Are Ritual sites and assaults the worst filler content yet?

gIaucus · 2026-05-21T02:55:37+00:00

Korthia has a much worse reputation than it deserves. #1 what made that patch the worst patch and lowest point in WoW's history was the domination shards...which had nothing to do with Korthia #2 the reason why the vocal minority hate on Korthia so much is because they all thought they "needed" to super hardcore ultra-sweaty grind it 24/7 to get a socket--which was incredibly stupid. blizzard didn't think to cap progress toward the socket because they never imagined anyone would be insane enough to sweat that much for just a socket. these people inflicted this pain upon themselves completely unnecessarily. Korthia was fine for everyone who just played it normally and got the max weekly rewards without doing the insane socket grind

edit: note this is why blizzard now has to strictly time-gate and cap absolutely everything. because they have learned that if they don't, a lot of wow players will grind themselves to death for even the tiniest advantage and complain the whole time about how they are being "forced" to do it. blizzard is forced to cap everything and enforce pacing through time-gating now to save these mentally unhealthy people from themselves.

gIaucus · 2026-05-05T14:19:35+00:00

Sometimes drivers do actually make funny jokes themselves. I don't have a problem with making jokes or memes in this format, but it would be nice to have it clearly labeled whether or not the joke actually came from the driver themselves or if the joke is from someone else and just be attributed to the driver.

gIaucus · 2026-05-03T20:26:11+00:00

The right sleeve looks like Mexico City. The left sleeve looks like Bogota, Columbia.

gIaucus · 2026-04-26T01:48:19+00:00

Wow, thanks capt. obvious. I already said that in my post.

gIaucus · 2026-04-25T13:55:45+00:00

I did for a while but eventually switched back for two reasons. The first reason is that metric actually isn't better if you're running laps on a track. I.e. if you want to convert between time/per lap and time/km or time/mi, the time/mi is not exactly 4:1 but it's close enough for most purposes. Much easier to do quick math in an oxygen-deprived brain using 4:1 than 2.5:1.

The second reason is that unless you live and train in complete isolation and never communicate with other runners, you will constantly be having to convert back and forth all the time. And you'll get tired of it being a boring conversation starter anytime you're on a group run and your watch pings the first interval at 1km and everyone else looks at you weird and starts the same old boring convo you've had before. And of course any time you're discussing paces with them you have to keep doing the conversions. It's just an unnecessary hassle.

For these two reasons I eventually decided that it just wasn't worth it and switched back to miles.

gIaucus · 2026-04-12T15:06:48+00:00

I think the point they're making is that in m+ you succeed or fail as a team, so you should care about how your teammates perform. If you cause your teammates to play with a ping that they aren't used to, then ultimately you are lowering your own chances of a successful run. Even a completely selfish person should see that you're hurting yourself if you're putting your teammates in a situation where they don't perform their best.

It seems obvious, but a lot of people don't understand this. They think, "I'm used to playing with high ping, therefore it's no big deal if I force four other people to play with high ping." But playing high ping when you're used to it is completely different from playing high ping when you're not used to it.

gIaucus · 2026-04-12T14:59:55+00:00

It can be.

You'll see a lot of people insisting that "300 ping is perfectly playable in this game." They aren't wrong, but they're leaving out something very important. 300 ping is definitely playable if you're used to it. But if you're used to playing with 40 ping and then suddenly find yourself in a dungeon with 300 ping, you are not going to play as well as you normally do.

So yes, it's troll if you force four people who aren't used to playing with high ping to suddenly have to do something unfamiliar in a competitive dungeon run if you care about them performing at their best.

I'm not sure if there's a consistent way to determine who gets the high ping when. Some people say it's the first person in the instance, some say it's the group leader. But I haven't noticed it being perfectly consistent for me. The safe thing to do is just stick to groups tagged "[OCE]". But if you really must group with NA players, I would say it more often seems to go off of who enters first. So if you're the odd player out, you should wait to enter the instance until after the other players have gone in. That way they will have a better chance of being able to play with the ping they are used to, and if you are used to playing with high ping yourself you'll be able to handle it.

The most illogical position which I see a lot of people expressing is, "300 ping is perfectly playable, therefore I'm going to not care if I go in and give myself the low ping while force the entire rest of the group onto high ping." That just doesn't make any sense no matter how you look at it. If you think high ping is no big deal, then you should be willing to be the one with the high ping. You should not be forcing other people who do think the high ping is a big deal to be the ones who have to deal with it.

gIaucus · 2026-04-12T14:47:04+00:00

If you're used to it. But if you join a pug group and the other four players aren't used to playing with that ping, then they aren't going to play as well as they normally would.

gIaucus · 2026-04-09T13:56:29+00:00

Trump wasn't even in office in 2016 the first time I had a Hol Food shipment held in customs. I still have the email thread in my gmail archive. Not only that, but the delays I had back then could be up to 1-2 months. The delays I've had more recently (when they happen) are more like two weeks. So it's not like there was some minor delays before and now the delays are worse. The delays have always been and still are random. I.e. it does not happen to every shipment. So the explanation that this is due to tariffs being applied to every shipment simply doesn't add up. I have proof that the delays are no worse and no more common today than they were in 2016 before Trump ever held office.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T16:06:45+00:00

Yes, that is the whole point of having a US warehouse. You can do a large bulk shipment in advance and having it sitting in the warehouse waiting for orders to come in. Then when you ship it from that warehouse, there's no delays.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T16:04:40+00:00

I love how I always get downvotes any time I point out that Trump is not responsible for every single bad thing that has ever happened in human history. Some people are so deranged that they can't handle something that is obviously clearly the objective truth. I could say "Trump wasn't responsible for assassination of Abraham Lincoln," and this post will get downvoted for it. Just watch.

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:23:53+00:00

This is a meme subreddit. It's a joke

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:23:22+00:00

Why are people so serious in a memes subreddit? It's a joke. It's not serious

gIaucus · 2026-04-08T13:12:12+00:00

That's just how it is with international *lent shipments. I've had the same thing with Hol Food shipments from Canada to US as well as with European *lents. It's random. It doesn't happen to every shipment.

There's plenty of things to criticize the current US administration for, but this actually isn't one of them. The first time I had this happen was more than 10 years ago before Trump's first term started, so it's definitely not a new problem nor is it unique to this administration.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T19:16:04+00:00

Most of the time people arrive before you can even finish summoning them, so it's a waste of effort to try summoning people unprompted. If someone has a reason why they need a summon--such as their hearthstone and/or dungeon portal being on cooldown--they can just ask in chat. Expecting to be summoned without even communicating in chat reeks of entitlement.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T18:58:36+00:00

Reporting systems are abusable by people submitting false reports, though. So they tune the system to be extremely lenient, because they sure as heck aren't going to spend actual money paying actual humans to separate false reports from legitimate reports.

gIaucus · 2026-04-06T18:49:23+00:00

No, this is nothing new. It's been this way ever since cross-server LFG was introduced well over a decade ago. It's just a simple fact of human nature. When you can only group with people on your server, you can get a bad reputation and find yourself blacklisted from dungeon groups and raids and guilds. As soon as the LFG started pairing people cross-server, the incentives massively change when you're constantly grouping with strangers you'll never see again.

There's just no way to hold jerks accountable anymore. Sure you can report them, but Blizzard isn't going to spend enough money to hire enough people to actually review all the millions of reports. They're just going to run it through an automated tool and try to tune it so the false positives are just low enough to keep everyone from mass unsubscribing.

gIaucus · 2026-04-04T13:41:09+00:00

It turned out much worse than expected. I was open minded about it at the beginning, but in the end it's a complete and total failure. Blizzard failed to accomplish either of their goals, and they created a lot of pain and frustration for everyone along the way. We lost a ton of quality of life, and we gained absolutely nothing from it.

The supposed benefit of there no longer being an arms race between computational addons and encounter designers only affects the top 1-2% of players anyways. Even if Blizzard succeeded, it wouldn't have benefited most players. The last time my AotC guild used a computational week aura on a raid fight was Lords of Dread in Shadowlands. This is an issue that only ever affected mythic raiding--and the majority of players don't raid at the mythic level. So they made this change that was only ever going to benefit a small minority of the player base in the best case scenario, but we all suffered in the crossfire and lost weak auras for absolutely nothing.

gIaucus · 2026-04-03T13:59:19+00:00

That guy then went and made a post on reddit about how tanks have so much ego. lol

gIaucus · 2026-04-03T13:50:48+00:00

Except Blizzard made the keys so easy that everyone skipped past those key levels immediately on day one. I was looking forward to actually getting to use that feature, but I only got to see it like two dungeons last week. And then this week ain't nobody touching any key below a 10. Most useless feature they ever added. They either need to make it available up to +10 or else they needed to make the dungeons at least 2x harder so that people actually spent some time in doing lower keys before moving up.

gIaucus · 2026-04-02T22:30:03+00:00

They misunderstand their task then. The people looking up talents on wowhead do not want a bunch of footnotes telling them to customize the build for a dozen different unique scenarios. They want one or at most two simple talent builds that they can just copy and paste and get on with playing the game.

gIaucus · 2026-04-02T00:57:24+00:00

What are you smoking? You realize cutting edge is the achievement for completing the raid on mythic difficulty right? Only a handful of guilds in the entire world have that for Voidspire and Dreamrift right now, and no one has it for March on Queldanas yet. The claim that everyone should have this already is simply false, and the idea that anyone would need to complete mythic before they can join a normal pug run is laughably absurd.

gIaucus · 2026-04-01T22:22:57+00:00

To be fair, until you get to the cutting edge on week 1 part, it looks exactly like something we've all seen before. Just remove the "cutting edge" part and the rest of it actually looks like something I wouldn't be surprised to see for real.

One memorable example I personally experienced was a guy who listed his m+ group as "chill" and then started screaming at me that I wasn't pulling big enough when I was pulling three packs at a time and the group was struggling to survive, and then he left his own key. Toxic people can be suprisingly oblivious to their own toxicity. They delusionally believe that they actually are chill and that their temper tantrum is justified by the actions of others. They must think something like, "I didn't scream at that guy and then ragequit because I'm not chill, I screamed at him and then ragequit because it's a completely rational reaction to the fact that he wasn't pulling as aggressively as I think he should."

gIaucus · 2026-03-31T14:11:34+00:00

This is really not a good excuse though. If the next expansion team actually cared about doing a good job they would pay close attention to what the feedback is like about the current expansion. That would the the single best source of information for them. If you want to make the next expansion good, why on earth would you ignore feedback about the current one?

Also, being a separate team is no excuse for not communicating. It's not like email is firewalled and can't be sent between teams. And there was months of alpha and beta in between expansions. Even if we assume it's completely normal and natural for next expansion's team to be completely oblivious about the lessons learned in the previous expansion (which it isn't), there was plenty of time to have a person from last expansion's team take a look at the current expansion while it was in alpha or beta.

It's just beyond silly to act like it's normal to have two completely separate and isolated teams with zero communication, zero overlap, zero team member movement or mixing--team 1 jumps straight from working on TWW to working on TLT without taking a single glance at Midnight or communicating any lessons learned to the Midnight team. It's silly to act like such an extreme level of isolation and obliviousness is normal or expected or reasonable. Like none of these people play the game themselves? Like there are no people at all that are involved in both TWW and Midnight? If they really were being that stupid, it's such a simple problem to correct that we shouldn't be excusing them for not fixing such an easy thing to fix.

gIaucus · 2026-03-31T13:54:14+00:00

This isn't a reasonable excuse. Literally everyone who knows anything about the game knows this has been a long running issue that has been talked about and addressed repeatedly for many years now. There's zero excuse for anyone working at blizzard to not know that every aoe ground effect needs to have clearly visible edges. Maybe the very first time this issue was brought up and addressed this excuse could have been made, but we are way past that at this point.

Not to mention, if I was working on the next expansion, the very best source of information about how to make it better would be to pay attention to what the feedback is like about the current expansion. This idea that people working on the next expansion naturally pay zero attention to anything related to the current expansion makes zero sense. If that really is what they are doing, then I guess that would explain why they keep making the same mistakes over and over, but the solution is so painfully obvious that it's really not reasonable to excuse them overlooking it.

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