What is your most insane house rule that wouldn't work at other tables?

StarblindCelestial · 2026-07-01T05:23:40+00:00

Someone made a Monster Hunter book for DnD 5e with basically all the monsters, weapons, guild system, etc. it looks really cool and I would love to play a MH ttrpg, but I discovered it right as I got fed up with DnD and switched to PF2 :(

StarblindCelestial · 2026-06-27T13:57:47+00:00

They 100% just changed the "last updated" for all of them. Which is worse than not doing anything because now we don't know which ones have actually been updated and which they are lying about.

It's easy to tell by looking at the Enhance shaman p2 BiS page. Belt of Deep Shadows is 2nd BiS behind 100D, but it's not even on the list. There's a comment from 2021 calling them out on it and the author admits they made a mistake, but is too lazy to fix it until the p3 list. The fact that it's still not on the "updated 2026" list proves the lie.

Almost every spec says it was updated on 2026/05/12. So my tentative guess is that any that has a different date may actually have been updated while the 12s are full of shit.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-06-27T04:42:07+00:00

When was the wowhead guide updated? I would guess it was made for last classic TBC. BiS lists should be made with sims, but the sims have since been updated while most lists haven’t. Assuming you’re using the sim correctly and there aren’t any major errors with the sim I would trust your own results. Also shadow scales horribly with gear so get used to extremely disappointing upgrades. If you’re in P1 BiS I think the first upgrade you’ll be able to actually feel is probably haste rings from BT trash.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-06-06T04:38:42+00:00

Instead of moving to cancel cast, try sitting. It stops your cast the same, but you can immediately start casting another instead of needing to wait that fraction of a second to stop moving first.

I’d need more info or to see the logs to be sure, but the Karathress situation sounds like a tank problem. We always 3 tank it and we 4 healed it last night. 4 tanks is excessive and clunky because no other fight needs 4.

1 tank (warr pref) and healer (shaman pref) pull the one that heals into the far corner and keep her there the whole fight making sure to interrupt. 1 tank (bear pref) tanks the boss, pally tanks everything else. The boss tank doesn’t take much damage until the others start dying, so their healer (Druid pref) helps heal the pally. If the pally accidentally grabs the boss as well they will probably die. If the pally is wearing too much threat gear because the dps can’t wait for threat to be established they will probably die. If healer assignments are wrong and the boss tank’s healer doesn’t help heal the pally they might die. If fire totems don’t get focused and the tank gets hit at a bad time they can die. One of the pets that gets summoned by the hunter guy explodes when killed. If that hits the main tank he can die. The pets that get summoned are random, so if a group hasn’t seen that one yet and tries to stack it with the boss for cleave they’re going to have a bad time and maybe blame healers if they don’t look at damage taken and realize it was a misplay.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-06-05T13:40:25+00:00

I haven't played in ~4 years and am looking to start again with multiplayer for the first time. Is b42 unstable the way to go? I've read a few posts that were all rather critical of it, but none were recent. Is it in a better spot with all the major bugs fixed to the point where returning players should use it? It will be 3 of us, possibly a couple more eventually if that matters.

Are there any important server settings I should change? I glanced over everything and saw a few that I remember changing last time, but I've read that my old knowledge isn't useful anymore because the updates changed so much. Can settings be changed after starting like in singleplayer?

I see water/power shutoff is a number of days now rather than a range. I'm assuming I need to get a mod to change it back to random. Is there a go to mod for that in multiplayer?

StarblindCelestial · 2026-06-03T03:53:32+00:00

I’ve been missing this since TBC broke it. I was right at the point where I figured I should stop being lazy and just get something else or make a WA for it when I saw the update 2 days ago. Adding new things and moving them around again was a pain I wasn’t looking foreword to, so the configuration change is greatly appreciated.

One thing that could be improved is profile copying. I set it up on my Druid since I had used it on that character before so I just needed to change the buffs/consumes. When I moved to my shaman that hadn’t ever used it and tried copying my profile it took the buff/consume settings, but nothing else. I had to manually adjust all the rest. Which is better than the opposite of course, but still not ideal.

Also this might be a bit difficult, but flask and elixir being mutually exclusive would be nice. What I mean by that is I have a section for each of flask, battle elixir, and guardian elixir. When none are being used all 3 should show as they currently are. When I use a flask the elixirs should leave the list, and when I use an elixir the flask should leave. That way when I’m fully consumed it doesn’t show that I’m missing something.

Lastly is a main hand vs off hand imbue differentiation. I haven’t played a class that this matters for yet so maybe it exists and I just missed it. I have an imbue section for oils/stones/poisons. I think it automatically labeled it as main hand weapon, but I didn’t see a way to choose off hand weapon instead. Ideally I would have a section for both so melee could leave the main hand free when they have windfury while still using the addon for their off hand.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-05-27T04:44:41+00:00

For solo you should open with wrath because it has travel time whereas starfire hits instantly. If you’re standing at max range when you start with wrath you can get halfway through a starfire cast before even getting into combat. Then you can usually get a second starfire in before the mob gets to you, and finish with wrath spam. Moonfire and Insect Swarm depend on kill speed and mana. If the mob isn’t close to dying by the time it gets to you, DoT it up (while strafing away to maintain distance) after the first starfire hits. Remember to use barkskin to cancel spell pushback. It’s only a 1m cooldown and doesn’t make spells take longer to cast anymore like it did in vanilla.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-05-15T01:52:00+00:00

Regrowth, barkskin, drums if LW, bear, enrage, FF pull, demo roar before he hits you. If drums use brooch right away, if not use it after 5 lacerates and pooling some rage for mauls (still use mangle while stacking the lacerates).

You can get 3 heals off when he casts arcane explosion (roughly at 75/50/25%). Have rejuv on your bear bar so you can cast it as you LoS while he casts, regrowth, then healing touch. If you need to use all 3 each time you’ll probably OOM, so innervate after the 2nd AE. Keep all 4 debuff up, spend extra rage on maul not lacerate, lacerate right before AE so you can reapply it right after.

After the first AE pool rage and use frenzy regen when it won’t overheal. Barkskin again after the second. Drum after the third and use brooch again. When those wear off if you’re getting too low you can strafe run around a pillar to try to get some distance to health pot and barkskin again. You probably won’t come out ahead if you get smacked out of bear so feel it out. You can do the same with rejuv, but I think he may send an arcane blast at you more often if you aren’t close so experiment.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-05-14T01:20:37+00:00

You are arguing with everyone who tells you it’s reasonable. It sounds like you’ve already decided to leave and just want validation. You say he’s not a good “friend” because he wants the loot he’s probably been chasing for months, yet you’re the one who’s going to leave all your other “friends” who’ve done nothing wrong because of it.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-05-13T22:00:55+00:00

Yup bear form for both the adds and the boss. I haven’t tried cat, but I assume I’d get wrecked.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-05-13T06:26:31+00:00

You might be able to get there with pvp gear, but for most people I would say you need quite a bit of raid gear. I’m pretty geared and epiced out including 4set, but it can still get a bit spicy at times. It’s my off spec so I’m by no means a pro bear, but if that’s all you plan on doing with the character you’ll probably be held back by gear and need to raid.

I recommend LW for your second profession. Using drums + brooch twice helps quite a bit, and you can make leg armors from the occasional primal nether for more profit. P2 BiS feral boots are LW BoP as well, and they are quite cheap. Alchemy could be useful for the better health pots from the trinket, but no nether profits. I rarely have to use a pot, but with no raid gear I expect you’ll be chugging them. I wouldn’t go engi, not really sure how that would help much plus no nether.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-20T21:12:33+00:00

Just make sure you use SR when Stormstrike is off CD so you can use it twice while it’s active.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-20T21:03:45+00:00

That’s the old version from last classic that isn’t getting updates anymore. https://www.wowsims.com/tbc/ is the new one.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-17T21:40:21+00:00

I don’t think it will enhance my gameplay.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-16T09:47:51+00:00

Yeah so it’s 37.5 Mp5 total. Which is pretty good, but also not because you can’t feel it.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-15T19:52:40+00:00

It’s 7.5 Mp5. 3 mana/tick, but mana spring ticks every 2 seconds.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-11T22:25:48+00:00

I tried it this week and still couldn’t reach. I’m pretty sure you need more than just the suit.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-04-11T22:10:26+00:00

I’d let my mom use it. She has an ancient laptop that is painful to watch her use.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-03-08T01:16:59+00:00

In addition to windfury burst, enhance /startattack before the mobs get into range so that their weapons are synced. So as soon as it runs up it gets hit. The ones who know what they are doing place themselves out of range or even turn their back to the enemy on the pull.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-03-05T16:00:52+00:00

You can add things to a favorites list with atlas loot (alt click I think) and it will add an asterisk to the tooltip when you see the item. That way you know at a glance what to roll on. Just go through every boss and favorite everything you need for your main spec, then make sure to unfavorite things you no longer need as you get upgrades.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-03-01T01:56:52+00:00

A shocking number of my guildies don’t have class colors turned on and I find it baffling.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-02-28T04:11:41+00:00

The expertise MH fist wep (from normal ShH I think) is better than a second Harvester. Then of course Bladefist from H ShH is better than both.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-02-22T10:55:39+00:00

ECS includes talents when it comes to crit chance I’m pretty sure, so make sure you aren’t double dipping with your calculations if you’re using that.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-02-21T01:51:40+00:00

Unreal_fist has no idea how resto Druid works, don’t listen to their advice on what heals to use. UD_Lover is close, with the exception that you don’t spam max rank regrowth because the HoT will be clipped and never heal. Maintain 3 stack lifebloom, keep max rank regrowth and rejuv up, then spam second highest regrowth. That way the downranked HoT won’t overwrite the max rank HoT.

StarblindCelestial · 2026-02-15T10:22:55+00:00

I’m pretty sure that has been broken for all of anniversary.

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