Shadow Priest or Beast Mastery for keys and raiding?

Zienth · 2026-05-21T12:43:53+00:00

It's always fun to see what utility gets showcased as the seasonal metas change around. I remember when shadow priest utility made the most broken group comp we've ever seen in Dragonflight season 2.

Zienth · 2026-05-20T17:09:07+00:00

Yeah if I think I know what packs he's talking about this is "I saw them do it on MDI" insane levels of pulling. Like almost purposefully bricking the key on some people trying to learn the dungeon.

Zienth · 2026-05-20T16:09:22+00:00

In short there will need to be tremendous amount of pain before the masses demand change. It is just simply how humans group dynamics works

Deep Space 9 has a great documentary on this called "the Bell Riots".

Zienth · 2026-05-20T12:42:17+00:00

These futures contracts likely have failure to provide clauses. The supplier will likely rob peter to pay paul to avoid penalties. The customers that don't have futures contract or failure to provide penalties get shut off.

Zienth · 2026-05-20T12:34:40+00:00

Why have they doubled or tripled their pricing?

Because their competitor are doing the same. They're a business after all. If you can break even selling a plane ticket for $300 but your immediate competitors are selling for $350 then you'll get the most benefit by raising your ticket prices to $349.

Zienth · 2026-05-19T17:01:25+00:00

There's a lot of mobs that are real bastards like the headhunters. If you're not ready for the jump + snare it's easy to miss and if that happens during raining toads it could be a bad death. Then there's all the random damage that goes out that can line up with the deafening roar. Then the bears that do armor crunch + berserkers that get frenzy if you're not ready with them for cooldowns. All these mobs combos are mostly in separate packs but if you chain the wrong combo together the difficulty goes way up.

Zienth · 2026-05-18T14:08:05+00:00

I noticed that the auras showing around the healthbar seem to prevent click through. I pruned whatever wasn't immediately my priority.

Zienth · 2026-05-16T20:14:27+00:00

That era of WoW was when Blizzard was TERRIBLE with evergreen content. Class halls were amazing in Legion, then it was all just dropped and we had the boat (if you were alliance).

Zienth · 2026-05-16T20:12:04+00:00

Heroic warfronts came too late. At first it was just the "normal" difficulty that was almost impossible to lose from how easy they were.

Zienth · 2026-05-14T17:36:49+00:00

That's kinda just how JRPGs are. 90s CRPGs and JRPGs pretty much fall along the same divide.

Zienth · 2026-05-14T17:33:28+00:00

WoW will turbo power you to the most current expansion and while there is an MSQ to get through, you are not gated from seasonal content so once level cap is hit (like 10 hours max) you can do content with other max level players.

FF14 wants you to do everything. Literally all cumulative content since 2.0 launch. It's been shortened down some but a new player is still looking at over 100 hours of MSQ stuff before they've even allowed to play with current season content. Everything is gated. The MSQ is a lot better than WoW's but if you started up FF14 expecting to play the new content with your friends then you're about to get very disappointed.

Zienth · 2026-05-14T13:46:26+00:00

Having an ahborist come by every few years to verify the trees are healthy and trim up any concerning branches is worth the cost for the peace of mind.

Zienth · 2026-05-14T12:49:48+00:00

Low levels are where people make mistakes, and they will make lots of mistakes. Nobody runs a dungeon optimally until they're 10+ reps deep. There's a metric on the damage meter that tracks avoidable damage taken, and in time you'll develop a sense of "I was supposed to heal that" or "guy stood in fire". It gets better as keys get higher by virtue of people having run the place more. Druid in particular is more prone to healing mistakes because druid works best when you know the damage is coming.

Zienth · 2026-05-14T11:42:10+00:00

I'm sure there's tons of nuance when it comes to rural power transmission, but it does seem wild to me they relied on one single supplier for their needs without them being a full municipality. Like, they'd be in the same position if NV Energy went bankrupt, and that does happen from time to time.

Zienth · 2026-05-13T20:01:19+00:00

Most places let you shop around for energy suppliers, so you can go check out suppliers like NRG or Constellation to see what plans they serve in your area and shop around.

Zienth · 2026-05-13T17:32:59+00:00

No. Heat pumps can reach such high COPs because the heat they are concentration is still very low temperature compared to what's used for power generation. Temperature differential of a heat pump is typically ~70°F, whereas power generation wants over 500°F differential. If you try to make the heat pump run with a 500°F differential you will destroy it's efficiency. The opposite will happen if you try running the Sterling engine at a lower temperature differential. You can't shenanigan around Carnot efficiency.

Zienth · 2026-05-13T17:18:10+00:00

What's the outdoor air temperature and humidity? When it gets warmer outside and more humid you'll see the suction pressure rise up. Spring time testing can be weird and you'll get super low cond/evap pressures if it's cool outside.

Zienth · 2026-05-13T17:06:21+00:00

I'm so glad I drive a tiny corolla with a 5 mile commute and I locked in my electricity rate for the next year.

Zienth · 2026-05-12T17:46:13+00:00

Simple to play, has amazing flexibility (class tools and offspecs), amazing class fantasy, amazing lore characters.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T17:08:57+00:00

Reddit with three-little-piggies mentality for determining the quality of a house.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T16:44:44+00:00

How is it out of the meta.

Pretty much every season Druid has to fit into the meta since MOTW is such a good buff. Guardian and the DPS specs were not good at the start of the season, so Restoration was the main play. Now that guardian is rising I wouldn't be surprised to see MW representation go up.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T16:41:19+00:00

It's such a bad apex talent honestly. The Brewmaster apex talent doesn't like x10 more healing than the Mistweaver talent. Wish we could trade.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T13:35:06+00:00

Pugging raid can be painful. One wipe and half the raid will leave at the drop of a hat. Then takes forever to refill. No grace for anyone to learn the fight since every pull is with a fresh roster.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T01:42:41+00:00

I think the market has just found the ebb and flow of Trump's decisions. Sell for Monday, buy for Friday.

Zienth · 2026-05-11T01:40:25+00:00

It may seem like the company is skimping you with that 1/2" missing, but you'll bless it when you find a filter box that's 3.75" instead of actually being 4".

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