The Queue: The only thing they fear is you
@MatthewWRossi
I have not played either of the recent Doom games from id software, but I absolutely love the music from them both. They’re excellent I’m going to go transmog farming and absolutely blow everyone up music.
Oh, and I meant to talk about Player Housing but pretty much everyone talked about what I would have anyway, so I didn’t have to.
Damn warriors suck.
Mine can, pretty easily, but I’m ilevel 202. Without knowing your ilevel, I have some suggestions that you may not be doing.
- Ignore Pain on cooldown. Every time you have the rage for Ignore Pain, use it. Also, if you are talking spell damage, remember Spell Reflection. It lowers incoming magic damage by 20% as well as reflects a spell back.
- Talent for Impending Victory, so that you have a heal on demand.
- If you’re finding yourself mobbed, remember Heroic Leap and Charge to get out and then back in again, especially if you need rage for another Ignore Pain.
- If another mob adds, remember that killing it will refresh your Victory Rush. Sometimes it actually helps to deliberately pull another add and focus kill it to refresh VR.
If you want to supply me with your Armory I could probably give you better advice — Storm Bolt is a really nice ability for soloing if you don’t want to use Impending Victory, for example, and depending on your gear the stun might serve you better.
Q4tQ: Do you think Blizz is going to recant their “less but more meaningful” loot stance in 9.1? I’ve heard a lot of negative feedback regarding drop rates and I’m wondering if the perception is too much for the system to overcome (even if it is more meaningful — which I’m not qualified to judge as I’m not raiding)
No, I don’t think so. I don’t think they’ll feel they have to, especially if 9.1 has a catch-up mechanic, which I expect it will because they usually do have a catch-up mechanic once they drop a patch. If not in 9.1, then almost certainly in 9.2, there will be a catch up mechanism of some kind and potentially some new kinds of legendaries from the Runecarver — perhaps instead of weapon drops in 9.1 or 9.2, there will be crafted legendary weapons replacing our armor legendaries?
I don’t know, but I doubt Blizzard is going to reverse course on loot until much later in the expansion or the next expansion.
Ok, stupid question: If I were to craft a new legendary, and bought the 235 straightaway, could I craft it on level 4? Or do I need to start at level 1 and then upgrade?
You can craft it straight at level 4 if you have the proper ranked piece and enough Soul Ash, yes.
QftQ: Where does fantasy as literature, cinema, and games evolve from here? We are actually moving past racist stereotypes and violence directed at subgroups. I might grumble about things getting PC, but I am fascinated with what comes out of this conversation. I am thinking Tolkien as a comedy of manners. I know that my rmost recent D&D game had no actual combat. It was two ladies talking to a lava-camel named Bruce.
If you’ve ever read C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry stories, or the work of writers like Julian May or Katherine Kurtz, to name just a few, you know how these are discussions that have lingered in fantasy for decades now. And I promise you, while I find these discussions welcome, we are not now and likely will never have moved past those tropes — they endure because they have a visceral hold on us, on the way we think and feel, and their exploration will be a part of fantasy going forward because fantasy often allows us to face those ideas without having to grapple with real world events like the Trail of Tears or other historical (or current) events.
Where is fantasy going to go from here? A lot of its evolution will be to go back to the pre-Tolkien fantasy authors like Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, Moore, E.R. Eddison, as well as authors who are alive and working today like Matt Ruff, Tim Powers, N.K. Jemsin, Melanie Rawn, Robin Hobb, and way too many more for me to list. We need to broaden our view out from the impact that Middle Earth had on the genre.
I mean, I personally love F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack books, and they’re big influences on my own work, for an example. Fantasy is likely going to keep being about the real life ills of the world, translated into actual monsters so they can be killed, something we can’t really do in real life. Instead of monsters that are basically our own xenophobia — see Tolkien’s Uruk-Hai — we’ll see more fantasy that recognizes and opposes marginalization, that tries to create spaces for more and varied stories to be told. That’s my hope, anyway.
As for your Anime question, man, I dunno, something with Gaiking in it? I’m old.
Was anyone else playing a leather class dissuaded from joining Maldraxxus when they saw that awful skin suit? Not a skin suit like what sci-fi and anime has taught you to expect. A literal skin of some humanoid source, stitched into a body suit that appears to be a “toe-ghoul” cosplay.
Kyrian taste in fashion is designed purely with paladins and priests in mind, but not shadow
priests (looking back at most raid tier sets, it’s almost never shadow priests).
Mage is already Night Fae, so it’s Vampire cosplay for the Druid.
*Looks at my army of plate alts, my several Warriors, two Paladins, multiple DK’s*
*Finally remember my poor neglected Demon Hunter*
Oh, leather. Right, that does exist.
Naah. I transmog almost all her kit off anyway to show off her tattoos. I mean, you have full body glowing tattoos, you show that off.
Okay, that’s the Queue for today. See y’all next week.
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