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ld achieve kind of like an mmo version of anne mccaffrey s pern complete with dragons the cover art for dragonwriter a tribute to anne mccaffrey art by michael whelan who painted almost all of the pern cover art the centerpiece of the storm peaks is ulduar what appears to be a titan city but is in fact something else oh come on i m not gonna spoil it for you despite ulduar having been out in retail wow for over a decade now but that time interval also means that ulduar is like almost all of wow once something is released into the wild a solved raid there are already tons of articles and videos on how to optimally raid ulduar from the raid composition to the best in slot bis lists to even the boss order you should take to blitz through the content due to that and since i wasn t doing as much dps as fire spec compared to arcane mage in the raid i was asked to switch to arcane in early january i had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as to where this might be going i knew that my fire spec for a single target boss isn t as good as arcane spec although aoe damage for a fire mage is superior to that of an arcane mage but i liked playing as a fire mage the way a fire mage has to run into melee range drop some casts in the scrum then blink away so i can then rain fiery damage from distance just suits my playing style but even the difference between arcane and fire aside my fellow mage had been running 25 person raids and whose gear was decently superior to my own so it was only natural that her damage was also greater but like a good teammate i set aside my internal concerns about the raid creeping toward the hardcore saluted and switched to an arcane spec we were then dealt a blow when we lost our warlock who decided to play fewer characters in wrath classic and our raid got the short end of the stick still we had 11 players on the team so despite missing a lock we could still field a full raid that was good for us since the raid leads had personally reached out to people that they liked to raid with and had agreed with our focus for this particular raid team while most people raided with other toons 25 person raids or both a few of us myself included kept to only this particular raid team after what i dealt with in tbc classic i was happy to have low expectations and a casual attitude toward raiding this time around i was not going to get sucked into the meta and hardcore progression grind and i thought our little raid team was insulated from that grind we got into ulduar last week and it felt weird i ll have to go into it more on another post but unlike karazhan whom i have issues with the internal logic of the entire place ulduar just feels like an inflection point in wow s history i was online doing something on neve when the post appeared in the raid s discord on saturday night the pally healer and the hunter were leaving the raid team they were running 25 person raids together and they wanted to also push into 10 person hard modes much faster than we were for our raid team hard modes were something we d like to eventually do but it wasn t a priority we had people in raid with young families and people like me who burned out on the hardcore progression so getting all sweaty in pursuit of the hardcore wasn t something we were interested in doing since our raid team wasn t going to progress into hard modes fast enough the two decided to leave our raid and join an in house raid team composed of members of their 25 person raid several classes have bis items that are found in ulduar s hard mode 10 person raids so if your 25 person raid demands you get your bis gear you have to get as quickly into 10 person hard modes as possible the meta caught up to our little raid team after all monday evening before the raid we had a meeting with the raid leads the pally healer was there for one last time but we were still a person short our shaman it was then that the raid leads had announced that our shaman had begun ghosting them over the week and didn t bother signing up for tonight s raid my heart sank based on all that and that neither raid lead wanted to spend time recruiting vetting and bringing new raiders into a raid that was designed to be pretty laid back and a friends raid they decided to shut down the raid instead given that we only had 9 people we went into naxx eye of eternity and obsidian sanctum one last time but that was the end and so ends my wrath classic raiding i have not much desire to go raid any further as it seems that even casual raids have to work hard to keep from backsliding into a more hardcore stance i do know that my old friend jes has been running 25 person pug raids of her own and i know she d be happy to have me sign up but i really have no desire to join a raid that is nominally hosted by the franken guild pug or not even if i was so inclined i noticed who was signing up for the raid and some of those are people i don t care to ever raid with again it s not as if i m giving up on wrath classic the new heroic plus 5 person instances what i ve dubbed the mythic plus of wrath classic are sufficiently difficult enough that i m happy to run some of those and scratch that group content itch beyond that there s plenty of things that i can do that have nothing to do with raiding so i ll be fine in spite of what the majority of the classic playerbase seems to think endgame raiding isn t why i play wrath classic it never was no i didn t break down and look up where the black temple entrance was on wowhead either for wrath classic wintergrasp became an instanced battleground but originally it was designed as a world pvp event where the winning faction gained access to the vault of archavon mini raid if you were on an imbalanced server and most people were if you were on the wrong faction you never got into vault of archavon of course now everybody can get access to voa because all it takes to gain access to vault of archavon is having exactly one person on your faction on the server having won wintergrasp to gain access to voa for your faction in wrath classic both sets of raids 10 person and 25 person drop their own gear due to the supposed increased difficulty of 25 person raids and more people to gear for the 25 person raids drop gear with supposedly superior stats that doesn t mean that an item from a 10 person raid might not be bis for your toon and your spec but a 25 person raider going down to a 10 person raid is going to have better gear than someone like me who kept to 10 person raids the two types of raids don t share the same lockout so cardwyn could theoretically join both a 10 person raid and a 25 person raid of ulduar that same week without issue wrath of the lich king saw the beginning of hard modes for raid content you could flip a switch in the raid and suddenly the raid entered an increased level of difficulty with the promise of better loot overall for each class of raiding okay one thing needs to be said if you want to go all in on hardcore and apparently a ton of people do that means you re running full ulduar raids one 10 person raid and one 25 person raid twice a week on your main toon and if you ve got multiple toons you can easily see where you spend every night of the week raiding in some form or another i was listening to a youtube video when it was mentioned that warcraftlogs had announced that the first week of ulduar had the most registered parses of any raid my first thought was duh alas i ve not been able to confirm that mention independently so i d place this as not surprising but unconfirmed eta fixed a formatting issue posted by redbeard at 10 44 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels raid wrath classic monday january 30 2023 meme monday monday memes this is kind of an obvious theme for meme mondays and i ve been remiss in presenting it so while you re waiting for your coffee or tea to finish brewing here you go yep yep yep yep from pinterest sometimes hoth is the perfect metaphor for mondays from tumblr i vote for the former from memegenerator net every freaking weekend from cheezburger s memebase posted by redbeard at 10 12 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes wednesday january 25 2023 a winter s day in a deep and dark uh january i ve been under a bit of a writers block lately so this post is mainly out there to force myself to write something to completion you have been warned something i ve been puzzling over the past couple of months has been my lack of interest in movies and television the past decade or so okay to be fair my declining interest in movies started long before that i think the last movie i saw in the theater or on television was the hobbit the desolation of smaug and before that uh wall e maybe now i get where my lack of reading fiction has come from i know that once i get started on a book i ll keep going until i look up and it s 5 am and i should have gone to sleep hours ago there s also my experiences with authors who don t know how to get their stories to end such as the time i threw my hands up in the air and decided that robert jordan was never going to finish the wheel of time this was when path of daggers came out and gave up on that series so no that didn t start with george r r martin then there s also the grimdark nature of modern and sophisticated f sf which seems to have a requirement that the primary characters need to suffer in order to move the plot forward as if authors and their audience are all friedrich nietzsche fans ah yes kevin kline from a fish called wanda this doesn t explain my lack of interest in movies or television shows because i used to like watching series i mean i wasn t a movie buff in the classic sense nor was i someone who d spend every evening watching television but i watched enough shows and saw enough movies that i was at least reasonably acquainted with the moviegoing experience i mean hell i even watched a daytime soap opera for several months while i was attending college so i even have that bona fide but i guess i don t know for sure why fictional television series and movies don t hold much interest for me actually maybe i do and it has to do with my psyche and the big bang theory in real life i m not a big fan of crowds or interacting with people i don t know going to parties is not on my social agenda and i avoid situations that put me out on a limb in public and those to me awkward social interactions that involve risk such as asking someone out going on a date dealing with problems at work or even interacting with people at an otherwise fun event such as a renaissance fair raise my anxiety level i mean i can do them but i don t relish them and based on failed past experiences i try to avoid them if at all possible so where does the big bang theory fit into all this because about midway through the run of tbbt on network television episodes that made me entirely uncomfortable watching began showing up not for any sex or violence or language but the cringe of watching awkward social interactions play out on television in a way that made me get up and leave the room other people could potentially watch the closet reconfiguration without a problem but the gang not respecting howard s wishes and reading the letter from his estranged father without his consent and passing it around would have been a deal breaker for me there are certain lines you don t cross and that blatant disrespect for howard s wishes in a topic as sensitive as his dad would have been enough for me to cut them out i don t care that the gang felt bad about it afterward that they did it in the first place meant i would never trust any one of them again or in the speckerman recurrence where leonard is contacted via facebook by someone who bullied him all through high school i simply can t watch because i would never have accepted the meeting request in the first place when i left high school i left that part of my life behind and simply cut off pretty much all ties with my classmates i d have a hard time finding a smaller violin to play a sad tune on if someone from that period in my life particularly more so if it were one of the bullies were to reach out to me and watching that train wreck of an episode from my perspective was too much especially when leonard accepted the invitation to meet for drinks thank you mr bucemi from giphy com after about that episode i dropped the big bang theory from my watch list and well i haven t picked up anything since maybe it s because i m happier playing it safe but i don t find any amount of catharsis from watching shows that make me cringe or watching characters i like suffer and or die yeah i know what happens to hedwig and sirius black and dumbledore and in avengers infinity war and in the world of warcraft legion expansion and in final fantasy xiv stormblood and well you get the idea if you want to avoid spoilers to anything and everything probably rule 1 is to throw out your internet connection maybe that s why i like open world games and rpg settings and whatnot you are free to imagine the possibilities what might be and not what is so that you can forget all of the cringe inducing aspects of work and life while other people might enjoy movies and television i no longer can i ve seen enough parts of my life that i ve desperately tried to bury dug up and put on screen much too frequently over the years to relax and enjoy the ride there s more to it than just that i do have issues with series fiction where i get to a point where i just like where the characters are and i m just reluctant to move past that i guess i know that bad things will happen that s the entire point of fiction it seems to provide conflict and i look at that next book in the series and go i m perfectly fine where the characters are right now thanks that s why i ve not continued series such as kristen britain s green rider novels past the high king s tomb finished off the mistborn trilogy or gotten much deeper than a book or two into the two jim butcher series of novels or yes even harry potter i stopped after goblet of fire and never had much of an inclination to pick up the rest of the books in the series it s not that i think the stories above were bad or anything i was just fine where i was at and didn t feel the need to move beyond that point days of our lives circa late 1988 to early 1989 beware there s waaaay too much 80 s hair in that youtube video and yes this has caused heated arguments with my wife on numerous occasions my wife is an extrovert and much more outgoing than i am and in the early years of our marriage we frequently fought over her desire to go out to bars and listen to bands whereas i just wanted to relax at home and do homebody stuff i don t know when we stopped fighting over this but i think we eventually settled into an uneasy truce there are still flare 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