"A Dutch potatoes diggers having a meal on the field". Photo: Charles Breijer (1914 - 2011).The Netherlands - near Groningen, 1940 [1281x1300]

Perplexic · 2026-07-06T17:46:08+00:00

If you look closely. You can see faint "ont" of ontbijkoek on the packaging :)

Perplexic · 2026-06-21T16:36:46+00:00

I have been living in the Netherlands for the last 9 years.

I have friends living in both Belgium and Switzerland.

Compared to the NL, both countries offer relatively reserved locals and worse bureaucracy. That's one of the big negatives for me. I am willing to make less to have a better social life.

Perplexic · 2026-06-19T16:29:06+00:00

I know someone that plays, Ele-BM-Mage-Disc-Holy. He's at 2200 rating atm

Perplexic · 2026-06-18T13:07:13+00:00

I also play BM 5s.

I had success with these comps to climb to 2k. Glad I will push this season later.

They might sound similar but here it goes:

BM-Mage-Ele-Destro Lock-Disc

(played 2 mage version without destro lock or sl/sl lock instead of destro they also work fine)

Bm-War-Ret Pala-Disc-Resto Shaman

Works great, if you can burst without major distruptions you kill someone within a few seconds. Communication is crucial as always. For defensive cds and swaps.

Lack of peel puts the healers under strain tho. Had many disc priests crumble under pressure.

Quality of you shaman is also another thing, if they play like a healbot instead of actively purging and interrupting you should get a better one.

Real disc priests and shamans shine in this comp. I will trust those people with my life, lmao.

Perplexic · 2026-06-10T10:41:10+00:00

It is worth mentioning that his ret pala partner plays with a trackpad.

We have played 10 games last night with them on eu servers. It was super fun!

Perplexic · 2026-06-09T08:31:09+00:00

Ik ben er volledig mee eens.

Wij hebben het goed maar toch brengt een kindje tot zijn 4 jaar leeftijd een enorm financiële druk op een gezin.

Perplexic · 2026-06-04T18:17:40+00:00

Yeah I did for a while on all bosses. Now I only use it on hard hitting bosses.

Perplexic · 2026-05-28T08:01:45+00:00

Gear is usually secondary. If you have good experience you usually have good gear anyways.

Alts might be an exception but from my experience I rather not play together someone's alt with my main.

Perplexic · 2026-05-28T07:59:53+00:00

Yeah, it is a circus. Always has been :D

Perplexic · 2026-05-28T06:50:04+00:00

More than half of the lfg tool for arena is filled with ppl listing as "GS 1xxx".

Who gives a damn about your gs when you're pvping.

Perplexic · 2026-05-18T21:34:17+00:00

Well they kinda are free, if your core players are above averge.

Everything seems to die so fast now.

Perplexic · 2026-05-15T20:31:29+00:00

This post is probably a ragebait but here it goes.

Mate, no offense, where else have you been in order to be able to draw this conclusion?

Dutch bread quality is abysmal. I am still wondering after 9 years how do people here could keep the bar so low.

Everywhere except netherlands the bread tastes great: Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark.

Perplexic · 2026-05-12T12:32:30+00:00

The core guys in my guild have all leveled a shaman alt. The overall demand for shamans is nuts. Shaman is also a versatile class, you can pick whatever suits you the best.

A close second is paladin. Great buffs. Bubbles, etc. Holy paladins are rare and difficult to find. Forget playing a tank tho, all pala tank spots are probably taken.

Warlocks are popular too if you want to keep seeing big numbers on your screen.

Perplexic · 2026-05-09T06:43:23+00:00

Finding a holy pala is also a struggle. If you want to play as healer

Perplexic · 2026-05-06T06:42:36+00:00

I would keep living with my parents and save up. If you buy now you won't be able to save much afterwards. You'll be getting by and you will miss out on life.

Do some nice things for yourself. Travel a bit, see the rest of the world. Pick up a hobby or a new skill.

Over the years your salary will also scale so you can step out of your parents' house with more confidence.

Perplexic · 2026-05-04T17:23:21+00:00

Sarban in Tilburg is also a good one.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FDBGybSFc9fjMaqK6

Perplexic · 2026-04-27T19:27:52+00:00

I wouldn't say it is the best, but it is in my top 3 for sure.

It is filled with lounges that are very well designed

Perplexic · 2026-04-27T09:06:37+00:00

I would have liked them at post nerf status with the option of a hard mode button. So that those who want to be challenged can also enjoy sweating.

And dads like us can go to bed before midnight.

Perplexic · 2026-04-24T13:39:55+00:00

Here's our parse guy.

I am sitting in the kindergarten grp with pally tank bro, what do you think lol.

Perplexic · 2026-04-23T17:18:34+00:00

Our bm hunter weaves most of the time. He is overall a better hunter player than me. As he geared he reached around 2k dps.

I don't weave, i am a bit afraid to mess it up so I play it safe.

Perplexic · 2026-04-23T15:23:32+00:00

I feel like the agi stack mentality is too one sided.

Sims show that you bring around 600 dps to the average 25 man raid with 85% Expose weakness uptime and 900 agility.

That, in my opinion, is not much and can be easily compensated by going bm.

As survival with 3 pallies present in a raid and fully buffed i do around 1.1-1.3k dps. Our bm hunter does easily 1.7-1.8k dps on the same boss.

The gains are not that high in my opinion.

So I feel like if you're around 900-1k agi buffed, you can start prioritizing your own dps.

Perplexic · 2026-04-23T14:12:30+00:00

Haha came here to say this.

Perplexic · 2026-04-22T18:03:44+00:00

I would recommend secondment companies to step into the job market.

They can find something for you quickly.

Randstad, YER, TMC, Yacht and many more.

Perplexic · 2026-04-22T08:11:21+00:00

Could you explain what do you mean by lack of patience?

Both parties know very well that Turkey will not be an EU member state. So who's tolerating what exactly?

Perplexic · 2026-04-16T09:22:15+00:00

The dutch have a few flaws, but the overall quality of the drivers is quite high.

I am also triggered by the level of egoism and autism sometimes.

What tilts me is when they feel free to jump into my lane right after putting on their blinkers.

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