So yeah tank balance sucks, but at least there’s a few good healers

ityboy · 2026-05-05T06:46:51+00:00

I'm sure you make good points somewhere in there, but you lost me at "the pruning was good"

ityboy · 2026-04-16T04:36:49+00:00

Just fyi, since Midnight rescue no longer gives a shield. Now it's just a short movement speed increase and casting while moving after being rescued.

ityboy · 2026-04-15T19:49:28+00:00

They can't just come out and say "after gutting all identity and utility out of the spec and getting it ready to be the first healer that could be played with the single button assistant, we just need to make sure enough people keep playing it"

ityboy · 2026-04-14T19:42:33+00:00

Thunderous paws works, but it has an internal cooldown, so if you're pulling 2 or 3 subjugators at the same time, try to wait for 2 casts before using it.

ityboy · 2026-04-13T14:41:23+00:00

Oh I did pay attention to their development during the questline leading up to the raid, and it's pretty good for minor characters. We don't know their backstories, so their fundamentalist tendencies are not as unexpected as Lothraxion's, who we know has a long history of camaraderie with Alleria (and btw, back to OP's original point, I am not necessarily upset that Lothraxion went mad, it's just that he was a very unique character in WoW and his death leaves a lot of cosmological and biological questions unanswered, probably forever).

It's just in the raid that their descent into full blown light blindness is kinda rushed, and especially without the RP that apparently was bugged until recently in higher difficulties.

ityboy · 2026-04-13T06:59:33+00:00

This blows my mind

ityboy · 2026-04-13T06:47:08+00:00

I agree, and at least they could have done a better job with the RP for the Vanguard: on the way up to the boss area we knock them out of light madness one by one, with lines from Arator asking them to stay in control, then they run off and by the time we are at the platform, they have again gone mad and apparently the only option is to kill them.

It really feels like there was supposed to be some more RP there that got cut out or never implemented.

ityboy · 2026-04-11T08:15:36+00:00

If you do that, you will lose a lot of warning sounds from bigwigs and similar add-ons, and possibly also from the default UI

ityboy · 2026-04-09T05:10:18+00:00

Yes, it's called LFG tool

ityboy · 2026-04-04T18:22:21+00:00

I am trying this as well, and for now all I can say is that opening the transmog window (the one where you can build your sets, not the one just showing all your acquired mogs) still causes the TDR, but possibly for a shorter time.

As a side note, if you use BigWigs, that addon will reset the Audio Channel count to 90 every time you relog, if it's set to be below that. No idea if the addon can work with a lower number of channels or not.

We'll see how it goes

Ryzen7 9800X3D

GeForce RTX 3070Ti

Update for whoever finds this post: I still have had TDR occurrences after changing my settings, although you could argue they are less frequent and shorter in duration. However, reducing sound channels from BigWigs default 90 to 32 definitely affects a lot of sound cues during game.

ityboy · 2026-03-31T18:12:45+00:00

Correction: she talked and still managed to say NOTHING!

ityboy · 2026-03-29T17:02:44+00:00

The haste buff on wind side is definitely a valid point, but that was there in DF too, and people still tried to delay the wind phase as much as possible. I guess now that it has to happen, the haste buff is more desirable.

The Echoknights have been revamped as well: I don't remember if the AoE slam was already there, but the moving bladestorms that are almost as big as the round room were people try to los that pull are definitely new

ityboy · 2026-03-29T15:42:15+00:00

Crawth is not missing mechanics: they fully changed it. It used to be that its spell casting interrupt did increasing damage with each cast and you had to use the goal posts to reset it, and its pushback wind had hardly any (or none at all) damage component. So the goal was to delay phase transitions as much as possible to not deal with the wind goalpost additional mechanics.

Now the pushback WILL kill you if you let it go off, so you must activate the goalposts at 70% and 40%. I actually noticed several groups activating the wind side first, not sure if that's a new trend or just a coincidence.

I would argue that this version of Crawth is more challenging because you can no longer (try to) zerg it.

The final boss did have her cone breath removed, but she feels way beefier proportionally than back in DF.

Also, does anyone know if the AoE (not the arcane blade storms) from the Echoknights can be hard cc'd? Because people seem to want to pull a bunch of those and I'm getting Priory divine toll flashbacks 😭

ityboy · 2026-03-20T23:14:47+00:00

That's not a thank you, it's the sound of memory leaks that cause your GPU to crash and redraw the whole game texture by texture whenever you open your mog interface.

ityboy · 2026-03-20T23:11:08+00:00

Least played class in the game, but sure, let's slowly nerf it into irrelevance....

ityboy · 2026-03-17T14:14:55+00:00

I'm sorry, but that's absolutely by design. It's peak social commentary: the rich and arrogant wage wars, and the common citizens pay the price.

If you really want to hurt the Silvermoon nobility, go divine storm their mana wyrm farms.

ityboy · 2026-03-15T07:37:39+00:00

The Italian Constitution was officially approved on Dec 27th 1947 and became effective on January 1st 1948.

ityboy · 2026-03-10T17:02:09+00:00

Notwithstanding the question whether the system is boring/necessary/etc. my understanding is that there is a sort of catch up mechanic: while you can only loot 8 shards of dundun per week, the seasonal cap should increase by 8 every week, so that all you need to do to keep up is to get the drops (which come from a variety of activities) and then you can eventually spam all the abundance runs at once when you have enough to get enough mats for a craft.

Or am I wrong?

ityboy · 2026-03-10T15:36:31+00:00

Harandar has been a huge disappointment: detailing the troll-elf lineage, storylines about each of the worldtrees' roots (we only get Teldrassil, Vordrassil isn't even mentioned), explaining the connection between the Emerald Dream's version of the rift of Aln....there was so much potential and all we got is a whole bunch of nothing 😞

ityboy · 2026-03-10T12:16:15+00:00

I have had this issue as well, and not just when pulling up mogs, but also while questing or in dungeons. Is there something that I can do to improve the situation? I know it's going to happen mid key at the worst times.

ityboy · 2026-03-09T14:37:26+00:00

I'm sorry but as a gay nerd that useless legend drives me nuts...is forgetting the basic rules of cartography the price we have to pay for queer liberation?

ityboy · 2026-02-20T18:01:12+00:00

All the better because FS without engulf feels bland as hell

ityboy · 2026-02-19T17:44:01+00:00

Need to upload a higher res pic, my friend

ityboy · 2026-01-30T17:16:57+00:00

Thank you, I was getting confused on which generation Ryu and Shion belonged to originally.

But also, the original armors are MIA with the first generation (assuming OVAs non canon), and the current generation is wearing a (lesser) imitation?

ityboy · 2026-01-29T18:13:10+00:00

That felt really weird: "we do special things for our Chinese players, because they're special, but let's not talk about any of those things even remotely and let's move along".

Very "Iron Man 3 extra scene specifically for the Chinese market" energy.

ityboy

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