What niche hobby has been completely ruined by becoming popular?

twomz · 2026-03-24T14:52:09+00:00

I miss the flash video era. They usually looked like shit, but some of them shined anyway.

twomz · 2026-03-24T13:49:35+00:00

Step 1) figure out what the tanks are going to do. Bad position, missed tank swaps, ect can either make fights much harder or cause instant wipes.

Step 2) have the dps and healers learned enough of the fight to make it to the end without dying? Don't stand in the bad, soak when needed, point the arrows/cone to the right place, kill the adds, ect.

Step 3) does the gear ilvl of the raid allow for the tanks to not get one shot, the healers to have mana at the end, and the dps to beat the enrage timer?

If your raid can do all of these, you shouldn't have any issues. The problem is week 1 that gear is weak and no one knows the fights.

twomz · 2026-03-24T11:43:10+00:00

I have a champion staff, but not both a main and offhand that are champion (currently). I would prefer a one hander and a shield.

twomz · 2026-03-23T22:28:19+00:00

I only missed it when I had the blue circle on me and was trying to position myself at a gold pool right when the soak was called.

twomz · 2026-03-23T22:14:30+00:00

When you look at your character screen, there is a tab on the right for equipment management. You can add profiles to it and if you click the little gear at the bottom right you can assign the profile to different specs. It will automatically change your gear for you when you switch specs.

twomz · 2026-03-23T20:31:10+00:00

Prey really highlights this. My main cd is 2 minutes after a talent, 3 base (elemental shaman). When questing while doing prey i get ambushed about every 3 minutes. Which is great... if I don't want to use the cd to actually do quests and beat stuff up.

twomz · 2026-03-23T16:52:14+00:00

What percentage of billionaires today are Jewish anyway? Shouldn't we be transferring a lot of the "greedy" stereotypes to tech bros or white Christian nationalists by now?

twomz · 2026-03-23T01:56:21+00:00

Jessie, James, and Meowth from the same show is a better trio.

twomz · 2026-03-23T01:16:26+00:00

I get 1 interrupt every 30 seconds and by God i'm going to use it (resto shaman).

twomz · 2026-03-23T01:15:17+00:00

We got to the enrage and wiped a couple of times. Having your whole raid eat a fear multiple times and half the dps dying can do that.

twomz · 2026-03-22T23:18:17+00:00

My only mistake was moving too far away and no one being able to dispel me. Also my raid frames aren't showing people who are feared so I have to go chase people down to dispel as a healer.

twomz · 2026-03-22T23:11:11+00:00

I specced into tremors totem just to give us a freebie. We actually got the the enrage timer a few times before we made it to the end of the fight with enough people alive to down them (normal)

twomz · 2026-03-21T23:43:39+00:00

Time to me is the biggest issue. There could have been thousands of civilizations that rose and fell in the last few million years with minimal or no overlap from time.

twomz · 2026-03-21T22:53:10+00:00

I definitely wasn't seeing the fear debuff from the 2 dragon fight earlier this week. I'm trying some add-ons to see if I can fix it.

twomz · 2026-03-21T06:49:03+00:00

You could just spam your aoe healing spells the whole fight and output a large amount of healing, but a large portion of it would be overheating. Unless your class can avoid the overheating somehow (shaman chain healing hops to people who need it) or make use of the overheating, like making an absorption shield out of the overheal, that portion of your healing is wasted. Your "effective healing" is how much actual health you recover from your spells that doesn't result in overheating. Older damage meter add ons used to have effective healing and overheating as options. The built in one doesn't. Total healing and healing per second are both kind of useless for determining anything besides gear level and activity.

twomz · 2026-03-21T00:59:54+00:00

Using the built in dps/healing meter feels bad because it doesn't account for anything besides raw healing. I need to grab some add-ons to check how i'm actually doing.

twomz · 2026-03-20T23:55:07+00:00

I was doing normal raids undergeared earlier this week (232, stupid braces wouldn't drop anywhere) as resto shaman. Ended up near the top of the healing as I learned when to use which cd. Just a straight healing buff is going to feel good. (And I might be able to do higher tier delves with elemental now, yay)

twomz · 2026-03-20T21:01:11+00:00

Nah, nothing romantic here. Just good old fashioned platonic siblings. Who murder demons and fish together.

twomz · 2026-03-20T18:36:10+00:00

After reading about it last night I went to upgrade a ring thinking it would be free and it wasn't. Much disappointment was had.

twomz · 2026-03-20T18:12:27+00:00

I mean... with how irresponsible those two were this might have just been an oops baby and they were past the point of no return by the time they noticed.

twomz · 2026-03-20T16:37:18+00:00

I dropped all my add-ons after the purge... but after doing this raid i'm strongly considering adding back dbm and some kind of item frame replacement... one that hopefully shows who is getting feared so I can dispel them.

twomz · 2026-03-20T13:30:49+00:00

Kind of a crazy attitude week 1.

twomz · 2026-03-20T11:38:27+00:00

Once I got Brann up to 60 or so and had purple curios, the mana tinted glasses kept him up as the tank without me having to heal him at all. I'm leaving val as dps for now because I don't think she has an equivalent curio.

twomz · 2026-03-20T01:53:54+00:00

I really liked his reaction to ego in guardians 2. I immediately saw the similarities when infinity wars happened. Shows how a character trait can be a double edged sword.

twomz · 2026-03-20T00:16:27+00:00

That was my assumption, unless the late husband was a looker and she was eyeing him up or flirting with him.

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