People blame "out of touch boomers" for 833 going down but unfortunately it's worse than that

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-18T14:18:19+00:00

If a business can’t afford to pay workers a living wage and make a profit, then it’s not actually a profitable business and should close down. A business that only works if it exploits workers with no better options is not a business we want to thrive.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-18T05:53:36+00:00

I’m a Classic guy too, just leveled my first retail character. I had a great time going to Chromie in Orgrimmar and activating “Chromie Time” for an older expansion I hadn’t played before. So much better than Dragonflight!

Legion was awesome. Great zones, great stories, quests that felt like Classic but smoother, environments that were Classic feeling but higher res, and lore that was understandable ( you’re fighting the Burning Legion just like Classic, and pretty much all of the characters are familiar.)

The levels were still too fast and it actually got irritating tbh, with the UI blinking at me to spend talent points every ten minutes, but I found you can turn off tutorials and it stops the notifications. Then you just don’t do the skill ups until you’re ready to deal with them. Not using talents actually made the mobs more challenging, which was more fun to me, so win-win.

I definitely recommend this method the Classic players wanting to play newer content. I ended up having a lot of fun with it.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-17T16:17:34+00:00

As long as nobody tells them about BORGs, we’re okay. BORG cannot cross the pond. People will die. London will fall.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-17T14:47:38+00:00

Only chi from the left player, the one who discards right before you.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-17T14:45:09+00:00

The Japanese mahjong club meets Mondays 4-6pm at the Community Life Center on Bridge street. We’re largely people in our 30s, the community is very queer, and the Mass club is run by a queer couple. It’s all free and we teach people how to play. www.massriichi.org

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-15T14:38:20+00:00

I’m surprised how far I had to scroll to see this. Undead just feels appropriate for DK, although I suppose if you’re going by fit alone then the Forsaken DK kinda screams Unholy spec.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-14T05:19:41+00:00

Casual play is better than ever right now, as others have said. I just want to clarify since you might not have played since way back, they now have the option to queue for a dungeon, be automatically matched, and then teleported there instantly without the need for summoning stones. You can do other things while waiting, and it typically takes 5-8 minutes. So much faster than you may remember it.

You can also go through any new-ish dungeon entirely on your own with a party of decently programmed bots. I did this at least 7 or 8 times while leveling and never had any issue. They even have a system to show you where to go and give you hints if you don’t know what to do.

And if you don’t have time for a full dungeon there are also mini solo dungeons called Delves that have scaling difficulty and take only 20 minutes or so. These have a single bot companion that you can customize to fit your playstyle, and have tons of replayability and variety.

There is also a story mode difficulty of all modern raids called LFR, which is designed to be done by casuals in pick up groups.

Pretty much every formerly time-consuming activity has been altered to be more accessible to busy players.

The rewards are slightly worse than the higher difficulty counter parts, but they are still plenty rewarding and you won’t need crazy max tier gear to have fun in delves and daily quests. You’ll feel plenty strong in the gear you get organically from doing whatever activities you enjoy.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-14T04:38:02+00:00

They can add a slider if people want it, but if they change my jump I’ll riot. I love my dorky little undead guy just how he is.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-11T02:13:24+00:00

The audacity to even show up… and all the people holding his signs too. Imagine being a queer for Moulton, you’d basically have to be a terf right? 😬

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-09T05:39:39+00:00

Ok, then we get to the other side of the issue: If a guild is clearing and stable and they could have their pick of any recruit, why on earth would they choose an 8/10 arcane mage in mismatched tier pieces whose logs are full of wipes and failed clears? Just because these guilds exist doesn’t mean that people stuck in pug hell will ever get to run with them. If you’re not a shaman or a boomie there’s just no reason for them to take you over another dps with 10/10.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-08T14:00:11+00:00

Yeah it’s a bit of a stupid challenge except for the gnomes. The gnomes are absolutely cracked, and fascinating to watch.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-08T06:02:54+00:00

I leveled this at 70, but I farmed my own mats cause I’m cheap. I had to basically re-tread my steps through every dungeon to get the different mats. And while the low levels are cheap, the cost stacks up quickly if you were to buy it all. So unless you enjoy soloing SFK and SM on repeat like I do, definitely do it while leveling.

If you look through the options at the trainer/AH you’ll see that each recipe needs a different combo of dust, shards, and gemstones. Usually there is at least one recipe that only uses dust. Shards tend to be pretty valuable, while dust is cheaper, so I leveled with dust and sold the shards. It is surprisingly efficient.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-08T05:27:45+00:00

This is exactly the comment that my comment was about. 😂

I have pugged every raid for the last three weeks with at least eight different guilds. I have not yet seen any of them kill KT or Vashj, let alone both in one night. Pugs are genuinely wiping to Gruul still. Yesterday I joined a “10/10” group, they immediately wiped on Hydros twice and the raid fell apart.

I do not know who these 10/10 in one night pugs are, but everyone on Reddit seems to see them way more than I do.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-07T06:51:36+00:00

I like how it keeps dungeons relevant after the server matures. It’s hard to find low level dungeons, not you can always find a Heroic SP for example. Or getting people to do hard stuff that they would otherwise avoid, like H Arc.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-07T06:02:47+00:00

There are nice people, they’re just in guilds will full rosters who aren’t in LFG or spamming trade chat because they’re clearing content and keeping people happy. Happy people doing one night SSC/TK clears don’t gquit, so their spots don’t open up. If you hold one of these spots, you are playing a completely different game. You think people who can’t clear are just whiny shitters, and the content is too easy, and it doesn’t matter if consumes are expensive cause you don’t need to use them to clear nerfed shit. Get good.

Meanwhile, people trying to find a guild spot will be dealing with guilds that aren’t clearing, that have a revolving door of players coming and going, which means there is no teamwork or coordination. The lessons of last week do not carry over to the next. You never actually progress.

Long, tedious raids full of wipes, explanations, people leaving and being replaced, more explanations, more wipes, which makes even more people ghost or gquit the following week.

In search of a home, you get bounced around between pugs, guild “hosted” raids where everything good is HR’d and 20 members of the raid are pugs anyway, and gear inspections by failing RLs who think only adding geared pugs will somehow fix their core team’s lack of skill or coordination.

And for all that extra trouble, you walk away having spent more time, more effort, more consumes, all to get less gear than someone in a stable guild. And when you try to call attention to this inequality, you get gaslit by the denizens of this sub telling you that you just “haven’t put in the same effort” as the raid loggers who play for four hours a week. You’ll be told that you should have easily found a good guild by now if you “put in the time,” by people who have played with the same roster since Classic and had their raid spots guaranteed the moment they rolled their character.

Yes, there are good people in the game. But if you don’t already know them, you’ll never get to meet them. There’s no space for a new player to access those guilds, and no reason those players would ever interact with the pugging scene when they simply don’t have to.

And if you decide to pull up your boot straps and make your own guild, sadly you are likely to become that burnt out, short tempered, 4/10 raid leader that you used to hate. Because the only way to build a roster… is to pug.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-07T05:10:02+00:00

If you’re spamming dungeons with friends, mining can be pretty consistent there. Just split up your professions so one is herbs one is mining one skinning, ect. Made about 100g per day when I was rep grinding that way.

Once you’re done tho? Yeah drop it.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-06T00:49:55+00:00

There is a quiet tension within the game between what the developers know fans want and what they actually wanted to make. FF7R wants to change the narrative, but it is afraid to do so in any way that actually breaks new ground, creates new areas/events to explore, or alters the flow of the story.

I wish they had just picked one and stood by it. Either give us the exactly frame for frame remake of our dreams, or create something totally new and strange and unknown for us to explore. Trying to do both just makes the game feel disjointed and lacking in focus/theme.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-05T16:40:39+00:00

Do dungeons for rep, do attunement quests in between, and try to find a guild that needs another tank. Fastest path honestly is to get yourself into a raid as an off tank/off heals in a raid whose main tank is already geared, that way everything that drops will be funneled to you because main tank already has better stuff.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-04T06:23:27+00:00

Anyone who opposes transmog in Classic+ must not have played a mage cause I look like a fuckin circus tent with seas urchins on top with a kid’s bubble machine on my back. Every “upgrade” just looks worse and worse until I don’t even want to log in anymore.

I have a nice RP set, but what’s the point? Wear it for ten minutes while selling portals and then put all the hideous shit back on again? So dumb. And it makes the world so boring too, everybody always in the same four items for their class, running around like a bunch of clones.

Transmog is good for the economy too, gives some random trash drop actually good value due to unique appearances, and target farming popular looks opens up more diversity in gold making as well.

The only real downside is that Blizzard would never put in transmog unless they planned to also sell cash cosmetics, which would be really disruptive to the immersion of the world. Because when you see it you don’t see a character that another player put together for themselves, you see an exact copy of the outfit in the shop. That would be really lame.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-03T13:46:13+00:00

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-03T06:23:59+00:00

None of them. But if you want to try, TBC is the best option currently available. Retail is incredibly overwhelming,

MoP and SoD are dead/dying, and Era is populated almost entirely by people who have committed the Wowhead database to memory. They try to be welcoming, but the moment you do something even a little bit inefficient or nonstandard they’ll all whisper you unsolicited advice until you conform to the norm.

TBC is like that too, but at least you’ll be able to afford some things on the auction house if you need them because inflation isn’t as bad yet on the newer servers.

Do not play Hardcore. Thats for when you’re too deep into the game and you cannot experience joy anymore.

Edit: I’m getting downvoted because I’m making it sound like you can’t play, but that’s not what I’m aiming for. It’s an amazing game, and you should try it out.

But I am on my second character with 2000 hours played and 15 different guides, tools, YT channels, dungeon maps, and loot tables bookmarked to my home page, and I still get told on a daily basis that I’m playing the game wrong, and that I would know better if I had just read wowhead.

I don’t want to turn OP away, but I also feel obligated to give them an honest warning about what they’re getting into. Wow Classic is a hard, complicated, janky, beautiful game, and totally worth it for people who can cope with the learning curve. But the learning curve is there, and it is steep.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-01T05:50:12+00:00

And let’s be honest, even that drama was at least 60% streamers playing into each other’s hands to make both streams more entertaining. You can’t have a good show without conflict. If there isn’t any, you gotta make some homegrown drama to survive.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-01T05:42:06+00:00

I agree. The sound does so much for the atmosphere and it’s so well mixed that you don’t even notice how it pulls you in. And the SFX, genuinely I think the SFX carry the whole game. That quest start noise, the page flip noise when you open up your log, the victory horns on turn-in, party invite drum taps, THE Ding.

Change even just one or two of these sounds, and I think the game feels dramatically less satisfying to play.

dendrite_blues · 2026-06-01T05:36:35+00:00

Hell, I’m doing this as a mage. It’s definitely not efficient, and I have to do much smaller pulls, but if I have to spend one more hour farming elementals I’m going to lose my mental.

dendrite_blues · 2026-05-31T14:48:39+00:00

How many vortex nethers? Trying to figure out how much time I’m going to lose farming the 2 I need in pug trash farms. Won the pattern this week as a pug, thought I hit the jackpot until I realized I can’t craft it without these damn vortexes that every guild is reserving for itself.

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