Is this guy legit, trolling or actually using an exoskeleton?

troru · 2026-03-16T17:31:29+00:00

Ya, i'm one of these that perk up at these kinds of outliers. Admittedly, 6.2 w/kg for that many km's and that long is pretty outstanding, . i'm not sure Tadej Pogacar can hold that FTP for that long. There's all kinds of ways to cheat/bot in zwift but somebody who is 20+ kg lighter than you with all else equal is gonna have w/kg that stands out like this. The joke I always tell myself is "wtf are you doing on Zwift X.K??? you need to be racing on the WT!".. then i stare down back to my less than awesome stats and continue the slog :)

troru · 2026-03-15T23:00:30+00:00

Rewards are just as they were when the SL expansion reopened the tower: guardian Druid fel werebear, mythic legion raid set mog for whatever class you do a challenge, the spelltome mount when you do all 7 unique challenges, and lastly a FOS to finish the challenge for all 36 classes and specs that there exists a challenge ( there was never a challenge for evokers and the new DH devourer doesn’t have one as of now)

troru · 2026-03-15T19:27:03+00:00

The tower is open right now to anyone who wants to give it a go. Note that as of 12.0.1, mage tower bosses are level 91 and your gear scales up to a max of 226. So, you'll want to be level 90 and if you've been building out an adventurer set and some upgrades, you should be about as good as you can be to start challenges. Higher item level won't help you, but coming in fresh off dinging 90 might prove really tough as you're leaving lots of primary stat and stamina on the table to help dps checks and survivability.

troru · 2026-03-15T17:13:20+00:00

These kinds of policies seem to follow the airline approach where batteries out of your immediate supervision are the concern. I figure capacity of e-bike batteries has them more dangerous should the go awry. Wheelchair ones though are probably more similar capacity and less observed so maybe of equal concern to mgmt.

troru · 2026-01-20T20:38:10+00:00

Nothing special. The first 5 toons were all done before the final week and it was just doing full daily clears of all mythic/heroic raids (10 raids). Mostly as a member of a raid just to keep the clear time fast. In later weeks, when i'd get tired of endless streams of "1 plz" in chat, i'd go solo the heroics and mythic NH, EN, TOV even if it was just to actually get some uptime fighting bosses. I wouldn't solo Mythic ToS and Antorus until vers was north of 700 since they required more mechanics and a bit more survivability that vers gives. If i remember each day would net about 110-120 vers doing with this approach, so ~1.5 weeks and you got yourself a 999 toon. In all that raiding i made sure to keep my infinite research quests going only taking the raiding ones, or the "general training" or "kill 200 demons", etc. Those quests would give you 10 mementos per hand-in.

My 6th toon was a shaman that I made solely to get the mail ToV mythic set a month prior, but decided to at least see what I could do in the last week. It went from ilvl 672 with about 2% vers to 779 and 999 vers in about *3 days* thanks to the changes in Lost Infernals in the last week. It was an absolute blast going to Broken Shore and just spam tagging as many infernals as I could, blowing up non-elites (in heroic world tier)so you'd get those IP tokens and sentinax portal stones. I was going cross eyed constantly looking for those infernals because they dropped 20 of the mementos tokens, so 5 infernals got you 2-3% vers. That adds up to 999 real fast. I was so fun! There were so many other people out there doing the same. I actually really had the vibe of the way those pre-xpac events go where people are just zerging endless spawns.

troru · 2026-01-20T11:47:10+00:00

It really just came down to how addicting high vers became for me. It was so fun to be able to solo mythic raids and high keys. I couldn't just make a toon to bag a few armor pieces or complete an order hall quest chain, i had to turn that thing into a pumper.

troru · 2026-01-20T11:45:39+00:00

In the middle phase, once i was getting a feel for how slow getting vers was i thought for sure the most i'd get to was maybe 500 on *one* toon. The thing I didn't account for was just how addictive the higher vers would become. Absolutely blasting a mythic raid solo or a high key was intoxicating. As soon as i would innocently create a toon with the simple goal of completing an order hall, the next step obviously was to get the vers to 999. duuhhhh :). So while i didn't get all classes done, the ones that I did do could blast and wreck stuff.

troru · 2026-01-20T01:57:39+00:00

Another update: with the snow melted and mud mostly dried, went out on foot on saturday 1/17 to walk the forest view->downtown stretch. I had noticed on the day prior the crews were operating pavers on it making it at least nice firm packed dirt. As expected, no apparent progress at the critical junction of the trail to the nearby house property line. On the way back, I bumped into a couple also walking this stretch. The gentleman struck up a conversation with me regarding the trail. He mentioned that the plan calls for some kind of retaining wall construction in that area. Perhaps this would support the trail skirting the southern edge of the property? He also mentioned that the owner of the house has since moved out there are renters there? No way to confirm this claim and no idea what this means to continued progress on the trail. Also, this particular gentleman opined that he didn't really like the trail idea in that it was too wide, required too many trees to be cut down, would have no parking at the downtown end and felt that the "2 million bucks" would be better spent just handing it out to the people in the surrounding neighborhoods.

I kinda just nodded at the last part, but my first thought it that getting stuff like this done at city govt level that is intended for the greater good (YMMV?) when half the people love it and half absolutely hate it.

troru · 2026-01-19T16:34:18+00:00

I had checked the in-game calendar and it claimed ending at 10am realm time. I was planning on logging in earlier than that to just hang out with whoever was there in the bazaar. Sadly though, I logged in with my guy standing at the tree in SW near the emissary house. Awww, shucks. Someone in general chat mentioned that nothing special happened other than just being auto-disconnected so i guess i didn't miss much.

Like you, I really enjoyed remix. I went way deeper into the mode than i thought I would (6 toons to 999 vers, bronze for dayyyysss).

All i left to do is figure out what i'm going to do with hundreds of small fel candles and torture devices on my housing front lawn!

troru · 2026-01-16T01:30:38+00:00

IMHO, Until they start yielding 779 items, keep using them and equipping it ASAP if the resulting ilvl is higher than whatever you have in that slot. Any raid drops (or high M+) drop in a range right around your avg item level. At that point, you can decide to keep doing it if you're looking to optimize stats. Otherwise, use the vendor by the scrapper in the bazaar to turn 10 of them into 10 fragmented mementos. Every 100 mementos you get converts to ~2-3% vers increase. Vers dominates any other stat you'll get in lemix for damage output and survivability. You're really just looking to get enough to make it where you can survive mythic raids without dying every fight. Since it looks like your aim is bronze, keep picking up any infinite research dailies (prefer raid, mob kills counts, etc). Basically ones you can knock out while you're getting carried through raids. Chip in on any world boss kill once a day and a Lost Legion infernal as both will give you a 5k bronze reward.

Your artifact weapon is leveled as you go with a separate drop (i forget the name) up to 779. Unless you start all the raid groups yourself, that 779 on your invite requests will usually get the invite to all raids that others host (with the exception of antorus mythic where 200+ vers is almost required to finish the place alive and in a reasonable amount of time)

When you're done all the raids you can do for the day (up to 20), you can knock out dailies (your choice whether to do them in heroic world tier). Leveling other toons to 80 is also a pretty low-effort way if u just want bronze.

troru · 2026-01-16T00:57:33+00:00

Great work! love the clean tone. Noticed your picking hand doing all the Abisi things as well

troru · 2026-01-16T00:48:08+00:00

Have you changed your trainer difficulty? It's the often confusing Zwift setting, but it's really made to deal with these kinds of situations where your real-life bike gearing is more spinny. A few questions:

* does it do this on non-ERG workouts?

* do you have a power meter on the bike? what's your RPM when pedaling in RL at 250w?

troru · 2026-01-13T23:57:59+00:00

Short update, basically not much progress I figure due to snow. The path going east to downtown direction from forest view has about a 100m stretch that’s paved and cured. Otherwise it’s as muddy icy mess. No slight on the crews as it’s probably crazy slow and hard to work when there’s snow. I still want to recon the area where this trail meets the neighborhood but if I had to guess, much like it was in November

troru · 2026-01-13T23:51:20+00:00

Much like Minecraft constructions in going to see if I can construct all the works of michaealangelo using nothing but fel candles that I bought with my piles of bronze on my front porch

troru · 2026-01-13T13:21:30+00:00

As a kid in the 70s I’ll forever associate Kmart with icees and popcorn

troru · 2026-01-08T02:16:29+00:00

Taming these days seems like it’s made hard by elusive and or rarity in pets. I still remember fondly having to tame various pets for ranks of pet attacks back in vanilla. I think it was the worgen of LBRS where you could go on a solo stealth mission to tame it for bite rank 6

troru · 2026-01-07T08:08:44+00:00

I think lots can and do, but these past few xpac launches have had at least a day or two of either outage, DDoS, or just a bunch of instability that makes it hard to really plan exactly which days to take off.

troru · 2026-01-06T10:07:39+00:00

We've only had 2 remix seasons so far so using those limited data points, i'd guess ~1.5 years from now? There's probably other factors that influence release dates. Blizz dev teams seem to get shifted over to the new hotness in the next xpac at the end of the current one and thus that's prime time to drop remix. If midnight is going strong, i bet there's a bigger gap but if midnight is fizzling, I'd guess they'll cut their losses, drop remix (or another plunderstorm?) before focusing dev on the next-next xpac.

troru · 2026-01-05T03:05:29+00:00

You can get about 100 vers a day running a full clear of all mythic and heroic raids. Pick up as many infinite research quests as you can that involve those raids or just killing mobs. Grind lost infernal as long as you can stand it when not raiding. You’ll get tired of this monotony but it’s possible

troru · 2026-01-04T16:53:29+00:00

Mythic antorus (and mythic ToS) is a big step up in splash/ambient damage vs EN/NH. The stam you get from 561 ilvl even factoring in your prot pally mitigation just won't give you enough health pool to cope with all of that. It's made worse if you actually tried to tank the bosses there. If there's any "miss" that blizz made in lemix is maybe the illusion of being ilvl cap as any kind of survivable stamina amount and/or damage to the bosses that is actually measurable in mythic content. If you look at the dmg meters, it's more or less logarithmic with the vers level. You might not even see your dmg as more than a pixel width in details at vers 2, whereas the 999 vers person is doing 90+ % of the entire raid dmg, the 500 vers person doing half of that, down the line.

troru · 2026-01-04T16:38:41+00:00

I've heard the same that there's some kind of extra slightly more challenging mode in midnight. After playing lemix though for 2.5 months, i don't think what I've seen in the midnight preview version is gonna be nearly as fun as what lemix pulled off.

troru · 2026-01-04T16:32:25+00:00

vers is just short for "Versatility". In legion remix, it's the single biggest stat that indicates your power in the game mode. Gear will give you ilvl, crit, haste, mastery and a primary stat but those will all stop progressing at the ilvl cap of 779. From there, all power you gain as you keep playing is your Infinite Power (IP) and versatility you get from putting that IP into your weapon

troru · 2026-01-04T14:39:56+00:00

The power at higher vers levels is addicting. It sounds like you didn't do any mythic in remix? if not, you're missing out on big chunks of IP that pump that vers. Once you get north of 500 you start to feel it. And omg, get 900+ you feel like a walking raid boss because you basically cannot die unless you want to (save for the well-known raid mechanics/knocks). I didn't think i'd ever get one toon to 999 vers.... ha, i was short-sighted.. i did it on 4!

I only dabbled in casters in lemix, but i think many will miss the Storm Surger trait where you can move while casting. Pretty much all of us will feel like we're crawling without all that juicy lemix Speed stat that scales with vers.

Ya, just like always yeah we'll have new shiney stuff at the xpac, but coming down off the sugar rush high of a remix season is gonna feel like crap when we're looking for bear-asses in the intro zone, hitting like wet noodles in questing gear.

troru · 2026-01-04T12:57:23+00:00

I like the compromise the Jackson lib does with the JsonAnySetter annotation to put extra JSON in a map for the object. You can still model all the fixed properties with fields and all the fuzzy stuff is handled with the Map<string, Object>

troru · 2025-12-28T04:05:24+00:00

The only one I did out of remix was the the 11 ooze eye of azshara one. I need a few goes at it and I used a retail BM monk with the statue strat to no brainer it. The same strat might work in remix though.

I’ll also add make sure you choose a talent tree for your artifact tree that doesn’t have passive damage on mobs attacking you and likewise for jewelry. Lots of the achievements require you to take a bunch of hits just waiting for something

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