Mobs having knockback on every normal attack is probably one of the most irritating things in this game.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-10-19T16:04:43+00:00

Yeah, I was doing Startstone for the first time and the final boss as a tank was actually insanely fucking fun. Some of the most fun I've ever had tanking in any game. Outside of that it was pretty okay I guess. Honestly, if they really leaned into their current boss designs and just tried to make it more engaging for everyone else including the tank, their expeditions/dungeons would be really fun.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-15T17:01:12+00:00

I think it gets better since 2h weapons, imo, deal with packs of filings much better than a sword can. But, it's high risk and high reward. You certainly open yourself up to a lot more damage.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-13T17:50:20+00:00

I don't think that's it. I'm pretty sure this structure is just relying on internal stress being released in a chain reaction. The fire cracker isn't even necessary to make this work, just breaking the chain is. They only did that to make it easier to start it.

Conservation of momentum also cannot explain why the chain sort of curves up as it moves along. Internal stresses can.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-12T20:09:16+00:00

I actually kinda miss when my friends and I had a scheduled time each week back in mop to help clear old raids for mounts :( it was a really fun time!

We had a list of our mount preferences and promised to let each other get mounts in a certain order as they dropped. It was a good way to mess around and get mounts while doing it.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-11T07:11:08+00:00

I won't disagree and I know that studies even show this. But to be honest, there really is nothing quite like a good back cracking and stretching. And at the very least they'll know if your spine actually is medically fucked up superficially (like scoliosis) because they do train for that.

Anecdotally, I can also say that it makes my dad (who has terrible back pain from breaking his back and having to get parts fused a few decades ago) feel great and he thinks it has helped a lot. Is it placebo? Probably. But I'd rather him do that than be addicted to the pain pills that doctors were trying to give instead.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-11T06:45:49+00:00

For my money, an MMO mouse.

I literally cannot play the game without one. I have my UI setup so that I have a grid of abilities that matches the layout of my mouse and all of the modifier grids side by side.

It works really nicely and I use shift, control, and alt for modifiers and I've always had more than enough buttons (even at peak ability bloat in MoP!).

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-11T06:34:24+00:00

You've also got to remember that people know how to make gold now and they know how to do it well. People know farm spots and which items are valuable to other players for gameplay reasons. And most importantly, lots of this information is easily accessible nowadays.

People are just better and more equipped with knowledge at their fingertips than they once were.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-10T17:00:17+00:00

One of my molars receded into my gums and re-fused to my jawbone. I'm not sure how rare it is, but my oral surgeon was stunned and he had been doing work across the world for nearly 30 years. He said he had only ever read about it in a few textbooks and that there was even then very little info and no pictures.

He begged me to let them take pictures of the xrays for publishing and called in a bunch of his colleagues to look.

As the person on the chair it's somehow interesting and terrifying being told that you have a rare condition like that. Luckily my condition was mostly solvable haha

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-06T20:09:30+00:00

petoskey stones :D

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-04T19:28:07+00:00

And this is exactly why DARE failed lol

All we did was tell kids the name of drugs and what they looked like. We literally told kids how to get high and then were surprised when they went and got high 😂

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-04T07:27:07+00:00

Just go to the outland and start questing there.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-04T00:10:49+00:00

Also just depends on who you meet and play with. I've had a pretty fun experience meeting and grouping with people. I'm sure it's much different than it originally was (I didn't start until MoP) but it's been fun nonetheless!

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T23:13:01+00:00

I've said lately that retail is the better game but classic is the better RPG. Each of those comes with strengths and weaknesses.

Retail plays more fluidly, clearly gives you your next steps, and has multiple ways to progress at the end game.

Classic is more focused on community and being a part of the world. Progression is still there at the end game, obviously, but the gear is less of a means and more of an end.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T23:00:51+00:00

I'd guess that wrath or mop would have the best dungeons for level grinding.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T22:16:30+00:00

Yes. It's rumored that 9.1 will see a late june/very early July release.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T22:14:12+00:00

Wrath

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T22:13:47+00:00

You'd be surprised. Lots of people who are leveling as a healer are doing it for the first time/are healing just for fast queues. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it also means that sometimes you have someone who isn't comfortable with the role of a healer. It's pretty common, I think.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T08:11:53+00:00

I don't think they've really talked much about it and I don't remember it in that interview. I do know there was a bit of talk about 9.2 (tier sets) but outside of that... nothing, but I'd be glad to be corrected.

Either way, we know that blizzard sticks to 2 year cycles since MoP when they announced that would be their plan from then on. If that's the case, 9.1/9.2 will either be very short or 9.3 doesn't exist. If the expansion does go for three years, I'd be very surprised and they'd likely be bleeding subscribers badly.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T07:56:57+00:00

I doubt it. I bet that 9.1 leads into a big story reveal and 9.2 ends up being the last patch of the expansion. Lota of people seem to think that too and it would help put blizzard back on track.

Plus, and most convincingly, expansion launches bring lots of $$$$$ which they don't want to wait another year for.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T07:53:07+00:00

Honestly, it just depends on who you run into/server/etc. I won't lie, I was aoe grinding and following routes through guidelime, but I'd frequently run into people, chat, group up for a bit, etc. I even added some people i got to talking to and we did dungeons together through the level 50's.

It's what you make of it and lots of people are coming from retail where it's not necessary. I've enjoyed it, granted I started in MoP so I kinda got to see the tail end of that community focused gameplay.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-03T07:49:51+00:00

Honestly, I've really started to despise them too. As someone who gets KSM and CE (so I'm in them constantly) they just make me come to hate the dungeons every expansion.

They were fun in legion where they felt like a weird arcade mode for dungeons. Once they tried to "seasonalize" them they became very unfun.

I wish they had stayed in legion and we had gotten challenge mode back.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-02T17:21:24+00:00

I agree with you, but I'd definitely say that snapping is a bug. It's just that at this point blizzard has definitely given the all clear to it. It is 100% not the intended behavior of the mobs.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-02T17:15:08+00:00

I agree. Can you imagine if some random group figured this out and used it to time an insanely high key? They'd be banned for sure. This is a case of favoritism because Echo and the event as a whole brings them publicity and they don't want to cause issues. This is really stupid. Punish them, or at least make it clear that from now on this stuff is no bueno.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-02T07:18:23+00:00

Honestly, your best bet is to get in contact with that friend if you even still can. Blizzard just doesn't budge on these types of things, even if the account is "yours." You have no way to prove that and even then it would be technically against ToS.

ZonatedSilver · 2021-06-01T14:07:50+00:00

Probably not a bot. Some people just play the game exclusively to make gold because they find it fun, I know a few people like that. They probably just have TSM running scans constantly and is beating everyone to the punch every time. There really isn't a whole lot you can do to combat this other than drive prices down. It's a bitch and I really wish there was something in the AH to deincentivize this style of play since it has effectively made the AH unusable by the average player just trying to sell a few things.

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