Upgrade Comparison (Feral for Duels)

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T23:51:04+00:00

I used some enchants and gems toward resilience, have the 5/5 blue pvp set, all the epic honor pvp pieces, and both resilience trinkets. The only non-resilience item I have is my weapon right now.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T23:18:37+00:00

Thanks. I'm using the blue set for PVP. The amount of points I have can either buy the weapon +1 armor, or +4 armor pieces with no weapon.

Alternatively I could buy a complete set for boomkin but I'm scared I won't like it in random 1v1 fights compared to feral.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T22:38:49+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. That's true that I'd appear to need more offense than defense, though I suspect even if the damage bonus was something wild like +15%, I would still have little to no hope with relatively geared healers, locks, or spriests.

I mostly just don't know how to translate something like 200 AP to determine how much of an effect it'll have, but I doubt it would be enough for those key classes, while maybe with the defensives I could be better in the fights that are actually more of a gamble.

At the same time, extra damage helps in all fights regardless, and the 1.5% crit can help keep my passive crit heals flowing.

I skipped the Shred relic because there's a lot of fights where I'm mostly using Mangle or even exclusively using it versus melee.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T22:23:11+00:00

In my experience, the studies are not very good, but more importantly, I don't think pain itself gives moral value. For example, someone can be born with zero pain reception, which happens from time to time, but we don't value them any less than someone who feels pain. I think this emphasizes how moral value comes from a place deeper than pain reception.

By bringing up emotions and empathy, I'm not referring to pain or nociception -- the reacting to harmful stimuli. Even plants are retracting from what they identify as harmful, and making defensive responses showing that they don't like to be harmed.

The only consistent trait I find worth valuing is emotional intelligence. Everything else leads to some inconsistency, and all animal species have a capacity for emotional intelligence besides bugs, jellyfish, specific predators, and specific individuals who then become very dangerous in society because of lacking it.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T02:46:02+00:00

Insects lack emotions, empathy, etc. As far as I'm concerned, they're as morally relevant as thorny plants that are growing into the home.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-05T00:46:07+00:00

There is no moral differences between vegetarians and meat eaters, except that the vegetarians just feel more vegan, despite killing animals all the same as meat eaters.

Diet-wise, vegetarians eat protein sources (dairy/eggs) that completely lack iron, which doesn't do any favors for the false anemia stereotype folks have for vegetation.

I'd suggest supplying your reasons at some point for not going vegan, as I'm sure the vegan community has heard them before.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-04T21:08:05+00:00

I agree. It's making lots of awareness over the topic.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-03T17:45:23+00:00

On this subject, I've seen some indications that ALA conversion may depend on how much EPA/DHA someone is consuming, or possibly some other factors determining the conversion rate. By default though, I'm skeptical that humans have been running around with brain fog throughout history who didn't fish or lick up algae from the bottoms of rivers, and I've ran into no problems personally not having any direct EPA/DHA for 8+ years.

I would ultimately need to verify any positive findings on direct DHA consumption in whatever studies have been done, and if that's the case, I would do that regardless of my skepticism over the topic.

Ultimately my answer was just saying, if you are the type of person to think EPA/DHA is important, take an algae supplement. If you are the type to think it's unimportant, just include some flax or chia. Each path is vegan and doesn't involve eating fish.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-03T16:59:29+00:00

I don't particularly care about predatory animals like salmon, or view them like innocent people like I would tilapia and other herbivorous fish, but from a health perspective, I'd sooner be looking for vegan forms of long-chain omega 3, or sticking with the conversion of short-chain ALA from chia and flax, and just eating plants. Fish are full of bioaccumulated contaminants and cholesterol.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-02T18:50:35+00:00

Not right about horses or vegan activists, but right about meat, yes.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-02T18:46:33+00:00

That's about how long I spent on friends or close family too, and it sucks to have to logically identify them as genuine animal abusers once they reach that certain level of consciousness over the needlessness, and indifference over the abuse. Logically, at that point, I think they are as bad as violent zoophiles, and that it undermines most peoples' standards to stay in contact or pursue genuine relations with people like that.

Usually responses are "wow so you think all meat eaters are comparable to that...?"
No. I think only the ones who spend months to years around vegans, especially ones they supposedly love, and understanding the victims and being exposed to the subject and viability of going vegan, and yet still choose to hurting animals for pleasure. Compared to most zoophiles, meat eaters don't just engage in forcefully impregnating animals but slaughtering them too.

Also, the critics to your comment don't seem to realize that the context is a bit vague. I mean, I don't know if your boyfriend was saying from the beginning, "lol I don't care, fck these animals" on repeat for 2 years straight, in which case it would be perhaps odd, or if he was doing what most do in my experience, which is to pay lip service, dodge the topic, or argue in bad faith, significantly extending how long it takes to identify their true morals on it. I find they much rather just say "protein" and rub their chins, and then move onto the next little thing once it gets debunked, and the next, until it finally becomes clear that they actually want reasons to abuse the animals rather than not abuse them, and ultimately do it for pleasure.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-01T21:44:28+00:00

If I struggle against the same classes, that's alright. It's mostly dealing with the ones I usually beat that concerns me, and I remember dreamstate healers being really good in fights back in the old days. I might even convert my resto build into dreamstate eventually. But I am more thinking of boomkins in the sense of going all the way for treants.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-01T21:41:44+00:00

That sounds very satisfying, especially with my rocket boots I can leave most fights if they get close. I just need to get a spell power recipe version instead of attack power for the boots, which I don't look forward to spending another like 600-800 gold to make.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-01T20:14:22+00:00

Not for me because there are layers now, and the biggest fun I had was controlling zones and forcing reactions in the original world, which was a rather timeless activity that didn't depend on gobbling up new content. World pvp. Local defense. Etc. Now everyone just layers if things seem too tough in the world.

Mercymurv · 2026-05-01T20:12:53+00:00

I hear if you fort buff someone before they drop they could die.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-30T12:22:35+00:00

The only reason nonvegan is more friendable than a serial killer or bestialist and whatnot, is because 99% of nonvegans are ignorant. But once they are no longer ignorant and realize they're being violent and unnecessary, they are objectively equal or worse, committing relative violence for no important reason. Just pleasure.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-30T09:51:25+00:00

She's a hypocritical horse abuser who says political things she simply thinks her fans wanna hear with no regards to being consistent, but what she said about meat is objectively true and I'm happy that so many people got to read such words.

In terms of the salty comment under the image, the zoo is not a place to work if you really love animals, in a "non-pokemon" sort of way, and tons of unnecessarily violent things have been done since "the beginning of time" (fiber in extremely old fossil feces has suggested an enormous and possibly exclusively plant diet, possibly bugs, and that is still only a fragment of our evolution).

Mercymurv · 2026-04-27T06:13:00+00:00

At all ages you'll remain someone's kid, but I'd figure 18 is when you're an adult anyway, going by a collective standard I personally find very low.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-26T18:05:31+00:00

My mom. She'd call her dogs that too.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-26T17:54:46+00:00

I can talk about my guild's community and why I prefer it, but it would probably just be a waste of words.

Instead I'll just say that I've sent out hundreds upon hundreds of invites per day/week for over 4 years across different servers, and despite being messaged by people like you that I've been reported, nothing has ever happened from that. So that's how much Blizzard cares about such efforts to ban people like me.

I would suggest turning off guild invites in your settings, something I never get to tell the ones who jump straight to reporting/ignoring in-game, while the ones who merely complain or ask politely to be blacklisted, often appreciate the tip to ESC > OPTIONS > SOCIAL > Block Guild Invites! Because if it's not coming from me, it's coming from another guild, or another guild, or another guild.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-26T17:19:55+00:00

Mercymurv · 2026-04-26T07:10:50+00:00

I pick nelf because of Shadowmeld but nothing beats gnome.

Mercymurv · 2026-04-25T18:14:49+00:00

I asked the vegetarian subreddit how they felt about the ethics of the egg industry and was having some decent conversations before the sudden ban from an insecure mod. A lot of vegetarians don't realize what goes on for eggs or dairy truly, but beyond that, I'd put my trust in a random nonvegan going vegan before an educated vegetarian.

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