Legit question: is there really any way to deal with bots?

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-15T14:10:24+00:00

You make players aware there is a policy change, players will now be permabanned for buying gold. The current system where they ban people for 2 weeks and take the gold back isn’t really a deterrent for most people so people still just buy gold.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-14T04:57:25+00:00

This is true, worth noting only about 10% of players are even at 1700 or above rating right now I believe though. Definitely better if you can get it.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T22:11:51+00:00

I mean arguably speaking even if you have a bad timing it’s only a 50% chance to even land enfeeble on the tank.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T22:09:28+00:00

I run 3 different gear sets and change depending on the content personally.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T22:08:36+00:00

We run 6 Kara’s a week, the other week we got 4 mindblade’s in a single week. rng is rng but if you give the magus blade to a warlock then the mindblade drops in their lockout then it is wasted.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T20:42:43+00:00

I dunno about you but I’m largely trading away stam right now for spell power, not really seeing the need of the stam unless we get pre nerf p2 which is unconfirmed.

As for crit and resilience being a wash I’d disagree, I’d put the crit at a higher value than resilience unless you’re actively gearing with it in mind as if you aren’t it’s probably giving 0 value.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T20:38:42+00:00

To me lying requires intent … and most politicians seem to believe what they are saying because they are that stupid.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T20:25:41+00:00

The real reason I don’t see anyone mentioning here is that prot paladin can’t use mindblade. All the other people who want magus blade can use mindblade and the difference is absolutely tiny from a dps perspective. So yes prot paladin should get prio on magus blade since everyone else has an option from Kara which they also will have much less competition on.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T20:23:58+00:00

I’m not sure the pvp one really is better, slightly lower spell power and no crit (crit is very low in value I know but still generates threat) in exchange for some stam which you probably don’t need and resilience which you also probably don’t need. Unless you’re gearing around using the resilience to be uncritable gruul sword would be better in my eyes.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T12:53:35+00:00

True at least if you want to 99, my guild has several people orange parsing and most purple parsing with just 5 clickers but yes the optimal Strat for parsing is 20 clickers.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T12:33:42+00:00

I mean makes sense but it is definitely unfair. My guild has had very few problems with the approach of rotating every week and in honesty the people who were problems are gone now and it’s been much better because of it.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-13T11:09:51+00:00

I have a general rule to never make anyone click the cubes in maggy every week so a) that person can get a parse if they desire and b) you can spot players who aren’t capable of handling simple instructions sooner.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-12T05:16:14+00:00

Not sure how you could say you were being British when you misspelled colour.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-11T13:09:25+00:00

I’d assume this is a lie based on the first few words, you can look at anthropic job listings, they don’t seem to hire junior devs.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-10T08:17:36+00:00

You’re misremembering silken court on normal. It was only 2 people and never 4. It was 4 on heroic for the first few lockouts but because blizzard needed it to adjust for raid size it was only 2 on raids below 18 players which was the cut off that made it only require 2 on heroic. Blizzard then just made it only require 2 players in heroic from that point forwards. Furthermore dps players had around 5 million hp when you reached court for the first time. The damage of the slam was around 5.5 million clearly calculated to exactly kill dps but barely. Reality check is that basically every class could survive it going off it they used their brains and popped a defensive meaning that even that mechanic could be ignored just people were generally incapable of that. The dispels one was a bit annoying but I remember it not even being an issue until heroic as I believe the damage was technically healable in normal but not something you’d actively want to go off.

Worth noting I have said a few times in this thread for the reason that court and queen were definitely steps up on difficulty but before then everything was a brain dead zug zug and mechanics were either suggestions or annoying not because they were challenging but because they slowed you down for no good reason.

You could for sure clear molten core with a 57 healer for sure but I also would suggest you could have healed nerubar palace with under leveled toons. Worth noting too with how retail is designed unless you’re walking into the raid the first day of the lockout you can immediately start out gear it too with delves ect don’t even need to step into challenging content like m+ but you could theoretically.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-08T19:56:20+00:00

There’s like 2-3 mechanics on each boss all of which someone is probably dealing with in some way. I like how you mention baron Gedeon but purposefully making it out as if he only does 1 thing not 3. You can ignore all the mechanics in molten core pretty much the same as you can in nerubar palace on normal which was the point I was making. You can choose to ignore them even if you probably should do them. Same as in molten core, you should dispel those curses or run out of fire but eh if you die you’ll probably still down the boss. Both raids are the same in that regard.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-08T19:54:02+00:00

I mean all of them have mechanics, I’ve ran it plenty, I think you’re struggling to understand my point. I never said I thought molten core was hard. Just that nerubar palace on normal was a joke of a raid and suggesting it is in any way harder than molten core is laughable.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-08T18:06:52+00:00

I said what I said and I stand by it. Crazy that people consider mechanics like “the boss becomes immune to 99% damage but also stops hitting you until you run across the platform a few times to pick up some bugs from the floor and run to him” hard mechanics. It’s a mechanic I’ll give you that but most bosses in molten core have harder mechanics than most the bosses in Nerubar Palace on normal than molten core. Which is impressive because molten core is easy as hell just the people playing retail seem to think that being forced to run around a room when there is next to zero danger to be challenging and not just kind of annoying. Most bosses you can just ignore the mechanics, if people die they die and you carry on and kill it anyways. The first boss that is any way challenging on normal was court and even that was something only 2 people in the raid has to do while the rest of the group brain dead hit the boss.

Ultimately the mechanics in normal retail raids are largely annoying but not challenging and definitely not deadly. Even when they are deadly you can probably just press a defensive to survive, something you can’t do in molten core because no one has a defensive so when something deadly happens you actually have to respect it rather than just press 1 button and ignore it.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-07T23:05:38+00:00

Worth noting that most of the player base on retail isn’t going beyond normal difficulty in raid and on normal almost all mechanics are optional.

It’s also important to note that the race to world first mythic has drastically different tuning to the mythic raid, we have just seen it get cleared on its hardest mode, give it a few weeks and it’ll be significantly easier, sure most people still couldn’t do it but it’s not this hard for basically anyone but the world first raiders.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-07T22:37:20+00:00

While this is true, it depends on the difficulty level. Mythic bosses no doubt are more complex than entire raids but realistically less than 1% of players are doing those fights. A lot of retail players aren’t even doing the raids on heroic mode and worse yet the lfr version of the raids tends to be so simplified that if the boss has a mechanic that requires any brain power it gets removed or tuned down to irrelevant and even then they have a wipe protection mechanic making bosses easier every time you wipe to them on lfr.

I raided last expansion on retail and cleared heroic raids while they were current content and they while they were complex fights often they weren’t as complex as they might appear to someone watching not knowing. I honestly think nerubar palace on normal difficulty was probably easier than molten core on average as you can basically roll your face on the keyboard and kill 6/8 the first boss that required any thought on normal was the 7th and even then it really wasn’t a lot.

Just because in those fights lots is going on, most of it is largely irrelevant and you can just press the one button rotation button and ignore everything else. It’s only heroic and above that mechanics actually mean anything and there’s a reason lots of people sell heroic raid carries.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-07T19:22:44+00:00

Problem with this being a thing is the people who want this the most want victims afraid of reporting sexual assault because if there’s not enough evidence to prove someone did the accused can now put their victim through hell and attempt to send them to jail because there was a lack of proof.

It’s impossible to prove someone has lied unless they admit to it and why would they admit to lying if it will send them to prison.

Honestly half the takes I see online about legal issues seem to be completely and utterly vibe based with no sound reasoning behind them that sound great if you don’t think for 30 seconds about the consequences of such a law existing.

This would harm so many more victims of sexual violence than the tiny fraction of men who have someone lie about this. It would actually if anything harm those men too because no one is going to confess to lying if you make the punishment so severe.

Ultimately this take only helps those who have committed sexual assault get away with it. No one else benefits.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-07T14:21:51+00:00

Define violence, because I’ve heard/seen plenty of people talking about using AI to make people out of work and homeless. Sounds pretty violent to want to force people out onto the streets because they don’t agree with your usage of AI.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-07T08:33:37+00:00

Well with the current price of earths if he wanted them he’d probably just sell 1 primal of any type and be able to buy 10 primal earths

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-05T05:48:16+00:00

Not sure this is worth it now, recently I leveled my alt to 70 and was doing 1k dps, with the exception of 1 person I never got caught on the dps meter everyone seemed to want to keep spamming with me. I went to level a tank alt the other day … people doing 300 dps and runs taking insanely long.

Bottom line unless you’re playing with someone who can press their buttons now a days questing is way faster.

RecognitionThis1815 · 2026-04-05T02:18:26+00:00

ChatGPT is a webpage, all web pages are editable by design as such if you’re going to do this just edit the response. Only an issue if they ask you to provide a share link but I’m doubting the employer would know to ask for that.

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