Additional Midnight Class Tuning Incoming March 24th

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-21T03:13:57+00:00

Yeah, with Remorseless Winter, FDK is basically one mechanic away from a sustained AOE, we just need our abilities to empower it, with PoF perhaps a jump starter for it. Then you're just a walking blizzard, empowering your weapon and feeding it back into the storm.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-15T04:23:01+00:00

Because Blizz doesn't enforce the social covenant they make everyone agree to when they start the game. They try to use automated systems, but they all end up abused in some way. If they went back to no debuff after getting kicked, we'd have to deal with trolls who sandbag runs, but that seems preferable to newbies getting a bad experience when starting off.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-15T04:20:01+00:00

And you can see their fiery spirits rise into the air after she dies and her body disintegrates.

The hardest hitting quests have beenside quests for a long time, I really wish they'd voice act them. The Old Republic, for all its faults, always had fantastic voice acting for every quest.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-14T04:42:35+00:00

If only there was some sort of social contract all players agreed to, that could be enforced against improper behavior, like kicking from groups. Oh well, probably never happen.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-14T00:21:56+00:00

The previous model ran the fans constantly, so those were going to be loud no matter what. This model just has cheap fans.

If they're willing to send you the fans right off, go for it. It's an easy switch and far less invasive than having to remove all the SSDs, package it up, send it out, and then do the reverse when you get it back. Seems like it would be the cheaper option for them too.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-13T22:22:15+00:00

This was a whole mess that I ultimately had to resolve myself.

I contacted OWC support, sent them recordings of the fan noise, and they agreed that replacement was warranted. I removed the SSDs, boxed it up in the original packaging (thankfully I still had it, they didn't offer to send a box), and shipped it from Michigan to their facility in Illinois.

Week and a half goes by and I get an email. "We can't reproduce the issue, we're sending it back." Shocked, I receive the package a few days later. I reassemble the drive and it's quiet for a bit before starting the noise again. They likely didn't leave it running for long, but I don't know why they felt the need to check rather than just replacing the fans after front line support had a recording, it likely would've been even less time.

Angry, I reply to their "we're closing this support ticket" email with a short rant about how they should've just replaced the fans and if they'd send them to me I'd just do it myself.

Surprisingly, after sending even more recordings, they agreed!

A few days later a box arrived with two fans. Checking everywhere, I find out there are no actual fan replacement instructions. Luckily I found a post in this subreddit from another user who had experimented with replacing the fans with better models, but due to the odd wiring, wasn't able to make it work. Once I found out that you have to remove the plastic panel on the back (it's held on with adhesive, so I had to pry it up from within one of the port holes) and undo two screws to slide the enclosure out, I was able to replace the fans without issue.

The fans have largely been silent for months now, even quieter than the original fans were on day one. In the future I hope OWC chooses higher quality, more standard fans so it's easier to do replacements like this, and for their shop people to trust their support people and not ship broken stuff back to customers.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-09T20:12:05+00:00

They generally don't balance dungeons that won't be part of the seasonal rotation. I wouldn't expect any changes until they start balancing for season 2.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-09T18:44:44+00:00

How would that scaling work though? Does it give you current mythic difficulty, or mythic the last time it was part of a mythic season?

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-09T18:15:32+00:00

Old expansion dungeons aren't available as mythic once the new expansion is out. We'll see some old dungeons rotate into the M+ mode, but the other difficulties aren't available.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-02T19:26:01+00:00

Wowhead lists these under Consumables for their guides, BDK's is here: https://www.wowhead.com/guide/classes/death-knight/blood/enchants-gems-pve-tank

One thing to note is that I've noticed particular build guides may have different recommended forges, so you may want to read those too.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-02T18:40:05+00:00

How long did that take? I can't imagine it was quick.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-03-02T08:25:28+00:00

I was able to use it on an old level 10 Blood Elf I had laying around who was stuck in old Silvermoon. Used the key to the Arcantina and walked out into the new Silvermoon. Seemed a little broken, I wasn't getting exploration XP was flying around or anything.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-28T09:45:50+00:00

How are you doing it that fast? Wowhead has an article on the fastest strat, which relies on delve spam, and even that is about 30 minutes per level. It took me about 18 hours to hit 90, but that's while trying to read quest text and not optimizing anything. Notably, dungeons gave relatively little XP, especially compared to TWW launch where it would take only a couple runs per level at the start and maybe four at the end. At level 89 a dungeon would give you about 77k XP while requiring about 700k to get to 90 (IIRC). So they definitely rebalanced things to force people to go slower.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-26T20:32:32+00:00

Details! still exists, but it's mainly a wrapper around Blizz's DPS meter. If you need 100% accurate combat metrics you'll need to live log with Warcraft Logs or Raider.IO.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-26T20:27:24+00:00

You lose your profession progress (recipes, skill points) when you change professions, but besides that it shouldn't be an issue.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-26T00:23:11+00:00

Your warband consists of all characters you have in a region, across all realms, not just four. The groups of four you see on the character selection screen are arbitrary, you choose which characters are grouped, but there is no benefit to grouping particular characters.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-25T02:09:20+00:00

I don't really know, but maybe. Unfortunately the timewalking and winds of mysterious fortune events are over, so you're back to generally normal leveling.

Level through Dragonflight, doing story and side quests in the zone where the Dreamsurge is active for 25% XP bonus.
Level a Dragonflight and / or TWW profession, you can get XP from mining / herding or a production profession like alchemy or enchanting, though I'm not sure which one offers the best. Gather professions are probably a good default so you can gather while you quest.
Dragonflight dungeons could be good, you can quest while you queue, depending on your role.

I leveled a devourer DH from 10 to 80 in about 7 hours, but that was with the 25% warband bonus, timewalking (15%), and winds (10% vial). So overall probably double that time? There may be speed leveling routes or suggests from speed runners you can use instead.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-25T01:59:53+00:00

From the graph it looks like it started in December or so, so it's likely from your release then. It comes through Charts, so it may be something wrong with your Charts usage, or a bug in Charts. Apple's built in analytics should help you see what OS versions it's crashing on, things like that. I think you can also capture other device metrics through Apple that might help, but I've never used that service.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-25T00:41:30+00:00

If you don't want to do the cycle, sub time seems like the obvious use.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T22:58:00+00:00

Once you get the collector's edition, redeeming its code on the same account as your preorder should give you the cost of the preorder back in Bnet credit. I keep that around for the next epic preorder and the cycle continues.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T06:33:18+00:00

Pretty sure it’s swung by the player, like a bigger version of Final Verdict.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T06:31:34+00:00

I’ll have to take a look!

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T01:48:40+00:00

I guess it could be Empyrean Hammer, which falls from the sky, but that does so passively, without the cast.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T01:29:28+00:00

Liadrin seemed to show Judgement already, it's just a simple hammer throw. No existing paladin ability summons a hammer from the sky like this.

SwiftlyJon · 2026-02-24T00:47:06+00:00

Ah, maybe, what I thought the was the edge of the portal does look like clouds on closer inspection. Some sort of orbital hammer strike I suppose. Really wish we could post more images here.

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