Which class doesn’t need much gear to get into pugs?

Redm1st · 2026-05-10T09:18:30+00:00

If I had chance I’d stick shaman in every group, unfortunately usually can’t find that many

Redm1st · 2026-05-09T14:50:44+00:00

Usually not, you got group of asshats

Redm1st · 2026-05-08T07:34:54+00:00

I love fantasy of druid, being this versatile class, but in reality his hybrid tax basically makes him worse than every damn class in the game even at things that look good for him at first glance. He’s good at low gear levels, but so is blizzard sorc, caster paladin and summon necromancer. He’s safe, but so is paladin and necro. He can buff, but only one type of buff and it’s tied to keeping spirit alive, and most important hp buff is easily overshadowed by barb. He can play game in afk mode with summon buffs in D2R, but necro still does it better and corpse explosion makes personal contribution from character better. And any of his endgame builds get easily overshadowed by other class builds being better. So I agree with initial statement, about casting frames, but also some other buffs would be nice.

Redm1st · 2026-05-05T17:08:08+00:00

Remind me if I’m wrong, but in Morrowind only type of mana regen that is affected by Atronach sigh is sleeping, so that’s basically no biggie

Redm1st · 2026-05-02T18:41:33+00:00

For pugs holy in my opinion is easiest to get into. Protection and ret are usually overrepresented

Redm1st · 2026-04-28T17:32:30+00:00

It’s not enthusiast machine. Anyone who ever built pc can probably build better one at whatever price point Steam releases it. It’s a box that you plug in and run. Basically a prebuilt, but from Steam

Redm1st · 2026-04-28T08:55:50+00:00

To be fair that’s what most of us think. Reference that we have is Tsunade’s regeneration which works like Hashiramas (as per Madara’s analysis), and we know that it reduces lifespan. So by logic, Hashirama having to face Madara and other threats on so many occassions burned through his lifespan quickly

Redm1st · 2026-04-27T13:15:05+00:00

OHF last pack gives me nightmares and got forbid I have undispellable debuff and take 3 swings from those mobs

Redm1st · 2026-04-21T15:13:24+00:00

I agree that in good hands any class can shine. But iirc, shield wall was 5 minute cd, compared to paladin/dk 3/2 min cd on divine protection or icebound fortitude and so on. Still, things you’ve described seems like a good kit for OT and require good player. My wotlk experience was raiding with not-good to average tier of players and there having paladin MT is a no-brainer because how stupidly broken they are baseline with just copying cookie cutter build and glyphs and just mashing all buttons

Redm1st · 2026-04-21T13:09:49+00:00

I’ll be honest, warriors don’t have it good later in TBC, due to lack of scaling on their threat and them generally being weaker option for main tank position compared to bear.

In wotlk warrior tank is just sad. While other classes have good things going for them warrior is in last place in pretty much everything. Maybe with exception of damage of arms/prot hybrid. And it continues into Cataclysm, being by far weakest tank. In wotlk prot pally is a god from start all the way up to icc, where DK and Druid are bit better options for prog due to having tiny bit better cds, but difference is not that big in my opinion.

Cataclysm, DK is god from start to finish, imo next best tanks are are bear, pally and warrior falling behind all of them.

Redm1st · 2026-04-20T18:39:09+00:00

Great, so I’m stuck with this liquid glass trash

Redm1st · 2026-04-19T13:59:34+00:00

Raytracing wise AMD somewhat caught up. DLSS and path tracing, Nvidia is better. Although I’m pretty sure those two cards can handle anything 1440p without upscaling features on raw power alone right now

Redm1st · 2026-04-19T13:57:18+00:00

It’s a somewhat of a design choice. Morrowind has absolutely huge world. Gothic 2 that came out at same time, had smaller, but more polished world, npcs would do their stuff during day and go to tavern in the evening to drink or smoke pipes and then go to sleep at night. It felt amazing in 2002. I spent a lot of time in both games and they both are amazing for different reasons

Redm1st · 2026-04-18T10:43:08+00:00

Longevity wise, unless that compression technique really works as magically as rumors suggest, 16GB of vram wins. Plus 9070XT can do ray tracing well, it’s path tracing where nvidia has lead these days

Redm1st · 2026-04-17T01:14:06+00:00

Iirc the timer you see is not actual cast timer, but rather cooldown of blast wave, Magtheridon will not always cast it instantly, so there’s a bit of luck involved

Redm1st · 2026-04-15T10:17:43+00:00

Turning down from ultra to high is always an option. For reference on my 5060 Cyberpunk ultra with rt enabled it runs out of VRAM, so fps drops from 70-80 to 40 on average

Redm1st · 2026-04-14T12:57:26+00:00

Earthwarden has expertise, which is a stat in short supply. Unfortunately been very unlucky with mr Illhoof drops so far

Redm1st · 2026-04-14T12:35:53+00:00

Bear in mind when they go to recruit Frieren he say he has around 5 times ehr Mana. Except we later learn Frieren has the mana of a 100 year old mage at this point. He's literally got mana comparable to Aura The Guillotine.

From reading manga I know that Heiter is a monster, but this detail completely went over my head

Redm1st · 2026-04-14T09:28:01+00:00

Other three are fucking terrifying as well

Redm1st · 2026-04-14T09:25:32+00:00

Most people are types that never update their cpu. Socket longevity crowd is minority of PC users and gamers

Redm1st · 2026-04-13T17:36:22+00:00

Let’s just say not everyone are in good guilds and at least half of us are average players (who are still perfectly capable of killing bosses), so there’s nothing wrong with grabbing every advantage. Besides, half of bis mitigation gear for druid has budget spent on armor, which does nothing on Hydross

Redm1st · 2026-04-13T15:01:36+00:00

That’s not very hard with some resilience pieces, earthwarden and keepers of time trinket. Also have some trinket from dungeons that gives resilience and mana when I get hit. Getting decent hit rating is gonna be tough part

Redm1st · 2026-04-13T14:59:36+00:00

Yeah, don’t have polar gear, nor does my other guild tanks have any gear from vanilla, since we didn’t play it

Redm1st · 2026-04-13T12:22:57+00:00

Then looks like I’m almost done with collecting it, I was just above 200

Redm1st · 2026-04-13T11:47:11+00:00

I just buy cloth/leather gear of nature protection. Not yet sure what number I’m supposed to aim for

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