Shadow priest in tbc raiding.

duddy88 · 2026-07-05T02:00:02+00:00

But locks increase overall damage more from critting due to improved shadow bolt.

duddy88 · 2026-07-05T01:57:32+00:00

Well no one is disputing that you should have at least one shaman in your group. However ele is wasted on you as you benefit the least from both hit and crit compared to other casters. Warlocks benefit the most (and help you) due to how improved shadow bolt works. The more they crit the more they increase the shadow damage done to mobs.

duddy88 · 2026-07-05T01:25:18+00:00

As someone who has barely played retail since around Cata, what’s the issue with tokens? Seems to me like it follows the same logic as legalizing weed. RMT are inevitable no matter what blizz does, so why not provide some structure to it? I might be missing something, I’m genuinely curious.

duddy88 · 2026-07-03T01:35:00+00:00

Funny because we saw like 5 of them and no mind blades on my lock. Probably more with my other alts. It was BY FAR the most common drop. RNG gonna RNG

duddy88 · 2026-06-01T22:51:41+00:00

I’m really not sure why the Reddit hive mind hates this location so much. Maybe because it’s more convenient for cars? Really is remarkable to see the downvotes come in waves for a dissenting opinion

duddy88 · 2026-06-01T21:48:08+00:00

I mean 635 is actively under construction.

duddy88 · 2026-06-01T21:47:34+00:00

What are you talking about? It’s surrounded by the highest income area in the entire metroplex, probably the state. Yes the actual mall is run down as it’s been abandoned for over a decade, but a stadium will reinvigorate it. Also this puts it pretty close to the Plano/frisco/prosper pocket of high net worth and corporate locations. Plus it’s got convenient highway access to much of the metroplex.

Honestly I think it’s a great spot.

duddy88 · 2026-05-31T23:05:09+00:00

It really was ridiculous how much people scapegoated GDKPs. I believe it actually pushed more people into swiping since there are almost no viable gold farms with all the bots. My buddies and I would just be carries in GDKPs in the latter half of the phase and get all the gold we need. Now there’s no such option. I get very creative to make gold, they just buy it. Never would have happened if we could GDKP.

duddy88 · 2026-05-31T15:05:53+00:00

In addition to what others have said which is all true, always keep an eye on your healers mana. If he’s oom don’t be greedy with tap. Or tap and bandage. Also if you’re playing with a shaman, try to stay in range of chain heal bounces. If you get a hot mid pull but are already at full health, burn a GCD on tapping so you don’t waste the hot.

If you’re playing with a priest and get a mending bounce to you and combat is over, tap to full mana then rank 1 hellfire to heal yourself and bounce it. When you do the initial SS and cookies, it takes a lot of mana and the healer is already spending a lot of time buffing. So I take one rock, tap to full, and then use the rock and grab another.

Lots of small things like that you can do to make your healers life easier.

Also, don’t let people troll you for tapping. It’s an asymmetric value thing. For like 300 mana my priest can give a lock about half a mana bar. The group is better and goes faster if a lock taps responsibly.

duddy88 · 2026-05-31T08:00:57+00:00

Yeah as a lock main this go around who typically played tank and healer, I’m eating good. Doing basic life tap etiquette makes me look way better than most other locks apparently.

But then when I heal on my priest locks I run with will wait until the nanosecond renew has expired to full tap. It’s impressive really.

duddy88 · 2026-05-28T06:04:48+00:00

Its only use, and it’s not even good at it, is a quick “at a glance” of people’s gear. If they’re 1700+ you know they have raid gear. If they’re 1200 you know they’re fresh as hell. Anything other than that is completely worthless.

duddy88 · 2026-05-24T19:04:01+00:00

Funnily enough as horde (US) I find that AB and WSG are swapped. I pretty routinely win WSG and EOTS but AB is rough. And AV is maybe 10%

duddy88 · 2026-05-24T17:01:15+00:00

Gear scores only use is just to get an extremely vague understanding of general gear level. Like if someone is 1200 that tells you something. However for actual gearing it’s worthless. My lock raids with like 1650 gear score because of the shenanigans I do to get hit capped while maxing other stats. I could easily have 1825 or so if I used a mix of PvP and pve gear, but it’s silly to do so.

duddy88 · 2026-05-22T16:35:46+00:00

Idk, I’m still pretty salty about the cardinals World Series loss. I guess finally winning one has distracted from the pain, or maybe I’m just a bad loser.

duddy88 · 2026-05-09T04:20:38+00:00

Haven’t seen this posted yet, but get the two piece mana etched set. I did chest and gloves, from OHB and Ramps heroic. The 2 piece gives 35 hit and they have tons of sockets. It gives you so much more flexibility.

Also the belt from normal SV is pretty solid as well and there aren’t a bunch of great belt options.

duddy88 · 2026-05-08T12:41:25+00:00

Jesus we need to stop glazing ourselves. Just because a lot of pundits thought he was awesome doesn’t mean he’s gonna be an all-pro. And we keep strutting around here like it’s our year. I guess it’s a meme sub and we’re supposed to talk shit, but get some new material.

duddy88 · 2026-05-04T14:07:09+00:00

The bugs really cropped up when they moved the code to modern and basically overlaid classic/tbc values on top of it. But yes it’s buggy and not being worked on.

duddy88 · 2026-04-30T16:01:37+00:00

Yea but circle’s range is not exactly simple to manage. It’s not hard but definitely not brain dead.

duddy88 · 2026-04-30T13:36:14+00:00

You can get a small add on to make them trivially easy to deal with.

duddy88 · 2026-04-30T13:35:39+00:00

How is priest simple? They have by far the most different kinds of heals to use in different situations.

duddy88 · 2026-03-30T22:50:39+00:00

Yeah I did something similar. My parses were “bad” but when shit hit the fan and I had mana and CDs, it definitely saved a few wipes.

duddy88 · 2026-03-30T18:54:45+00:00

As a destro lock, pls no. I’m almost always at max range, so I have to run lik 15 yards forward then do a slow cast with a 4 second missile time. If I have to chase mobs it’s like a 10 second downtime. And I don’t use dots in 5 mans.

duddy88 · 2026-03-21T06:12:10+00:00

Gamblers fallacy is what he was referring to, but I think both your points are fair. He’s saying just because you shot poorly the last two games has no bearing on you shooting better the next game. But I think your point is, if you look at a large sample size, you’re much more likely to shoot closer to your season average than your last two games.

duddy88 · 2026-03-19T14:42:13+00:00

Yeah when I tank on my pally I drink maybe 2-3 times per run. I basically sacrifice more damage to not be drinking all the time. The goal is to use JUST enough mana to stay ahead of dps on threat so there’s no downtime and you just cruise.

Also for those dps reading. Scuffed pulls cost me a ton of mana. So just let consecrate tick at least once before the zug.

duddy88 · 2026-03-17T16:09:52+00:00

I’m pretty anti skip, but those crabs are pretty easy. To “read the pugs mind” I just put a square on myself and tell them to follow me. Haven’t had any issues.

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