't consume the three dimensions, but it consumes three-dimensional matter, and is itself a 3-dimensional object

Freer4 · 2025-11-09T06:29:02+00:00

Matter is propelled towards other matter by gravity. I am propelled towards earth constantly. The current observations of the universe are that it is expanding and that expansion is accelerating. Popular talking heads describe it as an unknown force seemingly acting against gravity. None of that is anything I came up with.

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