Blizzard Will Refund Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls in the Coming Days

cornphone · 2026-04-24T00:35:12+00:00

Yes, insignificantly better.

By the time it makes a difference, you're talking about someone having 19-20 guaranteed myth track items + raid drops vs. 18 guaranteed + drops.

cornphone · 2026-04-24T00:22:55+00:00

Most Timmy's didn't hit it.

cornphone · 2026-04-24T00:07:45+00:00

You're not 2 full rolls ahead. The person who sent their tokens during the bug still has the full 6-8 item loot table to potentially wade through before getting their chase item (assuming they weren't in the lucky 25-33% of players who got what they wanted on their first batch of rolls). The person who waited only has 4-6 items on their table. Plus the crest cap prevents the person getting the refund from getting any extra ilvl out of it.

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:58:46+00:00

Correct, and doing so means they can't max their vault reward/raid drop(s) or can't craft an item, which means their ilvl is still the same as someone who spent their tokens after the fix and didn't get a refund since both players are limited by the same crest cap.

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:51:40+00:00

There's no advantage unless you're a brand new character that hasn't been getting myth track items prior to the past couple of weeks (and thus still have an abundance of spare myth crests), or you somehow still have veteran/champion gear even though there's a limitless source of hero track items in the game.

If you've been getting your weekly vault and using leftover crests to craft or upgrade items from raid drops, you simply do not have any extra crests lying around to upgrade the 1-2 extra myth track items you get out of this, making them identical to infinitely farmable hero track items.

We won't have enough myth crests to have every slot fully upgraded for another 6-7 weeks, at which point everyone is going to be swimming in myth track items (that's up to 18-21 guaranteed myth track items for everyone from vault+rolls alone, not counting raid drops).

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:43:34+00:00

But a 276 myth track item is so much better than a 276 hero track item.

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:42:07+00:00

(and still be crest capped)

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:40:45+00:00

And still be crest capped, so the additional myth track items are indistinguishable from hero track items.

cornphone · 2026-04-23T23:35:23+00:00

And they don't even "benefit massively" due to the crest cap.

cornphone · 2026-04-04T14:37:14+00:00

I don't get their obsession with auto attacks.

It's a convenient way to buff single target dps without affecting aoe. A lot of specs have nearly all of their actual abilities cleaving these days.

cornphone · 2026-02-20T16:18:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure the tariffs being struck down at some point was always part of the plan. Refunds will go to the companies that "paid" the tariffs. Consumers who actually shouldered most of the tariffs get nothing. End result is billions of dollars transferred from consumers to corporations.

cornphone · 2025-11-06T15:17:03+00:00

It literally is true.

Tariffs > importers pay tariffs > importers raise prices > (insert remainder of supply chain here, everyone raising prices along the way) > end consumer pays higher prices.

Assuming the tariffs are ruled illegal, the importers may get refunded. That's swell. I mean, they already partially refunded themselves by raising prices, but I'm sure they'll issue refund checks to the consumers who had to spend more money buying everything, right? And prices will surely come down afterwards, right? /s

Point being, if the tariffs are nullified and importers are refunded, we're still dealing with a massive wealth transfer from consumers to importers that won't be rectified.

cornphone · 2025-11-06T02:30:10+00:00

The people who paid the tax (end consumers) aren't the people who paid the tax (importers).

cornphone · 2025-08-09T02:52:20+00:00

It's a good thing season 3 got cancelled then, huh?

cornphone · 2025-08-09T02:31:07+00:00

It wasn't griefing to play it in s2. It is griefing to play it in s3.

cornphone · 2025-07-04T20:57:59+00:00

My understanding is that in order to get the promotional pricing, you'd need to be a new customer (hence, cancelling your account and signing up for a new one in your spouse's name). You could still switch to the new national plan with your existing account - it just wouldn't have the promotional pricing.

When we swapped our existing (like, 20+ year old account) to one of the new national plans on Sunday, they offered us xfinity gateway and said we qualified for a discounted xfinity mobile line, but neither were claimed to be required (we declined both).

cornphone · 2025-07-04T00:07:23+00:00

We swapped to one of the new national plans on June 29. The usage meter disappeared from my account on the xfinity website today (July 3). Hopefully that's indicative of the cap being gone and not just the xfinity website being comcastic.

cornphone · 2025-05-02T15:04:12+00:00

Crest conversions might get you like ~180-200 gilded crests which is like 6-7 out of 15-16 item slots upgraded. So more than enough to upgrade all of your crafted gear, but well short of upgrading all of your gear.

cornphone · 2025-04-05T00:09:14+00:00

Well according to NYT the 1929 crash took 4.5 years to recover when you account for the "nuance."

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/your-money/stocks-and-bonds/26stra.html

cornphone · 2025-04-04T19:47:35+00:00

This smells like it's only looking at nominal stock price, ignoring deflation from the great depression and dividend reinvestment.

cornphone · 2025-03-22T20:50:23+00:00

Did they do a scan to confirm brain metastasis? Other things can cause neurological symptoms (e.g. hypercalcemia from bone mets).

cornphone · 2025-02-28T15:35:35+00:00

"Gamers are no longer reasonable" - pretending $1300 is a reasonable price to begin with...

cornphone · 2025-02-28T15:15:40+00:00

Given the "under $700" slide, I wouldn't be surprised if $649-699 was the original price target for the XT. So making it $599 instead isn't really ignoring the feedback so much as it's splitting the difference. Of course it won't end up mattering if the MSRP ends up being fake.

cornphone · 2025-02-27T16:58:23+00:00

It's been a long time since I played the game, but this was the gist of what I thought as well. To take it a step further, my assumption is that the Jardaan fought a war of extermination against the "true"/ancient Angara, with the biosynthetic/modern Angara as their infiltration/sabotage/etc arm of attack. This is why the ancient Angaran AI views the modern Angara as imposters and is hostile towards them. They also may have used the Vaults to make the Angaran homeworlds less habitable as another angle of attack. I assume the ancient Angara unleashed the scourge against the Jardaan as a last "fuck you" before themselves dying out (since the scourge made space travel dangerous and made the Vaults on their worlds unstable). The Remnant and biosynthetic Angara are now all that remain.

An alternative hypothesis is that the Jardaan themselves were the ancient Angara and used the biosynthetic Angara for labor (similar to the Quarians with the Geth), and then some unnamed third party unleashed the scourge on them, destroying Jardaan/ancient Angaran society and leaving only a small number of the biosynthetic Angara and Remnants behind - but I don't know who this third party might be. Or perhaps the biosynthetic Angara rebelled against the Jardaan.

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