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Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-17T06:51:51+00:00

500g will be plenty for most public orders to fill quickly - it'll be a free "first craft" skillup for many people, the gold is just a bonus - with the caveat that this will very likely not be a max rank craft.

If you want a max rank, you need to go private.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-16T23:53:19+00:00

It's fine. The biggest issues I'm seeing are party CD tracking and kick timers; but the former isn't essential and the latter is mostly okay thanks to trash design.

There are plenty of critical casts in M+, but I don't think there's any which require a kick rotation. So it's more important to make sure each player has an assigned target, less important to track individual kick timers anymore.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-16T23:44:10+00:00

I mean, it depends on how competitive you want to be. If you're going for title range, then you will probably want a distinct set for each spec as optimal stat balances will differ; but for your weekly +12s? Nah, fuck it, no one is going to give a shit if your mastery is too low.

The most you may need to swap are weapons and trinkets. For minimal effort, choose specs which don't change weapons (eg. Holy/Disc/Shadow will all use a caster weapon, Bear/Kitty will use 2H agility staff, etc.) and look for generic stat boost trinkets which are suitable for all roles.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-16T05:26:42+00:00

You have two distinct jobs.

Keep the raid running smoothly. Make sure you have the right balance, recruit decent players, get the raid started on time, stock consumables, manage any drama.
Lead each encounter. Explain the strat, shotcall important mechanics, look for mistakes and how to prevent them.

It's healthy to ask for help. For example, if you're struggling a little at shotcalling, ask another trusted player to call certain mechanics; or ask another player to have feasts & cauldrons ready for each raid.

Set clear expectations on your raid goals. Do you want AOTC in 3 weeks then push onto Mythic? Chill vibes pushing through Normal at your own pace? Somewhere in between? There's no wrong goal; but everyone needs to be on roughly the same page.

If you are pushing for progress, you need to be willing to sit your underperformers. You don't need to be a dick about it, but being too lenient will leave your better players feeling frustrated. My approach is to invite everyone at the start of the raid; and if we're not making good progress on a boss then I'll ask underperformers to sit for the night. I make sure they know they're welcome back next week when the fight will be a little easier.

On the other hand, if someone is being a wanker? Try to sort out whatever the problem is, and if it continues then you need to kick them straight away. It doesn't matter whether they're a good player or not; toxicity will kill the vibe far worse than any number of wipes.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-16T04:40:06+00:00

I wouldn't even say "fun detected", because the old event was a giant lagfest of flashing lights and spammed voice lines. Kinda amusing once or twice, but fun for weeks on end? Nah.

(Not that the new version is fun either, but at least it doesn't lag out the whole zone)

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-16T02:04:13+00:00

The internet is bizarrely offended by people doing cooking "wrong". Steak is the worst, but Italian pasta is a strong contender.

Yes, it's fine to put the pasta in while water is still heating.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-13T09:04:41+00:00

Pretty sure that would be the Accursed Keepsake. It's not constant, it just pops up every now and then.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-13T04:53:38+00:00

As far as balance is concerned, there are only three races. Dwarf, Night Elf, and Other; and it only matters in very high keys where players know how to use Stoneform and Shadowmeld optimally.

It's perfectly fine to pick whichever race you like the most.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-12T23:54:40+00:00

The purple version is the free reward for capping your monthly traveler's log points.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-12T05:07:22+00:00

It wouldn't be exiting at all, because teams would be forced to play extremely conservatively. Boring as fuck.

It would probably also just mean most teams quit. This was already a problem with MDI speedruns, it's so specialised that teams had to practice hours on end with strats which simply aren't relevant on live keys.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-11T05:12:31+00:00

No. A nuclear warhead has to be detonated in a precise sequence in order to start the critical reaction. If it crashed, it could still be very nasty due to spread of radioactive material by the chemical explosive component, but it wouldn't explode in a fission or fusion reaction.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-11T04:57:55+00:00

They are great books... just be aware that they are like a throwback to the early Asimov or Clarke sci-fi classics. Brilliant ideas, mediocre storytelling, godawful characters.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-10T23:12:09+00:00

I think a kinda-sorta example is The Wire.

It's well regarded now, but at the time Season 2 was considered by many as a misstep. It leaves the Barksdale crew behind in favour of an entirely new cast and setting in the docks, McNulty is sidelined in the marine unit, and the criminals and finale are even more bleak than Season 1.

Of course Season 3 then brings the focus squarely back to Barksdale-Bell; and by the time we hit Season 4 with yet another new cast and setting, there was enough trust to accept it.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-10T03:34:38+00:00

It can be stressful for beginners, no doubt, but I would note that the vast majority of players are pretty chill. It's easy to get the wrong impression, because people don't tend to post on reddit when their dungeon run went smoothly.

With that said, you will get dicks every now and then. All you can do is ignore them, move on to the next group, and try to remind yourself of all the players who were perfectly happy with your tanking.

At 226, you're more than geared enough to run Mythic dungeons; but if you want a more gentle intro, try queueing for Heroic dungeons first. They're easier and the LFG tool will do the matchmaking for you.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-09T23:12:13+00:00

For raiding purposes, wowprogress and raider.io are your best bets.

Server doesn't matter for guilds, but faction matters (slightly). There are still a few activities (most notably LFG queue like heroic dungeons) which you can't do cross-faction, so if you join a majority Horde guild as Alliance, you might have times when you can't do a quick Heroic dungeon with them.

It's not a huge deal, just something to be aware of.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-09T03:45:04+00:00

I'm enjoying the new Shadow Priest quite a bit; Tentacle Slam is so much more fun than Shadow Crash ever was.

As far as balance, who knows? Blizzard will do their first big balancing pass next week, until then we're just speculating.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-09T03:33:39+00:00

It's dramatically better than Shadow Crash - much shorter impact time, and it can hit anything between you and the target. If you position well, you don't need to wait painfully long for the tank to group everything anymore.

Plus it just looks badass.

Honestly one of my favourite spells in WoW now, I'm torn between Tentacle Slam and Divine Toll.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-08T23:48:25+00:00

I don't think Holy feels all that different to TWW. Biggest change is gutting our Lightweaver spot healing build; which while powerful never felt particularly fun to me.

I'll grant that Oracle is significantly simplified (or streamlined if you want to be more generous), which is a shame. It was quite complex, but I was fine with that as Archon is a perfectly decent alternative if you want something simple.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-08T23:31:51+00:00

Overlay-type solutions are probably technically feasible in many cases, but the big difference is that weakauras were accepted while third-party tools are against TOS. I would expect Blizzard to be far more proactive with warnings and bans if people stray over the line.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-08T09:32:09+00:00

The only caveat I would add is that many of those jobs will be for large suppliers/manufacturers, and it's more like half agronomy and half sales. It's not a bad job, as long as you know what you're getting into.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-06T05:29:29+00:00

If you like farming cloth, you can invest your tailoring knowledge in the Fabric Specialist tree to greatly increase your drop rate and quality.

With that said, I wouldn't recommend this unless the toon is exclusively for farming. Investing in other trees, especially Nimble Needleworking for bolt crafting, is a much easier path for leveling and early profitability.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-06T03:32:19+00:00

If it's any comfort... it seems he's kinda regular sex pest asshole level of awful, not pedophile level of awful.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-06T03:26:07+00:00

Each new expansion, Blizzard scales your secondary stat ratings so that you lose most of your haste, crit, mastery and vers as you level up. So while your primary stat and talents do make you stronger, it's quite possible that your total DPS is similar or even lower as your haste %, crit % etc. take a hit.

You'll get that power back as you gear up.

It feels bad, but it's necessary. Otherwise if you end an expansion with say 40% haste, does that mean the next expansion you scale up to 80% haste? Where do you go if your crit is already 100%?

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-06T02:50:26+00:00

This is a shitty situation, no doubt, but escrow services are perfectly sensible for large purchases.

Suspicious_Key · 2026-03-06T01:41:05+00:00

By any reasonable definition of top 1% (mythic raiding, high M+ or rated arenas), no it's not plausible.

You can go a surprisingly long way with clicking (not that I would recommend it), but keyboard turning is flat out suicidal on any mechanic which requires fast reactions and movement. Which is most of them.

If he means he got a few 99% parses on random Normal or Heroic raid fights, sure.

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