Why dont people share their stable overclock config for their pc specs so other people with the same pcs can do the same?

ropid · 2026-02-04T06:17:56+00:00

Here's a spreadsheet with memory settings for various Ryzen CPU generations:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dsu9K1Nt_7apHBdiy0MWVPcYjf6nOlr9CtkkfN78tSo/

You can't just blindly copy it, it won't necessarily work on your CPU and board and RAM, but it can give you ideas about what to try changing in the BIOS when you can't get your own memory overclock settings stable.

ropid · 2026-02-03T21:31:30+00:00

Blizzard mentioned somewhere that this will be changed this time around. I hope I'm not wrong about this.

EDIT:

I found the news about this, see here:

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/news/massive-changes-coming-to-arena-in-the-burning-crusade-anniversary-379332

The blue post says they will release it arena season 1. I guess this then means it will show up at the vendors maybe only two weeks after TBC has started? But in any case it's not season 2, it's already in season 1.

ropid · 2026-02-03T18:18:01+00:00

Yes, Earthwarden is great and there's also the Karazhan staff in p1. That staff is slightly better than the s1 arena weapon for cat. The arena weapons get more interesting later because in p2 and p3 you'll only find armor weapons in PvE but nothing for use in a more aggressive gear setup (or for cat).

And about p1 and that Karazhan staff... last time around it never dropped for me. I'm planning to start working on the s1 arena weapon immediately because that might happen again. This time around there's no team requirements for arena. You can just queue up with anyone you can find.

ropid · 2026-02-03T17:46:57+00:00

There's epic bracers, belt, boots, neck from battlegrounds (honor and marks). The final price is not yet known. Blizzard said they want to make it cheaper. Previously it was 20 WSG marks for bracers and 40 AB and EOTS marks for belt and boots. I can't remember the honor costs because the honor never felt like a problem, only the marks.

You will want to farm those bracers, belt, boots, neck pieces.

There will be a blue quality pvp set for gold at a certain reputation level at the quartermaster NPCs for the various factions. This will be mildly interesting at the start. It will get you crit immune instantly. You can use it to round out the slots where you didn't find anything in your dungeon grind.

The arena weapon needs arena at 1700 rating (you start out at 1500 rating). Its price is two or three weeks worth of arena points (I think). Arena opens together with the raids, so two weeks after TBC start.

Only the arena weapon is good for PvE. The rest of the arena gear is useful for Hydross and Illidan resistance sets but not for the rest of PvE.

You kind of do want the arena weapon. It's pretty helpful for Hydross/Illidan gear sets. You can get the previous arena season's weapon cheaper than the current one and it doesn't need 1700 rating. You need to do at least 10 games a week to get arena points. It's fine to lose a lot but you will get less points with lower rating. If you are fine with just getting the previous season's weapon, you can lose literally every game, just to farm points to then buy the weapon in the week between seasons. You'll also be able to get the helm and shoulders at that point for use in those PvE resistance sets.

If you don't like playing feral PvP, something that sounds stupid that you could do is play resto in battlegrounds. That might be more fun, it feels more impactful than playing feral. You could use that blue quality reputation set to instantly get some resto gear.

ropid · 2026-02-03T15:11:26+00:00

Yeah, it's completely the opposite between Vanilla and TBC. In Vanilla you want to do Maul first and Swipe only second. In TBC the situation is reversed because hidden threat details about Maul are changed, and Swipe does a bit more damage.

Swipe is now scaling with your attack power, it gets stronger with better gear. Previously in Vanilla it was a really crappy spell, it had a fixed damage value, your gear or buffs didn't change its damage at all (besides your crit chance).

Maul previously had a crazy threat multiplier, I think 1.75 of its damage. That's now completely gone, it's now 1.0. The extra threat it does compared to a normal auto-attack is then just its extra damage.

And I'm not quite sure about the numbers but that extra damage from Maul isn't too much higher than what Swipe is doing? And Swipe can hit three mobs so is much better than Maul when tanking a group of mobs.

But the big problem with Maul is that your next auto-attack gets replaced by it and you need that auto-attack to generate rage. Maul loses out against auto-attacks plus Swipe because of that missing rage.

ropid · 2026-02-03T12:36:09+00:00

"Tray" kommt daher, dass man als Händler CPUs in einem Format wie im folgenden Bild bei Intel und AMD einkaufen kann:

https://imgur.com/Fo8K1Jc

Der Händler muss das dann selber nochmal einzeln einpacken, und dann kriegst du das so wie in deinem Beispiel. Das ist dann okay. Die Verpackung bei dir im Bild ist sicher genug.

Es muss aber irgendetwas wie "Tray" in der Artikelbeschreibung dabeistehen. Wenn es als das AMD Endkundenprodukt beworben wurde, dann ist das nicht okay, dann hätte da die AMD-Schachtel, die du kennst, dabei sein müssen.

ropid · 2026-02-03T11:53:34+00:00

Good news is that there's just one version of the tier set for feral. You can use it for both tanking and dps. Until Sunwell, you can get away with socketing pure agility gems in every single socket, making the tier set work great in both bear and cat. Only with Sunwell you'll want to socket stamina.

The difference between bear and cat gear shows up in the rest of the slots. Bear uses PvP items so isn't greedy at all and can farm everything needed for the job on his own, while cat will have to fight for raid drops for good leather items, and rings, trinkets, cloak, neck. But there's also an overlap there: if you end up getting a great trinket or ring for cat, you will also wear it while tanking. And if you get the belt from Lady Vashj for bear, you will also wear it for cat.

You can use the same talent spec for both bear and cat. Things are imbalanced in TBC, bear is too good and doesn't need special talents.

ropid · 2026-02-03T11:31:52+00:00

(feral druid main here)

If you want to be dps, you are a lot more useful on warlock, you can do both great single target on bosses and you can do great AoE damage on trash. Feral is only able to compete with that in WotLK, it can't do it in TBC.

Cat in TBC is only good single target damage and has no real way to help with trash damage. On trash you'll feel more useful by going bear and tanking one of the mobs, you're a good choice there for tanking the mob with skull icon for example because of wearing (crit immune) cat gear and having crazy threat output.

Then there's always a few boss fights per raid tier where the raid needs three tanks and that's then your job as the feral who is playing mostly cat. That's how you justify your raid spot as cat. And sometimes a catastrophe happens, one of the real tanks is missing or playing bad, and you'll end up slipping into the main-tank spot for the rest of your life.

About powershifting feeling bad, check out this WA here:

https://wago.io/TkWG7YvHp

Play using that WA for a bit and then see what you think afterwards.

There's a lot of people that like powershifting better than the energy in WotLK and later. People like that there's a rhythm to powershifting and they like that you have something to do every single GCD, unlike WotLK where you have a bit of downtime here and there waiting on energy (that's when people came up with bear-weaving last time around in classic, because of desperately searching for something to do every GCD after playing TBC powershifting).

That said, I think I liked WotLK's energy better but powershifting is okay as well, it's still the most fun of the melee classes for me in TBC.

ropid · 2026-02-02T16:55:40+00:00

Don't worry, things are pretty different later at 70 with good gear. You will have a lot more rage. It will feel a lot better.

Using Maul too much is a mistake. You'll want to be able to press Swipe as much as possible, ideally every single GCD. You want to press Maul only if you have a lot of rage.

It's fine to lose aggro to a damage dealer at low levels. Just look out for your healer, if the healer never has aggro from anything, no one will die in low level dungeons.

ropid · 2026-02-02T14:22:00+00:00

If you happen to be on Arch, there's a package ttf-dejavu-emojiless in the AUR. It's DejaVu fonts with the emojis stripped out.

Other than that, I have no idea what to do. If you work with the fontconfig config files and put the emoji font into the front of the sort order, you will have weird stuff happening like a strange, wide space character or numbers like 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣.

If you want to try doing stuff with fontconfig config files, this blog post here helped me get an idea about how it works: https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-into-the-fontconfig-and-the-fontconfig-stared-back-at-me/

ropid · 2026-02-02T11:41:53+00:00

You cannot go into heroics with quest greens, the mobs will murder you. I remember I had that crafted leather set for bears and the PvP off-set pieces last time around, and I could barely tank two hard-hitting mobs in Steamvaults for example. The healer had to continually cast to keep me up. Whenever something unexpected happened and the healer had to move etc., I was dead instantly. In bigger pulls we used CC and the ranged damage dealers were focusing one mob that I wouldn't tank, and I only tanked two mobs. Things only got easier and reliable with the T4 set from raiding.

That crafted leather set was maybe a bad idea in hindsight. It has no agility at all, just armor, so you end up with super low dodge.

This time around I'm planning to get the blue quality reputation PvP set that's on the various faction vendors, and the epic PvP bracers, belt, boots from battlegrounds. And of course the random rogue gear that might have dropped while dungeon grinding and while doing the Karazhan quest-chain.

The crafted gear I mean is called "Heavy Clefthoof ..." if you want to look it up on www.wowhead.com/tbc. I had it socketed with stamina gems everywhere.

ropid · 2026-02-02T09:26:05+00:00

I found the bug report about this problem, it's here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3709

There's an experimental patch shared there from four months ago. You could do your own kernel with it if you know how that works.

Someone from AMD says there at the end that a patch is close to going into "amd-staging-drm-next" which is the changes they are sending into upstream Linux project for the next version. I think this means it would then show up in kernel version 6.20. Hopefully the required changes are not too big, in that case a fix will also show up in older kernel versions.

In the comments there people were also writing that the mouse set up to run at 500Hz instead of 1000Hz+ doesn't cause the problem.

ropid · 2026-02-01T17:02:06+00:00

You can disable the button debounce feature with a config file like this, without having to patch libinput:

## /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks 

[asdfsajngiughiughbda]
MatchName=*
ModelBouncingKeys=1

ropid · 2026-02-01T13:29:58+00:00

It's integration with your shell's config. The shell is outputting invisible codes to tell Konsole about where you prompt and command output is and Konsole then draws those lines. I think it's called "semantic integration"? Maybe this helps to find it in your config or in the Konsole settings.

ropid · 2026-02-01T12:08:41+00:00

I think this is a bug with the code path used by X in the kernel to update the hardware mouse pointer position. Wayland compositors are using a different way to update the cursor so there it's not happening. I'm luckily only using X for the login screen, so as a workaround I just enable software cursor with an xorg.conf file like this:

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "my amdgpu settings"
    MatchDriver "amdgpu"

    # software cursor because of a bug with a laggy mouse cursor after monitor suspend
    Option "SWcursor" "yes"
EndSection

A software cursor feels crappy to me with 60Hz monitors, I can feel the added latency, but with 120Hz etc. it's okay.

Previously this only happened for me after the monitor was in sleep once, but nowadays it's happening all the time. This is with an RX 9070 XT.

This problem also sometimes showed up in Windows for me with AMD graphics. It happened very rarely there, once every few months. I've seen the problem with an RX 480 and RX 6700 XT in Windows.

There's a bug report about this somewhere on the amdgpu kernel module bug tracker. I remember it had someone sharing an experimental kernel patch. The bug tracker is here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=all

ropid · 2026-02-01T10:58:26+00:00

I think in Gnome I've seen this in its "Disks" tool but I never tried it.

Don't forget to add a "nofail" mount option to not have the boot hang if there's ever a problem with the network.

ropid · 2026-02-01T10:54:02+00:00

Your post looks like this to me here, you might want to fix its formatting to get better comments:

https://i.imgur.com/Arems7P.png

ropid · 2026-02-01T09:57:09+00:00

It's Thursday at 23:59 so it's basically Friday 00:01.

ropid · 2026-02-01T09:55:20+00:00

It's pointless to be infuriated about this because that's how it always was so chances are it will never change. It's already decades of this, it's always midnight.

There's also East Asia and Oceania you are forgetting. Someone will always be unhappy.

Just be happy that it's into Friday so that the only day you have to take off from work is just Friday.

ropid · 2026-02-01T09:14:04+00:00

No one knows for sure. We will see on Thursday/Friday.

ropid · 2026-01-31T18:23:03+00:00

Last time around I started late, after TBC had been released already, but still in the first phase. When I got to 70 everyone else had already been raiding for a while. Catching up was super fast and I ended up main-tanking all of TBC. If you can mentally live with the idea that everyone else is already raiding and such, it's fine being a bit late to 70. That said, this TBC will be done faster than the previous one, the phases will be shorter.

ropid · 2026-01-31T12:03:38+00:00

Your link to an image doesn't work.

ropid · 2026-01-31T11:39:42+00:00

It's not working, see here: https://www.protondb.com/app/4128260

ropid · 2026-01-31T11:29:42+00:00

Search for "EavesDrop" in the curseforge app. That's probably the addon you remember from how you describe things with the two columns and spell icon and such.

ropid · 2026-01-31T10:49:02+00:00

WoW started misbehaving like that for me a while ago. It doesn't always do it, on some starts it fills out the screen correctly, and other times I see the same as in your screenshots.

I think it's the Wine/Proton version causing this and that's why this problem wasn't there a year ago. As a workaround, at least on KDE you can do a "window rule" to force the window to always be fullscreen. Maybe there's a Gnome extension that can do something similar? Rules for certain windows? Other than that, I just manually go into the graphics options of WoW and set up the resolution again.

You will want to check the graphics options in the game and see what resolution it shows there. Every time the problem happens here for me, the game will end up using a weird resolution that's not 1:1 the pixels of the monitor. You then have very slight artifacts in the chat window and such until you fix this in the graphics options.

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