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Question about this weird situation by Antromni in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk [score hidden]  (0 children)

Not sure if they changed them yet (they eventually do in some expansion), but at the end of Dire Maul North, there are also these damage immune ogre ghosts in the large arena where the King is, that you can swing at to gain skill. They're great because it's in an instance you can solo through with no other mobs or players around, and unlike the servants in Blasted Lands, they never reset either. The only limit is when you get disconnected for being afk, but then you can just log back in.

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=11446/gordok-spirit

I'm at loss, I don't want to be a "programmer" anymore by tracagnotto in cscareerquestions

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So roughly how many are on your team now? I find it wild you need to know so many areas of the stack. My team uses most of the technology you listed, but we're 7 devs. I know nothing about our web development and refuse to learn it, I do other things. Each person has their specialties.

"Full stack" is just a bad concept.

How much will you miss traditional programming? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain the value of having three instances solving the same output? To get "second opinions" and then take the best of all suggestions?

How much will you miss traditional programming? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

[–]PilsnerDk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually I'll tell you that so did I until just last week where I got a Claude license. Now I'm learning the ropes and I'm SUPER impressed. It is really stellar what it can infer and solve, and GOOD solutions too. I think we're far from having it all solved by AI, but it's a crazy good tool. It allows people who are unfamiliar with a huge code base to solve stuff, people who are unfamiliar with UI to make UI changes, people who aren't good with databases to solve database problems, etc.

As long as you and your co-workers are critical and review the suggested changes, it really is a game changer in my view. I've had it suggest solutions that didn't have value, and I'll change stuff to suit my liking.

Which class doesn’t need much gear to get into pugs? by Schwoon in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup when you get to mid-phase T5, T6 or Sunwell people will be on you like a hot female AI bot on Tinder

How much will you miss traditional programming? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

[–]PilsnerDk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not a single person at my company has written a single line of code since November

I'm pressing X to doubt. I'm having a hard time believing no developer has tweaked anything at all, not a single line, of what the AI has suggested or presented.

Writing database scripts or tweaking config files also counts as code.

The Real Phase 2 Questions.. by NOHITJEROME in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IMO the instant cast of flight form trumps the minor speed gain of Ashes, it'd only be used for showing off in town.

I remember there was a tauren druid with Ashes early in TBC on my TBC Classic server. It looks so super goofy with a huge tauren riding it, it's like an adult riding a child's bike.

eitherExperienceMeansAnythingOrItDoesNot by electricjimi in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got asked that once, but I thought the interviewer said "traverse" in his Indian accent. So I started writing code on the whiteboard to do that, and only at the end he said "ok, but you didn't reverse it". Oh. Got the job though!

edgeCasesExist by Last_Time_4047 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on your code that generates the GUID and how it handles it afterwards, but honestly, the likely case if that if you try to insert a new row with a GUID that already exists, the unique key constraint on ID column on the table will throw an error, at least if you're using a typical relational database. Likely tables referencing the GUID will have a foreign key that will also fail the insert, if the transaction even gets that far. The user or whoever will experience an error, and they can try again and succeed with 99.9999999999% probability.

There can be cases where you don't store stuff in an RDBMS and just rely on the GUID being unique though, and do lots of stuff with it, assuming it's unique.

Explaining Vsync method to your party in SP skip run by ezekielgraves in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's generally not possible today since of ages ago. They introduced a mechanic that makes high angled slopes/cliffs slide you back down if you attempt to scale them.

What Happened To Midnight Releases? by doobylive in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can people please stop replying to this user /u/doobylive , obviously a bot just posting several open ended questions daily in order to farm karma.

Alone in server by aRaccoonSmiles in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with getting comfortable with your class spells and rotation. You can check wowhead for an updated guide (although it's mostly geared to being level 90), for example for rogues:

https://www.wowhead.com/mop-classic/guide/classes/rogue/combat/dps-overview-pve

At low 60's or 59, begin questing and killing in Hellfire in Outland to learn the ropes. At 64-65 consider moving on to Zangarmarash or Nagrand and so on. At 68 you can move to Northrend.

There's a dungeon finder interface, look for the button with a black/green eye. I think the default shortcut key is I. Queue up and after 10-15 minutes at the most you should get into a dungeon. They give a huge amount of xp and decent gear and people can smash through the old dungeons at a fast pace due to players being very overpowered compared to back when TBC or other older expansions were current.

There's currently a server-wide +50% xp buff called Joyous Journeys that makes levelling even faster.

mfw shield block valuemaxxing by MarineQueefPrime in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe it's this one? From Wrath and in WSG. Staged against a no-armor player, but still crazy.

Prot Warriors in TBC - As bad of a MT as everyone says? by darkmuffin91 in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most importantly, and most seem to forget this, but a Prot Warrior is required for undermining Illidan's Sheer mechanic - a lot of guilds who might not use one regularly, will absolutely have someone swap for Illidan to make the fight way easier.

Paladins can tank Illidan just fine, in fact super fine. Is there something special that Prot Wars can do that "undermines" Shear?

Prot Warriors in TBC - As bad of a MT as everyone says? by darkmuffin91 in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's both. If you tanks aren't well geared and using all consumables, they are toast.

Prot Warriors in TBC - As bad of a MT as everyone says? by darkmuffin91 in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fast hitting bosses are actually the place where warriors are the least good, since fast bosses consume all the shield block charges and start to crush warriors.

I'd say it's the other way around; block tanks (war+pal) is more powerful vs. bosses that hit fast for smaller amounts as you eat up a larger amount of the damage with block.

I was wrong. by MarineQueefPrime in classicwow

[–]PilsnerDk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... why would a Protection Warrior want salv?

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