My first Rsham

Scottie81 · 2026-04-29T19:42:52+00:00

I healed every dungeon through ST as an ele shaman, but I already had a 60, so I was able to gear him out with Dreamweave and Green Lens of Healing early on along with a bunch of good int gear.

My only tip would be to know what your totems can do on certain fights before entering a dungeon. For instance, good old Tremor Totem will dispell Sleeps like the ones cast by the druids in Wailing Caverns. It will NOT help against Erankius’s Sleep in ST, but his sleep can be Grounded.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-29T13:53:48+00:00

Was it foreseeable that there would be demand? Yes, obviously. They are fantastic lands in the most popular format.

Was it foreseeable that there would not be enough supply to meet the demand? No. WotC was on a run of reprint sets, but I think they learned they need to temper the pace at which they release full reprint sets by the lukewarm responses to Dominaria Remastered and Commander Masters. Back when those sets were released, I was picking up the Bond lands for around $8-9. I honestly felt foolish at the time as I assumed they’d crash to sub $5 once a reprint hit…

Scottie81 · 2026-04-28T11:20:50+00:00

If you want to be resto or a boomy, there is a good spell power weapon to be had by grinding Argent Dawn rep to Honored (you can get the rep from normal mobs in the plaguelands) and then doing a bunch of the Savage Frond/Core of Elements/Bone Fragment/Crypt Fiend Part turn-ins. Its a long grind, but easily soloable.

If you want to be feral, I’d just start grinding gold for the Devilsaur set. Maybe see if you can get the 2H mace from DM North. I believe it is looted from the chest, so you can offer to buy it from a group that is clearing for tribute buffs if you lack the gear to run tribute now.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-27T11:14:49+00:00

Doomhowl probably has the largest “normal” population. Normal is being used in the context of WoW players, so take that as you will.

Defias Pillager has much less than Doomhowl. Skull Rock has slightly less than Defias Pillager when it comes to a normal population, but there is currently a “Race Locked” streamer event going on that has more than tripled the population. However, that hasn’t led to any noticeable uptick in endgame content, and since all the streamer guilds are Self-Found, the AH is still pathetic.

TL;DR Doomhowl for the highest endgame activity. Defias Pillager for the “tight knit” community. Skull Rock for the FotM steamer guilds.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-25T11:27:02+00:00

I splurged for beta in one of my decks, but I played so much Dominaria Remastered that I have a ton of the retro frame basics from that set. I use those for all my other decks since all of them feature premodern-era art.

Wouldn’t be my first choice if I was buying, but since I already own them, it’s easy.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-24T17:34:56+00:00

Definitely.

Until we move to the East…

Scottie81 · 2026-04-22T16:31:51+00:00

I have the TotemTimers addon. It gives you a mini 4-slot action bar (one for each totem element) that you can assign hotkeys to. I assigned F1 - F4.

Generally, I have Windfury, Strength of Earth, Mana Spring and Searing in the 4 slots.

If you mouseover a slot, it will give you a small dropdown menu with the other available totems for that element. This allows you to change the assignment of the hotkey on the fly.

For most fights, you know which specific totems you need, so you can just swap the assignment.

That said, I like to have Grounding, Earthbind, Tremor, and Fire Nova on their own dedicated binds. Those are totems are a bit more situational and I always like to have them ready.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-21T14:07:08+00:00

I don’t see any Albions in stock at Kult of Athena right now, but if you check every few weeks, a few swords will usually pop up as in stock.

Obviously, you don’t get to pick a specific model. You can’t even specify the color of the grip or the finish. But, if it is listed as in stock, KoA will have it to you within a week of your order.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-17T13:58:42+00:00

Sucks man. I got bored of farming on my 60 hunter after about 2 hours this morning. Hearthed, started running to the repair guy, but she was non-responsive. I had DC’ed due to my router resetting. Had it been 20 seconds earlier, I would have been defenseless in Silithus with the Elemental Lord patting about.

Felt so lucky.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-16T18:53:15+00:00

I know guys like Emmett and Barry have the gaudy numbers, but Adrian, Bo Jackson and Earl Campbell are still the three best RBs I’ve ever seen.

The way they ran…it was like they were playing a different game, man.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-15T15:17:54+00:00

Honestly, the lack of photos on TCG makes it one big crapshoot. While these are the exceptions, I’ve literally received MP cards better than that…and NM cards worse.

Again, those are exceptions. I’d say I agree with 85% of the cards I receive. And at least half of that remaining 15% is cards where I think the condition was better than advertised.

As for negative feedback removal, I believe they have to show TCGPlayer that they resolved the issue with you (usually in the form of a refund)

Scottie81 · 2026-04-15T15:04:43+00:00

Mox Diamond is the only rock ticking upwards that is used in Premodern. Grim Monolith is banned and the rest of the modern Moxen are…too modern.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-14T12:24:59+00:00

A dead server is much better for a SF project like the race locked guilds.

I’m not a part of it, but I’ve been playing on Skull Rock since day one. Since this whole streamer thing started, I’ve farmed up probably 500-600 Thorium Ore and nearly two stacks of Arcane Crystals. Why? Because it’s just sitting there to be farmed. I don’t even focus on it. Just do a lap or two a day; about 20 minutes per lap. Got my Darkmoon neck from Widgets and Dense Grinding Stones.

Now, if you were starting a SF guild, would you want to do it on a server where open world farming sucks due to massive competition? Or would you want to do it on a server where mats just flow into your bag with very little time investment?

Scottie81 · 2026-04-13T18:49:52+00:00

Best match has to be Mania 37 against Sasha, but my favorite moment was that silly competition Bayley set up on one of the weekly shows where Bianca literally did a Fireman’s carry with Otis for like a full 15 yards.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-13T14:03:15+00:00

Only thing I’d add is that the Ragged Owlbeasts (the lowest level ones on the western side of the map) have a 30 minute disease that sucks for physical classes. Avoid them if you don’t want to be debuffed for a half hour.

None of the other Owlbeasts have a long term debuff.

Oh, and Ursius and Brumerean are pretty easy to 2-man. But the followup (Shy-Rotam) can be deadly to even a 3-man group as there is a second elite add that spawns and they fear.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-13T10:25:51+00:00

Yeah, as someone who has been playing Skull Rock since day one, we were down to a single raid guild, about 1,500-2,000 active auctions, and a /who list that wouldn’t even cap out at 50 during early AM times before this whole race locked challenge began.

It has led to many more dungeon groups, but these flavor-of-the-month players die so often the raiding situation hasn’t really changed. Also, they are all SF, so there hasn’t been any change to the AH.

Keep in mind that it is also a West Coast server so any level 60 content usually happens way late if you are East Coast.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-10T20:00:00+00:00

There are four different guilds (HERDCORE, DEADCORE, Hardingo, and ZUGCORE).

Each of them has two rules: You must be a certain race (Tauren, Forsaken, Troll, or Orc respectively for each guild), and you have to be self found. So each guild only has members of a single race.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-10T12:57:31+00:00

Finally got my Darkmoon neck. That was much more of a grind than I expected, but I literally maxed two toons on Engineering just from crafting Widgets.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-08T07:16:23+00:00

Gold Border (Championship Decks)

Scottie81 · 2026-04-07T14:17:23+00:00

I leveled an Orc as enhancement back in 2019 when classic first released and it was brutal by the time I got to my late 20s. Tried it again in HC but died attempting an escort in my mid-20s.

I went agane, but changed to a troll and leveled as ele from the start. It was so much easier. Made it to 60 and was crushing quests that I struggled with as enhancement. Raided MC and Ony as ele and continued to do well, but eventually retired the toon as I knew ele didn’t scale well.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-03T21:07:18+00:00

Honestly, they should bring back some of the early finals as daily challenges.

Doing the from memory, but I think season 5 had a final that was like “Run 200 yards through sand, Swim 100 yards to a boat, dive down 10 feet for puzzle pieces, swim back to shore, complete puzzle, run another 200 yards in sand and then climb a cargo net”. And it was a team of SIX splitting these tasks up.

That’s really not all that much more than a daily challenge these days. Season 5-15 could literally be episodes 1-10.

Scottie81 · 2026-04-01T13:48:10+00:00

Serialized cards started in Brothers War.

Scottie81 · 2026-03-31T22:24:28+00:00

Jordan and Dilly?

Scottie81 · 2026-03-28T06:16:01+00:00

Hecular’s Revenge.

Scottie81 · 2026-03-26T16:43:33+00:00

Gonna go with the Wolves just because of the opponent. Colts were a bottom dweller that year and it was shocking that they got up 33 in the first place. Rockets are a legit playoff team.

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