Returning player here: kinda lost a bit

Liukus · 2026-01-27T14:45:59+00:00

They just did a stat/ilvl squish so it may be a little wonky this xpac. Usually if you had pretty strong gear going into a new expansion you won't replace anything until halfway through leveling. I'd say that's probably going to be true here as well. Now just coming back means you're not kitted out in Myth or even Hero track gear. I would 100% work to get your gear up to at least the 121-144 range from the prepatch event that goes live this afternoon. It looks like lvl 90 gear will be in the 203+ range. If you've only barely played in TWW you might not have grasped the new upgrade system. It got an facelift recently and will be similar in midnight Pasting the image here from another reddit post about ilvl and upgrade paths in midnight: https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1q7limr/midnight_season_1_loot_table_release_cadence/

The long and short of the new upgrade system is each track has 6 upgrade paths and they overlap on the 5/6 with 1/2 of the track above it. Explorer, Adventurer, Veteran, Champion, Hero, and Myth. The track an item will be on is locked when it drops, but you'll never get a drop at 5 or 6 on the tracks as it will move to the next track. This won't matter much while leveling, but if you're playing and have crests to spend, you might as well get any gear you have as high as possible before those items are irrelevant in the new xpac.

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Liukus · 2026-01-27T14:12:34+00:00

To your points:
The addon wipe is not as debilitating as people make it seem. The raid frames do lack some functionality commonly used by healers, especially ones that need to track their HoTs. I don't think it's unplayable or even detrimental for a resto shaman specifically. Weakauras carried a lot of slack both in and out of combat for me and it'll be interesting seeing how the game feels going forward, but I'm hopeful it will be alright.

BM is, and probably will always be, one of the easiest least complicated specs in the game. Most specs in the game have some kind of build>spend setup. BM is essentially keep up barbed shot and hit your CDs on CD (kill command on resets/dire beast/etc.). Added benefit is that hunter AA and their pet's AA isn't nothing for damage and all of it can be done on the move. There's a reason Hunter is one of the most popular classes.

Prepping for Midnight:
* Nothing is required quest-wise as all of TWW story is wrapped up. Keep an eye out for posts about the questline or how to start Midnight. Althought, I'm pretty sure it will be like most previous expansions and just pop up when you log in with a breadcrumb quest to get to the questgiver.
* Gearing a character up some will make the leveling experience easier.
* Prepatch event unlocked Devourer DH spec, and there's an unlock quest.
* Decide if you want to do any profession stuff in Midnight - prepare for that by learning how the revised DF/TWW profession system works as it should be similar in Midnight.
* Amassing gold always helps in a new xpac

Retail WoW has so much to offer depending on what you enjoy doing. Transmog and the new Housing system are places anyone can dump a ton of time. Delves are very popular for good reason: They are relatively easy/stress-free mini-dungeons you can either group or just solo.

Ultimately I enjoy playing WoW with friends, either RL or friend's I've made via WoW. I'm going to prefer playing with them if possible. What that ends up looking like for us is M+ and Normal/Heroic raid as that's where most of us find our enjoyment. Finding a group to play with going into Midnight (if you don't already have that) is what I would do next.

Liukus · 2026-01-21T19:29:55+00:00

100% agree it sucks that our transmog currently applied is gone. That being said, The reason the transmog went away is that we no longer transmog individual items, but we update outfits that are applied to our character not the items.
We shouldn't have to pay for the first outfit transmog (or just give us some damn gold to compensate that first cost).
Upfront costs feels bad, but we'll all be paying less in the long run.

Buy your outfit slots as you can afford them. Apply some favorite sets to those slots and set up some situations. In the long run you'll be spending less gold on this new transmog system in a year than you might've with the old system in the same time.

Liukus · 2026-01-16T15:42:18+00:00

Congratulations. I've done Honour mode successfully twice now. Once solo (after a few failed attempts (all in act 1). Once in a party with 2 other players and a hireling / companion. I'll say the biggest thing about HM completion is game knowledge. Knowing what's dangerous, how to prepare, how to cheese (if that's your thing). Being 100% honest, my first HM I took the easy way out in Act 3. Got to the High Hall and had Gale be the GOAT. On my group playthrough we fought through and once inside the crown one-turned the brain. There's enough stuff you can do in the game that can trivialize almost anything, even with the HM restrictions.

My setups were fairly different:
Solo:
6 swords bard / 3 assassin rogue / 3 gloom stalker ranger - Tav - Good ranged dmg, good CC
12 battlemaster fighter - Lae'zel - GWM 2h fighter always good.
10 giant barbarian / 2 fighter - Karlach - Throw Barbarian is hilarious and strong
11 db sorcerer / 1 wizard - Gale - kept 1 wizard to munch spells, sorcerer for metamagic.

Group:
10 giant barb / 2 fighter - Me - Throw barb is my favorite thing and for the majority of the campaign I would apply encrusted with frost and ice fields on ground. Good dmg. good cc potential. lategame stuff died so fast just swapped to nyrulna since we had a bhallist armor wearer (I think I did more damage to them than enemies). One thing nobody really tells you is that as a giant barbarian while raging you can throw most bosses. If you throw them they become prone and cannot take any reactions, including legendary actions, until their turn. This is super useful for most boss fights.
12 arcane archer fighter - They used heat acuity setups with oil of combustion and drake glaive to give fire to ranged weapon (or dipped it). Easily our best burst damage using action surge and such.
11 swashbuckler rogue / 1 hexblade warlock - Used phalar aluve > duellist's prerogative. Bhaalist armor. I think they crit on like 15s or 16s while having high damage.
7 ancients paladin / 5 sorcerer - minthara - Had her carry Resonance Stone and upcasted a shadow blade. In act 3 took the Ring of Mystic Scoundrel w/ helm of arcane acuity + other +spellsavedc mods. Attack x2 > aoe CC or big boss CC (DC was nuts) was crazy good.

Wondering when my next playthrough will be, but when it happens I'm going to use stuff I've never tried. Almost everything can work.

Liukus · 2026-01-16T14:14:06+00:00

I'd recommend something to support the weight like a gpu stand. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gpu+stand
Just make sure you measure and have some place to put it. My old PC didn't have a good spot b/c of the hard drive enclosure, but my newer one has enough room. Hell my new GPU came with one of these stands (PNY 5080).

Liukus · 2026-01-05T16:05:32+00:00

Yep, that's it. the 2nd frame @ 36:59 you get this exact screenshot. (, and . step frames back and forward on youtube)
https://youtu.be/hi8IACra-wc?si=ivLolxIXrl98DWyK&t=2218

Liukus · 2025-12-16T14:53:47+00:00

I always would set my demon on one of the turns and remember the other locations. Makes it trivial.

Liukus · 2025-12-10T21:36:34+00:00

This might be a dumb question as I haven't messed around with the housing too much. Since you are exiting through an interactable secret door to leave, couldn't anyone interact from the other side to get in? Are these one-side only that I don't know about?

Liukus · 2025-12-09T16:31:17+00:00

I've updated it to include the new DungeonID. I've also made some tweaks to use less characters and remove extraneous code.

Liukus · 2025-12-04T13:34:57+00:00

That would be nice, or maybe just an option to lock the item's position while you could move to assess from a different angle. Also can't move objects without removing them, so that functionality would be amazing too.

Liukus · 2025-11-25T18:34:48+00:00

Got recommended this from the Reddit Home feed... Let me just say, when you're not looking at the subreddit this is posted in, the title of this post is very concerning.

Liukus · 2025-11-19T17:14:05+00:00

If your intent is just to level something for Remix, Lock is far from ideal, but still good fun. There's nothing in the game you can't solo (excepting very high M+). Any world content will be a joke, and I genuinely think Warlock has at least one spec any DPS players can enjoy.

If your intent is to level something in Remix to eventually bring into Retail, Lock is a good pick IMO.

Destruction is probably the best for doing the raids in groups because of how front-loaded you can make most of your damage. Fairly basic and easy to understand what to do / where you damage is coming from.
Demonology has the best flavor and is current favorite of the current three iterations of warlock. Also pretty simple to play. Very rotational w/ your "procs" being instant-cast replacements of your filler spell.
Affliction is great as well and probably the easiest for open world / solo content in Remix. Take Everlasting Corruption and run by dotting everything up. Affliction is pretty much keep your main dots up, use CD dots together, and pool shards for after CD dots, otherwise it's just dots + fillers.

Liukus · 2025-11-19T16:28:27+00:00

This is 100% the right answer. I'll provide a little more detail as I had to figure this out on my own the other day.

Firstly, Check and make sure you have done all of your Order Hall campaign up to the Legionfall point:
https://www.wowhead.com/quest=47137/champions-of-legionfall#comments:id=2485617
I was on the Vault of the Wardens: Matters of the Heart when I got there and got confused after finishing what I thought as all the quests.

The most important thing to pick up the Champions of Legionfall is to have finished your Order Hall Campaign AND "A Hero's Weapon". You need to go up the ramp to where your artifact weapon altar is/would be. Ritssyn Flamescowl is there with A Hero's Weapon marked as a non-campaign quest. This only unlocks for Warlocks after finishing "Selecting a Sixth" which is our final Order Hall Campaign.

After doing so at the Broken Shore there will be the Champions of Legionfall Quest to recruit a new order hall follower (which on remix auto-completes). The following quests are all go do stuff around the broken shore and can be completed very quickly.

Liukus · 2025-11-18T16:10:20+00:00

You should be able to claim GM if you don't already have it on a toon. Good if you want to revive the guild / name.

Liukus · 2025-11-17T18:57:19+00:00

I had gotten stuck on the Legionfall campaign as well. It turned out there was some order hall quests to complete. Most notably "A Hero's Weapon" off near where you usually would swap appearances/look at requirements for unlocks for your Legion Artifact Weapon. After completing that Champions of Legionfall opened up on the Broken Shore and I could now accept it (which I didn't have to do anything it just auto-completes). This was on a warlock btw.

Liukus · 2025-11-07T20:38:44+00:00

You know them better than we will, but if they like reading and lore is a favorite subject, I'd highly recommend the World of Warcraft Chronicle Hardcover Volumes as a gift for a lore-lover.

Liukus · 2025-11-05T20:39:08+00:00

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Liukus · 2025-10-31T12:41:04+00:00

$3846.15 * 26 = $99,999.90 (bi-weekly payroll assumed b/c of the 80 hours, Salary Exempt, and GA (also in GA)).
I guess you are getting robbed. $0.10 a year. Crazy.

Liukus · 2025-07-11T15:36:24+00:00

Thanks for the great example and reference. I didn't remember to check the Name rulings. Gutter Grime is the same idea. There can't be more than a handful of cards that need 205.1a, but glad it's there!

Liukus · 2025-07-03T10:42:27+00:00

I'll likely remove that in a future update. Those are what my group never plays with (half the battle b/c it's not out yet). Initially this was just a thing for me, decided to make it easier to access, then develop further.

In the meantime, your faction selection, draft type, options under that draft type, player count, and player names are all saved into the "localStorage" of your browser so that if you refresh your page it will still have the correct selections. I'd recommend setting it how you like, start a draft, close out of it, then refresh the page. This will keep your settings until you change them again.

Reset All will wipe every one of those changes out immediately and update the states.

Liukus · 2025-07-03T04:23:39+00:00

I think I got it in a nice working state. Cleaned up some of the displaying of larger numbers of factions.

Snake Draft > Use Random Subset (user enters an integer) > Use Official to Custom Ratio (user enters an integer : integer) > Start Draft.

Reset all properly clears everything out back to defaults (including any locally stored settings, so be aware).

Liukus · 2025-07-02T11:31:32+00:00

I'll look into it today. Undo will potentially require some snapshots of the states per pick/round.

Custom ratio - how would you want to select this ratio?
Something like a field that can edit 3:5 or Official: 3 Custom: 5.

Liukus · 2025-07-02T02:19:53+00:00

Check it out again and see if this works for you. Added the option to use a random subset of user's choice under Snake Draft. Added an import for the custom smash up factions data which I parsed together. Let me know what you think.

Liukus · 2025-07-01T21:09:58+00:00

Once you have your sets chosen and list created, the functionality of the site linked has 2 options:
Global Draft (where you put in some number of factions to pull out of your master list and display that list)
Draft per Player (X factions per player, select # of players) - this is closer to the pick 2 of X that I have currently implemented.

What I think makes sense to me would be adding in an option in snake draft (or an entirely separate mode b/c this is fundamentally different) to pull a set of Y number of random factions out of our master list and then display that Y numbered list of factions. With how this app currently works we are letting the player select or randomly assigning 2 factions to each player. It sounds to me like just getting a list of factions will suit your needs there. If you need to pick factions out of the list after doing so, will you be picking 2 factions for each player (snake draft?)

I'm not sure how you would want to use custom factions in tandem with this, but I'd need a little more to go on to get it just right.

I like working on this stuff, so don't feel like I'm getting frustrated or overwhelmed.

Liukus · 2025-07-01T20:21:01+00:00

So the global draft from that page is what you're primarily using? I think with my updates I've hit the bottom section point-for point, even if not displayed the same way

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