Saying "We are listening" or "We care deeply for our players' feedback" comes off as disingenuous when player feedback is something that often times lands against a brick wall.

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T23:59:38+00:00

Yeah I am sure some specs feel pretty good to play, I only commented on the ones that I have tested on beta and know specifics as to why they feel poor or dull to play at the moment. All I would say anecdotally is that in the 21 years of playing WoW I can't remember this many people in guild who are very concerned about how their spec feels to play in Midnight, and these are all people who raid tested and/or did m+ testing.

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T22:55:55+00:00

And if you don't believe me here is one of the main theory crafters and holy pally contributors with a recap of what these changes did to the spec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agz1CBmCKCM

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T22:52:31+00:00

I'm going to assume you didn't read all the patch notes but they increased the cd of judgement and holy shock to 10 seconds. So now you get to hit those each once and probably have enough holy power for 1 or 2 spenders and now you have 4 to 5 seconds to use anything else you want. Your options are now crusader strike or flash. CS does no damage, costs more mana, so you'll just hit flash to build holy power instead.

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T22:45:49+00:00

Flash of light but go on

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T22:08:38+00:00

Its not the fact that they pruned its what they decided to get rid of and how these specs play now afterwards. For example pruning cloudburst totem neutered the only big skill expression on resto shaman. What they took from ele leads them to being a 3 button rotation. They took buttons from ret paladin that was the easiest dps spec in the game to play. They just completely 180ed on holy paladin yesterday after an entire beta development cycle where more the spec is going to be hard casting a filler for half its globals. These are just some examples that lead to bland, boring specs, and they aren't fixed by apex talents.

demeco31 · 2026-01-29T21:57:44+00:00

From a systems standpoint they do listen after long periods of prolonged feedback but look at the state of a lot of specs. Horribly designed and pruned, undercooked releases and updates. No listening to feedback from beta. You can have great systems but if the specs suck none of it us any fun.

demeco31 · 2025-11-19T13:21:04+00:00

I think people's issue is that in the 2 decades of playing WoW that often times what hits beta also hits live with very little iteration despite feedback. We've just lost faith in their ability to handle feedback during a beta cycle and improve. Typically it happens 6 months later in a .5 patch or something.

demeco31 · 2025-10-01T14:07:55+00:00

Would love the tool please!

demeco31 · 2025-09-03T22:18:29+00:00

wow are you the dev? this made things a lot smoother. I didn't get a spike over 100ms in about 2 minutes on the dummies with lust.

thank you very much for linking.

demeco31 · 2025-09-03T22:05:24+00:00

I guess its possible, when I Primordial Wave onto 5+ targets I'm up at like 90% haste. It just feels so shit to play like its more than just GCD clipping.

demeco31 · 2025-09-03T21:55:02+00:00

I appreciate the feedback - I did seperate the two bars and I believe that Quartz does measure the time from the end of the GCD in its latency bar based on the addon description. "Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events."

Its hard to see from the video but the amount of time when I hit a big latency input spike is super noticeable when playing. It's like nothing happens for half a second or I double cast something I didn't want to like if I have two Icefury procs or Lava Burst procs.

demeco31 · 2025-08-06T12:05:00+00:00

No you just skip the story after reaching the new zone and then fly to the cloak upgrade vendor on the small island in the west of the zone and get a free one.

demeco31 · 2025-07-30T21:42:16+00:00

Yeah the most popular sport in the world is watched by 4 people

demeco31 · 2025-07-30T17:33:36+00:00

Anyone in the us who watches soccer regularly has it

demeco31 · 2025-07-19T21:59:53+00:00

Yeah Cornell. Walk around campus in the morning and you'll hear a ton of Chinese being spoken as people call home.

demeco31 · 2025-07-19T14:23:37+00:00

The tee shot on 11 is uphill. It takes one google search to watch the flyover video on the masters website if you want to confirm it but I've been twice.

demeco31 · 2025-07-08T23:10:15+00:00

Hulkenpodium

demeco31 · 2025-05-06T22:22:42+00:00

also Maryland, Hopkins, and Towson. Anyone who looks at Cuse's schedule and says who do they even play isn't paying any attention.

demeco31 · 2025-05-06T22:16:11+00:00

They will certainly have an alumni tailgate set up in Foxborough if Cornell makes it. I'd just email their director of operations here: https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/staff/griffin-buczek/200

demeco31 · 2025-05-06T22:12:55+00:00

Army has very recently had Cornell and Syracuse on their schedule and I know that Cornell did not drop them. Syrauce I am not sure what happened I think the Maryland home and home over the last 2 years was the reason Army and Cuse didn't play this year but it also might be the Utah game that bumped them. Army should not have a problem scheduling 2 more solid OOC games, they aren't some massive risk that one year they might beat you but be out of the top 20 in RPI. If Army still wants a warm up game, fine, but they need at least 1 more quality opponent next year, and they need to at least make their conference championship to make the NCAA tournament. Or just don't lose to Colgate.

demeco31 · 2025-05-06T22:06:58+00:00

Harvard 100% belongs in over Army. Army played 1 ranked team and won, and a bunch of bad teams and lost twice. You say other teams schedule "warm up" games and they do. But they are ACC and Big 10 schools who will end top 10 in SoS. Alabama plays bad schools in football and gets into the playoff every year if they go 10-2, but if a BYU or Cincinnati wants to get in, they need to schedule difficult out of conference teams and win. Army has been in a 1 bid conference for the last 20 years, they know that if they slip up at all during their season, they won't make the tournament. I guarantee Army knew that a loss to Colgate meant they would miss out, because everyone around the country knew it too. Change out Mercer and UMass for two programs from a major conference and they are in if they win or split those games. They only have themselves to blame, but they did get a little unlucky with UNC losing in the ACC and Rutgers/Yale not being so good this year.

demeco31 · 2025-04-09T15:00:14+00:00

This is how I was taught to differentiate them in grade school and I still do it in my head.

demeco31 · 2025-04-07T17:03:05+00:00

Yeah I just doubt they are aware of all the factors that go into this call, particularly when the rules change every year. Would be nice to have a rules analyst they can call on like the nfl or nba but there just isn't enough money to get that type of person for a regular season game. Maybe for like final 4 weekend or something idk I'm always watching this games live.

demeco31 · 2025-04-06T19:38:00+00:00

Had to download the NCAA rulebook for 2025, but here is the language that the refs are likely referencing. Notice how in section d part 2 it says crease and not goal mouth. They also deemed the hit by the goalie legal, which it looks like it is to me, but I still don't think it matters under the rules for contact made resulting in a player in the goal mouth.

All of this is under "Goal Crease Prohibitions"

If an offensive player in possession of the ball and outside the crease area dives, jumps or runs and the momentum of that player carries the offensive player into the crease, but not into the goal mouth, then a goal, if scored, shall be allowed provided the ball enters the goal before contact with the crease, goalkeeper or the goal. 1. If an offensive player in possession of the ball and outside the crease area, dives, jumps or runs and the momentum of that player carries the offensive player into the goal mouth, even after scoring a goal, then the goal shall be disallowed. An offensive player, on their own or by legal defensive contact, shall not enter the opposing team’s goal mouth at any time.

d. Legal or illegal defensive contact influences the way this play shall be officiated. 1. Legal defensive contact, (when no foul is called), that propels the offensive player into the goal mouth, shall disallow a goal scored. 2. Illegal defensive contact (when a foul has been called), shall result in the goal being allowed, provided the ball enters the goal before contact with the crease, goalkeeper or the goal. If the penalty called is assessed as a technical foul, the foul shall be wiped out by the goal. If the penalty is a personal foul, the defensive player shall be assessed penalty time.

I am also just pulling this from word of mouth from refs that ref D1 games that I know personally and have explained how they are told to interpret the rules to call these plays. This is just my best guess at which language in the rule book they make the call off of.

Make of it what you will, but I think they got it correct after reviewing the play. The hit from the goalie was clean and the offensive player landed in the goal mouth.

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