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nice but i have no desire to jump the line and bypass a bunch of people that have been raiding in an established raid team to get it plus i think the staff looks ugly big turn off if you ask me i still think it looks like a sulphur ball attached to a stick gandalf s staff this ain t from wowhead as far as how other people are doing on the classic fresh 20th anniversary servers my questing buddy discovered aoe leveling in zul farrak and got a second toon a mage to max level last week i knew she was going to get a second toon to max level yet despite her insistence that she was not going to speed level a second toon after her experience with her druid she still did it anyway she claims she s not going to do that again with a third toon but stay tuned i told her i should start a betting pool on how quickly she levels a third toon let s see one of our group stopped logging in but that was to be expected as he got kicked from the guild he was in for being an asshat in chat even after he d been warned i should have had a betting pool going for that because he was that sort of player who was guaranteed to get gkicked at some point someone who shall remain nameless once asked me how i stood for that player s behavior i don t i replied shortly i don t encourage it and i don t defend him sometimes people need to feel the consequences of their actions others in our group have made it to l60 and still others are far enough ahead of me that they ll get to max level soon with the roadmap for these fresh servers having bumped the opening of the dark portal to early 2025 i ve got even more time to get to max level than i thought my suspicion is that a two month window for raiding naxx is likely too short for most players i know it would be for me so blizz is likely extending that phase by a couple of months i ve been starting to think what i intend to do when tbc drops and the dark portal opens while it d be nice to actually experience the expansion without rushing through as i d originally intended i m not sure what everybody else is going to do the optimal strategy for leveling in tbc classic was to chain run instances until you got to max level then start questing so it might be that the actual zones might not be crowded at all if they are crowded however i could just default back to the blood elf toons i intend to create and roll with them for a while and maybe a draenei too that being said do i want to raid maybe i do want to see kael thas die so i can have some closure from my time as a raid lead in 2021 2022 but my entire tbc experience has been as an enhancement shaman so doing this as a mage would be somewhat different most raid teams will only take 2 3 mages at most because that s the optimal configuration so i might once again be faced with the choice of either playing a shaman in a raid or simply not raiding beyond the occasional karazhan run and i don t want to be part of a raid where i m carried either i d rather eat ground glass yummy from budget glass nanaimo used when casting slow fall i ve since been told that priests use light feathers too for a spell water walking or something like that but i never saw priests over in stonetalon only the occasional mage posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love wow classic anniversary monday march 24 2025 meme monday rainy day memes because it s spring ish in my hometown right now and that means rain and since this is pc that means gamer related rainy memes if there s one thing that the revival of toto s africa has done it s brought back the misheard lyric for a new generation from reddit and twitter it s abbie normal from imgflip that s so bad it s good from the wow twitter account this past week i learned what the term mud rain means thanks for all the dirt on my car new mexico from the free press journal yeah that too from pinterest posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday march 22 2025 what on earth is red reading this time the color of magic by terry pratchett for someone who s been reading science fiction and fantasy since the early 80s the fact i ve never read a novel by terry pratchett is kind of a surprise it s kind of hard to avoid sir terry s works given that on top of his discworld novels he has that collaboration with neil gaiman good omens that was turned into a mini series on amazon prime back when i actually participated on facebook there were days i saw quotes from sir terry s works every couple of hours the strange thing is that i don t get people proselytizing me to read the discworld novels like oh people reading robert jordan back in the day maybe that s an acknowledgement that sir terry s works aren t for everyone this feels rather uncomfortably like people proselytizing about ff xiv from reddit the original poster got it from a discworld fb group so i kind of drifted along with the sir terry memes on the edges of my vision and not really wanting to read the books after all reading over 40 books is a bit of a commitment no matter what people say then modiphius released the kickstarter for the discworld tt rpg it looked interesting but given that i d never read the books there wasn t that much of a pull on me however the kickstarter raked in over 3 million in usd which caused me to sit up maybe i ought to go check out these books for myself having read my share of douglas adams when i read the descriptive term british sf f humor i have a reference already in place and that is the standard i compare others against is that fair no it s not but since hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy came first that s what happens so what did i think of the book it was a light read fun in spots tedious in others and i spent far more time recognizing the characters and situations terry poked fun at than simply enjoying the book i know this book was written for people like me because i recognized fafhrd and the grey mouser conan elric okay elements of elric the dragonriders of pern d d s quirks the luggage and spellcasting and even any stereotypical fantasy city with lots of backstabbing this and that so lankhmar sanctuary from thieves world tarantia conan and others yes i put this here for that quote at the beginning from the scorpion king every person that our two companions rincewind and twoflower came across i kept trying to figure out what story terry was poking fun at maybe that s not a fair thing to do but after having run across so many classic fantasy references it came to me quite naturally i m pretty sure that the gothic horror elements of the novel were relating to both h p lovecraft s cosmic horror as well as other touchstones of the 19th century such as the time machine frankenstein and dracula the novel does end on a literal cliffhanger so i presume sir terry had intended to write multiple novels when he started discworld what i ve seen in some other authors is that they write hoping to get a sale and then once a book finally sells they then have to scramble to write more in that world kristen britain s green rider series comes to mind because her first book green rider is pretty complete as it is you can tell in the narration that the second novel came about after the first novel sold that doesn t mean it was a poor book but it s just that you spend so much effort to make that first sale that when you finally do and the publisher says okay what happens next you have to scramble a bit one thing that i do realize is that these books aren t very dense at all this is good because i could go for more light reads and it kept me preoccupied on my 2 to 3 hour layovers at the airport in charlotte last week i do have the next book published in the series the light fantastic and if it reads as quickly as this one then i can spend a few hours here and there reading it while i take care of other things around the house such as taxes i guess you could tell that i hung around a lot of geeks shocking i know i always considered fritz leiber s creations and the city of lankhmar as a spoof of the sword and sorcery genre so a spoof of a spoof posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes videos what on earth is red reading wednesday march 19 2025 washing away the smell i took a late lunch yesterday and to blow off some steam i figured i d get onto a wow toon for an hour while eating it s something i ve done plenty of times in the past and as long as i didn t commit to anything i could finish up before the hour was out and i had to get back to meetings az seemed the perfect toon to just do whatever for an hour so i hopped onto her and on a whim i decided to see if i could get her a stormwind stockades run she had a bunch of quests to complete in there and the instance is usually completed in about a half an hour so i just figured that with the early afternoon crowd it would be pretty easy to get into a run things never end up the way as intended you know i discovered that back in 2019 when i began to struggle getting azshandra into instance runs part of it is that certain classes are preferred over others in instance running such as mages and part of it is that rogues tend to have a certain uh reputation when linna got into a deadmines run the group that showed up on the lfg tool had the tagline no rogues i figured that if anything in the deadmines no less that a rogue would be preferred over a retribution paladin but when i joined the group the warrior said hell no rogues suck they steal your gear when you prefer playing a robin hood type of rogue the struggle is real from reddit ooo kay still i figured i had an hour to play with and as long as i got into a stockades run by the half hour mark i ought to be fine the time creeped away and most of the groups that showed up in the lookingforgroup chat group were for stocks boosts the lfg tool was kinda sorta active but i was bypassed a couple of times via that tool as well finally at the 20 minute mark i got an invite to a group all we need is a tank and we re good the group leader said more time passed and we were rapidly approaching my half hour cutoff when finally a fifth member of the group appeared thank goodness i muttered and made sure i had my poisons ready to apply to my weapons because az is a rogue you know free run guys the group leader declared and only then did my brain go huh and i hovered over the last toon it was an l60 druid well crap i had a choice stick to my principles and pass or accept the de facto boost and just deal with it the quests that involved the stockades were taking up a quarter of my quest log so there was a certain amount of pressure to get those quests completed to free up my quest log a bit at the same time there wasn t a lot of gear or whatnot that i needed out of the stockades per se sure there s the ring that is a random drop but outside of that there isn t that much in there storywise it does propel the defias narrative along but on the flip side was this tank expecting gold despite the group leader claiming it was a free run in the end i decided to accept the boost and be done with it after all a boost ought to be quicker than a regular run i didn t bother with adding poisons to my blades because i figured it d be a waste the run began and we were tasked with clean up the enemies that turned tail and ran had to be tracked down and killed part of me watched the run progress thinking it would be a nice bit of schadenfreude to have the druid overpull and die but the other part of me that is basically a nice person was pissed that i d ever consider this sort of thing i guess i shouldn t have been surprised that the druid could handle the pulls without issue but i ve heard some of my wow friends on the receiving end of boosts complain about the boosters not always knowing what they re doing again schadenfreude we blitzed through the stockades a ring dropped that i won and then once it ended i thanked people and dropped group as they were getting ready for another go at the instance the run completed in 15 minutes in plenty of time for me to make my next meeting and i felt like i needed a shower afterward to wash away the stink of shame the other day it struck me as to why i hated receiving boosts so much they make me a passive recipient if the entire point of playing an mmo is to perform group activities together then being a passive recipient of a boost is the antithesis of that boosts are transactional activities but beyond that transaction there s nothing required of the boosted player and that kind of galls me i want to be an active participant in whatever activity i m doing in an mmo i want my actions to matter so while boosting is obviously a non starter for me my distaste for passivity includes carries where you re so over leveled by other participants your actions don t even matter i ve written before about how i ve unwittingly been the subject of carries and how such a buzzkill it was to discover that i had so little impact on the actual group activity yes yes i know friends wanting to do things and whatnot but that knowledge doesn t change 55 year old me if my actions don t matter then why bother we can just chat online or talk on discord instead and not engage in the pretense that we re playing together as equals it feels less like friendship and more like receiving charity and that old midwestern pride kicks in that i don t need your charity or sympathy from yarn and howard the duck i suppose that viewed from the lens of the poor but proud people that i ve known all my life it kind of makes sense kind of like arguing with my mom whenever i take her someplace she wants to pay for my gasoline mom i always say i don t need it just accept it she always insists that i take the money we re two people too proud to simply let things be yes i have these long conversations with myself over this crap i d like to think i m not the only person who wrestles with dark impulses but this is something that people just don t talk about very much so maybe it s just me posted by redbeard at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes musings self wow classic anniversary monday march 17 2025 meme monday sleepy rpg memes because i m still catching up on sleep from last week i thought this appropriate the curse of dailies from instagram this is why i rebelled when classic fresh dropped i like my sleep too much from owlturd com urg pretty sure it s not the bard who says that but the dad from farstride and thunder dungeon oh freddie my old buddy from facebook s dndmemes posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday march 15 2025 where s red non medical edition this 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