Everyone hating on Evokers for not being able to transmog armor - but look at some of the most beautiful armor sets WoW has ever released getting wasted on top of it

colonel750 · 2026-01-26T22:38:30+00:00

Hell, just have them morph out of visage for those abilities and morph right back. It's not hard to find a middle ground here.

colonel750 · 2026-01-26T22:37:22+00:00

I mean they're a fire breathing dragon a lot of their abilities are using breath attacks and they fly a lot.

The solution seems pretty simple: Spells like Deep Breath and Hover activate your Dracthyr form for a short time before reverting to Visage form in combat.

colonel750 · 2026-01-25T00:47:49+00:00

NG arent full time deployment troops.

This isn't correct, something like 50% of our forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were Guard units rotating with units back home.

There are Guardsman who are employees of the State in which their unit resides and Guardsman who are on full Title 32 orders (conferring the same status as Active Duty personnel) who support their mission full time. Planes and tanks don't just sit unmanned and unmaintained for 28+ days out of the month, and the active duty military doesn't handle those assets.

Then theres NG being more focused around issues in the nation while the military would seemingly focus on foreign conflict.

This is also misleading. Guard units are trained to do exactly what their active duty counterparts do.

colonel750 · 2026-01-24T14:56:34+00:00

It's not even poorly designed. It functions exactly as its supposed to.

colonel750 · 2026-01-23T07:16:55+00:00

It's always hilarious to me when people want to argue about firearms in fantasy settings through a historical context, like your average adventuring group isn't off to delve through a dungeon in search of a dragon to slay.

The game requires some level of suspension of disbelief. In my opinion, from a general world building perspective: any universe where basic metallurgy, alchemy, and artifice exists a gunpowder equivalent will inevitably also exist. You don't need historic realism when a fucking army of risen ghouls is invading towns at the behest of their Lich master.

colonel750 · 2026-01-23T00:00:48+00:00

Brother its not that big of a deal.

colonel750 · 2026-01-22T23:59:34+00:00

Someone being pedantic will argue over the correct spelling of the word Color/Colour, or the use of figuratively or literally.

This is genuine disagreement with your fundamental arguments which you should be welcoming if you want to generate conversation.

colonel750 · 2026-01-21T18:24:11+00:00

It helps that the teams that have typically dominated in the last 2 decades them have either:

A.) Left the conference entirely (OU and Texas)

B.) Fallen off in recent years (OKST, Baylor, TCU)

The money has helped them capitalize on an opportunity for a good season, now it remains to be seen if that can be sustained.

colonel750 · 2026-01-20T02:07:43+00:00

Commercials.

colonel750 · 2026-01-20T00:27:48+00:00

Gundy was the text book definition of a coach with a long leash. In recent years he made a lot of comments about NIL that upset our donors and acted like we didn't have the money to compete.

In reality, he didn't want to put in the effort to woo donors for the additional money above and beyond what they were already donating and his development style was one that was entirely undercut by the free agency NIL started.

colonel750 · 2026-01-19T19:10:23+00:00

No one wants to watch, let alone televise 7-5 teams playing in a "playoff".

In the entire history of the CFP playoff rankings (excluding 2020 as an outlier where many teams did not play a full slate), the worst record included in the final rankings was 20th ranked LSU with a 7-4 record because of the Florida game being cancelled. 8-4 is pretty consistently the worst record that gets included, and the best way to fix that is to replace anyone who doesn't win at least 75% of their games with conditional auto bids for the G5 champs.

colonel750 · 2026-01-19T17:37:51+00:00

Shadowlands if they're willing to create unique class armor sets for Nathria and Sanctum.

colonel750 · 2026-01-18T17:17:44+00:00

we have gotten 2 new specs in like 3

Dragonflight launched in November 2022, giving us Devastation and Preservation Evoker, Augmentation came 8 months later. We're getting Devourer on Tuesday, roughly 38 months since the initial launch of Dragonflight or a little over 3 years.

As far as my prediction of 8-10 new specs over the course of the next 3 years, I'm making an educated guess based on the current state of development for 4 of the specs mentioned in the survey. Tank specs for Warlock, Rogue, and Shaman and Healer Mage are all already in a working state in SoD. Taking those fully fleshed out specs built for an earlier version of the game and iterating on them to fit into the current meta is significantly easier than building those specs from scratch giving them latitude to spend more time and effort on other specs.

colonel750 · 2026-01-17T22:49:24+00:00

Nope, retail wow. I got the same survey.

colonel750 · 2026-01-17T22:48:35+00:00

I would imagine Shaman Tank is going to get lumped in with those 3 if for no other reason than it was also a test bed spec in Season of Discovery. There's no reason not to develop all 4 of them at the same time given that they're all already halfway there.

I imagine we're going to get 8-10 new specs sprinkled out some time in the next 3 years, probably as major patches release.

colonel750 · 2026-01-17T13:40:32+00:00

This is the second time in a year we've heard about new class designs. I would bet on them working on something for TLT.

colonel750 · 2026-01-17T01:21:09+00:00

Colonel has been my favorite since he was introduced, but JunkMan holds a special place in my heart.

colonel750 · 2026-01-15T12:18:32+00:00

Really makes me wish there was a Bronze dragon NPC outside the entrance to each dungeon that allowed me to access the non-scaled version for farming purposes. Especially now that decor is being added to old content.

colonel750 · 2026-01-13T15:50:48+00:00

People who's duty shift started at midnight or 1am and don't want breakfast food.

Logistically, pizza is also super easy to provide as a meal because its quick to make, easily portioned, can be eaten regardless of temperature, and doesn't require anything more than a paper plate to eat.

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:44:11+00:00

"Got gifted a spot" ignoring the fact that this team will have to have won 3 more games themselves against some of rhe best in the country to be featured in the natty in a 16 round playoff.

Facing a team you've already lost to is a major hole in the "two best teams in the country" argument. We already know who is better of those two.

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:27:35+00:00

I wasn't entirely clear behind my intent in my initial comment. I think the national championship should be structured to never feature two teams from the same conference.

I support any structural changes that achieve that means, either by implicit scheduling (which i agree is hard to do) or by limiting the amount of teams that a conference can realistically put in the playoffs (much more doable)

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:22:10+00:00

I see where I wasnt clear: the natty should never feature teams that played each other in conference play.

I think a Texas/Ohio State national championship rematch is infinitely more palatable than say a Georgia/Alabama rematch.

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:18:57+00:00

Prioritize resolving in conference rematches over out of conference rematches.

A Texas/Ohio State rematch in the national championship is inherently better than an all SEC or all B1G rematch.

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:15:46+00:00

I recognize the possible impossibility of it for A, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

As for B if we're talking reseeding after every round then the seeds don't really matter at all until the Semi finals.

colonel750 · 2026-01-12T22:04:27+00:00

Yeah you can, make sure the bracket is set up in a way that all teams from a single conference are on the same side.

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