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ers in the main story will invade from time to time so in order to buy yourself some time the defense will suffice the tactical map is where the fighting takes place and yes this is where the paper mario references surface sorry it s not what you might think too much lovecraft on the brain after a fight if you level up your capabilities are limited and your party can t heal in combat so be aware of that sometimes during an incursion you have to just let the monsters take an area zone before you can stop them because their initial strength is just too large that being said wildermyth thrives on its stories there s a few steps between the second and this pic but it still makes for fun stuff i d be lying if i said that the stories didn t fascinate me they re very well written and while the procedural elements creep in it is still great fun to enjoy a story that relies upon the visuals just as much as the written word the devs behind wildermyth do something very smart they don t tell you everything they tell you just enough to keep the story going and let your imagination fuel the rest the game is highly addictive and it s really worth some of your time to try out thanks for recommending wildermyth vid i really appreciate it or that she was gm of one of the best strict 10s raiding guilds back in the day that usually works too not his real name naturally just his wow toon s name posted by redbeard at 2 43 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels friends video games wildermyth saturday may 21 2022 giddyap i typically don t flex but on the outskirts of deadwind pass cardwyn reached the end the long grind to exalted for the wintersaber trainers yesterday once she reached l66 the reason for showing my ui instead of hiding it as usual the xp she obtained from the mobs for the wintersaber rep quests slowed to a trickle with about 5k worth of reputation to go there was no longer any reason to artificially slow down my rep grind and to be fair another guildie had started in on the rep grind with her own traditional single mindedness and had about 9200 rep to go last morning therefore i decided to push it and finish card s own grind around my lunchtime card s trustly old alterac ram has finally been put to pasture oh and i can report that with t3 gear cardwyn can hold her own as l66 against mobs that are l69 l70 outside of karazhan she just happens to pull them from a pretty far distance that s all and that each kill nets her 1340 xp redbeard has a new grinding zone eta corrected from xp to rep oops posted by redbeard at 10 09 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mounts tbc classic thursday may 19 2022 it s about time you d think that the sky was falling given the wailing and gnashing of teeth in some parts of the wow verse but no it s the upcoming implementation of a social contract into retail wow with the upcoming 9 2 5 patch in case you re wondering the social contract boils down to wheaton s law don t be a dick or maybe the golden rule applies do unto others as you would have them do to you now we re not talking about anything resembling a no ganking rule after all that s pretty much part and parcel with a pvp server s activities we re talking about answering questions in chat rather than saying go to wowhead noob lol or if someone asks for help and you re available go help out or if you re in an instance with people play as a team rather than being an ass and doing things like mage pulling things that are pretty basic as part of an unspoken social contract in our real lives but for pete s sake you d think that blizzard was asking people to be placed in shackles and shipped out to siberia for example i can sling curses with the best of them having learned how to cuss from my grandfather the ww2 vet but that doesn t mean that i should just let f bombs fly whenever i feel like it online because i m in a public space and that behavior isn t always acceptable there i m not perfect and i do let them fly from time to time even when i m around my mother who most definitely does not approve but i do try to accommodate people it s not that hard but apparently the right to be an asshole is what most people are concerned about as if that was the sole reason why a certain part of the player base plays mmos the real question that everyone likely has what sort of enforcement this social contract will receive is the one that nobody except blizzard knows even blizz probably doesn t know how that will shake out either like whether it means blizz will go harder against offensive player names or will more frequently intervene in trade lfg chat but one could hope that some of the more egregious crap out there would be thrown the ban hammer but for every person loudly stating that they were now leaving the game because of this relatively minor attempt at enforcing some basic standards of decency i have two words good riddance if abusing people got you off then wow doesn t need you to be honest society doesn t really need you either go hang out in league or something where people get away with that behavior without consequence i also learned a lot of racist language from him too which still saddens me to this day my grandfather was a complex man but he was also a huge racist my parents tried their best to raise me without racism but i recognize that i can always do better therefore with the mini reds i made the decision to make sure they were better than me at being anti racist and other biases i explained this to each of them as they reached adulthood and i told them that i knew i wasn t as good as i should be but i wanted to make sure the next generation was better still posted by redbeard at 8 19 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard social contract tuesday may 17 2022 like riding a bike if it involved wholesale slaughter i was commenting on a post by shintar about how i ve been strangely optimistic about wow the past week or so and i think it has something to do with a couple of factors well there s this for starters yes indeed i think my questing buddy was stunned when i told her i joined a horde guild now before anybody says the word raiding catalyst is a leveling and social guild it s been quite a while since i was in an active leveling guild i think retail orphans kind of qualified but they fizzled out far quicker than this guild has and logging in to see about 20 25 people of all sorts of levels just doing things is refreshing when you re in a hardcore raiding guild leveling toons are few and far between or if you find some they don t stay that way for long as they rocket up quickly so they can be used for raiding alts or to support your main raiding toon just lazily leveling along is quite the exception to be fair i realize that my stay in catalyst might not be very long leveling guilds tend to have a pretty decent amount of churn as toons reach max level and then move on to other guilds for raiding or other endgame content but at the same time having a guild that isn t constantly fretting over parses or following the meta or arguing over various aspects of raiding is quite nice some people will tell you that my current raiding guild is relaxed and social and to that i raise my eyebrows in disbelief if this is relaxed and social i hate to find out what other hardcore raiding guilds are like no no scratch that i once had an extended conversation with someone who was on the at the time 2 raiding guild on myzrael and he was telling me that he had to come up with about 1800 gold a week to cover all the potions and whatnot they needed for raiding multiple days a week 1800 i was stunned are you sure you had two zeroes there oh yes more than once i was tempted to just buy gold to keep up the irony is that i do know people who at least in classic bought gold just to keep up with the demand and their raid teams were nowhere near the top of the charts but still the stress of trying to be the best would have driven me bonkers and my somewhat feeble attempts to keep up in tbc classic because i was a raid lead and had to at least set a decent example if i was going to ask others to do what they could to be ready for raids were frequently sabotaged by my desire to zag when everybody else zigs like right now in the isle of quel danas someone asked me last friday before karazhan what i thought of the isle of quel danas quests and magister s terrace and i told him that i hadn t been there there s no real reason for me to go since i m not progression raiding and i figure i ll wait until the crowd has moved on in a couple of months and then i ll go up there but right now if you get into a group for mgt with a decently geared team it s really easy oh i ve no doubt but my experience in magister s terrace was when my mage leveled through there imagine doing mgt on quest greens instead of raid gear oh shit yeah for me it s exactly like trying to tell someone who is kitted out with phase 3 raiding gear hyjal black temple that the zul aman bear run is hard to do when your raid team is frequently a mix of phase 2 and 3 geared toons and toons with a decent portion of quest greens or some phase 1 gear if they haven t walked a mile in your shoes they won t understand it or like my questing buddy telling me that i m pretty much hiding from the guild these days to which i ll agree completely after all being a non raider in a hardcore raiding guild is like being a second class citizen things that you want to do for fun are shelved because there s not enough people to do them but if it s progression raid related in some way people will show up for it i have never forgotten being booted out of an instance run because i was just coming to help out but someone else who showed up right before the run needed something for the raid from the dungeon the organizer felt that person s need even though they logged in at the last second was more important than me volunteering to just help out and actually heading out to the dungeon entrance before getting the boot there was a secondary reason of course i wasn t part of the guild at the time and for me even though i d been raiding with them for months i suspected that the dungeon run organizer hoped to give me enough of a kick in the pants to join the guild or something but i don t work like that i m not a conformist just to do things so i can hang out with the cool people i want to enjoy myself and do things that matter because that s what friends do friends don t dump one another for others who login at the last moment so i m in a horde guild that is very casual and it has reinvigorated my enjoyment in just hanging around and doing things i don t have any pressure to be doing what s expected or what my gear set is or anything of that sort some people are more driven to level quickly than others like one person who just joined because their uncle is hoping to get them into raiding but i realize that person isn t going to be in the guild very long so i m not worried or anything i can just do whatever comment on things people bring up in guild chat and once in a while get into a dungeon run i ve been on more tbc dungeon runs on neve in the past 1 5 weeks than i ve been on in linnawyn total part of that is the lack of ability to get pugs together at this state of the game but also that i m trying to keep linna on the down low for the time being that does lead me to the other reason why i feel more upbeat about wow lately see all those pink bars paladins for everybody i ve gotten back into running battlegrounds my classic battlegrounds adventures petered out when i began progression raiding and truth be told i was tired of all the losing in alterac valley so when my questing buddy began prodding me to go capture fortifications in hellfire peninsula or capturing spirit towers in terrokk forest for pvp honor i finally relented because she needed gear for an alt of hers and one way of getting it was through pvp i went and did it and dammit the bug bit me so i did it on both brig and linna and then on neve and then after another friend showing me what gear he was able to get just doing this sort of honor farming while leveling i realized that linna could finally get a weapon that was at least within 50 miles of being close to what her retribution paladin bis would be lugging around a quest green weapon into karazhan was my nightmare that i d essentially have to be carried the entire run and not pull my own weight and here was a chance of at least not looking so pathetic that all i did was engender sympathy i had no idea that this was actually a remake this was the version i knew but lyn roman did a version in 1973 so i steeled myself and queued up for alterac valley and we won and again the next time we lost but the speed runs that had replaced the terrible grinding losses were addictive and dammit i could do this even with my crappy gear so i kept running av on saturday night one after another until i looked up and it was 5 am on sunday morning uh oh i went and lay down but i couldn t sleep i was too hyped up on this i could run av and get some positive direction on gear and i could do it without running around and begging people for help my honor goal toward getting linna a weapon grew closer and closer throughout sunday in between yard work and eating and some other odds and ends having everybody else in the house out for the day had its advantages since there are 4 drivers in the house and only 3 cars so oh darn i can t go anywhere i guess i ll just oh run another alterac valley i finally had to force myself to confess what i d been up to with my questing buddy and she gave me the you need to not do this so singlemindedly and relax bit that i typically give others yeah i replied but i say that because i have those tendencies too so i know what it s like and here i was violating all of that in pursuit of that high that had proven so elusive in battlegrounds in classic and was also a big reason why i stopped playing retail wow when all you feel is losing it infects your mindset so having an equal chance at winning is just so damn addictive i did get enough honor to get linna her weapon it took 25 hours by the way and i took a deep breath and backed off a bit i m still running battlegrounds but not at the insane breakneck pace i did last weekend if nothing else i need to show i can master my emotions so i can be a good example to others and if i can t i need to tell people that so i can get some help okay so yes i feel like things are moving forward after being stuck in neutral since well december and that s not even covering the changes to the code of conduct that blizz is bringing to wow soon thank goodness which right now involves running the magister s terrace dungeon and doing dailies out at the isle of quel danas for reputation for what exactly i m not 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