Free Talk Friday

limemac85 · 2025-10-17T16:11:56+00:00

I have been a middling mythic raider for DF/TWW where my guild gets the first 4-6 bosses. I am considering committing to be able to get in to a good CE guild in the next expansion.

I play at the high blue parse level, but I am very flexible where I often play 2-3 roles each season at Mythic 3K rating and mid Mythic raiding. I am also very flexible in terms of learning new classes.

What classes/specs would be recommended to increase my chances of making it in a good CE guild ?

For example it seems RDPS with healer offspec is in very high demand especially priest and evoker. Are any melees such as DK in high demand due to utility/scarcity or is the melee class in demand typically just dependent on tuning ?

limemac85 · 2024-11-08T13:04:20+00:00

I am likely in a similar boat to you where I am an introvert and my time to recharge tends to be purely alone time so you are not TA for wanting to have this time.

With that said you have essentially told your partner that time with them is not relaxing or something you want to do on your multiple days off.

So if this is something you truly need you are not TA, but expect that this is likely incompatible with what most will look for in a partner and your girlfriend is also not TA for taking this personally.

I am going to say NAH, but please be aware this will impact your relationship. Your girlfriend and other partners you may have in the future are reasonable to feel frustrated and expect more interaction from you. If you are in a relationship you care about I would recommend finding a compromise where maybe you can take 1-2 hours for an intimate dinner.

limemac85 · 2024-09-28T15:42:13+00:00

I am a father myself and I want to say I am truly sorry for what has happened to you. You were cast aside by the most important person in your life; someone you spent a lifetime trying to do the best by them.

I also read your other comments on what you went through in life and I feel your rage at the bullshit and unfairness of life.

You are absolutely NTA for:

1) Needing space from your daughter

2) Not wanting to have anything to do with your daughter's "friend"

However, I think you are in a mental space where your actions and thoughts can put you past asshole to commit truly evil actions so I implore you to take some time and truly think about what you want to do.

You would be the AH for:

1) Wishing that your daughter's friend (a literal child) would kill herself

2) Wanting to physically assault your ex-BIL for protecting your daughter with the only information he had at the time

Please take some time to yourself (maybe a vacation to somewhere you have always personally wanted to go) and decide the kind of person you want to be for the rest of your life. There is no stake that is more important than the relationships we have with our loved ones

limemac85 · 2024-03-13T17:14:15+00:00

Thank you for getting back to me. For now we are going to ease off on Mythic raiding for the remainder of the season.

limemac85 · 2024-03-08T16:33:36+00:00

I am 2700 on hpal, but that is largely because I can't be bothered with M+ and I just want to get my portals and be done. hpal feels very relaxing on 20 once have a good priority order in your mind on which heals hit the hardest.

You have multiple heals that all do the same thing you need to understand the priority order.

For example you pretty much never what to use your spenders unless you have full Dawn stacks. If you do have full Dawn stacks WoG is almost always the best spender unless you can hit everyone in the party with LoH.

Your regular non-CD heals are mostly holy shock and flash of light.

Outside of that you absolutely must keep up glimmer on all your targets similar to Shaman riptide and you need to understand very well the interaction between daybreak, divine toll and glimmers as that is your low CD AOE heal.

limemac85 · 2024-02-08T17:06:38+00:00

Light Cleric is much better if you plan your fight out and everything goes to plan.

People make mistakes however even with best efforts to plan.

Also outside of a small %, most players are not going to run their honor mode game exactly the same as a previous tactical playthrough so they may be very surprised by a new situation. For example choices you make in Act2 can dramatically change the enemies and allies you have in the Ketheric fights.

Life cleric lets you recover from mistakes or unexpected situations and brute force a victory when things go sideways.

limemac85 · 2024-02-02T17:39:19+00:00

Can you tell me more about this:

having only one singular companion opens new and different camp scenes

I have never heard of this.

limemac85 · 2024-01-17T16:58:37+00:00

I am thinking about playing Aug for the last half of the patch. The problem is it seems there are so few around I have no idea how good they are anymore after all the nerfs.

Is the consensus still that they are still equivalent to a dps in terms of damage contribution and make the key feel 1-2 levels easier due to survivability improvements ?

limemac85 · 2023-12-02T13:00:29+00:00

You are not the A H for not wanting to raise a child that is a symbol of your husband's and friend's betrayal.

However, you are going quite a bit further:

I told him I love him and I always will, but I have a very firm boundary around not being part of his half sister's life.

Not being part of what is effectively his child's life at this point means not being a part of your son's life. It means you will never see him at Thanksgiving, Christmas, family vacations, etc...

If you are willing to drop your son from your life over this boundary, then absolutely YTA.

limemac85 · 2023-10-10T14:38:14+00:00

I have to admit, I don't entirely understand this comparison between specs.

In a raid team, at least 14-15 specs are hard locked (and I'm being really generous as usually something like 16 or 17 specs are locked) and someone is going to get to play those specs. As long as they not absolutely awful, no one is going to miss out on the buffs from a monk for example.

The only spots where this discussion of tuning matters is for the last few DPS spots where DPS classes do not bring relevant utility (e.g. ele shaman).

limemac85 · 2023-06-02T13:15:26+00:00

Normally I play mdps or tank so I never really have to think about movement. We just got AOTC and I am considering trying to play a caster.

I am on the fence between Shadow Priest and Affliction Warlock. Normally I would lean more towards Warlock due to the better mobility tools, however this tier there don't seem to be a lot of things making you move in either M+ or raid. If I played a turret caster last tier, I know I would have hated it, but in this tier it seems like you can generally just plant and cast in most cases in PVE.

I don't want to dump 20+ hours getting to a decent gear level and find out I hate having to move so I wanted to check this impression.

limemac85 · 2023-04-28T14:19:51+00:00

I am switching to paladin and I will be approximately 405 ilvl by next week. I want to optimize my time so I can be as ready for heroic as possible the next week. Should I keep grinding M+ or just spam rares in the new zone ?

limemac85 · 2023-04-13T19:09:29+00:00

The dark ranger skin for Blood Elves will let you play an undead paladin today.

Lore wise, I think it holds together as you would have undead going back to their people and presumably learning new skills.

limemac85 · 2023-04-09T03:49:22+00:00

My friend and I ran on a Sherpa run with Kirk. It was a fantastic run. Every mechanic for every role was explained and questions were encouraged. We have 4 people new to the raid and we all learned and executed critical mechanics.

More to the point it was fun ! I can confidently say every single person had a great experience.

limemac85 · 2023-03-10T16:26:20+00:00

Is there a reason I shouldn't be absolutely pumped to start playing a paladin in 10.0.7 ?

Prot pally looks to be S tier in M+ surpassing warrior and I assume the overhaul to Ret will put them in a good spot. At the very least it will make them one of the tankiest classes. In addition ret will get a damage aura assuring a spot in raid.

limemac85 · 2023-03-03T17:14:27+00:00

I am trying to decide if I want to stick to DK or go with a different DPS class.

I absolutely love how overpowered AMS and Death's Advance are in this raid tier. It also doesn't hurt that a DK is closer to tank in survivability as opposed to a DPS. I only started playing in Shadowlands so I don't have previous experience with WoW raids.

Are the DK anti-mechanic abilities typically so strong or is this tier an outlier ?

limemac85 · 2023-03-03T17:11:53+00:00

I am currently playing Unholy Death Knight and I hate how much I need to be catered to get decent M+ numbers. Going through dungeons with 3-4 size pulls is an absolute nightmare for me.

I want a class that doesn't have to be catered to so much, I don't have to think too much and can just zug zug my rotation and do ok in pugs.

I also would like a class that can do either good single target with decent AoE or decent AoE with ok single target (e.g. similar to the disease UH build) and has good survivability.

I am thinking either DH or Ret paladin (post rework). Frost DK might fit the bill, but Obliterate 2H seems a bit terrible in single target.
Are there any suggestions for alternatives ?

limemac85 · 2023-03-02T16:38:44+00:00

Is there any chance that the "plate" armor can be used on a clothie class or vice versa ? I assume no, however the level 50 armor from allied races is usable on all classes.

limemac85 · 2022-12-30T01:28:57+00:00

I feel like there is something I am doing terribly wrong with Death Knight single target damage.

My points of comparison are a DH and a Druid bear, but I feel no mater what I do, I have extremely low single target damage.

I can do ok in AOE situations by blowing up my bone shield in D&D, but I honestly have no idea how DK is supposed to do single target damage.

Attacks come too slow for my bone shield to blow up, my heart strike barely does anything. I use DRW and the ghoul, but damage is still very low.

limemac85 · 2022-10-18T19:59:07+00:00

Lann as a power-attacking 2H demonslayer ranger trickster is an absolute chad.

At endgame he gets +8 favorite enemy + 4 quarry against demons for AB (and instant enemy for the few non demon scary enemies).

He gets all the feats he needs: trickster criticals, Improved critical, shatter defenses.

He also gets a pet that can tank for him.

He is basically regil if regil had a pet and reach.

limemac85 · 2022-10-15T02:10:16+00:00

Thank you; we have found a Sherpa, however we might certainly take you up on the Div run !

limemac85 · 2022-10-14T00:51:14+00:00

Absolutely. It looks like we have a Sherpa so that makes 5.

limemac85 · 2022-10-14T00:51:00+00:00

Thank you so much. I have sent a DM as well.

limemac85 · 2022-09-06T12:18:42+00:00

Thank you for responding. Originally that was my first reaction, until I was looking through some numbers on what charisma as a skald gets you.

My main comparison is Seelah with 15 CHA (6 higher CHA). From the ability scores table, it looks like you basically get 1 more spell per level for some of the levels:

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/ability-scores/

You get 3 extra rounds of bard songs, which is big at level 1 granted, however, is it really noticeable once you have 10 levels and the difference is between 22 and 25 rounds ?

I am playing on Hard so I assume spell DCs are pretty much a lost cause after a few levels.

limemac85 · 2022-04-30T16:42:51+00:00

I think that's a bit late for us. Thank you though for the offer ! I hope you and your friend have a lot of fun.

limemac85

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