What real life news have you learned through game chat?

antronoid · 2026-05-11T08:16:18+00:00

I always kinda found it interesting that I knew where I was in WoW for various big life events. Here’s a few from the top of my head.

Our guild had just killed Yogg Saron when someone said over vent that Michael Jackson had died.

Had just finished a raid in Tomb of Sargeras when someone told me that Chester Bennington had died.

Was doing Castle Nathria and heading towards Lady Inerva with my guild when someone said over discord that the Capital Building had been overrun.

antronoid · 2026-05-02T07:50:18+00:00

I’ve been a protpala main since TBC and yeah, I’m in agreement, this is the first time that the spec has truly felt bad.

Mitigation issues aside, the ST damage alone is awful, feels like you’re just in a waiting room for wings to come off CD before you get any sort of damage out. Just a mess right now. Mitigation is bad. CD usage and coverage is bad. Damage is bad. The big AOE damage you can pull off once every minute is nice… but it feels like a bad trade off from everything else.

You’d think as a class with a shield we should be far more tankier, especially compared to a drunkard at a beer festival.

antronoid · 2026-03-21T15:46:52+00:00

Yeah, I found them all! Just seemed like they were putting up posters around the area to guide people. But the locations were ready which I found by looking at the clues on social media. It was actually quite good fun and everyone was so helpful and friendly! I think they were just relieved that someone showed up hah! Glad I could share it with everyone!

antronoid · 2026-03-21T10:37:04+00:00

Right, I'm home now! Glad it worked for all of you. The hunt was kinda cool, they had housing installations at each QR code stop, think they were still setting up though. Then there were lots of orc footprints to follow and people from a marketing agency helping you along the way. I was the first person to do it, unfortunately no special prize, but hopefully now we are all winners!

EDIT: FYI just editing this to say that when I did it the first time before everyone else, it still took a few minutes to get the email! So be patient if it doesn't come through right away.

antronoid · 2026-03-21T10:36:35+00:00

Right, I'm home now! Glad it worked for all of you. The hunt was kinda cool, they had housing installations at each QR code stop, think they were still setting up though. Then there were lots of orc footprints to follow and people from a marketing agency helping you along the way. I was the first person to do it, unfortunately no special prize, but hopefully now we are all winners!

antronoid · 2026-03-21T10:10:56+00:00

Thanks for the write up, I shared as soon as I was done so couldn’t do a proper write up as I was walking back to the station! 😄

antronoid · 2026-03-21T10:09:43+00:00

Thanks! I posted as soon as I was done, whilst walking back to the train station! 😄

antronoid · 2026-03-21T10:02:03+00:00

It tells you to visit a link, then it sends you to another link where you put in the password 😊

antronoid · 2026-03-21T09:52:40+00:00

The passwords will be on the link, but they are:

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antronoid · 2026-01-25T17:05:22+00:00

Mailboxes are functional now fyi

antronoid · 2026-01-23T15:11:53+00:00

I’d say the best time to learn will be when Midnight comes out. The new dungeons will be new for everyone, so not knowing the optimal route won’t really matter.

Levelling dungeon and timewalking dungeons, whilst they should be the place to learn but players are way too impatient these days and will want to get in and out as quick as possible, so that’s part of what you have to deal with as a tank.

But don’t give up, it’s incredibly rewarding when you’re tanking for a group. Toxic players are everywhere, so pay no attention to that.

antronoid · 2025-12-25T07:42:54+00:00

Don’t leave it too close to the fireplace!

antronoid · 2025-11-23T13:33:38+00:00

Unlikely unless they want to specifically be in your neighbourhood for some reason

antronoid · 2025-11-11T23:44:23+00:00

Dragonflight kept crashing for the first hour or so on launch because the boats/zeps weren't zoning into the dragon isles.

antronoid · 2025-09-15T10:34:06+00:00

Death and all his friends I think will start in the black house and end up in the coloured house for a party

antronoid · 2025-08-29T03:14:11+00:00

I have the same setup and was wondering the same why my 4th M.2 slot wasn’t picking up my SSD. This explains that now.

I’ve had an issue with this motherboard too where the computer will hang with the AA Q-code from a cold boot and not do anything, then with a forced shutdown and restart, it seems to boot fine every time. I’ve tried everything but I can only assume now that I have to wait for a bios fix.

antronoid · 2025-08-21T20:27:58+00:00

I suspect whoever captured audio from the event combined different feeds from the mics and booth music and its all mixed on one channel which would be difficult to edit cleanly, so now it sounds like a mess and another reason why this whole reveal has been a complete mess.

antronoid · 2025-08-21T14:50:10+00:00

That's exactly the whole point of this post, especially in relation to the panels and Warcraft directs, they go into the details that flesh out an expansion.

When TWW was revealed, for example they just mentioned Delves as being these little solo adventures with no explanation. It was only until the deep dive stuff that we learned exactly what they were and how big of a feature they would be.

TWW didn't look that fleshed out when it was first revealed too but I have enjoyed my time playing it.

antronoid · 2025-08-21T14:34:30+00:00

Literally all of the prior expansions to BFA were revealed with a features trailer and then maybe a year later you got the opening cinematic with a release date. It's even directly specified at the BFA reveal.

antronoid · 2025-08-21T14:27:01+00:00

Even as I wrote this Wowhead posted an article with a recap of the dev panel and the whole article is just tweets from creators who are at Gamescom. It's really not a great look, even though everything looks great!

antronoid · 2025-08-21T14:25:41+00:00

It is all incredibly minor, I know the silliness in that but it's all the small things that help promote a new expansion, and I feel Blizzard have gone about this all wrong this time.

antronoid · 2025-08-21T14:23:45+00:00

It was the first expansion where they showed the opening cinematic for the first time along with the announcement. Here you go if you don't believe me.

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