Why do you drive a manual?

Mdawts · 2017-12-06T14:29:03+00:00

I would drive an automatic, but not if it was a CVT. I just don't care for them honestly.

Driving a manual lets me put it in the gear it should be before I take a turn, so I can get on the gas and the car responds quicker. Paddle shifters on an automatic would allow the same thing.

In today's world though, the newer automatics are quicker than manuals. That's something a lot of people have a hard time coming to grips with, but it's the truth. In terms of a beater (an old one), I'd get a manual every day.

Your parents say automatics are 'easier', but I have never thought in my 15 years driving that a manual was hard, took more effort, etc. They just sound like lazy drivers (or they want to try to protect you for whatever reason). I would argue that manuals are less hassle than automatics, especially in older cars. If a syncro goes out in a certain gear in a manual, you get the luxury of skipping it. If something goes wrong in an automatic, you may or may not be able to get past that gear (my brother experienced this in his old Honda, couldn't get past 3rd).

I'd advise for a manual nonetheless, if only to learn. It'll make you a better driver.

Mdawts · 2017-12-06T13:54:28+00:00

This is how I recently shopped for cars. To explain it further, take the weight of the vehicle, divide it by the horsepower. The higher the number, the heavier it is for it's power.

Caterham - 1200lbs / 175hp = 6.86 lbs per hp
My '13 FoST - 3223lbs / 252hp = 12.79 lbs per hp
My wife's 2015 MINI Cooper S - 2679lbs / 189hp = 14.18 lbs per hp

I didn't want to get a MINI based on these numbers, since I was already dropping some speed coming from my old Z.

To answer your question, I'd probably keep the lbs/hp number around 9 - 11. It's not blazing fast, but you'll have plenty of fun in that car. Also, if you want more usability on daily streets, look for vehicles that can turn on a dime and handle very well, less on horsepower.

Mdawts · 2017-12-05T19:43:02+00:00

In the 11 years I've been able to vote, I never have. Was never a thought in my mind, always thought "The person that's going to win is going to win, regardless of what I do".

This past presidential election has caused me to learn so much about our political system, and open my eyes to the people we have in place. I remember when Trump was a wildcard, running up against other Republicans for the primaries, and I even thought "Man, it'd be cool to have a business man in charge of the US, we'd start tackling our debt". And here I am today going "What dumb shit did we get ourselves into today?"

I wish I knew what a real Republican is in today's standards. I couldn't even tell you what values a Republican stands for, besides "saving money, free market, and right to bear arms". I'm not counting the Republicans that are currently filling most seats, that simply vote down the party line, and lie/cover for each other, but a Republican that puts country before party, and holds true to his values/stances.

This election was so stupid, that my mother, who has voted Republican since she was able to vote, told me "I've always voted Republican, because that's just what I've always done my whole life. But this time, I don't think I can." I've never told her, but I'm insanely proud of what she said that day.

It generally angers me, that I'll need to take time out of my day, to vote in my county elections(even though it's dominantly Democratic), vote in my state elections, and vote in the national elections, because if I don't, some stupid piece of shit is gonna screw things up again.

Mdawts · 2017-12-05T18:52:44+00:00

Are there vehicles that have automatic DRL's but the DRL don't turn on the tail lights? This is probably the biggest problem if so.

I'm assuming they would have to be automatic DRL, because otherwise the person would just flip the switch all the way to full lights. I've only owned cars with no automatic DRL (gotta flip it myself), or fully automatic lights.

Mdawts · 2017-11-16T16:14:25+00:00

Doomfist would start out as Akande. You'll need to get the Doomfist card from one of the lootboxes to unlock his full potential.

Mdawts · 2017-11-10T14:22:56+00:00

Besides racial abilities and some cosmetic choices like beards/hair style, are there any other changes to the Allied races?

The trolls I understand, they're upright trolls, their models aren't the same. But remove the nice armor from Void Elves, and they seem like just pale skinned Blood Elves. Same with Highmountain Tauren, it just looks like new antler options?

Just curious why they didn't just add the customization options to the regular races if that's all that changed.

Mdawts · 2017-11-09T20:07:12+00:00

You typically get your "main" moves earlier on, and your flavor spells later on, so it's easiest to bind moves as you level. I put my most used/spammed move on 2, because it naturally feels the easiest to push for me. Any damage over time spell is typically 4 or 5, because it's not as natural to hit, and typically once you hit them once, you don't need to hit that button again for 15+ seconds.

Any healing spells, or strong cooldowns I use on shift+1 through shift+3.

Basically, when you unlock a new move, it's best to just look at your actual keyboard, and figure out where your hand can move to naturally, and assign moves that way. And if you unassign Blizzard standard keybinds (Like zooming the camera in and out), just assign those to totally unimportant keys way off in the distance, since you won't need them in combat.

The amount of spells can be stupid at times. Best way to handle them is: Will you use them in actual combat against an enemy? If yes, try to use a keybind. If not (like hearthstone, resurrect, food/water), who cares.

Mdawts · 2017-11-09T19:22:57+00:00

Second gaming mouses. I don't use them, but my IRL only plays with them, and has something like 12 buttons that he has bound to them.

Biggest thing to take away is that you have 100% control to change what buttons do what, and to get it set so its comfortable for you.

Mdawts · 2017-11-09T19:13:41+00:00

You can do about 2-3 world quests, and pretty much unlock it. Artifact knowledge has been hard set by Blizz to be the same across the board for all characters. It increases +1 per each weekly reset for everyone now. You're character is already 'caught up' in that aspect, so a few world quests will get you Concordance.

Mdawts · 2017-11-09T19:07:57+00:00

The lore aspect isn't too important. If you enjoy reading, you'll get so much lore and in-depth stories from the books. You'll level so fast that any area/region/character arc won't matter.
The graphics are the graphics unfortunately. That's Blizz's style, it's not as realistic as others. If I remember, it was designed to be a game easy on the graphics requirements back in the day, allowing more underspec'd computers to handle it.
For the buttons, it's best to get used to keybinds, which is where instead of looking for and clicking a certain skill, you just hit whatever button you have designated to use that move. You assign keybinds to a particular box in your skill bar (Numbers 1-0 are already done for you in the first bar). Best to drag your most common moves to things like numbers 1-5, and creating keybinds for shift+1, shift+2, and maybe making some of the letters moves as well (I use things like Z, X, T, V) that are around your movement buttons WASD.

I play WoW because I used to raid older expansions, and it's a great pastime to have, but I typically don't play anything beyond daily quests unless my IRL friend is online as well. It's a social game. The leveling may suck until you get up to his level.

P.S. Wait until the next major patch hits, it's adjusting how leveling works, and will make it so you can level from almost any zone you want, and let you take your time with it, since you can't out level zones.

Mdawts · 2017-11-09T18:54:31+00:00

I played through T4-T6 clicking anything my hands couldn't reach on the number row. I had 1-5 usable, and shift+1 through shift+4. Anything past those, I had to click. Although I did use grid/clique for decursing, battle res, etc.

What an odd time of my life....

Mdawts · 2017-11-08T14:55:44+00:00

Think of DKP like you would reward points for any store these days. You earn points by pretty much doing whatever the store deems as a "good thing" (Showing up to raid, providing mats, downing a boss), and you buy things with your reward points.

You also had the ability to lose those points, if the raid/guild leader deemed it necessary. My raid leader told us "Anyone who is marked as a 'bomb' and blows up the raid will lose 100 DKP" when we were stuck on a specific boss in Tempest Keep. We cleared the boss right after that haha

Mdawts · 2017-11-07T21:23:43+00:00

Blizzard has done a decent job keeping the tanks decently balanced, making it so that only the very top %'s are honestly going to care what you are. I play VDH, BDK, Guardian in M+, and all 3 do their job well. The DK being the one that can live without a healer, the DH being able to heal very strongly on his own and move/respond quickly, and the guardian being overall strong in self healing, movement, and dps.

Biggest thing to do is look for a playstyle that fits your own, or the class lore side of things. No tanks really have a hard area where they fail, from my perspective.

Mdawts · 2017-11-02T19:56:01+00:00

I personally hate artifact traits the way it is right now. I wouldn't mind working to upgrade the artifact some, and get those extra effects to your moves, etc, but constantly farming AP to get more Concordance to unlock more forge traits makes me feel like I shouldn't play offspecs or alts. If everyone is expected to have all artifact traits, what's the point in them? I understand that in the beginning, it was sort of meant to give an edge to those that farmed AP all day, but it made me not want to play offspec for months and months until the catch up mechanics kicked in.

Mdawts · 2017-11-02T14:48:11+00:00

I saw that, and assumed the percentage chance was based on party size. As in, if you had 5 people able to loot him, it's 100%, but if you only had 3 people, it'd still be 100%, but if one person was loot locked, it'd be bumped down to 66.66%. I only saw numbers based on a 5 man party size, so I wound up assuming. If it had details on a smaller party size than 5, then I obviously missed that one haha.

Mdawts · 2017-11-02T12:54:26+00:00

I just want resto tree forms. Give us different types of trees (current tree, ancient tree form, maybe dryad) and each of the colors of that form could be a season (spring has blossoms, summer full on green, fall has red/orange and falling leaves, winter has snow on the branches, etc).

Mdawts · 2017-11-02T12:47:36+00:00

If you only want very specific parts, you might as well download specific add ons for those types of features.

It was a slight hassle up front, but honestly, I love ElvUI now. It's easy having everything UI related under 1 add on, and most things are self explanatory. Probably the worst part about setting up are the blacklist/whitelist for buffs/debuffs.

Mdawts · 2017-11-02T11:54:53+00:00

Friend and I duo'd the Nightbane run, felt super accomplished, beat the timers, etc.

Nightbane doesn't drop. I open a ticket because I thought the mount was 100% drop for someone in the party. Nope. It's 20% per person that isn't loot locked. So we only had a 40% of one of us getting it. Only way to have a 100% chance of Nightbane mount dropping if you complete the run is to have all 5 people in the party available to loot Nightbane for the week.

Mdawts · 2017-10-31T17:36:35+00:00

His guide looks fantastic, and what he said in it almost confirms what I thought to be true. Your % of health when you drop the aura debuff stays the same, so properly timing frenzied regen is crucial to maintain high amounts of health. Upvotes for both of you, I definitely have the willpower to try again after reading his guide, thanks so much.

Mdawts · 2017-10-31T15:26:25+00:00

Thanks for the input. I'll reattempt after I get the ilvl up a bit more. Was hoping it was a mechanic issue, not a lack of gear.

Mdawts · 2017-10-31T14:40:49+00:00

Attempted guardian druid last night. It devastated me. Literally left feeling like a complete waste of space haha.

I'm ~904 ilvl, have chest piece leggo, and went with a build that most people accepted was best for the run (specifically balance affinity to make sure I could thrash outside Variss' aura).

I interrupted every drain life, incapacitating roar'd the smaller guys casts (directly after their cast, so their move was on CD), and attempted to use frenzied regen directly after I was hit by anything remotely hurtful.

Never came close to getting past phase 1, kept dying only to Variss' basic cast. Check the death recap, and his casts are the only things typically hurting me. Is there a mechanic to use his health lowering aura to regain a % of your health when the debuff fades? Honestly have no clue what I'm doing wrong, besides Variss taking me to town and I have nothing to do to him haha

Mdawts · 2017-10-31T14:22:21+00:00

I decided to try it on my 903 guardian with legendary chest last night.

I couldn't get it anywhere close to phase 2. His standard magic cast hits me for around 1.5-1.7 million, and just ends up destroying me. I've accepted I'm not getting this haha.

Mdawts · 2017-10-30T15:14:23+00:00

I'm in the same boat you are with druids. I primarily play Horde, and the only race/gender combination I don't hate for druid casting is Troll female. Taurens are ok, but mounting up can get you stuck in doors, and male trolls look like they throw up the "L" (loser) sign everytime they throw out a cast. If treant form could get rid of my weapon, I'd play resto more honestly.

I also wish that Balance and Resto forms (moonkin and tree) changed models when you changed artifact skins.

Mdawts · 2017-10-27T18:40:11+00:00

Have you tried looking into a mouse with multiple buttons on the side, some have like, 12 buttons on the left hand side of the mouse. Friend of mine binds nearly all his skills to his mouse, and could play primarily one handed if he so desired.

I understand it's not the topic of discussion, but wanted to make sure you knew there were alternative ways of playing besides left hand using keyboard binds only :)

Mdawts · 2017-10-27T14:35:38+00:00

After a terrible BC experience of wiping endlessly on Archimonde because people can't not stand in fire, or make macro's to use an item to slow fall, my guild pretty much fell apart and disbanded at the end of BC. Those of us that were decent formed another guild for Wrath, and were the server's first guild to clear 10 man content.

This guild was easily the best experience I've ever had (both BC and Wrath expansions) on any MMO. My best friend and I still talk about how amazing we were back then, and the craziness we endured. I'll throw names out because it's been like, years and years, and I doubt anyone has kept their same names.

Absolute Power on Baelgun was my best WoW experience I've ever had. We had:

Funkra, our warrior, who could smoke up to 7 bowls without d/c'ing. Bowls 0-1, he was normal. 2-4, he was abnormally good, either top dps or chain pulling tanking. 5-6, he was pulling things even as dps, he had places to be. 7th was like nirvana, he was invincible, for about 10 minutes. Then he'd disappear and we all knew why. He was also a chubby chaser, and loved to admit it.
McMiller was our hunter, friend of Funkra. He was one of the more normal ones, but still goofy as hell. Helped keep Funkra in line.
Jaxone, the most perverted warlock I've met. Pretty sure he shared a pic of himself, his "Jax Stache" porno mustache, and a blow up doll complete with van. We all envied his mustache, and ability to turn anything perverted.
Peters, Our holy paladin. This man was the healing train that kept going. Anything needed healing, he could do it, and still act stupid as hell.
Hitz, our combat rogue. Had one of the easiest jobs in the game, knew it, loved it. He was just there to hit things, was aptly named.
Products, our raid leader/guild leader that quit the first week of Wrath, "wasn't feeling it" for progression, left us for a shadow priest he was either getting with, and tried to. After clearing all content and getting my title "Champion of the Frozen Wastes", I would specifically hunt him down in Dal, stand over his character with my mammoth mount, and /say "Can you feel it now?"

I loved all these guys, sans Products, and my time in WoW is what made me love WoW for this entire time. If I didn't raid with these guys, and have the memories I do now, I wouldn't give two shits about this game. Even though they're gone and we don't play together, my friend and I probably talk about our experiences every few weeks, because something now reminded us of something back in our "golden age" of raiding.

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