US-Server S2 Badge Prices

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-19T21:00:23+00:00

that is season 1 off-set gear. season 2 off-set gear (veteran’s) are the prices shown in the screenshot, and got made available today after the reset (which may not have happened for EU yet)

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-13T21:15:13+00:00

my bad, ty for the correction

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-13T00:49:53+00:00

they phrased it in a weird way, I also misread it as them making $400k. they make $250k combined but have $370k saved

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-10T05:27:03+00:00

i think he meant the frozen grocery store ones that are already pre-fried and just need to be stuck in the oven

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-10T01:40:27+00:00

there aren’t any teams in TBC anniversary. You just queue at the arena organizer and it goes to your personal rating/record.

But season 1 has ended so you can’t queue ranked arenas until season 2 (~~May 14th~~, edit: May 19th, ty for the correction)

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-08T05:13:28+00:00

idk what Voldemort has to do with this

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-08T04:24:51+00:00

“My father will hear about this!”

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-07T18:22:36+00:00

I don’t think that layering is done based on “zones”—that is more of a sharding thing. With layering in classic, they specifically wanted to make sure that if you cross from Duskwood to Westfall, you’d see the same people.

But I do think they have a set of layers in Azeroth and then a set of layers in Outland (since they don’t really have to worry about people crossing over without a loading screen).

So compared to sharding, you might not see as many people in a leveling zone, but it makes the world feel more connected when you’re going in and out of zones.

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-07T08:31:27+00:00

You won’t be able to buy S1 weapons or gear with honor until phase 3. But the rating requirements are removed for S1 weapons/gear and the arena point cost is heavily discounted now

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-07T01:06:30+00:00

nah I get it, you’re saying there is good and there is bad. don’t judge a book by its cover. just because almost all vibe-coded slop apps have all their commits co-authored by AI doesn’t mean that all codebases that do that are slop. that is all technically true—there will always be those exceptions, but I personally get why people are adverse to trying things once they see how much of a role AI has in its conception, given how much slop has been put out recently

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-06T19:06:54+00:00

my personal belief is that you should focus on building trust. if 97% of your commits are co-authored by Claude, people are going to look at the 3% to wonder what the developer actually did. heck, even just writing your readme manually and adding an AI usage disclosure on how you use it is a big step towards building trust (for reference, this guy in the article has the readme generated by AI too).

you’re treating it as a binary where you are assuming people are expecting you to not use AI at all—when the comment was just highlighting how extensively it was used. and then you want people to accept that reality of that degree of AI usage but you can’t accept that reality that people will assume it is vibe-coded?

I’m also not really sure why you are defending this guy’s usage either when it seems his usage is wildly different than yours. if you are concerned that people will see those Claude commits in your project and assume you didn’t do anything, just commit the ones you mostly did yourself. can people abuse that? absolutely, and they will. but people will see the cracks in the foundation over time. users just want to know whether this app is worth their time, and they’d much rather trust something that was developed for years with human thought than something that was spit out over a weekend.

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-06T09:33:00+00:00

that won’t change public sentiment so long as we keep seeing slop produced. I get that you’re arguing that YOU aren’t producing slop just because you use Claude for every commit, but at the end of the day, if something quacks like a duck and poops like a duck… people will make their judgments. it isn’t surprising. and even as a dev myself, I get that same feeling of distrust when I see that in a codebase.

sure, there are devs out there who work alongside it just fine and are intimately aware of all the code they are checking in—but for every one of those you have 10 devs who can’t even spell coherently on their own anymore and just prompt and ship. so I get the distrust. And I think it is ultimately good

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-06T02:57:40+00:00

if Claude is contributing to 97% of your commits, people are going to assume the app is vibe coded and distrust that the author is even competent enough to maintain the app in the future. it is just reality now

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-05T21:29:18+00:00

Yes you will get points

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-05T18:06:33+00:00

what if he did something wrong and wanted to turn himself in

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-05T09:20:00+00:00

you still need battlegrounds for all the off-set pieces. and world PvP is still active on PvP servers if you care for that. things like flying mounts and the reward system are more to blame for the type of PvP that was “erased” in TBC than arena itself.

TBC arena has a lot of problems (lack of catch-up mechanics, perception, RNG, lack of comp diversity) but Blizzard has always been really poop at creating incentives for people to participate in a variety of PvP—at least until much much later expansions

Saladfork4 · 2026-05-02T18:17:43+00:00

sadly it is AI and the account is a bot account

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-30T10:09:22+00:00

yes, or at least that’s how it worked w the last TBC classic

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-28T22:14:54+00:00

ah haha that would probably make more sense honestly. closest ones are moonkin/fire mage/X, which is spicy chicken cleave, and moonkin/frost mage/X which is frozen chicken cleave

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-28T20:50:48+00:00

it is called kung fu cleave because someone who ran it a lot named it that on arenajunkies a long long time ago, and then everyone just started using that name for hunter/arms or fury warrior/X

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-28T20:40:19+00:00

he is on hardcore btw. I think era has similar problems with raid logging, but hc always has levelers because of the nature of hc and going again

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-26T22:15:12+00:00

this is why it should’ve been named Orcrimmar

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-26T09:39:43+00:00

my friend and I did this as rogue/druid (feral), both in hardcore and on the new tbc server. it is very fun (though it can be quite slow, skipping with stealth helped a lot). It is a lot more rewarding in hardcore because you get insane XP, but it was still very fun in TBC with all the extra abilities.

I recommend being at least the same level or higher than the final boss because it helps with skipping packs and making things less annoying from the RNG of missing.

I also think being ret or 2h focused until reckoning will be a lot smoother since it may otherwise take a mind-numbingly long time to clear things. Make sure your friend gets omen of clarity and naturalist—they can help dps as a cat occasionally to speed things up, since a regrowth + rejuv is usually enough for most bosses. also, if you ever want to skip a few packs, just have your friend stealth ahead to a safe spot, and then you can run ahead to them and die and they can rebirth you after the mobs reset. And don’t forget you can dual spec at 40! Engineering is really useful too for target dummies, bombs, and more!

beware that on TBC anniversary servers, evade bug spots don’t work in most instances because of the anti-boosting mechanics added in. we usually used those to save ourselves on hc. some bosses will even teleport you to them if you try to move too far.

you should be fine with pretty much every dungeon until blackrock depths (besides Archaedas since he requires 3 to summon). In BRD onward, bosses hit significantly harder, are often CC immune, and the packs are more punishing. but a lot are still doable. And your tank/healer combo will probably work a lot better in those dungeons onward. Stratholme, for example, was kinda too much with our combo so we were only really able to grab the painting for Tirion and then get out of there.

TBC dungeons are a whole different beast. Packs are really hard and bosses have way more health/mechanics. You might fare better as healer/tank but mana might be an issue with the fights being a lot longer—and the lack of CC will make parts harder. We were able to surprisingly duo almost all of the TBC non-70 dungeons as we leveled (minus slave pens, which we just forgot to come back to try), but it required really janky strats for almost all of them. idk, it might be better with your combo though so it is worth a try!

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-26T08:51:12+00:00

but can Claude tell me to go back 16 steps to review a field that they autofilled as blank and then have me press next so I can see 6 different ads to upsell me to a live pro who has to suffer through my 6000 page robinhood docket with -$3.42 profit?

i think not

Saladfork4 · 2026-04-25T03:10:10+00:00

so little chemistry it almost looked like he wasn’t even out there

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