World of Warcraft

Here's my background music for the day.

I just started playing after some time, created a new character, and went straight into the story of Dragonflight. At this point, is it worth buying War Within? Or should I wait until I finish the Dragonflight story?

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I love these things.

Book, "Play Nice", link https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason-schreier/play-nice/9781538725429/?lens=grand-central-publishing

/stopcasting /tar Plump /cleartarget [dead] /stopmacro [noexists] /run PlaySound(12867); SetRaidTarget("target", 2); print(date().." "..UnitName("target")); /run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

replace Plump with anything you're trying to find. Found this on the Lionel comments https://www.wowhead.com/npc=223143/lionel#comments:id=5943295

WoW’s 20th Anniversary Event REVEALED:
🛡️ Modernized Tier 2 Transmog Sets
🌋 Blackrock Depths Raid Returns
🦟 Gates of Ahn’Qiraj Revisited
⌛ Classic Dungeon Timewalking
💪 Korrak's Revenge PvP
🎉 Additional Activities & New Rewards

It's a full patch.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41198193

https://x.com/overnoes/status/1830265659659567297

Aka overnoes

Because I'm weird I like 10 hour mixes of repetitive stuff.

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https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizzard-developers-form-the-world-of-warcraft-gamemakers-guild-union-345419

About damn time :D

The classic devs have opened a Twitter account: https://x.com/wowclassicdevs/status/1816535647190188262

Compare to the retail devs who've not used theirs in a while. https://x.com/WarcraftDevs last post Sep 2023

Machinima short showing what World of Warcraft would look like if it was about racing.

This is freaking awesome.

https://x.com/Warcraft/status/1805299860448366605

I can't find any news anywhere if winners had been chosen or mentioned!

Be sure to enable 'Above 4G Decoding' and 'Resizazble BAR Support' in the BIOS of your PC!

WoW really cares about that (as of last week) for some reason. I was getting constant crashes when starting WoW from the Battle.Net launcher, until I made those changes (Fedora/KDE Linux, Proton Steam Experimental (and other non-Steam Protons)).

Irony is that I had them set before in by BIOS, but had updated by BIOS and assumed my non-default settings would carry over to the new BIOS version, but did not. So double-check your BIOS for those two settings, if you are having problems.

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I’m really looking forward to getting rid of a lot of bag clutter. It’ll also be nice to trade in the lower crests that I can no longer use.

I want all the raptorcats.

Of all the dungeons that we'll see as keys for Season 3, I'm looking forward to seeing what Waycrest Manor is like.

Season 3 is launching on the 14th of November with the Amirdrassil raid and the new Mythic+ rotation.

Wowhead has an overview here.

I honestly wasn't really excited for this event when I first heard about it. However, I have to say it was a lot of fun to go back and dragon ride through Kalimdor!

As an evoker player (though not Augmentation yet), it's definitely frustrating to see that Augmentation players are getting kicked from groups for, supposedly, doing low DPS.

Support specs are new to WoW, so it's not surprising that there's no simple way to see how they contribute. But is it really fair to depend on a damage meter rather than the overall performance of the group? I've never felt as though damage meters really were as useful as many people make them seem.

An analogy that might help here: Augmentation evokers are force multipliers -- in military terms, that's a unit or soldier who makes others more effective. For instance, a forward air controller who calls in targets for ground-attack aircraft to hit. That FAC isn't going to do any damage on their own, but the aircraft they bring in wouldn't be able to damage its target without the FAC's assistance. The crew of that plane are vital, yes, but so are the people who tell them where to go.

And, going back to WoW figuring out how to properly track augmentation evokers' contributions to the battle is going to take add-on authors a while. Details is starting to try to make it happen, but for now the results aren't very accurate. But adapting to any new system, any new technology, takes time.

So if you see that small (for now) DPS bar in your damage meter addon, think twice before trying to boot a player who is trying their best to help you do your job better. Chances are that they're doing just fine. It's just a problem with how to measure the help they are giving you.