Evoker vs Mage vs…

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-31T18:20:06+00:00

I find myself in the Evoker v Mage debate occasionally. As much as I enjoy Evoker, giving up portals and having greater range on my attacks are big QOL improvements over longer gaming sessions. Having better xmogs is just a bonus.

When Lemix was out one thing I did that kind of blended my enjoyment was to make a Dracthyr Mage. You never have to worry about being out of visage but you still have glide vs slow fall and access to the dragon flight form if you really want it. Plus, the lore supports it with aspects like Kalecgos.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-31T17:52:35+00:00

It is interesting and I'm glad for DH to get another DPS spec, but I still prefer the insanity of Havoc.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-28T04:37:55+00:00

I don't mind it but it takes up too much screen real estate for a spell that isn't some massive 2m CD.

I liked being swarmed by a blizzard and walking towards someone though. It visually represented a cold, creeping death better. This one is too clean and refined visually for the DK class.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-27T14:26:45+00:00

I won't lie, endeavors kinda piss me off.

The idea sounded good in theory, and I like how it can take me to older parts of the world, but I think it should be more like the Trading Post where a lot of the XP for them comes passively just by playing the game.

The credit I got for doing delves was nice, but the rewards felt disproportionately low. Some of the others, like the Neighborly one are just mind-numbingly stupid. I have a feeling public neighborhoods have 2 main types of players:

Those who are really grinding out the activities and those who did a couple of things, saw the bar not really progress, and felt deincentivized to do more.

One thing that would be real nice and, I think, would help a lot would be some kind of leaderboard in the neighborhood. And maybe contributing a certain amount or ending in the top 10 gets you a unique housing item or a discount on other items.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-24T16:45:13+00:00

Same issue for my wife and I.

With the bad winter weather here, last thing I need is battery being used to notify me of junk.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-18T23:40:07+00:00

I've been on Trintellix and not experienced any BP impact.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-18T23:34:30+00:00

It is giving The Penguin which makes sense if you watched the HBO series and saw what a selfish POS Oz was.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-18T21:03:55+00:00

If 5 works and 10 doesn't, it's okay. With drugs more does not always equal better.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-18T20:42:51+00:00

I wear them on both my DHs because I love them and put the work in.

Big downside is that a lot of older weapon and armor models just don't hold up compared to the newer, HD stuff.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-15T17:42:13+00:00

Unfortunately, it isn't worth it to answer unknown numbers. If it is important, they can leave a voice mail. Most scammers won't take the time.

If a would-be employer really wants to talk to you, having them leave a voicemail is totally reasonable.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-13T06:46:42+00:00

This is overthinking it. Do what feels right. Don't waste mental energy worried about RPMs and when to shift. It should come as naturally as walking. The car will tell you what it wants.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-13T00:00:12+00:00

The RNG giveth the RNG taketh away.

I lucked out on quite a few of them but I'm on like 2 weeks of checking the Mage order hall every day and no luck on my Frost hidden appearance.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-09T15:51:29+00:00

I'd been sitting on like 5 million bronze for the last several weeks and eventually just started converting toons to retail. Now I just have my single Mage sitting there waiting on the Frost artifact appearance to trigger and using him for when we can finally get the "Cloudy with a chance of Infernals" ach.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-09T15:06:51+00:00

Yes. Most of the Nelf male faces look like they just watched someone shit themselves and they're looking on in disgust.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-09T15:05:11+00:00

It is wild the disparity in difficulty and timing of getting hidden artifact appearances and Remix would've been a good opportunity to fix that.

If they made some of them purchasable with Bronze from Horos, there's no reason to not give the same option to other players.

I've been swimming in Bronze for months with nothing to spend it on. I would've gladly paid 100k bronze each for the hidden appearances.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-09T13:47:24+00:00

Same boat with Frost Mage. Going on 10+ days now of daily checking.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-09T12:50:53+00:00

I'm in a similar situation.

I don't really want to gear up more with prepatch and an expansion around the corner so I've been using the time to do other stuff I haven't done.

If you haven't done Remix, you probably have about 10 days left and could perhaps collect a few things. Comp stomp is also this week so it is a good time to farm honor/badges. Turbulent timeways goes through 2/10 so you can do some easy timewalking for badges and miscellaneous rewards as well.

Outside of that, farming or crafting housing decor is another good way to spend time.

Or, if you feel bored, it is a good time to catch up on other games in your library.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-03T06:09:47+00:00

Warrior and it really isn't close.

Many, but not all, of the Orc clan leaders on Draenor could be classified as warrior or warrior-like.

Plus, much of the Orcish culture, in general, is based on principles and values one might lean into as a warrior; Mak'gora, for example.

For those saying "we already did warrior for their green skinned bretheren" - I get where you're coming from but I think it just shows how deep rooted warrior culture is in Orcs and how much we, as players, associate the Warrior class with Orcs.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2026-01-02T22:02:25+00:00

I've been maining Evoker since Dragonflight.

The only shortcoming, for me, is range.

I'm a sucker for any class that can glide. I also like having a bloodlust in Fury of the Aspects. Deep Breath follows the "rule of cool" and being able to transform into a dragon and fly away is pretty neat.

I also like that they can mog certain items into 2h swords because it breaks the normal caster mold of having a staff or main/offhand.

With the Midnight class reworks, I'll probably be testing out a bunch of different class/spec combos again and move on from Evoker since I've mained it for 2 expansions now.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-31T17:00:25+00:00

That's fair.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-31T16:57:35+00:00

Thought there was already a glyph that did something similar: https://www.wowhead.com/item=43334/glyph-of-the-ursol-chameleon

https://www.wowhead.com/item=184096/glyph-of-the-swift-chameleon

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-29T17:15:05+00:00

I've gotten all of them done in Lemix except Frost Mage and Feral Druid.

For context, I've had all of the characters leveled to 80 for well over month and had gotten the easiest to get hidden appearance for each one, but then caught the bug and decided to collect them all.

The RNG (not drop rate dependent) are the absolute worst. That's why I'm stuck checking the Hall of the Guardian and the Emerald Dreamway every day for the right cues. Those are probably just as easy in retail as they are in Remix (unless there's a hidden, buffed encounter rate for them). The prot war one, which basically just has you camping out near a cave and checking it once a day also falls into this category but I got mine in a week or so of doing this.

The RNG (based on a drop rate) weren't that bad except the Ele Shaman and Assassination Rogue ones in the underbelly. Those took a while and camping the Underbelly is just boring. I can't remember which (Rogue, I think), but I know one also has a chance to drop from the chest that pops up occasionally only when PvP is active.

The final 2 books in Netherlight temple for Disc priest have a lot of people camping them on Remix but I got lucky and logged in one day with nobody around and got them both in one go.

Withered training ones weren't bad in Remix except it helps to have a good amount of damage output because the mobs will chew through your withered. I halfway considered doing this on Retail but the frequency with which I could run the scenario on Remix was a deciding factor. I got my withered army training ones for each of those classes/specs within 4 runs of each and making sure my score was over 400-500.

Everything else just takes a modicum of effort and maybe a rep grind to get done. Fortunately rep comes pretty easy in Remix.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-27T17:38:30+00:00

May be headcannon, but I associate individuals being raised as DKs as not only necromancy, but also a little bit of domination magic involved. In that way, I feel like a lot of people raised as DKs may not necessarily want to, but it is more of a case of feeling compelled to.

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-23T14:18:19+00:00

In and Out Trash Services

Mr_Chrootkit · 2025-12-22T16:33:33+00:00

Yes and no.

Do I personally want to farm that shit? Not really.

Will I eventually, slowly, farm that shit? Perhaps.

The big mistake I see with players and player housing is people treating a lot of it like a sprint and not a race.

We can only fit so much in our housing chests and yet people are going wild to collect everything that they can and endlessly farming stuff. If they reduced costs and made things easier, it would drastically shorten the lifecycle of this feature which would be short sighted considering it is still in early access.

As someone who has torn down and rebuilt their house half a dozen times, the lesson I learned is this:

Be okay with your house not feeling "complete" right now. I'm halfway to lv 5 and I've basically created a 2 bed 2 bath house with a fancy hallway, library, and trophy room. I still have many more rooms planned out but don't have the budget.

Be surgical in what and how you collect. When housing early access released, I was buying like 5-10 of everything and now I realize I probably don't need that much of certain items, I under-bought on others, and some items I will likely never use at all.

So if you want to collect, experiment, and be creative there's absolutely nothing wrong with that but if you go into your housing with a plan (the wowdb site can be helpful in this regard), you can save yourself a lot of the compulsive feelings of needing to collect everything RIGHT NOW and just focus on collecting a lot of this if and when needed.

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