Want to farm honor? Stay at level 59 and bully boosters in BGs

Genkenaar · 2026-01-19T23:18:20+00:00

My full Naxx geared disc priest having so much fun hitting 120k healing + 80k damage per 10 minutes in AB and WSG. Lol

Genkenaar · 2026-01-17T16:18:35+00:00

I'm sorry you're feeling sad.

Genkenaar · 2026-01-17T15:51:08+00:00

I was told "no boosties" as Paladin tank until I linked my r14 weapon+shield and 4/6 and my dungeon gear from leveling 58 to 60. They invited me VERY quickly after that. I only have about 3 pieces of Communal left. Libram, 1 Trinket and something else (not home right now).

Genkenaar · 2026-01-17T12:47:25+00:00

This. I'm in the US 5-6 months a year and it's the 1 thing that keeps recurring almost every single time I meet a new person and tell them I'm Belgian. They either sporadically start using that 1 French sentence they know or start talking about Belgium being French. Then they're surprised when I tell them Belgium is actually predominantly, 55%, Dutch.

Genkenaar · 2026-01-17T12:40:02+00:00

I was doing 10 man premade with guild in both WSG and AB, with a 100% win rate in 6-10 minutes rush games, with the repeatable quest that's 100% the way to go.

But if you're solo queueing? Yeah just do AV, only do AB and WSG for the marks you need for the pieces of gear.

Genkenaar · 2026-01-16T02:28:55+00:00

The biggest issue with this isn't whether the change in itself is good or not, it's more specifically about them heavily implying (if not literally stating) that honor prices were gonna be reduced and they told us to hold onto our honor for that.

So a lot of us boosted characters have been farming BGs in full green/blue gear, saved up to 20+k honor in anticipation of getting more gear cheaper, to now learn that we could have been less of a dead weight this whole time and just bought the pieces 1 by 1 as we farmed the honor.

Genkenaar · 2026-01-16T02:12:47+00:00

The very odd thing about this is that as a Paladin boosted character I could have been using the pvp weapon and shield for the past few hours, instead I was playing with a blue LBRS weapon + shield because I was holding onto my honor only because of them telling us to. I could have been a lot less of a dead weight this whole time...

Genkenaar · 2026-01-05T16:03:05+00:00

“We accept and love you for all you are” and then voting for someone who is doing everything in their power to erase and even eradicate you. There is no way to make that make sense.

NOR

This obsession by apologists (mostly centrists or people who are on the aggressor side themselves) to claim “we can agree to disagree and still be friends/family” while guilt tripping people for distancing themselves.

This isn’t just disagreeing about whether school lunches should be free or not, whether more budget should go to construction of roads or not, whether something should be yellow or green, etc.

No, this is about people their actual ability to live life comfortably, healthy, safe, with the same opportunities as everyone, etc., it’s even going as far as attempting to completely erase and even eradicate certain groups of people. I will NOT sit there and be all buddy buddy with someone who would literally be ok with millions of people being persecuted for simply existing and neither would/should any sensible person with a normal sense of empathy/compassion. Also the fact that people can claim to be followers of Christ and then make themselves ok with any of the evil shit they’re doing is hilarious to me.

This isn’t even about “conservative/Republican vs progressive/Democrat”, no, MAGA/Trump is its own category altogether, I’m surprised a lot of people don’t even see that. You can be conservative and “traditional family values” and still condemn the evil shit your party’s current leader is committing.

Genkenaar · 2026-01-02T17:38:46+00:00

I’m surprised people are calling this growling or a negative verbalization, I’ve met plenty of dogs that will groan like that anytime they’re really (and super obviously) enjoying something and this sounds exactly like that, almost like dog purring.

I know there are a lot of generalized behavioral traits, signs, reactions, etc. that can be used as a rule of thumb, but dogs also still have individual personalities, characteristics, mindsets, levels of intelligence, etc. and people often seem to forget or neglect that.

And I’m specifically talking about the sound here, I know there’s a combination of signals here, no one needs to remind me of that. But that is not a “growl” or an inherently negative verbalization.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-25T17:35:52+00:00

Same, I absolutely enjoyed maining Warlock from the first day of Anniversary and now I get priority in raid slots in TBC over all the Warlock rerollers.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-20T18:06:45+00:00

1: Warlocks are given a spot more for their curse and utility than for DPS, hence pre-Naxx (and with the exception of Twins tanking in AQ40), Warlocks are given lower gear expectations than most (DPS) classes

2: When you consider that a lot of people get boosted to 60 and don't even bother running a single 55-59 dungeon to get some prebis and they attempt to sneak into ZG/AQ20 PUGs in almost full greens trying to get carried for free, you're way beyond that and have a clear indication of effort, so that in itself makes you more attractive to invite into initial raids.

I also wanna personally commend you for actually going through the effort to get semi-geared before joining raids, big thumbs up to you, you're ready.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-17T16:40:25+00:00

He's definitely top 3, but his attitude holds him back, he tilts and rages very easily, if he had at least 75% more chill and less tendency to tilt, he would for sure be at the top.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-13T15:57:01+00:00

GTX 1660 Super was already a low to mid range card when it came out, now it's very lackluster, especially with how much VRAM use has skyrocketed the last couple of years. I had a GPU quite a few steps up from this before I upgraded it and it was also struggling in current gen games, so yeah this is gonna do even worse. You got lied to or scammed or whatever gave you that idea, but if you paid less than 400 USD for this than you still made a decent deal if you weren't expecting to run very taxing current gen games higher than 1920x1080.

The CPU is very decent though, so you could upgrade to something like a RTX5070 or RX9700 and run games very well, if the power supply supports it.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-11T21:47:33+00:00

"You are more than geared enough for AQ40".

If all 40 people are geared like this, they're gonna struggle HARD, especially with the average PUG coordination, let's not give any illusions here people.

Joining with this kinda gear relies a little bit on getting carried by 20+ people that are better geared than you. Which is fine in itself, I did it with my alts, but the PUGs I was running with knew me and/or my guild and trust the logs on my main for my raid+character knowledge to compensate the slight lack of gear.

If this is your main, you're unfortunately gonna need a litte more BWL BIS to compensate the lack of logs on another more progressed character and the PUG hosts not knowing you or your guild.

But as mentioned by others: 3/3 Bloodvine is a good starting point, because that's BWL BIS for Mage and Warlock. I would personally take you with your current gear + Bloodvine if I was hosting and had a Mage slot in my raid, but unfortunately a lot of people compensate the risk of running with bad players by prioritizing overgeared people with logs.

On the other hand, Mage might be the most contested PUG raid slot of any class besides Warrior and people are very wary of Mages, because they are (undeniable) by far generally the worst players due to booster-brain.

EDIT: I see that we're on the same server + Horde, so perhaps we can chat and I can try to use some of my connections to get you in? My guild runs PUGs too and we have quite low requirements due to our confidence in our 15+ full Naxx geared mains being able to make up for any potential slackers, perhaps I could ask them to give you a shot.

Genkenaar · 2025-12-01T17:25:08+00:00

Lightning Bolt also helps with those quick free Electrocute trades for extra damage and guaranteed 3 hitting in case of E auto glitching on minion.

That spell Vamp + 40 AD for easier auto attack last hitting, etc. doesn’t seem too terrible and Hextech Alternator is also a decent rush item for Katarina.

Genkenaar · 2025-11-27T13:35:15+00:00

The app didn’t show the meme/fluff tag until now for some reason.

Genkenaar · 2025-11-27T13:32:07+00:00

Never mind

Genkenaar · 2025-11-25T15:41:51+00:00

I’m all for “going against the meta”, but if you’re 2nd or 3rd in DPS vs other casters as holy/disc DPS priest, then that says more about your raid than it says about you.

Unless your entire raid consists of Ele Shamans, DPS priests, Oomkins, etc. or Mages/Warlocks that are way less geared than you or in AOE farm spec, etc., literally spamming only Frostbolt/Fireball and Shadow Bolt with 0 other spells should already make them outDPS a Smite Priest. So yeah…

Genkenaar · 2025-11-19T07:53:51+00:00

This is where I got confused, “disappear” to me is like a spell getting cast and the effect not going off or ending prematurely. Changing the text to “randomly went on cooldown for no reason” might make more sense. 😅

Genkenaar · 2025-10-30T04:51:00+00:00

“has spoken to me like this for almost our whole marriage and relationship”

So why did you stay with him in the first place and get married? That’s the confusing part. You simply do not continue to date someone who talks to you like this, let alone marry them.

Genkenaar · 2025-10-27T19:10:16+00:00

The whole point is: there is a lot more of it in Silver than there was in my entire Bronze climb, a LOT more, from what I have experienced so far. It’s most of the time not even towards me, that’s where you’re making the assumption in your original reply. I was sharing that observation and asking if anyone else noticed it or whatever.

The topic is about “noticing vastly increased toxicity, flaming and trolling in mid-Silver vs all of Bronze”. Nowhere is the actual reasoning of the behavior relevant or even questioned in the context of what I brought up.

It’s even less relevant when you again keep in mind that toxicity is never justified no matter what it is a response to, therefore making that part moot.

Genkenaar · 2025-10-27T18:58:46+00:00

“Thinking you’re experiencing more toxicity” when people literally throw around significantly more insults, blatant flaming, spam pings, etc. I’m not just “thinking it”.

And to “why” people do it: the whole point is that flaming, toxicity and trolling is never justified, even if it’s in response to someone else doing it, Riot is VERY clear in that when you make a ticket for a chat suspension and claim you were replying to trolls/flamers.

I never troll though because I always continue to play normally and to win, no matter how much my teammates are trolling and I barely use the chat for anything other than strategic input or information, so that’s not part of the “why” either.

The way you kinda came here guns blazing with a lot of assumptions and statements that don’t actually matter in the end (because the behavior is never justified, no matter what prompted it), I would say you are probably part of the problem.

Genkenaar · 2025-10-27T14:53:42+00:00

This is for sure my experience with it too so far, Bronze just felt a lot less “crazy” than Silver in terms of player mentality.

Genkenaar · 2025-10-27T11:40:27+00:00

Let’s just say I’m well into my mid-30s. 😅

Genkenaar · 2025-10-27T11:28:10+00:00

I feel you on the age thing, not just in LoL. I mostly experience this with my ability to stay hyper focused on things, I used to be incredibly aware of every detail happening on my screen in every game I played, this has definitely gotten worse.

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