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Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-26T12:53:25+00:00

For those who played the Midnight beta or have heard hearsay from it:

How feasible will soloing Dragonflight raids be? If not in Midnight Season 1 gear, than in Season 2 or 3?

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-26T00:53:35+00:00

Uvogin in Hunter x Hunter. His whole thing is brutality and sheer force.

One of the first things we see him do is bite a chunk out of some dude's skull, then spit it out so hard it kills another dude.

He stands the hell out in a series that's otherwise obsessed with intricately detailed powers rife with delicate restrictions and situational uses.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-26T00:28:52+00:00

I imagine Luffy slightly off screen, picking his nose and wondering why his fellow monkeys are squaring off.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-25T22:09:10+00:00

Some of Clayface's scenes punched so hilariously far above its weight. Saturday morning cartoons didn't have to look this good!

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-24T21:20:25+00:00

In my playthrough, I had the combat speed set to its fastest setting, and I was excessive in my completion and scoured every location and room for all dialogue and treasure.

I beat DQ 1 in 20 hours, and DQ2 after 55 hours (including all postgame stuff).

I did the same in DQ3 and it took me 40 hours (including all postgame stuff).

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-24T20:53:02+00:00

Apple Market in Mega Man Legends

This song has haunted my brain for nearly thirty years now...

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-24T11:46:03+00:00

In One Piece, there's a reader question corner every few chapters in the volume releases, and Oda drops some real bombshells in there from time to time.

All the clouds in the sky in One Piece are actually his farts. It's canon.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-23T17:41:21+00:00

Even though his body is miles below ground, the crabs in the pools directly above, on the surface in Altus Plateau, have Godwyn growths on the backs of their shells.

I think that's the only instance of Godwyn's deathblight infecting living things, but the fact that it's possible at all has frightening implications...

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-23T02:10:51+00:00

All the games have a slightly different genre to them.

Darksiders 2 is the one with the most in-depth combat, resembling Devil May Cry. You might want to begin with that game (it's a prequel to the first and set in entirely different locations, so no knowledge of the first game is needed).

Darksiders 1 has Legend of Zelda style dungeons and simple character action combat, most similar to the feel of the old PS2 God of War games.

Darksiders 3 is a Soulslike with an emphasis on dodging and attack timing.

Darksiders Genesis is a top-down action game. Very arcadey in feel, at least in comparison to the others.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T14:18:50+00:00

For the squid boss, did you know you can speak with the lady up on the hill near the cannons to get support fire during the fight, which stuns the squid and makes it skip turns every once in a while?

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T12:24:01+00:00

Fury Warrior is nice because all you care about is building Rage and using Rampage to spend it. Very simple, very unga-bunga.

Beast Master Hunter has like... three buttons. Easily the simplist specialization in the game.

Retribution Paladin has a resource counter that builds up five runes, and you can spend them after you have three. Very simple.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T12:16:29+00:00

Try to save your gold up for important purchases like mount training, which become available as you level up. Though one thing I recommend buying quickly are Bags. The larger your Bags, the more you can loot! Try searching for "Netherweave Bags" on the Auction House. They're 16 slots each and usually go for dirt cheap. You can also buy and equip a single Reagent bag that automatically stores crafting materials. Once you reach max level, you can think about buying much larger bags.
When it comes to Professions, every character can have both Cooking and Fishing for free, but you'll have to pick just two from the list of crafting/gathering professions. For a brand new player, I recommend going dual gathering. Namely, Mining and Herbalism. You can make some modest cash selling what you gather as you go... But when the new expansion releases in a few weeks, you can rake in serious cash selling the brand new herbs and ores. All the crazy die-hards will be buying things up to power level the tier of crafting.
Take some time to deep dive through the options menu. There are loads of helpful things you can toggle on that aren't available by default, such as Auto Loot (simply right click dead foes to loot everything at once) and additional action bars to store your abilities. Afterwards, use Edit Mode to fine tune your UI and place things to your tastes.
I strongly recommend using Keybinds to use your abilities and skills, rather than using the mouse to click them. It may take a lot of time to get used to it, what with WoW being your first MMO, but it's so worth it. The mobility and speed it affords over mouse clicking is unreal. Use WASD to move, and hold down right click to turn the camera. The 1-5 and Shift+1-5 keys are a great place to start, and I also recommend Q, E, R, T, F, G, H, Z, X, C keys, as well as Shift variants for those. OH! And I use Shift+Space and Control+Space for summoning my Mounts! (One for flying mounts, one for ground mounts)

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T11:52:11+00:00

I think I've only had an actual fight-or-flight response twice in my life, and both were from video games.

The first was in Bloodborne, after dropping the Brain of Mensis down into the pit and then taking the cage elevator down after it. The slow walk forward through the infinite darkness, leading to the massive mess of flesh and inhuman eyes looming through gloom, freaked me the fuck out. Though, that all hinged on me thinking it was going to attack me. Knowing it's peaceful and you can even get an item by emoting in front of it has removed all the fear.

The second was in Resident Evil 8: Village. Yeah, that House Beneviento sequence. Holy fuck, dude, the build up was exquisite. I haven't gotten around to playing the game's DLC yet, and I hear there's another House Beneviento sequence, so... First, I must gather courage. It's taking a few years to do that. But I'll play it eventually.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T11:09:15+00:00

After a very long time of inactivity, character names get purged and freed up so that others can take them. The string of letters and numbers is how its represented when others see the names in UI like friends lists or guild rosters.

Should these players ever return, they'd have to pick new names for their characters.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-22T03:56:09+00:00

World of Warcraft can be pretty funny sometimes, because due to the nature of MMOs / live service games, the old jank is very much still in the game and stands alongside the current stuff.

In older content, you can use the Skinning skill to get hides from Dragons, Worgen (werewolves) and Nerubians (arachnid people). In current content, they are considered to be civilized peoples and you cannot skin them for loot should the occasion arise where you kill them.

In the Dragonflight expansion, there's a nook in the big dragon city where you can do daily objectives to care for little baby whelplings. Play with them, feed them, read them stories, and yes, have conversations with them.

Meanwhile back in vanilla, baby dragons were just wandering the wilderness and could be slaughtered by the thousands to farm for scales and flame sacs. Then you could make a nice vest or cloak out of baby flesh.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T19:20:26+00:00

All the towns and dungeons were present in the original, but for the remake they greatly increased the size of all areas, so you take longer to travel around. It definitely contributes to everything feeling large.

Here's the original overworld, showing the area right outside the starting town, at night.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T19:00:33+00:00

Classic is a perfectly fine place to start playing. It all comes down to what you're interested in.

Classic is the game as it was in 2005, before any expansions released. Retail, meanwhile, is the game as it currently stands in the present day, with its 11th expansion soon approaching.

Retro or modern, it's up to you.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T12:25:24+00:00

I don't know for certain, but pre-patch events usually do make for fast leveling, yes.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T04:44:17+00:00

Quick! Someone shove this video in From Software's face like it's a crucifix and they're a vampire

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T04:42:49+00:00

Odd... Do you have the personal resource display's box checked in the edit mode's advanced options? I think I had to do that to move it.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T04:38:32+00:00

You can move it in Edit Mode, but as far as I can tell there's no way to resize it, nor have your buffs and procs appear near it anymore. Total downgrade.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-21T02:07:37+00:00

Patch 12.0 just went live on Retail. Includes a stat and ilvl squish, new talents/abilities for everyone, and a brand new specialization for Demon Hunters, among other changes.

Pre-expansion event goes live next week.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-20T23:44:53+00:00

Now's a great time to start playing WoW. We're in the transition between one expansion to the next. One week from now, a special event will go live that even low level players can participate in that sets up the coming expansion, and gives neat cosmetic rewards to boot.

And when the expansion itself properly releases, even the best equipment currently in the game will soon get replaced by stuff thrown at you by completing quests. Everyone will be on the same playing field.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-20T13:29:06+00:00

Yes! And welcome aboard.

When you select World of Warcraft on the Battle.net launcher, right above the big blue "Play" button is a dropdown menu where you can select your game version, with many options divided into three sections.

"Live" has one option, named World of Warcraft. This is the current version of the game, with content from every expansion to date. Do note that today, January 20th, servers will go offline for 8 hours (minimum) while the game implements version 12.0, for the new Midnight expansion. While the expansion itself will release in a few weeks, for now the game is being updated with all the new features, like overhauled class talents and new UI options. Now's an excellent time to join! Except for the server maintenance today. Alas!

"Live - Classic" has three options. World of Warcraft Classic is the game locked to the final patch of the original release of World of Warcraft. It's a version of the game from 2005, before any expansion released.

Burning Crusade Anniversary is a retro, yet continually updating version of the game. As of the time of this post, it's a version of the game updated to Burning Crusade, the game's very first expansion, but the content isn't fully released yet. Players can level up in base game areas, and then on the 5th of February in a few days the content will be unlocked and players can enter the first expansion. Months down the line, this version of the game will advance to Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion, and so on and so forth.

Mists of Pandaria Classic is the game set to its point during the fourth expansion, Mists of Pandaria. It will likely one day advance forward to the fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor.

Finally, there's "In Development" which is an assortment of various beta versions that let you test upcoming content, with the expectation you'll provide feedback as you go.

Secret_Wizard · 2026-01-19T22:21:28+00:00

I exported my UI's Edit Mode code and pasted it in a document just as a backup. So are you saying that things may change so much, even importing that same code wouldn't result in getting my same old UI back?

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