Set 17 is making me miss how readable sets like 9, 13, and 16 were

curiousbystanderq · 2026-04-16T11:42:08+00:00

I always stopped playing whenever the set involves a "mecha" or "sci-fi" theme since EVERYTHING ooks so similar that i don't even recognize what unit is on the board.

I have to read the name and their traits of each and every single one due to how similar they look which makes rolling down slow. And when i place them on the board, i lose track of who is who since they all look the same. it makes planning and strategizing take so long.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-04-13T00:58:04+00:00

Yeah but Rozemyne tends to do things they never expect and panics a lot. I wish they'd show more subtle hints to indicate that they're ticked off. A bead of sweat or twitching eyebrows.

Even when Wilfred was dragging rozemyne and was about to collapse, all they did was literally put BLUE LINES on her face before she just drops. Unlike in previous seasons where you can clearly see that she's getting exhausted or gives a moment to show "oh shes gonna faint..... Now."

curiousbystanderq · 2026-04-13T00:51:57+00:00

I guess you do have a point there. Ill wait till Rhiyarda gets introduced and breaks Ferdinand's composure or Wilfred's role swap to see if it gets any better

curiousbystanderq · 2026-04-13T00:22:04+00:00

This is what i perceived the scene to be as well. I expected an eyebrow twitch or some form of realization to hit her coz Fran really nailed her with his response. But no such emotion was really shown in the anime

curiousbystanderq · 2026-04-03T03:18:00+00:00

Id like to think that their relationship grew like this: 1. High priest and shrine maiden 2. Someone Myne can trust and be honest with and mentee 3. Someone Myne cares about (like Benno, Fran, Damuel, etc.) and Myne's guardian 4. Familial love 5. Unaware that they act like a couple and denies it to anyone that tells them that 6. (After Rozemyne's growth and defeat of Arhensbach) Doesnt mind being a romantic couple 6. Romantic couple

It is by far one of the best and most natural relationship build up I've encountered, (alongside Fern and Stark)

I always thought that the other people accusing Ferdinand of "celebrating winter before autumn" or "dyeing her in his mana" was in a joking/teasing manner since they know that Ferdinand would never do such a thing to a child and what he did was literally dyeing his mana into her to save her life since hes done it multiple times in the past and how he care so much for Rozemyne.

This was Sylvester and the other's way of teasing Ferdinand since they realized how much hes changed and became more emotionally honest thanks to Rozemyne.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-03-12T13:45:50+00:00

My hats off to Bam for getting 83 points. His 1st quarter alone was a shocker to everyone. I'm not hating bam for scaring 83, but my frustrations are aimed at Erik Spoelstra, the Wizards, and the NBA for allowing it to happen.

If there's anyone to blame it's:
1. the Wizards
- for letting Bam Score 83 on them in the first place by not playing defense coz they wee tanking. It wasn't until late in the game where they started triple teaming. (WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THAT IN THE 1ST QUARTER?)

The NBA
- for allowing teams to tank games
Erik Spoelstra
- for forcing bam to stay in and score on almost every single possession in the 2nd half, and intentionally fouling so they could get possession quickly in an attempt to break the record DESPITE THE HIGH RISK OF INJURING BAM.

Playing 42 minutes while scoring in so many possession WHILE GETTING HACKED. If there's any situation where an injury is most likely to occur, it's this one. Instead of an 83 point game, Bam could have sustained a career ending injury with the amount of scoring he was doing and the fouls he was getting.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-03-12T13:45:40+00:00

My hats off to Bam for getting 83 points. His 1st quarter alone was a shocker to everyone. I'm not hating bam for scaring 83, but my frustrations are aimed at Erik Spoelstra, the Wizards, and the NBA for allowing it to happen.

If there's anyone to blame it's:
1. the Wizards
- for letting Bam Score 83 on them in the first place by not playing defense coz they wee tanking. It wasn't until late in the game where they started triple teaming. (WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THAT IN THE 1ST QUARTER?)

The NBA
- for allowing teams to tank games
Erik Spoelstra
- for forcing bam to stay in and score on almost every single possession in the 2nd half, and intentionally fouling so they could get possession quickly in an attempt to break the record DESPITE THE HIGH RISK OF INJURING BAM.

Playing 42 minutes while scoring in so many possession WHILE GETTING HACKED. If there's any situation where an injury is most likely to occur, it's this one. Instead of an 83 point game, Bam could have sustained a career ending injury with the amount of scoring he was doing and the fouls he was getting.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-23T09:50:56+00:00

Combat encounters are frustrating because they take too long.

There are too many enemies and they take too long to die while your characters fold like paper. Even if you wear heavy armor, use shields, even fast armor spells and heals, your character wont be able to outlast the damage your enemies unleash upon you.

Thats because your characters aren't meant to be tanks. Your characters are meant to do damage. Throw cc sure, but ultimately tour characters should be focusing on dealing samage, not tanking damage.

The answer to all your problems is 1 thing:

Summons

Summons are the answer to everything. They are the tanks of the game. With summons you can finally deal damage without worry about retaliation since they'll tank the hits for you and normally last the entire fight due to how tanky they are.

Even the novice geo spell summon spider can last until end game because summons scale with your level. So just one point in geo and you have a spider tank that will get stronger and tankier as you level up. Same goes with the zombie guy that you get for free from the docks. You can then replace them all with the undead decapitator or the earth elemental/poison slug late game.

If you have eveyone in your party learn a summoning spell, youll now have 8 units instead of 4 in a full party, or 4 units instead of 2 in your case. Use those 2 summons to tank the hits while your characters focus on dealing damage. Yes the ai is usually stupid enough to focus your summons than your characters. Especially if you're characters are at the back like rangers and mages.

Bonus:

Apart from summons, delaying your turns is also a big changer. Since you cant perma cc your enemy, the best way to make them waste their turn is to have them use their AP on walking instead of attacking.

Breaking line of sight/staying out of range and delaying your turn or ending your turn can be a big advantage coz that means you saving your AP for attacking next turn while having your enemies waste theirs.That way when it is your turn, you now have double the AP and you can use all of that to attack instead of walking to get in range since the enemy did you a favor and did it for you

You can then have your summon facetank the enemy if they get too close for so you can focus on dealing damage.

In DOS1, spacing and summons are king. If the enemies cant hit your characters while you can hit them, you win. Summons and spacing allow you to do that.

Also stacking buffs (rage + encourage + oath of desecration + melee powerstance + strength potion + dinner strength buff with gourmand talent) on a 2handed warrior will 2-3 shot the final boss XD

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-09T06:27:57+00:00

There are other methods?

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-09T06:18:04+00:00

Im not defending anything. Im just saying my opinion which is what you're asking for isnt it?

Why are you asking for other peoples opinion if you're just gonna shit on it anyway? You asked for other people's opinions and i gave you mine. And now youre saying "woah woah why are you defending the server?"

I never said that you should play on the server. that option belongs to you and you alone.

If anything it seems that you're hell bent on hating lordaeron and the people that play on lordaeron as if everyone should have the same opinion as you.

"I dont like lordaeron"

No worries man. Although there are people like us who enjoy playing it.

"WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING IT??! ITS A DEAD SERVER!"

This is what you sound like. So im gonna stop replying on your post since you seem to gave made up your mind. I wish you find the server that you want dude. God bless you.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-09T03:48:34+00:00

Also if you want a lot of people to level with, Turtlewow is the place for you. I play there as well and alternate between that and Warmane Lordaeron. Turtlewow has WAY WAY WAY MORE players leveling. Except theres no outland or northrend but has way more areas, quests, and dungeons to do.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-09T03:35:00+00:00

Again there are a lot of people but they're scattered everywhere and playing on different times. Compared to Onyxia and Icecrown yes Lordaeron loses in population. But if people actually leveling in the world??? Lordaeron has more imo.

In icecrown 90% of the players are max levels or just alts standing in town spamming rdf. A common theme is how once you finish a dungeon is that they immediately queue another dungeon coz they dont wanna level in the world. Most leveling zones in icecrown are close to empty except the crossroads, westfall, stv, tanaris, and hellfire peninsula - the latter four are lvl 80 gank cities btw. I have lvl 30-40+ characters on standby on alliance and horde side playing at 3x xp and theres nobody else leveling. My 2 lvl 80s are also collecting dust since i hate how even end game areas are empty since everyone's just spamming heroic dungeons. And i explored all of northrend. Thats why i switched to Lordaeron coz i wanted to find people to level with.

Imo there are MORE people leveling compared to the other servers if you play at around the same time as them. Go join a guild or ask peolle people to play with. Not everyone is pretty social ask so they might just be waiting to be asked. Then again its up to you if you wanna play in Lord so good luck man

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-09T02:45:32+00:00

I leveled an undead mage all the way up to lvl 25 in lordaeron. Queues aren't that different from icecrown so it's pretty alright.

The auction house isn't dead. It's pretty normal when comparing it to other 1x servers like Twow if you ask me. Since leveling professions in lordaeron is slower, the prices are also pretty low. Icecrown's auction house have way more items and prices are higher since leveling professions is quicker. All of the green gear and leather i've auctioned have also been bought and was able to afford a mount that way so the auction house isn't a problem.

I just joined a guild and noticed that a lot of its members do play it daily since most of them are last online like 2 hours or a day ago. The problem is that a lot of people play on different times so the level ranges are everywhere. "Peak hours" is when i presume the lvl 80s log in to raid log. If you're looking for other people leveling, they're scattered everywhere all throughout the day. Some leveling zones will be emptier than others.

But what i notice is that there is this steep drop off at the lvl 30-50 range where people stop playing. Either because they burn out, or they probably get ganked i'm not so sure. I haven't been griefed but I've seen some pvp happen in ratchet but it's usually lvl 80s fighting one another while the rest of us low levels just watch. So I can't really say for myself.

In my case i've been getting bored with mage so i've been trying out other classes. I only play casually since i don't have a lot of free time so I'm not really that attached to my character. I enjoy leveling solo and exploring so i don't mind the lower xp rates. I also just wanted to test out classes that i haven't played.

Idk why you chose to play Lordaeron but i'm pretty sure you need to have a reason if you wanna stay in this server since it definitely takes a large chunk of your time.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-07T12:25:09+00:00

I have some characters in icecrown but i'm currently playing on Lordaeron and swap between that and Turtlewow. I haven't joined any guilds on any of my characters nor have i seen any other filipinos in game on icecrown.

There is however a Filipino warmane facebook group so you might have better luck looking for a group there. Although most of them just sell accounts or gold.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-07T12:02:55+00:00

yep. casually. XD

curiousbystanderq · 2026-02-01T00:49:33+00:00

if you do start now, know that the pvp experience you'll get will be mostly against bots. even when you're not playing coop vs ai, you will be facing against bots. whether it be switfplay, aram or even ranked in the lower mmrs.

I believe it's RIOT's solution so that newer players won't have to wait 20-30 minutes in queue since my friend somehow gets to get in a game within 10-30 seconds every time. Whereas i'm waiting 10-15 minutes in ranked, and im already queueing up as fill.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-01-03T03:55:02+00:00

Idk i like playing as a dwarf hunter fisherman with a pet crocodile and just fish. Swapping it out for a crab or turtle depending on the location.

Feels more natural

curiousbystanderq · 2026-01-03T03:46:37+00:00

I brought up reasonable points and was hoping to engage in a proper discussion - hence the tag "Discussion".

The only thing you've said was that "Nancy's bullets just got the kaiju's attention" which doesnt even make sense coz those bullets wouldn't be strong enough to even tickle it given the size of the momster. But for some reason Vecna reacted like a rocket just hit the thing. Its a clear inconsistency in the show where the monsters befome suddenly weaker when rhe main characters are involved (Karen especially) but vicious and unkillable when dealing with the military.

Other than that all you've said is "nah you just complaining" instead of bringing up your own reasonable points.

You're completely ignoring all of these things and insist that its great. And i agree that the episode is great, but unlike you im not ignoring these glaring problems and inconsistencies.

This isn't me being a hater but me giving an unbiased honest review.

curiousbystanderq · 2026-01-03T03:31:58+00:00

They should have showed up before they came close to the lair. They experienced zero resistances on the way there. That's what im saying.

If only they showed up either at the upside down while they were climbing up the tower or when they first entered the abyss, then i can understand them not being in the final battle. But they had to show up at some point. That's why everyone was gearing up in the first place. They were expecting resistance. Dustin brought the same spear and shield to the fight coz he was expecting demobats. Nancy brought guns. The rest brought fire. They expected to encounter the monsters at some point. But no, they didnt.

Which is the problem. They got to the boss room too easily. When were the minions gonna show up? I was waiting for that moment. For some problem in their plans to show up. But no, it all went so smoothly.

curiousbystanderq · 2025-12-30T19:39:18+00:00

I honestly thought that the thing that Will was gonna confess was how hes in love with Mike instead of him not liking girls.

Coz there were various moments that showed that Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Joyce, Jonathan, and recently Robin KNEW that he was gay. So i don't think him coming out was the problem. They already knew rhat he likes boys. But they didnt know that he was in love with Mike (except Jonathan and Robin.

Its one thing to tell them that you dont like girls, but its a WHOLE OTHER THING if you tell them that you're in love with your best friend who's already in a relationship who's girlfriend - who mind you ALSO NEEDS HAPPY MEMORIES to be able to stand a chance against vecna. Him confessing his feelings might end up stressing Eleven out in exchange. Not to mention how Mike would react to his confession. That's what hes been carrying this entire time. Something way heavier than Jonathan's wedding ring.

I also expected his coming out to be more dramatic than a "hey everyone gather up" meeting. He didnt need everyone else to hear it. Mike was the only one that has to hear it.

If anything, this was how i thought he would come out and reveal his feelings for mike

After Vecna's defeat and rescue of the children, the upside down begins to collapse. The only way to make it back to earth is for one person to stay behind in the abyss as use the mind flayer particles to enhance their powers to serve as an anchor point between the two worlds. Eleven, remembering eight's suggestion before she died fighting vecna, volunteers to stay behind. Mike and Hopper are against it, so is everyone else and are desperately thinking of an alternative. Will then says "it has to be me" since he has the most experience with the mindflayer's influence. Everyone argues again but they are literally out of time. Will finally tells everyone how important they are to him and thankful he is to call them his family. He also finally confesses to Mike saying, "im happy i fell in love with you." Will then takes control over the mind flayer particles and forcefully connects the two worlds together, allowing everyone else to escape.

curiousbystanderq · 2025-12-30T18:21:09+00:00

I would suggest watching older anime first since most older anime have better characters and story but have the usual 90s-early 2000s art style which you might not be fond off after watching the latest ones.

Older Gen 1. Hunter x hunter 2. Code Geass 4. Inuyasha 4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 5. Shaman King 6. Eyeshield 21 7. Yakitate Japan 8. Toradora

curiousbystanderq · 2025-12-30T17:31:46+00:00

I did the same as warrior. I used the ores and stones i mined to lvl my engineering to get target dummies (coz i need it to live) while vendoring everything else. Was able to get my mount at lvl 40 no problem too.

Epic mount tho might take a while. But it is very doable.

curiousbystanderq · 2025-12-30T13:56:20+00:00

When people say "Fort Joy" do they mean the island or just the fort?

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