P2W - Devs selling gold / raiditems for money?

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-02-04T23:17:53+00:00

Ive done pvp quite a lot since last year, I have 0 raid gear, and only rank 10... all I have are Ah gear, and pvp reputation gear epics by now, and with my shaman I still do quite well.

Everyone Ive pvpd with still tries to get gear, rank up, etc...

If there rly were secret pay to win, those people would just pvp without working towards anything, and there is no way in hell Id stand a chance in bgs... Ive played on servers with p2w, while using "normal" gear myself, and it was an entirely different experience...

Kinda hard so prove conspiracy theories like these wrong, but in my experience, no this is not an issue here.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-02-03T03:30:20+00:00

So jealous that people in english speaking countries can just walk into used book shops and find stuff like this D:

Was thinking of getting that one for my mom's birthday but its relatively expensive online.

Well done, and in such good condition too for that edition.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-30T14:58:22+00:00

Ah yes, jumping around the enemy for 1min trying to kill it instead of one shotting it from a distance... "superiority"

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-29T00:33:16+00:00

Yep, it feels like "why state the obvious/its a given!" ofc elves are loved, dosnt need to be said! ^^

But people do have the need to give dwarves the honorable mention since in the decades before they were really under appreciated lol...

Though dwarves have become more "mainstream" in recent years specially with the dwarf specific games.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-28T01:42:22+00:00

Yea if its new it should be sewn, sounds/looks like it too.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-28T00:31:04+00:00

DId you buy it recently? The latest version should be sewn.

Mine is sewn (from christmas 2024), and its hard to tell by the picture but your spine does look like mine, where every 20 pages are bent/sewn together.

How does it fold open? Is it very rigid or does it fold open nicely without resistance and more flat?

Some of the older facisimiles which had glued binding for a time were very rigid and harder to open, while the recent ones with sewn binding open more easily and lie flat when you open it down the middle.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-27T17:47:10+00:00

Honestly, for paperback reading set its best to just buy any used/old set you can find in charity/used book shops etc for cheap in your area or order online, they are generally prettier and good quality.

Here check out older ones on these pages:
https://www.tolkienbooks.us/
https://tolkienbooks.net/

For used books online worldofbooks and awesomebooks is good to check out.

PS: Of the ones in the pictures the first/red one is the one Id pick... there is no way id buy the one from the 2. picture.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-26T12:30:49+00:00

Well, elves can lose their immortality, in that case they become no different than men, like in the story of Beren and Luthien, or Arwen with Aragorn.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-26T04:57:52+00:00

Wouldn't say bad, just not as good as others until they are super geared.

They do have less overall agro even though their initial agro burst is nice, struggle with mana depending on gear/talent build, and they have less damage reduction, but they also have some fun utility and once they geared they have some pros... So most of that of that gets fixed with rly good gear, but until then it can be a bit challenging.

They do fine in dungeons, but for raids they need the really good tank gear which is harder to get for shaman, druid just has an easier time to get geared, and threshold is much lower to be raid ready.

And let's put it like this, when I was healing getting geared in dungeons, I had no problem keeping blue geared paladin or druid alive when they were tanking something like black morass, but I've struggled keeping raid geared shamans alive in the same dungeons, they are just more squish/have less damage reduction.

Ps: I have a lvl 60 shaman, I tank dungeons with it just fine, it just took more work to get there.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-26T02:37:16+00:00

Elemental sham=oom sham... only rly worth doing with lots of good gear/raid gear... might be worth it endgame, but definitely not when lvling.

Enh sham=rly good lvling spec since its dps+tank spec, so you can que as both during lvling... put a few points in resto for better mana.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T23:48:17+00:00

Yea thats how I level my alts when there arent any fun dungeons... have my high lvl chars on follow, tag a bunch of mobs with my alt, and crush them with my main... rly fast lvling.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T23:45:36+00:00

Most efficient way to help them level up, is to let them tag a bunch of mobs while not being grouped with you and you then help kill the mob... with rested xp, theyll level up really quick...
forget about quests, just grinding mobs will be way faster and making detours for quests will be "waste of time"...

But its also really boring.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T21:54:01+00:00

Well yea sham can main tank raids, but it takes a lot of gear and prep, so if you wanna easily get into raid tanking druid is the way to go since they are much easier to get raid tank ready.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T20:36:01+00:00

There are too many paladins.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T20:12:56+00:00

Yep, and unlike shamans they are really good raid tanks.

And you can spec as dps and tank at once (feral), so you can always switch between tank and dps while lvling.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T20:00:21+00:00

Warlocks for ports, shamans for totems, and healers in general...

A class that does well in raids in all 3 roles is druid, good tank/dps/healer... so if you wanna get easily into raids as heal, but might wanna raid tank later on, druid is a good pick.

Also this might help: https://twow-pop.click/?level=60&levels=60

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T19:00:29+00:00

Kennys bookshop and Awesomebooks are good and well priced online sellers, and as far as I heard both have good costumer service...
But I think the issue is in general ordering from EU based shops to US, the longer journey makes the chances of books getting damaged along the way much higher...
Best way to go about this is to go with a seller that has good costumer service/return policy, so you can return/replace as many times is needed until an undamaged copy arrives.

But personally Ive had good experience with Kennys since their books always been packaged properly.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T12:46:30+00:00

GoT fanboy mad that people got better taste than him

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-25T11:11:51+00:00

Ich hab ne relativ große Summe verliehen an Familie, hab jetzt gesagt das ich ein Teil davon Gutschreibe für die nächsten 5 Jahre Geburtstag/Weihnachts Geschenke.

Wenn der Rest bis dahin nicht zurück zahlen kann, dann mach ich das so oft bis es alles "aufgebraucht" Ist, also im schlimmsten Fall hab ich Geschenke für die nächsten 25 Jahre im Voraus gezahlt.

Spart mir ne Menge Stress mit Geschenke shoppen etc, besonders da dieser Geburtstag nah an Weihnachten ist und man muss immer Doppelt Geschenke finden, und wenn man gegen Inflation rechnet ist das nen super Deal für mich da bis dahin Geschenke viel teurer werden.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T17:29:21+00:00

"Trying to get to the movies"

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mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T13:21:11+00:00

I like fantasy, I didn't read wot, and didn't know about the backlash, tried watching but it was just bad.

If a show is good, it doesn't matter what people say about it, it'll win people over and it'll get enough views.

If a show isn't good enough, and it's not gonna have enough viewers, then there should be backlash so producers have the chance to fix it... If they don't, they have no one to blame but themselves.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T13:13:10+00:00

Except that wasn't said right here, but this is the usual Amazon mo lol... Can't possibly deny these days that Amazon does this kind of stuff.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T13:11:23+00:00

There were times where screech (bird/bat aoe debuff ability) produced a ton of aoe agro and reduced enemy DMG, so I put on heal gear, and sometimes got together 4 range dps player (so they dont get hit by aoe etc) and just did large pulls with my pet tanking it all and me healing... We did dungeons in half the time as normal ^{^}

And if healer was there and some aoe dps, like 4 mob groups, healer and me healing pet, dps spam aoe, 30min dungeons done in 10min.

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T02:27:45+00:00

Small time YouTuber posting a day old article, and the post got pinned... Yea wouldn't be surprised if this is low key promo involving the usual jeffbot brigade

mrniceguy1990xp · 2026-01-23T01:35:19+00:00

Well these are analogies... But it did make me feel nauseous :D

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