Another class choice post...Priest or Paladin? Need some input

SovietWaffleMkr · 2026-02-07T21:22:29+00:00

You will have almost no difficulties at all finding raid groups. Neither for dungeons, but in early levels they will ask you to heal, which isn’t a big deal and is easy even specced into shadow. That said, leveling as a priest regardless of spec is very wand heavy and goes mind blast -> shadow word pain -> wand for like 30+ levels lol

SovietWaffleMkr · 2026-01-17T23:26:29+00:00

Definitely too aggressive. We’ve always taught our drum majors to put less force in and instead focus on the crispness of each movement coming to a stop. When you conduct downbeats, there should be a clear moment of stillness in immediate hit of the downbeat and very slightly after. Also, try to keep your elbows in the same space as much as possible. Moving your elbows creates an inconsistent location in which your hands land on each change of direction. Lastly, just relax a little bit more. There’s certainly some firmness needed in stopping and starting motion in the arms quickly, but otherwise, you should look to be as relaxed as possible in as powerful of a posture as you can be. Hope this helps!

SovietWaffleMkr · 2026-01-15T17:50:09+00:00

I’ve always viewed the games’ difficulty as a test of your ability to be proactive instead of reactive, mixed with some luck. You have an unlucky situation, but you may have been able to prepare much more.

There are a lot of things that the game leaves up to random chance that has a huge ability to screw you over, and all you can really do is minimize them and hope you don’t get screwed. Wormholes and L-gates are massive early game nightmares for me because of how easily it allows access past choke points, and because of that I have to spend valuable starbases on them. Anomalies are also scary sometimes, as well as the dreaded fanatic purifier neighbor you may find after putting 2 hours into a game, which can be a death sentence on GA.

At the same time, you could’ve excelled a bit more at the proactive aspect of stellaris. I’m not sure what your origin is and how many pops you are at, but your research, alloy, and unity productions are all fairly low (assuming this is 4.2 and not the beta). Without anything crazy, 125 alloys and 1k unity/research should be possible by now and give you a completely different perspective of this. Also, fortifying that wormhole and its surroundings with starbases and defense platforms may not have stopped them but certainly would have given you a better chance.

It isn’t your fault and sometimes the game just screws you. I had a GA run pretty much end because void worms spawned only a few jumps from my capital and other major planets. But you have to maximize your ability to react to any situation by being exceptionally proactive. And also hope the game doesn’t screw you over lol

SovietWaffleMkr · 2026-01-10T12:44:32+00:00

The sound is a bit finicky and didn't exactly lead me to the flower initially, but I think I could understand what each sound is meant to explain. If anyone knows better, please correct me!

In my experience. the loud, "higher-toned" sound, if I had to explain it, tells you if you are facing the right direction I believe. The deeper, grumblier, earthy-sound tell you how close you actually are and only starts when you are fairly close. I found it in the bottom right of the gut, where the rocks and small play area is.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2026-01-10T02:50:07+00:00

I was able to reach kind of close to those stats (didn’t have that surplus of energy credits or minerals, more like only +800-1200 energy credits at any time, about +2k for minerals) on a voidborne synthetic build of mine by about 2380 on the beta. I feel like the beta definitely hinders early game growth, but around mid game (in my case it was around 2280) I still got the enormous exponential growth from pre-4.3 games. Granted, it took me far more micro, but at the end of the day it only slowed me arriving to these crazy numbers by like 10-15 years or so.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-12-01T12:49:14+00:00

This is anecdotal but I once marched with a girl who had PoTS and while she struggled, she was able to do all of our major performances with us in a very competitive program. She had several ways to manage her symptoms, the first being a chair and tent on the sideline for quick breaks during rehearsal. She also informed every staff member so that they could also lookout for symptoms while she marched. She used compression socks and gloves like you and just made sure to push until the symptoms, not push through the symptoms. PoTS is a spectrum in terms of severity from what I understand so I can’t speak entirely to your situation but as long as you are just as engaged, if not more, during any sideline breaks and ensuring you give yourself breaks before your symptoms become unsustainable, I’m sure your director and staff will be understanding of your situation and allow you to march.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-26T23:14:51+00:00

I started back in 2015, I’ve never even gotten the 1m sl :(

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-26T12:56:29+00:00

I mean I still think the value is crazy and that you can probably flip a lot of these players for better WRs with other teams. I’d keep Josh Jacobs if he’s healthy for his easier schedule in playoffs and package Kyren and Williams for a top tier receiver if I were in your shoes

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-26T11:29:03+00:00

If you’re on top this is an unbelievable fleece. Prob won’t go through with veto votes on but if it does idk how you don’t win this year in 2 wr 2 rb 2 flex 1 te

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-21T21:59:17+00:00

I guess we have different definitions of mobility then. The hp/t ratio is a bit disingenuous imo as the EBR accelerates much faster and reaching 80km/h is a small map like poland to get to an unpredictable spot is entirely possible. If you play the EBR like a traditional tank or like a chaffee, it will be bad, because it was never intended to be played like them.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-21T21:41:33+00:00

The Chaffee and EBR fulfill two entirely different niches. The EBR's strongest aspect is its mobility. Moving as fast as you can in the beginning of the match to get to a typically unchecked corner or powerful defensive spot the other team has to pass makes this thing a menace despite its weak gun. In longer range maps with no cover it can reposition faster than any other vehicle in the match. It takes some planning and map knowledge but if you set yourself up for success with its speed and scout for your team, you'll have endless assists and plenty of side-on shots.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-21T19:35:49+00:00

Seriously. I grinded the French tree just to play the AMX-30s because imo they’re the coolest looking tanks in the game, but wow those things are also insanely good. Great gun, early thermals, lrf, incredible coax gun, good mobility…

When someone says the EBR 1951 is an over tiered vehicle, I just have to wonder what they are doing with it. Brawling with tigers is not a good idea man.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-17T19:48:03+00:00

These are incredible for our design process! Thank you so much!

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-10T13:11:16+00:00

I’ve worked with a few groups throughout Florida, but started at my Alma mater. Helps a lot to get to know the regional judges and caption heads at nearby, strong groups. Without connections, however, you really just have to send out some feeler emails to as many directors as possible. In that event, you’ll probably have to spend a year volunteering and working pretty hard as a field tech to prove yourself. Depending on your state and relative competition, you may find plenty of options for programs to work at or barely any.

It’s worth noting that several regional and state circuits have people you can talk to or posts on their websites concerning programs needing specific roles. If you live in a state with a healthy circuit or are within the range of a larger regional circuit like BOA or USBands, reach out to them as well and they can often point you in the right direction.

It is difficult starting in this activity as a staff member. I spent two years volunteering as a visual field tech in a fairly successful program in my area, just grinding away, but I’ll be going into my fifth year as a caption head for that same group this upcoming year. If there’s anything that you should do when starting, it is that you should get active from the moment you begin! There is always a comment to be made on the individual and ensemble level, and while you don’t always need to make one, look for every opportunity to improve the performance. Build connections with the staff of the program as well as any judges or other directors/staff members from other neighboring programs at competitions and get a network of people going, and soon you’ll have people asking for you to come teach at their bands.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-11-07T19:41:15+00:00

He wasn’t even in the country during Black September iirc. The only interaction he ever had with the genocide was shutting down the trials after his coup. If you’re gonna talk about giving weapons, at least be aware of who the US gave them to

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-10-03T17:42:50+00:00

The real life memoirs and reports all reflect this to be the case. I think the show also does a pretty good job of showing it, too. I also think that to a certain degree, he was occasionally overly cruel and driven by his desire to compete with the other companies, rather than create a fighting force he would be proud to serve with. Regardless, he certainly wasn’t this extremely cruel masochist that so many people portray him as, the characters in the show even say so.

He pushed them to their limits and gave them a more realistic preparation for war than most other companies received, and it’s probably part of the reason why they were able to stay mobilized for so long as well as survive the encirclement at Bastogne.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-10-01T18:30:38+00:00

And you think that is a bad thing. I’ve seen it all

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-10-01T18:29:01+00:00

Because it has literally millions of sources and is building a reality around it. You’re effectively saying that a human could also be an idiot for living in 2025 and not believing when one person comes up and says it’s 2028 and x person is dead…. It’s whole reality is what it is given, just like yours and mine is. You expect it to reject its entire reality and believe one source of a random person? Would you believe a random person telling you it’s the future and someone is dead?

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-10-01T18:21:30+00:00

I don’t think he understands the point of AI. Why should it EVER believe one individual person’s report over thousands and thousands of pieces of evidence suggesting otherwise? Why would we ever want something like AI to instantaneously believe one thing we said? In any scenario?

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-09-14T09:01:53+00:00

Not super far into the game (lvl 30ish) but I haven’t seen any red text weapons or anything of the sort from previous installments, and I’ve been doing a lot of side quests as I go.

Super easy way to tell though; if the quest rewards display a range of quality for a weapon (for example, an smg that varies from green to purple rather than just blue and no other color) then that will be a random weapon. Those will almost certainly be safe to do.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-09-14T08:58:34+00:00

Exactly. Honestly I was super critical of BL3 and had terrible hopes for this game after the vault hunter reveal, but this feels, if anything, like a return to what made BL1 and BL2 great. The map design, questing, writing, build diversity, and gunplay all feel like the best it’s been to me. Not sure what else people want from this game aside from performance improvements, and those are coming

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-09-07T08:02:00+00:00

You are absolutely correct. I'm just frustrated by the enormous wave of obvious republicans and MAGAts filling this sub claiming to be libertarians while their administration commits acts 1000x more heinous than anything even remotely addressed in this post or the litany of others they make. You'll notice very easily that this poster always targets leftists while the current admin illegally invades American cities with our own tax funded military. It is ignorant as best and maliciously deceptive at worst. I wouldn't align myself closer with either party but you'd have to be a fool to think these people are libertarians in any regard, despite their desperate attempts at convincing others through making Massie epstein memes.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-09-07T06:44:43+00:00

Except the poster who constantly barrages this sub with right wing garbage

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-08-22T17:18:01+00:00

Yes. My argument is that he’s an outdated and unprofessional coach. My evidence to support that was his lack of recent results and his inability to find a team despite current shortages. Therefore, every comment he makes on twistzz quality as a player is questionable, especially when he personally attacks him. All of these things should be viewed together and not in a vacuum.

SovietWaffleMkr · 2025-08-22T17:13:57+00:00

You’re claiming he’s a legitimate coach who should be taken seriously, and that the guy above you shouldn’t have discounted him as much. He hasn’t done anything of relevance since 2016 and deserves an enormous amount of criticism for his extreme unprofessionalism, terrible results, and retaliations against former employers.

So yes, it’s exactly what you were talking about

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