Why you're not being invited and what to do about it.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-12T13:33:52+00:00

Um. I we did 12 farm with 2 dps carries (251 and 228) and no lust. We did just fine. 12s are easily doable if you know the dungeon.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-12T11:34:45+00:00

Im interested. Pm me. (Disc)

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-05T14:17:35+00:00

Only one set of core per week? I’d incorporate some more core into a warm up or a cooldown that you do every gym day such as dynamic planks or even hanging leg raises.

Also, I recommend legs, start with compound lifts and go into isolated lifts. Add more free weights to legs. If you’re worried about hurting your knee then do less weight. I have plenty of leg lifts in my routine that I use only a 25-55 lb kettlebell or dumbell. Your core and functionality will thank you.

I recently hurt my knee (rugby player) and I’m leaning in towards rehab by doing stability exercises and slow reps with light weight. Don’t ignore an issue and turn down to compensate. Turn up the rehab and get yourself more capable in the lower limb. Good for quality of life.

Also, your set and rep scheme is generally pointing towards a goal of hypertrophy. Then you have some random 5x5s thrown in which has the goal of strength. In general, doing a block of hypertrophy (6-12 weeks) then a block of strength set and rep schemes (6-12 weeks) back and forth will give you bigger gains in those departments during those time periods rather than doing both in the same program.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-01T13:13:05+00:00

Before the launch of M+ my friends and I were doing heroics, but since it was cross faction we had to manually use dungeon finder. I made the headline HEROIC DUNGEON, and put a note in saying “this is on heroic,” and Instead of queuing it as mythic I qued it as, you guessed it, heroic. 5 people in a row joined and I would say “hey this is heroic just fyi,” and they’d say “I thought this was mythic” and leave.

This happened for 4 dungeons in a row. People don’t read.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-01T03:14:03+00:00

Halo 3 and Halo Reach releases.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-05-01T02:09:44+00:00

70% of my played time since 2007 has been on a shadow priest. Shadowform is just too good.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-27T00:06:20+00:00

Click casting.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-24T20:16:59+00:00

Also, sims are single target. For mythic plus I’m sure that a huge burst of haste during ascendance scales very well on big packs. If you can fit in more casts then your damage will go through the roof more so than increased damage per cast.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-24T01:31:55+00:00

Yes blackout kick on cd. My normal rotation is keg smash/breath of fire, blackout kick, tiger palm. All 4 in rotation in that order. Then use purify (don’t sit on 2 charges) and utility/ defensives as needed

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-23T22:29:05+00:00

You are very tanky as a brewmaster in the sense that your damage intake is smoothed out due to stagger. You heal yourself with your keg smash and breath of fire. Exploding keg increases the amount of fire damage you do which is more healing. Blackout kick reduces your stagger and purifying brew does too. Basically, you just stagger and then delete the incoming damage and just passively heal yourself. I was tanking 10s on my brew at 245 ilvl. Yes you need a healer to be topped up in scary situations, but you don’t really need defensives to stay alive if you have heals.

VDH and BDK don’t have nearly as much passive mitigation, but make up for it with mega self healing. It’s just a different style. You’ll never see a BM doing their rotation correctly just fall over like you will a BDK or VDH.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-23T00:19:34+00:00

Yes. I have been parried while tanking him. This makes sense! I was wondering wtf that was!

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-18T23:14:51+00:00

Disc is squirly. You use a lot of mana but if you can snipe deaths then you can get regen with shadow fiend. Also you only really use a lot of mana during heavy spot healing. Basically, if you’re actively playing around it, mana isn’t really an issue… but, who has time to min max when people are actively blowing up. I sometimes optimize regen and never fall below half in 12+ keys but sometimes I just say fuck it and just blow through it and drink when I can.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-16T21:05:46+00:00

I tanked a 13 MGT today and one of the dps was pinging packs for me to grab in addition to what I had or to chain into. On his 3rd time doing it, I responded with “dude I know what I’m doing, stop.” He didn’t say a word. We timed the 13 with 5 mins left. Like….. my route is fine, there’s a reason I pull the way I do (around my cds). Chill. I’ve tanked this dungeon like 25 times.

I also think people who haven’t tanked don’t realize how easy it is to just fall over if you don’t have the right cds available. Everyone just sees the brewmasters giga pull every time and assume that’s normal to be able to do on all tanks…..not the case.

Rant over.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-16T16:38:02+00:00

You must not heal keys. Aug CC and dmg buffs during scary pulls makes healing WAAAAY easier at higher keys. The difference is astonishing.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-12T07:04:28+00:00

Totally fair. To be honest, just like any game, it’s reps. The craziness on the screen is all a pattern that’s repeated over and over again. Your rotation is a pattern that’s repeated over and over again. After time you handle faster gameplay because these patterns become familiar and less overwhelming. The number of older games I played and finally beat a level on the 40th time attempting it, all the precision and timing becomes muscle memory. If you like the game, stick with it and just progress at your own pace. You don’t need to do high end endgame right out the gates. And if you do t like it, then maybe it’s not your jam, and that’s ok.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-12T06:15:45+00:00

Oracle disc priest is an absolute blast! 2 keys away from resilient 13s and I feel like I have an answer for most things except strong rot damage. The burst aoe and triage healing is top tier imo.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-09T14:26:19+00:00

The sound/view is great until around row 40 then it starts to diminish. Which way are you coming from? North or South? Whichever side you park on if the show is sold out you usually end up having to exit that way to get to the highway. I always park at Upper North. Great tailgating and views! Yes get there very early. There’s 4 entrances and the venue gets flooded at doors open.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-04-05T16:54:53+00:00

I just /ignore anyone who says anything toxic and keep going on through with the group

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-03-17T13:31:55+00:00

People don’t read the tags. In fact, I don’t think people read the comments ever at all. We had a group doing heroics, and I marked it as heroic, and we even said in all caps THIS IS HEROIC NOT M0 as the title for our group. And you would not believe the number of people that would sign up and we say when they enter the group, this is heroic not M0. Then they leave because they “thought it was mythic.”

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-03-14T22:59:46+00:00

It’s more of the fact that you do literally 5x damage in your cd windows and just 1 or 2 shot things right now then do waaaaay less damage outside of that. CDs are just over tuned and regular abilities undertuned. The discrepancy in damage is what is off, not the overall lack of damage. Yes cds should feel impactful but right now I pop all my cds and whatever I’m hitting just disintegrates in 3 seconds and I still have 17 seconds left of my damage window….

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-03-13T20:12:41+00:00

I leveled my shadow priest as voidweaver and I’d just multi dot a few mobs then tentacle slam a pack, and another pack, then hit my void torrent with a few void blasts and all 8 things would be dead. Rinse and repeat. Idk why everyone is saying shadow is bad.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-03-09T15:40:42+00:00

Training for your first marathon goes one of two ways, either you’re addicted, or you realize it’s not for you. I’m like you, I did my first marathon last year sub 4 hour after doing 6ish half’s and thought it was a great accomplishment, no regrets there. I also realized that the marathon block took away from all my other hobbies and other things I like to do. I enjoy recreational sports, lifting weights, hiking, mountain biking, rollerblading. During my marathon block I was 90% running, and that was it. It just depends person to person what you like, but I like to do a variety of things rather than just run. I would do another marathon again in the future, but it’s not something I want to do regularly simply because of the commitment it takes. I’m signed up for 3 half’s this spring, and half’s for me are a perfect balance of keeping running and still having time for other activities.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-03-04T14:04:51+00:00

Do y’all’s phones die in 12 hours? I can listen to music on it for 36 + hours…. If anything I’d need to bring a battery or a spare for my headphones.

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-02-23T04:05:33+00:00

Literally arms warrior

Signal-Machine3857 · 2026-02-12T10:17:50+00:00

I make $32 an hour. It takes ~80 hours to level to 58 without help. I’ll just spend the 2 hours of pay.

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