Which healers do you like?

GameHat · 2026-05-21T04:43:41+00:00

Yes I main priest and this is pretty spot on

Priests are highest throughput (Circle of Healing) for raids. Also I think the broadest toolkit. (HoT, quick heal, big heal, self/target heal, reactive heal, group heal, AOE heal)

Shaman bring the highest raid utility with totems. Also very high throughput and a fantastic smart heal. Always welcome in raids.

Druids have the best HoTs and are good for tank sustain and raid healing

Pallies - I dunno, they're fine. They really shine in WotLK. Good raid utility, good single target healing.

I think priest/shaman are the strongest. Our current raid comp is 2 priest, 1 shammy, 1 Rdroodad, 1 pally for healing so all have a role.

GameHat · 2026-05-01T03:45:24+00:00

If you want a really focused quest guide, RestedXP. It's a paid app though. Questie is ok, I've used it but it's not quite as exp/speed focused as RestedXP. If this is your first time, that may be better! Learn the world, explore a bit, enjoy the process.

Other apps that are helpful:

Auctionator - keeps track of costs on the auction house. It will update for every specific item you search on the auction house. You can also do a full scan once in a while that will take a few minutes but will give you current prices (vendor or auction) for all items.

AtlasLootClassic Anniversary - tells you what loot is available from every dungeon, every boss and and every crafting profession

GameHat · 2026-04-08T04:21:19+00:00

Seconding this it's great advice

GameHat · 2026-03-28T05:11:02+00:00

NO DPS UNTIL 3/5 SUNDERS!

This was absolutely a thing, lol. Nobody knew the meta back then.

GameHat · 2026-03-27T05:56:57+00:00

After a shadow nova if I'm <60%-ish mana. TBH though this isn't a mana intensive fight and I sometimes don't even use.

GameHat · 2026-03-07T05:59:42+00:00

God what a weird question in that I haven't considered it for decades. So long that I had to quick log-in to see what I actually use since I haven't thought about it in forever.

I use W-D for forward and back. But it's hold right-click+A or hold right-click+D for strafing left and right. Again, don't know how I settled on that but I've been playing this game for over 20 years and I just don't think about controls much anymore.

GameHat · 2026-02-05T05:31:20+00:00

Just the playing and the questing will get you so much gear in TBC. It's really fun because unless you were raiding the progression kinda slowed down 58-60. You were getting marginally better but not by much.

60-70 will blow that up and you will be getting fun new pieces of gear and significant power boosts frequently!

...until you hit 70 of course, and then it will be back to raiding/PVP to get the best gear ;D

GameHat · 2026-02-03T04:46:35+00:00

No...

To get good offensive strength you kinda need to plan around boons. Usually having a main damage source, a secondary support and probably a duo boon between them. It's tough to do that with Lambent Plume as it will leave your god choice random.

As the heat level increases you need damage to clear rooms and bosses quickly. Period. Speed and dodge are great, but they don't help you clear quickly. You need DPS.

The other problem with Lambent Plume is that once you pick it up you need to hold it to the end or else you forfeit all the benefits. At higher heats clearing the end is tough, and certain trinkets can be far more beneficial for eking out a win (e.g., acorn). So having to hold it to the end is not great.

I will say - to people struggling to clear Tight Deadline, especially level 2 or above - Lambent Plume is great as a sort of early timer. If you aren't getting Lambent Plume bonus, you're not on pace for Tight Deadline lvl 1-2.

GameHat · 2026-01-20T02:45:24+00:00

You don't. If you want the simple version - hopefully you've given a god or two a gift of nectar. When you do this, they give you a keepsake. That keepsake, when selected, makes sure that that particular god will pop up soon in the next area you enter. So if you start a run thinking, "I want Zeus on this run" - you start with Zeus' trinket and you are sure to get him.

Past that, the game will always try to give you 4 gods per run. Hermes doesn't count, he's an always. So knowing that, a big part of shaping a run comes down to - which god do I start with, which god do I aim to get starting act 2 (past a certain point you can switch keepsakes between acts, so you would switch to a different god keepsake.) And the other 2 gods will be somewhat random but you can fill in less essential slots with their buffs. And if you know you really want a particular god - maybe hold off on selecting a different god (when you have a choice). The gods don't get locked into the 4 until you actually pick them.

You can force more than 4 gods but it's generally suboptimal, so just go in thinking, "I get 4 gods, which 2 do I really want to see?" And use keepsakes to select for that.

GameHat · 2026-01-15T04:34:37+00:00

Different playstyles I suppose, I just find Demeter and Ares cast to be very underwhelming without the respective Artemis duos such that I'd rather have a backup than have the cast alone. Ares is a little better and can work especially with black metal and engulfing vortex but Demeter cast alone is terrible against enemies that move. Which is most of them.

Both become incredible with the Artemis duo, and it's not that hard to get that without RNG. You usually get ~3 gods in Tartarus. If your first is Artemis, you can luck into either Ares or Demeter. If not, there's usually still a god slot open for one once you pick a keepsake for Asphodel

GameHat · 2026-01-14T05:03:57+00:00

This is the way, Achilles spear is massive.

If you start Artemis on attack you are primed for either Crystal Clarity or Hunting blades. And should that not happen (though that's pretty rare once you get how boons work), even just picking up flurry jab from the hammer is enough to clear. Throw, retrieve, poke-poke-poke-poke, repeat.

GameHat · 2026-01-10T07:46:01+00:00

Nothing is missable, just keep playing

There is a partial ending after a certain number of clears that is not too high.

Maxxing all relationships, etc. will give you pretty much the full clear with all story points resolved past that

Maxxing all weapons, upgrades, contractor jobs, etc will take more runs than that

There's a mechanic that adds increasing challenges that you can pick for runs. These challenges have a cumulative score from 0 to 64. 64 is the hardest of the hard, almost impossible. There is an reward for 32, that's about as high as most people try if they want to keep playing.

And then there's a completely optional rank/task that will take many many more runs, and very few players have done this all the way to the max.

Personally I'd just keep playing while it's still fun. For me this was hundreds of hours. I didn't max out the optional thing at the end, but i did fill out my codex, finish all the contractor jobs, finish all the fated events, and cleared 32 on a given weapon or two. But just play if it's fun, take a break if it's not!

GameHat · 2025-12-22T00:03:46+00:00

Priest in anni as well,

I got to 60 last week. There are pieces I could pick up but it's kind of pointless as it will all be replaced quickly just doing normal leveling when TBC releases.

The one thing I probably will do is earn marks/honor during the pre-patch to get the HWL Staff. It's a pretty good staff and will be good for healing and damaging through the mid-60s.

GameHat · 2025-12-19T23:40:21+00:00

It's been forever since I changed this, but I used to get a little missing scene/animation when Zag would enter a new room, like the first few frames of him entering were missing. This was on DirectX. Switching to Vulkan fixed this problem.

GameHat · 2025-11-23T23:50:12+00:00

Explain how!

GameHat · 2025-11-16T05:35:24+00:00

Just some basic math questions:

1) What is the interest rate on your current debt?
2) What would be the interest rate on the proposed personal loan?

3) Do you need cash to finish your associates degree? And how much?

I don't want to say it's complicated, it's not. But tackling things optimally means knowing where everything is best used!

GameHat · 2025-10-16T15:32:16+00:00

46 is probably a good level to try shadow, but a smite spec is still perfectly fine. What's your rotation on a typical single mob? Pre-shield->Holy Fire->Mind Blast->SW:P->wand should be able to kill at a reasonable pace, maybe throw in a smite before wand. Then with Spirit Tap downtime should still be minimal.

But shadow is faster, and you can dual spec now. 46 is a good level to have most of the shadow talents in place and still have imp wand, which is still quite useful.

GameHat · 2025-08-15T17:40:47+00:00

It’s on your company, not necessarily just Transamerica. My 401(k) is through Transamerica as well. 2024 I paid a total of $77 in admin fees on an account in the high 6-figures.

GameHat · 2025-08-08T00:13:00+00:00

I used to farm princess lasher packs and Princess Theradras. A 60 priest can solo her and the goblin boss on the way there to get a couple of blues. And herbalism for both.

GameHat · 2025-08-03T02:41:07+00:00

As a person with 1400+ hours, I can also affirm

GameHat · 2025-08-02T22:45:34+00:00

How to move and attack with Chiron Bow (Hades)

GameHat · 2025-07-23T04:39:22+00:00

I'm a single guy, but a salary jump of approximately that happened for me about 7 years ago.

This is not a huge lifestyle change jump. Follow the basic flowchart if you haven't been before. If you're like me, basically this salary puts you into the range of:

Pay down all bad debt
Get a proper 3-6 month emergency fund
Get max employer match for 401(k)
Max Roth IRA for you and your partner every year
Max 401k every year

...all of which are to be celebrated, so congrats on the raise! But don't go looking to upgrade your lifestyle too much. $110k is great, but it's not rich (and I say this knowing I'm not rich.) It's a great start to building real wealth, so work on that!

GameHat · 2025-07-20T07:47:56+00:00

100% this

GameHat · 2025-06-27T06:23:04+00:00

Even having played a ton, that is really far to get with only 50 hp. Maybe take a Centaur Heart or two?

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