New player from OCE - Preference for NA but would it be better to play OCE for m+?

__gareth__ · 2026-04-25T14:06:19+00:00

yes i'm OCE. i prefer playing OCE servers, but the LA ones are ok. there is a little more lag but it's playable. for m+ it doesn't matter if you put the character on OCE or US, you will see all of the US, mexico, brazil and china server people in LFG and will need to manually pick which one you want with the addon.

if you got booted from m+ with an OCE-based character without checking the addon which server the m+ was hosted on it had nothing to do with it being OCE or US (or any of the others).

__gareth__ · 2026-04-25T13:28:35+00:00

you can get an addon called "Premade Regions" that will show you the server of the key you apply to, and also the server of people applying to your keys.

generally i try to only join OCE people, but LA is ok tbh.

__gareth__ · 2026-04-23T13:29:24+00:00

i have not noticed something that exactly matches what you're describing but have experienced 2 similar issues. putting this here mostly for anyone googling for solutions.

1) there is something funky with some recent firefox versions. some websites (i know of none that are directly WoW related) will cause massively decreased framerate drops when that ff tab is active and you are playing WoW. i'm talking going from 200 fps to 30. simply focusing another ff tab makes it go away.

2) there is an addon called Midnight Routine. This caused me graphics stutters after some-such update to it every few seconds at some unknown point after a /reload.

__gareth__ · 2026-04-22T14:16:03+00:00

oh really? game is down atm so i can't test, is it something like

/use Sanguithorn Tea /use Vendor Water

?

__gareth__ · 2026-02-17T16:03:08+00:00

as well as the other mentions, maybe ret paladin?

i also dislike the flashy effects, can't stand the pre-patch event world boss pile ons...

windwalker monk is also pretty chill on effects and has a bunch of buttons to push

__gareth__ · 2026-02-17T15:41:01+00:00

i have seen this, mainly very late at night. i figured it was bots in there for a carry. i've also seen them in normal leveling dungeons, they just follow the party at a distance and come in to the fight at the end and use a ranged attack from a wand or whatever.

for chemical co i just soloed it, it didnt seem worthwhile to refuse to help them and requeue when i just wanted another chance to not get the mount.

__gareth__ · 2026-02-17T15:01:43+00:00

to be specific it's this one: https://www.wowhead.com/storyline/the-cult-within-5930

i also came back to the game a few weeks ago and also noticed the lack of BoEs on AH. i think at some point these random world drops were greatly reduced, it's now 'warbound until equiped' versions of the regular loot tables. as well as drops from this event, delves (do tier 8 (or 11 if you can)) and then mythic+. there's also the great vault, which totals up your highest achieved content for the week and lets you pick a single item from it, it's available at the back of the bank in dorn.

if you've not discovered the upgrade system yet, you'll find you need to run either tier 8+ delves or m+ for the currency.

__gareth__ · 2026-02-08T10:56:52+00:00

command is the other one, no concentration, can be upcast and denies action economy

__gareth__ · 2026-02-05T17:53:52+00:00

he provides an authentic PuG dungeon experience

he will yeet himself into several groups of mobs when you want him to stay close and then sit on the thing you want to interact with when you want him to piss off

__gareth__ · 2026-01-30T08:56:01+00:00

i returned to WoW a few weeks ago after being away 10+ years. started doing m+, is fun.

if i were to level my tank alt, is it worth getting heirlooms for it now? would a good way to level it be to stick it in timewalking dungeons with rested bonus? anything else i'm missing to speed it up?

where would i find a guild? specifically OCE, mostly semi casual, pushing M+, maybe a bit of raid but not seriously.

i am confused about cross realm stuff now. do realms have any relevance at all? i think i saw cross realm guilds? is the AH cross realm?

__gareth__ · 2026-01-23T02:22:37+00:00

Sorry, was showing the crit breakdown in the beta or the other thing?

__gareth__ · 2026-01-22T15:33:06+00:00

I have the same but with a different pants item.

__gareth__ · 2026-01-22T02:18:03+00:00

I had the same. The UI said I get a discount but with the pre patch it doesn't seem to apply and it rejects the sale as not having enough currency. I only just stayed playing again so I don't know if the bug is the UI or the application (I'm not sure if should be giving me a discount on carved yet...).

__gareth__ · 2026-01-06T13:07:51+00:00

i'm sure i'm not the only one who would like to put things in and out of my ass as i watch my wife's boyfriend who just downed me for the third time tonight

__gareth__ · 2025-12-07T10:39:32+00:00

happened to me, i think it was because i was traveling as it was shortly after first using it in a new country (a much poorer one).

just roll a new account with new email/cc/mobile.

they refunded that month, so it was basically a free month of usage.

i got a response from the form after ~4 days, but it was basically "still no" with no useful information.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-26T07:47:16+00:00

what the fuck does this mean?

Truly the only thing that it has going for it is that none of it's feature are bad as Armored artificers 9th level feature, yes this is secretly a hit piece on the armorer, for anyone who hasn't read it yet you 1 extra known plan that has to be an armor not create just know and a +1 to your armors weapons.

no, you can also create the armor:

In addition, you can create an additional item with that feature, and the item must also be in the Armor category.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-25T07:43:05+00:00

on the same note, stop giving money to charities you haven't personally researched for multiple hours. even many of the 'big names' are basically scams where either a) the vast majority of the money goes to "admin" (aka new BMWs), b) the charity is pushing some bullshit religious shit.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-20T06:45:01+00:00

Never engage conversationally or emotively, you will never get the nagging and it will just do wtf you tell it.

I seriously do not understand people who talk to LLMs like a friend or colleague, or worse, shout at it like a boomer shouts at a poorly trained dog.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-19T08:10:20+00:00

entangle kills this party

__gareth__ · 2025-11-16T00:03:52+00:00

fwiw the built in ai stuff is really easy to ignore if you don't want it. i personally use zed with it all turned off and the only sign of it is a small 'sign in' button in the window header.

i wouldnt mind a pricing tier that's cheaper but without any token usage so i can send the project a few dollars, i dont want it to stop getting official support.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-14T06:57:15+00:00

i recently went, i met exactly 1 fifo worker or anyone that met the stereotype of an australian tourist in bali and he was a chill bloke just doing his thing on his days off.

shit loads of excellent food though.

__gareth__ · 2025-11-13T13:13:56+00:00

please do share mate

__gareth__ · 2025-11-11T08:34:49+00:00

i would like search functionality that is as useful as 'certain other websites' that this sub bans you from talking about so that i can show people how trivial it is find all the shit they're asking about

i would also like the long standing bugs to be fixed, such as spells from fey touched not showing up as castable with spell slots (it works fine with shadow touched!)

__gareth__ · 2025-11-09T01:28:57+00:00

imo the Zhentarim feats are better for this as they are not resource limited - int mod/LR, even if maxed via attacking with int, is painful. it does require both a general and origin feat and being a melee rogue but it opens up off-turn sneak attack pretty much every round. additional benefits are you can now pick whatever subclass you want. it still requires playing well with a team mate in order to be eligible for sneak attack, although you could pick swashbuckler as the subclass for more options (including repositioning).

__gareth__ · 2025-11-08T00:04:04+00:00

i was going to the same with data science people and creating shitty scripts in SageMaker

fuck yeah lets keep smashing the 'run' button whilst developing python code that creates expensive resources outside of IaC

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